Sword Art Online's
Chapter 16's
Morning blind the next day, February 19th.Kandang the giant dragon to the west of the Cathedral, Ronye was stroking the neck of his beloved dragon Tsukigaki again and again.Tsukigaki small let out a sound “kururu” while narrowing his eyes, making his, he looked happy even though he was half sleepy.
Not only on the little dragon, but also Tieze who was in the opposite direction to the silver fence, flicked his red hair. Last night Ronye told him he wanted to go to bed early, but he couldn't even sleep. So he chatted with Tieze about everything in the living room.
It was a strange request when they had a long chat without running out of material even though they had been together for 2 years, his best friend was indeed a good person. Kirito and Eugeo also left Rulid Village, headed for the capital and entered the Sword Mastery Academy, spending a year becoming the Elite Swordsman. It always feels good if the two of them are talking about swordsmanship, combat, and sometimes sharing fun secrets.
Now Tieze must choose his adult life. Even if he were to accept the proposal from Integrity Knight Renri, or reject it, I thought that at least we would still be good friends.
“...then Tsukigaki, I think I will go. Listen to Tieze's words and be a good boy”
Ronye stood up and his little dragon raised his neck and replied “kyuru~”
As they went to the armory behind the Cathedral along with Tieze who finally realized it, the dragon machine version 2 was ready to slide on the rocky field.The shape does not stand vertically like version 1, but the shape is not, but lying on the ground with 3 feet.And it's in the armory. Looking closely, anyone can see the tips of his legs that have no nails like a real dragon.
Kirito, Asuna, Fanatio, and Sadore's master of machinery stood near his head.And there was one more person, a girl who looked the same age as Ronye wearing an armory uniform and standing by the dragon's side, chant some sacred art with his hands touching the body of the machine.
Ronye recognized the aerial element and asked his best friend who was standing next to his bag.
“Hey Tieze, the girl.”.
“Oh yes, that's it. The girl was an automatic elevator operator before.”
“Oh...he's cute huh?”
“That's how it is, but there are rumors that the girl is the same age as Dusolbert-sama.”
“Be-so yes..”
Kirito who noticed that there were 2 people who stopped not far from him, waved his hand.
“Hey Ronye, Tieze, over here!”
“Ah..i-iya, good morning!”
“Again!”
They answered his greetings.
The sky still looks dark. The version 2 dragon machine looks bigger than Ronye imagined. Plus it has 2 cockpits, its left and right wings are longer than the size of the original dragon, and the pipe behind it is also larger. It is about 40% larger in length than version 1, about 7 mel.
Am I really going to drive this? I was nervous, but there was no time to be afraid because I decided to do this and tried to remove the colorful shadows on the 1st version of the machine from his memory, Ronye bowed in front of Kirito and Asuna.
“Sorry we are late.”
“No, it's still not 5.”
Kirito answered him in a relaxed tone even though the time had shown at 4:30 a.m. He looked at the new sword on Ronye's left waist and smiled.
“Ronye, as my bodyguard, I ask you to take good care of me.”
“B-good!”
When Ronye wanted to say it, she remembered Asuna's words that night. So that he doesn't say it.
“A-I will do everything I can!”
Hearing that answer, Kirito and Asuna nodded with a smile.The girl greeted Fanatio and Sadore, then picked up her things that Tieze was holding. Because the medium-sized bag is quite heavy, but it will be fine when inserted into the dragon machine later he thought.
“Kirito-san, the aerial element charging is done.”
Hearing the voice from behind him, Ronye and Tieze turned around simultaneously. The owner of the voice was the girl who was previously an elevator operator, whoever saw her, she while wearing noble clothes, it would match her beautiful face.
“Thank you Airy, you were very helpful.”
The girl called Airy by Kirito bent in front of him without changing her facial expression, then she went to Sadore.Now the Cathedral bell had sung the melody of the sign at 5 am.Kirito clapped his hands with enthusiasm.
Ronye took her bag to the storage, and Kirito opened the small door on the side of the dragon machine and put the item there. Afterwards Ronye hugged Tieze. Although they did not say anything, as if they exchanged the sentences “till later”, “come back safely.”
After taking off the hug, looking at his best friend and nodding, Kirito asked Ronye to go up first with the help of the stairs. He complied and he saw it. Oval shaped room with 2 seats. One in front and one in back.
Because the back seat of the design was slightly tilted back, Ronye moved his sword and leaned his body on the chair. The seats are simple, covered only by leather with a metal design, but made of red cow horn leather which is very flexible and comfortable.
