Chapter 382: Solving Troubles

After many years, the young man had become even more handsome. Even Kyouko Yuuki had to admit that Roa was an extremely outstanding young man.

The young man swept over everyone with an expressionless face. Roa simply greeted them a few times and then sat on the chair, silent.

Kyouko Yuuki asked Roa a few questions. The first few sentences were polite. Roa answered casually. The young man was not very interested. What he had to do now was to stay by Asuna Yuuki's side and wait for that scum to come out.

Kyouko Yuuki asked in the end, finally unable to help but say, "That, did you also enter that death game?"

Roa nodded slightly, his face unreadable.

Kyouko Yuuki was silent for a while, pretending to sigh regretfully, "Alas, it's a pity that this kind of thing happened suddenly. A few years have been wasted for nothing, alas."

Roa glanced at Kyouko Yuuki and said with a strange expression, "Are you only concerned about wasting your daughter's few years?"

Kyouko Yuuki was slightly stunned, and then her expression became a little displeased. She put on a straight face and said, "Otherwise? My obedient daughter had her future ruined because of this broken game, really."

Roa immediately lost interest and said directly, "That game is a death game, you know that, right? Now you should be worried about your daughter, instead of complaining to me about how precious the wasted time is."

Roa's words were also relatively blunt. Roa was used to being strong. In that world, he was an invincible existence. Naturally, he felt very uncomfortable when he heard the mistakes in other people's words, and the words he said were also relatively direct.

Kyouko Yuuki's old face turned red, but she could not refute the young man's words. Her face was quite ugly, and she was silent for a long time before glaring at her other son, and said fiercely, "If you hadn't brought the company's broken helmet home, Asuna wouldn't have been curious to put on the helmet. It's all your fault, you irresponsible brother."

The young man did not say a word. Everyone knew that Kyouko Yuuki was holding her breath. At this time, being scolded by Kyouko Yuuki was not necessarily a bad thing.

The old father next to him persuaded, "Forget it, things have already come to this, so say less. She is your daughter, and he is also your son, so say less."

Roa followed the line of sight in the other party's words and saw a burly man in his fifties. He was wearing a well-fitting three-piece suit, and his tight face, which was inconsistent with his physique, revealed a considerable amount of energy. Only the silver hair that was all combed back could reveal the mental torment he had been through in the past two years.

Roa sighed, and could feel the mental exhaustion of everyone present.

After all, it was understandable that this would happen.

Kyouko Yuuki heard the words and sighed for a long time, but her expression was still somewhat gloomy.

For a time, no one spoke.

Everyone fell into silence.

Roa withdrew his gaze and looked at the girl lying on the bed again.

A large amount of glossy dark chestnut hair was scattered on the mattress. Perhaps under the light, the girl's hair looked somewhat sacred.

Her weight did not seem to have decreased much. The smooth curve from her neck to her collarbone could be said to be the same as when she was in that world.

Roa began to try to recall the girl in that world, and the memories began to overlap.

Roa remembered her pink lips, remembered the girl's warm temperature, and remembered the details he had ignored before.

At that time, although he was an avatar, he would occasionally go over to take over his body and experience that feeling.

The memory returned to that year, back to when he met her. She opened her chestnut eyes and looked at Roa with a smile.

"Get up quickly!" She called Roa with that pure, cheerful, and smooth voice that could never be stained with sorrow. She brought her face, which was flashing with youthful vitality and cunning, to Roa's face.

The picture stopped abruptly at this point.

Now lying in front of Roa was a girl with her eyes closed, who seemed to never be able to open her eyes.

Roa took a deep breath and sighed again.

Roa began to recall more about Asuna Yuuki's bits and pieces.

This was a quiet girl, but also a cunning girl.

She was not quite the same as the young lady in Roa's impression in his previous life, because influencing the other party too early caused her personality to become a bit quirky.

No, it should be said that Asuna Yuuki herself had this kind of personality, but his appearance made the girl become more honest.

The more he recalled, the more icy Roa's expression became.

Forget it, that person, might as well just kill him.

Roa was expressionless, his face covered with frost.

Asuna Yuuki's soul should still be trapped in that world, the world called Alfheim Online. Roa was too lazy to go through the steps one by one, constantly experiencing those things in the way of grinding monsters and leveling up, and finally defeating the scum and rescuing Asuna Yuuki.

Roa pondered for a while and said directly, "Asuna Yuuki's situation is a bit strange."

This was the first sentence he had said after being silent for a long time.

However, it was this sentence that attracted everyone's attention.

Kyouko Yuuki pursed her lips and couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Strange? Aren't you talking nonsense? Those survivors in this hospital have all woken up, but only my daughter hasn't woken up. Isn't that strange?"

Roa glanced at Kyouko Yuuki and continued, "Kayaba Akihiko should be a trustworthy person, right? He said that if the game is cleared, all the survivors will be released."

"But now…" Kyouko Yuuki couldn't help but prepare to refute, but Roa glanced at Kyouko Yuuki and directly interrupted, "Yes, now Asuna Yuuki hasn't come out yet? Don't you think it's very strange?"

When Roa said this, everyone present fell silent.

Asuna Yuuki's older brother looked at Roa and said directly, "Naoki Kazuto, if you have anything you want to say, just say it directly, don't hide it."

Roa's gaze was deep and he said in a deep voice, "I used to be a tutor and I also know the details of the Yuuki family. You are the largest investors and the strongest backers in this SAO world. You must know more about the birth of this death game than I do."

When it came to this, everyone's faces darkened.

SAO, which is this death game, was now the thing that everyone least wanted to mention.

