The Crimson Hunter. SAO X Reader. [DRAFT].

●Chapter 10: The First Hunt.

7 January 2024.
Floor 20.
Former Red Dragon Guild Headquarters.
Current Level: 58.

*??? POV*
Time: 05:30 AM.

I walked down the empty hallway of the cabin, the sounds of my footsteps lightly creating an echo, ever since that day I've been unable to sleep much, especially more so now than lately after the latest target: Ajax. We've been cooped up in here since then, I never liked hiding but we need to if we don't want to get identified by our orange markers. Better to wait till they go back to green. I turn to enter my room, the two beds opposite each other seeming completely untouched. I stared at the one I didn't own, the bed Akira slept in......God I'm still not over it am I? I'm still having second thoughts, despite already taking my body count into double digits. I couldn't sleep like this, I've been having too much on my mind.

Fuck it. I think as I approach my desk, I take the seat and access my inventory, i take out 4 diamond prisms. They were recorders, i figured that I should record myself doing logs, for two reasons: The first being so I could have it sent to the system to be recovered by somone on the outside, so that incase I die it's given to my next of kin, wherever or whoever it is. And the second reason: well....mostly just to stop me from going completely insane. I activate one making it float slightly and glow yellow as it began recording, I clear my throat.

Lavira: My name is Himiko Isada...That's my name In the real world anyway. But I go by the name Lavira while in this game.....but I'm sure later on after these are recorded, I'll be given the name and title of Murderer....same as my comrade.

I shift in my seat uncomfortably, this was something that would be hard to discuss. Let alone talk about, I take a deep breath in and exhale, I continue:

Lavira: 2 years ago, over 10 000 people entered this game, we've been trapped by it's creator and the only way we can escape is to clear all 100 floors. And if we die here, we die for real. But I'm not going to talk about my entire story from the start of SAO. I'm only recording this as to record the events after the massacre of The Red Dragon Guild, my guild.....and also, how me and the former leader became hunters tracking the ones who did it..

I pause for a second, before I officially start the log.

Lavira: Entry 1, 7 January 2024. The First Hunt, set date: 28 August 2023, 3:20AM.

28 August 2023.
Floor 34.
Northern Mountain Plateau.

A/N( Just so you know BOLD is for Lavira's POV Narrating while what isn't bold is from Lavira in the past.)

I sat under a large oak tree, a blizzard had come in and had blinded most of our vision where we were supposed to go. So we had no choice but to wait for it to settle down a bit. The harsh winds hounded against my jacket and the branches of the tree, the makeshift covered campfire doing little to provide warmth, I was covered in snow even while under the cover of the tree, .then I saw the dragon land a few centimeters from the fire, he laid himself into the snow getting as close as he could to the fire, I guess dragons also get cold.

Lavira(Narrative): It was cold... I remember that, I also remember what I was thinking about whilst under that tree......

I dug my knees deeper into my chest trying to get as warm as possible, my mind wandering to a time before all this, I was just thinking as to try and block out the freezing air. And it worked....though I ended up remembering a time before....with my freinds. The ones that had died. I hate myself for doing this, but I needed to keep my focus away from the freezing claws of the blizzard. I close my eyes and slowly fall asleep, thinking of this long lost memory.