[Comprehensive] Light and Shadow

SwordArtOnlineAugust 2024, 8

When Kirito woke up, when he found himself lying on the floor, Kirito had a feeling of being as expected.

Why do I have a familiar feeling, I was not surprised when I woke up on the floor after sleeping in the same bed with the boy last night?Kirito got up helplessly from the floor, did this kind of thing really happen before?

It didn't look like I fell off the bed last night, but it seemed artificial, but even so, why did I throw myself on the floor with so many beds in this room?

Kirito stood by the bed, looked at the young man who was still sleeping on the bed and sighed, then went downstairs holding the wooden cup that planted the seeds yesterday.If it is a seed, it would be better to put it outside in the sun.

When Kirito opened the door with a wooden cup in his hand, thinking about what to do today, the moment he opened the door, he suddenly found a person standing outside, and that person seemed to be frightened when he heard the sound of the door opening Immediately turned around vigilantly, holding the sharp sword tightly and aiming at Kirito.

The long light golden brown hair drew a perfect arc in the air, and the white and red knight outfit swayed slightly in the wind.The girl's nervous eyes trembled slightly the moment she saw Kirito, and she couldn't even hold the sword in her hand.

"Kirito..."

The girl gently called out his name, then put the sword on her waist and immediately rushed towards Kirito, holding Kirito tightly with her two trembling hands.So many days of worrying and searching finally came to fruition at this moment, Asuna finally couldn't help exposing her hidden fragility to Kirito, her eyes were a little moist, and she buried her head in the boy's neck.

"Asuna..."

Kirito didn't know why he suddenly remembered the name that the purple-haired boy said to him yesterday, and called it out involuntarily at this moment.And after calling out that name, the girl in his arms trembled even more, and then hummed softly, Kirito felt his heart soften, and slowly raised his hand to stroke the girl's long hair.

"Kirito, where have you been all these days! There is no news, Klein is crazy looking for you, and you..." Asuna suddenly felt something was wrong, and quickly pushed Kirito away , his face was a little hot, his eyes wandered involuntarily on the wooden house, and then fell on Kirito's face, only now did he suddenly realize that Kirito was wearing a princess dress?

"Well, I don't remember anything when I woke up, but I dressed like this." Kirito also scratched his hair in embarrassment, not only the long skirt, but even the red headband couldn't be taken off.Also, Kirito looked at his empty hands hesitantly, he clearly came down with the wooden cup in his arms.

"Don't remember anything?" Asuna widened her eyes and looked at Kirito in disbelief, "But you called my name just now."

"It's just that I think this name is very important." Kirito said slowly, his eyes paused on the girl in front of him. The moment he saw the girl, he felt that something was trying to break through the blank space in his mind, and the name It even came to the bottom of my heart vividly, "When I saw you, I thought you were Asuna."

Asuna froze, opened her mouth slightly but said nothing.Finally, the girl lowered her head slightly, then took a few steps forward to approach Kirito, and stretched out her hand to pull Kirito's finger.

"Do you remember anything else?" Asuna's voice sounded confident, but the girl's cheeks were slightly red.

"I always thought it was very familiar, but I just couldn't remember it." Seeing Asuna, who was blushing on her face, stretching out her hand to hold her finger, Kirito's mouth showed a faint smile. The anxiety that has been urging has subsided.

"This wooden house..." Asuna looked up at the simple wooden house behind Kirito, then suddenly thought of something and turned her head to look at the forest, then stared intently at Kirito's whole body, and finally frowned uncertainly He asked calmly, "Isn't there seven dwarfs in this room?"

"...There is only one boy." Kirito looked at Asuna in confusion, why there were seven dwarves.

Asuna was about to speak, but she stopped. After all, how should she explain a fairy tale to Kirito who has lost his memory.No matter how you look at it, the forest, wooden house, Kirito's blue jacket, bright yellow dress and red headband are all too similar to the fairy tales about Snow White that I heard when I was a child.

