Aincrad Dust Mines][][][]

Kirito looked into the eyes of the prisoners and he hated himself for allowing this to happen to them, but what other option was there?

Unlike Earth, this world doesn't allow anyone to make a jail at least one that would keep the prisoners alive.

The Grimm are creatures that are attracted to negative emotions and needless to say criminals had plenty of that to spare.

The village that he is standing in today is a special one because it is controlled by the prisoners whose job is to mine the dust in the area, but that's not the reason why it's special.

Every Faunus here is a survivor of the attack that led to Aincrad creating the system that it now has.

As he looks at the people in front of him he can't help but smile and at the same time feel ashamed of himself for doing so.

"prisoners, you have served your time!"

he says to them as the collars on their necks open by themselves and fall to the ground next to them.

Kirito looks for any joy or shock but whatever emotions these people had before they were put to work are gone.

"So no you have three options in front of you."

"Will you leave and rejoin the people that abandoned you here?"

"Will you join the military and prove your worth to us?"

"Or will you go into one of the cities or villages and try to start over from zero?" he asks the Faunus who don't react to his words.

He lets his words sink in ad he can see the spark in their eyes, these people survived the mines, they survived fighting Grimm, Monsters, and the Players so he knows that they have the will to live burning inside of them.

"f we stay what's in it for us?" a man with the horns of a deer asks him.

"You will have everything a citizen of Aincrad has available to them except for entering the main kingdom that's something only available to people who have finished their duties to the kingdom." he answers the man who doesn't say anything else.

"What if we want to leave?" a woman with shark teeth asks.

"Ten everything that you brought with you will be returned to you and some extra food, because of your contribution to the kingdom." he answers her.

"So everyone that wants to leave take one step to the left, everyone else, step forward and we can start your paperwork," he says to everyone and smirks when he sees that no one even tried to move to the left.

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Blake gasped for air as she opened her eyes and looks around her room, again the memory of that day forced itself into her dreams, she can feel herself sweating coldly despite how hot it is today.

She can still remember those moments as if they happened yesterday,

They had heard that an island had appeared near the Genn Mountains, so most of the people she was with decided to bring it down.

It didn't matter if the island belonged to Vale, Mistral, or if it was some Atlas experiment, the only thing that they knew, was that they couldn't allow the Humans to have it.

Everyone that was with her died at the hands of that man.

The one that wore the white armor that had a large white cape, that had what looked like the image of a Luauging Coffin painted on it with black ink.

the memory takes control of her mind and she remembers one of the men screaming "Mom" over and over again as his brother desperately tried to put his guts back into his body.

She can still remember the monster that held the giant sword in its hand.

the creature had the head and horns of a goat, but what she remembers the most are the creature's eyes.

The monster had a pair of red eyes, but there were a pair of tiny red lights coming from each of them.

The eyes didn't have any power, but the intensity in them was enough to freez anyone where they stood.

She can still remember how silent everything became when the two monsters stood behind the brothers, the two beats grinned as they stood surrounded by corpses and the stench of blood.

She can still remember how one of the brothers insulted the man and began to insult the creature, who silenced him by putting a hand on his shoulder.

"What a monster that can't even talk, is trying to act like a person!" she remembers him saying to the creature who leaned forward and spoke.

"Why would I talk to someone that I'm going to kill?" it asked him, before picking the man up and tearing him to pieces.

the two monsters turned to look at her, but every time she thought that she had escaped they would find her and drag her back to the spot where the other man was still laying, as he died.

"She remembers how the creature did something with its hands and heald the man just enough so that he didn't die.

"Please let me die." the man begged the creature who grinned cruelly but never said anything.

"You know we could do plenty of things with you girl." the Human, no the monster said to her as he walked around her.

"We could turn you into a breeder."

'Just imagine it, you came here to destroy us, but instead, you will carry the children of us Humans and those children will help strengthen our kingdom."

'We could simply let you run and hunt you like the animal that you are."

"Or we could let you go so that you can warn them not to mess with us, so which is it going to be?" he asks her as he placed a hand over her stomach.

'I'll" she tried to say, but she was too afraid to speak.

"What, you better speak clearly or I just might choose for you." he said to her, the tone of his voice showed that he never felt like he was in any danger, and he was now just toying with her.

The screams of the man that hadn't died shook her enough so that she could scream her answer.

"I'll tell them not to attack you, I'll tell them everything!" she begged.

"Run." he ordered her just before he kissed her lips.

She ran as fast as she could, she ran until she couldn't hear the man screaming in pain, she just kept on running., until someone found her and took her to a safe area.

No one bothered to ask her what had happened, everyone assumed that her group had been attacked by Grimm, she didn't blame them it was the only thing that made sense.

After a few weeks, she finally reached a White Fang hideout and showed everyone the video of what had happened to her group, before she packed her things and came back home.

she picks up her scroll hoping to find something that will help her forget and finds that her dad is on the news.

Blake feels her heart stop and the sweat on her body become even colder, her dad just made a deal with those monsters and they were coming to their island.