() Kirito forgot how he returned to the stone villa in the countryside, but he knew that maybe there was not much time left for him to continue to survive in this world, because... Kirito clearly felt that the magic power in his body had already been

It was completely consumed, and the only thing left... was probably the source of the condensed malice of countless people.

"I said...are you really okay?" Dalian supported Kirito's body with her own body, trying not to let him fall down. It should have been a very bulky body for her petite body. At this time,

However, Dalian felt incredibly soft, as if...as if a slight exertion would break it as easily as pottery. Just imagining it made Dalian feel uncontrollable fear in her heart.

"Ah...it's okay, Dalian." Looking at the worry and sadness that could not be concealed on Dalian's pretty face, which was as exquisite as a beautiful doll, Kirito felt his breath suffocate, and he could barely control the sadness in his heart.

I suppressed the fact and tried my best to show a gentle smile that could make people feel reassured.

Kirito's face was paler than paper... no, I should say paler than the moonlight at night, and that smile was not so much scary as... more like the last smile of a person who died frequently, which made me wonder.

Darian thought of a terrifying fact.

Perhaps because of the changes in the car accident thirteen years ago, Camila's mother, who should have died according to the normal historical trend, has been resurrected. Recalling Camila's satisfied smile when she and her mother boarded the train hand in hand,

The man who smiled with great satisfaction because he had defeated his fate—pilot assistant Hailin.

"Go to bed quickly. You make me feel like you will die in the next second. I won't allow this kind of thing! You still have many delicious dishes that you haven't cooked for me yet."

Although she was worried to death, Dalian still used her usual arrogant tone, but if you listen carefully, you can still find the well-hidden trembling in her words.

"No...I want to say something to you tonight...because after tonight, maybe the two of us will never be able to talk again." Kirito's lips moved for a long time before he finally said the words "Da Li"

An was shocked by the words.

With a slight effort to leave the support of Dalian's petite body, Kirito seemed to drag his exhausted body to sit on the sofa in the living room for guests. Then he looked softly at Dalian's petite body in the dark and patted the sofa.

Next to him, it was obvious that he meant to ask her to come over here and sit down.

"...Huh?" Dalian didn't look confused, but her expression instantly became alert, mainly because the other party had used this method to trick her several times.

After observing for a while, Dalian found that Kirito's eyes were still looking at her softly. After hesitating for a long time, Dalian carefully moved her steps and came to sit next to Kirito. Of course, she did not forget to use the corners of her eyes.

He looked at the other person warily out of the corner of his eye, thinking that as soon as Kirito behaved strangely, he would immediately run back to the basement and hide in the mountain of books.

"...Do you want to continue hearing about my past?" Kirito was silent, his soft eyes quietly staring at the dark girl in front of him who seemed to be completely integrated into the darkness, like the goddess of the night, and finally hesitated.

Open your mouth and say.

"Are you going to tell me?" Kirito nodded in acquiescence, and Dalian immediately nodded her head as fast as a shaking rattle, and her long, dazzling black hair swayed left and right at any time according to her actions.

"It's a huge isolated island called 'Aincrad'. All the people, including me, close to 10,000 humans are imprisoned there... That's... everything that ordinary people can't survive."

A creature that understands, and if you want to leave, you can only completely break through the one hundred-story tower at the center of the island..."

A low, sad tone sounded in the living room, murmuring like a witch casting a spell. Those magical words deeply attracted Darian's consciousness. The low words continued.

It hypnotized Darian, making her feel as if she was actually there.

When Darian heard that Kirito wanted to save an animal trainer named Silica just because she looked like her sister, she couldn't help but laugh softly. That moving laughter as sweet as an oriole made Kirito

The person showed a hurt expression, and at the same time whispered with her lips: "You and she both made fun of me!"

A dice game for hundreds of people for a piece of food and a powerful weapon. When encountering a monster with amazing resilience, dozens of people take turns to go into battle. The tired ones take a break to sleep, and then continue to go into battle... One piece

Another interesting story made Dalian listen with great interest, and sometimes she chuckled or sighed.

This time, Dalian also clearly understood that the beautiful young man beside her also had a sister, but she was not a biological sister, but a cousin named Kiritani Suguha. It is precisely based on this,

Kirito gradually began to distance himself from his 'sister'.

This time, Kirito had no reservations. He even expressed the two pains in his heart that could never be erased. He left his first friend behind in order to save his life. He hid his strength due to his immaturity and joined in.

He joined a certain guild just for the inner satisfaction of having the strong protect the weak, but in the end the entire guild was destroyed.

"You were really bad as a man back then." When Darian heard about Kirito's past that she had never known about, her exquisitely indifferent expression moved for the first time. She pursed her lips for a long time before saying

The words brewing in my heart came out.

"Ah...it's true that I was very bad at that time." He smiled. It was a strange smile that ordinary people couldn't tell what he was thinking in his heart.

"The expression the guild leader looked at me when he committed suicide in the end is still vivid in my mind. I thought that at that time, he must have been cursing me and people like me." Kirito showed a confused expression.

, as if he was thinking about the past, and then said: "In the end, what he said, 'A strong man like you is not qualified to join us', ah... That sentence is like an invisible invisible sword.

Like this, it cut a wound on my heart that will never heal."

