Artoria wants to read people's hearts

When a person loses his sense of awe, he brings bad luck to those around him.

Although ridiculous, although absurd, this is reality, cruel and sad.

In the end, the three teenagers accepted her suggestion and shelved their plans to go to the seventh floor of No.20.

Before leaving, Artoria called Kirito aside alone.

The blond-haired girl stared into the other's eyes until she looked at the black-haired boy with his lowered head.

"They don't pay much attention to your suggestion, and this is not a normal attitude towards an old player whose level is much higher than yourself and who has a lot of experience."

"What are you doing?" she asked, "Could it be that you have concealed your level while getting along with them?"

So next, Arturia heard the truth of the matter from the shame-faced boy.

Chapter 15 Great Philosopher Artoria ([-] in [-])

It all happened one day two months ago.

The "Black Cats of the Moonlight Night" was chased by a large group of monsters because they miscalculated the difficulty during a strategy.

On the way to retreat in a hurry, he happened to meet Kirito, who had spent about two hours collecting all the necessary items to avoid other players, and was about to go home and walk towards the exit.

It was at this time that the black-haired boy helped them defeat the monster, and thus got to know everyone.

"Thank you... really thank you because I was so scared... I was so happy when you came to save us, really thank you very much."

Xing, who was already safe at that time, held his hand with both hands at the end, and kept repeating the words of thanks to Kirito with sparkling eyes.

"I'm very happy." Kirito raised his head, and he smiled like a dream, "After seeing the other party's tears and hearing those words in my ears, it seems that there is an emotion in my heart that I can't describe until now. "

At this moment, he felt that even if he only stayed at this moment, it was enough.

He said softly, "I just think it's great that I'm strong enough to help, so when Kai Tai invited me to join the guild, I didn't choose to refuse."

but........

"But my identity is very embarrassing. I am a beta tester and a member of the strategy team."

"If they knew my rank and identity, they would treat me differently." He sighed, his expression full of helplessness, "I don't want this, and I don't want to. They changed, so I didn't know what I was thinking at the time, I subconsciously chose to conceal the level..."

"One lie needs more lies to be fulfilled. The more I get along with them, the more uneasy and guilty I feel."

"So will you tell them the truth?" The black-haired boy heard such a question from the other party.

So suddenly, he fell silent.

After a long time, Tong Cai said slowly, "I'm not sure, maybe it will, or maybe it won't."

I see........

It's like a child who is willful and unwilling to wake up from his dream.

Artoria couldn't help sighing slightly when she heard this, "In any case, I advise you to tell them the truth."

"Because I have discovered a very terrible thing from their words."

"Kirito, your level and skills are strong enough to be crushed for them, but you told them that your level is no different from theirs."

She said, her emerald green eyes seemed to have a hazy color, "—this will give them a very fatal concept, that is, what you can do, they can also do."

"Presumably because of your presence, the difficulty for them to fight monsters and upgrade has been reduced a lot recently."

"Wrongly overestimated myself, wrongly underestimated the crisis......" Cold, clearer than moonlight pupils reflected his stiff figure, "Kirito, you don't know In some cases, some levels even adjust the difficulty based on the highest-level person in the team, right?"

"They are only level 26 now. If they go to the seventh floor of No.20 under this situation, please tell me, what kind of things will happen to them with a high probability?"

Every word is heartbreaking!

Artorilia's words pierced deeply into his heart like a knife, piercing through the protective shell that the young man put on himself.

"...Pendragon, I already know my mistake."

Lowering his head, Kirito involuntarily clenched his hands hanging by his sides in annoyance and remorse.

He recalled the little things he had spent with everyone in the past two months, and when he thought of putting everyone in danger because of himself, he felt that the starlight in his heart was about to shatter.

"I'll tell them the truth." He raised his head abruptly, and promised himself and the other party, "I will never let what you said happen, I swear!"

After finally finding a harbor where he can rest, Kirito will never allow anyone to destroy it, even if this person is himself.

Wanting to protect everyone and protect everyone's smiles, this original intention in his heart has not changed from the beginning to the end.

Witnessed by Xingguang, this matter has come to an end for the time being.

Half an hour later, Arturia bid farewell to the "Black Cats of the Moonlight Night" and walked home in the moonlight across the sea of ​​stars.

After returning to her and Asuna's house, she saw a figure busy in the kitchen.

"Pendragon, you're back." The flaxen-haired girl looked up at him in surprise, her voice was crisp and moving, "I made something, do you want to eat it together?"

While talking, Asuna seemed to suddenly think of something, then puffed her mouth, pretending to complain and came to Artoria's side.

"Really, where have you been all day today?"

The girl's gentle voice rang in her ears, as if a gust of wind had blown away the moonlight.

"Hurry up and clean up, my meal is almost ready."

She reached out and pulled Artoria into the house, then closed the door to block the coolness outside.

"Why don't you speak, what are you thinking?"

Asuna walked up to her, leaned forward, and glanced suspiciously at the blond girl.

"...I'm really thinking about something." With a chuckle, she raised her hand and rubbed the soft hair on the top of the other's head.

"I was thinking that many times people are obsessed with one goal, thinking that there are scenery far away, but in fact the most beautiful scenery is often around.

Life is short and fleeting, but there are thousands of detours, so you must stick to your heart. Only when a person knows how to protect what is most precious to him can he truly obtain happiness. "

"........."

Hearing this, the girl couldn't help being silent for a moment.

Okay, this guy must have encountered something outside.