"Wait, is that boy purple-haired and purple-eyed, wearing a black robe?" Asuna suddenly thought of something, looked at Kirito sharply, her right hand was already on the hilt of the sword.

Kirito nodded hesitantly, and before he could say a few more words, Asuna had already drawn out her sword and rushed into the wooden house.After looking around the first floor and seeing no one, Asuna ran up to the second floor, opened the creaking wooden door, and saw the purple-haired boy in her mouth standing by a wooden table, looking at the wooden cup on the wooden table There is already a slender and tender green sprout in it.

"Who the hell are you!" Asuna aimed her sword at the boy, her brows and eyes were full of coldness.

The young man raised his head, turned his head slowly to look at Asuna, then shook his head, as if it means that he is not someone, or that it is not worth letting these two people know who he is, maybe it is not at all. important.

"It was you who gave Kirito the mission to go to the Mountain in Front of the Mirror before, and you also know about the cruise ship and the labyrinth after that. Why on earth did you bring Kirito to this place! What is your purpose? "Asuna looked at the silent boy and was even more angry, because the boy Kirito hadn't heard from him for so long, she, she almost thought that Kirito was dead.

And she was clearly in the maze area with other people a second ago, but when she arrived at the boss area, she suddenly changed the environment, leaving herself alone, and after hearing the sound, she turned around and saw Kirito. Not by accident, it's obvious someone did it for something.And the only person who can plan all this is this weird boy.

"Who the hell are you? It can't be... Kayaba Akihiko." Asuna asked suspiciously. After all, such accidents have prevented her from thinking that this boy is just a simple NPC, but it will be Kayaba Akihiko?

When he heard the name Kayaba Akihiko, there was a ripple in the boy's pupils, and finally the boy shook his head silently.

"Asuna!"

"Master Asuna, you finally appeared!"

"Deputy Head!"……

I don't know why, but the ears were suddenly filled with such pleasant surprises. Asuna was stunned, her eyes widened, and she realized that she was back in the labyrinth area, that is, outside the gate of the boss.Beside him were other Raiders members of the Blood Knight Alliance, and Klein also looked at him in surprise.

"I, I saw Kirito just now." Asuna looked around in a daze, but she didn't see the forest and wooden house just now, and she didn't see Kirito either.Feeling flustered from the bottom of her heart, when she saw the purple-haired boy who also appeared, Asuna rushed over and pointed the blade at the boy's neck, restraining the boy's body against the wall, with a murderous look in her eyes, " Where is Kirito!"

"Hey, hey, Asuna, calm down." Klein saw Asuna who suddenly appeared, and the boy who disappeared with Kirito also appeared, and immediately understood that something must have happened after Asuna disappeared. What.However, it doesn't mean that he just wants to kill the boy.

"Asuna, calm down." Captain Heathcliff came over, stretched out his hand to hold the blade and moved Asuna's sword away from the boy's neck. His eyes were always soft and majestic With some disapproval, "What we need to do now is to clear the seventy floors."

"But Kirito..." Asuna's face showed unconcealable anxiety and uneasiness.

"Asuna, you just saw Kirito when he disappeared outside the boss's wall, so Kirito's accident must have something to do with the [-]th floor of the strategy." Heathcliff reached out and patted Asuna's shoulder. , with a convincing sense of relief in his steady voice.

"Yeah, maybe Kirito will be the reward after clearing the [-]th floor." Klein quickly spoke up. After hearing that Asuna successfully met Kirito, the anxiety about Kirito's disappearance disappeared. Since it's okay, then It will be fine in the future, "But, this door can't be opened."

Indeed, after finally breaking through the maze to the place where the defending boss was, it was unexpectedly found that the gate could not be opened.

"This is the owner of FRAWD's mysterious shop. I wonder if you can open the door for us?" Heathcliff smiled and looked at the boy who had been silent all this time, but the boy was looking up.Even if Heathcliff asked, the boy didn't answer, but just watched silently with those purple pupils, as if something was flowing in those pupils.

