"What's wrong?"
Seeing Luo Zhen's displeased expression, Asuna, who had been watching him the whole time, immediately asked with concern.
"It's nothing. Let's go."
Luo Zhen shook his head at Asuna, then looked toward his companions, who were all watching him, and gave the instruction.
But this time, no one moved.
"Just now, I think I heard the name 'Kikuoka Seijiro,' right?"
Kirito became somewhat serious.
The others looked a little confused.
"Kikuoka Seijiro?"
"Who's that?"
"I've never heard that name before..."
Liz, Silika, Xing, Klein, and Agil exchanged glances.
Asuna and Leafa, on the other hand, both knew the name.
"Wasn't he one of the people from the former SAO Emergency Response Team?"
Leafa spoke up in surprise.
"Someone from the SAO Emergency Response Team?"
Everyone was instantly shocked.
Everyone had heard more or less about the SAO Emergency Response Team.
However, they did not know Kikuoka Seijiro personally.
After all, Kikuoka Seijiro had been the team leader. It was impossible for him to have met every SAO survivor, and only a very limited number of people had seen him.
For example, Kirito and Leafa had met Kikuoka Seijiro more than once during the two months Luo Zhen was missing because they were Luo Zhen's family. Leafa had even met Kikuoka Seijiro before SAO was cleared. Since the SAO Emergency Response Team knew that Luo Zhen was special within SAO, they had visited Luo Zhen's hospital room many times and met Naoha in the real world. Naoha had also learned some news about Luo Zhen in SAO from him.
Asuna went without saying. Even setting aside her status as someone who had been specially mistreated by the culprit, Sugou Nobuyuki, in the old ALO, given her relationship with Luo Zhen, Luo Zhen naturally told her everything.
That included the