[Comprehensive] Light and Shadow

"You fraud sealer is not qualified to have anything to do with us!"

Kirito stood there in a daze, but his blood was congealed like ice. Even if he shut off all his senses, he couldn't forget the piercing pain in his chest.The pain of the extreme mental collapse made Kirito unable to look directly into Keita's eyes, but at this moment he could only stare stiffly, looking at the unbearable self in those eyes of anger, resentment, and annoyance. image.

He opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak a word hoarsely, and Kirito didn't even know what else he could say.

There are only two people left in the Moonlight Black Cat Group.

One is Kirito who watched all the members fall into the trap and die in the maze, and the other is the leader Keita who just bought the guild hut but no one can live in it now.

Kaita didn't speak any more, his originally extremely angry expression gradually calmed down, and then he fell into a state of apathy and looked at Kirito quietly.Immediately, the man's body trembled as if overwhelmed, and his eyes looked dimly at the key of the guild cabin in his hand.

Home?

From now on, there will be no need for such a thing.

Qitai's hand grasped the key firmly, the key shook and collided and made a crisp sound, Qitai's dark red eyes were dimmed, and when the drooping eyelids touched the eyelids, it seemed that the whole world had been crushed, and then the whole world had long been no longer exists.

Kirito stared blankly at Kaita, it was obviously just a game, but Kirito seemed to have lost all his strength at this moment, just watching like this had exhausted all his strength.Tongren was waiting for Kaita to speak, waiting for Qitai to scold him angrily, even if Qitai raised a knife to kill him now, Tongren would not have any resistance or complaints.

Just, nothing.

So, what is Keita thinking?

Kirito knows that the members of the Moonlight Black Cats are members of the same high school club, just like a real family.Since entering the game, they have been supporting each other and relying on each other... Qitai is remembering them now, right?

Even Kirito, who has been with them for a short time, feels pain to the bone after losing his companion, let alone Keita, who has more common memories with them day and night.

At that moment, Kirito really realized that he was an outsider, and even more so, a person who shouldn't have entered into it.

Kaita raised his head, revealing those dull and empty eyes, as if he was looking at Kirito, but also as if he was not looking at anything.Then Qi Tai held the key tightly and rushed out in a certain direction suddenly.

Kirito stood there in a daze, suddenly didn't react, the moment he wanted to reach out to grab Qita, but he was too timid to reach out for a moment, he even felt that he didn't even have the right to hold him.

At that moment, Kirito called Kaita's name loudly in his heart, and then immediately turned around and followed behind Kaita.

And at the next moment, a scene that made Kirito feel ashamed appeared——

The man who always smiled brightly rushed to the outer edge of Aincrad and jumped off without hesitation. Before he jumped off, he didn't even open his mouth, open his eyes, or show any expression.

He just closed his eyes, grabbed the key of the guild hut and jumped down.

Kirito suddenly jumped on the periphery and looked down, his eyes widened but he saw the man with dark red hair turned into silver-blue fragments and disappeared in the colorful clouds.

The Moonlight Black Cat Group also completely disappeared.

In real life, that club at that high school also ceased to exist at the same time.

At that moment, Kirito felt that the position of the chest was being torn apart at an extremely slow speed. The tearing process was like a slow motion. He seemed to be able to clearly feel the sound of flesh and blood separating. The members are all dead, leaving him alone as the price of surviving as a despicable fraudster.

He was alive, but they were dead. Kirito stared blankly at the periphery of Aincrad, his eyes widened, trying to see clearly, but in the end, tears fell down.

Warm tears rolled down his cheeks, but Kirito felt a cold mess inside, bloody and bloody.

Kirito couldn't help trembling and collapsed, looking at the data of his own level in the interface with blurred eyes.

What's the use of such a high level, even if it's a fraud sealer, he can't do anything...

No, he could have done it, he just didn't do it.

When Kaita clutched the key and rushed out, he shouldn't have stopped Qita because of timidity;

When Xing and the others wanted to enter the maze, he shouldn't have stopped him without saying a word, and concealed his level;

When Kaita asked him if he wanted to join the guild, he... let alone agree.

【You cheater is not qualified to have anything to do with us! 】

Everything was wrong from the beginning.

The cheater should have been alone.

Originally, he was supposed to be alone, but it wasn't until he left the Moonlight Black Cat Group that Tongren realized that he was not used to fighting alone. It was just a habit, and he was always used to thinking about it.