"If you want the store manager to do something, you must get some flower in front of the mirror." Klein looked at the indifferent young man, and suddenly remembered the task. He had to get the flower in front of the mirror in advance before letting the boy open the door.

"It's this?" Asuna said suddenly, she spread her palms open, and on her palm was a white flower whose fragile petals were almost transparent.

However, this is not the flower in front of the mirror, but Asuna took it from the mountain behind the mirror.When she saw the small piece of withered green land on the mountain behind the mirror, Asuna thought of Kirito's mission of talking about the flower in front of the mirror, so she touched it for some reason, but the withered green land instantly grew flowers.She thought about when she could bring it to Kirito, but she didn't expect Kirito to encounter an accident on a cruise ship.

The purple-haired boy looked at the flower in Asuna's palm, slowly stretched out his hand to pick it up, then turned his head and glanced at Heathcliff, then turned to face the gate.

The boy imprinted his right hand wearing a black fingerless glove on the gate, and the light golden light slowly spread from the palm of his hand, spreading from the center to the entire gate like the mottled patterns of butterfly wings, and then the gate A slit opened in the center, expanded bit by bit, and finally the door was officially opened.

Inside the gate was a huge monster. The light from glass shards refracted dazzlingly everywhere. It took me a long time to see the monster clearly.The body is composed of huge broken lenses, but it is also wearing an oversized bright red cloak that looks like it is soaked in blood. The limbs are terrifying white bones, and even the skull is daunting. The crown is sharp and sharp.

In the monster's skull, the place where the eyes should have been was empty, but there were two clusters of blue-gray will-o'-the-wisps wriggling, the sound of creaking bones moving, and strange noises came out from the monster's throat one after another, like It was the tearing sound of bones rubbing against each other, but it was a bit like a deep but hysterical laugh.

The blood bar and name next to the monster have already fully proved the identity of the defensive boss—[Kritina the King of the Castle].

"Kirito!" Asuna saw a person locked in the glass box behind the huge monster at first glance. Kirito dressed as a princess stood in the glass box and kept pounding his hands hard, but the transparent covered but not broken.Kirito opened his mouth and seemed to be shouting something, but the people standing outside heard only the terrifying and terrifying voice of the monster, and Kirito's voice could not be conveyed at all.

"That's Kirito?" Klein looked at the person in the glass box. No matter how he looked at it, he looked like a girl who looked like a princess. How could Kirito wear such a dress like Snow White.However, if you look closely, it seems that the face is really Kirito.

While Klein was still in a daze, Asuna had drawn his sword and rushed out. The lines of her back were tough and agile, and the extremely explosive arc made her light golden brown hair seem to be stagnant in the air.

When the group saw Asuna rushing out alone, their hearts trembled, and they immediately followed nervously to attack the boss on the first floor.

There was the loud sound of sharp weapons colliding with the lens, and the dazzling light was constantly being seen from the corners of the eyes. Even so, no one stopped the attack speed without authorization, and the long-haired girl who was always attacking with all her strength was still fighting. At the forefront, the fierce moves in his hands are confusing and frightening, and the agile and desperate figure seems to penetrate the depths of everyone's thinking unshakably like this, firmly engraved in it.

Kirito's hand patting the glass box gradually stopped, and he just quietly looked at the girl with her toes stepping on the air, as if some brighter and more vivid picture was emerging from that blank memory.

Together with Asuna, who met for the first time, conquered the first first-floor BOSS on the initial floor;

During the incident in the investigation circle, I tasted the delicious food made by Asuna for the first time;

Lie down with Asuna on the green field and take a nap, wake up and see the girl is still sleeping;

In the coffee shop, Ryasna stirs the coffee with her eyes out of sight, and will involuntarily start to complain;

On the mountain in front of the mirror, Asuna, who was trembling but pretending not to care, put on a robe, and walked down the snow mountain together...

