Argo the Rat

Aincrad, Floor 5.

The area where Asuna and Usagisawa Misumi were.

Asuna anxiously paced back and forth, like a young wife waiting for her husband to come home, and Usagisawa Misumi, watching from the side, was starting to get annoyed.

"Could you stop pacing around in front of me?"

"What good does worrying do?"

"Akasaka will be fine, so don't worry."

Usagisawa Misumi truly couldn't bear to look at her good girlfriend anymore. She was already in too deep, yet completely unaware of it...

Asuna stopped pacing.

"But! Akasaka is taking on every member of the raiding party by himself. No matter how strong he is, he..."

Asuna's words caught in her throat when she saw Akasaka returning. She immediately walked up to him in delight.

"Welcome back!"

Then she looked him over from side to side, circling around him to check for injuries. Once she confirmed he was fine, she finally let out a sigh of relief.

Usagisawa Misumi truly couldn't bear to watch anymore. Just how deep are you in...

The most fucked-up part is that you don't even realize it...

Seeing how concerned Asuna was for him, Akasaka couldn't help raising a finger and lightly scraping her little nose.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Asuna touched her nose. Faced with such intimate contact, she only looked utterly bewildered.

Then she suddenly came to her senses. "Right! Did those raiding party members die?!"

Akasaka pointed at the yellow marker above his head, somewhat speechless.

"Just look at the yellow marker over my head. You'll know they're not dead yet."

Everyone knew that killing someone turned you into a red player. Since Akasaka had not turned red, it proved that no one in the raiding party had died.

Asuna could not help feeling a little regretful.

"It would've been nice