Sword Art Online ALICIZATION- Reversal

Chapter 27- In the Far North

I sat in the garden, wearing my blue sundress along with a simple brown jacket and hodded white scarf, digging up vegetables and putting them in the basket. It had been 8 and a half months since I had left Centoria with Kirito. Just then, I heard someone calling for me "SISTER!!!" I turned to see Selka running torwards me. "Good morning, Sister!" Selka exclaimed. "Selka." I said calmly before she hugged me tightly and I slowly hugged back. "Welcome, Selka." I said with a small smile, "What brings you here today?" I asked her. "Since it's so nice out, I wanted to go to the eastern hill. And Kirito can come too, right?" She asked as she looked at the cabin and I looked at it as well. "It's such a lovely day. It'd be a shame for him to spend it inside." I then walked inside to get Kirito. "Shall we go, Kirito?" I asked him softly as I entered. 

Excalibur, Elucidator, and the Blue Rose Sword were all hanging on the wall. Kirito himself was in his wheelchair, looking at the fire place. I put him in a coat and scarf, I grabbed his chair and went to leave. However, he extended his hand out to the swords. "Oh, I'm sorry. I'll get them at once." I said sweetly as I walked torwards the swords. I grabbed Excalibur, Elucidator, and the Blue Rose Sword. I looked at Blue Rose Sword. I understood why he wanted Excalibur, it was his sword. That was all there was to it, he wanted the Blue Rose Sword because it represented Eugeo in his broken mind. However, why he wanted my sword, I didn't understand. Perhaps because he couldn't fully understand who I was but recognized my sword as something that was important to him. I momentarily wondered if he held my sword dear because of the time him and Eugeo spent hacking away at the Gigas Cedar before snapping out of my trance and giving them to Kirito. "Here you go, Kirito. Hold on to them tight so you don't drop them." I then carefully moved some hair out of his eyes before moving around his chair and taking him out of the house. 

It was currently autumn, November to be exact. We were moving down the trail, Selka in the lead while I pushed Kirito along behind her. "You don't think he'll be cold?" I asked her and she looked back at me. "Really? You're such a worrywart. You've put enough clothes on him to make him sweat. Right, Kirito?" She questioned and he gave no response apart from his eyes looking up from the ground ever so slightly, the best you could get out of him most of the time. Selka then whispered something that I couldn't hear. Finally, we had arrived at the lake and I smiled. "It's beautiful. No painting in the Cathedral can ever compare." I said as I looked out at the lake, standing beside Kirito. "It's the world you saved, Kirito." I whispered as I gently let my hand rest on his shoulder. 

I was thinking about everything that had happened over the past half a year before I snapped out of it, sighing. "Sister?" Selka asked me, concerned. "I'm fine, Selka, let's go." I then went to Kirito's wheelchair and started to head back. I then stopped for a bit. "Selka, is something troubling you?" I asked her before looking back. "Well, you see. Mr. Barbossa wants to ask you to help remove another tree from that clearing." Selka answered me. "What, is that all? You don't have to worry about that." Selka looked down as I said that. "But... those people are so selfish! Mr. Barbossa and Mr. Ridack won't even let you live in the village, but they don't hesitate to ask for your help when they're in trouble." I fully turned to face her and walked torwards my little sister.  I put my hands on her shoulders. "It's ok, Selka. I'm just grateful that I'm able to be near the village." I said to her with a soft smile. "Sister, I'll complete my training next year, and though it won't be much, I'll start earning a wage. When that happens, you won't have to help those people anymore, okay? You and Kirito... I'll.... I'll always..." Selka trailed off and I hugged her gently. "Thank you. But just having you close by is enough to make me happy." I smiled before Selka went back to the villiage and I started to go to the clearing. 

I stopped at the clearing, Mr. Barbossa was complaining to his men but I ignored it. "Hello, Mr. Barbossa." I said, keeping up my pleasant and cheerful demeanor. The fat man turned and smiled at me. "Alice, so good of you to come. Oh, and is that your husband? I don't believe I've seen him before." I nodded at him. "Yes, he is. Unfortunately, he is unable to walk." While I was never officially married to Kirito, he were legally married due to us living in the same private home for so long. The story was that he was my crippled husband who I'd met in Centoria. Most people knew he couldn't speak but some liked to use ignorance of that fact as an excuse to steal from him. I then continued, "I heard that you wanted to see me?" He grunted in response, "Look. You can see it, can't you? We've been toiling over that pesky platinum oak since yesterday morning. Even with 10 grown men hacking at it, they've hardly made a dent in it. And so.... I know we have a one-a-month arrangement, but I wonder of you could do me a favor just this once, Alice?" He asked and I nodded. "Very well. If it is just this once." I walked to the tree and checked it's life.