Chapter Fifty The protagonist often appears last

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  After Shuimi ran out of the coffee shop in a frantic state, Bachiko stood by the window with her hands behind her back, looking at where Yoruko had disappeared.

  Standing behind Yui Mokuren, Keita and Kirito exchanged a glance.

  "What...Yagumo, what should we do next?"

  Kirito asked as such.

  "Watching quietly, although they acted well, but there's one thing that can't deceive me." Hachiguma Moku said in a low voice, "That Shumi was deceived, which means Shumi didn't know about Yoruko and the previous Keienji's fake death."

  "You mean... Nyeon-ja still suspects that Shim Deok is the one who killed Gwi-soo?"

  The gentle breeze lifted up Bayunmo's long hair, and her skirt fluttered with a rustling sound.

  "Who knows..."

  Night, as quiet as an eternal abyss.

  Aingelant, 19th floor, Cross Hill.

  It's foggy tonight.

  The withered forest was shrouded in mist, adding a touch of horror to the atmosphere of this area.

  There is a tall withered tree in the forest.

  A knight in full armor knelt under a tree, his face showing a few parts of fear and guilt.

  In front of him was a solitary tombstone.

  "On top is written 'The late Huang Jinping will be buried with Guixiu De'".

  In SAO, when a player dies, their body disintegrates into fragments and disappears like the wind, leaving no corpse behind.

  It is obviously a grave of a noble family.

  "Now it has come to this, I can only come here to ask for your forgiveness..."

  Schmidt knelt in front of the tombstone and buried his head deep in the ground saying that.

  "Don't kill me! Please! I beg of you, Gui Xiude! I never thought things would turn out like this! Forgive me!"

  In front of the tombstone, Shu Mi knocked his head repeatedly, and the armor on his body made a clanging sound due to the movement.

  The night wind blew by, and Shu Mi's neck, exposed outside, couldn't help but break out in goosebumps.

  Just as he was about to lift his head, a faint and eerie female voice seemed to come from the depths of the underworld and echoed in his ears.

  "Are you... really... saying... that?"

  Her body suddenly shook violently, her pupils constricted, and the body that was about to get up buried itself deeply again.

  "What you said... is it true?"

  Although she had buried her head in the ground, Sumi could still feel that something had appeared in front of her.

  Ghost...

  Gui Xiude's ghost...

  Shu Mi felt as if her heart was being tightly grasped by a hand, making it hard for her to breathe.

  "What have you done to me?"

  That ghostly female voice asked again, although the tone became a bit more urgent, but Shu Mi was completely unaware of it in extreme fear.

  "Sorry! On the day I decided to sell the ring, a note and a crystal appeared in my pocket! There was even a message on the note!"

  "Who put it in?"

  A man asked.

  Wait, is that a male voice?

  Shu Mi suddenly felt something was off, how could there be a male voice?

  Slowly lifting her head up, Xiumi was shocked to discover that there were actually two ghostly figures draped in cloaks standing right in front of her!

  "Is it Kui Lian Luo? Are you dead too?"

  The man's voice, however, was unmoved and coldly asked: "Who exactly is it? Who told you to do this?"

  "I don't know! I really don't know!"

  Shuimi's mind was clouded with fear, shaking her head repeatedly and shouting loudly with her eyes closed: "The note only asked me to sneak into Guixiu De's room first, then store the location of the Corridor Crystal, and then put the crystal in the guild's public tool slot!"

  "What's next?"

  "That's it! I've confessed everything! Spare me! Spare me!"

  "I really didn't think I'd be helping someone with something as serious as murder!!"

  Shu Mi kept knocking her head heavily on the ground, making a loud "thud" sound.

  The hill of the cross was silent, with only the sound of Shu Mi's kowtowing echoing continuously.

  The dense fog gradually dispersed.

  After a long time, the ghostly female voice sounded again, only this time it was no longer as elusive as before: "I've recorded everything you said, Shu Mi."

  "Huh?"

  Shu Mi raised her head.

  The two ghosts in front of me wearing cloaks have taken off their hats on their heads.

  It turned out to be Yorozu and Keiunji who had died long ago!

  Shu Mi wasn't a foolish person. Although she had been frightened by the ghosts of Kui Shu De and Kui Lian Luo that she had imagined herself, now that she saw Ye Zi and Qi En Zhi standing alive in front of her, after careful thought, she was also able to guess eight or nine out of ten about what was going on.

