Bhairyuu

[OOC: <<Rainbow Stone>> & <<Generic Plushie Mk 0>> now equipped to Bhairyuu's Off-hand slot from this post onward till the remainder of this thread.]

Bhairyuu received both the axes and was about to go to work trying to cut down another tree when Khrysaor had stopped him. He turned to Khrys and saw Khrys send over two items from his inventory, those items being a <<Rainbow Stone>>, an odd rock that glowed in all the various colors of the rainbow and a <<Generic Plushie>>, a rather creepy looking small-sized doll. Bhairyuu had listened with an incredulous look on his face while Khrys explained the effect of the two items on him and at the end, he remarked

"Geez, these are some really queer trinkets you sent me, Khrys...you sure they will help me gather this wood more efficiently...honestly, they don't look very impressive...but whatever, let's just get this over with, I guess..."

Despite his reluctance to believe what Khrys just told him, Bhairyuu went ahead and attached the plushie to the 1 foot long hilt of his shiny new sword, the <<Embodiment of Apophis>> and slipped the <<Rainbow Stone>> into one of the open pouches in his utility belt. Then, he went over to the tree right next to the one Khrys had cut down a few minutes before and positioned himself several feet away from it since he needed that kind of distance to perform his theatrics in a believable way. He nodded at Khrys to step back and then went into his own imitation of one of Zoro's two swords style techniques, muttering

"Niitoryuu Iai: Rashomon!!"

 With that, he rushed at the tree and then in the blink of an eye, drew the axes, one from each side of the hip, threw them at the trunk of the tree as hard as possible, causing the tree to split into three sections which then started to fall away from each other slowly. The axes curved upward due to the force of the throw and then returned to his hands and he resheated them with a smirk.

Several minutes ticked by slowly but surely as Bhairyuu tore through the food items one after another until finally about 30 minutes or so after loading his plate, Bhairyuu was finally finished with his impromptu meal. After that, he cleaned his plate and then after downing some of the butterbeer from those flame-colored goblets he had seen earlier, Bhairyuu cleaned himself up and then headed off to the far end of the dining room where he had seen the staircase on the left and a large door with a mysterious looking room on the right side. Once he got there, Bhairyuu was puzzled as to which side he should explore first and so he did the typical "Eenie meenie minie moe" game at the end of which, he ended up selecting the large, ornately made door on the right side of the dining room. After making his choice, he walked at a brisk pace towards it and then slowly and carefully opened the door to peek inside, wondering what he would see in the room.

Unfortunately for him, most of the room was enshrouded in a sinister-looking veil of shadows that made shivers run up and down his spine and he sighed, thinking to himself as he strained his eyes and was barely able to make out some ominous looking shapes towards the end of the room.

"Geez, just once...just once...I thought I would get something easy and safe to see...but here I am staring into a room that looks more like a jail cell or a torture chamber...is it really that much to ask for to have something easy and safe?..."

Bhairyuu had been watching Khrysaor intently while wondering just what he was up to when he finally saw Khrys move towards the tree and go into performing a technique with the two hand-axes he had that resembled one of those used by a character known as Roronoa Zoro from one of his favorite animes One Piece. Upon seeing how the technique had neatly split the large tree into 3 neat, long blocks, Bhairyuu chuckled briefly while slouching with his right eyebrow and right corner of his mouth twitching intermittently and then spoke after kneeling down next to the cut sections of the tree.

"Seriously...did you just pull a Zoro move there? And of all his two swords style techniques it had to be that one...come on...surely you could have used the "Hirameki" instead...at least that would have been easier on us when it comes to collecting the wood...geez..what a royal pain...these sectons are so long...it will take forever to cut them down to size..."

Saying thus, Bhairiyuu let out a disgruntled groan as he stretched out his hand to take the two axes. He paused and spoke

"...Let me have those two axes...I want to see what I can do with them to trim these down to make them into blocks so that we can extract them as a quest item..."

