"Well, I'd think that with the advanced AI in the system and all, some quests might be one-time only. That's why I argue that it's imperative that if we're going to take on a quest, being first might as well be the way to go." Fujiwara said to Umichi before receiving a reply about his earlier PM. Smirking at Umichi's response, he quickly typed up a reply of his own as Umichi told them to prep in the next half an hour.

"As I said, just chill out. You'll have your alone time with her; I'll be off practicing to see if I can't find any more efficient attacks with my katana. Meet you then." he typed before sending it off as he got up and left the money for the meal on the table before leaving the restaurant. Glancing at his minimap, he quickly moved to the blacksmith and had him repair his katana, seeing as how it had dulled slightly over the course of cutting up dozens of monsters earlier that day. The repair had left him with maybe 7000 col, which wasn't bad considering that all the col he earned from killing those stupid plants basically paid for this. Thanking the smith, Fujiwara walked to the town's entrance and towards the field to try and practice some of the motions of the katana.

"Alright, let's see if I remember... A katana is a slashing weapon that is meant for fluid attacks, unlike most European swords that are based around stabbing like i see everyone doing. <<Tsujikaze>> seems really inefficient in that regard, so I think I'll try practicing some regular slashes..." he said to himself as he drew his katana and moved towards the nearby mobs to practice.

Paka

Since being here the first day, Paka had been training, leveling up pretty fast, and undertaking what quests he could. He had col saved up, and a good weapon. At least good for this floor. He was currently level 8, and he had close to 12k saved up, after his weapon enhancements. And since the first day, he had been searching for Suki. He knew she would be in the game, since they had promised to meet up and train together.

Granted, that was before it turned into a death game. Perhaps Suki was back at the town of beginnings, safe and sound. Yet Paka didn't think so. There was a toughness to Suki that no one really noticed. Still, he was worried for her. What if she fell into a bad crowd? With 10,000 people, it was likely that there would be some bad people here. Already, he had heard of players cornering other players, and stealing. Thank god there wasn't any player killing or the like so far.

He had made his way to Horunka, Geniku, trainedin the forests, and had just reached Citadel. It was 1315 on the third day. Paka figured he should try and meet up with some people from the real world, or some of his friends. He had met some people in the line to buy the game, and had told them what his username would be, so they could easily find him, and he them.

Which is what he did now, as he ate a lunch in a restaurant. It took him a few moments, but eventually he found one guy that he had waited in line with. Umichi. He typed out a message to him.

"Hey, line guy! Where are you? Hopefully, you're still alive. I figure I need to meet up with some people, and I remembered you from the line, how we said we'd catch up in the game. I'm in Citadel, if you are in the area"

He sent it, finished his meal and went to stock up on potions, securing a room for the night at one of two inns in Citadel.

Suki

Suki nodded, saying, "I'm going to go stock up on potions, and maybe some alchemy gear. I want to see if I can make some health potions, and save money" She said, rising, and heading out the restaurant. She happily jogged down the street, to the merchant stalls, and purchased several health potions, a new teleport crystal, a health crystal, and as an after thought, she had her armor's durability treated, and her Annael blade as well. She spent a good chunk of the money she had procured from the Nepents and dire wolves before, but figured it was best to have your gear the best it could be.

She sat for a few moments, and worked at creating a health potion. After a few moments, she succeed. And she grinned, glancing at the time, seeing it was 1325, she headed to the front of town. She let her thoughts wonder, pondering a few things.

Her expression was thoughtful, She realised she hadn't yet put the base stats she received from leveling up. She put two on Agility, and one on strength as she waited for the others, still thinking some things through. She was still amazed at what had happened so far.

She smiled, and looked about, to see if anyone else was nearby, and continued to wait.

Cascabel

Cracking glass, followed by a loose cloud of polygons sent flying in all directions. Cascabel stood some steps away from the dying monster, spear in hand and shield on her back, half of it covered by her long and wavy brown hair. One of her eyebrows was raised and she had a shallow, red tinted polygonal gash on her side to show for the short- lived fight.

She looked up and to the left of her field of vision and half-frowned. Yellow health. Suddenly a pop-up screen presented itself.

'Congratulations!
Exp: 24
Col: 30
Items:
- Frenzy Boar Hide'

She sheathed her spear and shut the pop-up screen down, a subtle smile showing on her face. She turned around and looked at the three men standing just meters behind her, who all had weary looks on their faces and cheap armour on their bodies.

