As Asuna walked back into the mansion she began to feel a headache coming, as the women that Rafael agreed to look after were now looking at the kids with painted-on smiles.

"Dam it." she says to herself as she walks into the mansion before smiling and greeting the group of women, who all come from different places.

Because different areas of the world became connected with places they shouldn't have been connected to, kingdoms that shouldn't have been destroyed were, and others that should have been gone by now weren't.

Some of the women in the room didn't have a place to go back to, and as such they were now considered Rafael's concubines, despite the man not having met any of them.

"Rafael knows, Rafael knows!" she began to hear the people shout like they usually do whenever Rafael found out that someone was doing something to hurt the people.

Asuna didn't like the way that they looked at the kids, as the women's eyes showed the disgust and rage that their beautiful faces hid.

Just because they were left here by their fathers or abandoned after their kingdoms were destroyed didn't mean that the women didn't have their own agendas, and one of those agendas was being the one that gave birth to Rafael's heir.

"Kids come here." Asuna ordered the kids who ran up to her and hid behind her legs.

"Ladies could you help me with something." she says to them with the same practiced smile that she has gained over the years.

'Stay behind me." she whispers to the kids before walking past the group and into the mansion.

She led the group into what had become their classroom because it was there where they all taught each other how to read and write each other's languages.

"Miss did we do something wrong?" the girl with the cat tail asked her, her soft voice sounded as if she could start crying, but from what Asuna could see the girl had learned that crying wouldn't help her situation and so she was doing her best not to do it.

"No the two of you didn't do anything wrong, the ones that did are about to learn the difference between seeing that man angry and being the ones on the receiving end." she says to the girl before rubbing her head and then patting the boy on his head.

"Ladies I need you to write a letter to everyone that you know. Explain to them that Rafael has returned home and that my husband will be expanding the guard."

Asuna stopped to look at the women's expressions, had she not spent so much time with them she wouldn't have ever been able to notice the reactions that they had behind their carefully crafted masks.

"Miss Asuna, does that mean that Rafael will be staying home from now on?" one of the women from Japan asks her, Asuna nods to her without saying any words so that if Rafael did leave she wouldn't be called a liar.

"Kirito will be cleaning the higher floors of the mountain to make room for people. And considering that your kingdoms have so many valuable people, I know that your kingdoms have plenty to spare." she says to the women who don't react to her words.

She knows that the men and women that the empires sent to Aincrad are nothing more than troublemakers and the trash of society.

It just so happened that trash that the different empires were trying to get rid of, made excellent soldiers that were able to fight the monsters and earn their place in Aincrad.

Not to mention that several of those men sent a lot of money to their families who would eventually follow them to the mountain and gave the men a reason to join the guard or the army.

'Lady Asuna forgives me." A woman from Australia begins to say something but before she can finish the front door to the mansion slams open and Asuna rushes out of the classroom to see what is going on.

Asuna has her hands on her sword just in case another group of would-be killers tried to send a message to the Players but she can only widen her eyes and feel her soul being crushed by the sight before her.

Some of the kids are nothing but skin and bones, others are so hurt that the knights have to carry them and some Asuna can't help but cover her mouth at the thought of what was done to them.

Kirito!' she says to her husband who is carrying a pair of infants in his arms.

"Asuna I don't have time to explain but get as many healers as you can and I don't care what you have to do get these kids food." Kirito says to her as he hands her the two infants.

"Kirito how bad is it?" she asks him.

'Bad, we had to stop Rafael from tearing their heads off, because we need to have a proper trial."

"Asuna they sent kids into the mountain in the areas where no one went. My men are searching but the chances of them finding anyone alive are." Kirito doesn't finish saying those painful words to her, he just walks out of the mansion with his hand on his sword.

Asuna uses her help screen to call her guild and she explains what is happening Heathcliff immediately agrees to send help but he doesn't agree to send any clothes or food.

He does agree to send healers and soldiers to help keep people from attacking her or the kids.

Asuna remembers the group of women who are all still sitting in the classroom.

She walks back into the room and orders them to write the letters, she knows that the women will take this chance to tell their kingdoms what is happening in Aincrad.

It doesn't matter because everything that Rafael does is always known to the public, the man doesn't try to hide anything.