⌜Chapter 45⌟

"Whoa, that was an over kill getting serious, my bad"

Tanaka scratched the back of his head as he finally realized how he got too serious in a spar. Even though he was not in the game anymore, he had already remembered how to do the Breathing Techniques even without the help of the system.

After all, he used it all the time, so using it on a good kid like Sugu was really an overkill. He only tapped Sugu with a sword on her waist and she already lost all of her balance because of that.

"Are you okay, Sugu?"

Kirito came to check on his little sister immediately.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine, I just lost my balance"

She then looked at Tanaka, who didn't look after her anymore after knowing she was fine.

'Such a jerk'

She thought as she looked at him.

"Anyway, since Sugu is out, I will be your sparring partner. I already got the hang of it, so Kirito and Asuna have to redo the spar again hehe"

Everyone looked at him as if he was a devil.

"Let's start!"

"..."

In the end, the spar ended as predicted. Everyone was beaten up by Tanaka single handedly.

"That was a great exercise"

*Grunts~

The others grunted as they were still in pain.

"Anyway, there is another reason why I called you guys here other than the spar"

Tanaka sat on the ground as he looked at everyone.

"What is it?"

Kirito, who could finally stand up asked, the others also got interested.

"Iceforge Guild is entering ALO"

This sentence surprised everyone. After all, it hasn't been long ever since SAO ended and the trauma still lingered in their hearts. There was still some hesitation whenever they hear other VR games, but Tanaka is going to enter the VR world once again.

"Iceforge Guild?"

Sugu tilted her head in confusion as she haven't heard of it before, but hearing ALO she knew that they were going to enter the game that she was playing, she only started playing because of being curious about what her brother loves and she also fell in love playing games so hearing it she was a little excited to play with her brother.

But as she was dreaming of her and her brother playing, she noticed Tanaka looking at her with a strange expression, then he whispered something that wasn't heard by anyone but Sugu immediately recognized what he said.

'As expected of a brocon.'

"Tanaka! I will kill you today!"

Sugu immediately became enraged and pounced towards Tanaka with great ferocity.

"Go away!"

Tanaka immediately tried to block her but because of that, it turned into a brawl, the others only looked with deadpan expression.

It took quite a while for them to calm down and Tanaka got away with few scratches on his face. Tanaka ignored the still fuming Sugu and turned his head to Asuna.

"How about your Guild? I know Kayaba is the one who started all of it but you still have some attachment to this guild after all, if Iceforge Guild enters the ALO without its rival, it would become nothing but an easy domination for us, let's keep the original tradition going shall we?"

Tanaka said with a smile. Asuna frowned when she heard this, but said nothing for a while before looking at Tanaka once again.

"Its impossible, even if KoB reestablish itself once again. We cannot go against your guild because we don't have someone that could go against you. In the past we have Heathcliff that can fight you, but now, there is none"

Yes, Tanaka is the most powerful player next to 'Madara' and only Heathcliff can go against him.

"What do you mean, there is none? You guys may not defeat me alone but You have two on your side, actually make it three people together that can somewhat go against me"

"Three? who?"

"You, Kirito and the other girl with the sickle, she almost won against me in the Tournament last time"

"You mean Mito? She uses Scythe the same as Madara, not a sickle, but I don't know if she still wants to play"

"Just say my name to her and she will come charging towards me"

"I will try"

"Good then, I will expect you guys in ALO soon, also you guys might as well create a workshop like ours, because the future will move to what I want from now on and Virtual World will take over soon, well, that is all, let's go have some lunch."

"O-okay"

Everyone was confused about what Tanaka said, but the confidence when he said that it was as if it will really happen, no, it was going to happen, Even Argo who came along couldn't help but look at Tanaka once again, this was the Guild Master Ice that caught the loyalty of all Iceforge Guild Members, this powerful charisma that it was as if everything revolved around him, it just lures you in.

Everyone then left the dojo and ate in a restaurant not too far away from their place. After that, they all went to their own places. Asuna visited Mito to check up on her and also ask her if she still want to play.

Tanaka made his way to the Iceforge Guild Workshop to check up on it. Iceforge Guild has 400 members, it was a lot. The moment Tanaka arrived outside, he was immediately met with many of his guild members who immediately greeted him..

Tanaka nodded at them and said nothing, he couldn't possibly greet all of them while on his way, so a simple nod is enough for everyone, Tanaka didn't mind if they are the ones who gave him money or they were the elites, all of them were equal in the guild but of course, there are still some important roles to keep the order of the guild.

Tanaka then met some of his assistants and got the reports for the day, they now have a lot of VR cabins to enter the ALO but since there was still a few days left before it goes online, they were doing their best to prepare, after checking more for a while, Tanaka went home.

And in the blink of an eye, ALO is finally opening once again and everyone were very excited.

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Sorry short chapter and not updating for a long time, its just that, I was enlightened and was suddenly hit by a powerful laziness that made me want to lie down all day, I couldn't escape it so I embraced it.

It may last a few more days but I will try to update more.

Quotes:

You're possessed by a demon. You quickly realize it never done this before.

What do you do?