Bhairyuu looked quizzically at the axe in Khrysaor's hand and then at him as he asked for another axe in order to display some apparently cool and/or amusing technique in his repertoire, wondering what sort of technique would require two axes just to cut down a single tree, but he did not question Khrysaor and instead, he simply opened his Player Menu and from his inventory, he materialized a standard sized hand-axe and gave it to Khrysaor while asking

"Amusing technique, huh? Well don't keep me in the dark...I hate to be kept waiting, in case you didn't know."

With that, Bhairyuu fell silent, now standing back several feet from the tree that he and Khrysaor were at so that Khrys could have a large enough space to work in and wondered if the technique was just going to be Khrys showing off or whether it was actually going to be useful in helping him gather the wood for the ship more efficiently.

Bhairyuu had been lookiing around for Opal rather fruitlessly when, all of a sudden, she suddenly leapt from her hiding spot and then pounced on him, hurling him to the frost covered ground like a tigeress would a defenseless stag. However, he did not complain one bit but rather had unwittingly let out a loud groan that almost suspiciously sounded as though he was in a great deal of pleasure, not pain when she ended up straddling him in full view of everyone. As if that was not enough, she had gone on to strike a confident pose with her boot squarely on his broad, herculean chest while issuing a challenge to all the males present there and had issued a warning to him to keep his hands somewhere visible. Bhairyuu did as she asked, uttering a rumbling chuckle while taking in the heavenly sight of her rather ample, now heaving bosom
 and then replied with a smug smirk on his thin lips

"Hehe, as you wish, Opal...and thanks for the SWEET view...I have finally fulfilled one of the items on my bucket list and it's all due to your kindness, hehe...you truly are the best Snowballer ever!!"

With that he fell silent and decided to tease her some more, so he kept a perverted grin on his lips and simply lay there in the soft snow while his keen, piercing green eyes refused to move from her bosom and with a thin trickle of blood running down from his nose, waiting to see what she would say and do in response to his retort. While he waited, he spread his arms out and started to gather some snow as surreptitiously as he could so that he could get back at her later.

Bhairyuu had still been deep in his daydream when the water from Khrys's mouth hit him in the face full force, but since he was still entranced, he could not respond immediately. It was not till he heard Khrys's words that he came out of his perverted daydream with an uncharacteristic exclamation

"Huuggahh!! Eh...what the heck happened to me just now? Ah, dont tell me I started daydreaming again...Geez...how troublesome...oh well...nothing I can do about that now..."

He then looked at Khrys and then shook his head to reset his thoughts and cleared his throat loudly, then saying as he dried himself off

"Well then, that's enough talk about the ship...shall we get to gathering the requisite quest items now?"

With that he got up from where he was sitting and then started walking towards one of the deeper parts of the forest which he had scoped out earlier and looked around, and then back at Khrys, saying

"Oh wait...I...dont know how to gather Mats yet...so you need to show me how to do that first...only then can we truly begin this quest in earnest."

Bhairyuu nodded as he heard Khrys's suggestion of making their ship a fusion between the designs of the Going Merry, the earlier ship of the Straw Hat Pirates, and their later one, the Sunny Go, saying

"Hmm, good idea on the structure of the ship...I suggest adding black flame shaped highlights along the whole design to bring out the brightness of the red and metallic gold colors that adorn the body of our ship...oh and let's add wings too like those in that Skypeia arc...and what else...am I missing anything?...Oh yea, what should we do about the pirate flag? Putting a pic of a straw hat would be too obvious a reference...so let's come up with our own design..."

He paused and his lips twisted upwards in a perverted grin as he spoke

"...I suggest we go with a duo act...post-timeskip Nami-chwan AND Robin-chwan...in a sexy two piece bikini...both striking sexy poses...ehehehe...the colors being metallic gold for Robin...because you know...she is an archaeologist...and for Nami...lets go with crimson red...since...hmm...oh yeah...her fiery hot temper...the background being the sterotypical black...they will be sitting Nami on Robins's lap with the Jolly Roger as the throne they're sitting on?...Now that...would be sizzling hot, hehehe."

