Sakuri sashiti

Sakuri got rather suprised by the sudden move made by Clarence, but it was one of those happy suprises which you want more of, and not those scary and bad suprises. After the kiss, and hug ended, Sakuri blushed some cause of the "Not ready for kisses" thing, but he also cracked a smile for the joy he felt inside of him, like butterflies.

"Well, hello to you to!" He said as he saw his health raising, rather quickly. Luckily, in SAO you could feel no pain, and your wounds could heal in a instant. If this would be real world, both of them would probably be dead. As thoughts like this raced through Sakuri's mind, he got a bit drawn away from reality.

"Do you ever think about the real life?" He said still drifting away in thoughts about how this had been if it was real life.

Sakuri watched as his party mates vanished the wolfs one by one, while he himself couldn't even hit them once. You could see in his eyes that he got irritated by the lack of damage he had dished out.

He quickly removed any disturbing thoughts from his mind, which could make him miss another attack, he then charged straight forward at the next wolf.

But it seems like he just can't get a hit in. He mumbled some curse words which couldn't be identified as words if they were to be heard. But he figured that his party would win this battle for him.

-Party-

Shanok : 21/21

Eléssar : 17/17

Nova : 12/12

Sakuri : 17/17

Clarence : 31/31

-Enemies-

Wolf#1 : 0/2 - dead -

Wolf#2 : 0/2 - dead -

Wolf#3 : 0/2 - dead -

Wolf#4 : 0/2 - dead -

Wolf#5 : 2/2

Wolf#6 : 2/2

Sakuri gives out a small sigh as Clarence had asked if he had anything which could recover his health, since even though he could watch in his inventory, he knew that he wouldn't find anything.

He slowly shook his head as he scrolled through his very short inventory list. He then looked up towards Clarence with a smile.

"I guess i'll have to let time do its job!" he said as optimistic he could. He didn't feel some sort of danger now anyhow, as Clarence had joined him, so the monsters here wouldn't be stronger than both of them.

He now realized that Clarence and himself hadn't formed a party yet, so he quickly sent an party invite to Clarence.

Sakuri gave a hasty look backwards as she had offered him a bet of some kind, or wel she rather asked if they should create one more than actually offering one. He gave out a small sigh as he dodged a hit from the golem.

We might die here, do she udnerstand that? he thought to himself in a sort of irritated mood, since Sakuri would usually be one of those over serious persons who would avoid losing focus for some silly game, but he also got the thought that this bet could make their friendship flurish, or atleast make this run through the dungeon better, and easier.

After he blocked an attack, he gave a quick look back again to her, to see if she still was alright.

"You could always test me, to see if i would like the bet you have in mind" he said in a slightly irritated but still calm and kind voice, as he tried to not sound round towards her.

After he said this, he quickly sidestepped the golem, to see if he could find an opening. And it seemed to have payed of, and keeping a calm mind is always good while githing, this Sakuri did another point of damage towards the golem.

Even though he had hit the golem, he gave out a small irritated sigh for not landing a single critical during this whole fight.

Atleast i am hitting it.. he reminded himself of to realese some of the frustration he had inside of himself. But just as he lost focus while drifting away in thoughts about his damage, a big hit was comming in towards him. This time, Sakuri had no chance of reaction, and got hit in the chest, causing him to fly away into the stone wall.

"Ughh" got out from his mouth as he hit the wall, causing 2 points towards him. Luckily for both of them, the dungeon would not be that hard so the program made that only 1 golem per person would attack on the same time, otherwise they would have dealt with two more at the same time.

-Party-

Sakuri - 15/17

Lisbeth - 14/15

-Foes-

Iron golem - 1/4

Iron golem - 1/4

Iron golem - 4/4

Iron golem - 4/4

Sakuri gets some sort of irritated face expression when he says that i wouldn't had mattered if he got hurt or not, Sakuri belives that it would be the opposite of than, and it very much would have mattered as he didn't wan't to see Clarence get hurt, especially not when he did what he did to help himself from a almost sure death.

