Chapter 34

The match between Heathcliff and Kirito had ended. For his defeat, Kirito finally entered the group led by Heathcliff, the Knight of Blood. But after Kirito entered the group, bad news emerged.

Kirito is said to have almost been killed for participating in a trial in the group, but was rescued by the group's vice-captain, Sachi. The news became big, because a large group and now considered the strongest, had been infiltrated by a criminal user.

This news made all groups begin to evaluate all their members, so that this kind of incident does not happen.

Actually, the takeover group had eradicated most of the members of this criminal group, but some of its members managed to escape and began to infiltrate in several places and in several groups.

After the news of the incident came out, Kirito finally decided to take time off from the group with Sachi because they thought at the moment they couldn't trust anyone in the group.

Kirito and Sachi then started living in the place where the old group leader Sachi bought the house as the group's headquarters. The two of them started living there and it was rumored that they were married in this game.

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Currently Zen is still relaxing on the terrace of his house while enjoying the beautiful scenery in front of him. Accompanied by a cup of tea made by Asuna, she began to relax and try to enjoy this beautiful moment.

"Zennn" a woman's voice called out his name.

Hearing that Zen immediately turned around and started looking at the place where the voice came from. And it turned out that the voice came from Asuna

"Zen, how about we go on a date today?" Asuna said

"Dating? where?" ask Zen

"Maybe, we'll just date around here, after all we rarely have time to wander around this place" said Asuna

Even though Zen and Asuna had lived here for quite some time, the two of them hadn't completely surrounded this place. They sometimes date on a specially designated floor and a popular place for players in this game to date.

"Hmmm.. Alright, but how about we go to the west area, I heard there's a lake there" Zen said and Asuna nodded enthusiastically.

"I'll get ready" Asuna said immediately running towards her room.

At this point the house left the two of them alone, because Lisbeth was currently busy with her Weapon shop which was getting busier, and Silica took the initiative to help her. Actually Zen and Asuna wanted to help him, but Lisbeth forbade it because the two of them often helped her.

After Asuna prepared herself, the two of them finally started their date in this region. Zen and Asuna currently hand in hand began to explore the western part of this place which was filled with trees surrounding the path that the two of them walked.

Zen and Asuna started to talk lightly about various things, starting from telling about their daily lives and finally turning to talking about gossip.

From a distance The two of them had already seen the lake that Zen was referring to before, seeing this Asuna asked Zen to carry her on his shoulders. Seeing this Zen just smiled and let Asuna ride on his shoulders and the two of them started towards the lake.

In the lake, it turns out that many players are trying their luck to fish in that place. All the players who were busy fishing had to be distracted because they saw two pairs of lovebirds who were busy chatting and laughing at something while seeing the woman on the shoulder of her lover.

Seeing this, Asuna started to blush and replied shyly to the player's greeting, seeing this Zen immediately continued on their way from here.

They arrived in a foggy forest, this place was quite the atmosphere to make people feel afraid.

"What is this place Zen?" ask Asuna

"I don't know either, it's my first time here" Zen replied

Then the two of them started walking down this path slowly, but as they approached the middle of the place, Asuna saw a small child with long black hair and wearing a white dress walking in the middle of the trees.

Asuna was currently looking at the boy from her gaze who was still on Zen's shoulder.

"Zen, Zen take a look over there!" Asuna said while pointing in a direction

Seeing that Zen tried to see where Asuna was pointing, but he saw nothing because of the difference in his vision that was blocked by a fallen tree.

"What, I didn't see anything, I only saw the fallen tree" Zen replied.

"It's behind that tree, take a look" Asuna said back.

Zen tried to refocus his vision and started trying to see what was behind the fallen tree.

"Hah.. How about we go over there and take a look" said Zen who was already trying to peek behind the rotting treeboh it but to no avail.

Hearing this Asuna just nodded and the two of them then tried to enter the trees in this forest which was filled with fog. After the two of them passed the fallen tree, they both saw more clearly a girl standing while facing upwards.

"Is that a player? But why is she here alone?" Asuna asked.

"I don't know either, let's try calling him" Zen replied

Just as Zen was about to call out to the girl, suddenly the girl started to lose consciousness and started to fall on the ground where she had been standing before.

"Zen!" shouted Asuna who saw the child start to lie down losing consciousness

Zen who saw this immediately put Asuna down, and started to approach the girl. Asuna, who was trailing behind, started to catch up with Zen and saw the girl lying on Zen's lap.

"How is she doing?" ask Asuna

"She's fine, maybe she's just tired, how about we take her to our house." The real Zen word recognized who the girl was.

"But isn't Zen strange, she doesn't have a cursor indicating she's a player, could he be an NPC?" asked Asuna.

"I don't know, how do we make sure by bringing her to our house, if she's an NPC we definitely can't take him" said Zen

"Okay," replied Asuna.

Then Zen started to pick up the little boy and take him back to their house.

Finally the two of them arrived at their house and Zen laid him down beside the bed where Zen and Asuna were using.

"I don't think she's an NPC, since we managed to bring her here" said Zen

"Then, who is this child?" ask Asuna