I like traveling the most

The progress of the strategy team has been stagnant recently, and everyone is actually quite anxious.

They were all frantically leveling up on the fifty-fifth floor. There were definitely not even half of the members of the strategy team who came here to play as leisurely as Kirito.

I was a little surprised to see Kirito Kobayashi.

"You actually have the time to come here for a date..."

Especially when it's someone of the opposite sex and not one of Asuna and Yuki.

You are quite playful too.

Xiaolin raised an eyebrow at him.

Kirito seemed to understand what Xiaolin meant, and quickly explained: "It's not a date! Her name is Silica, and I happened to meet her in the Lost Forest on the 35th floor. Actually..."

Then he told what happened to Silica.

"I see, that's why you helped her."

He glanced at the timid little loli hiding on Kirito's body.

Silica and Aqua are both beast tamers. The difference is that Silica's familiar is a feathered dragon, which is the same type of dragon as Aqua's flying dragon. However, they are different types of monsters. The ability to bring them is also completely different.

"I didn't expect you to help people."

Xiaolin hugged Kirito's neck and teased: "Don't you think she looks like your sister, so you helped her? Asuna, Sachi, and now there's Silica, who's still outside?" I have a younger sister, shouldn’t it be..."

"No, no! I don't..."

Kirito blushed and was speechless.

In fact, when he helped Silica, he did see the shadow of his sister in the other party, but if he said it now, it always felt like quibbles. The only thing that's certain is that I never have that thought.

Seeing the innocent boy shut his mouth and pretend not to understand, Xiao Lin directly asked the twin-tailed lolita:

"——Silica, do you like purple flowers?"

"Wait a moment!"

Kirito immediately broke through.

Seeing him like this, Xiao Lin burst out laughing.

"That's enough." Kirito regained his shy mood and said, "I need that Soul Flower very much. If you can, please give it to me. You can decide the price."

"I really want to give it to you, but that item is currently in Aqua's possession, so..."

Xiao Lin gestured to look to the other side.

Aqua was talking to Silica at this time, but she seemed a little excited.

"Miss Aqua, you must be Miss Aqua! Only one person in Aincrad has your long aqua hair!"

"Yes, I am Aqua, the goddess of wisdom!"

The stupid goddess puffed up her chest proudly. She might think she was handsome, but in the eyes of Krillin and Kirito, she was just being stupid. However, Silica was extremely excited.

"It's really Miss Aqua! In fact, I am also an Axis cultist!"

"...Eh?"

"Maybe Miss Aqua has forgotten that I was enlightened by you on the first floor, and your teachings cheered me up again. After hearing about your deeds, I also plucked up the courage to walk out of the safe zone, and then Just like fate, I also got a familiar! But my familiar is now..."

Silica looked extremely disappointed.

It didn't matter what happened after that. When Aqua learned that Silica was an Axis cultist who worshiped her, and that the familiar died for some reason and continued the flower of the soul, the stupid goddess didn't hesitate at all.

"Here! Use this!"

"Miss Aqua?"

"Your familiar needs to be resurrected with it, right? Although it can be easily resurrected with my divine power in the real world, in the game you can only use props."

"But this thing is very expensive, I..."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. After all, you are my believer!"

The stupid goddess had a smile on her face.

It's silly, but touching.

Silica couldn't hold it back, she hugged Aqua and cried bitterly. Aqua, like a true goddess, comforted Silica with a gentle look on her face, just like she had taught her on the first floor.

Kobayashi and Kirito on the other side looked at each other.

"It seems you don't need us?"

"It seems so."

I don’t know if it’s because SAO is too depressing or because Aqua is too charming. I always feel like she’s more like a succubus than a goddess. Why does everyone like her?

…Assuming that people don’t know her true nature.

To outsiders, Aqua seems to be innocent, cute and good at enlightening, but Xiaolin and others know that the stupid goddess is just a hopeless problem child.

After crying for a while, Silica finally recovered.

The shy girl tangled her hands together and was at a loss. She even lowered her head when she saw the strange expressions of Krillin and Kirito. It was Aqua who persuaded her to regain her mood.

"Okay, the next step is to go back."

The Soul Flower cannot be used in the wild, and the familiar who wants to resurrect Silica needs to go to the town. Because of this incident, Aqua was no longer in the mood to drink.

The four of them left the Hill of Memories.

Fortunately, they met almost no monsters on their way back, and they arrived at the foot of the mountain at a speed that could be said to be running downhill.

Soon, very soon we will see you again.

Just as Silica tried to suppress her inner impulse and prepared to cross the wooden bridge over the river, several people jumped out from the trees beside her.

They looked fiercely and maliciously, staring at Silica, the flower of the soul in her hand, as if the big bad wolf had met Little Red Riding Hood. But strangely, the arrows above these people's heads are green, which means they are not criminals.

