Sword Art Online Crossover: They're all close friends, how did I become a player?

"Turn into what?"

Gakuto Mukahi, who was about to say something more to Oshitari, suddenly heard this voice that had recently been engraved in his heart before he could finish speaking.

His body gradually stiffened, and a handsome face suddenly appeared above his line of sight.

Yu Bai bent down, facing Mukahi Gakuto, with Yagen Toushirou standing beside him, his face full of sympathy.

His skin was fair, and his lips were red and his teeth were white. His eyes, which were as beautiful and moving as a starry river, were now slightly curved into crescent shapes, shimmering with a warm and gentle light.

Sunlight filtered through the leaves, dappling his body and bathing him in a golden glow.

To Mukahi Gakuto, who was lying on the ground, this scene was as if Yu Bai had suddenly grown a pair of wings that shone with holy light from behind him, and he was like an angel who had descended to earth.

"What will you become?" the beautiful "angel" asked.

"Change, change into..." Mukahi Gakuto was speechless for a long time, unsure whether he was frightened or amazed. His cheeks turned bright red, and he turned to Shinobu Yuushi with a pleading look.

help me! help me!

"I'm sorry, partner, I can't save you. After all, I still want to live." Receiving his partner's pleading look, Yuushi Oshitari turned his head to the side, pretending not to see it while trying to minimize his presence.

Yuushi, you treacherous bastard! I'll never trust you again!

Mukahi Gakuto's eyes were filled with resentment. If looks could kill, Oshitari Yuushi would have been dead eight hundred times over by now.

"Alright, tell the housekeeper to take Xiaojing and the others to their bedrooms. The training camp will end tomorrow, so get some rest this afternoon and evening."

Yu Bai is going back to school tomorrow, so he doesn't plan to have Atobe Keigo and the others train again this afternoon, since high-intensity training will definitely be accompanied by muscle soreness afterwards.

So Yu Bai invited a masseur to give everyone a massage in the afternoon to relieve their recently tense muscles and adjust their physical condition.

"Okay." Yao Yan nodded after receiving Yu Bai's notification and turned to go into the villa to find the butler and his group.

Yagen was very happy this week. Apart from training with the tennis team's regulars, he stayed by Taisho's side all the time. It felt like he had turned back into a short sword, being held in his master's arms to protect him from danger.

……

"Ah ...

"What, what happened?"

"It seems to be coming from over there, from that house in front."

Because it was raining outside and Atobe Keigo and the others were a little tired, they were sitting in the living room playing on their phones, reading, and playing games. Now they were all startled by the scream and stopped what they were doing, turning to look in the direction of the villa's front door.

“Atobe, should we go take a look? The butler said before that only an old woman named Tanaka Iwae lived in that house, but now we’re hearing screams coming from over there,” Yuushi Oshitari said with a serious expression.

"Inform the steward that Renzu, Yu Bai, and I will go check on things. The rest of you stay here."

Atobe Keigo immediately decided to go and check it out. Although he didn't know what the situation was, he knew that only an elderly person lived alone in the house and that there was a possibility of danger. So, Atobe Keigo decided to go and check it out.

"We'll go too!" Seeing that Atobe and the others were going to leave them in the villa, Hiyoshi and the others quickly said. They were worried about the safety of the three of them.

"Let's all go together. If there are many of us, we can look out for each other if we encounter danger."

"alright."

……

Fortunately, the house was quite close to Atobe Keigo's villa. If you didn't take the main road and instead went straight through the forest, it would only take 4-5 minutes to get there.

"What's wrong? Miss Akane, Miss Akane?"

As soon as they arrived at the door, they saw a short-haired man with slicked-back hair holding a woman lying on the ground, her life hanging in the balance.

"General, be careful. There's a smell of blood." The moment Yagen Toushirou sensed something was wrong, he immediately shielded Yu Bai. His right hand rested on the hilt of the short sword in his robes, ensuring he could draw it to protect Yu Bai in the event of an emergency.

Beside the two was a man in a gray coat, and behind them stood an old woman and a boy wearing black-rimmed glasses.

At this moment, the bespectacled boy calmly directed the elderly man next to him to call the police and an ambulance.

"what!"

The tennis club members, who hadn't seen the situation clearly due to the angle, now realized that the woman being held in the man's arms was deathly pale, with a huge wound on her neck. The blood flowing from the wound, along with the raindrops, stained the ground red.

Mukahi Gakuto was so frightened by the scene that he screamed.

"You, who are you?"

The shout drew the attention of the group, and the boy, whose sharp eyes had been fixed on one of the people who had appeared, suddenly showed disbelief.

Why is he here?

“We’re from the villa behind. We heard screams coming from here, and the villa’s housekeeper said that only an elderly person lives here. We were worried that something might have happened, so we decided to come and check it out. We never expected that something like this would happen here.”

"This young man has already called the police. It's raining too hard now, and we've witnessed this scene. When the police arrive, they will definitely talk to us."

"So, to make it easier for the police to investigate, let's go inside together now," Yu Bai calmly explained to the group.

"well."

Inside the warm house, a woman lay on the floor, her head turned to one side, exposing the wound on her neck to the air. The scene was almost unbearable for the tennis club members; they were just ordinary middle school students who loved playing tennis, and had never witnessed anything like it before.

Not to mention being so close to a dead body, Gakuto and Jiro hid behind Kabaji and Hiyoshi, not daring to approach at all. Shishido Ryo also pulled Ootori Chotaro to a corner.

"Professor Agasa, I didn't expect to run into you here. Are you out with your child? Hmm? This child looks familiar." As Shinichi Kudo's neighbor, Yu Bai naturally recognized Professor Agasa.

When he saw that Shinichi Kudo was hiding to the side and dared not look him in the eye, he went up to greet him and take a look at his childhood friend who had shrunk.

"Ah, Yu Bai, do you know them?" Atobe Keigo asked, touching the beauty mark at the corner of his eye, as he saw Yu Bai take the initiative to greet the gray-haired, somewhat chubby old man.

"Yes, this is my neighbor, Professor Agasa. I didn't expect to run into him here."

"Ah, it's Yu Bai! What are you doing here? I brought the kids out to play, but we got lost and ended up staying here for the night. I never expected to run into you, haha...hahaha!"

He moved a few steps to the side, trying to block Conan's view. A bead of cold sweat appeared on Professor Agasa's forehead. Shinichi and Yu Bai had grown up together since childhood, so he naturally knew what Shinichi Kudo looked like when he was a child.

Now that these two have met, the fewer people who know about Shinichi's situation, the better.

What should I do now? I need help urgently!

……

Yu Bai: What does it look like? (Squinting eyes jpg)

Gakuto Mukahi: It looks like...it looks like... (Move my mouth already!)

Yuushi Oshitari: That's so tragic, so incredibly tragic.