"Seiya, you didn't croak after we left, did you? But when we brought the people of Rulid Village back to find you, how did you just vanish without a trace?"
Kirito asked curiously about what had happened after they left while stuffing his face.
Although their memories of this conversation would be sealed again once they dived back into Under World, Kirito was still very curious about how Seiya had escaped death back then.
"After you left, I was ready to die too. But one Dark Goblin died before me, and my character leveled up, boosting my stats.
"Of course, since I'd forgotten I was a player, but realized that killing monsters could make me stronger, I started slaughtering the weaker mobs.
"After that, I got stronger with every kill and even took down the elite monster boss. But I also collapsed from exhaustion and lost consciousness.
"Later, the Dark Knight we rescued woke up. She realized it might be dangerous to leave me there, so she took me away."
"She? That Dark Knight was a woman?"
Seeing Kirito's shocked expression, Seiya nodded helplessly. "It gets even crazier. That female Dark Knight named Lybia is actually my game character's biological older sister.
"The reason she risked coming to patrol the Flaint Mountain Range every month was to find the younger brother she'd been separated from for years.
"And as you know, my game character was originally an orphan picked up in the Flaint Mountain Range by a hunter from Rulid Village."
After hearing Seiya's story, Kirito looked at him with even greater envy, while the resentment in his gaze toward Seijiro Kikuoka grew even stronger.
They had agreed that everyone would be diving into the game with ordinary accounts, yet Kirito now felt that Seiya Zuberuuku's game character was obviously