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

"Tell me, what exactly are those people's true intentions?" Date Wataru asked, his brow furrowed in deep thought as he helped the others untie the straps binding their wrists.

"I suspect their aim was to rob the ATM while it was being refilled with cash."

Rei Furuya stood at the door, his eyes calm and sharp, analyzing the situation clearly, "After all, to prevent cash theft, ATM refill times are usually not made public. However, since one of them is an inside man, as long as the surveillance footage can be retrieved, the ATM refill times will no longer be a secret."

"Moreover, one thing is very suspicious: the shop assistants did not deliberately hide their faces when they were in front of us." Yu Bai walked to Furuya Rei's side, gently patted his shoulder, signaling him to move aside, and then reached out and grasped the doorknob.

"This likely means that they don't intend for us to leave here alive."

"I just tried this door; it's locked from the outside. You..."

"Click."

Seeing that Yu Bai was about to open the door, Ling quickly said something, but before she could finish speaking, there was another crisp click.

"..."

Furuya Rei stared wide-eyed at the shards of the door lock in Yu Bai's hand, his face filled with disbelief. The Siamese cat was speechless and fell silent.

"Huh? What were you about to say?" Yu Bai turned to ask.

"...No, it's nothing."

"Please calm the other guests down. By the way, I already called the police, and they should be here soon."

Yu Bai casually tossed the broken lock to the side, opened the door, and stepped out, saying to Furuya Rei that he was going to avenge the loss of Ichimoku.

"Wait! It's too dangerous for you to be alone. We should wait for the police to rescue us...wait, what?!"

Seeing Yu Bai about to walk out alone, Furuya Rei quickly tried to stop him. Although the boy seemed very strong, there were five thugs, which was too dangerous.

However, Yu Bai's figure flashed past him like lightning, and then the screams of the thugs came from outside the convenience store.

When Rei Furuya ran out, he saw that the shelves in the convenience store were all overturned. The thugs who had just been holding weapons and acting aggressively were now unconscious and lying on the ground in disarray, their faces covered with swollen bumps from being beaten. Some of the thugs even had their teeth knocked out.

The seemingly gentle boy stood leisurely in the center of the shop, as if the fierce battle that had just taken place had nothing to do with him.

Are all the people from China this amazing? Is this the legendary Chinese Kung Fu?

……

While Rei Furuya and Wataru Date were unfortunately taken hostage at a convenience store, on the other side, Jinpei Matsuda, Kenji Hagiwara, and Hiromitsu Morofushi were at a motorcycle shop, trying their best to find clues about the man with the wine glass tattoo on his body.

"No, why can't you tell us who that guy with the high instep tattoo is? He must be a regular customer of your store, right?" Matsuda Jinpei leaned against the cashier counter, slightly annoyed, and continued to press the clerk for answers.

He had been asking the shop assistant about the tattooed man since the beginning, but no matter what he said, the shop assistant refused to reveal any information.

When the shop assistants asked them why they were so eager to know about that customer, Morofushi Kagemitsu's thoughts suddenly returned to that painful childhood trauma—the person who killed his parents with a knife.

Lost in gloom, Morofushi Kagemitsu was too terrified to speak.

Childhood trauma caused him to suffer from aphasia, and it was only through the companionship and encouragement of Rei Furuya that he gradually recovered.

Seeing Morofushi Kagemitsu's unusual behavior, Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji decided not to press the matter further, and the three of them left the motorcycle shop. Before leaving, Hagiwara Kenji suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen Date Squad Leader's father when he was a child.

The three were chatting as they walked back to the police academy when they suddenly heard a police siren coming from the convenience store not far away. Matsuda Jinpei and the others watched curiously as the five men were being escorted out by the police.

"Huh? Isn't that the class president and Zero?" Morofushi Kagemitsu keenly spotted the golden figure flashing by in the convenience store and quickly pointed it out to his companions.

"It really seems to be true! Let's go take a look." Matsuda Jinpei squinted and looked in the direction Morofushi Kagemitsu was pointing. A moment later, he spotted the familiar golden figure next to a silver one.

"Thank you so much for your help. Would you like us to take you home?"

"No thanks."

The police car arrived five minutes after Yu Bai subdued the criminals. When they arrived, they saw the five criminals who were already tightly bound and their faces bruised and swollen.

Three teenagers were stepping on them, while the supposedly abducted customers all stood together spontaneously, without leaving the store, watching the scene unfold in the corner, waiting for the police to arrive.

This scene left the arriving police officers momentarily unsure of who the real perpetrator was.

After cooperating with the police in completing the questioning, given the late hour and the fact that Rei Furuya and Wataru Date were both police academy students, the police did not require everyone to go to the police station to give statements. They simply kindly reminded them that in the future, if they encounter a similar situation, it would be best to wait for police support and not act on their own.

"Zero? Sergeant Date, it really is you. What happened?" As soon as Morofushi Kagemitsu and the other two arrived, they saw the two saying goodbye to the police and quickly ran to Furuya Rei's side to ask.

"It's Jingguang! Didn't you say you were going shopping? Why haven't you come back yet?" Furuya Rei asked, somewhat puzzled, as he saw his childhood friend running over.

Finally, the two told the three of them everything that had happened at the convenience store. When they mentioned that Yu Bai had subdued all the thugs by himself in a short period of time, everyone looked at the handsome young man who had been standing quietly to the side with disbelief.

"Yu Bai, let me introduce you. These are my classmates and friends with Squad Leader Date: Morofushi Kagemitsu, Hagiwara Kenji, and Matsuda Jinpei. We're all police academy students, and we had a rare opportunity to go out shopping together today, but we never expected to run into something like this." Furuya Rei stood beside Yu Bai and introduced them one by one.

"Hey, did you really subdue all the thugs all by yourself in such a short time? That's too exaggerated, isn't it?" Matsuda Jinpei was a boy with slightly curly black hair. He bent down and got close to Yu Bai's face, his face full of disbelief.

"That's right, it's me. If you don't believe me, would you like to try?" Yu Bai looked at the handsome face in front of him and replied with a smile.

"Let's give it a try! Come on!"