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Suki smiled and nodded, following next to him since he took her hand. She had a laugh to herself, "you really like taking my hand, don't you" She said as they left the inn to go towards the restaurant, "its okay. I like it" She said, then realised what she had said, and blushed, glancing aside.


Hearing Suki laugh and telling him about him taking her hand Umichi tried to hide his embarrassment when she said it and just said, "So?". But then she told him about how she liked it. He could no longer hide his embarrassment. Damn it, she's so cute, it's just not fair. They reached a table and ordered looked through the menu. He looked through, it was hard to tell what most of the food was in Sword Art Online, since they had a different array of codes. He ordered something, it was about 300 col, leaving him with 4893 col. It would be a while for the food.

After ordering, he looked at Suki, she was looking down at the table. Before he could speak, she softly sighed "Umichi..." trailing off. "Is there something wrong Suki?" he asked her. "Anything you want to talk about? Anything at all?" He continued. Umichi wanted to let her be comfortable, and wanted to know more about her. As much as possible.
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Suki glanced up at Umichi, and shrugged, shaking her head. "its nothing really" She said, looking back down. Why was she such a coward? Why couldn't she just follow through with what she wanted to say? She sighed again,, tried to think what she wanted to say again.

"My whole life, I've been protected and sheltered.. And now I'm here, and they aren't, and I have to watch my own back, and protect myself, and be wary of others and whatever else the men in my family have done for me" she said, and laughed lightly, "And then you came an swept me away, making me a damsel, and then I didn't have to worry so much" her smile faded remembering his rage from the night before, and she looked back up, to look at him.

"But now it just seems that I'm relying on you, like I did my brothers, and I don't want to do that, don't what to be a burden on you, or just being a tag along for your protection, because..." She trailed off, hesitated, feeling herself blush, "Because I like you" She dropped her head into her hands, to try and hide her blush.
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Umichi continued to look over Suki, with concern. She shook her head, telling him it was nothing and continued to look down. She started to laugh a little, telling him about how she felt about her life and with what is happening now. She had a fading smile, and looked up at him. He didn't know what there was to say. She then spoke about Umichi. She didn't want to be a burden or someone who just tagged along. A blush came over her as she confessed, covering her face with her hands. Umichi was dumbounded. This had never happened before. He never had been confessed before, and it was a girl he came to like. His face went completely red. He tried to speak, but the confession felt too sudden for him. He wasn't expecting this, at all. It had only been maybe three days since they met, she confessed, and he felt the same. His mouth opened and closed a little, with nothing coming out of it. It went on for a moment like this.

I have to respond first of all and then ... ARGH!!! What do I do next? What happens after I respond? ARGH!!! I don't know! I don't know!! Just confess first, think later his thoughts were racing repeating the cycle above, before he replied. "I LIKE YOU TOO!". It was loud. He had just thrown it out. He couldn't stay calm. The embarrassment of confessing so loud came to him. The restaurant had no other patrons other than NPCs at the moment, which he was very very thankful for. "So... um... How ..." he was interrupted.

"Here's your meal." Some food was presented in front of them.
"Let's eat!" He said in a rushed manner. Looking down, unable to face Suki, Umichi slowly ate his meal. It was going to be hard for him to face her now. They had just confessed to each other, and he had no idea what they were going to do now. Time passed, it was approaching 0800.
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Suki sat there, feeling motified as the silence seemed to stretch further and further. She was just about to leap up and flee when he burst out.. She looked up, shocked, and leaned back in her chair, beginning to laugh, as her food was place in front of her.

She found herself smiling, watching him as he ate, beginning to eat as well. when she was finished, she pushed the plate away, and leaned against the table. She glanced to the time, just after 0800. She Swallowed, and said, "Please, god, say something, or I'm just going to end up rambling on and on"

She stayed leaning against the table, watching him, waiting for him to look up at her again. "I...I've never done anything like this before, and this is a game, but...it seems utterly and completely real...and...and I...i guess I just...please, say something" She slammed her mouth closed, biting her lip to try and prevent herself from rambling on and on. She knew she was probably embarrassing herself, but she found she didn't care. She realised she shouldn't be afraid to do something.
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Fujiwara slowly opened his eyes before wincing in pain from his newfound headache as he woke up. Shielding his eyes from the light with one arm, he sat up on his bed and massaged his forehead in an attempt to ease the dull pain that had surfaced.

