Chapter 41

All the players here started to stare at the man standing tall with a shield in front of him, while trying to verify the truth they had heard earlier.

"If you may know, how did I find out?" said Heatcliff to Zen.

These words made all the players here immediately gasp, because those words proved everything they had heard earlier was true.

"Okay the first one was when I got my two sword fighting style. When I finished crafting my weapon and trying to use my new sword style, suddenly you immediately invited me to join your group." Zen words

"Actually at that time, I thought you only invited me into your group like you usually do, but after my fighting style became public, you tried as hard as you could to invite me into your group. just invite me into your group, as if you know something." Obviously Zen

"And all that suspicion arose when you fought Kirito" said Zen

"You see, I'm the first dual-sword wielder in this game, and I know all of Kirito's attacks. But the last attack Kirito launched at that time, I thought it could instantly defeat you, but strangely you were able to parry that attack easily and defeat him. " Zen continued

"Maybe you can outwit other players, but not with us using the same fighting style. Did you feel what I said. Kirito earlier?" Zen asked Kirito.

Kirito was immediately stunned by what Zen said. Kirito did suspect the duel, as if something was amiss, but until now he still didn't know it until Zen explained his explanation to Heathcliff earlier.

"I also felt awkward during the duel, when I gave an attack with a very open chance to defeat him, suddenly his movement was too fast unlike usual" Kirito replied.

Hearing Zen's explanation and Kirito's confirmation, the current Heathcliff simply smiled and nodded.

"I expected it, it was an unintentional mistake. Kirito, your movement back then forced me to use the help of my system admin to block that last attack of yours." Heatcliff said

"It's true everyone, I am Kayaba Akihiko. And for the record, I am the last boss in this game, when you reach the top floor in this game" said Heathcliff or Kayaba

Hearing all this, all the players here started to get excited about the information they received.

"And I didn't expect Zen-kun, you would know my cover, did you know I put even more hope in someone who has the same sword style as you and thought I would fight him at the top of this game." Kayaba said.

All the players here began to feel very high anger, some players felt betrayed for being in the same group with him. Seeing this one by one the players tried to attack Kayaba with the intent to kill him.

Seeing this Kayaba activated the admin system and made all the players here paralyzed and unable to move except for one person, Zen.

"Zen / Zen-san" said Asuna and Scilica who felt their bodies immobilized and started to fall down.

"So what are you going to do Kayaba?" Zen asked as he tried to support Asuna and Scilica and lay them down in a comfortable place.

"Zen-kun, I will give you a reward for successfully revealing my identity. I will give you a chance to fight me in a one-on-one battle and I will kill the system admin who protected me." Kayaba said

"If you win, the game will end and all players will be able to exit the game?" Kayaba asked.

Zen who heard Kayaba's words just smiled.

"Okay," said Zen. Hearing this Asuna and Scilica disagreed with Zen's words. However after being reassured by Zen, the two of them just nodded and fully supported Zen's decision.

"Asuna, Silica see you in the outside world." Zen said and both of them nodded in return even though they were having a hard time doing it.

"And Asuna, whatever happens, I'll definitely come pick you up" Zen said whispering something to Asuna. Asuna who heard this was confused by Zen's words but she confirmed her words.

Finally Zen started walking towards Kayaba while carrying his two swords, by now the two of them were already facing each other.

"Am I not going to say something to your friends? It's possible that you will die here" said Kayaba.

"I'll say it when I exit this game. Of course, for beating you." Zen answered confidently.

"I like your confidence Zen-kun, but you know what, I know all the information about fashionyour fight?" said Kayaba

"Really, you know why rumors say I'm a beast with an ugly stature? Because they all have never seen me fight seriously." Zen said with a smile.

Then Kayaba started shutting down his admin system and prepared to face Zen.

Seeing that Kayaba had turned off the system admin that was protecting him and got ready, without thinking Zen immediately ran towards Kayaba trying to attack him. All of Zen's attacks were blocked by Kayaba using his shield, when he saw that his attacks were blocked, Kayaba tried to slash at Zen who was distracted, but Zen easily dodged it.

Kayaba failed to attack Zen, making Kayaba's defense very open, seeing this Zen immediately activated his sword skill.

Quick attacks with 16 combo hits began to rain down on Kayaba, this attack was a special attack from dual sword users due to its attack speed. Kayaba however managed to fend off the tenth attack and so on.

Kayaba currently had 20% of his HP bar remaining due to Zen's attack, luckily he managed to fend off the rest of Zen's attacks. But unfortunately, while he was still focused on resisting Zen's combo attack, Zen was suddenly behind him.

Kayaba immediately aimed his shield to block Zen's attack that was about to be launched, but because Zen's attack was very fast, Zen then cut off Kayaba's hand who was wearing the shield which was too late to block his attack.

Seeing a hand holding a shield start to fall and disappear, Zen then slashed back at the hand carrying the sword until Kayaba's hands had disappeared from his body.

"W-Why?" said Kayaba who didn't expect Zen to be this strong.

Zen slowly walked towards Kayaba and activated his sword skills on both swords and directly pierced his body until he started to glow and disappear.