18 Sword Art Online
Morning, Kuro was walking towards the Kirigaya house to pick up Suguha and also brought some cupcakes.
He was surprised when the one who answered the door was the EMO. Greeting EMO Kuro asked
Kuro: Kazuto-San is Suguha ready? We plan to review the guide for SAO before the start time you see.
EMO: yes she just went up to get something. By the way how many gears did you buy Black-san?
Kuro: bought twenty *laughs* nineteen will be used. Did you buy a gear too? Let's meet up inside the game later!
EMO: I went out every day this week to buy one but they are all sold out. *Sad Smile*
Once Suguha came down Kuro dragged the two of them to his house. Suguha was confused why her onii-chan is coming too.
Once they reached the house they all go down to the basement where the beds are prepared with a nerve gear on top of each bed. Twenty beds twenty gears, seeing this EMO was moved.
Seeing her onii-chan like that Suguha finally understood why. Letting them study the guide for SAO Kuro prepared some snacks for them.
1:30 pm the game was already opened and now they are wearing their gear. Entering the game like they previously planned they made their avatar look like their real bodies and real first name for the names, except for EMO who was not present yesterday.
Kuro immediately added everyone including Kirito and informed them where to meet. While Kuro was waiting for his group he saw Yuna. Her name is Shigemura Yuuna in the Sao Movie and knowing she will likely die if left alone Kuro approached and called out to her.
Kuro: hey are you playing alone?
Yuna: yes, uhmm, do you need something?
Kuro: I am waiting for my group you see and was wondering if you would like to join us?
Yuna: really? Please let me join~
Kuro and Yuna introduced themselves and started talking. As time passed his group arrived one by one , once all of them gathered and introduced Yuna they formed parties. They balanced those experienced with close Combat weapons to each party.
They started hunting monsters and doing some easy quest. After a few hours they suddenly heard some bell noise and got transported somewhere.
Looking around Kuro immediately approached some people he wanted to invite and be members of the guild he wants to build. He talks to some but couldn't continue anymore when Kayaba Akihiko appeared and did his speech.
After Kayaba Akihiko disappeared everyone panicked including Suguha and Yuna but the girls helped them calm down. Kuro immediately began to invite his targets some agreed and some declined. The last person Kuro approached was Asuna who was dazed and not moving from her spot.
Kuro: hey, are you alone? Did you enter the game with someone?
Asuna: eh? I-I am alone.
Kuro: then want to join us? We plan to survive and clear this game so we can go back to the real world.
Asuna just nods and follows Kuro back to his group. They started by introducing themselves to each other and proceeded to an inn and rested for the night.
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Morning came and they gathered outside the city and started hunting in groups. Their whole day was spent grinding levels and letting the noob group get used to fighting.
After their grinding Kuro went somewhere to make their guild and named it "The Black Army".
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Ten days passed, they are now a strong group with tanks and attackers and right now they are fighting the first floor boss. You could see more than thirty players wearing black clothes and armors.
Kuro designed the male uniforms of the guild to be like soldier outfits from final fantasy VII and the females almost identical except they are wearing skirts and their top has long sleeves.
Kuro is the leader of a eight man party with four tanks and four attackers, they are the party responsible for facing the boss directly and others are in charge of either supporting the main team or facing the mobs.
After beating the boss with Kuro getting the last hit he told sys to hack the game a little and made the loot be a black upgradable katana. He has been doing this with most of the drops from normal mobs to make sure his team has weapons that suit them best.
Going to the second floor some immediately tried to hunt the new mobs available and some wanted to check out the town. Their guild base is at the 1st floor and they hold the strongest guild title.
Kuro went back to the guild base with Yuna, Asuna and grimlock. He plans to kill the retard early before becoming crazy so he had him become his assistant he can already see him glaring at Griselda for acting differently compared to the real world.
Yuna: hey Kuro. Could you listen to my new song again? Please~
Kuro: later ok? Do you guys want to hunt? I found a place that might have a treasure chest.