As he said this, Bhairyuu started to drool and even had a minor nosebleed while his fingers started wiggling in a perverted manner as though he was groping a pair of huge breasts, all the while chuckling pervertedly with a lecherous grin on his face as he imagined Nami and Robin in his mind's eye.

Bhairyuu listened silently to Khrysaor describng his plan for this <<Rovian Wars>> event quest and took in as much of the detail as he possibly could during that time. After that, he once again pulled a Shikamaru-esque move and arranged his hands in a circular shape with his fingertips touching gently and closed his eyes while steadying his breathing so that he could regulate the flow of his thoughts. Once he had done that, he thought about all the new information he had just gotten from Khrys in light of the old information from earlier. After spending a few minutes in silent contemplation, he finally looked up, opened his eyes and replied

"I would suggest we go with just the two of us since more people means less individual rewards for the two of us at the end of this event...I know we'll be taking a big risk with just the two of us, but honestly, I wouldnt want to disperse the rewards anymore than necessary...plus if you take into consideration all the effort we'll need to put in to getting more crew members...it end up becoming a wholly unnecessary, king-sized pain in the neck...so yea, only the two of us will suffice for this."

He paused to collect his thoughts about the ships and the mods he thought of and then replied

"Hmm, yea I was just about to suggest that myself...let's model the ship after the Sunny Go from One Piece the anime, but we should go with something more than a 2 seater ship...perhaps make it a 3 seater like the Going Merry, but make it in the image of the Sunny Go...So what do you think?"

Ryuu had been enjoying the cool breeze through his hair when his ears caught what Khrysaor had just said about the event rewards in reply to what he had asked before and so, before responding he stopped to think, putting his fingertips together and arranging his hands in the shape of a circle while he had his eyes closed not unlike a certain anime character he greatly admired and endeavored to be like in his day to day life. After about 3 minutes during which he considered all the information he had received from Khrys and all the ramifications of that information using his innately high 180+ IQ, he looked up at Khrys and replied

"Let's do it, Khrys! I would be a fool to miss out on this event since the rewards are so damn huge, so let's milk this for all it's worth!"

With that, he fell silent as he too looked through his player menu at his inventory and Col reserves while waiting for Khrys to reply back and hopefully to tell him some more about his plan on successfuly completing this <<Rovian Wars>> event quest.

Bhairyuu listened intently as Khrysaor went over the basic details about the <<Rovian Wars>> event quest, absorbing as much as he could about it so that he could save himself the royally painful chore of asking questions about it. Before he knew it, Khrysaor had finished his narrative and was now asking him if he felt the event was amusing enough for him to take interested in it, so Bhairyuu nodded in the affirmative, saying

"Hmm, I am following you so far...but what are the event rewards like for this shindig? My final decision will depend on that, to be honest."

After that he fell silent, leaned back and while he waited for Khrys to reply, he enjoyed the feeling of the nice cool breeze wafting through his jet black hair and through his breathable clothing as well, all the while casting his jade green gaze about the clearing lazily and trying to take as much detal as he could without having to move from his spot.

Bhairyuu had wordlessly followed Khrys as he led them along a dangerously twisted and winding path to their destination which turned out to be a small clearing with a giant waterfall in the distance. Then he sat down on one of the small, more or less flat rocks that he had seen on the ground after staring at the waterfall for several minutes and began to listen to Khrys's narrative. To his surprise, Khrys brought up the mention of some event notification, but since Ryuu had not seen it, he shook his head saying

"What event is that? I was up pretty late and so was still pretty sleep-addled when I got your message, so I must not have noticed it...Hang on let me check..."

Bhairyuu trailed off and then opened his notifications menu and scrolled down up and down till finally after several seconds, he spotted the new even notification Khrys had spoke of earlier and quickly skimmed through it, gleaning all the basic details about it. Then he swiped his hand forward sending the notification menu over to Khrys, asking

"Is this...uh...<<Rovian Wars>> thing the event you're talking about?"

