Beyond the Horizon [A Sword Art Online X Log Horizon CrossOver FanFiction]

Chapter 2: The Black Swordsman

A wooden ceiling.

Kirito had been looking at it in the spot where he woke up ever since the unexpected meeting had been adjourned.

"Where is this, really?"

He muttered and sighed.

Ever since he woke up in this building, all he could do is to search his head for a certain memory that could confirm as to how he had ended up in this world; Elder Tales.

He remembered meeting up wih Sinon, the ice cold sniper from [Gun Gale Online] in Agil's, the battle gnome of [ALfheim Online], shop, [Dicey Cafe] to talk about the new events in GGO. Eventually, Asuna, the Lightning Flash of the old [Sword Art Online], also his girlfriend, had joined them and afterwards bid their own goodbyes.

And on that particular rainy day, he, Kirito, also the Beater of [SAO], had proposed to Asuna about his plan to go and study overseas and requested for her to come along. Asuna had smiled warmly and said...

... and what exactly had happened after that?

He felt like that all of those memories are only blurred images in the surface of the water especially [her] tender smile. He frowned and shook his head, shoving away that maddening thought.

Besides, there's a bigger problem as of now.

He was in another world, a none VR environment and apparently all of these events had happened nine years ago.

Elder Tales.

A 20 year MMORPG that is still on-going and has a wide array of servers across the world. Year 2018 when an unexpected phenomenon had occcured, shaking the fundamentals and players of the said game.

That event was called as [The Apocalypse].

Kirito caressed his now long hair and stared at his left hand. It had looked eerily the same from what he had in [real life], with those miniscule hairs jutting upwards and that small scar in his middle finger. He remembered getting that from an accident during his childhood. This confirms that this world wasn't a [Virtual Reality] because as far as he knew, there's no VR game that can precisely reproduce such detailed designs.

He can't comprehend how he had ended up having an avatar that looks like his GGO character and it didn't help that that appearance should represent his [real self], as to how the leader of the guild [Log Horizon] had explained to him.

Shiroe-san was the one that explained everything to him and he can't help but felt guilty for not stating the whole truth about himself as he himself wasn't sure but he knew that he wasn't from this timeline.

The particular setting of that phenomenon was from about nine years ago. That time he was still the young lad obeying his Grandfather's every words and unquestioningly reliving kendo, a fact that he didn't even deny and the time before he had immersed himself in the online community.