Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 9

A week had passed and Kommando293 was thankful for many reasons above the fact that the Bullet of Bullets could finally start. First, and foremost, he had learned Japanese and though most people take a long time to learn it, he decided to spend an entire week, from 12 am to 11 pm, to study Japanese from both Sinon and some sources she had also recommended to use and although he wasn't the most perfect in his Japanese now, he was for sure a lot better than some people.

But now today as the day all of the niceness, or somewhat niceness from what he noticed from her behavior, went away and only the strongest, most skilled player will win the 4th Bullet of Bullets event.

30 players. 10 kilometer map. What a peace of cake.

Still, as Kommando293 walked towards the Administrative building, he wondered if he was going to be able to drag this game out like had done a few times before by simply staying in caves or underwater to escape the Satellite scans that came every 15 minutes.

But as he continued towards the Administrative building, he knew he was going to have to somehow pull this off. He had heard some pretty good players besides himself and Sinon were here finally and wouldn't be the same pushovers that he saw within the prelims.

But as he walked along, he remembered his meeting with some old friends of his...

It had been two days ago, once again at the same place he had met Kikouka and as he sat with the man himself in his best clothes, he watched the three figures walk towards the table. The first was his best friend known online as Reaper294. He was tall, like Kommand293, and had a similar hair style but it was brown while his eyes were a nice blue. He currently had his Sunday best on and as he sat in front of Kommando293, he nodded his head as he picked up a menu.

The second was Midnight996, another good friend of the whole group. He had black hair, brown eyes, and was wearing a rented suite it looked like. He sat down across from Kikouka as he then clasped his hands before him which Kommando293 did more than Midnight996 did.

And then there was the girl, who's online name was sometimes Mantis Sphinx. She had blonde hair that went a little past her shoulders, had Azul blue eyes, and if Kommando293 had to comment on the bobs she had, they were about of average size for a women of 18 years of age. She wore a nice shirt with her blue skirt that went down to her knees and she also wore a small coat over the shirt as she walked to her chair and Kikouka stood to seat her, as any gentleman should, and as the group looked at one another, it was Kommando293 who broke the ice.

"Nice to see you all again." said Kommando293 as he sipped some tea. "How was your flight here?"

"Pretty good... I didn't think it would take so long but whatever.." said Reaper294 as he looked around his menu still.

"Its strange being somewhere not in America... I feel kinda... singled out.." said Midnight996.

"Not to mention hearing so many words that we don't understand... makes me feel left out.." said Mantis Sphinx as she picked up a menu.

"I can help teach you Japanese..." said Kikouka in perfect English which surprised the three newcomers.

"But, today I want to begin.. hopefully a journey to get you back as you were before... the American SAO began..." said Kikouka.

The trio were quiet as Kommando293 said to them, " Its okay... apparently, the same thing happened over here as well.. so we can speak freely of it.."

The trio seemed to go from being stiff to somewhat relaxed but then Reaper said, "But... does he truly know anything?"

"It was my job as the SAO incident task force... to try and help where we could... obviously, all we could was hospitalize those trapped in the game... we didn't do much in trying to break the games hold.." said Kikouka.