"Agh... That doesn't feel good... Wait, where am I? Is all my stuff still on me?" he asked himself before opening up his inventory and sighing in relief. "Seems like everything's intact... But where the heck am I? All I remember was blacking out near a smith..." he muttered to himself as he got up off his bed and looked around.

"Well, whoever brought me here has got my thanks. Gotta go thank them later..." he said himself as he walked to the door and noticed a note stuck onto it. Intrigued, he pulled the note off for a closer inspection.

"Oh, it looks like that solves my questions... How much do I have on me?" he wondered before opening his inventory again. 7,000 col. Seems like his grinding brought out something decent after all.

"Alright, I guess I'll head out and meet this 'Yumi' person now, whoever he or she is." he thought as he walked out of his room.
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"I don't mind if you were to ramble on." Umichi spoke. He was embarrassed, and it was even more embarrassing showing Suki this side of him. Before he was always more confident, and he was the leader of their group. So he was much more adult like, but now, he was a teenage kid who was awkward in the face of love. Slowly, he tried to look at her. But as his head slowly rose, he could just feel that his face was getting redder and redder.

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"I...I've never done anything like this before, and this is a game, but...it seems utterly and completely real...and...and I...i guess I just...please, say something" She slammed her mouth closed, biting her lip to try and prevent herself from rambling on and on.


"Well ... at first ... you could say .... this is .... just a game. But ... when you think about it .... it's become our reality." He spoke, slowly, a few words at a time, so he could say it as calmly as possible. Although it was a virtual reality game, it felt like his heart was beating extremely fast. This would be their life now. "Even if ... you tell me ... to say something .... I don't know ... what to say ..." Umichi kept speaking in this manner. He didn't want to just say everything at once, or stutter. "So... Exactly .... what do we do now?" He asked softly, finally facing her properly. Umichi's face was completely red. He had trouble keeping any sort of composure to himself.
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Suki was smiling. It was weird, she thought. Twenty minutes ago, she would have simply done anything but this. Now...something had changed. She had realized that she didn't have anything to lose by doing something, but she had everything to lose by not doing anything. And now...and now she knew this wasn't just a brother sister complex thing. She felt oddly confident. A strange new thing for her. Yet Umichi seemed to have done a 180, seemingly unsure, shy and embarrassed. Suki found that cute, adorable.

"Now?" She said, shrugging. "We she what happens. It's not like we can go to the movies or the shops or something for a date. All we can do is survive" she said, and then she smiled "which doesn't mean we can't have fun" she then realized how forward that sounded and she blushed, laughing slightly.

"Um: we...we should just see what happens" she wished she hadn't tied up her hair, she would have played with it and given her fingers something to do. Right now, she had then intertwined together and was struggling not to tap on the table.
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Akane pushed leaves and branches out of her way. She was thankful this game didn't include pesky little bugs like mosquitoes, or she would have been making more sounds than a rhino crashing through shrubbery. As it was, the mere thought of bugs like mosquitoes made her twitchy and she wanted to brush off her arms and legs. It took her a bit, but she realized her mind was wandering. Inside her head she gave herself a dressing down or tried to: her thoughts were rebellious and she always came up with a defense or an excuse. Finally, she gave up. She was wasting time, and losing the argument with herself.

She shook herself a bit, rested her eyes for a moment, and then renewed her focus. She was trying to survive; she wasn't on a camping trip in a safe little camping spot. She’d already been attacked once, so she really should know better. She hadn’t expected her concentration to slip so easily. Hadn’t she already resolved to be cautious? Through experience, she knew this would take a long time. It would probably be the work of years, barring serious misfortune, that she would finally become the epitome of caution and cunning as she wished. Stop that! My mind is wandering again… she thought to herself wryly. Again, she shook herself, rested her eyes for a moment, and renewed her focus. Practice makes perfect. God, I’m tired…

She peered into the gloom of the forest, searching for signs of trouble or shelter. Fatigue was making her mind wander. Remaining on high alert was taxing on her mind and body. She’d run into a few other monsters in the past few hours. If she had to hazard a guess, dawn probably wasn’t too far away. It would be her second day in the game then, and her first sunrise here in «Sword Art Online». Pushing through for another morning so that she could sleep like a normal person and rise in the day seemed like a foolish idea to her. If her concentration was already shot after a night, another day would probably see to it that her name would be set in stone, literally. It would be best if she found shelter soon then, so that she could hopefully wake while there was still light out, and continue on her way.

