This Glorious Task Is Yours!...

While Wu Yan, Silica, Sachi, and Shion were chatting happily, Kirito was troubled elsewhere.

"Ha?..."

Inside an item shop, Kirito's friend—Agil—could hardly believe his ears after hearing what Kirito had just said.

"You want me to help you contact Asuna?..." Agil looked at Kirito with an extremely strange expression, his face turning peculiar as well. "Weren't you always at odds with her?..."

As fellow members of the Assault Team, Agil had seen Kirito and Asuna argue at strategy meetings more than once. There was no one in the Assault Team who did not know that, well, the relationship between those two was surprisingly awful...

Asuna was known as The Conqueror, and she secretly bore the title "Berserker" as well. This was because, for the sake of clearing the game, Asuna sometimes resorted to methods that were less than pleasant—for example, luring bosses from outside the safe zone into it and having them attack NPCs while players took the opportunity to attack the boss. Even though the NPCs were not truly alive and would revive after a while, Kirito did not approve of such methods... Kirito and Asuna had clashed more than once over clearing strategies, and they had even gotten into a huge fight at a strategy meeting because of it. Now that Kirito was actually taking the initiative to contact Asuna, how could Agil not be surprised?

Could it be that even Kirito, the Black Swordsman, had fallen beneath the charm of Asuna the Flash? Was he planning to pursue her?

At that thought, Agil's gaze toward Kirito became even stranger. To Kirito at that moment, it was exceptionally irritating.

"What are you even thinking..." Kirito sighed weakly. "I just have something I want to ask her..."

"Is that so?..." Agil shot Kirito a suspicious glance. But when he