"That's it, guys. I'm ready." Cascabel said to the foremost man, who grinned widely with thin lips and shook his spiky blonde hair with a relaxed hand.

"Finally..." he said, his grin turning into a mischievous smirk, "we do have a crowd to entertain back in town, you know? You taking so long is probably not good for business..."

Cascabel huffed and walked over to him, and punched his arm, hard. He instinctively yelped and rubbed his arm, even when feeling no pain at all. He smiled brightly and rubbed the back of his head as he looked at Cascabel. "Hey, it's a joke!"

"I know," she replied, "idiot." she whispered to him with a tiny laugh as she passed him by and sat on a nearby boulder. One of the other men looked at her awkwardly and ended up sighing.

"Seriously though," he started "we do have to entertain a crowd. People are not feeling well these days, y'know?"

"Hey, c'mon dude, lighten up! People will be fine without us for a day or two," The other one said, his green eyes staring mockingly at his overly responsible friend, "besides, she wants to form part of our group, and personally, I'd love to have her around." He smiled at Cascabel, who happily returned the smile and winked.

She then tuned out of their conversation as she pressed her index finger and thumb together and pulled downward. Her menu appeared and she was quick to get a piece of baked bread from her inventory. Baked bread which she set down on the boulder she was sitting on as she continued to pull out a canteen. As she moved the canteen around, the liquid inside swished noticeably. After checking the amount of water she had left, she opened the canteen and took a long sip, then closed it and put it away once more.

But then the green eyed performer sat down next to her, grabbed her piece of bread and took a bite out of it. She glared at him out of surprise then slapped him on the back making him drop her bread, which she caught while he choked on the bite he had taken. "Asshole." She muttered, an eyebrow raised in annoyance.

"I understand the concern. I am not saying let's take our time and take a month to get there. Also, sure there will probably be some restricted quests, but, I doubt any on the first floor. It'd probably be special quests, things like Extra Skills or super rare item or something like that." Umichi answering to some of Fujiwara's concerns to the quest. "I mean, it has been proven the Anneal Blade is the best weapon around for at least the first few floors. The stats of any other weapon listed has been much lower in comparison. So wouldn't you think such a quest was more unique? Well, everyone else is struggling to get one, but I completed the quest and was able to get start it again, so yeah." Attempting to prove his argument.

Leaving the table, he went to pay for the meal, and quickly went to the merchant to restock and sold some drops. Leaving him with just over 4k col. Getting the PM from Fujiwara that read

Fujiwara said
"As I said, just chill out. You'll have your alone time with her; I'll be off practicing to see if I can't find any more efficient attacks with my katana. Meet you then."

He simply sighed and did not bother. There was still most of the half hour before the meet up time.

Deciding to train, he dashed out, trying to look for a Large Nepent or two to get some better exp. Finding one, he still could not get over the size of it. It was almost twice as big as a Little Nepent. Charging in with a <<Sonic Leap>>, he jumped and slashed down on it, making it topple. Upon landing, he completed a <<Horizontal Square>> the Large Nepent took some major damage. It seemed <<Horizontal Square>> normally as a single target sword skill would do multiplicative damage for each strike, but while Umichi used it in a more unique way to spread it out and attack groups, it did less damage than normal for each strike. With less than 25% of it's health, he took it down with a <<Vertical Arc>>. This similar pattern continued for about three times, he took some damage but it wasn't severe. He was recovering it quite rapidly, due to the Wolf Fruit Pie from before. So that's what that symbol means he realised. After taking down four Large Nepents as mentioned, he checked the time. It was way close to the meeting time, 1327. Crap, I better get there quick he dashed to the spot to meet, reaching there at 1329. He wasn't late.

Breathing a bit heavily, he saw Suki. "Hey, I don't see the others yet ...." he called out. Suddenly a message came up. A message from someone named Paka. Umichi and Paka met in line when they went to get the pre-ordered game from the store. They got along quite well during that time.

Paka said
"Hey, line guy! Where are you? Hopefully, you're still alive. I figure I need to meet up with some people, and I remembered you from the line, how we said we'd catch up in the game. I'm in Citadel, if you are in the area"

Umichi was a little annoyed, being called 'line guy'. He replied to the message.
"Don't call me line guy =.= Jeez
And can you not tell I'm still alive? I am still on your friends list.
Anyway, in Goniku, right now, and was heading to Citadel anyway. Probably be there in like 5 hours tops, unless something happens.
I'll be bringing a party with me, hope that's alright.
Since your there, wanna join us for a party quest? Still trying to figure out the activation conditions though.
Not much was written about it in the guide book.
Anyway, see you in Citadel, if you stick around."