Bhairyuu had been standing over Khrysaor when he noticed that Khrys had finally come back to the world of the living and realized the gravity of the situation. Needless to say, he was relieved, but then Khrys went and did the reverse exorcist walk, surprising him greatly. So, for a few seconds, Bhairyuu was speechless and wondered just where Khrys had picked up such a extra-creepy maneuver from, but after a while he had to abandon that idle wondering since Khrys had started to give some lame excuse. He listened out of courtesy but the more he listened, the more he was reminded of that old perverted genius Kakashi from the anime Naruto and its sequel, which happened to be one of his favorites. However, he couldnt believe Khrys would give such a blatantly bad excuse and so his right eyebrow and the right corner of his mouth started twitching and his eyes narrowed at Khrys as he replied

"Oi oi, give me a break you damn liar!! If you're going to make excuses for your tardiness...atleast make them amusing...geez, you're troublesome, you know that?...Ah well whatever, let's get this meet-up over and done with so that both of us can get on with our lives, eh?"

Bhairyuu said in that usual totally unenthusiastic, bored, and even sleepy voice of his while slouching and sighing in exasperation, wondering just what was so important that Khrys had made him drag himself out of bed and come to this godforsaken excuse of a forest.

Bhairyuu stood back a little from Khrysaor and Letty so that he could observe her as she interacted with him and hopefully glean some info on her that he hoped would tell him if she would prove to be a vaulable party member later on or not. He whispered to Khrysaor so that Letty could not overhear him

"So...what do you think, bud? Can you do her a solid and make her that custom breastplate she is asking for? I would appreciate it...and I think if we help her out, she could prove to be a useful ally sometime down the line..."

After that, he went back to his position and leaned back against one of the nearest table as he lazily observed both @Khrysaor and his new friend @Letty, all the while wondering what Khrys's response to her would be and also how she would go about gathering the Col for such a custom-order as the one she was asking from him. While he waited, he took some of the food laid out on the table onto a plate and started crunching some munchies as politely as he could so as to not draw unwanted attention to himself.

Bhairyuu was about to continue yammering at Opal when all of a sudden he noticed she had vanshed from view...or rather, she had gone into hiding again. Bhairyuu knew that his <<Search & Detect>> skill was nowhere near high enough to detect Opal whom he surmised had to have a pretty high <<Sneak & Hide>> skill level to be able to apparently vanish among the many large piles of snow like that, so he did not bother trying to look for her since he figured he would probably fail and end up looking like a total doofus in front of all the rest of the group that had gathered there. Thinking thus, he sighed and started to make more <<Snow Balls>> so that he could retaliate at least a little and catch Opal with a flurry of the cold white orbs of snow once she stopped hiding and enacted whatever diabolical plan she was cooking up. After he had finished making about 10 of the <<Snow Balls>>, Bhairyuu stood up again and called out as if looking for a lost cat

"Here...kitty, kitty...come out come out wherever you are...let's continue playing...here...kitty, kitty..."

After that he waited patiently for Opal to show herself so that he could set his own plan into motion, wondering all the while what she was cooking up in that naughty mind of hers.

Bhairyuu had been waiting for over an hour for Khrysaor to come meet up with him at the forest as was requested and agreed upon in the PM he recieved several hours earlier that morning, but still there was no sign of Khrys anywhere. Bhairyuu got worried thinking Khrys had gotten involved in a mob battle and so he quickly rushed out of the forest and onto the plains looking about for any sign of Khrysaor. After a couple of attempts, he finally spotted Khrys and contrary to his expectations, Khrys was not involved in any fight at all...no, he was simply laying there on his lazy ass when he could have taken the time to go into the forest and do the meet up. Bhairyuu could very much appreciate the pleasures of being lazy and goofing off just as much as the next guy, but this was too much even for him. So he decided to play a little prank on his lazy friend.

