chapter 27

Today Klein and his guildmates were having a happy occasion, for first they had managed to join up together and formed up a guild name Fuurinkazan, and they all have reached level 10 after the month of endless grinding and questing together.

They finally decided to topped it off with a celebration at one of the most expensive eateries on the first floor itself.

"Aye boss, let celebrate until we passed out on the floor! After that we shall be headed off to joined up with the floor clearing party, I heard that they recently cleared the boss of the second floor." a large man suggested.

"Oh hell yeah, it's all on me today so party until you pass out!" Klein added with a goofy grin on his face as he replied to the giant man.

They then swiftly headed up to the second floor, where all the big tables are located to find a nice spot that could accommodate all six of them.

It was at the end of the plight of stairs that Klein heard something so horrified, terrifying and never in a million years that it would be possible.

"HEY!!! BALLSDEEP69!!!" someone shouted out his in-game avatar name, the one name that he used on this test character of which he planned to erased after he's done testing the game out- but Akihiko Kayaba ruined that chance.

"ALRIGHT WHO'S THE BASTARD THAT JUST CALLED ME THAT?!" Klein exploded out as he quickly surveyed the surrounding of the second floor while pulling out a katana in hand, ready to kill the person who just called him by his dark history that's should have been forgotten to the passage of time.

"Ballsy! I'm over here!" Once again the voice called out to Klein, he soon quickly pinpointed the location of where the voice was calling from, it was from one of the tables near the window.

"Alright, you bastard! I hope you're ready to be slice and dice up into tinies chunk of data fragment- wait...Leonard?!" Klein outburst suddenly went cold as he saw an all too familiar face.

"Yo...what is up my man, how are you doing?" Leonard gotten up from his seat and walked over to Klein and extending his fist out for a fist bump, to which Klein immediately answered back with his own fist out of instinct while still having that surprised face on him.

"...It's truly is a surprise...you're still alive?" Klein asked him while having his face changed to that of a blank one.

"...yeah...I'm still alive! Just because I haven't contacted you for a month or so doesn't mean that I'm dead, ok!" Leonard's face twitched as he answered Klein question.

"yeah...I see, but where's Kirito? I thought you went with him on the first day?" Klein asked him.

"Just sit down first and I'll explain everything," Leonard suggested as he realized that Klein own friends he himself was standing and quickly offered them a seat at his table.

"Uhh...alright, thanks." the members of Fuurinkazan happily taken up Leonard offer and pulled a few chairs over to the large round table.

"Now start explaining what's going, we got a lot of things to catch up on." Klein sat down on the opposite end of the table, facing Leonard and began to ask him as Klein was quite curious on what one of his first friend in the death game that was known as Sword Art Online was doing all these time after they went off.

"Uhh yeah...you see, after that day where I and Kirito split off with you, we've been grinding like crazy in attempt having a better chance of living and to clear the boss and get the hell out of this death game." Leonard then described his story and countless "adventures" that he and Kirito have gone through together.

Including that of killing the first-floor boss, Illfang the Kobold Lord and as well as taking down the Taurus king of the second floor and his lieutenants.

"Wait...hold it... what? So you're saying when most of us here still grinding on the first floor for that measly amount of experience points, you guys were with the advance party taking down one boss after another?!" Klein jaw dropped wide open as he heard the crazy story that Leonard told him.

"Uhh...yeah, that's how it goes, a matter of fact- I just gone back to the first floor after clearing the second boss, that thing was a pain! It had six health bars! Six!!! The first boss only had four for goodness sake!" Leonard complained.

Klein and the members of Fuurinkazan were getting more and more interested as they listened on to Leonard telling them of his adventures and stayed quiet and listened in to as much detail as possible since his experiences could really help them advanced further.

*****

While Leonard and Klein caught up onto their old time, Keita and every other member of the guild Moonlit Black Cats felt like they were in the most beautiful dream and fantasy that was realized right before their very eyes.

One of the people that they (or he himself) looked up to was sitting on the same table and having dinner with and his guild, and not to say the leader of one of the most noticeable and famous guilds within the first floor was acquainted with the person that was their savior as well.

"hey...Tetsuo...tell me that this isn't a dream, if it's a dream, don't snap me out of it just yet, let me enjoy it for a little while longer...ok?" Keita whispered to his best friend, Tetsuo- in hoping that he would not disturb him if this was indeed a dream

"No...this is not a dream Keita...it came straight from his mouth...and what kind of sick dream am I having if somehow you're in it as well?...it just weird- so no...this is not a dream," Tetsuo told his best friend and guild leader.

"....I have an urge to punch you, but I'll hold on to it for later...busy admiring one of my idol now, so be quiet." Keita shushed Tetsuo and went back to watching one of the men that help cleared the floor boss of both first and second.

It was already dusk when Leonard finished his story and all the foods on the table were finished, by then Klein and the other finally noticed the presence of the guild Moonlit Black Cats.

"So, mind telling me who these guys are? I never knew you could make so many friends." Klein then glanced at Leonard weirdly upon seeing Sachi was sitting quite close to Leonard.

"Hey! What do you mean by that! Even that social loner Kirito manage to snatch himself a girlfriend even with all these hell and mess going on and what so wrong with me making friends?!" Leonard was felt like he was being wronged by Klein when he heard of the man comment.

"Wait what? He had a girlfriend?! Seriously?!" Klein who was taking a sip of tea suddenly spit it all out at the face of the large hulking man when he heard that Kirito out of all people could find himself a girlfriend- while Klein himself was single.