Standing at the front with Suki, he waited to see when the others would come. Umichi decided to learn a bit more about Suki.
"Hey ... now that I think about it a little, we don't really know much about each other ... like favorite color, food, birthdays or things like that."
He didn't want to be direct, he was just hinting for now. If she didn't want to, then it would of been fine, but he probably would of felt a little sad that she didn't want to tell him.

Paka

Paka was walking down the street in Citadel, simply looking for something to do, growing bored. Citadel was a nice town, but Paka liked being out there, fighting the monsters, and essentially just killing them.

He looked up at the PM notification, and chuckled as he read the message.

Umichi said "Don't call me line guy =.= Jeez
And can you not tell I'm still alive? I am still on your friends list.
Anyway, in Goniku, right now, and was heading to Citadel anyway. Probably be there in like 5 hours tops, unless something happens.
I'll be bringing a party with me, hope that's alright.
Since your there, wanna join us for a party quest? Still trying to figure out the activation conditions though.
Not much was written about it in the guide book.
Anyway, see you in Citadel, if you stick around.

He hadn't meant any offense, its was just that Paka had a unique sense of humor. Rather than say so in a message, he sent back "Great, see you then!"

He decided to try and figure out what quest he was talking about, but all he could find out about it was that it had something to do with the full moon. If the game followed the same lunar cycle as the real world, that meant it had to happen tonight with the full moon.

He sighed, figuring he had five hours to kill. So he went out to train, setting an alarm so that he could be back at town in time. He did however stop on the edge of town, figuring that he could see about getting more people. He once more pondered who to contact, going over the people in his friends list. seeing Yui, A girl he had met at the starting city, who reminded him of his sister. After the game had been announced as a death game, he had gathered many people in his friends list, to have a good amount of people he could fall back on and rely on, if need be. He smiled, and sent her a message

Message to Yui said Hi! Remember me? Paka? We met at the first city, after the announcement. I said I'd shot you a message if ever i found something interesting, well, Citadel has something interesting. You should come join me, I've got others coming as well

He sent it off, before heading out once more.

Suki

Suki looked up at Umichi's voice, and smiled, waving to him. She waited patiently as he stopped, clearly reading a message. She looked out, around, to see if any of the others were around, but it appeared they were the only ones there.

She looked over when Umichi spoke, saying that they didn't really know that much about each other. She shrugged, "Favorite colour is Orange, like the sun rise or sunset. Even here, the sunset and the sun rise is magical. Favorite food..." She pondered that a moment, then smiled, "Homemade Pizza. Birthday is January 12, and I'll be 17 then" She said, for the first time realising that there might be an age difference between them. She hesitated over that, then continued, "My favorite animal is...well, pretty much everything that's on the farm" She said with a laugh, shrugging. "We have plenty of time to get to know each other" She said, thinking positively.

They would survive, then they would get out of this world, and she would stop at nothing to find him. Right now though, the real world seemed so far away, and they were right here, right now. "I can keep on going if you want though" She said with a smile. "There's still favorite song, book, class...." She trailed off.

Then she remembered the health potion she had made, and she took it out, grinning, "I made a health potion!"

Yui <4> Tolbana

She could see a messages popped up while talking to the girl "Hmm whats this" She opened up her menu and saw the messages

Paka said
Hi! Remember me? Paka? We met at the first city, after the announcement. I said I'd shot you a message if ever i found something interesting, well, Citadel has something interesting. You should come join me, I've got others coming as well

She could feel joy rising up in her body as she forget about the feeling in her stomach "O sorry I have to go" She gave a last look at the girl and ran away towards the city where the boy was at. She looked back on more time shouting to the girl "Add Yui to your friend list" She opened up the menu one more time to look what direction the city was she could finally see where the map was located and opened it up. It was pretty far away but it would be more fun to play together with other people then playing alone the whole time.

Message from Yui said
I'm running towards you im outside Tolbana at the moment so it will take pretty long ;P
I'll run really really fast so that it will only take 4 houres max.
See you soon. O and bring some food i'm really hungry.

X Yui

She picked up the pace with running and started to head towards the city. Altough it kept feeling weird to run without even being able to feel your own foot.

