Start with delicious food

……

at the same time.

The 22nd floor of Aincrad.

Qin Hao, who was fishing with Asuna and Yui by the lake, suddenly received a message.

This is a backdoor applet that Qin Hao installed in the Cardinal system when he disconnected the Cardinal system from controlling Yui.

The only function of this small program is to monitor whether there is a fight between Heathcliff and Kirito.

After all, once the game is cleared, the entire Aincrad will disintegrate.

Players who are trapped in the game because of the gaming helmet designed by Kayaba Akihiko will naturally log out of the game directly with an instruction from Kayaba Akihiko.

But the homemade gaming helmet used by Qin Hao to hack into the game does not have such a function.

You can only log out by yourself.

So Qin Hao immediately sent messages to several people who were still in the game asking them to come back and log off.

Later, arrangements were made for Yui to go offline first. And told Asuna that the game could end at any time.

Noticing the flash of worry on Asuna's face, Qin Hao gently comforted Asuna for a moment. Then he promised that he would rush to find her as soon as the game ended.

Let Asuna see herself as soon as she opens her eyes after waking up.

……

As time goes by. Kayaba Akihiko's blood volume at this time only had the last blood bar left.

But Kirito was also slashed by Kayaba Akihiko because of his greed for the sword.

The green blood bar, which was still full of blood, instantly dropped to the red state of the last bar.

Seeing that he had no chance to use the recovery items. Kirito gritted his teeth and decided to give Kayaba Akihiko one last fight.

The Starburst Air Slash was launched again, and Kirito's successive attacks drove Kayaba Akihiko back.

But just when Kirito's last sword was about to hit Kayaba Akihiko.

Kayaba Akihiko, who had already seen through the flaw in the Starburst Air Slash, thrust out his sword and pierced Kirito's body before Kirito's attack arrived.

"Goodbye, Kirito-kun."

"It's such a pity that the brave man didn't grow up enough to defeat the Demon King."

"Well~ maybe you still have a chance. I can help you keep the weapons. If you do it again, you should be able to catch up..."

Before Kayaba Akihiko could finish his declaration of victory. Kirito exploded into colorful fragments all over the sky, consumed a resurrection item and went back to count down the seconds to wait for resurrection. At the same time, he used his last strength to insert the two swords in his hands into Kayaba Akihiko's body.

Along with his last blood bar being cleared.

Kayaba Akihiko was stunned for a moment, then closed his eyes and shook his head helplessly.

"Really, you are worthy of it, Kirito. Are you going to stand up to me until the end?"

"Although it is different from the script I imagined, the final result is pretty good."

Bang~

Along with it, Kayaba Akihiko also turned into colorful fragments all over the sky.

A server-wide announcement of game clearance rang throughout Aincrad.

Rays of light lit up from every player who was still alive.

After all players except Kirito were logged out of the game, the entire Aincrad began to collapse.

Above the mirrored sky, facing the setting sun, Kirito slowly opened his eyes.

Looking at the clouds beneath the wall of air beneath my feet.

Kirito tried to open his own player system operation interface.

But what surprised him was that the loading screen was displayed on the player interface.

“What a nice view.”

Hearing this voice, Kirito subconsciously looked in the direction from which the voice came.

"Kayaba...Akihiko?"

I saw the young man wearing a white coat and short hair. Kirito subconsciously called out his name.

Kayaba Akihiko didn't answer, he just looked directly at the sunset scenery in front of him.

After a moment of silence, he spoke.

"The full memory device of the SAO main frame installed on the fifth basement floor of the ARGUS headquarters has begun to erase all data."

"In ten more minutes, everything in this world will destroy itself."

After hearing the news, Kirito was silent for a moment, and then asked.

"What will happen to the remaining players?"

Kayaba Akihiko replied.

"You don't need to worry about this, just now. All 7831 people who are still alive in the game have successfully logged out of the game."

"What about...the people who died? What about the people who have died so far?" Kirito continued to ask.

Kayaba Akihiko replied. "The dead can only disappear. The world is the same whether it is here or there."

"Why...Kayaba, why did you do this?"

"why?"

After a moment of silence, Kayaba Akihiko shook his head.

"I forgot too..."

"Why exactly...when I started developing the fully stealth environment system...no, I should say far before that."

"I took creating that city and creating a world that transcended all the constraints and laws of the real world as my only idea of ​​survival."

"I have always believed and firmly believed that the 100-story floating steel city in the dream must exist in another world."

"Especially after I met the God on Earth, I strengthened my belief."

"God of... in the world?" Kirito had a confused look on his face.

Kayaba Akihiko explained.

"The one who built your equipment."

Saying that, Kayaba Akihiko opened the operation interface and waved his hand in the void.

Pictures of Shin Godzilla cleaning up the Neon Nuclear Power Plant and the Self-X Corps appeared in front of Kirito.

Seeing these pictures, Kirito's eyes widened. "This...are these promotional videos for a new game..."

Kayaba Akihiko shook his head. "This is reality, Kirito-kun. These are real events that happened in August last year. In fact, there are still many places that have not completed reconstruction work until now."

"Because the government at the time insisted on discharging the nuclear wastewater from the Spoke Island into the sea despite international opposition."

"So that one sent his messengers, the monsters in the picture, to cleanse the world."