Sword Art Online's
Chapter 24's
Kirito and Ronye borrow Scheta and Issukan's private bathroom to clean up facial color and dirt due to a long trip, the two guests were suddenly known by the entire contents of the castle as the sender of a message from the Human World.
As Kirito hid his identity as the Prime Swordsman, the guards who saw his lighter-colored clothes looked suspicious, not normal as a message sender, but they changed their attitude after seeing the sword hanging on their waists. In the Dark Territory, weapons or divine objects looked very rare when compared to the Human World.
They also rested for a while in 2 rooms, then had lunch with Issukan and Scheta. They were driven by horses to see the headquarters of the Dark Knight and the training grounds of the empty group of fighters in the center of the city. Kirito seemed to want to make a game with the empty-handed assistant head fighter called the one-armed giant, but “because we were undercover!” got her spirit blocked.
After that, they see the market and the big stadium, but of course these streets are not just for fun. Kirito and Issukan used each of these opportunities to talk about the incident and Ronye continued to maintain her role as a bodyguard.Since she was also with Scheta, the senior Integrity Knight who was called ‘si taciturn’, and she was also with Scheta, there was no chance for Ronye to do anything if there was an attack, but—He was late in realizing it. When Scheta rode a Yoiyobi, he did not carry a sword around his waist.
Sensing the impact on the horse carriage towards the castle, Ronye brought her body closer to Scheta and asked.
“Scheta-sama, that lost sword of yours, is it not.?”.
The knight nodded and narrowed his eyes when he recalled the past.
“For me, ‘Black Lily Sword’ is the first and last sword I love.”
"............"
Ronye could not imagine what if an Integrity Knight lost his divine object.Scheta smiled knots and touched Ronye's fingers that could not say a word.
“I'm no longer a quiet ‘si’, but only an unarmed ‘knight’.But I am grateful for what I experienced.Sometimes if I remember my Black Lily sword, I feel lonely.”.
“So it..”.
–this man is completely unattainable and I understand for me.Not to mention that he felt falling into the abyss about the difference between himself who was an apprentice knight with Scheta the senior knight, and at that time, he was, Scheta suddenly asked a surprising question.
“What sword was given to you?”
“I-iya, but I have not given a name to him.”
Scheta just nodded.
“So yes, your connection with this sword is still very weak, but it is a good sword.Be careful, even if the war is over, the fight between knights will never end.”
“Good!”
As Ronye answered clearly, Kirito and Issukan who were sitting in front of him looked shocked.The horse-drawn carriage had passed through the city and returned to the castle of Obsidia by the normal road through the gates and bridges.
Obsidia Castle measures 500 mels and has 50 floors which are only slightly different from Central Cathedral, there are no automatic elevators inside. In other words there is only a ladder if you want to reach the highest floor, which is also to take precautions from robbers.
Towards the 49th floor of Issukan's room, the 4 people continued to climb the stairs non-stop. Issukan and Scheta and Kirito do not look tired, but other with Ronye, it has sounded boring. Upon arriving, Ronye actually realized that he lacked training.
Ronye who was still bored was grateful to the three of them who were waiting for him, then he saw there was still a large staircase there, then tilted his head.
“Hmm Scheta-sama, what's up there?”
It was not his duty to answer, so the commander answered.
“Floor 50 is a throne. I've only been there once twice anyway.”
“Oh...is that a throne for leaders?”
Now that Kirito asked, Issukan nodded, crispy.
“Why don't you just take it?”
Issukan slightly jumped up and spread both his hands in front of the curious Kirito.
“Iya yes yes, the door on the 50th floor was closed again using ‘sealed chain’, when Leader Vector was killed, the chain was indestructible, from the 50th floor, there is a legend that, when, there you can see the distance and the foot of the mountain as well as the Great East Gate, so I tried to open it again but..”.
Hearing Issukan's explanation, as he said ‘indestructible’, Scheta nodded and added.
“I borrowed a sword from storage and tried it, but still couldn't. If only using Black Lily Sword could probably”
“Luckiest nih”
Ronye had imagined that the “ sentence I would try with my Night Sky Sword!” heard from Kirito's mouth, he quickly rolled up his sleeves. But it seemed that Kirito also imagined that Ronye would say “gak would be able to!”, so he only looked at the stairs once and nodded
(WTF what they imagine is opposite to each other xD)
“In that case, the tour is done.”
“I hope today's dinner is a rare ingredient.”.
“I'm also curious.”
Seeing that the conversation was over, Scheta stepped up first.
“I have to give milk to Lisetta, until we meet again for dinner later.”
“Oh yes, I also want to see it, all day I do not see his cute face.”
Kirito waved at the pair of old men, for a moment he saw the large staircase in front of him heading to the 50th floor again. Ronye shook his head slowly, and said with a bitter smile.
I understand...do we also want to go back to the room?”
There were 5 people who were having dinner together: Issukan, Scheta, Kirito, Ronye, and the little baby Lisetta. Although only five, the atmosphere feels warm and relaxed like a dinner with family in northern Centoria.
It seems that Issukan ‘ is a little bit strange’ feel with the taste of the type of food that he saw such as ‘water lizard stew in meat skewers’ or ‘ baked mushrooms wrapped with flour’ nuts, compared to Kirito who with passion and courage tried it, so that the sound of funny laughter Lisetta who sounded ‘kya-kya~’ when he saw Kirito speak. Seeing her beloved daughter, Scheta and Issukan smiled happily.
After finishing eating while feeling ‘the voice of the baby and family, everything is so pleasant’, and take a shower, Ronye returned to his room.The bathroom is smaller when compared to the public bathroom in Central Cathedral, but what compares to it is its location on the top floor of a large castle with a height of 500 mel, fresh warm water there like a miracle.
Although there did not use sacred art like in the Cathedral, he was curious how such large hot water could be there, hot water flowing from above and the channel can be used for cooking, bathing, and so on, and heating up after the mountain became a castle.
Recalling while sleeping in a cheap hotel last night, the room he was in now felt warm, the bed soft and the sleepy Ronye changed clothes before the sound of the bell at 9 rang. I will return to the Human World tomorrow morning, so it is better to quickly go to sleep, although this unforgettable moment is coming to an end, he lay down and stared at the wall to the north.
Behind this wall must have been Kirito-senpai also preparing to sleep, or had she even slept? We've been chatting a lot for over 40 hours in the capital, but I feel I still haven't done anything important for him.
Of course, what was most important was the mission as a bodyguard, I volunteered to accompany him instead of to chat, no, but even so—Ronye woke up again from her bed because of the urge to knock on the door next to her room.
But Ronye knew very well that Kirito had a person he loved, his name was Asuna. They both came from the same world, the real world. She was as beautiful as Goddess Stacia, so friendly without discriminating against anyone, stronger than anyone if she fought a sword. During the Foreign World War, Ronye only felt a great fear behind the horse-drawn carriage, but Asuna, though severely wounded, protected Kirito with her blood and sweat. There was no reason for him to compete with someone as strong as him.
Don't let this feeling you say, don't let it.
