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Chapter 40 - Chapter 39 - The Flash

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 But then, before all of them would go back to their camp site, Evil Asuna teleported to their area, surprising the life out of them. Sachi's spirit became invisible while Anko went back into Roxas's body. "Alert!" he echoed in Roxas's subconscious. "It's her again! It's SAO's version of the 'Flash' herself!"

Eiji unsheathed his sword while being on the defensive for Roxas.

 "Well, well…" Evil Asuna chuckled with a melodic voice. "...it's been a while, Eiji-kun, since that day when you abandoned the guild. How naughty…"

 "Stay back, Asuna-chan!" Eiji boldly shouted back. "This isn't the real you!"

 "Asuna-san, càlmate," Roxas added as Anko within him saw that phrase means "calm down" in Spanish. "Don't do this."

 Because the duo was stubborn, Evil Asuna lunged at them with her signature rapier, the Lambent Light, in speed. Roxas and Eiji dodged that narrowly. "Watch out for her speed!" Eiji called. "She's fast!"

 "I know!" Roxas parried with Asuna's blade using his Writer's Bolo and Bicol Blade, before Evil Asuna discharged a wave attack on him.

Roxas had to dodge that, and Anko within him boosted his power and strength.

Eiji parried with Asuna's blade next, and Evil Asuna almost disarmed him when Roxas lunged at her and clashed with her rapier.

 "So stubborn, so young…" Evil Asuna tainted him, "...plus copying Kirito-kun's style of putting his two swords on his back. How imitative..."

 "Shut up!" Roxas roared back, before he activated his Intertwined Ghostly Skill with Anko's voice. "I can copy his style when I want it."

 "We will not fall for this!" Roxas and Anko's voices intertwined and roared.

Evil Asuna got a little fear debuff by that.

 "Now! Don't hurt her too much!" Eiji roared at Roxas.

Roxas lunged at her again, disarming her rapier.

Because of that, Evil Asuna snarled at them and teleported away, alongside her rapier.

 After that, Roxas and Eiji panted for their breaths, and Minato, Shuto, and Koyuki ran to the scene after hearing noises coming from that spot. After Roxas and Eiji admitted that Evil Asuna had appeared to try to wipe them out, Minato was shocked, and an invisible Hideyoshi Kitagawa said to him, "Careful, Asuna-san is fast."

 "I know," said Minato through an internal thought.

After that, all of them returned to their campsite, with Koyuki and Shuto helping out with the loot haul of Roxas and Eiji.

Minato was in absolute awe to hold one of the 5 manga loot, which was a manga volume of "Mission: Yozakura Family".

 Later, back in their campsite at 6:30 p.m., while the two campfires cooked the reheated tonkatsu with mozzarella cheese and newly crafted Filipino Cheese sticks and Roxas's newly made lumpia with mozzarella and veggies added into it (Roxas had a pack of lumpia wrappers for this trip), Minato was busy as his eyes was focused on his "Mission: Yozakura Family" manga. An invisible Hideyoshi was reading it on his shoulder.

 "Guys," Minato said to Roxas and Eiji, "where did you get this?"

 "Oh, I almost forgot," responded Eiji while sharpening his sword nearby, "It was a rare drop from grinding mobs. At least in this area and there, you can get these, alongside manhwa, food, Gold Yen coins, and potions as loot drops."

Minato's jaw dropped so low it hit the grass. "WHAT?! This game is so nuts! I mean, a kilogram of nuts!"

Roxas chuckled, before letting his lumpia rolls cook a bit to write that "a kilogram of nuts" in that context of usage in his notepad.

He then returned to his cooking to roll the lumpia rolls to let its other side to be cooked.

 "This game is stranger than I thought," Shuto commented while cooking his reheated tonkatsu pork.

 "Is this game trying to bribe us to stay?" Koyuki asked while flipping through the pages of her small sketchbook.

 "Maybe, but the more they gave us better stuff," Roxas said, "the more he basically and unknowingly reminded us of the real world, this world without the game making a mess of things."

 "Yeah, you're right," responded Minato. "I hoped they don't drop a Boruto manga when I grind mobs for XPs. You know I hated it for ruining "Naruto"."

 "Yeah, ja, I know," Roxas responded as Anko beside him rendered ja as yes in German.

After that, they had their meal after Roxas's Christian Baptist prayer for the bounty of the food.

 

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