Fujiwara sighed as he wiped the non-existent digital beads of sweat off his face before sheathing his katana. That little grind session let him hit level 8, but the result of the training was more than that. In fact, a new «Katana Skill» had come to his attention as he practiced on the wolves in the vicinity- «Rakuyo». Like a falling leaf dictated by the wind, the skill had its own movement: two slashes melded together as one. It felt so much more natural than stabbing, which was nice. Smiling at his progress, Fujiwara glanced at the time before moving back to the town's entrance, distributing skill points as he went- two in strength and one agility, as always.

"Crap, too little time to do anything else..." he said as he approached the entrance. Waving at the people already there, Fujiwara motioned for them to start heading out.

Paka killed off some of the dire wolves nearby town, stopping as he received Yui's PM. He chuckled, and fought off the Frenzy Boars. He already had some food, so he didn't have to head back to town just yet.

Paka sent said great, I'm just training at the moment. I have food. See you then

He returned his attention back to the monsters, and had his fun killing them. He continued to do this, thinking all the while. He could try searching for Suki, and putting her in his friends list, then that way he'd have there, but he wasn't at all sure that she was using Suki as her user name, and just in case, he didn't want to email someone if it wasn't her.

So he continued to find monsters, waiting for eithe Umichi and his group to appear, or Yui to appear.

Suki said
"Favorite colour is Orange, like the sun rise or sunset. Even here, the sunset and the sun rise is magical. Favorite food..." She pondered that a moment, then smiled, "Homemade Pizza. Birthday is January 12, and I'll be 17 then" She said, for the first time realising that there might be an age difference between them. She hesitated over that, then continued, "My favorite animal is...well, pretty much everything that's on the farm" She said with a laugh, shrugging. "We have plenty of time to get to know each other" She said, thinking positively.

They would survive, then they would get out of this world, and she would stop at nothing to find him. Right now though, the real world seemed so far away, and they were right here, right now. "I can keep on going if you want though" She said with a smile. "There's still favorite song, book, class...." She trailed off.

Then she remembered the health potion she had made, and she took it out, grinning, "I made a health potion!"

Umichi smiled and made a mental note of everything Suki was saying. "True, we do have quite a lot of time to get to know more about each other. If you want, you can keep going." he replied. She then told him about the health potion. "Oh that's good, eventually we won't need to buy any more potions!" he grinned back. "I should also tell you about myself I guess. My name is Sei, but continue to call me Umichi here. My favourite ..." He saw Fujiwara motion. "I guess we have more time to talk about this later, let's head out. He turned to see Yumi was also behind them in the town, coming along.

Pointing to a South-West direction, "It's this way to Citadel, come on." he called out, "Oh right, we are going to meet a friend of mine there." A pop up message came up while he called out the direction of Citadel. It told him Paka was going to wait for him, it seems. Umichi continued to walk along in the direction he had indicated before. There were a few packs of Dire Wolves and Frenzy Boars along the way. As they walked, he let the group sometimes take them down, or sometimes he would just non-chalantly walk past cutting them down with one strike for each wolf/boar or even for a few at a time. His Anneal Blade <<3S2Q3D>> was wonderfully strong. They had probably gotten through 20 of wolves and boars in total.

Looking out, he could see someone. It looked like Paka. The blonde hair, and his height. But he couldn't be sure. Turning to the group, "Hey I am gonna rush ahead for a second, I think that's the guy just ahead." Umichi indicating who he was going on about using his head to indicate. Dashing ahead, there was about 300m from the group and Paka. Getting closer, he could see it was Paka. "Yo, sup?" Umichi called out, using a <<Rage Spike>> to take down a Dire Wolf coming from Paka's back. "Good to see your still alive." he grinned at Paka. "I guess I got the distance way off, sorry about that. Anyway let me invite you to the party, and introduce you to everyone." He walked back in the direction he came from, beckoning Paka to come with his arm, while inviting him to the party. The area was mostly open plains, no other monsters around yet. "Hey guys!, I met the guy behind me in line to get the game. His name's Paka. Introduce yourselves." Umichi beckoning Suki, Yumi and Fujiwara to come over and meet Paka.