Kirito stopped and held Silica's shoulders at the same time, as if to hint to her not to be afraid and nervous.

The same goes for Kobayashi and Aqua.

The girl with twin ponytails quickly came to her senses after a brief daze. At the same time, she also discovered that there was someone she knew on the other side of the short bridge.

He has flame-like red hair, equally bright red lips, is equipped with shiny black franc leather armor, and holds a thin cross gun in one hand.

"Lo...Miss Rosalia? Why are you here?"

Silica asked dumbfounded.

Rosalia had no desire to answer such a stupid question. She raised one corner of her mouth and smiled at Kirito: "You can actually see through my invisibility. Your enemy detection skill level is really high, Master Swordsman. I seem to underestimate the enemy?"

Then she finally turned her attention to Silica.

"Looking at you, you must have successfully obtained the Flower of Soul? Congratulations, Silica."

He said this, but it didn't taste like congratulations at all.

Silica couldn't grasp the other party's intentions and subconsciously took a few steps back. She felt an indescribable feeling of uneasiness. It wasn't until Aqua hugged the thin girl from behind that she gradually felt at ease. But the next sentence made her dumbfounded again.

Rosalia said: "Then, please hand over the flower quickly."

"Wha...w-what are you talking about?"

"I'm sorry to have to obey you, Miss Rosalia. No, I should call you the president of the Criminal Guild Titan's Hand."

It was Kirito who responded to her.

After her identity was exposed, the smile on Rosalia's lips disappeared.

In SAO, if a player commits a system-wide crime such as theft, injury, or murder, the arrow above his head will change from the normal green to orange.

Therefore, the criminals are called Orange Players, and their group is called the Orange Guild.

The green arrows above the heads of Rosalia and others are actually easy to handle - as long as you don't do it yourself, or you can hide in the wild for a day or two after turning orange, and then turn green again after time passes. Even if there are enough subordinates, seamless switching can be achieved. In fact, that's what they do.

"I didn't expect it would be revealed."

Rosalia lowered the corners of her eyes, looking like a fiery red snake.

"You're right. I just lure the team to the ambush site and then seize their items. Otherwise, why would I join that team in the past two weeks? Isn't it just to evaluate the team's combat strength?"

Her approach is simple.

First join a team, wait for them to get a lot of money in the adventure, and then recruit people to slaughter them after they become fat sheep.

And now, her target is Silica.

"But, Master Swordsman. You clearly know these things, but you still accompany the child nonchalantly. Are you a fool? Or are you really seduced by her body?"

"No, neither side is right."

Kirito held down Silica, who was ashamed and angry, and said coldly: "Miss Rosalia, I'm actually looking for you too."

"How do you say this?"

"Ten days ago, you attacked a guild called Silver Flag on the 38th floor, right? Four members were killed, and only the guild leader managed to escape."

"Ah, that poor team."

"The man who was the president was at the transfer gate square at the front line every day from morning to night, crying and looking for someone who could help him avenge himself. However, that man did not ask me to kill you. He only asked me to kill you. He said he hopes to put you in the prison of the Black Iron Palace - can you understand that guy's mood? "

Kirito's voice was enveloped in a chilling chill, like a hardened ice blade, chopping up everything it touched.

Hearing what he said, Xiao Lin also remembered it.

There is indeed such a person. He remembers that Sato Kazuma accepted the commission without any reward, but unexpectedly entrusted it to Kirito again?

By the way, Sato Kazuma shouldn’t have forgotten it, right?

"What are you doing!"

Rosalia was a little unhappy and said:

"Why are you so serious like an idiot! Even if you kill someone here, there is no evidence that the person really died like this, so it is impossible to be regarded as a criminal after returning to reality, let alone whether you can go back. I know. Stop laughing when you talk about justice and law. I hate people who bring strange truths into this world."

There was a cruel light in her eyes.

This person, like PoH, has malicious intentions towards innocent people. No, to some extent she can't catch up with PoH.

"So, you took what the undead president said seriously and have been looking for us? You are really idle. I admit that I did take the bait because of the bait you prepared, but... you think it's just four people What can be done? Not to mention, there are two stupid burdens involved."

"Wait a minute, who are you calling stupid?!"

Aqua suddenly became anxious.

Obviously she didn't mention her by name, but the stupid goddess always felt that she was being betrayed, so she immediately shouted angrily.

Rosalia did not respond, but instead carved a bloodthirsty smile on her lips, and waved her raised right finger in the air twice quickly. Suddenly, the trees on both sides of the road that extended to the other side began to shake violently, and then one after another people ran out from the depths of the trees.

Above the heads of these people, there are orange arrows indicating the identity of the criminals. There are about ten people in number.

