While we were biking to the hospital
Kazuto: "Asuna..."
Rin: "She's fine Kazuto you logged her out remember?"
Kazuto: "I just want to make sure."
Rin: "If it makes you feel better then let's just go faster." He nodded and went faster
Outside of Tokorozawashi General Hospital
We get off our bikes and got to the parking lot of the hospital
Rin: "We're almost there."
Kazuto: "Let's hurry." We then ran to get inside the hospital
I then notice two vans near to each other
While we were running somebody came in view and tried to slash Kazuto
Rin: "Kazuto move!" He was too distracted so I then pushed him to the side but
*SLASH*
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Rin: "Ngh..." He sliced a bit of my arm I then clutched it to apply pressure
Kazuto: "Rin!" He stood up and checked to see if I was alright
Rin: "I'm fine Kazuto."
???: "You're late, Kirito-kun, Hikari-kun." He came walking toward us
Kazuto: "You..."
???: "What if I ended up catching a cold?" When he saw one of his eyes it was red from the pain that Kazuto did to him
Rin: "Sugou."
Sugou: "That was quite cruel of you Kirito-kun. Especially you Hikari-kun I can still feel the pain that you gave me so much."
Rin: "Good. You better feel it."
Kazuto: "Sugou, you've already lost. Just wait to be judged by the law."
Sugou: "Lost? What do you mean? There are countless corporations that would take me. Yes, once my research is complete I can become a true king... The god of this world."
Rin: "A king? A trash bag like you becoming a king? Yeah, keep dreaming buddy."
Sugou: "Hehe... But before that... I'll have to kill you both, Kirito-kun, Hikari-kun."
Rin: "Kazuto get out of here and go to Asuna right now."
Kazuto: "What?! But I'm not leaving you here!"
Rin: "Kazuto we both know that your strength hasn't been fully restored yet."
Kazuto: "But-"
Rin: "Just go I'll be fine."
Kazuto: "...You better not leave me too Rin."
Rin: "Of course not. Now go!" He then nodded at and rushed inside the hospital
Sugou: "You're not running away!" I then rammed him
Rin: "Oh no your not your going to face me."
Sugou: "Fine then. I'll have my revenge for giving me so much pain back then! " He then tried to slash me but I back stepped in time but
*BWAK*
Rin: "Agh!" He kicked me in the stomach and I fell to the ground
Sugou: "What's wrong? Stand up!"
*BWAK*
Rin: 'Gosh darn it hurts!'
Sugou: "On your feet already!"
Before he kicked me again I rolled to the side and stand up
Sugou: "Oh so you can stand up."
Rin: "Of course I can."
Sugou: "Tch!" He then tried to tackle me but I sidestepped and punched his face
Sugou: "Ack!... You!" He then tried to grab me but I grabbed his arms just in time but
*BAM*
Rin: "Ngh!" He punched me in the gut and I got back for a bit and I coughed up blood
*STAB*
Rin: "AGH!" I couldn't react in time and was stabbed in the stomache
I then fell down to the ground
*STOMP*
He stepped on my body making the two wounds bleed out more
Rin: "*Cough* *Cough*" I was coughing out a lot of blood
Sugou: "I tried to give you a chance but instead you just gave me pain."
Rin: "Yeah I should *Cough* have given you more pain when I had the chance!"
Sugou: "Tch! A piece of trash like you... getting in my way... slowing me down... The punishment for such a sin is, of course, death. And once I kill you I'll kill your friend as well anything less is unthinkable!"
*STAB*
He missed and hit the ground
Sugou: "Huh... The vision in my right eye is blurry, so I missed. However, I won't miss next time."
Rin: 'I need to move!' However, my body was weak from bleeding out too much
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Sugou: "You garbage... You... Trash like you... don't have any real power, get it?!"
Rin: 'Power huh? Heh...'
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Rin: 'That's where you're wrong Sugou...'
Sugou: "Die, you damn brat!" He tried to finish me off but
Rin: "Huagh!"
