ASUNA - POV
To put a long story short, Asuna had gone with the boy to the meeting the knight had organized. She listened to what he had to say. While she had put up a neutral expression outside, she was frowning inside,
How? She had thought, confused at the actions of the mane dubbed Diabel. How is it they can still keep their spirits so high? An entire fifth of Aincrad's prisoners are already gone. How can they still have the will to keep trying?
Asuna could never understand a sentiment like that. If something was guaranteed to be impossible then she would never bother to attempt it. Some would think that she didn't have the courage to do so, but it was simply because she didn't want to waste her time on impossibilities.
The scimitar user whose name Asuna still did not know, was glaring at her partner with burning hatred. The black-haired boy looked as though he could not believe what he had just heard.
"Let him die …?" he asked blankly.
"That's right! You knew, didn't you?! You knew that skill the boss used! If you had told us about it earlier, Diabel-san wouldn't have died!"
This accusation caused a ripple among the previously cheering members of the party. "He's right, you know…" "How did he know that? It wasn't
in the guide…" "Now that you mention it…"
Asuna had turned to look at Kibaou, expecting him to add fuel to the flames. He did not, however say anything. It was somebody else who
came up to the boy and jabbed a finger at his face.
"You! You're a beta tester, aren't you?!"
"You are, aren't you?! You knew everything, the boss's attack patterns, the good hunting spots, everything! And yet you hid them all to yourself!"
Asuna noticed the black-haired boy looking around. She could see the gears turning as he thought of how to best help the situation. Then, a look of conviction came into his eyes. Some instinct of hers made her realize that whatever he was about to do was a bad idea. She, and Agil at the same time, moved forward to say something before he could.
"Hey, listen," she began, but the boy held up a hand to silence her. His face then changed, as if he had put on a mask. With that expression dripping with condescension, he turned to the rest of the group.
"Beta tester? Don't confuse me with those noobs."
Just the one sentence chilled the air in the room.
He looked around, wearing an expression of superiority, and began again. "Listen up. SAO's Closed Beta Test had ridiculously low chances of someone winning the lottery to become a tester. Of the thousand that were selected for the test, how many of them do you think had any actual experience with MMORPGs? Most of them were just pathetic newbies who let their luck get the better of them."
His act was so good that, had Asuna not known him beforehand, she would've believed him. Now all she felt was worry for him. Worry? She realized,
'When was the last time I felt worried for someone I barely knew?'
While the boy tried to put up a good act, she could see in his eyes how much this was hurting him. He kept speaking,
"I'm nothing like those idiots. I was the one who went the furthest during the beta test, who found out more things about this game than any one of them. That skill the boss used? A katana skill from a higher floor. Only I knew that because only I had made it that far. That Argo doesn't even know a fraction of the stuff I do."
It was then that she realized just what he was trying to do. All the hatred the players had for beta testers; he was shifting all of that loathing onto himself.
Tirades broke out among the group. They yelled at him, calling him "beta tester" and "cheater." At one point, the two terms merged and became "Beater."
He laughed at hearing that. "Beater. I like that. Well, at least now you know. Don't make the mistake of grouping me with those noob testers."
And with that, he equipped the long coat he had obtained from landing the last hit on the boss, and flourishing it, he turned towards the forty-odd steps that led towards the next floor. "Don't follow me unless you're prepared to die." In a few seconds, he had crossed the door and was gone.
Silence reigned over the empty boss room. Asuna made up her mind to follow the hard-headed moron and teach him a lesson, but a voice stopped her.
"Hey," Kibaou said. "If you're gonna follow him, then give him a message from me."
ASUNA - POV END
Krish disgusted these kinds of people, when they need, they will beg and when their purpose is served, they will disgust the very same person they begged. But people are like that, they were like grass in grass land, they bend towards the wind direction. So, Krish hates them.
Krish impressed by the act of Kirito, despite his efforts to defeat the boss,
'I never expected this angle of Kirito, he has good swordsman skills, behavior and even leader skills, overall, he is perfect fit for knight. I found a person that fit for my knight piece. But now is not right time to talk about this, mnn…., let's see how the future will be, for now I will observe him. When time is ripe, I will take him into my peerage either peacefully or forcefully, hahahah…..'
