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Standing in front of a house, Sora looked at the rather small and nice cottage of Kiyomi's.
Before heading inside, Kiyomi stood in front of the door and turned to Sora with a nervous look on her face. She pressed her fingers together and said, "I… adopted a child a couple of months back. She… believes I'm her mother after she lost her memories. She also believes that you are her dad since I mentioned you a lot to her..."
Hearing Kiyomi speak, Sora remembered back to what had happened a couple of months back, the time when the whole virtual world shook for a split second. It had gone widely unnoticed by the majority of players.
It was an event only a handful of players with good senses had noticed.
Sora wasn't too sure what could have been the reason since there isn't anything that should disturb the virtual world.
After hearing Kiyomi speak about a girl who lost her memories, Sora knew what could have caused the virtual space disturbance.
There's a function in SAO that prevents players and Aincradians from losing their memories in case anything happened, so it was highly improbable for something like losing memories to happen. The only reason could be if something besides the Aincradians and the players had lost their memories.
"Can you lead me to her?" asked Sora.
"Yes, Heaven-sama."
Kiyomi smiled sweetly, pulling Sora into her cottage happily.
"YUI! I brought your father home!"
Clatter!
"Daddy!"
With a loud yell, a small girl with long black hair had made some ruckus as she ran over to Sora. She wore a white dress with nice frills at it's edges and wearing black, slip-on, flat leather shoes,
Agilely jumping high into the air and into Sora's arms, Yui snuggled her head into Sora's neck.
"Heyy~, Yui," said Sora with narrowed eyes. 'So it was Yui… This adorable girl is the Mental Health Counseling Program. I partook in her creation, so in a way I am her father...'
Sora chuckled in his heart as he hugged Yui a little tight.
Yui's bubbly personality and her need to help people had been formed from Emily, Sora's daughter. So when Sora looked into Yui's eyes, Sora could see a bit of Emily, yet also a bit of Yui who had grown in the months she was with Kiyomi.
The program that was there to help out players had grown on it's own to form it's own consciousness. It had become sentient with it's own means.
"Yui, how about you go ahead and take a nap. I will be talking with your mother," said Sora as he gave Yui a small pat on her head before sending her off to take a nap.
Yui jumped off Sora before looking up at him with a worried look on her petite face, "You won't leave me, right daddy?"
"Of course not. I will keep you close to me and make sure you grow," said Sora.
Although they were just words, Sora had already named her his daughter. All he could do now was keep her with him as his actual daughter.
"Okay," said Yui with a bright smile. She quickly sped away into her room to take a nap as Sora had asked her to.
"You're good with kids, Heaven-sama," said Kiyomi with a red face. The moment Sora had called her Yui's mother had already made her enter her own fantasy. Only briefly noticing Sora's actions.
'He called me Yui's mother~! That means I'm Heaven-sama's wife!'
"I just had a lot of experience," said Sora, thinking about his many children.
"Wow~. Experience..." mumbled Kiyomi with a meltingly blushing face.
"How did you find her?" asked Sora, glancing to Yui's room, where she had her door slightly opened and was looking at him with wide and happy eyes.
Sora waved before turning to Kiyomi.
"I found her sitting down in front of a pond. She was looking at her face for a long time with a lost look on her face. I didn't know what was happening to the child, so I approached her and asked her if she was okay..."
Kiyomi had approached Yui and asked if she was okay with a concerned look. Yui shook her head and grabbed her own head with her two hands before muttering that she can't remember anything about herself.
At first, Kiyomi had looked at Yui with a confused and suspicious look on her face since she never heard of such a thing being possible. In any case, Kiyomi still took in Yui and took care of her.
One day, Yui just called Kiyomi 'mother' without noticing it, calling out to Kiyomi as if it were normal. Kiyomi didn't even notice she was being called mother until a day later.
Since then, both woman and little girl had gotten together and shared many moments together like a real family.
"I see..." muttered Sora with a light smile. He turned back to Yui who was still looking at him through the gap in the door and chuckled, "Come here Yui. Let's go fishing."
"YAY!!"
Yui ran out from her room and ran to Sora with a wide smile on her face and a small red blush encroaching her cheeks from happiness. With a light chuckle, Sora picked up Yui and walked out of Kiyomi's cottage.
Turning around, Sora looked at Kiyomi who was looking at him from afar with a sad look on her face.
"What are you doing Kiyomi? We're going together," said Sora.
"Come on Mommy, you're so slow!"
Yui giggled as she waved to Kiyomi and ran around Sora with a happy look on her face.
…
Sitting on a wooden boat out in the middle of a lake, Sora happily hummed a small tune as Yui sat on his lap. She kicked her feet up in the air along with the tune and swayed her head from side to side happily.
"Daddy sounds so amazing!" said Yui with a happy look on her face. She turned to look at the nun sitting next to Sora and said, "Right mommy? Isn't daddy just so good at humming!"
"Un. Your daddy is an amazing man," lightly said Kiyomi as she glanced at Sora's face from the side.
"Come on Yui, give you dad a hand," said Sora as he put the fishing rod in front of Yui.
"Okay daddy!"
Yui put her small hands on the thick rod with a little smile on her face.
