Chapter 17

"Oh her, Her name is Yui"

Kirito said as Asuna turned to look at us with a smug face, Kirito instantly knew that face as he said "Don't you dare say it..". Toru and I were confused as Asuna said "She's our child Kirito! Admit it!", Kirito replied "No! I didn't agree to having a child we JUST MET TWO DAYS AGO!!".

"SHE'S YOUR CHILD?!!!"

Both Toru and I shouted in shock as Kirito shook his head shouting "NO! SHE IS NOT OUR CHILD!!". After things settled down Kirito then said "Let me just tell you what happened two days ago.".

Kirito then began explaining their situation in a summary,

"After you guys left, Asuna and I spent the night at the log cabin. Asuna woke up to Yui being in her bed and she woke me up, at the time we didn't know her name until Asuna had the bright idea of naming her Yui. We decided to come here to give her to the caretaker until Yulier showed up then explained the secret dungeon here and then you two showed up."

"Oh, damn we were really sold on Yui here being your child"

I said to him as Toru nodded as he shouted "FOR FUCK SAKES SHES NOT MY GODDAMN CHILD!!".

"Papa? Why are you shouting at them..?"

Yui said in a saintly innocent voice as Toru and I couldn't hold in the urge to awe. "Listen honey we're just communicating, papa's very busy" Kirito said trying to be nice as I couldn't hold in the laughter. He pointed at me saying in an irritated tone "Laugh and your head is coming off Kirin".

"So... What was it about this secret dungeon Yulier?"

Asuna said as we turned our attention to Yulier, she then took in a deep breath saying "Our guild leader, Thinker, went missing a couple days ago but we couldn't find a trace of where he went. I went to find the strongest players I could contact, which were you four".

We all looked at each other confused and we looked at Yulier again, she then went on saying "I think that Thinker could be down in this secret dungeon, I had to buy information off Argo the rat, and she said that Thinker bought information off of her about a dungeon underneath Blackiron palace..".

"Not Blackiron..."

I thought to myself as I said "Why not go there now" as I surely didn't seem happy about going to Blackiron palace. "That's a great Idea! Let's head out immediately!" Yulier shouted happily as Kirito and Asuna got up.

We all began heading out as we waved goodbye to the caretaker, heading to Blackiron Palace. We walked over to the entrance as we opened the doors and headed downstairs. We heard all kinds of commotion downstairs as we held about 300 PKers in the facility.

"I never thought I'd be down here again..."

I thought to myself as the PKers down here ran to the iron bars, shouting "WHY ARE YOU HERE!!" Towards Kirito and I. We ignored them until we walked towards the Laughing Coffin members and their cells.

I looked at them and they looked back at me, passing by. I had a face of disgust while looking at them as some of them smirked, saying "Well isn't it nice seeing a familiar face around here". "Hey, Don't listen to them Kirin" Toru said as I sighed and walked ahead.

We then reached a double door, pushing on it and noticing that the door wasn't locked.

"Didn't argo say the door was locked?"

I asked Yulier, she replied "Yeah, I don't know why it's not locked- Oh my god..." she said as she realized it. I looked at her and then it also hit me, Thinker was still alive if a locked entrance is still unlocked. "He must still be alive down here!" I shouted as we hurried down the descent down the stairs.

We ran down the staircase as fast as possible, knowing that Thinker might still be alive. We blitzed it down the surprisingly long hallway as monsters began spawning by the hundreds in-front of us. "Get out of the way!" I shouted as I pulled out my longsword, I swung my sword into the monstrous crowd.

Kirito pulled out his dual swords and helped me clear out the wave as well, Slashing level 75 frogs. As Kirito and I kept clearing the front, Asuna, Toru, and Yulier were keeping the remaining frogs from attacking us from the back. We kept clearing through the hallway as we reached another door after 10 minutes.

"Toru, Asuna! Switch sides and open the door!"

I shouted as they nodded their heads, switching sides as Yulier followed Toru and Asuna. I gripped my sword with both hands as I said to Kirito "we're the strongest ones in our group, let's just hold it off for now" as he replied "I'm stronger and you know it". "Can we not!!" I shouted as frogs began jumping at us, Kirito slashed his side and I slashed my side as we began backing up towards Asuna and Toru.

They forced the door open as Toru shouted "HEY! LET'S GET GOING YOU TWO!!" as we turned and blitzed it towards the door. Kirito jumped in first as I jumped in second, taking a frog leg drop with me as Toru, Asuna, and Yulier then closed the door. Both Kirito and I looked at each other as we began to laugh.

We got up as Toru smacked me over the head, I rubbed my head as she seemed genuinely angry. I didn't say anything as I looked ahead, seeing that there was some light behind a throne and the entity that sat on the throne. "I think we made it guys" I said unease at the atmosphere of the room, feeling dark and gloomy.

The rest of our group felt all the same, except Yui. She blinked as she tugged on Asuna and Kirito. Both of them looked down at her, with Asuna asking "What is it Yui?". She pointed at the entity and the throne saying "He's in there..." in a cold,calm and collected voice.

This surprised the group as Yulier said "Are you sure?!? How do you know?!?" as Yui didn't respond. With all of us now feeling uneasy, we looked dead center at the entity sitting on the throne. We saw red eyes as its end of the hallway was a little too dark for us to make out what it was. The light didn't help as the Throne it sat on barely showed its silhouette. We all got ready as Asuna pulled out her rapier and Yulier pulled out a shortsword.