But right as Sakuri are in these thoughts, Clarence do something crazy and foolish, he attacks the monster again which had lost track out of them, and even thought he evased rather nice and actually got some damage dealt to the monster, Sakuri thought it might be better for them to hunt something smaller, and not as dangerous. Afterall, they had never been in a battle togheter.

Sakuri drag Clarence away as fast as he possibly can, and hides behind a tree hoping that the monster would have lost track of them at this point.

"Maybe we should let this one go, and go for some smaller creatures which wont put us in mortal danger" He said with a serious tone in his voice, with a matching face to it.

Sakuri got caught by suprise, as he couldn't really keep up with everything that just had happen, but suddenly he was on top of his lovely Clarence, and it seemed like he had avoided death at this point since the monster he was fighting, couldn't be seen.

"Thank you... That was a close one" He said as he hugged him hard, and then got up on his feets to avoid any awkward positions.

He quickly brushed his cloth of from old habit that it got dirty after being in the ground, he reached out with his hand to help Clarence up, if he needed it. He softly smiled towards him and scratched the back of his head.

"I hope that you're alright also, so you didn't hurt yourself"

Sakuri grapped his sword even harder than he had before, and tried to do a thrust at the golem which stood in front of him, and as he did this he replied with a sort of strained voice.

"I am holding up" he said as he gave a slight view to see so she wouldn't die.

And while his effort still payed of, and that eh could avoid getting hit himself, he couldn't help but notice the damage Lisbeth had taken, which got to him really easy.

You have to protect her echoed through his head as he stood there facing a dangerous enemy. He would wothout hesitation get hit for her instead, if he only could react in time, but that was of course hard as he stood with his back towards her.

The sweat started to dripp from his forehead as his thinking took overhand with the possible things that might happen, but he tried to force this away is it would only damage his combat abillites.

-Party-

Sakuri - 17/17

Lisbeth - 14/15

-Foes-

Iron golem - 2/4

Iron golem - 2/4

Iron golem - 4/4

Iron golem - 4/4

He kept looking aroudn himself to see if the monsters would charge at them, ro what would happen, when he suddenly heard her question.

"Don't die, that's the plan" But just as he said this, one of the golems charged straight at them both, but as soon as it charged towards them, Sakuri placed himself infront of Lisbeth to catch the aggro of the mob. As the golems had swords also, the metal sound echoed in the room as Sakuri's shied had stopped a powerful swing that came towards him.

Here's my chance to strike he thought to himself as he removed his shield and thrusted with his rapier at the same time.

And this seemed to had worked, sicne he did hit the iron golem, The problemw as that Sakuri had no real damage gear, instead he had gathered himself some tanking gear. He looked over to Lisbeth hoping that her damage would be better, but his eyes quickly snapped back to the big golem as it raised its sword and got ready for another hit.

-Party-

Sakuri - 17/17

Lisbeth - 15/15

-Foes-

Iron golem - 3/4

Iron golem - 4/4

Iron golem - 4/4

Iron golem - 4/4

But as he failed his last attack, but blocked his enemy attack, he decided that he could try a simple shield bash to even the battle results out a bit. He did a quick step towards the direction that his enemy stood in , and charged the slam with full power, the only problem could be that he had his shield in front of his face, thus blocking his vison.

But it seemed like his plan had worked, and he could hit his shield bash right at the bandit, causing one damage to him. The battle had now evened out a bit, but he figured that this combat would take some time.

-Party-

Sakuri - 16/17

-Foes-

Bandit - 1/2

Bandit - 2/2

Bandit - 2/2

Deep withing the giant giant, the sound of metal that clashed into something which was followed up by a sound that everyone could hear was a monster, but also at occasions, you could hear some sort of battlecry comming out from a player.

This player was Sakuri, and he had found himself fighting some sort of mini boss, and things started to look worse and worse for Sakuri, as his health had dropped very low.

Sakuri looked towards his health bar to see that he only had 3 health left, out of the starting 17 he had, he then looked at the tree monster he had encountered, and it seemed like this monster was very low aswell with only 5 health left. As Sakuri stood there with a glimps of health left, everything he had experienced in both life, and SAO rushed through his mind like it was some sort of race with thoughts.

