Chapter 44 - Koyuki's Sketch of Roxas Nietes

Minato and Hideyoshi's POV

 We were shocked to see her in chains and rushed towards her. "Hey there! Are you okay there?" we asked her, before checking her body and current state. She heard it and looked at us with a downward sad look on her face. "Help me…please…"

 "Yes, you must be one of those Elite Players, right?" Minato asked her.

The girl then slowly nodded. "Yes, but the evil version of myself controlled me."

 "Is that so?" Hideyoshi asked.

The girl then nodded.

 "What's your name?" Minato asked again.

 "My name is Yuuki Asuna…"

 "Nice to meet you, Asuna-chan," Hideyoshi replied back positively. "My name is Kitagawa Hideyoshi."

He then looked at me. "This is Minato Araraki, my vessel."

 "Vessel?" Asuna responded back slowly.

 "Yes, Minato-kun is my vessel because I am dead!" Hideyoshi responded back happily.

Asuna was taken aback with shock. "You're actually dead, Hideyoshi-san?"

Minato then nodded.

 After that, we sat down next to her and asked her about everything going on with the game's system. Asuna was brave enough to tell us what had happened, including the culprit behind the advent of the game in the real world. She also warned us that weren't strong enough to take that person down, for it was way stronger than we thought. We understood that and explained to her that we were on a mission to rescue her and her friends from the trap of being brainwashed. Asuna was surprised to hear that. "Really?"

 "Yes," Minato replied back with positive coolness. "By the way, do you know Roxas, right?"

 "Roxas? Oh, yes, my evil self told me about him. That guy is a foreigner, right?"

 "Yup, that's him," Hideyoshi replied back. "He was our good friend. Did you know? Roxas had a spirit guardian of his own, too."

 "Oh, right, my evil self told me that and how annoying that dead player who lived within Roxas was."

 "Yes, his name is Tachibana Anko," Minato responded back, "That youngster is our friend."

 "Oh…"

 But then, time is up, and we were disappearing from the void, but we did promise her to help her and her friends out before completely disappearing from the scene.

Third person POV

 Back to the real world, Minato woke up and breathed heavily because of it. He was stunned by his recent dream, before snapping out and grabbing his notepad and pen to write down the details of the dream. Hideyoshi within him then said to him, "Man, Asuna-chan was in despair."

 "Yes, she was," Minato replied back.

 Later, in the kitchen, while Shuto and Koyuki are cooking breakfast, Minato went up to Roxas, who was preparing the table, and asked him, "Good morning, Ro-kun. Say, do you have any dreams about voids with some of the Elite Players in chains?"

Roxas then heard that and looked at him. "Oh, morning, yes, I do. Why?"

 "Me too as well."

Roxas was stunned to hear that. "Is that so? Who did you meet?"

 "Apparently, it was a girl named Yuuki Asuna."

 "No flippin' way…she was Kirito-kun's friend! Well, for me, I met Kirito-kun and Eugeo-kun."

 "What? That's insane! Two dreams for you, my friend!"

Roxas then chuckled a bit. "Yeah…"

 And so, before breakfast was done, Roxas and Minato sat down and shared each other's dreams and their details from the chained Elite Players.

 Later at school, before class starts, Roxas was reading his usual, wanted-to-finish-reading-this book when Koyuki, who sat from across the aisle from Roxas' seat, started to sketch a pencil portrait of him secretly. Roxas had no idea that someone was doing it. But then, seeing Koyuki sketching a pencil portrait of Roxas made a girl, who had just arrived in this classroom, not happy. What was her intention?