Her destination was the furthest village from the «Starting City». She had no desire to mingle with her own kind. Actually, that was a lie. She wanted the reassurance of trustworthy companions, but she didn’t dare risk it. Risking her heart to make friends was bad enough. Choosing companions here might well be risking her life as well as her heart. Even without that factor, there was the issue of success or failure in a relationship even so platonic as friendship. Just because she tried didn’t guarantee she’d meet someone trustworthy, and past experiences had shown that she chose her company poorly.

Much of her time online had been spent being taken advantage of by people she had trusted and cared for. She’d learned to harden herself, but she knew she hadn’t armored her heart enough to avoid being taken advantage of. To her, both her heart and her life were too high of a price for such a high-risk gamble. No, it was much better to be alone. In the end, all people were alone. There were some things that would always be a secret. It was impossible to truly understand one another. People were too different for that. Others couldn’t be trusted; the only thing that could be trusted would be the self.

It’s not as if you can trust yourself either. Think of all those things you failed at, all those times you chose wrong. A little voice whispered in her heart and mind. Remember all those times you said something or did something to hurt and destroy yourself and what you loved? All those mistakes you made, the things you made yourself suffer. Can you really even trust yourself? To Akane’s dismay, she couldn’t deny it in all honesty. So in the end, what was it that could be trusted? Physically, bodies would fail you, little subtle signs your body gave you could easily betray you. What else then? Could you trust the mind, the heart? No, the mind would and could steer you wrong, and so could your heart. Often, both would clash with each other. So, what then could be trusted?

The question echoed in her mind. Was there anything she could think of that could truly be trusted? After pondering it for a while, the end result was a resounding “No.” Nothing could be trusted. Not family, not friends, not strangers, not loves, and not even “self” could be trusted. But then how can you live? A part of her cried out in frustration and distress. It seemed to dip its toes slowly into despair as if testing the water. I don’t know. She plunged headfirst into it, not quite despair it seemed, or she would have already slit her throat or sought her death some other way. She let it caress her, taste her, and she embraced it with something akin to joy, reveling in this self-destructive feeling.

Perhaps I’m already dead, and I just haven’t realized it. The idea excited her in a strange way. The idea that somehow her “self” was dying, that the sparks of healthy joy and trust were being trampled on, made her heart race. She felt truly alive for a moment, filled with a fierce joy that lifted her soul. Carefully she nursed it and cared for it, as she examined herself. These emotions should not exist, not when I am rejecting trust and giving myself into despair of it. Yet I feel so happy, so light, so… free. The last word caught her attention. Was that it? Was that the cause of the feeling? Yet how could she be free like this? How could she be happy?

My soul is twisted. I’m not quite sane. What an ugly, dark soul, joyfully writhing in silent darkness and agony. I’m not normal. Somehow, it felt as if there was truth, and triumph in the words. I will never be normal. I will never be well. That too, was a truth. Suddenly, the dark, the danger didn’t seem so bad. Suddenly, she felt stronger, more courageous, and more ready to take on whatever stood in her way. Idly, she wondered if this was a good thing, or bad thing. She dismissed it, it didn’t matter. This was what she was. With great effort, she reined in her newfound energy and brought herself back to the task at hand.

She blessed her night vision and the lightening sky when she found the place she would stay. Already, she was truly exhausted. Besides keeping her guard up, she had been attacked many times in this forest, and had to make detours to avoid serious danger. By serious danger, she meant that she had managed to avoid monsters that she had no hope of defeating because of level difference and the disadvantage of not being able to see well in the dark. She’d also wandered all this way, relying on memories of the beginner map. She hadn’t even taken a break for food, she was too keyed up to be truly hungry, and so she’d only snacked a bit on pieces of bread while walking.