*BAM*
Sugou: "Agh!" I uppercut him in the face making him drop the knife to the ground
Rin: "Heh... Heh..." I grabbed the knife that was on the ground and stood up
Sugou was also going to stand up and get the knife back but...
He couldn't move he scared to bits when he saw my eyes
Sugou: "Y-You..."
Rin: "What's wrong Sugou? Why are you slowly backing away?" I slowly walk towards him and I tilted my head
Rin: "I'm just going to give you a painless death." I had the biggest smile on my face
He tried running away but I kicked him to the ground
Sugou: "P-Please don't kill me!"
Rin: "Oh that wouldn't be fun now isn't it~?" I picked him up and threw him to the van breaking his glasses luckily the van didn't go off
Sugou: "Ghh..."
He was trembling in fear I then kicked his stomach multiple times
Sugou: "Agh!" He then coughed up a bit of blood
Rin: "Your voice eheh.... I love it when people do that." I then stepped on his stomach making him stay in place
Sugou: "Guh... Ngh... Stop..."
Rin: "Hehehe... This is soo much fun... But now~" I held the knife with murderous intent and he was scared
Sugou: "Stop, please! I give up! You'll never see me again!"
Rin: "Really now~? Well too late~" In one swift motion I...
Sugou: "NOOOOO!!!"
*STAB*
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Sugou: "..." He couldn't talk and his eyes were filled with tears
I stabbed the van instead of him
Rin: "Listen here you prick..." I whispered to his ear
Rin: "You better confess to the police after this... And if I see you near any of my friends or hurt them in any way... You know what will happen. Do you?"
He nodded slowly
Rin: "Good." I then took the knife in case he tried to attack me again and he passed out from shock
Rin: "As much as I want to kill that bastard he'll rot for the rest of his life in jail."
I walked inside the hospital while applying pressure to my wounds
Rin: "*Cough* *Cough*" I looked at my hand and it was my blood
Rin: 'These wounds are going to be a pain...' after going to the elevator and going to her floor I walked to Asuna's room
I opened the door to see Kirito and Asuna hugging each other and crying
Kazuto: "You're okay..."
Asuna: "Sorry. I still can't hear properly. But I can tell what you're saying."
Asuna: "It's over isn't it?"
Kazuto: "N-No it's no-" Kirito was going to shake his head but I spoke
Rin: "It is Asuna... And you two finally got to meet."
The two looked at me who had a stab wound at the stomach
Kazuto&Asuna: "Rin!/Hikari!"
Rin: "Hey you two." Kirito then got in front of me
Kazuto: "Are you okay?! What happened with Sugou?"
Rin: "I'm fine Kazuto just a stab wound pretty much but I can deal with it and Sugou is *Cough* out there passed out in the parking lot."
Kazuto: "Your coughing up blood..." He was feeling guilty that he couldn't help me
Rin: "Don't mind that I'll recover I'm not going to die just *Cough* from being stabbed once you know?" He looked down at the ground
Kazuto: "I'm sorry I couldn't be any of help... And because of that, you got injured."
Rin: "It's fine I wanted you here first because I want you to protect Asuna." X's Asuna then smiled at us
Asuna: "I finally got to meet you both."
Rin: "Mhm..." I did a closed-eyed smile
Asuna: "it's nice to meet you both. I'm Yuuki Asuna. I'm back, Kirito-kun, Hikari."
Kazuto wiped his tears
Kazuto: "I'm Kirigaya Kazuto."
Rin: "And I'm Hikari Rin." I waved
Kazuto: "Welcome back, Asuna." The two then kissed while holding hands
Rin: 'How lovely. Nghhh... I need to take a nap...' Feeling weak I then sat on a chair and passed out from bleeding too much
May 16th, 2025 - SAO Survivor School
Rin: 'Interesting...' I was just reading on the tablet that showed the lesson for my English class
Rin: 'A whale is no more a fish than a horse fish? Huh, I never knew that.' I sighed
It's been months since Asuna and Kazuto were reunited and those months going forward were pretty much just going to school
Teacher: "And so, this sentence structure is..."
