Ramesh looked at police and said, "thank you officers, I am willing to donate to police for their work. I will talk to commissioner"
Officers, "it's our duty sir. Thank you for your donation, I will inform our superiors. Then we will take our leave"
Police officers left leaving Nurumi, the entire time silently standing at the side. His father looked at her, "son, her?" asked while pointing. Leo looked at her and looked at his father, "mom, papa, it is her parents who took care me these years."
From police, they already learned know entire situation. Aika went to Nurumi with gratitude, "I am sorry dear for your loss. Since you have no one, we will be your family from now onwards." Looked at Ramesh, "what do you say dear?".
Ramesh also accepted, "yes dear, Nurumi right. I you like we will adopt you. Since your parents took care of our son, we will also take care you as our daughter. What do you say?"
Nurumi looked at Leo, as late nod his accept, "then sir and madam I will be in your care"
Aika chuckled, "what sir, madam. We adopted you, daughter. You can call us god-father, god-mother. But I prefer as father, mother. Right dear?"
Ramesh nodded his head, "yes dear. Daughter welcome to our family. We will be one family. Fumi say hello to your sister. Now onwards she will be your eldest sister"
Fumiyo come infront of Nurumi, "greeting eldest sister. I am Fumiyo Takakawa, call me Fumi"
Nurumi surprised and lightly shocked, looked at Leo as what she has to do.
Leo, "what ae you staring at, pay respects to parents. Didn't you miss them, my parents are your parents."
Nurumi calm down her emotions and took deep breath, "yes, Leo-sa…".
Leo stopped Nurumi from talking, "my name Krishnan Takakawa, call me Krish from now-on. Even though I am happy with name "Leo", since I am with my family, I will be "Krish", remember that".
Aika, "its ok Krish dear, Leo is also good name. come we will go inside. Its cold outside"
AFTER FEW MONTHS – IN A LUXERIOUS ROOM
Door opened; Leo entered into the room. Behind him, one young girl and middle age man carrying some files with him entered. After entering into room,
"Leo-sama, this is the room for you anything calls XXX we will take care of it, and this are the files you are asking about, if no further instructions, then I will take my leave"
Keeping the files in his hands, on table, the middle-aged man left the room. Leo removed his jacket and sitting on sofa, stretched his body to relax. After few minutes, Leo sits straight and look at the files on the table decided to get into work. Leo spends half an hour and completed the all repots on his mission. He kept his last file on the table and Nurumi give him a hot cup of tea. Leo took tea and sip it,
"our mission is to disable the new virtual reality game "sword art online" that is originated from devil's virtual reality training machine, and also it is a training for me. Your task is to take care of me when I dived into game. Ok"
Nurumi surprised first, the most famous revolutionary technology and game of the century is a mimicked product from devils, she replies, "ok! Leo-sama"
After some time, he received his nerve gear setting and everything is prepared. Tomorrow is launch day of the infamous game "SAO – SWORD ART ONLINE", it is expected more than the thousand players are playing the game on their first day.
Login into game, his vision brightened and he is in cylindrical room with deep blue color kind of room. Infront of him a screen is opened at his shoulder height, it displaces his five senses touch, sight, taste, hearing and smell and status as ok.
Next window changes, asks language and Leo select English.
Window changes and now displays character creation. Leo creates new account with name "Krish".
Window changes with big screen that covers his vision, " welcome to sword art online" and next moment his field of vision changes and he is at plaza where every new player logged in. This was the starting point, the central plaza of the «Starting City».
Since, this is Leo's first time, he is walking around to observe all things, after walking for a while, he heard a conversation from far away that catches his attention,
Voice 1, "hei! You act like you are around here, aren't you? You are a beta tester, right?", asked very enthusiastically.
Voice 2 replied awkwardly, "ya…!"
Voice 1 shouted, "cool! Today is my first day. So, could you give some tips on lower levels"
Voice 2, "ya.! I don't know if.." his voice is cut in by the first voice.
Voice 1, "nnhaaa…! Please, I am begging you, look my name is Cline, nice to meet you"
Voice 2, "alright, I am Kirito"
When they both were ready to leave, they heard another voice from behind and turned back, looks at a boy around their age come near to them
"sorry brothers for overhearing your conversation, I am Krish, just like Cline today is my first day in game, can I follow you".
Kirito and Cline both looks at each other and Kirito agrees. Three people moves to fields out side village.
It was just past 5:30 and the small strip of sky that could be seen was red with the light of the sunset. Ding, ding, a chiming noise like a bell, or perhaps a warning bell, sounded loudly, making Kirito, Cline and me jump in surprise.
"Ah..."
"Ah…"
"What's this!?"
