Chapter 28

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Nearly all the doctors in the room were in a frenzy, not knowing what to do with the condition unknown and undiscovered by even high up medics who had consulted every obscure case known to have happened whilst the days of SAO dragged by.
   Many of the doctors were quick to bring themselves together, trying to remember what the NPC had said about everything before everything cut out. The room was still dark, but everywhere else had light; the corridors; the rooms opposite.
   One of the nurses near the door flicked the light switch to see if the light would come back to life, but alas, the power was still gone from the room.
   Basically all of (YN)'s medical equipment had turned off, needing electricity to run, and if they didn't know how her progress with said drug was going, they would never know if she was going to make it.

Kirito's POV:

We had left the clinic a while ago with some extra healing crystals - the only thing that could be provided to give any help.
"(YN)? Are you sure you're okay?" I asked her as we arrived back at the lodge, where the girl just walked into the living room.
I decided to leave it, she probably just needed time, and I understood why.
She was scared.
She was scared because she didn't know what was happening. She was scared because she... she didn't want to die.
"Kirito? Will she be okay?" Max asked, looking up at me with worried eyes; Livia held the same expression and was clinging to her brother tightly.
"She'll be okay; she's strong enough to get through this.

(YN)'s POV:

I just curled up on one of the sofas in the living room of the lodge. Millions of thoughts were rushing through my head, I was hardly able to comprehend even a few.
My life was endangered, I was back to Kirito, would this game ever end?
My emotions gathered into a spiral, spinning out of control until a sob left my throat, leaving me crying and sobbing my heart out, where I knew no-one could hear me.
"Are you okay?" Livia's Voice reached me from the other side of the room, and I looked up quickly. "Kito told me not to come here, but you were upset..." I smiled slightly and opened my arms to her, signalling for her to join me.
"I'm fine, Livia, I promise." I was lying, forcing a smile and making her believe me.
"What's wrong?" She asked me, sitting beside me and looking into my eyes with her head tilted.
"It's nothing, Liv, there's nothing I can do about it so it's fine." I promised, wrapping my arms around her and running my fingers through her hair.
"Livie, Kirito wants us to come with him and let (YN) have time alone." Max came into the room after knocking his dust against the wood a couple of times.
"I'll come too, I don't want to be alone, I'll be fine." I didn't let Livie reply, and the two of us followed Max out of the room, to where Kirito was stood at the door.

I walked behind the other three as we left the lodge to the town square. Livie and Max ran at the front, looking at the wild animals that surrounded the area near us.
"(YN), are you okay?" Kirito had slowed his walk to my speed and walked beside me. I avoided eye-contact and instead looked at the ground.
"I'm fine, Kirito, really." I kicked a stone as I spoke, my voice low.
"They found the next boss room, level seventy-five." He told me, acknowledging my statement of unwanting towards the topic of my health.
I just hummed, finally looking up, but only focusing on the two figures of Max and Livia.

Upon arrival of the town centre, the four of us were met with the gathering area in the middle filled with players, dressed in armour.
'Join the fight for level 75' read many of the posters, and I automatically assumed that's what they were for. People were heading off to fight the next floor.
"No-one knows anything about that floor, what're they doing. They should send in recruitment scouts to check it out or something." I knew that it had only been discovered a day or two ago, and that's when a loud voice caught not only my attention, but that of the people around me.

I'm a terrible writer, I know. I've been just focused on other stuff and I don't know what to do about it anymore, and I'm just trying to figure it out on my own, and that isn't exactly working.
I also have school which is driving me insane with all the exams, but I think a lot of it is my other books that I have started and are taking me ages to get somewhere with them.
Again, I'm sorry ^^*

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