Suki

Suki smiled, and filed away his name happily. Suki nodded, sending the health potion back to her inventory, smiling, and greeting Fujiwara, and followed along. She opened her map, to check that they were going the right way, and satisfied, she took out her Anneal blade as they walked, so she could be ready if any monsters attacked. She began to fight whenever they came across packs off Dire wolves or Frenxy boar, thinking about enhancing her blade when they got to Citadel, thinking that enhancing it would make it easier to fight with, and if she increased the durability she wouldn't have to worry so much about it shattering on her. No doubt it was due to be treated.

As they continued to Citadel, Suki was happy to fight the monsters, but she didn't go out of her way to do so, and only took one, or two at a time. She watched as Umichi ran off ahead, and she tilted her head, frowning. "Paka?" she said softly to herself, then shook her head, sure it wasn't her cousin.

And then Umichi came back and she saw that it was. "Paka!" She said, louder, and running over, she flung herself at him, laughing as he caught her in a swinging hug. She grinned, stepping back, "He's my cousin"

Paka

Paka looked up at the call, and over, flinching as Umichi attacked, shifting, and spinning about, seeing the Dire Wolf just before it shattered. He chuckled, and nodded, "Of course" Paka accepted the party request, and he followed after Umichi. There was a cry of "Paka!" and then suddenly his arms were full of excited girl, and he spun her in a twirling hug, before setting Suki aside

Suki was the first one to call him Paka, unable when she was a toddler to say 'Pakuna'. It stuck with his sister, and then became a constant thing. "A happy coincidence" He said when Suki stated they were cousins. "That you partied with her" he said, looking to the players he didn't know

Fujiwara nodded to the group as they began moving out, walking slightly behind the rest of the group and killing any stragglers that got away from the group with his katana as they journeyed on. As Umichi met Paka and Suki followed suit, Fujiwara decided to introduce himself.

"Ah, hello. Call me Fujiwara. I'm just kind of... Tagging along, I guess. This is what happens when you play via proxy servers in the US, I guess." he said, letting out a little laugh before extending his hand out for a handshake. "If you're familiar with these guys then I've got no problem with you. Just don't try getting us killed or anything and we'll be golden."

Turning to Umichi, he opened up his map before sighing.

"I guess... We're about there, then? How far is it from here to the actual place, anyhow?"

Looking at both Paka and Suki wide-eyed, Umichi was surprised by the fact they were cousins. "Wow, so your cousins? I would never of guessed." he told them, regaining his composure. If it was her brother, then he might be trying to kill me right now, but her cousin ... I wonder if his protective of her too ... he pondered for a moment.
"Well let's ask Paka, since he came from Citadel, he would have a good idea how long it would take." he replied, upon hearing Fujiwara's question.

Umichi didn't know the distance between Goniku and Citadel. It was likely to be around 4 kilometers, much less than he first thought. Considering they weren't rushing they had covered, what he assumed to now be half way, in a matter of half an hour. Well, I said maximum of 5 hours to Paka, and told him we were coming from Goniku. So he probably didn't know how far the distance between Goniku and Citadel was either, unless he thought I was going to be doing something else before coming around. he attempted to comfort himself a little, considering how far off his guess was.

"Anyway, let's get going to Citadel." Umichi said, casually tossing out a <<Triple Shot>> at a lone Dire Wolf off to the side of the group.

Yui <6> Tolbana -> Citadel

The trip seemed to be going rather fast she must have been half way already with the speed she was running however there where a lot of mobs making her already level 6. <<Cyclone>> as she raised her weapon to the right of her making it shine bright green killing both the large neptant and a smaller neptant. She panted a bit from fighting all the mobs off. She sat down on the spot where she was just fighting both the neptant. The mobs evaporated into the air as she placed her sword into the ground right besides her. She looked at her life bar making it only 7% of the whole bar she slid open her inventory and saw that all her potions where done for in the last few battles. It was somewhat troublesome that she had so few health and still needed to walk 1 hour at most.

"Sigh, What am I suppose to do now" She still felt really hungry but her body must have been brought to the hospital other wise she would have been mostly dead by now so it must really be from the game. She could hear the bushes behind her move she grabbed onto the handle of her 2 handed sword ready to slaughter whatever it was. A dire wolf came out of the bushes she immediatly moved into fighting position luckily it was way lower then her level so she didn't take much effort to kill it she quickly moved her sword above her shoulder glowing in a red color <<Slash>> The wolf did a counter attack bringing her to 3% She was relief that it didn't bring her even down further that would have ended really bad otherwise, finishing it of raising her sword above her head in a blue color<<Break rush>>. She quickly opened her menu and spend some stat points into strength as she started to run. It felt kinda scared being on the brink of dead only needing one last hit and you will be done for. She closed the stat window and opened up her chat window.

