CHAPTER 29.1 - Duel using dagger

Asuna throws her Iron rapier so Morte and the man jump to avoid the Iron rapier, so she used her speed and catches her rapier before it landed on the ground "Hooray! As calculated" Asuna smiled

"But how! From where did you come out?!" The man was angry and looks at the rapier "I got that!" The man was about to approach Asuna and withdraw the rapier on her hand however Morte stopped him

"AHAHA That was very surprising, you are good like Kirito-San the one that comes out suddenly, my favorite people" Morte pointed his fingers to Asuna "You are the one who was listening earlier right? I'm happy seeing you both here"

"Why not have player versus player to me little mouse," The man said to Asuna, seeing Asuna's safe Kirito sighed in relieved

"Stop, do you think he will agree with that?" Morte pointed Kirito who was still in front of them "For sure he will not be allowed you to hurt his precious fencer" Morte laugh

"I can defeat that amateur fencer-woman!" The man shouted because of that Asuna become angrier

"Who are you insulting me?!" Asuna put back her Farner rapier on the scabbard and same with her iron rapier and equipped her dagger "You are dagger user right? Why not settle this in dagger instead of a sword?" Asuna smirk

"It's rare seeing a fencer using a dagger as a weapon," The man said. Asuna smirk seeing Kirito on her side makes all her fear fly away. The man become angry "I will remove that smile of yours on your pretty face" Kirito heard someones was coming so Kirito immediately grabbed Asuna to the dark side of that place and covered her, and used his hidden skills

"What?" The man used his searching skills to look for Kirito and Asuna

"They ran away?" Morte said "That's weird for that black swordsman he escaped I guess because of the fencer" Good thing that Kirito hidden skills were more leveled than them "Ugh!" The man and Morte look at the other side of the room and there was a bunch of monsters like Moldy Mummy, Crumble Orc, aqua Slime, and Mournful Wraith coming towards them.

"There was a bunch of monsters coming to us. What are we going to do?" The man started panicking

"AHAHA, its fencer-woman plan that's the way she shouted to attract the attention of the monsters here. This is not good" Morte manage to laugh "This number is super sacks, I'm going to retire here it can't be helped" Morte started running to escape

"Wait! Where are you going?!"

"I'll dash good luck and follow me if you want to escape on this place alive," Morte said

"Oi! W-Wait for me!" The man followed Morte

Kirito felt all around and when the whole places become silent he took a sigh in relief "It's all right now, its looks like they are gone.." Kirito look at Asuna who was now hugging her rapier. They look at each other and laugh together "HAHAHA so they are scared with that bunch of monsters huh?" Kirito looks at the farner rapier "Uhm, Why the rapier was stolen?"

"I had a lot of bad luck.." Posted remembering what happened to her earlier "First I encounter a Mournful Wraith and because of that I fell on the trap then sly shrewman stole my rapier" She explain and suddenly bowed

"I see. Well, I'm glad you're safe" Kirito look at her and noticed that Asuna was shaking "Huh?" Asuna run towards him and hugged him

"I-I was very scared, that ghost appears in the pit and the rapier too was stolen and suddenly encounter that two PK-Players" Asuna's face was covered by her tears, "I-I thought that was my ending, I was scared.. Very scared.." Kirito tap her head

"It's all right" Asuna looked at him and he greeted her with a smile "You're already fine" Kirito hugged her too while patting her head "I will find my way to find you and protect you until you become stronger because you are my partner.." They stayed there for a while.

Less than an hour after the encounter with Morte, Asuna, and Kirito found Argo camping in a safe room next to the chamber of the dungeons' Boss.

"Argo-San!" Asuna quickly runs towards her and hugged her "Don't you know how worried I'm, and you are with Liten" She look at Liten who was currently eating on the other side

"It's a blessing to have a partner.." Argo sighs "Now I completely understand why you two stick together"

"By the way what are you two doing here in the dungeon?" Kirito asks them. Argo explain what they discovered: that the Boss was different from the Beta testing and decided to investigate it, spend the entire day solving a lever puzzle and she found out that the dungeon Boss was afraid of sunlight

"Ahh so that's the reason why we can't contact you on an entire day," Asuna said.

Humid Mummy was the dungeon Boss of the 5th floor; it was a big humanoid body that was dried and wrapped in layers upon layers of bandages. Humid Mummy has two attack sequences. The first attack sequence starts with the mummy tilting its head back right before it tries to poison the player with its purple breath. The second attack sequence starts with the mummy pulling his right hand getting ready to swipe the players.

On December 30, 2022, the dungeon Boss raid started using the information from Argo, due to this knowledge that the Humid Mummy was afraid of the rays of the sun, Kirito discovered that the ceiling of the room is can be open and when he tries to open it the light coming from the sun enters the room which has greatly affected the Humid Mummy. They defeated the monster and Kirito got the last hit bonus

***Dark Elves Village / 5th Floor of Aincrad / December 31, 2022, ***

Asuna was now in the Dark Elf Village enjoying the bath, she stretch her arms and legs before she soak her body in the warm water "Dark elves Village bath is big but it seems that there are no other people here?" Asuna look at the place and she was the only one there "Very splendid!" It was an outdoor bath that was surrounded by big trees. Argo and Liten came

"Asuna-San!!" Liten removed her robe and sits next to Asuna "Forest Elf Village is narrow"

"The meal was amazing," Argo said, they had just finished eating when they decided to go here

"Oh, yeah the Dark elves cuisine was very impressive, I feel like I was eating in the five stars restaurant earlier," Liten said still salivating while remembering the meal earlier

"Thank you Asuna-Chan, Kii-boy said that you are worried about me, thank you for being a nice friend to be," Argo said while Liten was just listening to their conversation

"I thought you are alone in that dungeon, I was worried about you" Asuna look at Argo "However, I should be the one who said thank you." Asuna smiled "I haven't said thank you properly to you. I was thankful and worried that you risk your life just to get information that will help in clearing the floor"

"I'm sorry Asuna-Chan. I was the bad one that makes you worry" She smiled and Liten pat her head "What was that for?" She asks Liten

"Stop worrying about her, this small cat can protect herself" Liten laugh