Offline Gathering! Not Attending?...

"Oh? We're here..."

Having arrived at the entrance of a bar-like establishment, Wu Yan looked at the sign above it, then turned back and smiled at everyone.

"This should be the place!"

"Honestly, why did Agil open his shop in a place like this..." Shion held Sachi's hand and complained, "It's like one of those alleys full of criminals. It's kind of scary..."

"You're afraid of criminals?..." Liz could not help teasing her. "Then why did you follow Wu Yan without even thinking back then?..."

At that, Shion lowered her head awkwardly and muttered, "What does it matter? Things turned out fine anyway..."

"This girl thought I was a Beta Tester back then, so she foolishly followed me." Wu Yan said irritably, "If she had run into Kirito instead, she probably would have followed him too."

"Hey, hey, hey! Why are you making me sound so cheap?!" Shion jumped up. "It's not like I threw myself at you!"

Silica smiled sheepishly. "In a way, that was exactly what you did..." "All right, all right..." Seeing Shion on the verge of losing it, the gentlest of them all, Sachi, hurriedly soothed her. "Isn't that a good thing? If that hadn't happened, we wouldn't have met..."

Only then did Shion's expression improve slightly. She snorted and turned her head away, drawing quiet laughter from everyone.

"You guys. Is chatting at the entrance really that fun?..."

At that moment, the door in front of them was pushed open. A somewhat weathered-looking man with stubble on his chin and a headband tied around his forehead held the handle and joked, "Is it because you're underage that you don't even dare enter a bar?..."

"Klein, you..." Wu Yan and Kirito stepped forward and bumped fists with the Klein they had not seen in a long