BoB tournament
Abandoned city
There was a gravely silence and only the sound of wind blowing was heard. Death Gun still pointing his gun after the shot. On the ground, Shin lied motionlessly. His eyes was covered by his hair.
At the building, not far from the incident, Sinon looked in shock as Shin lied motionlessly at the ground. Her eyes began to tear up.
"Naruto!" screamed Sinon horrified.
Standby area
All the players looked horrified as Shin was shot by Death Gun. They still remember the day Death Gun shoot Xexeed through the monitor. They all began to shake in fear as one more player has been killed by Death Gun.
ALO
Yggdrasil City
Asuna, Leafa, Lisbeth, Silica, Yui, Wendy and Klein looked horrified as Death Gun shot a helpless Shin on the ground. Then they saw Shin's figure went limp. They recalled how Pale Rider was killed the same way.
"No! Naruto-kun!" shouted Leafa with tears on her eyes.
"Tou-chan!" shouted Wendy with wet eyes
"Naruto-san!"
"Naruto!" shouted Klien and Asuna at the same time.
Lisbeth just watched the scene on the screen with wide disbelieving eyes. She refused to believe what is happening now is real. Suddenly, she felt her knees wobbling and fell to her knees.
"It can't be true..." muttered Lisbeth with empty voice.
BoB tournament.
Abandoned city
Death Gun looked down at Shin's motionless figure and said.
"Finally, I have gotten rid of you. Next, are that black swordsman and that woman. Fare well, Hitokiri Battousai" said Death Gun and turned his back and began to leave.
Sinon snapped out of her shock and glared daggers at Death Gun. She charged her Hecate and aimed it at Death Gun's head. She opened fire, but Death Gun side step and dodge the shot with ease. Sinon gritted her teeth in anger and frustration. Death Gun took out his Silent Assasin and was about to shot Sinon.
At the ground, Shin's finger began to move a bit. The moment Death Gun was about to shoot Sinon, Shin opened his eyes and charged at Death Gun from behind. Death Gun felt the movement behind him and turned back to see Shin charged at him with his Hades in hand. Shin began to shoot Death Gun rapidly. Death Gun decided to take cover. Shin put back his Hades to his back then unsheathed Murasame and jumped high in the air and used Ryukansen: Tsumuji to descent fast to Death Gun's location. Death Gun jumped up to avoid the strike. But Shin reacts immediately and uses Ryusousen to strike Death Gun rapidly. It was so unexpected that Death Gun could only raised his Black Star type 54 to shield himself from the whole damage. But the result is the destruction of his 'death gun'. Death Gun saw his gun was destroyed and asked Shin in rage.
"How the heck do you alive? I shot you with my 'death gun'. You should have died!"
"My name is Shin, short for Shinigami. And Shinigami couldn't die" said Shin and smirked.
'Nice job, Kirito, Agil! Leave the rest to me' thought Shin.
Sinon looked at shock and couldn't understood anything. She wondered what the heck is happening here.
'H-how the heck is he alive? Didn't Death Gun just shot him with that gun? What is going on here?' wondered Sinon still shock that Naruto is still alive. On the other hand, she was extremely glad that Naruto is alive. But she still curios how did he survive.
Standby area
All players looked at shock as Shin stood up from the ground and engaged Death Gun in a battle once again.
"H-he is still alive? I don't understand anything. What is happening here?" asked one player.
"I also don't understand anything. Maybe if we continue to watch, we may find out" asked the other player.
They all nodded and continued to observe the battle.
ALO
Yggdrasil city
They all began to scream in happiness when they saw Naruto stood up and began to fight Death Gun.
"I thought so. There is no way Naruto could let himself get killed so easy. That troublemaker... Make us all worried for nothing. When he return I gonna punish him for that action" said Asuna sighed and smiled in relief.
"But how did he survive? You saw what happened to that Pale dude right?" asked Klein not understand anything.
Asuna just smiled and looked out.
'So you guys have done it, Kirito-kun'
Kazuto's house
Kazuto sighed in relief seeing Naruto stood up and engaged Death Gun in a battle.
"That was such a risky plan. But we still manage to pull it off" said Kazuto with a sweat drop from nervousness. He recalled the moment second phase passed.
Flashback
30 seconds after Naruto was shot.