Some fragmentary memories, like the mirror, are broken but shining, pieced together bit by bit, and slowly spread out from the figure of the girl to multiple nodes, and then the memory of the whole world seems to start to slow down. Wake up.

Maybe at the beginning Kirito just memorized that name in his heart, but now everything is clearly displayed, the girl is fighting desperately for him in front of his eyes, calling his name, and his figure stays in the depths of his sight .

"Asuna..." Kirito called out the name again, feeling that something had changed in his heart.

"Oh!"

Kirito's sight suddenly stopped on Asuna who was in mid-air. The girl was hit by the monster. There was a huge red gash in her chest, and the blood bar quickly dropped to red within the visible range.The girl's body hit the ground violently, and the sword slipped because of the release of her hand. When the girl's body fell to the ground weakly, the only blood bar dropped a bit.

"Asuna!" Kirito violently hit the glass box that restrained him, looking at the girl who fell on the ground, his heart was beating violently, and another kind of fear and anxiety that had never been felt before emerged spontaneously. In the confined space, the heart began to suffocate painfully as if being entangled tightly.

Asuna slowly supported her body, looking around with blurred vision, as if her nerves were already in a trance due to the attack just now.Until the girl's free sight finally saw Kirito, she stood up staggeringly and walked towards Kirito, reaching out to touch the glass that separated her.

Asuna put her hand in the glass box where Kirito's hand was placed on the glass, as if she could feel the warmth of her hand even though they were separated. The girl's mouth opened slightly, as if calling Kirito's name softly.

"Asuna, get out of the way!" Kirito's eyes tightened suddenly, seeing that monster didn't know what skill it was, a large number of sharp broken lenses seemed to be tearing the air, and quickly attacked in the direction of Asuna and himself come over.

"Asuna!" Kirito anxiously knocked on the glass desperately to make Asuna escape, but he didn't know why this time Asuna just lowered her head and stood motionless in front of Kirito.Kirito's heart seemed to be beating crazily at this moment and almost stopped suddenly. If the attack really fell on Asuna's body, then...

No, no!Absolutely not!Kirito screamed crazily in his heart, hitting the glass box that trapped him with all his strength, because he was so focused that he didn't realize that his light yellow dress gradually disappeared like a reflection, and what followed was the black midnight coat.

"Stab!"

With a cracking sound, the boy in the midnight coat blocked all the attacks with a black sword blade, and the boy's body firmly blocked the girl behind him.But he saw that Kirito's face was pale and covered with cold sweat, and even the hand holding the hilt of the sword was trembling.

"Kirito." Asuna was stunned, looking at Kirito who stood in front of her and returned to her original familiar appearance. At this moment, the eyes of that always strong girl were a little red, and her voice trembled weakly involuntarily.Kirito's back stiffened for a moment and he didn't look back. He just picked up the girl's sword from the ground, then turned around and stroked the girl's long hair with the other hand, and then handed over a bottle of blood enriching potion to the girl. Asuna.

"I remember everything, Asuna."

Asuna was stunned for a moment, then pursed her lower lip and reached out to take the potion, drank it and clenched the hilt of her sword again.When she looked up at Kirito again, and saw the worry and annoyance in Kirito's eyes, Asuna lowered her head again, and when she looked up again, the fragility in her eyes had receded, and what was left was perseverance and what belonged to her in the past. Asuna's confidence and brilliance.

The battle restarted, and Kirito, a new supporter, was added to the continuous situation where everyone was attacking monsters.Asuna and Kirito's attacks cooperated very tacitly, as if they had practiced and cooperated countless times. The roar of the monster continued, but the blood volume of the monster continued to decrease, and the roar was like Like the final scream.

Until Asuna and Kirito's final blow, the crown on the monster's skull slowly fell to the ground, and after a ding-dong sound, the huge body of the monster turned into fragments and hid in the air.

