Chapter 19: Chapter 19
After Zen had defeated the first floor boss, all the players were still stunned by what they had seen earlier. But not after a long time cheers were heard from that place.
Right now all the players here were celebrating the success of losing this floor boss with great joy.
Asuna, who was no longer wearing her robe, started to approach Zen and congratulate Zen, for defeating the floor boss.
"You look really pretty if you don't wear your robe" said Zen after Asuna approached and congratulated him.
Hearing Zen's words, Asuna started to blush and tried to hide her face by looking down. Seeing this Zen burst into laughter because he saw Asuna's expression for the first time.
"It turns out that when you blush, your expression is really cute" said Zen
And Zen kept trying to tease Asuna, until one of the players started yelling at Kirito.
"Why?!.. Why did you let Diavel be killed?" said the man, looking down. The player was Kibao, the bar player at yesterday's meeting.
"Let him be killed?" asked Kirito
"That's right, because you know the boss's moves" Kibao said in a sarcastic tone.
Then Kibao continued to corner all the blame on Kirito and began to lead the opinions of all the players to blame him. The players who had been led by Kibao's opinion, started whispering to confirm Kibao's words.
"He must be a beta tester" said one of the players.
"He knows the boss' moves, but didn't tell us," said another player.
"You must be a beta tester too" said a player while pointing at Zen
"Yes, it must be you too, because you know the boss' movements," replied another player.
Then the situation there began to be chaotic, all the players began to suspect each other.
Hearing all this, Kirito started to clench his fists and decided to do something.
"Hey you guys, calm down!" said a burly player, Agil.
But suddenly there was a laugh from a player who was laughing at their behavior. It was Kirito who started walking towards them.
Kirito started throwing insults at the other beta testers, and Kirito explained that some of the beta testers were very weak. Besides that, Kirito explained that he was a player who reached the highest level as a beta tester.
Hearing this, the players started shouting cheater and then some called him Beater which was taken from Cheaters and Beta testers.
"Right, I'm a beater. So don't compare me to other beta testers" Kirito said then turned to where Zen and Asuna were.
"You two are very strong, I hope you stay alive" Kirito said then took out his party menu and pulled himself out of the party.
Finally Kirito started to move from that place and headed for the next floor.
"If you have a problem, call me Kirito" said Zen looking at Kirito who had started to leave that place.
Hearing that, Kirito stopped his steps and glanced at Zen and nodded. Then Kirito started to continue his journey towards the exit of this room which led to the next floor.
After Kirito left this place, the atmosphere of the place became quiet without anyone starting to speak. But not with a player.
"You're a beta tester too?" Kibao said to Zen, who seemed not satisfied with blaming someone.
"Wait a minute Asuna" Zen said to Asuna who was still blushing, and she nodded in return.
Hearing this, Zen immediately turned to Kibao with his deadly gaze.
"If so, why?" Zen asked in a cold tone.
Zen then took out his sword and slowly approached Kibao. Seeing this Kibao started to swallow his saliva and started to hide his fear of getting bullied by Zen.
Several players in front of Kibao who were already feeling intimidated, started to dodge and began to open a path and let Zen pass them.
"If so, why?" said Zen again still in his cold tone, after he arrived in front of Kibao.
"You... You.. h-have to s-a-sorry" Kibao said trying to be brave and show that he wasn't afraid of Zen's attitude.
Then Zen after hearing those words, swung the sword he was holding and slashed until it stopped right beside Kibao's neck.
"If I don't want to apologize, why?" Zen asked again.
Kibao who felt the Zen sword stuck to his neck, started to tremble in fear. At this moment Kibao wanted to say something but he felt unable to say it because of the intimidation received from Zen.
Seeing Kibao getting scared, Zen then drew back his sword and put it back in the scabbard on his back.
Seeing this Kibao immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but he still didn't dare say anythingsay something.
"As the player said earlier, most of the beta testers are still beginners when they do beta testers. In fact, maybe you guys are still better than them right now." said Zen as he turned around and looked at the other players.
"Yet you still blame the beta testers for your weaknesses and blame us for not being able to protect yourself and your friends?" ask Zen
"Do you think we started this game on a different level from you guys? We started this game just like all of you" continued Zen
"But the difference is, we only have experience and all of our experiences, we have written down in a book and you can buy it for free." Zen said then looked back at Kibao.
"However, after what we did, you guys still blame us?" while still staring coldly at Kibao.
"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for not being able to, don't blame others for your inability" said Zen ending his sentence.
Zen then opened his storage menu and started wearing a black cloak that he got for defeating the boss of this floor. Zen immediately turned around and moved from that place to where Asuna was.
Hearing Zen's words, all the players fell silent again without daring to reply to Zen's words. Especially Kibao, who was currently holding back his anger and didn't dare to say a single word.
"So, do you want to continue your journey with me Asuna?" asked Zen who was already in front of Asuna.
"Okay" Asuna replied with a smile etched on her face.
Hearing that Zen returned Asuna's smile and they started to leave that place and continued their journey.
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