The ten new thieves who appeared are all male players who are decorated with silver jewelry or secondary equipment and look gorgeous. They all had malicious smiles on their faces, and Silica and Aqua gave them sticky looks.

Hey hey hey, don’t you know it’s illegal to fuck a fool?

...Having said that, killing people in SAO is not sanctioned, so this is normal.

Silica hid behind Kirito in fear. Aqua, who had been shouting just now, also hid in fear after seeing the overwhelming number of people.

"I said Kirito, you didn't do it on purpose, right?"

"What?"

"Don't pretend to be stupid. You must have known that it would turn out like this, so you brought Silica to talk to her, right?"

"Well..."

Kirito did not deny it, and even had a smile on his lips, indicating that it was intentional. I didn't expect that a boy like him, with his handsome features, could have such a frivolous heart, and that he even figured it out.

"It doesn't matter if I take action myself."

"Forget it. I'm used to wiping the butts of problem children."

Kobayashi decided to help Sato Kazuma wipe his butt.

While the two were talking, one of the thieves on the opposite side suddenly muttered to himself.

"Wait...Kirito?"

His smile disappeared, his brows furrowed, his eyes wandered as if searching for memories, and then his face turned extremely pale as if he thought of something, and he took a few steps back.

"That outfit... holding a one-handed sword but no shield... is he a swordsman in black?! Miss Rosalia, no, no! This guy... is from the strategy team who has been playing all the way from the closed beta! "

After hearing the man's words, the expressions of the other members stiffened.

Although Kirito is not as notorious as the original, he is still a member of the strategy team, and with his iconic equipment, he is known as the Black Swordsman.

"Don't, don't be afraid!"

Rosalia stumbled and said: "The talents of the strategy team will not hang out here! This, this guy must be an imitator who uses his name to scare others! Yes, he must be an imitator! What's more, even if he is a real Swordsman in black, it’s not easy to deal with one person with our numbers, but the opponent has three burdens!”

Unexpectedly, Xiao Lin was also regarded as a burden.

As if taking advantage of the momentum of this passage, a tall ax user standing in front of the orange player shouted: "No, that's right! And the strategy team must have a lot of money and props! This is a very fat prey. ah!"

In agreement with each other, the thieves drew their weapons together, and countless metals shone with evil light.

"Brother Kirito, let's escape quickly!"

Silica was terrified.

In her opinion, even if Kirito was a member of the high-level strategy team, he would not be able to defeat a group of more than ten people.

"It's okay, Silica."

Aqua once again held the girl's head in her arms to prevent her from looking at the vicious thieves.

"Xiao Lin will deal with them."

"Xiao Lin...?"

Silica was stunned for a moment.

"Speaking of which, I haven't introduced myself yet?" Xiao Lin opened the equipment column with his right hand and took out the silk thread and chain: "Introduce yourself. I am the deputy leader of the Axis Cult, Xiao Lin."

"Xiao Xiao Xiao, Xiao Lin——!!!"

The man exclaimed again.

If there are people who can imitate the swordsman in black, then Kobayashi is a unique existence in the entire Aincrad. Whether it is equipment, weapons or skills, they are all unique.

It’s not that no one wants to imitate it. After all, the scene where Kobayashi showed his prowess in the strategy team is deeply imprinted in the hearts of countless players. However, no one can replicate the gorgeous and superb silk thread skills, especially when they try it out. Later, I was able to understand the huge difference, so the silk thread became Xiaolin's only exclusive symbol.

"It's over... it's ever-changing."

If only the black-clothed swordsmen were present, they might not be able to fight to the death, but with the kaleidoscope present, they would have no way to escape.

The shadow of despair hangs over the thieves.

Xiao Lin didn't expect it either.

There is still a day when he will appear in front of others.

"You can resist, but I don't think the result will change. After all, your level is too low, and the damage you cause cannot match the speed of recovery. Even if you stand still and let you attack for several hours, it will not be possible at all. Can't beat us."

Xiao Lin swung the silk thread and tied everyone up, and then said to the ashen Rosalia:

"What you just said is right. We, who are not JC and judges, have no right to convict you, but as the old saying goes - the only person who can convict you is God, and the only thing I can do is to send you to see God. .It just so happens that there is a god here.”

He tilted his head and asked: "Goddess, what should I do if someone maliciously harms an Axis cultist?"

"guilty!"

Aqua's answer was decisive.

"That's it. You can spend the next few days in the Black Iron Palace."

He signaled Kirito to open the corridor crystal.

In case they were unwilling, Xiaolin threw them in one after another after being tied up. As for whether he would become a player named Orange, he did not consider this at all. Who would let the weapon that is not recognized by the system - silk thread have no attack power and not be judged as an attack by the system?