"Then what happens next...they are all dead, how did you get here?" Dalian asked softly in a cold and emotionless tone. Everything Kirito said seemed to be just a heart in her heart.

A tiny stone falls into a splash of water in the sea.

"Ah... At that time, I felt that the world had lost its color. The gray and white world was really monotonous. However, at that time... I don't know when there was such a legend. In the legend...

…In the innermost layer of the thirty-five-story maze of the tower, there is a sacred stone that can bring people back to life.”

"Then you believe it."

"Ah, yes, that's like a 'life-saving straw' that a drowning person grabs at an emergency moment." He answered Dalian in the same calm tone, but compared to Dalian's indifference, Kirito at this time

His tone was more like he had lost his soul, and he seemed helpless and empty.

"That news made me feel as if the monotonous and colorful world had color again. My once paralyzed heart revived again. At that time, I was like a man possessed, exercising like crazy and masochistically.

I have forgotten how many days I haven’t slept. Anyway, when I open my eyes, I feel an indescribable tingling sensation in my temples. Although my instinct tells me that I should go to sleep, but... as soon as I close my eyes, it feels like a curse.

Words just take over my brain.”

"I'm so tired... I was really tired at that time."

"Then...did you get the Holy Stone of Resurrection?" Dalian's tone sounded urgent this time. It was obvious that she was very concerned about the answer. Although she had already guessed some of it, she didn't hear it.

I personally admit that she still can't let go.

"I got it...but..." At this time, Kirito gently touched his forehead with his right hand, as if he didn't want to think about it.

"But?" Dalian asked back immediately.

"Silk... that holy stone... is only useful if the soul has not dissipated within ten seconds after death." Kirito took a deep breath, as if to swallow back the air that was blocking his chest.

Then he told the truth that made him despair.

"...Ten seconds..." Dalian chewed over and over again the words that seemed to have a huge gap in the hearts of the people in front of her, and then quietly fell silent.

"I threw the Holy Stone to the ground with a force I had never experienced before in my life, stepped on it crazily, and roared crazily... But it was useless. Fortunately, I will not come back, and Keita will not come back... No one I killed will be killed.

I will come back. I don’t know how I left there and returned to the room... I was thinking that I would break through the floor immediately. If I succeeded by luck, I would go to the next floor immediately... because... I already thought

There is no other way to die that is more suitable for me."

At this time, Dalian discovered that crystal liquid had appeared on the cheek of the boy next to her at some point, but he did not make any sobbing or whimpering sounds. Perhaps...even he didn't know that he was crying.

Dalian suddenly made a move that surprised and embarrassed her. Under Kirito's inexplicably surprised gaze, she gently stretched out her bright red tongue and licked away the tears on Kirito's cheeks. "Ah, it turns out they are salty.

Ah." He didn't forget to leave a comment after he finished.

Without any hesitation, Kirito told Darian everything about Aincrad in one sitting. Even his daughter Yui said a few things. Although it was processed by his own words,

At this time, it was already around three o'clock in the morning, and it was probably more than two and a half hours and less than three hours before he disappeared. The reason why he could still exist for so long was actually because of his high level.

The two inherent abilities of independent action and tenacity played a huge role.

"Okay, I've finished what I need to say. Is there anything else you want to ask, Ms. Darian?" Kirito's teasing tone made Darian feel an inexplicable sense of uneasiness. It was like

...Dalian shook her head and shook off the uneasy feeling with action.

"Well... I really want you to talk about the happy life you live with your wife named Asuna, but that is considered your private life, so I decided not to ask more... That's it, now

It's very late, go to bed." Ignoring the uneasiness in her heart, Dalian returned to her usual arrogant tone and attitude.

"In that case..." Then, under the surprised and inexplicable horror of Dalian, Kirito slowly took off the black fingerless gloves on his right hand. Unknown to him, a simple golden key with a ruby ​​on the top appeared.

Appeared in the hand, and said words that made Dali'an think for a moment that they were empty ears.

"Take this key... and find your new owner, because... my time is running out."

"Tong... person?" Dalian seemed to have used all her strength to bite out the two words. She opened her mouth and was about to shout when her delicate body suddenly trembled and she stared at Kirito in disbelief.

Said... it was the light emitted from Kirito's body. It was a black light. Dots of black light points floated out from his body. The light points floated out very slowly. However, as the light points drifted away,

Kirito's body is getting closer and closer to becoming transparent, like a painting that is constantly losing its paint.

"Wow~~!!" This time, Dalian could no longer resist the crazy emotions pouring out of her chest. Along with the floating black light spots, a big hole appeared in her heart that could not be filled.

, pounced on Kirito's dissipating body and cried loudly.

"Even if you get lost in the forest or freeze in the snow, I will never be angry with you again. I will share half of the food with you in the future, so...so! Kirito...

...Kirito Kazuto! Please! Please! Don't leave me!" Although Darien couldn't understand the scene in front of her, it didn't hinder her thinking. She didn't want to know why Kirito disappeared.

The reason, she only knew, was that he would leave her soon, which made Dalian's heart feel as painful as tearing.

"I like you... Kiritani Kazuto." Finally, Dalian turned the attachment in her heart into words and spoke out.

"Really... How can I have the nerve to leave you when you're so useless and crying?" He sighed helplessly, and the black light spots that were floating and spreading from Kirito's body suddenly stopped floating out.
Chapter completed!