*DING *DONG* *BING* *BONG*
Teacher: "Oh well, that's all for today. I'll send out assignments #25 and #26, so be sure to upload them by next week." He says while walking out of the class and everybody starts talking with each other while I just put my tablet inside my bag
Rin: 'This is so advanced than my original world... Instead of books we get tablets for lessons. The teachers don't even write at the boards instead a hologram of the lesson will show up and they will just use a laser to point at it.' Just then Kazuto came to speak to me
Kazuto: "Hey Rin wanna go meet Asuna?" Oh yeah forgot to mention he and I are in the same class together
Rin: "Mmm sorry but I have to decline I'm going to meet up with Keiko and Rika in the cafeteria."
Kazuto: "Okay be careful on your way there you still have that wound you have before."
Rin: 'Right that stab wound from that time...'
Rin: "Relax Kazuto it's been four months ever since I got that wound I'm pretty sure it's healed up already and I've been gathering up my strength so I'll be fine."
Kazuto: "Just making sure. See you Rin." He waves
Rin: "Yeah see you later." I waved back and he went on his way to meet Asuna
I grabbed my bag got up from my seat and walked to the cafeteria
While walking I started to think about past events
Rin: 'A lot has happened since that day... Sugou was arrested by the police in the parking lot and while he was being interrogated he pretty much tried to push the blame onto Kayaba Akihiko.'
Rin: 'But after a few seconds he instantly confessed to the police about everything and when the police asked why he said it all so easily well he didn't want to say it... I wonder why.'
Rin: 'There is good news though. All the 300 players who were being used in experiments never even remembered it so they didn't have any personality disorders or brain damages and that all of them will be able to return to their daily lives shortly.'
Rin: 'But not all of them are good though... All of the games of the Virtual MMO genre took a major dent into them.'
Rin: 'Ever since he confessed the news spread quickly like wildfire and it made games of that genre have a bad reputation and in the end, RCT progress was dissolved and it wasn't just RCT who suffered a lot but other companies as well."
Rin: 'And worst of all ALO was forcefully discontinued and I think six other games on that genre quickly decide to not continue as again the reputation for Virtual MMO is pretty low.'
I sighed
Rin: 'On another topic, people kept talking about if Kayaba's was still alive but it was already debunked as he was found dead.'
Rin: 'From what I remember his cause of death was suicide I think it was the time Aincrad fell and he ran a high-output scan on his own brain. Kazuto asked the people in the SAO Incident Task Force if he uploaded his consciousness on the internet. But they say the chances of it even being successful weren't even one in a thousand.'
Rin: 'But I'm pretty sure his consciousness is still alive as I know that already. He even talked to both of us at that time.'
Hikari: "Oh really now? And what is that price?" After that, a yellow egg-shaped item floated down to us
Kirito: "What's this?"
Kayaba: "It's the origin of worlds, 'The Seed'."
Kirito: "Eh?"
Kayaba: "Once it buds, the two of you will understand its nature. After that, its fate is in both of your hands. You two can even delete it to even forget about it."
Kayaba: "However, If the two of you hold any other feelings other than hatred for that world..."
Rin: 'Eh it's no use thinking about it.' I then reach the cafeteria
Rin: 'Time to eat.' I then ordered a sandwich and a bottle of water
I then spotted Keiko sitting on a table and Rika looking outside of a window so I approached and sat down and ate my lunch
Rin: "Hey girls did I keep you two waiting?" the two instantly perked up when they heard my voice
Keiko: "R-Rin you're here!"
Rin: "Sorry I was late I was just taking a slow walk."
Rika: "O-Oh we don't mind."
Rin: 'Huh... Why are yall having blush faces?' I shook it off
Rin: "Anyway what were you looking at Rika?" I ask
Rika: "Oh it's Kirito and Asuna snuggling again." I then walked to the window to see them snuggling
Rin: "Well they are dating after all."
Rika: "That's it? look at him fawning all over her. It's inexcusable behavior at school."
Keiko: "I don't approve of spying on them."
