Trouble in the House

After Kayaba reveals what behind the cloth, Sora and Junichirou runs out of the room and their vomiting voice could be heard, while Shiroe and Akira turn serious at the moment they saw the body.

The body of the adventure was 'melted', there's no other word could describe how it looks right now except using that word. The Intestine, the meat, the fat, and the skin.. all of it became a mess as it was melted with each other. The raw smell of digestive organ mixed with the burnt smell and some chemical things were very strong that Akira got a boost in his resistance skill progress for staying inside the room.

Kayaba said he was informed by the towns guard about this when he was strolling around the town asking the inhabitant their origin and everything related to Aincrad and the way to solves the current situation before it gets worse.

And so before checking the corpse, Kayaba get the 4 teenagers first before he arrived here and investigate things.

"From the looks of the melted part, I could guess that it was done by some chemical mean, as it could be seen from this side, it becomes joined together instead of turning into charcoal."

"It was acid," Sora joined in the conversation from the door.

"And not a mere acid, it was probably a gastric acid. I'm a physicist, not a biologist nor I got the experience on the field, but at least I know that inside a meadow like this where we got surrounded by lush green trees there was no place to obtain sulfuric acid or other strong acids." Junichirou followed.

"Kayaba-san, just what monster you have been created?" Sora asked as his eyes were slitted, meaning he's more serious than his usual casual demeanor.

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In the next morning, there were many Players that got depressed as they tried to accept the reality they were in. Moreover, the rumor about some players had gone missing were reported and now Kayaba was the one who handles it. It seems he had this self-guilt toward all the players and now he do many experiment across the town, to see how far the system had changed. But he said that don't expect too much because the Cardinal system is an everchanging system that could learn by itself and he himself does not know whether the system still functioning or not.

Sora, Shiro, and Shiroe with the help of the other players that had the brain use their knowledge to grow foods as that's what we need immediately and that helps the other player to divert their depression to another place.

Junichirou was a real teacher and a good gamer, he was really good at socializing despite his YD disease and everyone took a liking to him. He along with his sister and the other older player that had experience in life educate the younger one including the people of Aincrad so the education could catch up to the standard of their old world.

While for me, I'm just a normal person without any redeeming value to be useful at the town. So I volunteer myself to expand the map since the mini-map still functioning, it could be used to map out the area that we ventured to automatically.

"So, Kirito, do you know what monster that could cause this kind of wound?" I ask the boy with black hair that standing beside me.

"Akira-san, even if I'm a beta-tester I also don't know the real answer." He said as he looks grimly at the screenshot of the body I took yesterday night.

"Is it because of the real body?"

"That's right, back then when all of this crazy things happened even if we got hit by a monster we won't feel the pain for too long as our pain nerve were restricted by the system. The worst case you would get paralyzed or become stone, and all of the attacks won't leave a scar or wound as it just a mere avatar, a data that could be generated again and again."

"But in this world, it is hard to say." He said as he showed his wry smile.

I guess it was expected, this guy still 14-year-old after all. He's different from the 'Black Swordsman' that he would become in the future if the world not turned like this. And he also different from me that doesn't have anything related to me in this world, since I'm already dead and I also read this guy as a novel, not a real-life person. But the reality was a reality, sometimes it gets weirder than fictions.

"I do, have some suspect though,"

"Oh, really?"

"Yes, if this place still belongs to Aincrad first floor and the enemies use acid than 60% we would face the 'Little Nepenthes', those guys use slash based attack with their whip-like vine. If we do face them, then it would be easy, because a level 1 could kill it easily if they pay attention to the timing of their acid splash and dodge the attack while going closer to them."

"The second and the most likely suspect would be 'Slime', and if it was a slime it would get tricky because it shouldn't appear at floor 1, despite their slow attack, their fast reaction, and counter-attack coupled with their resistance to all type of attack because of their body, they were a horrible foe for a noob."

"Oi dude! don't jinx it." The tall black guy said as he worried that what Kirito said would become true. With Axe strapped on his back, this guy was none other than Agil, one of the original cast of SAO.

"Who's jinxing it, even I don't want to meet a slime at this time... they're slimy," Kirito said as he hugs his own body.

"Now now, don't fight okay? Because we've got guest to entertain." Akira said as he put his right hand on the Katana at his waist, while waiting for whatever thing behind the bushes to comes out.