In the past six months, he often dreamed of Xing's appearance before he died. The blue-black haired girl just turned her head and looked at him. She was obviously so timid and afraid of death, but at that moment she looked calm and calm. Appearance, said a word to himself.

—and he didn't hear it.

Because of this sentence that could not be heard, Kirito has tried every means to find props to bring Xing back to life in the past six months.

In the end, the only hope was shattered—the resurrection props that were acquired during the Christmas event could only be used within ten seconds of death.

Fortunately, the girl had been dead for half a year.

In fact, Kirito also understands that even if he can be resurrected in the game after being dead for half a year, he might have already been buried in real life.It's just that he is still so persistently looking for it. Rather than looking for it, I'm afraid it's more like a goal in life, a goal that has to be achieved, just to hear the girl's last words.

However, I am afraid that even this goal cannot be continued.

Even though it was Christmas, Kirito couldn't feel any joy at all, he just felt his whole body was cold and stiff, and his dry heart was dark.Looking up from the dark world, the stars in the night sky seem to be falling.

Kirito slowly stretched out his right hand, slid in mid-air, and finally found a column in the item column, which was the reward obtained with the resurrection item just now——【TROHS Mystery Store Admission Ticket】.

I have seen information about this store in the information column. It is said that there are various legendary weapons and props in this store, but correspondingly, they are not purchased with money, but each needs to be rewarded with tasks.

The more advanced the weapons and props, the greater the difficulty factor of the task. It seems that no one has obtained any items from the mysterious shop so far.

Kirito slowly stretched out his finger and pressed the button.

The eyes suddenly fell into darkness, and there was no one around in the perception, and I couldn't see even with my five fingers, only I heard my own rapid breathing.Kirito frowned, feeling as if his five senses were being exploited, Kirito reached out and pulled out his sword, not sure if a monster would suddenly appear.

Kirito walked slowly towards one place vigilantly, and he didn't know how long he walked, and finally touched something in his hand, like velvet cloth, with a silky and thick feeling of velvet on his hand.

Opening the curtain, Kirito finally saw that there was a huge pattern on the ground, with a light golden light shining above the complicated patterns, and the entire confined space seemed to be filled with golden halo, like the light left by an angel. Floating in the air like wings.There is a long table in the center of the picture array, with a dark blue tablecloth on it, and a person sitting behind the table.

The man was wearing a black robe, and the hat was so big that it covered the man's face. Under the faint light, he could faintly see the light purple hair hidden in the hat.

The man stretched out his gloved right hand, stroked the table lightly, and then the golden halo flowing in the air seemed to gather on the long table, and finally condensed into five light golden letters - TROHS.

Kirito put away his sword and slowly walked into that person. The person he saw from his field of vision also had TROHS characters beside him. Is he an NPC?Is that his name?

Frowning slightly, Kirito tried several times in his mind but still couldn't figure out how to pronounce the name.

Then the person sitting on the seat raised his head slowly. Under the oversized hat was a boy, but the boy was wearing a dark gray mask to cover his face, but he could still see the too pale skin and Those purple pupils.

The purple-haired boy's eyes were silently staring at the pupils, as if they had no emotion, but seemed to dissect everything thoroughly the moment he saw you.

"I want resurrection props." Kirito felt at a loss under those eyes, finally bit his lower lip, clenched his hands tightly, and finally looked at the NPC, and spoke out.

The boy didn't move, just continued to watch Kirito silently.

"Don't you have everything here? I want resurrection props, no matter what the task is, please tell me!" Kirito patted the table vigorously with both hands, and then stared at the boy, as if mixed with a long-standing depression anger and outburst.

It's just that after waiting for a long time, the boy still just looked at him with his head up halfway and without emotion.

"Speak up!" Looking at those lifeless eyes, it seemed as if he saw Qi Tai's lifeless and empty eyes before his death, and Kirito felt the pain and regret in his suppressed heart burst out in an instant.Kirito tried to grab the boy's collar with trembling hands, but was bounced away at that moment, and the words "Please do not harass the NPC" appeared in the air.

Kirito's trembling hands tightly clenched his fists, and the sudden anger of revenge gradually subsided.Finally, Kirito lowered his head, his black hair covered his dim pupils, but there seemed to be a cold and gloomy aura surging all over his body.

Even though he was wearing a mask, the boy who was sitting must have no expression on his face, because there was no wave in those purple pupils, as if he would not be touched by anything.