Afterwards Kirito followed up the stairs, laying down his body in the front seat that had a straight shape. Sadore moved the stairs, then Kirito pulled the door handle, the glass canopy was down and closed.At that time Ronye continued to feel stubborn, and repeatedly swallowed his saliva.
Tsukigaki is still a child and cannot fly, but Ronye has been allowed to ride the dragons Renri, Kazenui, Fizel, Himawari, and Linel, Hinageshi. It's scary when you try it twice, but it's
fun, of course, flying in the air.
But even so, he had never flown alone, nor used a dragon engine, he felt that flying inside was better than riding on a dragon's back, so that a strange feeling hit him.First of all, his wings would not move, so how do I get back to the ground when I land? He remembered when version one exploded. While calming his constant feelings, he asked.
“Anu, Kirito-senpai”
“Ya, why?”
“...Kirito-senpai, are you going to be fine using the power of Incarnation for an object of this size?”
After asking the chair in front of him, Ronye was surprised if it would disturb Kirito's concentration, but Kirito immediately replied without changing his relaxed tone.
“Yes, take it easy. It is difficult to fly other than in this way if you want to leave the Human World.”
“So yes..”
Again, he was surprised by the endless determination of the Prime Swordsman of the Human World.Ronye also gained training as an apprentice knight, as exercise ‘stands straight at the top of pillar’ is standing on a thin pillar with one leg, ‘controlling the creation of element’ is to teach holding an element in the air, and also ‘clean mind tanza’ which basically just sit on the floor and control all thoughts—the next process is difficult.
If senior knights like Fanatio and Dusolbert have secret Incarnation techniques like “Arm of Mind” that can move dagger-sized objects to their liking and “Blade of Mind” that can swing weapons no seen, then Kirito Incarnation is flying free and flying a giant dragon machine that can carry 2 controlling people that are impossible to do by ordinary humans.
“...Although with strong senpai thinking ability, ‘World End Wall’ can not be passed..”.
As Ronye muttered that, Kirito nodded with a bitter smile.
“Maybe I'm still lacking in practice, but.it would be meaningless if it was just passing through.
‘wall’nya only.In the future later, if necessary I will make a flight schedule using a dragon, or create a mechanism such as elevators in the Cathedral so that all residents—ah not, all the residents of Underworld can come and go.”
Ronye looked out the window, a little confused by the idea of Kirito making an elevator to ‘World End of’ wall whose height alone no one knew. And he's getting more confused.
The dragon machine had passed through eastern Centoria unnoticed, snow-covered fields and meadows that fell a moment ago were visible. Although it still feels cold, wheat fields will grow next March, so that the fields will be decorated with green.Ronye imagine all the scenery for a moment, then ask again.
“Senpai...if we can't reach that ‘World's End Wall, wouldn't it be better if the people from the Dark Territory moved to the Human World? There is still a lot of unprocessed land in the Human World, I think it can still be used to make new land and villages.”.
This time, Kirito did not answer. Then he mumbled slowly.
“That's if everyone in the Human World thinks like you, Ronye.”
“Eh...what do you mean?”
“Hmm, so put it this way, we have already calculated that the total population in the Human World is around 82 thousand. From the reports, it looks like the Dark Territory is the same. The area of the Human World is about 1.77 square kilolu, and more than half of it consists of forestry, of course you think is right, if the population becomes 2x or even more, there will be no problem. Guess.”
When he heard that, it was a very surprising thing for Ronye.
“Um...you said the population of the Dark Territory is about 80 thousand!? But during the Foreign World War, instead of the Vector Leader only preparing 50 thousand troops?”
“Don't be surprised so.in the Dark Territory, Fanatio said all who can fight will be soldiers, but well, I agree if it's a terrible story.After all, Fanatio said, of course there are many choices in the Dark Territory.So in short you will not be able to survive and be in vain even though fighting and stealing.”
Kirito cut his words and leaned his back on the back of the chair.The concentration was interrupted for a moment, the dragon engine shook slowly, then it regained its stability.
“...and like in the Dark Territory, people in the Human World have also been around since 300 years ago. They considered the inhabitants of the Dark Territory to be monstrous monsters, they passed through mountains and kidnapped children and livestock. Indeed, the migrants and traders who cross the 2 worlds are increasing little by little, but the thinking of the people still can not change easily. Although I tried to bind them with the new law, their feelings of fear and dislike would not just disappear.”
His voice sounded heavy with sadness. Ronye could not say anything.
