Sword Art Online: Integral Factor

Interim between Entrance Exams

A/N Hello everyone and welcome back to another chapter of Sword Art Online: Integral Factor! I hope you all are enjoying the story thus far and have been loving the writing! I've been trying to get better with spacing out the whole narrative parts from the speaking portions. I hope that it has been getting better, but this will just be Izuku meeting Agil and co. before returning home to find a note from UA.

Izuku laid on his bed as he thought about how he talked to the girl he'd saved earlier that week; it had been about a few days since the Entrance Exams. Tears still flowed out of his eyes when he thought back to the moment between him and the girl he'd rescued from the Zero Pointer Robot. The look on her face when she called for help was just like Koharu's when he first met her in the game.

Thinking back on it, he probably shouldn't be thinking about this kind of thing. It was going to make him really fall behind on his schoolwork and he really shouldn't be falling behind on that. Sighing as he stood up from his bed, his mother entered the room as she called out to him.

"Hey Izuku, I know that you want to have some time to yourself. But I called Andrew the other day, and I think you should head to his bar and talk about this. It's becoming harder and harder to talk to you about it without someone who was there with you. You also need to spend some time with them, they seemed like a good friend of yours." Inko said, sitting on the bed as he sat next to her.

"A-Are you sure? I-I've never had a f-friend who treated me k-kindly." Izuku said, as Inko took this info in. 

"Are you not safe at school?" Inko asked, worriedly.

"I think that I'm just getting tired of the school trying to set me up to be expelled." Izuku said, with a sigh. 

"I can have you taken out of the school, it wouldn't even take too long." Inko said, as Izuku shook his head.

"It's coming close to the time that I need to head to University, mom. I need to finish High School so that I can head to University without any problems." Izuku said, as Inko stared at him silently.

"Well I hope that you enter the Hero Course like you dreamed for so long about. I... I know that I'm not the most supportive when it comes to your dreams, and I wasn't there for you when you were announced quirkless. But from this point onward, I will be with you until the end. Supporting you and your dreams of Heroism all the way." Inko said, rubbing his arm.

"O-Okay, I-I will see if I can see Agil and the others today." Izuku said, as Inko stared at him confusedly.

"Agil?" She asked, confused.

"T-That was his name in S-SAO." Izuku said, as Inko nodded along and left the room.

Looking at the wall of merchandise, Izuku placed a palm on the outstretched palm of the All Might poster that was looking at him. The All Might in the image showed him winking at the boy as he smiled with his catch phrase below his form.

'I AM HERE!'

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Izuku sat on the train with his mother as they arrived at the food district of Kamino Ward. He hadn't known that Agil's bar was on this side of Musutafu as a whole and was mentally scolding himself for not coming sooner. Getting off the train, they left the station and made their way towards the bar that was just around the corner. Looking at the sign above it Izuku couldn't help but smile at the name of the place as he knew that Agil would definitely call it that.

'Agil's Therapeutic and Local Pub'

"Is this the place?" Inko asked, curiously looking at the address.