2 The before and present

Way before Akira gets reincarnated, in someplace somewhere ...

"Then Gentlemen, an equivalent exchange." said a white silhouette of a humanoid being, that standing in front of a giant stone door. He talked to two being that in front of him, one of the beings was in child body of a boy with a beret on his pink-yellowish hair, he has two different shapes of pupils with multi-colored eye color. Wearing a red hoodie, with a chartreuse shirt and typical blue shorts he just looks like a normal boy, if everyone saw him.

While the other one is a giant, he towering over his friend by many times, with barely humanoid in appearance, his skull like head, with spiked purple hair, and a little crown on his head, he wore a dark cloak with the gold ornament attached on it.

"Equivalent Exchange." Said both of them, as they took out their precious item and offer it to the being in front of them.

"A Star Cup, and The Crown of time and space, What an extraordinary offer." Said the being with quite of surprise on its tone.

"Tell me, gentlemen, what do you wish to obtain with this offer?"

The humanoid silhouette laughs and gave them his biggest smile with all of his teeth showing.

"This is the first time, that someone comes and not requesting for power, very wise… as expected of 'Gods'

*chuckle*

and so you come to me, to find me 'Truth'."

"Very well, I accept as your proposal truly makes me excited. Kukuku." After the being said that, the giant gate was opened and tiny dark hands make their way toward the three of them.

"Now, let the exchange begun."

"I, The 'Truth' pledge according to the contract, that I would give the two of them their answer in honor of my name."

"I Tet, the God of Play, pledge according to the contract"

"I Deux ex Machina, the God of Time and Space pledge according to the contract."

"""ASCHENT!"""

The three of them said as they were dragged off into inside of the giant gate.

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(15.45)

"Hooray!" Said Asuna as she jumped in joy after defeating her 10 frenzy boar, after a quick lesson from Akira, she grasps fast to the hint and now she could activate it 9 out of 10 tries, and it was impressive.

'As expected from the heroine of the series, she grasps the basics very fast.' Akira thought while looking at the cheerful girl in front of him.

"Oi oi oi, don't get too cocky it's just a mob you know. A monster boss would have different pattern and sword skill too, keep that in mind."

"Yes, instructor!" she said as she saluted with glittering eyes.

"Instructor my ass." Akira put the compliment off, as in reality, he was just a newbie too! The same as her. But as he already watches the Anime, he knew at least the basic of how things work.

"Well then, I still have a lot of things to do goodbye." Akira bid his farewell to Asuna without hesitation as he had a lot of things to figure out.

(16.00)

"Nee, nee, Liz. I met someone awesome today!" Asuna excitedly retold her story to her best friend, Lizbeth.

"Heee. It seems our Asuna has grown up." Lizbeth answered sarcastically with a grin, as she loves to tease Asuna.

"Mou! It's not like that, he's just awesome you know, his knowledge is vast, and his lessons is easy to understand..."

"Hai, hai... whatever you say. So who is this gentleman name?"

"Aaa! I forgot to ask!" Asuna shout as she forgot to get the most important information from the person she met before.

Lizbeth rolled her eyes on her best friend.

"You... Listen here, Bakasuna. Just how in the world, you forgot to ask someone's name!"

(16.45)

On his way out from the field, he kept slashing his sword here and there trying to figure out his way with the system and his battle style. At least that's what he said when actually he just being happy that he could swing a sword and use imaginary things like a sword skill even though this world would soon be turned into a death game, being happy is still a happy thing.

"Yosh, no anomaly on movement even the flexibility is awesome, the weapon motion have no lag in movements just like reality, and the sword skill work just fine. Then it leaves the system."

Akira then uses his left hand to create a straight vertical line, and just like that a system with many option and sub-menu appeared in front of him.

And just like his prediction, the 'Logout' button has been grayed out. As fine as he was, Akira actually clings to a little hope for things to go not the way in the Anime. But with this, it was confirmed that it would go just like what he remembered. At least that's what he thought…

(16.50)

"This place never ceases to amaze me." Said Klein amazed while gazing at the landscape that been dyed orange slowly as time nearing night.

"I still can't believe that it's all just a game, the guy who made it is a genius. Puts me at a loss for words… Honestly, I'm glad that I was born in this generation."

"You're a melodramatic guy," Kirito said as he looks at his friend with a smile. "Well, let's head back to hunting."

"Let's GO! Or not." Klein answered excitedly when it got interrupted by his stomach sound.

"Hahaha, well that's expected. Eating food in this world only tricks you into not feeling hungry."

"Anyway, I'll log back in after I finish eating."

"I see."

"Well, thanks a bunch. I'll make sure to return this favor sometime in this world. I'll be looking forward to seeing you on."

"If you have any more questions, feel free to message me whenever."

"Yeah, I'll be counting on it!" Klein said with a smile, as he grasps Kirito hand for a handshake.

(16.55)

As the two of them says farewell, at the same times all across floor 1 all of the players get the same error, but they shrug it off as a bug as this was the first time the game launch, and it should have a lot of bugs to be debugged by the upcoming updates. As a bug like this, better to never ever happens.

"Huh? There's no log out button."

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