Zongman: Flandre's Room at the Beginning

[(Sword) Kiritani Kazuko: We're about to fight the boss on the 25th floor, the Mysterious Guild is requesting a meeting!]

[(Magic Brigade) Irena: Huh? How long has it been? It's gone so fast?]

[(Gensokyo) Traveler No. 2: It's not that fast, how long has it been?]

[(Group leader) Yan Yanyan: Indeed.]

[(Sword) Kiritani Kazuko: Oh! Forget about it, just come here quickly.]

[(Sword) Kiritani Kazuko: We are right outside the boss's room.]

Five minutes later, all the people in the chat group came over. Ten people wearing black cloaks were ready to push open the door of the boss room.

"Wait! Wait! Wait for us!"

Hearing the sound behind him, Wang Lin turned around and saw that there were a lot of people from other guilds following him.

This guild seems to be...calling in the army?

"what's up?"

"Let me formally introduce myself. We are an army established to rescue the trapped people of Sao. After the battle, you will need to share resources with us. Everything we do is to save the trapped people here. I hope you will put aside your personal complexes."

"Oh, then you guys go ahead and fight. We've given up on the boss on this floor. Let's go."

"What... you! Are you going to leave everyone in dire straits and do nothing?! No, you're not the guild leader. Who is your guild leader? Let your guild leader speak!"

As expected, Yan Yanyan's words directly angered the other party, and the development of the matter was beyond their expectations.

I originally thought that I could use the name of righteousness to make these people cooperate and share their resources with me, but...

"Are you trying to make me laugh to death? The name of the guild is called the Army. Do you really think you are an army?"

"What do you mean, brat!"

"From the first floor to now, there have been 24 bosses in total. Our Mysterious Guild has killed 21 of them. Now you want us to share our resources with you? Shouldn't you provide us with all the resources in order to liberate everyone?"

Wang Lin's voice didn't have much ups and downs, nor did it have any emotional fluctuations, but it made most of the other party members lower their heads.

"you!!!"

"Alright, alright, what are you yelling about? I'll leave this boss to you guys, but don't die in there!"

"Tsk! You're hiding your head and showing your tail, not even daring to show your face. What's so great about that? Let's go!"

Watching those people go in, Asuna and the others were somewhat angry, feeling like they had a fire in their hearts that they couldn't let go of.

But it was different for the group members, some even started to laugh.

"You...Wang Lin, Sister Xiaoyan, we've all been treated like this, aren't you angry at all?"

"Argo, you don't understand this! Why get angry with a bunch of dead people?"

"what?"

Argo wasn't the only one who was curious about this. Asuna, Silica, and Lisbeth beside him all looked at him curiously.

Lisbeth even thought of a very bad possibility and her expression became surprised.

"Wait, Sister Xiaoyan? You don't want to wait until they finish defeating the boss... to deal with them, do you?"

"What are you thinking about? Let's wait here for them to come out after they defeat the boss."

"That's unlikely. Even though their levels aren't very high, there are so many of them, and they look well-trained. Is it possible that they can't defeat the boss?"

"The bosses on every 25th floor are vastly different from the previous ones! I was going to warn them, but their attitude... forget it."

"Eh?!!"

They waited outside the boss's room for a while. During this time, they were not just waiting there, but chatting and laughing.

I waited like this until the door opened again, and the Boss room was empty.

"W...what? How come...there's no one left?"

"Silica, have you forgotten about something called a return crystal? Don't assume everything is bad. Maybe they realized they couldn't win, so they went back."

"Oh, yes, there is such a thing."

"You haven't completely forgotten about it because you've never used it before, have you?"

"Ha ha..."

Several people entered the boss room and began to challenge the boss...

No, it’s not a challenge, it’s just frying fish.

In the initial town, the members of the 'army' who had escaped using the city return crystal had just announced their defeat when the news that the 25th floor had been captured rang out in the sky.

The ridicule brought by such voices is more powerful than any verbal attack.

"It doesn't seem that strong. How did those guys fail?"

"Who knows? That's too bad. Let's go! Let's go to the next floor."

Outside the sword world, Asada Shino once again encountered people who came to ask for money, but it was not the two before, but new ones.

"Bang! Hahahaha!"

"Wait a minute, there seems to be something wrong with this guy..."

The same trick, the two seniors were laughing, but soon one of them found the problem.

This time, Asada Shino was not frightened by this action and collapsed to the ground. Instead, she kept her head down and said nothing.

“Hehe…Hehehe!”

"Hey! What are you laughing at? If you don't want to see that again, just hand over the money."

"Ha ha ha ha!!!"

"Ah!!! Are you...are you crazy?!"

Asada Shino rushed forward with wild laughter, knocked one person to the ground, and punched the man's head while laughing.

Although the person pinned to the ground tried to resist, it was of no use, and the person next to him didn't dare to come over to stop the fight.

After beating for a full minute, Asada Shino finally stopped.

By this time she had regained consciousness and realized what she had just done.

He raised his head and looked at the person next to him blankly. Unexpectedly, this glance scared the other person away.

It was clearly a look that had no deterrent effect, but in the other person's eyes, it looked like something else.

Looking again at the guy lying on the ground holding his head and groaning in pain, Asada Shino slowly stood up.

"A bully, that's all. Humph... Are you okay, Senior?"

"No, no! Don't come over here!!!"

"..."

He retracted his outstretched hand, pushed up his glasses, turned around and walked out of the alley, which was the direction of his home.

After returning home, Shino Asada rushed into the bathroom very quickly, turned on the faucet, and wiped her face with cold water several times.

Looking at herself in the mirror, Asada Shino felt a strange sense of incongruity.

"Tsk! It's all that guy's fault! But..."