She had decided to stop looking on the ground, after finding a hollow rotten log she could have stayed in. After examining it, she had decided that it wasn’t safe enough. Even if people couldn’t see her inside, if monsters sensed it, she would be in trouble. If they could pull her out, she would be doomed. If they couldn’t, but a player saw them, a player would soon realize something was in the log. Instead, she looked for a place to roost up in the treetops. The trees of this forest were huge things, ancient, wild, and beautiful.

She had chosen a spot where it appeared as if lightning had struck the tree and caused it to splinter and snap in half. She had searched around for a place with branches low enough to climb it, and then from there, clambered around the tree limbs to find ways to the broken tree. She had long ago decided against damaging the tree bark if she could help it. It would do her no good if she left visible signs of her passage. When she reached the damaged tree’s broken off stump, she had found that parts of the center were hollowed out. Inside was a pile of leaves that made a soft enough bed.

The tree was an ancient oak, and big enough for her to stretch out to full height while laying down in the widest part of its center. Perhaps she had found a place to stay for a long while. She checked her map Somehow or other, it seemed she’d wandered far enough that she was quite distant from the «Starting City». Finally, she was beginning to feel hungry. She took out more of her bread, and fed herself to quiet the urgings of her mostly empty stomach. She made a cursory inspection of the inside of the tree and the surroundings. She saw no signs of danger, but she would be very visible when examining her surroundings.

Her eyes flicked up towards the sky, then at her new abode. She would need shelter from the sun, and possibly from prying eyes. She climbed out of the hollow and descended to the forest floor. She gathered as many fallen branches, sticks, and foliage as she could and returned to her place above. With those materials, she fashioned a temporary shelter from the sun, and was careful to prop her new screen in a way that would prevent it from showing at the top. A notification message popped up as she finished it. The number of people that had died on the first day sobered her a bit. She had almost added one to that number multiple times that night. Deep down though, she couldn’t find it in herself to care. They were just numbers and she had survived. She glanced up at the fading pink of the sky as it turned blue, before crawling under her temporary shelter, into the pile of leaves.

She closed her eyes and did not dream.
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Fujiwara looked around the area as he exited his room. By the looks of it, the area was all dressed up, so to speak, and the signs hanging from all the doors clued him into the fact that he was in the town's inn. He smiled to himself, thinking how quaint the place seemed to look, before heading downstairs to ask about the person who had helped him earlier. Once he reached the ground floor, though, he was met with an absurd amount of other players hovering about and getting ready for their activities. Sighing, he looked around and, finding who Fujiwara assumed was the innkeeper, walked on over and asked if this 'Yumi' was still in the building.

"I'm sorry, dear patron, but we're quite busy with the morning rush at the moment. With all these people ariving, we're quite prreoccupied as of late. However, the person you are speaking of is still currently asleep upstairs." the inkeeper responded. "However, the party she was traveling with requested to direct you all to the restaurant on the other side of town, so you may find your answers there."

"Thank you for telling me this. Here, have some money for your troubles." Fujiwara said as he dropped 200 col into the owner's hands and headed out to explore the town.
After moving around the town for a bit and bartering all the merchants in the area, Fujiwara checked his inventory as he neared the restaurant which was mentioned to him a while earlier. He was down to maybe 5000ish col, but on the upside he had 10 more potions and his gear had been fully repaired. Placing his katana into his inventory, Fujiwara opened the door and noticed a pair of players sitting at a table. Glancing at their bright red faces, he decided that it was about time to stop whatever awkward interaction was going on there. He briskly walked up to their table and looked at the two.
"Hey, are you two traveling with this 'Yumi' person?" he asked, looking at the two with an inquisitive look on his face.
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"Mm..." Umichi nodded to Suki's response. He wasn't sure how to react to her anymore, he wasn't sure he could look at her for much longer. "So ... is there anything you would .... like to do together for now?" he asked her. Before he got an answer someone interrupted.
"Hey, are you two traveling with this 'Yumi' person?" the guy asked, with an inquisitive look. Umichi turned to him, his face was still red. Before answering he breathed in and out to calm himself. Although it wasn't really breathing. The body here did not need air, but it still felt the same. His face was losing it's redness.
"Yeah, we are traveling with Yumi. You were the person who collapsed in front of us yesterday right? My name is Umichi, and this here is Suki." He introduced himself and Suki, turning to Suki to indicate who he was talking about. His face started to redden again. "Um... anyway ..." he turned back to the guy, to try to stay composed. "I think Yumi is still asleep. So you will see her later."