Yuna and Asuna declined so he and grimlock went to the trap room together. Clearing some mobs to the trap room they reached it and entered. Countless mobs swarmed them and Kuro was "busy" to look after grimlock who already has a red hp bar.
After Grimlock died Kuro cleaned up the monsters and even got some good loot. Returning back to the guild he explained to everyone what happened and Griselda cried.
Kuro apologized to Griselda and even Asuna and Yuna apologized for not coming with them, they felt guilty, thinking maybe if they had gone with them grimlock would have survived.
Kuro: it was entirely my fault please don't blame them Griselda. I take full responsibility for his death.
Griselda: it's ok Kuro. I understand, you guys went there for items that could help everyone right? I am proud of him for taking the risk for everyone's sake.
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One month passed and Griselda already moved on. As their guild grew in numbers grimlock's situation when he died repeatedly happened(not caused by Kuro) and it helped her understand his death better "rewards comes with risks".
Taking up grimlock's former position Griselda is doing a great job. Kuro goes to the orphanage like guild that a player founded and supported it and giving financial help, they take in kids that is too young to fight in this death game. They even take the kids to low leveled maps and help them level up and earn money.
Of course they heavily warned the kids to not go hunting by themselves and wait for them to visit.
Kuro was given the nickname "black demon" because he hunts down Red players. The moonlit black cats never got established because Kuro invited all of them.
Advising all of them to build to become tanks, they followed and now some of them became top tanks in the front lines. Sachi became close to Kirito who always hunts with her and her friends. Of course on Kuro's orders.
Kuro is with his girls with the addition of Asuna, Yuna, Griselda and Suguha. It was their turn so they are going to the orphanage to visit the children and play with them. A kid noticed Kuro's group and shouted
Random kid: hey!! It's Kuro-nii's group!
Hearing that, all the kids swarmed them and kept bugging him and the girls to take them hunting.
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At noon they went to the gathering spot his guild agreed on as they plan to fight the tenth floor boss.
After choosing the members that will join the boss fight they used a teleport crystal and arrived just outside the boss room.
Entering they saw the boss. A large humanoid build clad in a Samurai armor, it looks menacing for the fairly new members.
Kuro told them to relax and watch each other's back they proceeded in fighting it. Shizuka with a shield and mace blocks the attack of the boss and hits it with a mace skill then retreat back.
When the attack based players see an opportunity they attack too. Their strategy rely on shield bearers to create opportunities for the attack group to make efficient damage on the boss using their strongest skill.
Kuro focuses heavily on training shield users. Tanks are important in games like this where if a boss is too strong they can one hit offense based players.
Kuro and some people in his group are special though, no one has ever seen them get hit, even a boss never landed a hit on them. Kuro, Souichiro, Saeko, Kenji and Kei never got hit even once by mobs and bosses.
Rei, Tadashi and Kiriko who uses spears gets hit when a boss grabs the Spear. Rei always sulks when this happens and Kuro had to spoil her to make her mood better.
Rika, Kohta, Asami, Saya, Takashi, Yuuki, Shizuka, Nana, Taka, and Hisashi gained more experience fighting as tanks. Especially the group that developed ranged fighting in Kuro's world, they can now fight even when an enemy manage to get close to them.
Kuro used a plain Slash without a skill for the last hit. After he announced the loot and gave it to Rei as it was a Spear, her old Spear would be given to someone who uses a Spear too and the old Spear would be sold and added to the guild fund.
Kuro's guild is organized and disciplined, there was one time when someone complained and was immediately kicked out. Kuro told the guild members that if they don't like the rules they can leave.
Since then the person who was kicked out was not taken in by any guild knowing that he was kicked out by the top guild and they did not want to have a bad relationship by taking in the person. He spent his time alone hunting and trying to grow stronger until bad luck struck him and died.
Also, the day laughing coffin became famous in the game was the day their nightmare started. Kuro's guild hunted them like monsters and with the help of sys they managed to hunt them down to the last members, No prisoners they are executed on the spot.
Knights of the blood oath's(KBO) was established too and rising very fast. Kuro decided to ignore it as he plans to reach floor 100.