At that moment, Kirito felt that he was really crazy, anyway, why would he be angry with an NPC made of accumulated data?

Is the TROHS mysterious shop that any player in the intelligence network wants to visit?Oh, there are no resurrection props.

Kirito sneered self-deprecatingly, then turned and prepared to leave here.

But at the moment when Kirito turned around and stepped forward, a barrier suddenly appeared in front of him, hindering his movements.Kirito turned his head to look at the young man puzzled, can't he go out without buying props?

The boy still had empty eyes, but he looked at his hands, then slowly pulled down the glove of his left hand with his right hand, revealing his pale and thin left hand, and then mechanically raised his finger to Kirito's left hand. black mitts.

Kirito looked at his left hand in a daze, a little surprised and puzzled, but this probably meant that he wanted a glove on his left hand?

Although he couldn't understand it, Kirito wasn't in the mood to deal with an NPC at this time, nor did he want to be trapped in this confined space, so he casually removed his left glove and put it on the long table.

The boy's movements were very slow, and every movement was a little stiff, as if the slow program had been set in the program.The boy picked up Kirito's glove, and slowly put it on his left hand, gradually smoothing out the folds and putting it on his left hand.

The purple-haired boy slowly stretched out his five fingers, his pupils just quietly looked at his crooked fingers and the black fingerless glove he got just now.Kirito, who originally thought he would be impatient, couldn't help watching silently, but his originally irritable and depressed mood gradually calmed down. He silently watched the young man's slow movements without looking away.

Suddenly there was a faint light in the boy's left hand, and then a mirror appeared in the boy's hand.The boy put his left hand on the table and pushed the mirror towards Kirito.

Kirito froze for a moment, his dark eyes trembled, and then picked up the mirror from the table.

The mirror is very similar to the mirror that I received at the beginning of the town. Kirito clearly saw his face in the mirror, so familiar that he felt strange, short black hair, dim eyes, cold and gloomy expression, is this yourself?

At this moment, Kirito felt a little ridiculous. In this game, he almost couldn't even recognize himself.

The image in the mirror gradually became blurred, and then the image changed. A slender figure slowly appeared in the mirror, with blue bangs, a light blue skirt, and black boots.The girl who appeared in countless memories was in the mirror, with a familiar shy look on her face, her brows and eyes were curved to make people feel peaceful and comfortable, and there was a slight smile on the corner of her mouth.

Kirito grasped the mirror with trembling hands, his eyes suddenly narrowed and stared at the girl in the mirror, he opened his mouth, but he couldn't make a sound, but he kept calling the girl's name in his heart—Xing.

The image in the mirror changed again. It was a young man with a bright smile. His dark red hair gave off a sense of sophistication and stability. The expression in that young man's eyebrows and eyes always made people feel warm and convincing.The boy was wearing a crimson stand-up collar with a silver-gray armor on the outside. In the mirror, he was squinting his eyes and smiling happily. He stretched out his right hand, as if he wanted to hold someone's hand.

Kirito's hand trembled further away, unable to take his eyes off the mirror, that boy, Keita's hand seemed to be like countless times before, spreading it out in front of him, waiting for him to put it on and waiting for him to come from the lawn. Pull yourself up, and together they'll move on to the next mission.

The images in the mirror are changing one after another, each one is a familiar person, a familiar smile, and the most dazzling memory buried deep in my heart, but just looking at it like this has a heart-rending pain.

Tears did not know when to snatch from the eye sockets, and fell on the mirror surface drop by drop.

In front of him is no longer a piece of darkness mixed with light, but a piece of snow-white, Kirito is still standing on the snow-white ground, everything just now is like an illusion, but Kirito still holds the mirror tightly in his hand.

In the mirror is a group photo, in which there are everyone from the Moon Night Black Cat Group, including him.Everyone was smiling brightly, and even he raised the corners of his mouth, as if he was facing the camera with a joyful expression.

He also showed this expression before, the corners of Kirito's mouth slowly curled up, but tears kept falling down.In the end, the boy in black robe lay down in the snow, curled up but hugged the mirror tightly to his chest, and his tears melted into the white snow drop by drop.

It turns out, can you buy it with just one glove?You can buy a mirror that remembers your smile...

He was alive, and their memories were alive.

It's just, how cruel this is.

——The living are crying, but the dead are laughing all the time.