"Oh, come sit down, have something to eat. Although it isn't food for our real bodies, we still need to eat after all." Umichi gestured to the chair on his right. "Right now, it is just Yumi, Suki and myself traveling around. Would you like to join us?" he invited the man. There was no harm in doing so. They would be safer in numbers at the moment.
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Suki looked up as they were interrupted. It was probably a good thing. Suki still let out a sigh, and sat back, letting Umichi talk. She had practically ruined everything, hadn't she? She was such a fool. An idiot. A complete and utter one. She had just ruined perhaps the only good thing about being trapped in here.

She looked down, wishing she could just disappear. She squirmed, deciding not to speak or look up for a while now. And then she thought that she shouldn't be rude, so she said "Hello" to the player, before looking down again.

She rose after a few moments. "I'll go see if Yumi's up" It was as good as an excuse as any to get out of there, and to be mortified at herself. She tried not to run, but as soon as she was out of sight of the restaurant, she ran down the street. She headed back to the inn, and stood in the common room wishing she knew what to do. She wished she had some experience in this sort of thing, or some advice, or someone she could talk to. She had never had anyone to talk to about these things. Six brothers, no sisters, and no mother made it hard to talk about girly things.

She sighed, and went to her inn room, to simply compose herself. And then she did go to wake up Yumi, and asked if she would come out and attack monsters with her. Suki thought that slashing and stabbing things might make her feel better. Suki was glad when Yumi joined her. She suggested just attacking the monsters near the town.

Suki was happy to do that. Boars and Direwolves were easy targets, and she was tired of Nepents at the moment, considering the night before. So they headed out to town, and began hunting monsters.
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Fujiwara closed his eyes and thought for a second about Umichi's offer before nodding.
"Alright, I've got nothing better to do in this world other than grind, and since there's no way in hell I'm soloing in a game like this I might as well tag along. Name's Fujiwara. Pleasure to meet you, Umichi." he said as he shook hands with him and Suki dashed off. Fujiwara turned his head towards the door and shook his head.
"Well, that was... Awkward, I guess." he said, a small smile appearing on his face as he sat down in Suki's spot. As he did, his slightly carefree tone died, and he looked Umichi in the eyes, his smiling face fading away into a stare.
"You know, in this world there's a lot more at stake than in every other game. That girl that just left- you and her seem to be a bit close. I'm no love guru or anything, but I damn well recommend that if you want to stay alive here, you reconsider how you're playing things out. Too much effort into trying to get stronger, and you'll end up like me- or worse, if there's nobody to help. Too lax, and you'll end up like one of the few hundred dead right now. It's nice to play the noble knight in shining armor and all, but if you push yourself too far there won't be a 'you' left anymore. Are you certain that you want to get deeper into this mess? Answer me honestly; if you're not willing to go all in to finish what Kayaba's started, then I'll pay you guys back and be on my way. It may sound harsh, but that's the grim and dark reality of the situation, regardless of how this place looks right now." Fujiwara stated this with an air of solemnity, as if he was an entirely different person. "In a world like this, efficiency is key; it's something I overlooked earlier, I admit, but only because I didn't realize that fatigue existed here. If I'm going to tag along with you, let me be perfectly clear: if you're going to be throwing yourself at every little mob that comes by us without regards to your life like I've seen many people do up until now, then I won't guarantee that helping you out will be just as simple- in fact, it might cost us all. The same goes for your friends- but I'm sure you already knew this, right?"
Fujiwara shook his head and smiled, tossing his previous serious attitude away for the moment, as some food arrived at the table.
"But before anything else, you might want to get this stuff to your girlfriend before it goes bad. I'll head out too, but if you need me just shoot a PM," he said as he opened up his friend list and sent a request at Umichi before standing up and beginning to head outside.
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Umichi listened to Fujiwara. He did not get a chance to reply. All that he could do was reflect on himself. He was not sure what he could do about Suki. He mostly agreed with Fujiwara's words. As Fujiwara and Suki were both gone he was ldft alone to think.Now I've done it. Now things will be awkward. What can I do? This place is our reality now. Who knows what will be ahead of us? Umichi needed to think carefully. While doing so he acceped the friend request and sent a party request.