"Laughing helplessly, Asuna took a step back, then tilted her little head, "Okay, my big thinker. "

"Compared to thinking about those complicated things, should you choose to feed yourself first?"

"I don't know if you have eaten outside. I am making roast leg of lamb, so do you want to eat it?"

Asuna's words fell into her ears, and the great philosopher Artoria immediately suppressed the melancholy in her heart.

It's not that she, King Arthur, boasted that when it came to eating, she really wasn't afraid of anyone except a nun with a big stomach.

What?Didn't you say she had a dinner party just now?

Just kidding, a dinner party is a dinner party, and dinner is dinner, and the two of them don't conflict at all.

Food is just around the corner, and as a gentleman, Artoria will never let down a lady's invitation from a delicious leg of lamb.

So, she nodded solemnly, and replied loudly.

"Yes! I want to eat!!"

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Between heaven and earth in life, if a white horse passes by, it will be all of a sudden.

Just three days after that dinner, good news finally came from the strategy team. They found the room of the boss on the first floor of the maze.

Sometimes Arturia even thought, if it wasn't for the fact that it took too much time to find the boss room, maybe she would be able to push through it in a month just for the death game.

However, in any case, the Raiders will move forward again, which is good news.

The set time for the meeting this time was nine o'clock this morning. Early in the morning, Artoria and Asuna tidied themselves up a bit, had some breakfast, and rushed directly to the meeting place.

"Look, they are here!"

"Glittering Asuna, the eternal golden knight, no matter how many times I see it, I think it's so beautiful!"

The members of the clearing team who had been chatting normally before they set off were silent for a moment when they saw the two of them approaching, and then suddenly became extremely noisy again.

For these two girls, they were half-jokingly and half-seriously called "Aincrad's Treasures" by the players in private.

This is not difficult to understand is not it.

The girl named Asuna is bright and charming, in addition to her tall figure and pretty face, long flaxen hair and female knight uniform give people a sense of heroism and heroism, quite a goddess style.

He is capable and neat in doing things, has a considerate personality, and does not look at everyone from a secular perspective when getting along.

In addition to being kind, there is no lack of perseverance. Under the style of being strong on the outside and soft on the inside, there is an independent and self-reliant heart.

So Asuna is well received by everyone, and this is a matter of course.

As for the eternal golden knight, everyone's perception of her is another matter.

Artoria Pendragon, she has a head of soft and thick blond hair, but she always likes to pull it neatly behind her head.

She always treats people with gentleness and elegance, and the words she speaks are sincere and straightforward enough to make people feel shy, but they are not annoying.

If someone encounters something difficult that cannot be solved and seeks help from the other party, the girl will always smile and lend a helping hand to you.

There was even a time when a female player was in trouble, but she was too embarrassed to bother others and could only worry about it alone. She walked up to the other person and asked gently if he needed her help.

It is inevitable that there will be some small bumps in daily life, not to mention in this death game, as long as there is a little carelessness, there will be no future to speak of.

But when the player makes a mistake in attacking the boos, and his life is counting down to death, she will rush to your side in time to resist all the storms for you.

Artoria, who doesn't know how to comb very complicated hairstyles, is always very energetic and smiles softly at everyone who comes by.

With clear, green eyes as bright as springs, such a girl doesn't know much about the things in the game.

But even if it is a small deficiency, she will study hard to make up for this shortcoming.

The girl is serious, but not rigid. She has a serious and cautious personality, but occasionally she does things unconstrained.

She has a very good weapon, but sometimes she will tell others that she actually has a more powerful and beautiful long sword, but it is not with her now.

An exquisite and bright knight girl, she likes to stand under a tree and look into the distance in the breeze in her spare time. At that time, her eyes were always misty like mist, which made people feel unreachable and uncertain, as if the next second would happen. Will go away with the wind.

Such a scene will always make the person who sees it feel uneasy, so when you want to go up and grab her, she will look back at you with surprised eyes, and then shake her head helplessly towards you Smile.

How to describe that smile?

Like a deep blue space full of stars, or is it reality in a dream, or a dream in reality?

But anyway, when you see that smile, you will understand one thing in an instant:

—She is the resting place in the radiant light, the infinite mystery, the blue sky of the boundless sky, the deep and vast infinite universe.

This kind of Arturia certainly has an amazing charm. There are often players who hide in the dark and watch her secretly, regardless of gender.

No one would hate such a blonde girl, everyone loves her.

Facing everyone's scorching eyes, both Artoria and Asuna are already used to it.

However, at the beginning, Asuna was not quite used to being treated like an idol.

But when she saw Artoria's unremarkable and calm face beside her, the uneasiness in her heart was miraculously calmed down.

'It's amazing. "She said with emotion more than once, "Being sought after by others is obviously such a shameful and frightening thing, but it seems that in front of Pendragon, it is like eating and drinking water, which is not worth mentioning at all. '

Is there any experience in the real world?

Or are you used to this kind of scene?

Could it be that her real identity outside is an idol?

That's right, she looks so good-looking, maybe she's an idol, a singer, or an actress.

But it shouldn't be, such a unique temperament and face will never be forgotten once you take a look at it, but I have no impression of it at all......

Arturia Pendragon, you are truly a mysterious woman!

As for the person involved, the blond king said that she has no idea of ​​her image in Asuna's heart, and has gone to the desert at this moment.

Slowly walking in front of Heathcliff, Arturia looked up into the other's eyes.

After the two looked at each other for a while, the man in armor broke the calm first.

"Good morning, Pendragon, nice to see you again."

"You guys came just in time, and it's almost nine o'clock." He smiled, seemingly gentle, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.