The Underworld (Haitus)

Chapter 4 | "I missed you."

Hello and welcome! FIRSTLY, I AM SO SORRY-I HAD LEGIT NO MOTIVATION AND I JUST REALISED I HADN'T POSTED THE NEXT CHAPTER OF THISSSSSSSS xD. I think I'm still somewhat stuck though :p

But I hope you enjoy this, and have a lovely rest of the day! I'm signing this off here,

This is not good for my health.

Endless horror and hope that we wouldn't be found filled me up. Thought after thought, but the thought of Selka unconscious in a cave full of goblins, was even greater. Ha... I. Hate. Thinking.

"Boss!" The vibrations were near. "Those ium boys are behind the big one!" A goblin pointed their fingers to us. Eugeo and I gasped. This isn't good. Eugeo, out of fright, waved the bud around, and to our surprise, they backed out. "T-They have the spells of the Integrity Knights! L-Light!" They were creatures of the Dark Territory. Of course they were afraid of light.

"Eugeo! Just..." what do you call that again...? "I DON'T KNOW-WAVE IT AT THEM! They're afraid of the light!" As Eugeo waved the bud around, the goblins dropped their weapons and covered their eyes. In a spur of moment, I dashed to the front and uhhh... picked up some weapons for Eugeo and me. "Eugeo! Catch!" I tossed him a sword. It was chipped and rusty, but it could still kill.

"K-Kirito! I-I don't know how to use a sword!" His eyes looked worried and his hands became fidgety as he didn't know what to do.

Shoot

I ran in, one arm horizontally holding the chipped blade then swung. If you were to compare video games and the Underworld, there was one very important thing. In games, they would pixel the cuts meaning that it would just be pixels, but in the Underworld, it was real. The fluid bursted out of the body, liquid dripping onto the ground. The blade was now smothered with blood. I turned my eyesight to 'Lord Ugachi'. "I killed your minion quite quickly. Wonder how fast I'll be able to do that to you." I grinned while holding the sword right up before continuing the Aincrad stance I'd gotten attached to for the past 2 or more years.

"You ium... you killed my minion-DIE!" Ugachi held his sword, ready to take my artificial life. Wait-did he have a 'soul'? Does everyone in this world have a 'soul'? If I killed Ugachi, would it be equivalent to killing a villager from Rulid? But he must've killed many others and if I don't kill him now, he'll go down and (most likely) go to Rulid. Because of my thinking, he made the first strike. He grazed a bit of my shirt and skin, but I winced in pain and fell back. A cut like this hurts like this?! Heck, it's not even a cut! It's a graze! Kikuoka really disabled the 'Pain Absorber' function. I hung onto my arm, only letting out droplets of blood. "Damn it, Kikuoka!" I let out a cry from my lungs.

This Ugachi dude ain't gonna have a good day. I'm making sure of that.

During the event

My eyes widened as I clutched my arm in pain, Eugeo came in and swung his bud around. "K-Kirito!" He ran to my side. "Are you ok?!" He practically dragged me to a nearby ice boulder and frantically looked around. Worry filled his eyes. Eugeo held the sword (not the proper way but...), his hands tightly gripping the leather grip. "W-What do I do?!" For a person who just touched a sword, to defend himself and me, he didn't look so brave. Quite the opposite. He trembled in fear.

"Eugeo! Just try it as if you're cutting the Gigas Cedar! Cut!" I yelled out, my wound still oozing with blood. Eugeo widened his eyes before proceeding with the 'cutting'. I guess he did get cut in a way. He cut the goblin's arm off.

"Argh!" It—no, he—groaned, "Ya stoopid ium!" His eyebrows furrowed against each other, revealing his golden eyes. "Die!"

Eugeo flinched, then moved. The moment he did, Ugachi's blade cracked the floor. If he'd moved a second too late, he'd be cut in half. Eugeo stumbled onto the floor, his hand still clenching the leather-gripped sword.