He stood toe to toe against the giant tree, in a shining white armor, with his shield raised up to block any incomming attack, and a rapier. What he also had that would make people to recognize him better, would be the white cloak with the Azure Brigade emblem on it.

As he raised his shield to block the next attack that was lunged at him, it seemed like he had misplaced his feets which caused him to hit the dirt, and was now pinned between a tree, and the big monster planning on finishing him of.

-Party-

Sakuri - 3/17

-Foes-

Tree monster - 5/20

After he had blocked the trap which had tried to damage him, he stood up with his shield infront of himself to be ready if any other attacks where to come at them.

"Yeah don't worry about it, i waslucky this time."

He then looked back towards her as he had heard that she might have gotten a little irritated over that he had been protective, he then turned his ehad back towards the hallway which led further into the cave.

"It's not that i don't trust you, more that i don't want another humans death on my conscience" he said as he slowly started to walk further in, with his shield up and his sword ready for anything.

After they had walked a couple of meters, they entered a bigger room, with one way in, and a couple of meters infront of that, a way out. He could not see if there were anything on the sides of it. After they carefully had walked in, Sakuri heard a loud noice, followed by two doors shutting down. This was the doors in and out from the room they had walked into.

Suddenly beams of light appears, which somewhat smaller, but almost human size iron golems came through. There were two on each side of them.

-Party-

Sakuri - 17/17

Lisbeth - 15/15

-Foes-

Iron golem - 4/4

Iron golem - 4/4

Iron golem - 4/4

Iron golem - 4/4

After the strike had hit him, he instantly raised his shield to block another hit which was incomming at him and blocked it. He now saw the third bandit which barely even had realized what was happening, and Sakuri decided to take advantage of this and charged straight at him.

But he missed this time also, maybe he had taken water over his head by charging 3 people at the same time. This time he was not alone to fail anyhow, since the bandit which tried to counter attack him had simply hit his shield instead.

-Party-

Sakuri - 16/17

-Foes-

Bandit - 2/2

Bandit - 2/2

Bandit - 2/2

Sakuri figured that he could get some vital infomation from these bandits of where he could find their hiding, but he couldn't ask them when they were a group of 3 people. Thus raised his shield and charged straight at the first bandit that would cross his way.

But it seemed like he would fail at this attack, and this could be by several reasons. Maybe cause he blocked his vision to much with the big shield he had raised to get protection, or maybe it was of the lack of experience which he had in thsi combat style.

Either way, he missed, and if this was not enough, the bandits took this opputunity to hit him in the side causing 1 damage.

-Party-

Sakuri - 16/17

-Foes-

Bandit - 2/2

Bandit - 2/2

Bandit - 2/2

As he passed under the big walsl through the gatem the sun lightend up his face, and the wind instantly caught his hair. It was another sunny day, which it usuall was. Sakuri had barely even get to experience the few "Bad weather days" that the game had implented, and sometimes you just missed those cloudy days when you don't have to always see the sun!¨

He casually walked towards the forest which he had been at in a previous quest, and this time he knew where he should walk to find it and not walk around aimlessly without a specific goal, or not knowing where the specific goal is to be more exact.

He saw some players fighting outside of the city, when he suddenly heard a scream. He rushed towards the place where the scream had taken place, and just as he arrived to get vision of it, he saw a player's health bar dropping down to zero, causing him to explode in red pixels. Next to that, he saw 3 other people, which seemed to be bandits.

Sakuri had recently came back to floor one, when he had heard some rumors going around the town, mostly from the low level players since it was them it concerned. The rumor was about some sort of bandit group which lives in the forest outside of the town, and they are causing trouble to new players that tries to start up their adventure.

Sakuri had walked around and eavesdropping to player groups to see if he could get any info about this rumor, if it's true or not, since it would be a dumb idea for anyone to head out straight into the forest looking for bandits which may or may not exist without any knowledge about it.