Kazuto looked at the screen and saw Death Gun aimed his handgun at Naruto. He waited for the shot to happened and contact Agil, that was in a secret room directly under Naruto's room. Agil appeared just in time to stop the hood figure from injecting succinylcholine to Naruto's heart. But something unexpected happened, the hood figure after failed injecting the drug , threw some strange device on Naruto's body that stick on his body and won't came off. Agil tried to take it off but it was no use. It just stuck there no matter what. Agil tried to interrogate the figure that was Shinkawa Kyouji. But he refused to tell anything
End Flashback.
Kazuto looked back at the screen which displayed the tournament.
"Be careful, Naruto. I don't know what is that device that is currently stuck on your body" said Kirito with narrowed eyes.
BoB tournament
Abandoned city
Death Gun's eyes glowed red and the steam was coming out of his skeleton mask. He stared at Shin and said.
"So you managed to figure out my method of killing players through avatars. I should have not underestimated you like that. After all, you are the genius that created the Skills Transferring System"
"That trick you use is to simple to deduce. First, you used that special mantle of yours to learn the address of the player. After that, with the combination of your partners, that will sneak in the victim's house, you shot from that gun of yours at the victim in the game. At the same time, your partners will inject the victims with the drug that stop the heart. Because of that trick, you managed to fool everyone in GGO, that you actually has the supernatural power. Now, that you have lost that gun of yours, you won't be able to kill anyone anymore. Just surrender" said Shin looked at Death Gun.
At the building not far from them both, Sinon listened to explanation and began to understand how Naruto managed to survive.
"So that's it! Naruto has known Death Gun's trick and waited for this moment to prove to the people outside that his ability is nothing but a mere trick. With this action, all the fear in the people's hearts with erased themselves. So he is only pretend to be dead, so that He could catch Death Gun of guard to destroy his gun" deduced Sinon nodding her head.
Standby area
After hearing Shin's explanation, people began to murmur to themselves.
"So that was just a trick? And that Death Gun doesn't actually has any power at all!" said one player.
"He has fooled us from the very beginning. That bastard!" replied the other player with anger.
"But that didn't changed the fact that he has killed 4 persons already" retorted the other player.
"It's over now. Shin-san has destroyed his gun. So he can't use the same method anymore. Furthermore I'd like to see Shin-san kicked his butt" said the other player and looked at the screen to continue to observe the battle.
Abandoned city
Death Gun looked at Shin then he looked down to the ground and his body began to shake. Shin raised his eyebrow in surprise. Then the laugh was heard from Death Gun. The camera that broadcasting the battle has disappeared already.
"Hahahaha. Bravo, Hitokiri Battousai. You managed to not only exposed my trick, but also erased the fear in people's heart. But with that said who said that you are safe? I told you before I am gonna kill you in this game!"
Then Death Gun took the other gun from his back very fast and shot at Shin. Shin was very surprised by what he said and couldn't dodge the bullet in time. Thus the bullet hits his shoulder. Something unexpected happened. Suddenly, Shin felt such intense pain that it's like he could felt IRL.
"Arghh!" shouted Shin with wide eyes and shock. The pain is so intense that he fell to his knees. Shin glared at Death Gun with his knees and asked shakily.
"W-what the heck is going on?"
Death Gun began to laugh even louder and said with glee.
"Well, it wouldn't change anything, so I will tell you. I expected that my 'phantom bullet' plan could failed. That's why I created the second back-up plan specifically for you. The moment my partner has failed to inject you with succinylcholine, he managed to do one last thing. He succeed to three the advance electro shocker to your body. That is a special electro shocker the moment it stuck to your host it won't came out until I was defeated. It has a the electromagnetic signal that link with your Amusphere and mine. In other words, every time you take damage from me, you will be shock IRL. Didn't it remind you of the time 2 years ago in ALO, huh? I heard you nearly die that time. But I will make sure that you will die for real this time" said Death Gun and prepared to recharge his gun to shoot at Shin.
Shin hold to his shoulder with gritted teeth and glared daggers at Death Gun.
'Shit! I didn't expect for him to have a backup plan. I need to retreat in order to analyze the situation. But it's easy said than done. How the heck am I supposed to escape when Death Gun is right in front of me?' thought Shin with nervous face.
Death Gun pointed his handgun at Shin and was about to shoot. Suddenly, he felt a bullet line aiming to his head and looked at the direction where the line came from.
On top of the building, Mana lied on the ground with her main weapon, Venus Eradicator-XI, pointed at Death Gun.( It's Mana's pactio rifle). Venus Eradicator-XI is the only blaster that can shoot with equal or even greater speed with physical guns. Like the other Roman numeral weapon it has the extreme mode to shoot railgun. Mana had received this weapon when she hunted the boss of the 80 floor.