For now, I should focus on clearing the game. Maybe my answer will come to me later. he stood up sending a message to Fujiwara. "I am going to clear this game. So that I can meet her for real. Also , although a game, this is our reality now. I will live my fullest here while I clear this game. Your call whether you join or not. This is my answer to your questions." With this thought in mind Umichi felt renewed. Standing up to leave the restaurant he sent a PM to Suki, Yumi and Fujiwara.
"Alright let's meet and discuss what to do from now on. Shall we head to the inn?"

As he left the restaurant, out back there was a chef. He went to talk to the chef and a quest apppeared. It was 0915.
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As Fujiwara began to explore the town a bit more in-depth, he was greeted by a little notification sound that seemed to be coming from his right ear. Opening up his friend list, he noticed that Umichi had accepted his previous request. As he was about to close the window, a little mail icon popped up on screen, along with a little icon with three figures.
"PM and party invite, I guess..." he muttered to himself as he accepted the invite and opened up the first PM. Reading it through, he smiled.
"Well... He's got guts, for sure. A bit naive, but he's certainly got guts. I think I've got a group now." Smiling to himself, Fujiwara quickly brought up the 'Reply' window and began to type.

"Well, at least you made the right call. It's the harder choice, but if you're willing to go that far for a girl then who am I to argue? I'll tag along with your group, no problem. Well, at this point it's beginning to bloom into a guild and not just a group, but whatever."

As he was about to send the PM, Fujiwara noticed another PM pop up on his screen and, quickly glossing over it, added a little more to his previous message.

"The inn is fine. Grinding's very tedious at this point in time for all parties involved, so the next logical course of action would be to find either a)quests or b)dungeons to grind in that may or may not have valuable crafting materials. If this is an MMO, there's bound to be a developing economy eventually. The inn will do nicely for a meeting spot right now, though."

Satisfied with his response, Fujiwara sent the message back to Umichi as he opened up his map to navigate the town. It seemed as if the map filled itself out as he explored, so on the upside he would be able to get back to the inn... Probably.
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As Umichi talked to the chef, the quest appeared. The woman chef appeared saddened, and worried.

Quest Announcement said
New Cuisine

Description
In a restaurant at Gonike, the chef has been upset recently. It appears she doesn't feel like she has her own signature dish. She wants to create a new menu, a new cuisine and that will be her signature dish.

Pre-requisite
- Reaching the Gonike
- Amelia is outside of the restaurant, looking down (Set times of day)

Activation
- Eat at the restaurant
- Talk to Amelia, asking about her problems

Requirements
- Collect Little Nepent fruits (available from Little Nepent with fruit) (2) (1/1, be careful of the oncoming hoarde, especially at night)
- Collect Wolf Meat (10) (Drop rate, 1/5)

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- 350 exp
- 1500 col
- A sample of her newest dish
Wolf Fruit pie (Tastes like Chicken Apple Pie)

Suki and Yumi had barely began fighting the monsters when Umichi's message came through. Suki glanced at it as she killed a boar, and she hesitated to reply, glancing to Yumi, seeing that she too was reading the message.

"Let's go" Suki said, starting back to the town. She pondered what she was going to do. She didn't want it to be awkward, but she didn't know if she could stand hanging around Umichi without resolving this.

She tried to think what advice her father would give, and she smiled. "I, and your brothers, would just want you to be happy. You should do what you can to be happy. If you think this might be something, then you should go for it. If I'd waited to act with your mother, you wouldn't be here today". That would be what he'd say.

So then, what did she want to do? besides survive? She wanted to be happy. She wanted to come out of this game with no regrets. And she thought if she didn't act, that would be a regret. She could die today, or tomorrow, or months away, so it would be best to act now.

That thought in her mind, she headed back to the inn with Yumi, but on the way back, she saw Fujiwara appearing lost. "You seem lost" She said brightly, "Come back to the inn with us" She suggested, and assuming he would follow, Suki continued with Yumi
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Looking over the quest, Umichi accepted it. I don't want to face a hoarde alone again. Better to get the others involved, tell them the details. he thought, as he accepted. Suddenly two PMs came up. One from Fujiwara, another from a friend he had met when he lined up for the game. The one from his friend was almost pointless. It talked about his profession, and how he decided to be safe. "Best of luck to you, let's both stay alive and meet up at some point." Umichi replied. He then read Fujiwara's message.