Because of the birth of this game, it led to the deaths of many people. Now, all over Japan, there were voices denouncing SAO, and even the Yuuki family, the behind-the-scenes shareholders, had suffered a heavy blow.

Roa's direct mention of it was undoubtedly rubbing salt into everyone's wounds.

However, although they were unhappy, everyone did not interrupt Roa from continuing to speak at this moment. They wanted to see what else Roa could say.

Roa asked, "Have you recently felt anyone suspicious?"

The person Roa was asking was Asuna Yuuki's father, Shouzou Yuuki.

Shouzou Yuuki was stunned. He scratched his head and didn't quite understand the meaning of Roa's words.

"What do you mean by suspicious person?" He felt a little inexplicable.

Roa reminded again, "SAO is a huge world, and there must still be some data backups in the company. Don't tell me you don't know, even if Kayaba Akihiko destroyed part of the database, there will still be some left. And why have others woken up, but only Asuna Yuuki hasn't woken up?"

Shouzou Yuuki pondered for a while and continued to listen to Roa's speech.

Roa's gaze flickered and he said directly, "Have you encountered anything related to Asuna Yuuki recently? I suspect that the reason why Asuna Yuuki is staying in that world must be man-made."

"And if it is man-made, then the other party must have a plan, and if they have a plan and can still do this kind of thing, presumably they have also been involved in the development of this game and played a very important role in it. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Roa's gaze was deep.

He was almost pointing fingers and saying that there was a mole in your company.

Roa knew the plot, knew the result, and naturally there was no big problem with the logic of saying this.

The reason why the Yuuki family was kept in the dark was not because they were not smart enough, but because they were too close to the situation and could not see the truth of what was happening.

This matter itself revealed strangeness, and they could understand it with a little thought.

It was just that on the one hand, the Yuuki family had fallen into a difficult situation because of the failure of SAO's financing. Now, they needed someone to lead them out of this situation. On the other hand, it was because they were unwilling to think about and explore the shadows hidden beneath the surface.

But after Roa's reminder, everyone's faces instantly became ugly.

Especially Shouzou Yuuki, he muttered a name.

And that name was: "Sugou."

Sugou?

It seemed that was the man's identity.

Roa looked at the ever-changing expressions of the crowd and hooked the corners of his mouth, with a hint of a smile.

"It seems that you already have a candidate in mind."

It was difficult to trace the cause from the effect, but it was very simple to trace the cause from the effect.

Roa just added a little bit and directed all the spearheads towards the other party.

Everyone fell into a deathly silence, especially Kyouko Yuuki, whose face was quite ugly.

If what Roa said was true, then this matter was likely to be true.

And before, she even wanted to marry such a daughter to such a person.

Thinking of this, a sense of shame and anger appeared on Kyouko Yuuki's face.

She was not only being played like a monkey, but she also almost ruined her daughter's happiness. Thinking that the other party was such a sinister and cunning person, Kyouko Yuuki couldn't help but feel a burst of fear.

Roa shrugged and continued, "Then, presumably you don't need me to say more about what to do next, right?"

Kyouko Yuuki was silent, while Shouzou Yuuki took out his mobile phone and dialed a phone number. Shouzou Yuuki walked outside expressionlessly and began to talk in a low voice. After communicating for a while, three minutes later, this man, who looked to be in his prime, came to Roa's face. Without any nonsense, Shouzou Yuuki bowed deeply to Roa.

Roa was stunned for a moment, and quickly helped Shouzou Yuuki up.

"What are you doing?"

Responding to Roa was Shouzou Yuuki's slightly pained voice.

He said in a somewhat hoarse voice, "If it weren't for you, I would still be in the dark. Your reminder is right; only Sugou would do such a thing."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh, "Sugou is an outstanding junior. Although he has many minor flaws, I have always believed in him, hoping he could provide a satisfactory answer. And the fact is that after this crisis, he stepped in and turned the tide, saving the nearly bankrupt company. But I never expected, never expected that he would do such a thing."

At this point, Shouzou Yuuki had become somewhat angry, regret and anger intertwined, forming his current state.

Kyouko Yuuki was silent for a while, but then said, "Maybe, it's not him?"

However, when Kyouko Yuuki said this, her own voice was trembling, indicating that even she herself didn't quite believe her own words.

Roa patted the old man's shoulder and said seriously, "It's okay. Since no major mistake has been made, and you realized it early, then everything is still under control. As for the rest, you can handle it. Anyway, it's easy to find out if this is true or false with a little investigation, isn't it?"

Shouzou Yuuki sighed and nodded, "That's all we can do now."

Kyouko Yuuki seemed to remember something, her face changed, and she couldn't help but say, "Sugou will come to visit Asuna Yuuki later. What should we do then?"

Shouzou Yuuki said in a deep voice, "We'll do what we need to do. I have my own plans for this."

The people in the room fell silent again. Shouzou Yuuki's phone rang four or five times before it finally quieted down, but just looking at Shouzou Yuuki's expression, one could tell that the truth seemed to have come to light.

Roa shrugged, not surprised by this result.

Sugou finally arrived.

Around eleven o'clock in the morning, the somewhat tall and thin man came into the room.

Sugou, full name Sugou Nobuyuki,

The first impression was that he was a pretty good young man.

Tall, wearing a dark gray suit, with rimless glasses on his slightly long face. The eyes behind the thin lenses were as thin as lines, as if he was always smiling. He looked quite young, probably not yet thirty years old.

He was a man who looked somewhat sinister at first glance.

The so-called "pretty good" was probably just his disguise.

Roa assessed him in his mind, and when Sugou saw Roa, he was slightly taken aback, then a false smile reappeared on his face.