chapter 2

Klein freaked out when Leonard appeared out of nowhere from behind his back.

"Gahh!! Where did you come from?!" he shouted out in surprise.

"I followed you guys of course since you did cause quite a commotion back in the marketplace," Leonard replied while looking innocently at Klein.

"So...can you show us around? Today is our first day in the game, and since you're a beta tester, it's best to ask you about it since- it's likely that you know what's the best course of action is, such as where to start killing stuff." Leonard told Kirito while leaving the stunned scrubby face Klein over on the side.

"Uh- yeah...I don't-" Kirito was about to refused to help both of Klein and Leonard.

"Pretty please…." Leonard began to show his puppy eyes to him, he also pulled Klein into the phase of puppy eyeing Kirito as well.

Upon seeing these two showing him the puppy eyes and literally begging him to help them.

Kirito let out a short sigh.

"Alright...I'm Kirito." he introduced himself.

"The name is Leonard, nice to meet you." Leonard introduced next and extended his hand to greet him using the traditional handshake greeting style.

He was somewhat confused at first but he soon figures it out and also extended his hand to clasp that of Leonard.

"And I'm Klein!" the pink hair man introduced himself using his thumb pointing back at his face.

"Alright...where should we go now," Leonard asked Kirito.

"I was about to head out of the Town of Beginning and begin grinding for experience points and all other stuff until the two of you showed up." Kirito informed them.

"Ok, we can follow you right?" Klein asked.

Kirito nodded to his question.

"Cool! Let's go then!" Klein said excitedly as he waited for Kirito to lead them all to their destination of possibly an endless grind.

The two of them walked ahead of Leonard toward the exit of the town, while Leonard followed closely from behind.

"System, can I use the amount of achievement point I have to somewhat give me an advantage in starting this?" Leonard asked the system.

[Yes.] The system answered.

"Fantastic, I need you to recommend me some stuff from the store," Leonard told the system.

To which it quickly went to work and divided the amount of achievement point out and finding the best recommendation for Leonard.

After a few moments, it showed him a list of items, that's worth a total of four achievement points, he was surprised because the list contained quite a lot of items.

The system ended with a P.S which read.

[Item's that's on sale.]

"..." Leonard was completely speechless.

*****

Outside of the Town of Beginning, first floor of Aincrad.

An Epic battle between a boar and Klein was unfurled, Klein stared at the boar with a sword in hand, while the boar looked back at Klein with it glowing eyes filled with murderous intent.

Klein gave his battle cry and charge the boar, the boar also did the same as well.

Moment later.

Klein was being kicked around by a pig like a ragdoll, it was at the end of the battle that's what got Leonard cringed.

*Bang! "Gahhh!!!" The boar rammed its head into Klein bottom region.

He felled on to the grass and began grabbing his crotch and rolling in agony, while muttering "it hurt, it hurt!" over and over again.

It was that until Kirito brought him back to reality with a single sentence.

"Oh come on, seriously? You can't feel any pain." Kirito told the poor man.

"Huh,...you're right…" Klein finally noticed that one important key detail...getting rammed in the balls no longer hurt.

Kirito then quickly reminded the man about the initial move is what really important, but Klein complains that the pig won't just stand still long enough for him to do anything.

Kirito then demonstrates it by picking up a stone and ready to throw it at the pig by activating a type of throwing skill.

"If you do your initial motion right...it activates the sword skill at the right time."

Kirito narrowed his eyes and launched the stone at the boar.

*clunk! "The system pretty much guarantees you'll hit your target," he told Klein.

Now Klein went back to mumbling about how the skills work.

"Like this?" Leonard readied his sword which resembled a knight broadsword in a striking position, suddenly the sword began to glow purple.

"Yes! Now drive it home!" Kirito shouted at him.

*Swoosh! Leonard instantly disappeared from his original location and appeared right behind the pig and brought his sword down on to the poor creature.

*slash *oooiiinnkkkk!!! The pig exploded, and the system (cardinal SAO system) informed him that he earned some drops.

Klein, who witness this suddenly also gained some enlightenment as well.

"So...that's how it works!" he muttered out, he then quickly chug down a red healing potion and find another pig to test it out.

Leaving a surprised Kirito behind with Leonard.

"Is that...a skill?" Kirito asked Leonard in a somewhat stuttering, yet surprised tone of voice.

"Yeah...the skill is called Shadow step, I just got after I tried some moves out and accidentally acquired it," Leonard answered him, of course, it was a lie since he got it through a cheap discount from the multiverse system, but he couldn't just tell Kirito that couldn't he.

When Kirito heard of Leonard answer, his face twitched.

"It's only a few hours into the game and someone already discovered a skill?" Kirito thought.

"So..what does that skill do? Anything special?" he then added.

"Uh yeah...it's basically sent me behind my target back without them noticing it, next it increased my next attack by a bit along with critical strike chances," Leonard told him.

Kirito face darkened as he heard Leonard description of the skill, he couldn't help but also somewhat feel jealous.

"A skill like that would make any speed type going out of their way to kill someone just to acquire it," Kirito said as he uses his palm to cover his own face before he turned back to Klein who was doing a victory dance on the soon to be exploded data pig while shouting. "Look! I killed it!"