Chapter 23

After Zen's confession of love to Asuna, their days are now filled with happiness. Zen and Asuna actually wanted to have their wedding in this game, but they both decided to postpone it.

Right now the two of them are still focused on being strong and still helping the takeover group. So apart from their busy schedules, Zen and Asuna really wanted to get married and live a quiet life once they were so strong.

Currently the two of them were having a meeting after successfully defeating the boss of the previous floor. In addition to the meeting about information about the new floors they could explore, this meeting also discussed a guild containing several psychopaths.

"Please all players here be aware of this guild. Moreover, they are targeting some players to blackmail them by torturing them and then killing them when their treasures are exhausted." said one of the leaders of the meeting.

"Do we have any information about them?" asked one of the players.

"All we know is their guild name is Laughing Coffin. And some recent news is that their members have a skull tattoo as proof of their membership." replied one of the higher-ups of the guild.

Finally the meeting ended after several players revealed all the information they found. All the players who attended this meeting then began to disperse themselves.

"Where are we going Zen?" Asuna asked after they left the meeting place.

"Perhaps a date?" Zen said as he took Asuna's hand.

Then Asuna started to smile and started following Zen to start their date. But after a few steps they walked, Asuna remembered something.

"I'm sorry Zen, it looks like our date will have to be postponed" Asuna said as she stopped them in their tracks.

"I already had a plan beforehand to help my friend" Asuna continued.

Before Zen could answer, there was a commotion around the area. Out of curiosity, Zen and Asuna started to approach the crowd and saw a player begging for something.

The player was kneeling, trying to beg one by one the players he thought were strong. The player begged to avenge his guild members who were killed by a group. He didn't order to kill them, but the player asked for them to be thrown into prison.

Hearing all this, Asuna felt very angry. Asuna couldn't help but think, at a time like this there were several players killing each other. Asuna was actually about to go after the group but was restrained by Zen.

"Leave this to me, don't you have an appointment?" Zen said with a smile.

Asuna strongly protested Zen's decision, but after Zen assured her that she would settle this easily, Asuna finally allowed it.

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In a forest full of monsters on the 35th floor, a man was watching something behind the trees. Right now the man was observing a fight between several people and a woman with a pet on her head.

That man is Zen. After Zen received the player's request asking to avenge his members, Zen is currently trying to keep an eye on the group.

Zen could actually just ambush them right now, but there were only a few players who housed the assassin group here. Then Zen could have followed the guild member to their base and defeated him there.

But in the end, Zen decided to follow a plot similar to that of the anime.

Not long after, the dispute was finally over, after the woman whose pet was on her head, decided to leave the group.

The woman planned to get out of the forest alone. Zen who saw the woman start walking finally started to follow her through this forest full of monsters.

The woman's journey was blocked by 3 monkey-shaped monsters. The monkey immediately attacked him. The woman could have defeated the monster if the monster had been alone, but now she was directly attacked by 3 monsters at once.

This battle was very one-sided, the female pet kept recovering her HP but it was still ineffective so she started to run out of her HP potions.

Seeing this the woman started to panic and she didn't know what to do until an attack was aimed at her.

"Pina!" he shouted after seeing his pet fall down in his place to receive the attack.

"P-Pina" the woman said with tears running down her cheeks, then she started to look at the three monsters that were about to attack her. At this time the woman just surrendered, but the three monsters suddenly disappeared because they were defeated.

The woman saw a handsome man managed to defeat the monsters and walked towards her.

"P-Pina d-don't leave m-me!" said the woman crying over her pet which had turned into a feather.

"Is that your pet's fur?" asked Zen who was now beside him.

"Th-This is my best friend Pina's fur" he said

"Ah... So you're a beast tamer, then you can revive him" said Zen.

Hearing Zen's words, the woman started to wipe her tears and stood up and started asking how to bring her best friend back to life.

"There is a hill called the Hill of Memories which is on the 47th floor. There grows a flower called the Pneuma flower that can revive your friend" said Zen

Hearing this, the woman who had previously been hopeful and excited fell back into depression after hearing Zen's words. Because right now, the woman couldn't go there, because her level wasn't sufficient against the monsters there.

"Thank you for the information, and thank you for saving me. I will try my best to raise my level and go there to revive my friend" The woman said in an optimistic tone, but Zen's next words made her sad again.

"However, a dead pet can be revived within 3 days after its death," said Zen.

"Y-Then master swordsman, can you bring my best friend's fur there and bring it back to life? I'll pay whatever you want" the woman said hopefully.

"I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want to, but only the owner of the pet can make the flower bloom" said Zen.

This news made the woman sad again, she began to hug her best friend's fur again while cursing her weakness for not being able to protect her best friend who was always with her.

"What if I help?"