Rika: "But it's like us girls won't get one ourselves!"
Rin: "Well your wrong there Rika I mean you both are pretty cute after all."
Rika&Keiko: "Eh?!" they blushed
Rin: "Hm? Why are you two being so surprised? It is true and I'm sure you guys will find somebody that will love you." I said while chewing on my sandwich
Rika: "T-Thank you..."
Keiko: "M-Maybe we will find someone." The two while also blushing like a tomato were staring at me when Keiko said that
Rin: "Hm?" When they saw me looking at them they instantly shook their head
Rika: "A-Anyway are you two going to the offline meeting today?"
Keiko: "Of course I am!"
Rika: "What about you Rin?" The two listened closely for my answer
Rin: "The offline meeting at Agils place? Yeah of course I'm going."
Keiko: "Great!" The two smiled
After school ended Rika, Keiko, and I started walking to Agil's place
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Well I tried to walk properly but
Rin: "I get that you two are worried about my wound but do you two really have to lock my arms with yours?" My arms were both intertwined with Rika who held my left arm and Keiko on my right
Keiko: "Of course, you got wounded so we have to protect you!"
Rin: "But I'm fine it's been four months since I got that wound."
Rika: "Oh hush just look at it as us repaying our debt to you for protecting us."
I sighed and just went along with it
After we went to Agils place we saw the door had a sign saying "Booked for the day!"
Rin: 'Well it is an offline party.'
We then went inside to see Klein and his guild members, Yolko and her boyfriend Caynz, Thinker and her wife Yulier, and Sasha
I noticed Kazuto, Asuna, and Sugu weren't here
Rin: "Is Kirito, Asuna, and Sugu going to come a bit later?"
Rika: "they're going to be the last to come. The guest of honor is always the last one here."
Rin: "I see well in the meantime let's just talk over there till they come shall we girls?"
Keiko: "Mm!" They both agreed
After chatting a bit we prepared the drinks as the time Rika told me that the three will be here is near
Sometime later they finally come
The door opens to see Kazuto, Asuna, and Sugu and all of us who were here before them just looked at them smiling
Kazuto: "Come on... We arrived on time."
Rin: "Well you see it was planned from the start that you guys will come here last."
Rika: "Mhm! The stars of the show should be the last to appear. That's why we told you the time was later than it really was. Now come in."
Kazuto: "H-Hey wai-" She led him to stand on a little box and Rika grabbed a mic to get our attention
Rika: "Okay then, everyone. Let's have a cheer. One, two!"
Everybody: "Kirito, congratulations on clearing SAO!" A bunch of confetti popped out to celebrate
Kazuto: "Ahh..."
Rika: "Here, take this." She gives him a glass of juice
Rika: "Cheers!"
Everybody: "Cheers!"
While the others chatted with each other I just sat on the counter with Kirito
Rin: "Kirito order me something... I'm feeling lazy right now."
Kazuto: "You got it. Bartender, two bourbons on the rocks." I looked at him
Rin: "Wait hold on back up what did you just say?" Andrew then slides two drinks in front of us and smirked
Kazuto: "Eh?" He didn't think Agil would actually do it
Rin: "Suspicious..." I then took a sip and Kazuto smelled it
Rin: "Oh. I see now."
Kazuto: "It's just oolong tea." We both sighed in relief after that Klein came in
Ryoutarou: "Agil, give me the real one." Andrew then gives Klein the real one and he drinks it
Kazuto: "Klein, you sure about that?"
Rin: "Don't you still have work after this?"
Ryoutarou: "Like I could pull overtime without a drink. Besides..." He looks at me and the other girls
Rin: "Look at your drink instead of the girls Klein."
Ryoutarou: "Oh come on Hikari don't be like that..." He just continues drinking
Thinker: "It's been a while." Thinker who sat with us
Kazuto: "Thinker-san. Oh, right. We heard that you married Yulier-san."
Rin: "Sorry we couldn't say it sooner but congratulations!" I said then we clink our drinks together
Thinker: "Yes, well... It feels like I have my hands full with adjusting back to reality. I'm finally getting ahold of work again, too."