"Watch out, a big fish will take the bait any time now," said Sora as he held the fishing rod a bit tight. "You might get wet, so keep a head up."
"Okay!"
Over 5 minutes had passed until a dark shadow passed from underneath the wooden boat ominously. Sora just gave a light smirk, even with his eyes closed, he could feel the fish from miles away.
With the Sea Dragon Art, Sora was extremely sensitive to the air and water. Feeling some ripples and vibrations was like someone was tapping him.
"Watchout," muttered Sora as he pulled Yui gently into his embrace. "That big fish is coming out re~al soon."
Ki-eee!
Quickly after Sora's words, the fishing line began to move as soon as the fish had eaten the bait. Even with the fish' intelligence being really high on the 99th floor, it couldn't resist it's urges.
Even if it could resist it's urges, Sora used a special thread that is invisible until someone touches the main body of the fishing rod.
Cra!
"Come and lay yourself on a platter," said Sora in a husky voice as he pulled the fishing rod and quickly reeled in the fish.
"Houh!"
With a low grunt, Sora pulled the fish into the air and smirked. In a flash, a light blue sword appeared in his hands before waving it at the fish for a whole second.
In one whole second, for a God of the Sword like Sora, hundreds of attacks could be made, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say 10,000 attacks could be made. With his reactions and speed, doing something like that would be easy.
Thousands of lights flashed in an instant, as they spread through the body of the giant fish in the air.
Ting!
The sword returned to it's scabbard and that was when the fish began to fall back down. Before it fell into the water, Sora took out a huge board, letting the fish fall on the board.
Yui, who was on the side, was shocked by Sora's move. All she had seen was him putting his hand on the sword and drawing it for a split second before putting it back in the scabbard.
The next thing she knew, Sora was holding a wooden board with fish meat on it in nice cubes and thinly sliced pieces.
"Let's go back home," said Sora, putting all the fish in his inventory.
"Yay!"
Yui didn't put too much thought into it as she thrusted her hands in the air and yelled happily. Her head was completely occupied with wishing to taste the fish that Sora was bringing back.
The only things she had been eating for as long as she could remember was the normal meat from various average animals and fishes. Eating a super strong and rare fish like the one Sora got was nothing but a dream for her.
"Fish! Fish! Fish!"
Happily yelling, Yui held Sora's hand as they slowly walked over to the cottage.
…
After eating and taking Yui to her room to sleep, Sora stepped out of the cottage and looked at Kiyomi.
"I'll be heading out. I'll be back before the sun rises," said Sora.
Kiyomi nodded, "Come back safely, Heaven-sama!"
Sora nodded to Kiyomi with a smile before walking away under the light of the moon.
…
"AAhhk!"
"Hiyaah!!"
"Help me! Khaa!!"
In the dark night, the only thing luminating the dark 99th floor was the huge moon looming over the heads of every player and Aincradian. Besides the lights in the cities, towns, and villages, there was no other light outside of those areas.
There were no longer any safe areas and players had to survive on their own in the dark knight.
However, the enemy isn't the monsters in the night, it's other players.
"How does [Laughing Coffin] always manage to survive the attacks of my Swordsmen," Sora asked himself as he walked under the moonlight with his light blue crystal sword drawn from it's scabbard.
[Laughing Coffin], not much of a threat to Sora and [Limitless Sky], but all the normal and average players are in danger from their attacks. [Laughing Coffin] has killed many players, contributing to the 10 million that had died.
If it wasn't because they were such a small group composed of only 10,000 people, more players would have died. However, their small size was their blessing in disguise since they could hide exceptionally well among the rest 40 million players.
In the recent months, Sora had been sending out his Elite Swordsmen to deal with the 10,000 members of [Laughing Coffin]. So although the numbers of [Laughing Coffin] continued to dwindle, their amount of killing does not decrease.
Their targets tend to be high-ranking players crucial to defeating field bosses and the floor boss.
[Laughing Coffin]'s actions had not only failed, but their actions had grown more wild, killing many players and Aincradians indiscriminately.
So Sora began to take matters into his own hands, easily taking down hundreds of [Laughing Coffin] in just days. Now, only 20 remained and Sora had luckily chosen a spot where all 20 had decided to appear.
Sora treated [Laughing Coffin] like a bunch of roaches.
Annoying to deal with but extremely easy to kill.
His method of killing was also different compared to any other player since the [Laughing Coffin] contains a large amount of Life-saving items they had saved throughout a whole year and a half.
Appearing before a large group of people mercilessly killing many players and Aincradians they had dragged out of their homes and into the wild, away from the protection of the No-Damage in the safe areas.
"KahK!"
Many players and Aincradians fell over dead after being hit by the attacks of the remained 20 [Laughing Coffin] members.
Sora, who was standing in the shadow of a large pine tree, his entire body hidden from sight. Sora's gaze wasn't on the [Laughing Coffin] members, but on the pile of dead bodies to the side that contained many women within.
A surge of anger welled up from within Sora and exploded outwards, dying his body in a thick and dark purple Ki. His body and expressions were clouded from the thick and dark Purple Ki, but one could see the vague outlines of an angered face marked by a white outline.
"Gehh~"
Letting out a ghastly sigh, Sora took a step forward lightly.