But after a while, he had decided that enough players had talked about it, so either it was a big rumor to spread fear to people, or it was actually true. Sakuri thought that he could handle this alone, thus equiping his newly bought shield, and equipped his new armor, with these new stuff, the damage he would get would be minimal, if even anything.

Another new thing which he had fixed by an NPC tailor, was just a white cloak with the guild emblem on it, just to show where he stands among the players. With this equipped, he headed out towards the gate.

As sakuri saw that both of the other players had killed one wolf each, he decided that he had to provide some sort of help also, so he wouldn't make the guild look bad, thus he charged straight in for the wolf that he had locked his eyes on, hoping to land a good hit on it.

But it seemed like his new fighting style had made his combat worse. He had always been used to light clothing and a simple rapier, but now he used both a shield and heavy armor which made him less fast and less accurate, but Sakuri had figured that this was a great place to start learning to use this sort of equipment.

-Party-

Shanok : 21/21

Eléssar : 17/17

Nova : 12/12

Sakuri : 17/17

Clarence : 31/31

-Enemies-

Wolf#1 : 0/2 - dead -

Wolf#2 : 0/2 - dead -

Wolf#3 : 2/2

Wolf#4 : 2/2

Wolf#5 : 2/2

Wolf#6 : 2/2

While she had been speaking, they had finally reached the entrance of the dunegon, which was a big hole at the foot of the mountain, and a wooden door a few meters in. But before Sakuri made any sign of enter, he stopped up to get a chance of replying, since it would be unpolite to not do so.

"I have recently done the quest, so i haven't experienced the merchant life so much, but i guess it's kinda hard to people relies on me to have the stuff they need, which it's kinda hard to have!" He says as he give away a loudly sigh and drifting up with his vision towards the sky.

He quickly snaps back and forces his mind to not drift away. He looked over to the very excited girl and couldn't help but to small towards her.

"I am very happy that you'll get the chance to do what you want after this, but try to not rush everything to much, don't forget to enjoy some parts of it also." He said as he close in on the entrance, and now stood just in front of the wooden door. He then turned around, and had gone from a small smile to a very serious and concerned face expression.

Without breaking eye contact with the girl, he said with a very strict voice.

"Alright, if something goes down which we're not ready for, if i say run, you run." And after this, he returned to the handle of the door.

He opened it up, and heard a squeking sound. And suddenly, spikes came flying towards him from the right side of the walls, with intention of hurting him. Luckily Sakuri could react in time and brought his shield up to stop threat.

((I got this idea that every 5th post we do, is a trap post. And if you get a LD lower than 6, it will cause one damage))

Sakuri followed up as he started to walk towards the town.

"No, this fight did not give much more than experience actually.." After he had listened to what Sotarou had to say, he nodded and thought that a plan is always a plan, and having a plan will always make your life easier, even if it works out in the end or not.

"Stick to your plan, this will help you to reach your goals alot faster, more than just getting the katana. Now of course i might not now all of your goals, but i recognize that you want to be high elvel and complete the game like most people here, and do a difference!" He said as he drifted away in thoughts about the frontline, and that maybe they one day would complete the game.

He now realized after such a long time that Eléssar had left, but this did not suprise him that much since he had always belived him to be nonchalant and ignorant. but maybe that just is some sort of protection he thought to himself.

Sakuri saw how low Sotarou had droppes, and decided that he shall finish the fight right now so noone will get hurt even further, or in worst case scenario, that noone should die. With the switch comming out, sakuri didn't hesitate a moment before charging straight for the boar hoping to land a good, and finishing hit.

And he did it, he thrusted his rapier with good precision, cauing him to land a critical which was exactly what he needed. The boar vanished into a million red pixels as it vanished.

"I am glad that this is over now" He said as he sheated his sword.

((Some people would call me a hero but W/E <3))

Sakuri - 15/17

Eléssar - 10/15

Nova - 8/10

Kanya - 52/54

Ruri - 55/59

Sotarou - 2/7

Boar - DEAD

Sakuri smiled towards her as she introduced himself to him. He then remoevd the hair which had fallen in front of his eyes, while he mumbled something which couldn't be heard. He then looked at her with a smile.

