108 chapter 9

Both Kirito and the girl in the cloak was unamused by the nicknames that Leonard has randomly given out to them.

"Hey! What do you mean by "poor little sucker!" Leonard!" Kirito pointed his finger at Leonard while shouting from the top of his lung.

"Don't worry about it, let just form up a party and go back to listening." Leonard tries to divert the topic as Leonard quickly sent a party invite to the girl in the cloak, to which she immediately accepted and the HP's bar began to show up for all of them.

Then they went back on to listening to Diavel.

"Alright, it seems like everyone teamed up, now then-" As Diavel was about to continue explaining about the boss.

"Hold on a second!"

Kibaou once again jumped up out of his seat to and start another commotion while jumped down to the theater floor and introduced himself in the most punk ass style as possible.

"My name's Kibaou- got that?"

"Arggg! This guy is so annoying?!" Leonard cussed in his heart.

"Before we take on the boss I want to get something off my chest!" he then turned to the audience.

"We all know about the two thousand people who die so far yeah?" Kibaou asked.

"Well some of you need to apologize 'em right now!" he added then pointing his finger at the audience.

Kibaou little outburst caused the players to whisper among one another, they all know what he means by that.

Kirito who sat next to Leonard began to broke out in cold sweat when he heard of it.

"Kibaou...I think I know who you're referring to, you mean the one who was ex-beta tester right?" Diavel joined into the man outburst.

"Course I mean them!" he shouted at Diavel.

"The day this stupid ass game started, those guys just took up and vanished! Right?! They snagged all the good hunting spots and they grab all the easy quest too! They were the only one getting stronger in here, this whole time they were ignoring us like we were nothing!" he added then began growling at the audience.

"Hell! I bet there are some of 'em here! Come on out beta tester! We should make 'em apologized and make them give up all their money and items they got! They can't expect us to trust them when they don't trust us! Why should we?!" he shouted.

Kirito little nervous breakdown was now getting worse from Kibaou outburst about the beta tester, cold sweat was running down on the side of his face as he listened on.

"Calm down Kirito, it's just a dumbass outburst, just ignore the idiot," Leonard told him.

Leonard then got up from his seat.

"Yo dumbass! I got a piece of news for you!" he shouted at Kibaou.

"It's you again! Spit it out you noob!" Kibaou roared at him in a threatening tone.

"Pull out that adventurer guidebook that the game been giving out like candies on the first day of the game and look at all the authors of that book!" he then pulled out a small handbook and showed to the man.

"Yeah?! What about it?!" Kibaou shouted back.

"It contained all the pieces of information new players should take note of! And the authors or should I say contributors to that is the EX-BETA TESTER! You dumb FOOL!" Leonard shouted at him.

"Huh?" Kibaou was stunned.

"He's right you know, it was the ex-beta tester that helps create that book." then a tall buff man with a large ax on his back stood up and added in, it was the man that Kibaou previously accidentally pointed his finger at, which was none other than Agil

Now everyone who listened to the conversation was surprised.

"So in the end, if those two thousand players who get themselves killed on the first month of the game, it's their fault for either doing something stupid! Or just some accident! It ain't the ex-beta tester fault! Stupid! You're just shouting out and caused a commotion as a way to get yourself rich! Playing the victim card?! Do some research before you pulled out shit like that!" Leonard curses out at Kibaou, whom now was sweating profusely.

"Now get your ass back out of the theater floor!" Leonard ended it by telling Kibaou to literally get lost.

Kibaou couldn't help but give Leonard a dirty look before climbing up the stair again and took a seat on the front row in a pissy mood.

Seeing that Kibaou was off the stage after causing such a scene, Leonard sat back down while having a satisfied expression on his face.

"Serve that guy right! He deserves to be made out as a fool for insulting Jesus-kun!" Leonard said in his heart.

"Thank Leonard," Kirito told him in a low tone of voice.

"Why do you say that? Aren't we friend?" Leonard questioned him.

The teenager gave him eyes full of appreciation after hearing Leonard respond.

During the past month of Leonard stay in the anime Sword Art Online, and spending hours upon hours with Kirito grinding, the two of them has developed quite a close bond with one another, to the point which Kirito was confident enough to have his life entrusted to Leonard- it's also the same for Leonard as well, as they said, no bond is stronger than that was forged in the heat of battles.

Leonard was the type of person who would value his friends and those who are close to him, while he is a ruthless monster to those who he considered being his enemy, and seeing that Kibaou was specifically targeting the ex-beta tester, whom he know that Kirito was categorized as he could not stand it.

Beside, he also hated the man name Kibaou so it was no big loss either if he were to make enemy with the man, even if later he turned out to be one of the founders of the guild Aincrad Liberation Army, it would make no different- it just mean that he could complete one of his bonus objectives much earlier.

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After the meeting of players in the amphitheater in Tolbana was dispersed, the party of three went about doing their business until the raid on the first-floor boss would be taken place- to which was early morning the next day.

Later that night in Tolbana, Leonard was currently staying within his room, trying to figure out a strategy that would give them the most benefits when the boss raid took place, he had to plan out on how to get that last hit bonus attack while keeping his party members from dying as the result as well- also to deal with Kibaou if he had the chance.

Strangely enough, currently Kirito was not with him so Leonard got curious and turned on his mini-map to track him.

To his surprise- Kirito was currently with Asuna- the girl in the cloak, outside in town.

"Ohhoho...Jesus-kun is quite smooth there."

He commented after he remembers that Kirito and Asuna was actually an item back in the anime itself, now knowing that Kirito getting to get close to Asuna, he didn't find it strange anymore.

"Ah~ it's good to be young."