Ryoutarou: "Man. that's great news! By the way, I've been reading the new MMO Today" Klein says who is a bit drunk but still makes sense
Thinker: "Oh, how embarrassing. There still isn't much content in it. Besides, the way MMOs are now, walkthrough info and other such news are rather meaningless."
Kazuto: "It's comparable to the chaos accompanying the birth of the universe, after all." Just then I remembered something
Rin: "Oh right by the way Agil how's the seed?" I asked
Andrew: "You two would be amazed. There are around fifty mirror servers now. Downloads are numbering a hundred thousand. And they're about 300 major servers that are making use of it."
Rin: 'Right when me and Kirito saved Asuna and Kayaba gave us the World Seed. We both agreed to bring it to Agil to check it out. The World Seed had a package named 'The Seed' that Kyaba created which simulates a full-dive-type virtual MMO environment.'
Rin: 'To sum it up if 'The Seed' was downloaded onto a server with good enough bandwidth, pretty much anybody can create their own special online world, and pretty much anybody can use it as well.'
Rin: 'The two of us agreed and asked Agil to upload the servers worldwide. so to end it we pretty much saved virtual MMOs that were going to disappear. Reappear again on the map.'
Rin: 'ALO was revived and was taken up by new management. And not only that...'
Rin: 'Almost every company or organization small or big took the chance and make their own virtual game servers. And they all became mutually linked. And now a system that allows a character that was already in a previous game can be converted into another game is already created.'
I stopped thinking when Kirito asked all three of us a question
Kazuto: "Hey, we're still on for the afterparty, right?"
Andrew: "Yeah, tonight at eleven, we'll be meeting at Yggdrasil City."
Rin: "This is a special party after all." We all then chatted with each other till I noticed someone being left out
I then approach her
Rin: "Hey Sugu I have a feeling your thinking that your the odd one out right?"
Suguha: "Y-Yeah... How's your wound?"
Rin: "It's fine. Anyway, mind telling me what you're thinking right now?"
Suguha: "It's just everybody knows each other..."
Rin: "You'll fit right in no time Sugu. In fact, how about we just chat together? I'm sure you'll get used to it."
Suguha: "Okay Rin." She just smiled at me and we both chatted while also introducing her to the others for her to fit in
Alfheim - Cait Sith Territory Skies Above Capital City Freelia
I logged onto ALO and went to the location of the event that's going to happen shortly
When I was going there I spotted Leafa flying through the skies
Hikari: 'Isn't Kirito supposed to be here?' I tried looking for him but I can't find him on my map
I then got a message from Kirito
"Hikari I can't find Sugu anywhere and she's near so can you do me a favor and take her to the event?
~Kirito"
I then replied to him that I'll do it
Hikari: 'I guess this is what happens when a new character joins the show.' I shrugged and went to chase after Leafa
After chasing she was going to the skies and was about to reach the height limit
Hikari: 'She going to fall...' I then got in place and in just a second she hit the height limit and fell down
From what I can tell she's still feeling a bit sad for being the odd one out
She was going to fall through the skies when
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Leafa: "Huh?" She realized she wasn't falling anymore and when she opened her eyes
Hikari: "Hey Leafa how are you doing?"
Leafa: "Hikari?! What are you doing here?" She then blushed when she was being carried bridal style
Hikari: "I happened to be near you and so your brother told me to come and get you."
Leafa: "Oh... Thank you." I then removed her from my arms and she backed away a bit
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Leafa: "Um... Hikari."
Hikari: "Hm?"
Leafa: "The management for ALO changed, and you can use your SAO avatar now, so why haven't you switched like the others?"
Hikari: "Well I guess you could say that it's not really needed for me to change into my SAO avatar anymore."
Leafa: "I see... Then I'm the first one to meet the Spriggan you and travel with my brother to Yggdrasil, huh?"
Hikari: "If you say it like that then yeah. You are the first one to meet me." She had a smile on her face
Leafa: "H-Hey Hikari do you mind if we dance together?"