He walked up into Khrysaor's blindspot and after making sure he was still unaware of his presence, he took out the <<Embodiment of Apophis>>, the new sword that Khrysaor himself had custom-made for him earlier and with one swift, fluid motion he plunged it into the soft earth millimeters away from Khrysaor's head, causing the razor-sharp edge of the blade slice off a few long wisps of hair from behind Khrysaor's right ear. Then with a wide, porcelain smile on his thin lips and with his eyes creased and a wicked gleam inhis jade green eyes he greeted Khrys, the words being used giving a totally different vibe than that of his actions

"Hey...Khrys...it is SO good of you to drop by...I see you're working EXTREMELY hard as always..."

He purposely laced his usually baritone and melodious tone with as much sarcasm as he could muster up at that moment and then stood back to see how Khrys would react to his rather unique greeting.

Bhairyuu was chuckling as he was busy dodging the other snowballs being thrown about by the players gathered on the shore of the lake, but unfortunately for him, the one that had just been thrown at him by Opal happened to catch him between his legs, causing him to shiver violently and grasp his nether-regions with his teeth chattering due to the sudden cooling effect, giving him quite the comical appearance. He shook his fist at Opal, calling out

"Oi Opal...h-have s-some mercy on me...o-one more h-hit like that and I-I will end up with h-hypoxic nether-regions..."

Regardless of his uncomfortable nether-regions, Bhairyuu knelt down to gather some more snow, formed it into about 5 <<Snow-Balls>> this time and hurled them at Opal wth his teeth still chattering and his body shivering. Sadly, his throw was not as good as last time and so he did not really expect any of the balls to smack into Opal as he flung them quite awkwardly.

Bhairyuu had been observing all the other people slowly filing in and gathering and was in the process of looking any amusing ones to interact with when he was abruptly pulled out of his reveries by the all too familiar feel of an ice cold mass against the back of his head, in other words a <<Snow Ball>> that someone had apparent chucked at him when his guard was down. Shivering as the cold snow slid down his outfit, he turned about on his heel to see just who it was that had thrown the snow-ball at him and to his surprise, it was a woman whom he had seen only once before a while back at another party. As he heard her warning, he chuckled, his deep voice echoing through the ice-cold air

"Opal, was it? Well well, if you want a snow-ball fight, then bring it on!"

With that, he knelt down, quickly formed a few roughly round balls of packed snow and threw them at  @Opal with a slight smirk on his thin lips and waited to see if they would hit their target.

Bhairyuu was exploring the same creepy old castle in that deserted alleyway in the <<Town of Beginnings>> when he saw the PM icon in his HUD light up with a small, red "1" superscript. Wondering who it could be, he took a break from his exploration and sat down on the the stone steps leading to the upper parts of the castle so that he could calmly presue whatever the message had in store for him. Upon opening the message, he noticed it had been sent to him by hiis buddy Khrysaor and had been tagged as urgent, and this of course ignited his innately insatiable curiosity. So he started reading through the message, and by the end, he found that Khrysaor had summoned him to a small forest at the outskirts of the <<Town of Beginnings>> and immediately set off for the coordinates indicated in the message.

A few hours later, Bhairyuu had crossed out of the <<Town of Beginnings>> and had somehow managed to reach the forest indicated without running into any monster mobs. Once there, he looked about, found the place he was supposed to meet up wth Khrys and sat down on a fallen log to wait for him to come on down and give him whatever that apparently important info was, all the while wondering what could be in store for him and hoping but not expecting whatever it is to be a walk in the park. To hasten the meet-up, Bhairyuu decided to send a return PM to Khrys to alert him that he was already at the forest and waiting for him

"Yo, Khrys...I am already at the forest you indicated on the map pic you sent in your initial PM, so whenever you're ready, come on down..."

Bhairyuu chuckled as he saw Khrysaor had finally made it over to where he and  @Letty were standing with Domarus and his friend and nodded towards Letty, introducing her to Khrys

"This is Letty, and she is the "lucky customer" you are referring to, bud. Apparently she doesn't like the standard breastplate she received and wants to have one more suited to her...er...size...so I thought since you did such a fine job with my custom-order sword, you could help her out too...so how about it?"

