Zongman, Rebirth of the Heaven-Defying Kirito

Looking at the cockroaches still frantically banging against the glass outside the window, and recalling Asuna's sudden shutdown due to fear, a fierce glint flashed in Kirito's eyes.

He resolutely stood up, and under Yui's questioning gaze, he only left behind the words, "I'll be right back!"

He then rushed out of the wooden house.

As soon as he circled around to the side of the wooden house, the cockroaches that had been gathered outside the window sensed his presence.

They scattered instantly.

Some flapped their wings and swooped down on him in the air; others crawled swiftly along the ground, surging towards his feet like a black tide.

The sheer number of them would have scared away an ordinary player.

Kirito's face remained expressionless, and the moment his twin swords were drawn, a cold light flashed.

"Shh!"

The first sword strike instantly sliced ​​several cockroaches in the air in half.

Before they could even turn into fragments, the second sword strike came right after them!

Kirito's movements were as fast as lightning. His twin swords seemed to come alive in his hands, and every swing accurately hit the cockroach.

In just one minute, he had cut all the dozens of cockroaches that were surrounding the wooden house in half.

The next second, the filthy cockroaches turned into countless fragments at the same time.

Kirito sheathed his twin swords, dusted off imaginary dust, and turned to walk back to the cabin.

As soon as I entered, I saw Yui standing at the entrance to the living room, her little face full of worry.

She asked softly, "Um, Papa..."

Kirito stepped forward, patted her head, and comforted her with a smile, "I'm fine, I just dealt with some pests."

Yui hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "No, what I meant was... Mama's gone, what are we going to do for lunch?"

Kirito's hand froze in mid-air, and the smile on his face also froze.

He hadn't considered that.

Asuna suddenly logged off. The food in the kitchen wasn't finished yet, and he and Yui couldn't go hungry, could they?

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

He clearly smelled the aroma of the food when he was in the living room.

Although Asuna hadn't finished making it yet, it already smelled so good. Even if it was only half-finished, it shouldn't taste bad!

So he said to Yui, "Yui, please wait at the table for a while."

Yui obediently walked to the dining table and sat down.

Kirito then turned and went into the kitchen.

But when he saw the scene beside the stove, he was instantly stunned.

All that could be seen in the pot on the stove was a dark, burnt mass, emitting a faint smell of burning, and it was impossible to even discern what the original ingredients were.

Apparently, when Asuna screamed in fright at the cockroach, she forgot to turn off the stove, causing the food in the pot to burn completely.

Two minutes later, Kirito brought a pot of burnt 'food' to the table.

The father and daughter sat at the dining table, staring at the pot of blackened, unrecognizable food, and an awkward silence fell over the living room.

After a long while, Yui cautiously asked, "Papa, is this our 'lunch' for today?"

Kirito coughed lightly: "If there's no other food at home, this is probably it..."

In fact, he knew very well that this burnt food was inedible; not only was it unpalatable, but even getting close to it would give off a burnt smell.

The two fell silent again, neither of them intending to pick up their chopsticks.

Yui was the most sensible one, and took the initiative to find a way out: "Mama isn't here today, so if it's just the two of us, how about we skip lunch?"

Kirito immediately nodded in agreement: "That makes sense!"

He didn't want to eat the black, unidentified object in the pot either.

Kirito could even imagine that once he ate it, the effect would definitely not be stamina recovery, but rather a debuff like 'nausea' or 'vomiting'!

How awful! Absolutely awful!

Kirito gritted his teeth inwardly.

I could smell the aroma of the food just now, and I was so close to eating Asuna's delicious meal, but then a cockroach came along!

Not only was Asuna so frightened that she logged off, but her lunch was also ruined. Who could accept this?!

The more I think about it, the angrier I get!

Yui noticed his distress and asked softly, "Papa, are you alright?"

Kirito took a deep breath, suppressing his anger in front of the child: "It's nothing, I just don't understand why such a monster as a cockroach would appear in our house, which is so clean?"

Yui blinked and reminded him, "Papa should probably check the latest SAO news about this."

Kirito thought Yui's words made sense, so he immediately brought up the system panel and opened the information page.

A row of bold, blacked-out headlines instantly caught his eye, each one causing his pupils to contract slightly:

[Urgent Report! Traces of 'proliferating G' have been detected for the first time on the 18th floor of SAO, and the cockroach infestation is continuing to spread to lower floors!]

[Shocking! According to reliable sources, the 25th floor has been completely captured!]

[The largest disaster in SAO history! Who can lead everyone through this crisis?]

[WARNING! Do not proceed to the 25th floor, lest players develop psychological trauma from the cockroach attack!]

"What is all this nonsense?" Kirito was completely stunned when he saw the information.

It's like the whole SAO has changed since I woke up?

After another ten minutes or so of sorting things out, Kirito finally understood the whole story.

It turns out that a mantis plague broke out on the 25th floor, and because the monsters are special, they can even travel between different floors of SAO, which has caused the mantis plague to spread further. It has now spread to the 18th floor and is showing a trend of getting worse.

Kirito suddenly realized why cockroaches had suddenly appeared in the twenty-second layer of the forest where he lived.

So they spread down from the upper levels along with other players!

Seeing that Kirito had closed the information interface, Yui asked, "Papa, do you know what's happening outside now?"

Kirito nodded, his expression serious.

Yui then asked, "So, what are Papa's plans for the future?"

"What are your plans?" Kirito repeated in a low voice, his eyes gradually sharpening.

He was just feeling frustrated and had nowhere to vent his anger when a cockroach infestation came knocking on his door.

If it weren't for these cockroaches, Asuna wouldn't have been so frightened that she had to log off immediately, and their lunch wouldn't have been ruined.

With that thought in mind, Kirito declared firmly, "I will expel these guys from SAO completely, leaving not a single one alive!"