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The crisp sound of fragmentation radiated into the ears of everyone present like an echo. Looking at the fragments spilling around and the speechlessness bathed in the fragments, every player seemed to have lost consciousness, like a puppet. Standing in place, including Asuna, Kirito, Keita, Klein, Agil and others...
"it's over?…"
After a long time, a voice full of uncertainty and disbelief rang from the crowd...
"It's over?..." The other players dumbly repeated the uncertain and unbelievable words, staring at the fragments scattered around, it seems that until now, they can't believe it. It's all Heathcliff-Kayaba Akahiko's body...
finished? …
This sentence almost appeared in their hearts more than once during the period when everyone was in a daze. They trembled all over, clenched their fists white, as if they were holding back something. Finally, on the face of one of the players, Two clear tears shed...
"It's over... it's over..."
"Yeah... it's over..."
"everything is over…"
"it's over!!!"
All the top players who came to participate in the final battle shed tears. Whether they knew the people around them or not, they all hugged them in their arms and wept bitterly...
At this time, the ecstasy of complete clearance. The pain experienced in the past, the fear of death in the past, and all the hopes for the future, all turned into the most direct teardrops, which spilled on the spot, like venting, making the entire Red Jade Palace full of strong crying.
After three years of life in'sao', until this moment, they were finally liberated...
at the same time. There was a sound of machinery resounding throughout the huge floating city of Aincrad. Slowly passed it back to all the players, telling them that this game has been completely cleared!
In the Red Jade Palace. In'Aincrad'. Every player was in a burst of earth-shattering cheers and crying. The body gradually turned into a light, and after a flash, it disappeared in place. Only an empty huge castle remains, remaining in this world...
'sao', completely cleared...
…
When the vision in front of Silent's eyes was restored again, the bright red walls and ground of the Hongyu Palace were no longer in sight, but a vast sky...
"Here?..." Wordless frowned, looked around, and saw that there was an endless sky all around, and white clouds drifted past every corner, very vividly covering this space. , And he is floating there, his feet are like stepping on the ground, without a sense of weightlessness...
"Sky?..." Silently raised his brows, scratched his cheek, and said angrily: "Did I come to heaven?..."
Just when he was inexplicable because he didn't know when to die, not to go to hell, but to go to heaven, behind him, a voice full of uncertainty and anxiety came into his ears...
"Word?…"
Hearing this sound, he turned around abruptly without a word, and looked at the source of the sound. There, a chestnut-colored figure stood in the sky as well, looking at him, with his hands on his mouth, a drop The tears flow down...
"Asuna..."
Asuna pressed her lips tightly, desperately enduring the cry that was about to blurt out, and finally rushed over and fell into her silent arms.
"Stupid, idiot, idiot!" Asuna cried and shouted loudly: "Do you know how worried I am about you!"
"Don't cry! Don't cry!" Holding Asuna speechlessly, looking at the other person's pear blossom with rain, there was a pain in her heart.
"It's my fault, everything is my fault..." Silently and awkwardly, he wiped Asuna's cheek with one hand in a flustered manner. "As long as you don't cry, you can call me whatever you want..."
Hearing that, Asuna raised her head and looked at her speechless face with a panic, but she gave a'pounce' and laughed.
"You really are a fool..." Asuna buried her face in her speechless chest and said quietly: "I almost thought that you were going to die by the head of the sword..."
He was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly. "I'm so sorry to worry you..."
"As long as you are fine..."
Asuna lingered on her silent chest a few times, and then looked around. "What the hell is this place?..."
"Ask me..." Silently shook his head blankly. "I do not know either…"
Suddenly, a naive but very familiar voice echoed back from far and near...
"Dad! Mom!"
"This voice..." The two in the embrace stayed for a while, then quickly turned their heads, and saw that Yui, dressed in a white dress like when they first met, stood beside them. In the distance, a pair of big eyes were inevitably full of tears, like a child who had done something wrong, ran away from home, but did not dare to enter after returning home, timidly not daring to step forward.
"Yuiyi!" Asuna exclaimed, and when she reacted, her pretty face was suddenly filled with ecstasy.
"Yuyi!" rushed to Yui's side and hugged her into her arms. The tears that Asuna had just stopped had a tendency to shed again.
"Mom..." Yui also hugged Asuna forcefully, her eyes dimmed.
When hearing the system prompt for customs clearance, Yui originally thought that she would stay alone in this world, not knowing when she could wait for the salvation...
However, I didn't expect that when I opened my eyes, the person I wanted to see the most was actually right in front of me!
At this moment, Yui is satisfied, even if she can never leave this world again, she is also satisfied...
"Seeing what you are like, there should be no mistake in bringing you here..."
The two mother and daughter hugging each other trembled, their silent eyes condensed, but they relaxed again, took a deep breath, and slowly turned around. Behind him, one was wearing a white coat. The man with a shrewd face was looking down at the distance. The three of them had never seen that face before, but they couldn't stop the wordless and others from getting familiar with him.
"Heathcliff..." As soon as he uttered the words, he smiled bitterly. "Should I call you Kayaba Akihiko?..."
Heathcliff, Kayaba Akihiko, smiled slightly, did not turn his head, but as if mourning something, looked down intently, and attracted the eyes of the silent, Asuna, and Yui. , And the next second, the scene in front of them completely stunned them.
Below the distant sky, a huge steel city floats up and stops in the air without a trace of grounding power. It is the'Aincrad' they have lived for three years!
It's just that, at this time, this magnificent huge castle is disintegrating bit by bit, splitting into countless pieces like broken stones, scattered to the bottom of the head that can't be seen, and disappeared in everyone's eyes. …
Seeing this scene, he sighed speechlessly. "is this okay?…"
Kayaba Akihiko’s eyes trembled for a moment, but he soon calmed down, and said blankly, "Ah, it has completed its mission. Such a result, for it, is undoubtedly the best…"
"Really?..." Silently lowered his head and was silent for a while.
"What about you?..."
Kayaba Akihiko turned his head, looked at speechless, and replied with a slight but firm movement: "The same, the best..."
"That's it..." Silently pursed his lips, looking at the wine-red pupils of'Aincrad', a look of regret flashed across.
"what a pity…"
"What a pity?" Kayaba Akihiko raised his head fiercely. "Why is it a pity? Don't you hate it?..."
He gave a silent chuckle and glanced down. "Although it disappoints you, I really don't hate it. After all, it doesn't bring me painful memories, but rather beautiful..."
Kayaba Akihiko's expression suddenly became a little blurred, as if lost, he said something on his mouth, and it didn't take long before he finally smiled.
"That's fine..." (...)