We shouted at the same time and stared at each other; our eyes wide. Both Cline, Kirito and I were immersed in a clear blue pillar of light. Past the blue veil, the plains in my vision blurred steadily. As the blue light faded, my surroundings became clear again. However, this wasn't the plains lit with the sunset anymore. A large road paved with stone. Medieval streets surrounded by streetlamps and the huge palace radiating a dark light a fair distance away up ahead. This was the starting point, the central plaza of the «Starting City».
For next few minutes thousands of players are started to appear and now plaza looks like sea of players. Some of them mumbles and mutters could be heard here and there; it started to get louder, like,
"What's happening?", "Can we log out now?", "Can't they take care of it quickly?" "Is this a joke?" and "Get the hell out here, GMs!" could be heard. Then suddenly, somebody raised his voice above all these comments and shouted.
"Ah...look above!"
Cline, Kirito and I almost automatically turned our eyes upward and looked. There, a strange sight greeted us. The bottom surface of the second floor, one hundred meters up in the air, was checkered in red.
When I asked Kirito, he said, "I could make out that they were made up of two phrases crisscrossing each other. The word that was written in red was [Warning] and the other [System Announcement]".
I was surprised for a moment but then thought 'Oh, the operator's going to begin informing us now' and tightened my shoulders a little bit since I felt something is off. The chatter died down in the plaza and you could feel everyone waiting to hear what was going to be said.
From the middle of the pattern, a liquid similar to blood started oozing down slowly. It came down at a rate that almost emphasized how viscid it was; but it didn't fall down; instead, it started morphing into another shape. What appeared was a twenty-meter-tall man with a hooded robe draped around him.
The countless players around me must have felt the same.
"Is that a GM?"
"Why doesn't it have a face?"
Numerous whispers like these could be heard.
The huge robed figure lifted his both gloves into air above shoulder height, its like gloves spreading out in front of ten thousand players, the faceless person opened his mouth—no, it felt like it did. Then a low and calm voice of a male resonated from high up in the air.
'Players, I welcome you all to my world. My name is Kayaba Akihiko. Right now, I am the only person who can control this world. I think that most of you have discovered the fact that the log out button has disappeared from the main menu. This is not a bug; it is all part of «Sword Art Online»'s system.'
"Part of...the system?"
Cline muttered; his voice breaking up. The announcement continued
in its low voice as if to cover the sound.
'Until you get to the top of this castle, you cannot log out of your own
free will.'
This castle? I couldn't understand this phrase at first. There's no castle
in the «Starting City». Then the next thing that Kayaba said blew our confusion away.
'...also, the discontinuation or dismantling of the Nerve Gear from the
outside is strictly forbidden. If these things are attempted...The signal sensors in your Nerve Gear will emit a strong electromagnetic pulse, destroying your brain and stopping all of your basic functions.'
Cline and Kirito stared at each other for seconds in shock. It was as if their mind was refusing to believe what had just been said. But Kayaba's short statement pierced through my body with a ferocity that was both hard and dense.
Destroy our brains. In other words, kill us.
Right at this moment, I was thinking, 'but I don't think it can kill me, still I can't escape from here. Haa… what a headache, first I have to check whether I have to the system controls Ajuka-sama developed are tampered or not. Anyway, I have to get control over this game. Other than this mission, I have another thing, training my power. According to Ajuka-sama, this is best place for my training. So, I can take my own time in this world, finally when my training is over then I will complete main mission. So, for now I will start my adventure'
After some time, Kirito decided to leave for next village, so as Krish decided to go with Kirito to next village and Cline decided to stay in village for now. Since the game begins a hole month is gone by, during this month everyone is still trying to defeat first floor boss and death count is increasing.
Today is day where a meeting is going on, on how to defeat first floor boss. At the end of meeting, Krish attended and teamed up with some random person. Next day, everyone is going to fight, Krish meetup with Kirito and introduces himself to Asuna, but didn't even looks at him. In the first floor everyone is fighting with their all might to defeat the floor boss, the boss HP is going down slowly, when it's HP reaches one third, it switched its weapon and attacks aggressively team leader, Diabel sacrificed himself to receive first attack and dead. Kirito and Asuna team up to defeat the boss, after intense fight everyone defeats the boss and everyone is celebrating intensively. Suddenly,
"Why?! Why did you let Diabel-san die?!"
Asuna, Kirito and Krish were checking the loot, looked at the scimitar user from one of the raid groups organized to defeat the boss – the same raid group as the one Diabel was in.
Diabel being the 'Knight' who had organized this raid and had motivated the 44 players who had shown up to take down the boss. Krish has very good opinion on him, when Diabel going to die Kirito tried to save him, but Diabel refused to be saved as though he resigned to die.
Krish thought about reincarnating him, but decided to not to do so. Even though self-scarifying is good quality, his unwillingness to live was the reason why Kirito abended reincarnation of Diabel.
Thanks to that Diabel person, everything had gone smoothly, putting aside a spiky-haired player's hatred towards beta testers.
It was thanks to him that they had come all this way to fight the boss of the first floor and yet Diabel was the only one who died in the battle.