At the same time as the BoB Tournament decided its victor, a cellphone screen flickered in a small alley in the real world.
Someone was standing there, watching the live broadcast on a cellphone.
The live broadcast of the BoB Tournament in GGO.
Thus, the person had seen everything that happened in the tournament with perfect clarity.
Naturally, that included Luo Zhen beating Sasha to death and Sasha forfeiting on the spot, handing the victory to Sinon.
"It's over..."
A low, dazed voice came from the person's lips.
Illuminated by the light shining from the cellphone screen, the person's face was revealed.
It was a boy.
A boy who looked extremely frail and weak.
If Sinon had been there, she would certainly have recognized the boy's identity.
Because this boy was Sinon's only acknowledged friend—Shinkawa Kyouji.
However, Kyohei's mental state seemed somewhat abnormal at that moment.
"As expected... Big Brother lost..."
Kyohei stared at Sasha, who had been killed by Luo Zhen, and murmured those words.
That was right.
Big Brother.
Sasha was Kyohei's older brother.
His biological older brother, at that.
Neither Luo Zhen nor Sinon knew about this.
Even though Luo Zhen had pieced together the whole sequence of events, he had never imagined that Sasha's younger brother was actually Sinon's only friend.
However, this was seemingly only natural.
After all, even if Sasha wanted to kill people in a game, there were all sorts of VRMMOs on the internet. Since Sasha hated Luo Zhen, if he wanted to kill someone in a game, why had he chosen GGO instead of ALO?
The reason was simple: like Sinon, Sasha had entered GGO only because of Kyohei's recommendation.
At that time, Sasha had not yet thought of creating a murder incident in the game.
As Kyohei's older brother and