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"Well, at least you made the right call. It's the harder choice, but if you're willing to go that far for a girl then who am I to argue? I'll tag along with your group, no problem. Well, at this point it's beginning to bloom into a guild and not just a group, but whatever.

The inn is fine. Grinding's very tedious at this point in time for all parties involved, so the next logical course of action would be to find either a)quests or b)dungeons to grind in that may or may not have valuable crafting materials. If this is an MMO, there's bound to be a developing economy eventually. The inn will do nicely for a meeting spot right now, though."


He decided he would address the course of action when they met up. But he replied to the first section of his message. "It doesn't matter if it's harder. But it's good to have you aboard. Well, it might turn into a guild, who knows? We will wait and see. I have to ask though, how the hell did you know what I was thinking and going through? We only just met and you seemed to understand it all, how?" Umichi was curious as to how Fujiwara was able to say all of that, and be so right about most of it.

Reaching the inn first, he decided he would send a message to Suki. "Um... about before. This place, this world, Aincrad, it has become our reality, our world now. So, although we are fighting and want to clear the game to get out of it, right now this is where we live. I think, we should live to our fullest, even in Sword Art Online, on Aincrad. If you don't mind, when we have some spare time, would you mind if we go on a date?". Umichi hesitated before sending the message. He was so sure about what he was doing until he made this message. Closing his eyes, a few deep breaths, he sent it. There was still no-one at the inn yet. He got out the guidebook and started to look through it a bit.
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Suki led the way back to the inn, but before she reached the inn, she stopped as she received the PM. Reading it, she smiled.

Little_ninja said
"Um... about before. This place, this world, Aincrad, it has become our reality, our world now. So, although we are fighting and want to clear the game to get out of it, right now this is where we live. I think, we should live to our fullest, even in Sword Art Online, on Aincrad. If you don't mind, when we have some spare time, would you mind if we go on a date?"


She read it again to make sure she read it right. She thought about how to reply, pondering what she wanted to say. She finally typed out the reply "living to the fullest we can hear was just what I was thinking. I definitely don't mind going out on a date, and would be happy too!"

She was standing in the middle of the street, probably looking like an idiotic fool. She was very thankful that there wasn't that many people in the town just yet, just NPC's. She blushed, and said, Sorry" to Yumi, starting to walk again, towards the Inn, looking back to see if Fujiwars was following.
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Not far from Akane, there is a hut owned by an NPC. The smell of food will tempt Akane, as some soup is being made from the hut. Nana is the owner of the hut, and is a very kind young woman. If Akane visits, Nana will offer to let Akane stay for a while, and offer to give her food. The first night and the meal for the day is free, the other nights may be charged for a very low fee, but might not be.

If Akane stays at the hut for three nights. The following quest will activate.



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Fujiwara rubbed the back of his head nervously as Yumi and Suki offered to help him back to the inn.

"Er... Alright, sure. Let's go." he said as he began to follow the two girls. He glanced around at the buildings, but being indistinguishable from one another (to him, at least) made it even harder to navigate the town.

"Geez, at least make the buildings look a little different. You've got the resources, Kayaba..." he muttered under his breath as he received a PM from Umichi. Reading it through, he smiled at how Umichi noticed the abnormality of his analysis before beginning to type a response up.

"I've been playing video games for at least 3/4 of my life, so this information is more intuition than anything else. As for that whole 'love' prediction... Well, that mainly has to do with your face turning beet red when I met you with her in the restaurant. Aaaanyways, I'll be seeing you at the inn with everyone else. We can talk more about this later, preferably in a way where I don't have to type while walking."

Satisfied, Fujiwara sent the message and checked the map again. So they were going the right way, after all...
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(I feel so bad, this is just going to be a short post)

As Suki, Yumi and Fujiwara walked to the inn, a dark hooded figure watched the group, but as they turned towards the inn, the figure disappeared. Suki glanced about, feeling as if they were being watched, but there was no one about. She frowned, and shook her head. It was too early to be paranoid.

As they reached the inn, she had shaken off the paranoia, and was looking forward to a day of playing the game and surviving again.
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