Saying thus, Bhairyuu looked between Letty and @Khrysaor for signs of approval of his proposition and then fell silent as he waited for Letty's response, wondering if she would really go through with the deal he proposed to her earlier. As he waited he studied Letty, Domarus and his friend Keres are they interacted, wondering if he could glean any info on Domarus since he looked like he could be a valuable ally for the plan he was going to set into motion to make good on his oath, which was the sole reason he came to the world of SAO.

Bhairyuu chuckled even more as he heard his new friend Letty start worrying about the logistics of getting a custom-order breastplate from his other buddy Khrys and hurried to reply, hoping he could assuage her fears about her apparently inadequate Col funds, his hand waving dismissively

"Dont worry so much about it, Letty...my buddy Khrys is pretty reasonable when it comes to this stuff...Earlier today, he gifted me my new sword that I commissioned him to make at a fairly reasonable price and even said I could pay him once I have the Col...so I am pretty sure I can convince him to do the same for you...Just think of this as my gift to you as commemoration of our newborn friendship."

He paused, briefly turning his head to see if Khrysaor had made it over to them and then turned back to @Letty with a puzzled expression on his face as she once again made that wierd comment about him killing her and asked with a slight head tilt with his eyes narrowed and his brow furrowed, making him look like a fox

"Kill you? Why would I do something so darn troublesome? You do know mindless PKing is heavily frowned upon in this game, dont you? After all, this game is dangerous enough as it is thanks to that stunt Kayaba pulled...there's no need for any of us to go slaughtering each other...

He paused for effect here and after considering his words carefully, he spoke again with that smirk stll on his lips

"besides...I have a general policy of being nice to the ladies...unless they do something to provoke me to violence, of course...so as long as you dont try to attack me, we'll be golden...by the way...it looks like some of your admirers have showed up...look behind you..."

He nodded to a point behind Letty, indicating the woman who called herself Keres and the guy who he now knew to be named Dom and stood back, intending to watch Letty's interaction with them before he set her up for a deal with his buddy Khrys.

[OOC: There's basically Domarus and this other woman called Keres behind your character @Letty ]

Bhairyuu had once again taken a break from exploring that creepy old castle in the back alleys of the <<Town of Beginnings>> and was now looking something or someone amusing to encounter when he noticed the world message icon light up and a small, red "1" superscript appear over the icon. He opened the world chat, wondering who sent the message and what it could be about at this hour. He read through the brief description the poster had put up and at the end, he sighed as he realized it was by yet another play he did not know in the game

"Geez...just how many players do I not know in this death-game? And what's with this trend of OP gatherings lately...Ah well...fun is fun regardless of the source, I guess...and I shouldn't complain...the host of this new gathering just saved me the royally painful chore of searching for something fun to do...so over to Floor 4 I go..."

With that, he had turned on his heel and walked over to the teleport gate, wondering if his current outfit would be enough to protect him against Floor 4's environment which he had heard was rather cold. Once at the gate, as per the regular routine, he announced in a clear voice

"Teleport! Floor 4!"

A split second after that, Bhairyuu had disappeared in a blinding swirl of bluish-white light and almost the next moment, he appeared in the safe zone of Floor 4. Once there, to his great chagrin, a sudden, unexpected blast of icy-cold air rushed over him, causing him to shiver violently even though he had a full length thick white woolen cloak on. Not wanting to waste any time suffering the bite of the ice-cold wind, Bhairyuu hurried over to the coordinates of the meeting. Once there, he saw a man dressed in jeans and a thick white jacket with gold trimmings, so he walked over to him and once he was within earshot, he called out, his deep voice cutting through the cold air over the lake

"Hello there, I hope you don't mind me joining this soiree...It promised to be quite amusing, so I thought I would come check it out..."