END OF THE SCENE
It's been a year since the SAO is launched and everyone is trapped here except me. Since SAO is developed based on devil's virtual reality training program. After half-an-year in SAO, I was able to bypass my brain controls over the nerve gear to my body using my power. It is actually a simple act, but executing this concept it difficult since I have to make my mind into two parts. One is under nerve gear control where as other is in my own control to control my own body. If it is normal human developed device, it wouldn't able to do much damage to me. But even though it is accidental discovery, it's still runs on devil powers. So, in order to avoid any risk, I divided my mind into two parts, it's like two consciousness which is resultant of my training. In the case of my training, I completed my training pretty much and made lot of progress.
As for my life in SAO, it surprisingly well here, I met some good people including the NPC. I even found some suitable candidates for my peerage. I have to mention, I met a young girl name, Sachi. She looks exactly like my younger sister, I tried to talk to her, surprisingly she exactly like my younger sister. This is unexpected even for me, as I read many types of novels but never expected I her brother not able to differentiate my real sister with Sachi, even though I know she is not my real sister. Whenever I have time, I will go and meet her and spend some time with her. Recently I heard she and some people formed a new guild "Black Cats of the Full Moon", it's a funny name. today is also I going to meet her at our regular meeting place.
Another thing I did is gathering information on different factions such as church, fallen angles and devils' factions. According to info I got, no one form devil factions is not allowed to participate in this event except me. And I found there is another guild "black coffin" who is doing criminal activities inside game. So, I decided use them as my training dummy's. I even added into their wanted list and given a nick name, "black devil". Once in a while I eliminate them, it is funny you know they call themselves hunters, but I am hunting hunters now. You should have looked at their faces.
While I am thinking the past events, I heard another voice from front,
"why are you smiling brother"
I looked at the front figure, she is none other than Sachi, "come Sachi, give you brother a big hug. Hoo… how you look little taller"
Sachi come to me and hug me, "stop your sweet words brother, you are always like this"
There is smile on my face, "see, what I have here. I brought a gift for you", I took a plain looking neckless but I believe that this is most suitable for Sachi.
Sachi face brightened and excited and she took neckless into her hand, "I like this brother, with this I can feel you always with me. We have a new member in our guild, his name is Kirito. But I saw his original status, he is very high leveled players, I don't know why he come to lowers floors and joined our guild. Still, I believe he is good person. You know we are going to labyrinth tomorrow"
Sachi talked nonstop, even though she is very shy girl, once, she become close she is always talking nonstop. I like her more as my real sister, that's why I gave her neckless, which will protect her from any harms. After that, me and Sachi went on our ways, I found an information about black coffin that a group of people are meeting in a particular place. So, I decided to test my skills against them.
TIME SKIP – ONE DAY
I attacked their hideout, it turned out to be they set up a trap for me with around fifty people.
One of the black coffin members, "hey, see, who we got here. The infamous black devil, since he is hunting us, I thought he is a genius. But it seems he is a stupid hahahaha..."
Everyone started to laugh along with him. Looking at them I also started to laugh, looking at my laugh they were confused and started to look at each other as they don't know why I am laughing even though I have any chance of living.
"I think he lost his mind after looking at us...", just before he completes, I cut into his speech,
"nope, actually I am fully aware of my situation, but only you people are not aware of your situation. You fool think, with just fifty peoples you can kill me. Just dream on..."
Right before my speech, 'I felt the neckless that I have given to Sachi is broken, that means she is dead, what is the Kirito doing when he can save her. Now I have only ten seconds to cleans this mess and go to that place and save her', I released my devil energy and formed a hundred clones of myself, using my ability
"you are experiencing the worst nightmare in your life"
In next four seconds I cleared them out, in next second teleported to the tracking location where Sachi died, this place is giving wearied feeling, the moment I appear, I can clearly see Sachi soul floating and become thinner and thinner. I took out resurrection potion that I obtained in one of the quests and used it on her. All monsters are attacking me, but I killed them.
Soon, Sachi come back to life and opened her eyes and looked at me, she come forward and hugged me, "brother I am scared" and kept crying. I changed the place into a field that's giving a very pleasant feeling.
I tried to console her, but it took her for some time. So, I decided to tell her the truth. "Sachi, listen here, I have an important discussion for you. You know what I am not human".
I looked at her face, she looks shocked and her face turned pale, "what are you talking brother, are you going to leave me"
I shook my head indicating no, "instead opposite, I want you to be with me forever. I know this will scare you, but I am devil. As you learned the mythological world it is also true."