Yui said
Sorry that i'm so late i'm having some problems with my health at the moment it must be like 5% at the moment hopefully your still at citadel or it will be for nothing.

"There's no such thing as tagging along in this game anymore, Fujiwara" Paka said, shking the offered hand with a smile, "Pleasure to meet you all, especially if You've been keeping an eye on Suki here" He ruffled Suki's hair in what was clearly an older family members habit.

Suki scowled, and rolled her eyes, "I can look after myself now Paka. I have a blade, and I know how to use it" She said with mild annoyance, but she smiled, ducking out away from his reach, and smoothing her hair over. She smiled at Umichi "He's the same age as my oldest brother, and more like his mother than my uncle. I forgot he was playing the game too"

Paka chuckled, going to ruffle her hair again, but Suki was quicker, skipping over towards Umichi and the others. "We're about 35 minutes from Citadel. I'm not sure how far it is to Geniku though. I came here from The town of beginnings"

He shrugged, "we should head to the town, I have someone else coming too, I met on the first day" Starting to walk towards Citadel, his blade at his side. As he, he looked at the message notification

message from Yui said Sorry that i'm so late i'm having some problems with my health at the moment it must be like 5% at the moment hopefully your still at citadel or it will be for nothing.

"Actually, on seconds thoughts, I should go an hunt her down, before she gets herself killed" He said, starting to run back the way they had just come, looking over his shoulder, "Come or stay, but I need to find her"

After about thirty minutes of not being able to find her, he started to shout, "Yui? Where are you?"

Suki blinked, watching Paka run off, "um..."

.

Umichi smiled as Suki smiled at him. Hearing Paka tell them how far they were, Umichi agreed to heading to Citadel. "The more the merrier."
As they walked, suddenly a message came for Paka. "Before she gets herself killed?" Umichi asked. As he started to run, Umichi turned, "Well, I don't like the idea of someone getting killed, so I'm going to follow him. You guys, can either come as well or go to Citadel and look for quests first.

Umichi followed after, killing some of the monsters along the way, until he caught up. Paka started to shout for the person he was looking for, their name was Yui it seemed. "Which way is she coming from?" He asked. Looking around he was trying to scan the area for players. Umichi had equipped Detection for his third skill slot for now. But he couldn't seem to find her. "I think we need to go further to find her" he told Paka.

Suki followed after Umichi, and Paka, loosely holding her Anneal Blade in one hand. She didn't think she'd be much help, but if another pair of hands might be good. Plus, she didn't want to risk loosing either Umichi or Paka. She trailed along behind them, looking about just in case there were any monsters about that Umichi or Paka missed. She wasn't going to be taken unawares.

It seemed they walked for hours, when in reality it was less than forty minutes, as Paka started t shout for his friend, Yui. It didn't seem like the girl could hear him.

Paka looked towards Umichi when he asked where Yui was coming from, "Tolbana" He replied, "She should be around here somewhere. She said she only had 5 percent health left..." He trailed off, and Suki stepped up.

She gave him a bright smile, "She'll be okay. She'll still on your friends list right as active? Then she's still alive. Come on, I'm sure she is around nearby!" She said, trying to be reassuring, looking up at the cry, about, searching for the direction of it.

"There" She said, pointing towards a tree, seeing a girl sitting on a branch, Dire Wolves snapping at the bottom of the tree to try and get the young girl.

"Yui" Paka said, breathing out, and running towards the tree, and the wolves, his blade in hand, he charged, and let out a yell, without knowing it, activating the Howl skill, causing the Dire Wolves to focus on him, drawing their attention from Yui in the tree.

Suki circled around, and took out her health crystal, knowing they worked faster than health potions, and helping Yui down, using the crystal on her, watching with relief her health go up, and pulled her away from the Dire Wolves, letting Paka, and most likely Umichi deal with them as she calmed Yui down, and made sure she was all alright.

She introduced herself, and watched the fight with the Dire Wolves.

Seeing as a few of the group had ran off, back towards Yumi who had been trailing behind and continue on she became worried. There was no reason for heading back in such a hurry unless someone was in danger. Without much thought Yumi turned on her heel and followed the group. She knew if someone was in danger and she wasn't there to help, she couldn't live with herself.

