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

After Yu Bai and Hagiwara Kenji quickly and orderly evacuated all the surrounding residents to a safe area, Morofushi Hiromitsu had also successfully rescued the kidnapped child.

Prisoner Tomokazu was being watched by Kagemitsu and Sergeant Date, one in front and one behind, as he walked down the stairs.

"Excuse me, what time is it?" Just as the group reached the middle of the stairs, Gaishuichi suddenly asked about the time.

Although Morofushi Kagemitsu was somewhat puzzled, he still answered Tomokazu's question: "It is 4:29 PM now."

Upon hearing this, Tomoichi remained silent for a moment, then said in an almost murmured voice, "My child, I'm sorry. Let me go to another world to atone for your parents' sins. Your father, Yuri, is here to accompany you."

"What?" The crowd was still a little confused about what he meant, and then the next second...

"boom!!!"

A deafening explosion was followed by a sudden burst of intense flames from the second floor.

Only then did they realize that there was a bomb not only on the first floor, but also on the second floor where Wai Shouyi and the little girl had initially been. He had never intended to leave alive from the beginning.

A figure flashed by, and the outer guard pushed aside Morofushi Kagemitsu who was now above him and rushed into the already burning second floor.

"Ha, so you think you can just kill someone and be done with it?" Yu Bai's eyes turned icy cold instantly.

He deeply despises murderers like Tomoyuki, who, unable to accept the death of his daughter, blames innocent people for their mistakes.

He killed Morofushi Kagemitsu's parents, and just now he wanted to die with an innocent child. Now he wants to get rid of his sins through death.

No, death was a complete fulfillment for such a person; Yu Bai wanted this person to live on in his repentance.

Yu Bai pondered to himself, then grabbed Zhu Fujingguang, who was about to follow Wai Shouyi into the sea of ​​fire, and pulled him back to safety. He then rushed into the raging inferno without hesitation.

"Bai! Come back quickly!"

"Come down quickly!"

"It's too late, don't do anything foolish!"

"white!"

Morofushi Kagemitsu, who had been pulled down, stumbled but was caught by Furuya Rei behind him. However, when they watched Yu Bai disappear on the second floor, they all shouted at the top of their lungs.

"My lord!"

Seeing that Yu Bai had rushed into the sea of ​​fire, Jin Jian followed suit and rushed in as well.

The short sword's mobility was completely beyond the control of Furuya Rei and the others. By the time they reacted, the sword had already disappeared around the corner on the second floor.

"hateful!"

Zhu Fujingguang's eyes were bloodshot, and he was about to rush in without regard for anything else.

But at this moment, the wooden beams of the roof, which had been teetering on the brink of collapse due to the prolonged burning, finally gave way and collapsed, completely blocking the only passage to the second floor.

Rei Furuya quickly glanced around, his gaze landing on the conspicuous flag on Jinpei Matsuda's back. "Use the flag to catch them! Quick! Let's get outside!"

"My lord, are you alright?"

Upon arriving on the second floor, ignoring the surrounding flames, Jin Jian immediately spotted Yu Bai.

"I'm fine. You should go back to your original body. The flames here are too dangerous for you Tsukumogami." A green plum blossom shield slowly circulated around him, protecting him from the raging flames.

At this moment, he looked coldly at the lying dead man on the ground, gently waved his hand to return the sword to its original form, and then carefully affixed an isolation talisman to the short sword, properly storing the original sword.

He grabbed Wai Shouyi, who was pretending to be dead, and prepared to throw him out of the second-floor window.

"I suppose Furuya and the others are already prepared to provide support," Yu Bai thought to himself, a faint smile playing on his lips.

When he walked to the window, he saw Furuya Rei, Morofushi Kagemitsu, Hagiwara Kenji, Matsuda Jinpei, and Date Wataru nervously laying out flags as a buffer to catch him and Soto Moriichi.

Yu Bai gave them a reassuring smile, then without hesitation grabbed Wai Shouyi by the back of the neck and threw him out the window.

Regardless of whether he aimed at the cloth or not, he did manage to rescue the person, didn't he?

During the process, Yu Bai naturally encountered resistance from Wai Shouyi, but he didn't tolerate the man's actions and knocked him unconscious with a single chop to the neck.

Furthermore, he secretly placed a curse on this person, so that whenever this person falls asleep, the people he killed will appear in his dreams.

Meanwhile, Wai Shouyi will experience the full range of feelings that Jingguang's parents had when they were killed, time and time again.

Of course, as a compassionate father, Yu Bai feared that this person might commit suicide, so he placed a control spell on him.

In the days to come, no matter how mentally broken Wai Shouyi became, he would never have any thoughts of suicide.

Thinking about it this way, Yu Bai realized he was a really good person.

"Bai, come out quickly."

The five people downstairs caught Wai Shouyi, who had been thrown out, and quickly spoke to Yu Bai, who was still inside the house.

"Okay, I'm coming right now. Huh?"

Yu Bai responded and was about to jump out of the window when suddenly, a strong spatial fluctuation surged around him. A huge vortex appeared out of thin air and instantly swallowed Yu Bai.

"white!!!"

The five people outside screamed in terror. To them, it seemed that just as Yu Bai was about to jump out of the window, he tripped over something, fell backward, and disappeared from sight.

The fire burned all night, and strangely, they never saw the two silver-haired figures again after that.

Both Yu Bai and Jin Jian seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth, never to reappear.

There were no remains, no traces, as if they had never existed.

The disappearance of their best friend and his brother became a permanent source of pain for the five of them.

After graduating from police academy, they never gave up hope of finding Yu Bai, but every attempt was like throwing a stone into the sea, with no news at all.

Until recently, Morofushi Kagemitsu, who had changed his identity, received a text message from Furuya Rei: "You probably can't believe who I met today, and do you believe that clones exist in this world, that they are immortal? Or that they can be resurrected from the dead?"

"Have you been under too much pressure lately? Zero."

"However, you know, the amulet that Ah Bai gave us was so magical, it withstood the impact of the explosion and pulled me back from the brink of death, maybe he himself is too?"

"That guy, we absolutely can't let him get away next time we see him!"

……

Yu Bai: Why did they have to time travel at this particular time of year?! Who was it?! It was definitely intentional, wasn't it?