Chapter 17 - Murder case

As Mint was strolling around the 59th floor he came across a funny situation, Asuna was sleeping on the grass while Kirito just woke up, When Mint saw this he started laughing loud enough for Kirito to notice him and when he did Mint jokingly said: "I see you got yourself a girlfriend or is that just a sleeping buddy?" when Kirito heard that he turned around and found Asuna just sleeping there near him, he was quite startled and mumbled, "I didn't think she would actually take my advice seriously and nap..." Kirito started laughing with Mint as he realized he was joking. After they finished laughing Mint nodded and said: "I'll wait with you for Asuna to wake up because of the sleeping PK rumors..."

And so they chatted while enjoying the breeze Asuna finally wakes up, she's at first confused but when her eyes landed on both Kirito's back and Mint sitting lazily she realized what she had done and immediately stood up her hand on the rapier looking like she's going to attack them, Kirito fell and hid behind the wall while Mint just lazily ignored her stance and looked at her face, with Mint's handsome face and her situation she was embarrassed, to say the least.

After resolving the situation and Mint accepting her offer to buy him a meal they sat down at the restaurant, at the table Mint say near Kirito facing Asuna of course, people were giving them strange looks as they are eating with the famous Flash as Kirito isn't that well known while Mint came back not that long ago... When suddenly there was a scream, when they approached the scene they could see the victim being stabbed by a sword, etc... [as you guys know about this]

Mint didn't get involved that much and he just smiled on the inside and saying "So you want to play with deception huh? It is your bad luck that made you get involved with this, but sure I'll play your little game..."

As Asuna and Kirito discussed this Mint suddenly said "I know that only Fiend summoner can attack in the safe area this quickly and escape from the crime scene... But I keep them on a tight leash because of this so I'll be going to check about this" they are both surprised and a bit scared about the ability of the fiends so they quickly agreed and thanked him for doing so...

So they then met up at Agil's store where he appraised the sword, when they got to the part when Kirito wanted to stab himself with the sword Mint took the sword away from him and examined it himself, after doing so he snapped his fingers and a Succubus appeared and after she appeared he slashed the sword at her, Asuna stopping Mint right before he decapitates the Succubus and questioned Mint, Mint simply said "Fiends are like extensions of my avatar, they can't be hurt in a safe zone", Asuna couldn't really think how to scold Mint so she just left the sword with Agil...

Mint just accompanied Asuna and Kirito meanwhile as they try to solve the case until Scmit's and Yolko's meeting... After the scene where Yolko gets 'stabbed' in the back and is falling Mint is starting his move and stopping being a background character, Mint started to dash towards the windows and smiled at the 'thrower', Mint jumped across the building and said: "Unleash yourselves and hunt down my target!" he summoned 12 Bone Devils and 7 Horned devils [I won't tell the description except that they both have wings, recommend to check out the bone devil tho], as the 7 Horned devils flew above the attacker and the bone devils surrounding him Mint looked like he prepared to slash the attacker himself but 'froze' when he saw the teleportation crystal so he, spun like a Beyblade breaking the purple safe zone barrier and cutting an arm right before the player teleported... Mint grabbed the arm and stabbed it with a knife coated in some orange liquid, the player who got his arm cut started screaming in agony as he felt a sharp pain where his arm was supposed to be, it wasn't because he had his arm cut, it was because he still felt his arm and something stabbing it viciously even though it was dismembered by that crazy fiend god...

Going back to Mint you can see him still stabbing the arm real good while walking back to the inn, when he got there he said: "I didn't capture him, he teleported somewhere but I severed his arm at least"...

Time skip to the evenings

Asuna offers Mint a sandwich she made but he refused, saying he brought food with him. So after they all started eating their food and Kirito mentioned that the food both Asuna and Mint make could be put on the auction and get money Asuna stomped her foot on the ground causing Kirito to be startled and drop the food, after a bit of talking about how he solved the mystery Kirito's stomach growled in protest for ignoring the need for food, Mint offered Kirito some food he prepared in advance as he 'didn't know' Asuna made food, Kirito accepted and silently judged that Mint's food is better then Asuna's food.

So after a discussion that solved the case, Mint told his companions that he had a hunch player killers will arrive there and when he said it Kirito mentioned he thought the same thing so Kirito invited Mint to come with him to get a horse, Mint refused and said: "I have a better way to get there so you get the horse and we'll meet there." Kirito nodded and they parted their ways...

Now Mint is seen riding a strange horse, it had the wings of the fastest devils, the Horned devil and it had the body of the Nightmare, Mint fused lots of both fiends into this one horse to get there fast without his wings, plus it would look more intimidating to his enemies...

So Mint arrived there right as a knife lodged itself into Schmit and creepy guys saying "one down" in another language. So right before they start discussing among themselves what to do with Schmit Mint started Unsheathing his scythe loudly while laughing, he then said "Laughing coffin? You better go away or I will send you into the depths of hell!" Mint sounded aggressive as he's annoyed with that guild as they tried targeting several Fiendish dukes. Seeing them not responding Mint unsummoned the horse and used a skill as bones cracked and a light sharp bone armor appeared around Mint and he crouched down with his scythe ready to rush and decapitate them, the three didn't respond at first because they were stupified at that statement but seeing him use that skill the head of the three hurriedly said "Retreat!" as he felt Mint will kill them all easily if they stayed a second more, he at first felt he had less then 1 percent defeating Mint even with his whole guild attacking him but when Mint used the skill he guessed that it would take Mint less then a minute to kill all his guild even inside their base. So right after they retreat Kirito arrives with a horse, he saw the 3 running away but as he saw Mint (Without the bone armor) ignoring them he left them alone, he started going towards Mint but Mint just told him to check on the others, after a little discussion Mint was thinking "You sure were annoying with your little deception but unfortunately for you, you will have pain in the missing arm every night for an hour pausing randomly throughout the night... Hah, I can't wait to see your reaction thinking it was just a nightmare every time because you really did feel death with that loss of an arm, he felt he would've died if he teleported a second late... lucky him he didn't get absorbed in my death scythe at least"...

So skipping the scene with Grimlock and into the scene with Griselda ghost

Asuna asks them both about what would they do if they found a hidden trait of their spouse and after Kirito said his answer Mint said: "I would be surprised at first (As I would probably know everything about them already...) but then would explore her more as more traits could be hidden, making her closer to me in the process." Mint's answer sounded strangely romantic but fitting for him for both Kirito and Asuna...

They prepared to leave until they saw the ghost saying thank you, they stood there dumbfounded until Mint stomped the ground, making Hellish chains bind the soul, they both relaxed hearing Mint's fresh laugh and him saying "Finally! The last quest item appeared for getting my Death Scythe!" they were stumped when suddenly above Mint appeared a dark portal and from it coming a death scythe. That's right Mint is getting one of his original weapons back as a 'quest reward'. Immidetly after getting the scythe Mint said: "I gotta test this beauty so bye Kirito, Asuna!" while taking a teleport crystal out and teleporting...