Hey everyone Midnight hers, I want to apologize for the time it took for this chapter to arrive, I have actually been doing research for this chapter want to try and get everything from here on as close as I can to match the SAO timeline, but here it is hope you guys enjoy it!
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"Can't believe its already February" Itashi sighed as we walked down the mountain, "Same, but look at the plus side, while we were living life, people on the front lines defeated the bosses for 18 floors" I said as Yamada slipped her hand into mine.
"Honestly don't know about you guys, but that makes me feel very unproductive" Yamada said to which we all agreed to with a groan. We arrived in town and went to the teleporting pad, our destination and new home awaited us on floor 24, Panarēze, a floor covers mostly in water and platforms with small bits of land on them.
"Warp Panarēze" I said as we got onto the pad. Everything went white for a moment, then the city appeared around us.
"Its beautiful" Yamada said with a gasp, and she was right, the roads were a shiny white marble, the buildings looked Roman and in the center was a coliseum, the waters around the land was crystal clear with all types of fish swimming in it, but this wasn't our main stop, we bought a new base about 5 miles out.
"Hey Noroshi, come with me I want to get you something, we'll catch up with you guys later" Itashi said as Noroshi followed behind him, "Guess its just you and me, amor" I wrapped my arms around Yamada and kissed her, she smiled blushing bright red, "Fugi people are watching" she whispered to me. I looked around and saw that a group of people were watching and awing, a girl in one of the groups said that she wished she had someone that cared for her like Yamada did.
"Well then let's go to our new home, hold on tight" I said, "Hold on for... Aaahh" I picked her up like a bride and began running in the direction of our new base, she screamed and laughed when I picked her up. When we got outside of the city we stopped and I put her down, she hugged me and kissed me "I love you" she grabbed my hand softly, "I love you too" we continued walking down the path between the water. The air was cold but the water smelt amazing, the sun was setting, but something didn't seem right.
"We are outside of the safe zone, right" I said as I put my free hand on my trident, "Yeah, is something wrong" she let go of my hand and grabbed her hammer, "I haven't seen any..." I pulled Yamada back as a monster came out of the water to attack us. It had features of a wolf but had webbed feet and gills, it was the size of a lion and it had two health bars, above the health bars was a name, Mujihina bōkun. I pulled my trident and jabbed it in the side, "Yamada go" I yelled to her as I pushed it into the water and pulled my trident out of its side. She nodded and began sprinting past me, I shortly followed her. I only delayed the beast, it hopped out of the water and began to pursue us. This thing wont give up, and it is gaining on us, I wish I didn't have to do this. Swiping down I quickly went through my menu, equipping my daggers, I slipped my mask on and took a deep breath. Here... We... Go...
I jumped forward planting my toes on the ground and flipping backwards landing behind the beast. It stopped and turned towards me, "Come on you bastard, what you got" it snarled and charged towards me, I began to let daggers slide out of my hands and gripped the chains as I spun the daggers around. The beast leaped towards me as I swung my dagger, it pierced its side and I side stepped letting the beast pass me. As it pulled me I jumped up, threw my other dagger into its back, and pulled myself onto its back. Can't hit what you can't reach, I wrapped the chain around one of my hands, yanked my daggers back into my hands, I began to stab it as fast as I can in its back. As I was about to finish it off a message popped up on my screen, Do you want to tame Mujihina bōkun?, I tapped yes and the beast stopped fighting me and laid down.
"What the hell just happened" I looked at the beast while its health regenerated. Yamada came running up to me readying her hammer for a strike, but she stopped as she saw it wasn't attacking anyone, it just laid there and looked at us.
"What happened to it" She said confusedly, "I think I tamed it" Yamada looked at me even more confused. I explained to her about the message that popped up, "Open your menu, see if anything popped up" I swiped my hand down and opened my inventory, I saw a new item, name tag, I tapped on it and it said, Would you like to rename Mujihina bōkun?, I tapped yes and typed in its new name, Akuma.
"Yamada, meet Akuma" I said as Akuma looked at me, "Is he safe" she put her hand out to Akuma, he sat up and licked her hand, "I guess he is" I said as I pet Akuma's head, "Wonder how the others will react" Yamada said as she put her hammer away, "But you aren't off the hook yet mister, what the fuck are you using" I rubbed the back of my head as I reequiped my trident and put my daggers away, "I'll explain when we get to the house, just promise me you won't tell anyone" she nodded in agreement. All I could think is, I hope she holds to that and pray she doesn't leave me.