【Congratulation! 】

When they saw the words that the strategy was successful, everyone laughed happily. The tense atmosphere before turned into joy and joy. Asuna also excitedly grabbed Kirito's arm, and Kirito looked at the people around him. The girl couldn't help laughing.

Then, he suddenly caught sight of the purple-haired boy who had been standing by the side all along but hadn't participated in the battle.

Asuna frowned, held the hilt of the sword tightly and walked up to the boy, "Who are you and what is your purpose?"

The boy looked at Asuna, finally lowered his eyes slightly, and said softly, "Because, I want Kirito to be my princess again."

Although the boy's voice was very soft, the people present could vaguely hear the boy's words.

"Even if Kirito is a princess, don't you think that you are a prince?" Klein, choking on the boy's words, looked at the boy in amazement, as if he hadn't thought that it was because of this weird answer.

The boy didn't nod or shake his head, he just walked towards Kirito, and then reached out to hold Kirito's hand.

"You!" Asuna immediately looked at the boy angrily, but she didn't expect her own hand to be held by the boy the next second.

The boy stretched out his hand and slowly placed Kirito's hand on Asuna's. The purple-haired boy stared at the pair of intertwined hands with a faint smile in his eyes. Finally, the boy's gaze fell on Kirito's hand. On the red string on the man's wrist.

"That's fine." The young man said softly, and finally looked up at the confused Asuna and Kirito.

"You are..." Kirito looked at the boy quietly, and finally seemed to want to ask something hesitantly.

But before he could ask, the boy stretched out his hand to cover Kirito's mouth, preventing him from continuing to ask.

"I'm a dwarf." That's the boy's answer.

Kirito is the princess and Asuna is the prince.

He is the dwarf, the dwarf who has always been with the princess, the dwarf who has always wanted to protect the princess, the dwarf who is waiting to hand the princess to the prince, the dwarf who only wants the princess to be happy...

In the world of Mirror City, everything is mirror-symmetrical, FRAWD-DWARF dwarves, in fact, all this has been revealed, but no one has discovered it.

Only once in the fairy tale, just like this, the princess is still the princess of the dwarf, and the dwarf will give the princess to the prince after all.

Kirito didn't know what to say. Before entering the wooden house, he saw a mirror, which reflected the influence of him and the boy when they were young, and he remembered it at that time.However, the child named Xiao An in my memory is not like the boy in front of me. The child loves to laugh, cry, play and play. He seems to have endless energy every day. He has been arguing for him to tell fairy tales. One of the best endings.

He said Snow White over and over again like that countless times, and he also said that at that time, "Kirito is a princess."

He asked the child, "Then are you a prince?"

At that time, the child was stunned for a while and didn't speak. It took a long time before he said, "No, I want to be a dwarf."

It's just that I didn't expect that after so many years, I didn't expect that he had changed so much.Everything seemed to have an answer, why he always felt that this boy was familiar, why this boy appeared beside him, the feeling of being cherished from the very beginning was probably true.

The boy in the memory, the pair of purple eyes that were always bright and shining now are now empty and lifeless. When Kirito looks into his eyes, he always feels that he is sad, but he still doesn't know why he is sad.

"Okay, Kirito, let's open the door to the next floor." Klein looked at Kirito and Asuna who had paused there, the atmosphere seemed to be very stiff, and broke the silence.

"Then let's talk after we go out." Kirito paused, not knowing what to say, he could only nod in response to Klein's words, and then walked over.

The boy didn't speak, but just watched the backs of Kirito and Asuna quietly, without blinking his eyes, what had been hidden in the purple pupils seemed to emerge irresistibly, the boy watched intently and hard.

It seems that with just one glance, life is about to end.

When the boy watched Kirito open the door, he looked back at himself.

The heart was beating empty in the chest cavity, and the young man pressed his hurt chest, thinking that he would cry at the moment when the fairy tale ended, but he didn't expect that at this moment, his heart would be extremely calm.

"Thank you, goodbye."

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