"Nice to meet you, Lisbeth" He said as he started to think about the other question which he had been about, not that it was much to think about, he was mostly trying to dig into his mind to see if he had gathered mats.

He figured that when he did the profession quest, he was kind of farming for mats also, but he had never really farmed for mats by venturing into a dungeon or just killed mobs for him, while maybe he had.

"My name is Sakuri, and yes i would say that i had done so! When i did my quest to become a merchant i kinda did it!" He said as he looked towards the sky while still thinking about it.

He then watched the map again and realized that the entrance where pretty close now.

"Well the entrance is really close now" He said while pointing where the map had told him.

Sakuri followed Shanok out to the woods, and they seemd to have found a pack of wolves which didn't look happy at all. Shanok was the first one to charge at the wolfs, but they had missed his attack. As a tank, which he had put as his role, he decided to rush straight in hoping to get some aggro and helping the group.

But Sakuri missed the wolf he had targeted by alot, but lickily he got his shield up in time to prevent any counter attack from hitting him.

-Party-

Shanok : 21/21

Eléssar : 17/17

Sakuri : 17/17

Clarence : 31/31

-Enemies-

Wolf#1 : 2/2

Wolf#2 : 2/2

Wolf#3 : 2/2

Wolf#4 : 2/2

Wolf#5 : 2/2

Wolf#6 : 2/2

Sakuri didn't realize at first that the girl had started walking, but quickly caught up with her. He looked at her an tried to figure out what kind of person she was, but he couldn't decide what he thought. By the way she looked, she could be one of those which used tons of people for her own favor, but with how she acts, she could also be one of those who is self indipendant and trust herself in first hand.

After they had left the town in silence, sakuri felt like he had to say something during the awkward silence that had appeard.

"So, may i ask for your name?" He said with a small smile as he looked at her, waiting for her reply.

This was the first time Sakuri ever would try his new style out, which would be a tanking style, he realized that he almost missed, and would instead just stand in front of attacks!

As he was waiting for a reply, which had just taken a few seconds, he tripped on his own feet, causing him to take a few extra stepps forward to balance out.

"Woops" He said while he blushed with a small laughter.

Sakuri smiled towards the girl which had asked if there were room in the party still, which he quietly nodded to. After he had nodded for a couple of seconds, he realized that he should give her an anwser and don't scare her of.

"Well, yes! Noone has asked yet, except you that is!" He said with a small laughter as he scratched the back of his head.

Now i got my partner to help me out, SWEET he thought as he removed the sign he held up. He then borught up his map to see where they were going.

"It will only be us two, is that alright with you? Then we should be able to go now!" He said as he looked towards her, and then the exit.

Sakuri had grew short of materials, and decided that he would go and farm some. He teleported to the second floor since he had heard about some sort of dungeon where the mountains is, and he figured it was a dungeon which would be underneath it.

He had only heard rumors about this dungeon, and it's said that the protectors of it, is iron golems. Since it were iron golems Sakuri belived them to drop iron, hopefully his thought would be correct. After he had arrived to the gate out from the city, it would come to mind that it might be dangerous, and being more than, well alone is always a good thing, that way two, or three of them could watch eachothers back while fighting.

He walked back to the town center and sat down on a bench, trying to figure how he should find or create a party here. After a few minutes of thinking he came to one of his most silly solutions, he would make a sign that would say he was looking for a party.

Then, he stood there with a sign saying that he was looking for a partner to venture the dungeon underneath the mountain.

Sakuri watched as the boar tried to damage him, but. He also saw that Sotarou missed his attack, again, which could open up an attack for Sakuri, and bring it closer to death.

But with no real speed, or precision sakuri was not able to land an attack, this time he jumped back from the boar so he would not let himself become a target!

Sakuri muttered some curse words as he had missed.

Sakuri - 15/17

Eléssar - 10/15

Nova - 8/10

Kanya - 52/54

Ruri - 55/59

Sotarou - 5/7

Boar - 3/25