Hikari: "Dance?"
Leafa: "It's a recently developed high-level technique."
Hikari: 'It's a high-level technique just from dancing?!'
Hikari: "Sure but how do we do this?" She then takes my hands and we move in circles
Leafa: "While your hovering, move sideways slowly."
Hikari: "Okay... seems easy enough." I then hover slowly while moving sideways and she does the same
Leafa: "Yeah, that's good. you're doing great!" She then takes out a purple bottle and the sky around us started sparkling and we kept hovering in circles while our hands were still joined
Hikari: 'This is kind of fun! It makes me remember in my old world...'
We then did some waltz on the sky
After dancing a while she held my hand and she started tearing up
Hikari: "Wow wow why are you crying Leafa?"
Leafa: "Sorry it's just... I'll be going back."
Hikari: "Eh? But why?"
Leafa: "Where you are and where everybody else is... It's just too far for me I can't make it over there."
Hikari: "You know that's not true Sugu..." I look at her eyes
Hikari: "If we all have the same goals in mind then you will surely be with us."
Hikari: "In fact, I can show you how right now." I then take her hand and lead her to the event
Leafa: "W-Woah!" I then boosted up to try and go to the location
Leafa: "Where are we going?"
Hikari: "You'll find out soon enough."
*DING *DONG* *BING* *BONG*
I stopped making her go into me but I held her in place
Hikari: "We are here Leafa."
Leafa: "Eh?" I then pointed to the moon
Leafa: "Is there something wrong with the moon?"
Hikari: "Just watch closely."
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Just then a floating familiar structure floated down
Leafa: "Eh." Her eyes widen while I smirked
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Leafa: "Now way. Don't tell me that's..."
Hikari: "It is Leafa."
Once it stopped floating down it glowed bright to reveal
Hikari: "That floating castle is Aincrad."
Leafa: "But... Why is it here?"
Hikari: "The castle was fully recovered and was brought back here and now..."
Hikari: "Everybody can finally experience it."
Hikari: "The quest to clear all 100 floors and beat that castle."
Hikari: "Leafa I told you would fit right in and I'll make sure of it. and also..."
Leafa: "Hm?" She looks at me
Hikari: "Kirito and I well uh... Our stats were reset since we kind of cheated a bit."
Hikari: "And about that kendo training you said months ago? Well can you train me here?" She started tearing up
Leafa: "Of course, I will! I'll always be with you guys no matter how far we are!"
Hikari: "Now that's the Leafa I know."
Klein: "Hey! You two are late!" We then saw everybody from the party and some old friends
Klein: "Come on! we're gonna leave you behind!"
Agil: "I'm going ahead!"
Lisbeth: "Hurry!"
Silica: "Move it!"
Kirito: "Hikari! Leafa! You guys are here!" We then saw Kirito, Asuna, and Yui flying toward us
Hikari: "Of course, we're going to be here we can't miss the big event after all."
Asuna: "Now come, let's go, Kirito-kun, Hiakri, Leafa-chan." She then gives her hand to Leafa
Leafa: "Mm!" She then takes her hand and the two flew toward the floating castle
Yui: "Onee-chan, Papa let's hurry up." She says when she lays on my head
Hikari: "Yeah yeah I get it I just need to see this one last time."
Kirito: "You know I can't believe I'm saying this but... We really got to thank Kayaba for this."
Hikari: "I guess so I mean because of his game it changed our lives."
Kirito: "Yeah."
Leafa: "Hikari, Onii-chan let's go!"
Hikari: "Well then we can't keep them waiting now should we Kirito?"
Kirito: "Yeah here we go!"
Hikari: "Time for round two!" We then fly toward Aincrad
System: "ARC 2 COMPLETED."
AN: So unfortunately I have to inform you guys but I'm losing motivation to write since I haven't done anything for the past 3-4 weeks however I have a lot of drafts I will post chapters probably about 1-2 weeks as a way for me to try and get my motivation back. Hopefully I'll have my motivation back by the time it reaches the last chapter I have made anyway that's all see you guys.
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