Mana opened fire with her rifle at Death Gun. The beam coming from the rifle flew with such great speed that Death Gun barely managed to dodge the shot.
Seeing he is at disadvantage now, Death Gun decided to use his mantle to disappear from the battlefield.
Shin saw Death Gun has gone and breathe out in relief. Then he saw Sinon came out of the building and began to approach him. Mana also jumped down from the building and began to approach Shin.
"Are you ok, Naruto?" asked Sinon with worried eyes.
"Yeah, but my shoulder still hurt" answered Shin rubbing his shoulder. Then Shin turned to Mana and asked.
"Not that I am not glad that you saved me. But why do you decided to interfere? I warned you about his ability right?"
"I have arrived here the moment you were shot down. I knew that you can't be taken down so easily so I decided to observe. Then I saw Death Gun shoots you in the shoulder and saw how you screamed on pain. I decide to interfere as I didn't want you to be taken down by anyone, but me" answered Mana with cool eyes.
"So what are you going to do now? Each time you take damage from Death Gun you will be electrocute IRL" said Sinon looking at Shin with serious face.
Shino's began to your cold like ice that send shivers down two girls that standing beside him.
"Something like that won't stop me. I told you guys before, I will kill Death Gun with my own two hands. I will rest for a bit then I will find him and end him. I have look in the face of death twice, the third time won't be any different" said Shin and slowly stood up.
Sinon looked at him with worried eyes. She felt so terrified the moment Shin was shot. Her heart beat so much faster and she felt so much hated to Death Gun. She wanted to rip him apart for killng Naruto. Naruto has saved her life by shoved her away from the stun bullet. Even though they've met not too long, he still risk his life for hers. Slowly she touched her heart and still feel it beating very fast. It only beat this fast whether she is near Naruto. Then her eyes widen in realization. There is no mistake here. She has fallen in love with Naruto. Asada Shino loves Uzumaki Yuuki Naruto. Then she remembered that he already has two girlfriends IRL already. She looked down on the ground dejected.
Mana looked at Shin with admirable look. She feels so much respect to Naruto now. Even though his life is in danger his heart and resolve is unwavering. That's why she want to fight this person so bad. The person that had experience near-death experience twice, and not afraid to look that face of death one more time. She want to fight him so much now. It won't matter if she win or lose. All she want is to battle Naruto with everything that she got.
"Well, let's go and find a cave to hide from the satellite scan. But you guys can actually go your ways. Now, that Death Gun can't kill anybody anymore, you guys can continue with the tournament. I have a task that I need to fulfill no matter what" said Shin and began to walk away.
"Wait! I will go with you. There is no way I am leaving you in a condition you are now" said Sinon and went to Shin's side.
"As Death Gun can no longer kill for real. I'll back you up Shin-san. I won't integer with you battle with Death Gun. But I want to watch the battle with my own eyes" said Mana looking at Shin.
"Alright, first need to find a cave to hide from the satellite scan and rest the body. Then we will create the plan of action" said Shin then they all began to leave the abandoned city.
Naruto's room
Kazuto has arrived at Naruto's old house and walked in his room. There he saw some kind of device stuck to Naruto's unconscious body.
"Is it what you told me about, Agil?" asked Kazuto walking to Naruto's side.
Agil sat on the bed near Naruto turned his head to Kazuto and answered.
"Yeah, I can't take it off no matter what. Also there was a moment when that device suddenly electrocutes Naruto. I think that this is the backup plan of Death Gun" answered Agil with narrowed eyes and rubbing his chin in thought.
"I think it is. So where is the companion?" asked Kazuto.
"I have knock him out. He struggled too much and refused to tell anything. He is in the scarf now" answered Agil.
"Well, let's turn him in the police and log in ALO. I need to explain everything to Asuna. Staying there won't change the situation anymore. Now it's all up too Naruto. We can't help him anymore, except to believe in him" said Kazuto looking at Agil.
"Yeah, you are right. The final phase is entirely on you Naruto" said Agil and looked at Naruto's figure.
With that they picked up the unconscious body of Shinkawa Kyouji and walked out of the room.
Sinon's house
The hood figure saw that Death Gun failed in killing Shin. He looked at Sinon's unconscious figure then walked out of the house.
"Xaxa, you a shame to Laughing Coffin. I will take care of him now" said the hood figure and began to walk away. The wind blowing his jacket and good dramatically.