Wanjie: Only I Time Travel Comprehensive Comic

11 month 20 day.

66 people.

This is the number of players gathered in Torbana Square.

“There are so many people…”

Sitting close to Du Ming, Yasna, wearing a rapier, spoke in a low voice.

"Indeed, I don't know the BOSS room, and I don't know how many people will be killed. This is my first time challenging a BOSS, and 66 people coming here is a lot."

Du Ming nodded.

In the original plot, this meeting took place nearly a month after the game started on November 11, which is much later than the current time.

But now, the number of people preparing to attack the BOSS is even greater.

Obviously, the current SAO world is different from the SAO world in the plot. At least the non-BOSS monsters on the first floor are simpler.

But at the same time, it also means that the BOSS is likely to be different from the plot. It would be fine if it became simpler, but if it became more difficult and Du Ming did not take action, the number of casualties would definitely be greater.

Du Ming shifted his gaze to the players gathered in groups of two or three in the square.

Almost all of them were strangers that I had never seen before. Generally speaking, the ratio of male players far exceeded that of female players. As for acquaintances... apart from Yasuna, there were only two people I had seen so far.

One is "Rat" Argo. As an intelligence dealer, she sits on the high wall on the other side of the square and doesn't seem to want to participate in the BOSS strategy battle.

Another acquaintance is an acquaintance from the original SAO plot who I met recently in the maze.

At this time, he found Du Ming walking towards him.

"Duel, can I sit next to you?"

Kirito.

His real name is Kazuto Kiritani, and he is the protagonist of the original story. The SAO world can be cleared, and Kayaba Akihiko will end the SAO death game, all thanks to him.

When killing monsters in the first-level BOSS maze, Kirito was the only lone wolf player Du Ming had seen before he met Asuna, and he had seen him more than once in the maze.

Later, we got to know each other naturally and became friends.

"Hey, Kirito!" Du Ming laughed and looked at Kirito's hand, which was holding a piece of bread and taking a bite.

The bread was spread with a thick layer of butter and he ate it with relish.

"This is butter bread, Duel, do you want to try it?" Kirito smiled and took out a bread from his backpack, saying, "This is the butter I got from the 'Counterattack of the Cow' mission. It tastes good when spread on bread."

"Uh... I just ate and can't eat anymore..."

Du Ming rejected Kirito's kindness.

He did not lie. Du Ming was looking forward to the food cooked by Yasuna. Before coming here, he sincerely asked Yasuna to make him an omelette rice.

Not to mention, it has a bit of the flavor of another world.

Du Ming was still savoring the aroma of the omelette rice.

He also lamented that this realistic SAO world seemed to have some minor bugs.

Because of the complete cooking system that naturally appeared after the reality was realized, this system and the relatively simple cooking system in the original SAO world actually existed at the same time.

While he and Yasuna were enjoying the real food.

Kirito was also eating bread spread with butter.

"What a shame. I wanted you, Duel, to have a taste of it."

Kirito took a bite of the buttered black bread in his left hand with regret.

It originally had a hard texture, but in his mouth it became like a thick pastoral cake.

He took two bites and found Yasna leaning on the other side of Du Ming, smiling:

"Um... do you want it?"

Asuna said nothing at all. She glanced at Kirito warily and hid her body behind Du Ming's.

"Hahaha, Duel, I think I'm hated..."

"Nothing." Du Ming laughed and said, "My companion is not used to talking to strangers, and he encountered such a thing while playing games... You know."

：I understand...I don’t understand...

"Haha, yes, I often wonder when I can go back." Kirito said with a smile.

Du Ming found it quite interesting.

Although Yasuna clearly took upon herself the responsibility of keeping other players alive, she barely communicated with them and worked almost alone.

It would be very tiring for one person to bear all the responsibilities...

Du Ming subconsciously placed his left hand on Yasuna's chestnut hair and touched it, trying to comfort her head as if to comfort Ye Zi.

But suddenly he felt that it was not appropriate, and immediately withdrew his left hand that was touching Yasuna.

"Uh... sorry... subconsciously, subconsciously..."

"...Du Ming treats Weiwei and the others like this, right?" It was unknown whether Yasuna was angry or not. She pouted and glared and said, "If you have such a habit, you must do it often at home, right? You do this to Weiwei, Huahuo, Ye Zi and the others you mentioned every day, right?"

She looked at Du Ming with her round eyes, with no one else in her eyes.

"I apologize, I apologize sincerely." Du Ming smiled helplessly.

:Apologize…

"Humph."

Seeing this, Kirito, who was a bystander, scratched his head and felt that he was not suitable to be standing here.

He glanced at the scene and reminded: "The meeting is about to begin!"

… …

"Clap!"

A clear sound of clapping spread across the square.

All the players in the square turned their heads to look.

"Even though we're five minutes late, we're almost ready to start! Everyone, please move forward a little... over there, three more steps forward, please!"

Du Ming raised his eyes and saw that the person who was speaking confidently in the square was a tall one-handed swordsman wearing this kind of metal armor. Standing in the middle, it was obvious at a glance that he was of a very high level, estimated to be level 9.

This is Du Ming’s perspective.

Judging from the continuous commotion of the female players gathered in the other corner, this man is probably a handsome guy.

Du Ming couldn't remember this person's name, but he remembered that he seemed to be a closed beta player who was very motivated to defeat the BOSS. He wanted to help players defeat Aincrad and return to the real world. However, at the end of the BOSS battle, he wanted to steal the BOSS's head, but failed and was killed by the BOSS.

It is different from Du Ming and Yasna’s understanding.

Except for the designer Akihiko Kayaba, who may have some doubts about the current realistic SAO world, in the perception of all other players, this world is still the SAO world developed by Akihiko Kayaba.

Their goal is still Kayaba Akihiko's "clearing the 100th floor of Aincrad" and leaving the SAO world.

Du Ming thinks it won’t be too far away.

His dimensional gate [mission] is to conquer the 10th floor of Aincrad. Perhaps after conquering the 10th floor, the door from the SAO world to the real world will open.

This may also indicate that conquering the 10th floor is much more difficult than it should be.

Du Ming glanced around the square, then was stunned for a moment and muttered to himself.

"This person, should be him, has he been here before?"

：It’s him…It’s him…

In a different corner from Argo, he saw a player with a sword and shield in the shape of a cross, wearing red equipment, with his head down, silently listening to the speech in the field.

"Heathcliff."

The player's name was displayed as Heathcliff, but Du Ming knew that the player's real name was the developer of the SAO game: Kayaba Akihiko.

"Feeling that the world is out of control and becoming increasingly strange and unfamiliar, you showed up early and joined the game?"

Du Ming guessed silently in his heart.

In the field, the person who summoned the players began to speak:

"Everyone, thank you for responding to my call! Let me introduce myself first. My name is 'Diabelle', and I psychologically think of my profession as a 'Knight'!

"I'm happy to tell you that today our team discovered the stairs leading to the top floor of the maze tower! This means that tomorrow... or the day after tomorrow at the latest, we will be able to reach the boss' room on the first floor!"