Bhairyuu waited eagerly as Khrysaor went into the back room of his shop to get the custom order sword that Bhairyuu had commissoned him to make and when he brought the sword out, Bhairyuu's jade green eyes which normally had a bored and maybe even sleep-addled expression in them lit up with a joyful, excited expression that was rather uncharacteristic of him, but then who could blame him, he was finally going to get a perfect quality weapon with not 1 but 3 enchantments on it...so naturally, he was like a kid in a candy shop, his eyes riveted on the sword and his mind barely registering what Khrys was saying at the moment. He was so excited, he even started drool a little, not that he noticed it of course. He took the sword from Khrys and had started to run his hands over it, admiring the crafting that had undoubtedly gone into making the sword when luckily, his mind registered what Khrys was saying about the sword and its cost now that he had calmed down a bit

"Of course, I like it, Khrys! After all, I had to put a lot of effort into thinking it up...Hmm, a friend discount, eh? Much appreciated, amigo...I will be sure to pay you back once I get my Col reserves up some more...Hopefully some events or quests will come my way...then I would be able to do it in no time at all..."

He paused to go gaga over his shiny new sword again and after several minutes, he spoke again

"Thanks for the excellent sword, Khrys...This should help my survival rate go up...if even a little...Anyways, take care, bro...and next time I might commission you to make some heavy armor for me...perhaps something based off the Anbu black ops outfit from that anime Naruto and its sequel Naruto Shippuden."

With that, he gave Khrys the IOU for the 1000 Col and with a lazy wave, he exited the shop and headed back to the <<Town of Beginnings>>, hoping to give it a test run sooner or later.

[OOC: Acquired Curved Sword-type Perfect quality weapon <<Embodiment of Apophis>>]

While he was waiting on Letty to reply after he had addressed Hakai, Bhairyuu had seen two other players, one male and one female walk up behind Letty and try to engage her in conversation, so he bowed his head in greeting to them as well. This made him chuckle as he was at least partly sure it was her strange habit of sniffing people upon first meeting, but he did not have time to dwell on it since he heard his friend Khrysaor call out to him from several steps away. So he turned his head toward Khrys and replied with a sigh

"Yea, we saw each other when I came to pick up my shiny new sword, Khrys. Don't worry, I had been wating for you to finish making that sword for ages now...I wouldn't be so careless as to go damaging it...besides if I do...I would have to make the troublesome trip back to Florenthia just to get it repaired by you....oh by the way...come over here...I want you to meet some new acquaintances of mine...as well as a potential customer."

Bhairyuu beckoned @Khrysaor over to where he was standing so he could have him meet Letty and maybe get in an order for a custom-order breastplate and then turned back to @Letty to wait for her reply.

While waiting for Letty to respond, through his peripheral vision, Bhairyuu noticed another young woman heading towards him and Letty and cast a quick, wary glance at her katana and then back at her at he heard her greet him, though his hand was still up for Letty to take in a handshake if she wished to do so.

"But of course, miss...you see I am one of the newer players who, thanks to a certain mad genius game inventor, got stuck in here unable to log out...so it's only natural, you haven't heard of me...Anyways, my name is Bhairyuu, or just Ryuu if you prefer the short form. Letty and I were just tossing idle, friendly banter back and forth and I was just suggesting a blacksmith friend of mine to her..."

He smiled politely at the young woman as he spoke in that same baritone but melodious voice of his and wondered who she was since she looked like a fairly veteran player, at least compared to him anyways.

@Hakai

Bhairyuu had no chance against the Hoya minotaurs so he decided that discretion was the better part of valor and stayed out of the way of the players who had been engaging the minotaurs. After what seems like hours of fighting, he noticed the minotaurs go down one after another and once the dust had settled, he rose up from his hiding place and stood with the rest of the group, answering Cygnus

"Oh yea...I second your opinion, Cyg...I don't want to have any nightmare of this place on top of all the other ones I have to deal with every night on a daily basis, so yea...I am all for hauling ass out of here as quickly as our feet can carry us."

With that, he fell silent, wondering what the other players were thinking and also whether he would ever become so strong that one day he too could confidently fight through the quests for those nice rewards at the end. For now though, he figured it was better to hang back and observes the other more experienced players in action.