They had been running for a while, though she had rather decent stats and she wasn't terrible effected. Having kept off to the back side of the group she took care of the few mob groups she had run into during their search. She then heard the new addition to the group call out the name Yui. 'So that's her name..' Hearing it was a girls name she began to wonder if she was cute. She shook her head, freeing it from the thought and back to what was important. She was in danger, not in a beauty pageant waiting for Yumi's vote.

Suddenly she heard Suki call out the girls locations. She ran along with the group, crossing a wolf she delivered a flurry of strikes to it and killed it; though she didn't stop to fight the group. She continued her run along with Suki. As she got to the two she spun around and held her spear defensively, standing guard as Suki took care of the girl.

"We will find her, don't worry. It will be alright." Umichi patted Paka on the back, as Suki told Paka that Yui was still alive. Looking around, they found the direction of Yui, in a tree, being surrounded by Dire Wolves. With Paka activating <<Howl>> Umichi dashed forward, clearing a good 5 Dire Wolves in one clean cut while he dashed. It was a simple <<Slant>> that he used, glowing yellow, but while he was moving, it ended up cutting through 5 Dire Wolves. There were still a good 12 left, still going to Paka.

Umichi could see Yumi clear a couple of them, before going past him to go to the girl Yui, along with Suki. The girls should be able to take care of themselves he thought, going back in to the last 10 Dire Wolves. Grabbing some throwing knives, Umichi used <<Triple Shot>> to hit three Dire Wolves, who would attract to him, and he would then use <<Serration Wave>> to clear them since they were low. He could see Paka dealing with a few of the Dire Wolves, Umichi continued to go through, and finished off another two. There was still a couple left, but Paka could handle that.

Walking towards the girls, he could see Yumi had her spear out to guard them from other enemies. "Hey, you girls all alright?" He asked to be sure.

Yui <6> Tolbana -> Citadel

She ran away from a group of dire wolves but she still wasn't fast enough to outrun them "Why..." She gasped for air while running and kept stumbling more because of her leg."I-I can't" She gave everything she got into a last sprint towards the tree winning some time. However climbing was difficult and she couldn't reach for one of the branches 'Why did it have to change me back to my own body and not the body I made' She jumped one more time and could finally reach the branch but one of the wolves had already got grip on one of her boots. She shook the boot of making the wolf fall on its back as it already started jumping the tree again at the same time with the other wolves.

She had already been stuck in the tree for 10 minutes and the wolves kicking the wolves of but they already calmed down quiet a bit "Go away" She shouted at them but they didn't, no wonder. She sat down and opened up her menu letting the wolves come closer to her into the tree. Opening up her chat screen she started to type a message to Paka. But before she could press the send button a loud shout came from the field next to it "Yui" a group of people were running towards her. Yui wanted to get out of the tree so fast as she could and run towards them at full speed but instead she almost fell down into the group of wolves. She clamped onto the branch she was lying on now as she could see her health going up really fast as the wolves where being leaded away.

She started hanging from the branch with her lower body but it looked rather high from above. One of the girl from the group stood underneath her to help her down. She moved her skirt with one hand so that she couldn't look up and closed her eyes as she jumped down "Carefull" A small eek came out of her mouth while landing on one foot with her bad foot directly after it. she could quickly regain her footing by moving one foot in front of her. She already got pulled away from all the commotion into the open field so that they could watch the fight while she was still regaining some of her hp. She didn't hesitate and gave a wide hug to the girl that just rescued her 'Suki gotta remember that for my list.' "Thank you" as she wanted to cry of happiness, she gave a sweet gentle smile which probably couldn't be by the girl she was hugging.

She didn't even notice the other girl defending her or the fight with the dire wolves as she didn't let go of the other girl. "Hey, you girls all alright?" She quickly turned around to see that a boy about her age was standing there "Well for the most part I don't like heights so much and I don't like wolves either" She gave an embarrassing laugh. And noticed that another girl with a spear was standing right next to them, spears weren't so common in this game 'Sword art online wait what is the logic of that' She suddenly remembered that she dropped her weapon to climb better into the tree, somewhere around the tree it would be better to pick it up now instead of leaving it and forgetting it afterwards. She walked over to the tree she was just in without saying anything to the others. It was lying on the ground next to it a bit beaten up by the wolves jumping on it the whole time but it still worked... probably. She grabbed the way to large sword for such a girl and sheathed it as she walked back to the group again "My name is Yui level 6, It's nice to meet you all"