  "So...that's how it was..."

  Shu Mi let out a breath and sat down cross-legged after twisting her body.

  "You two, aren't you concerned about the president's death......"

  "Aren't you the same?" Yèzi's hand still held the recording crystal, looking at Shūmì sitting on the ground, her face slightly pale.

  Shu Mi was just about to say something when she suddenly felt her body stiffen and then lost control, falling to the ground.

  His gaze flicked towards his shoulder, where a flying dagger had somehow appeared at some unknown point.

  Its own green HP gauge was also fitted with a shiny yellow border.

  "Paralyzed...... how could this be!"

  Obviously, someone had tampered with that flying dagger. At the moment it hit him, it applied a "paralysis" DEBUFF to himself!

  "Could it be..."

  With some effort, she lifted her head to look at Yoruko and Keiichi standing in front of her, but what shocked Sumire was that the two people in front of her were staring at something behind her with a terrified expression.

  Not them!

  A series of footsteps came from behind.

  "Wow, this time's prey is really big! A high-ranking executive of the Holy Dragon Union..."

  A voice that sounded extremely frivolous and exaggerated came, three men in cloaks suddenly appeared around them, two of whom had already placed the weapons in their hands on the necks of Yoruko and Keiichi who were at a loss!

  Shu Mi glanced over and her heart immediately sank.

  These three people all wore leather gloves on their hands, with a smiling skull emblem on them!

  It's a smiling coffin.

  "Big brother, how are we going to deal with this prey this time? Why don't we play that game! Let them kill each other, and then release the winner, what do you think?"

  The gentle male voice spoke again.

  The tall and imposing man let out a low hum, looking at Shu Mi and others as if they were dead.

  "It's always like this, you never leave anyone alive, do you?"

  "Oh no! Big brother, how could you say it out loud! It's no fun like this!"

  The tall man walked straight up to Shu Mi, who was lying on the ground unable to move, and slowly raised the butcher knife in his hand.

  "Then... let's begin!"

  The butcher's knife falls!

  "Ding——!!"

  Schmidt, who had closed his eyes and was waiting for death, didn't feel like he'd been hit. After hearing the sound of clashing steel, he opened his eyes in some confusion.

  The butcher knife in the man's hand had been knocked flying by a small knife that had come from who-knows-where.

  "If you really want to kill someone in front of me, wouldn't I be very embarrassed?"

  With a sarcastic tone, Yagumo Taku emerged from behind a withered tree.

  Behind him were Kirito and Keita.

  Heavenly Fox Long Robe, Nine-Tailed White Fox, with such distinctive attire, everyone recognized the identity of Yayoi Sumi at a glance.

  "How detestable..."

  Those members of the Smiling Coffin saw the appearance of Yakumo Sukehiro and others, and they all took a step back, preparing to leave.

  "Are you letting them go?"

  He raised an eyebrow, and Ba Yun Mo stepped forward to administer the antidote to Su Mi's paralysis. He then turned to face the three Smiling Coffin members who had already turned around.

  "Isn't Eight Clouds Pavilion going to be an enemy of our Smiling Coffin?"

  The tall and majestic man in front had a somewhat cold tone.

  But in his heart, he was very clear that if they really fought, Yakumo Mukuro could take down the three of them alone, not to mention there were also Kuroi Tsurugi and the leader of Tsukiyami Kuro Neko-tai, Keita.

  None of them are easy to deal with.

  "As an enemy?"

  Baiyun Mo took out a fan and his fingers danced in the air, folding the fan on his fingertips as if it had come to life and was jumping back and forth.

  "Do you guys deserve it?"

  "Ah...!"

  The man who was about to say something else had already appeared in front of him, and the man had just prepared to raise his hand to resist when he was directly knocked down by Yakumo Moku with a fierce hand knife on the back of his neck.

  It was mentioned earlier that both players and monsters in SAO have a fatal weakness.

  Hitting a fatal weakness will not only increase the damage dealt but also inflict some abnormal status.

  For example, the man who was cut in the neck by Bayun Mo with a hand knife fell into a coma while flying backwards!

  The remaining two Smiling Coffin members were subdued by Kirito and Keita before they could even escape.

  Perhaps they wouldn't be so easily defeated if they really fought, but because Yagumo Kuroba was present and gave them too much pressure, these guys only wanted to escape, their strength couldn't be exerted at all, so they were caught by Kirito Keita very easily.