I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

"Idiot, from the beginning of this game, it's impossible for anyone to return alive. So you really believed that Kayaba Akihiko would let you go?"

This sentence not only puts psychological pressure on the players, but also makes a few guys who have been shaken to the point of wanting to surrender turn back into their former madmen.

You're all going to die in the end anyway, so why not enjoy the killing mechanics of this game?

Look at that little creature who had the audacity to run to the front lines. With only a tiny health bar, wasn't Kayaba Akihiko deliberately reminding them that this NPC was killable? She just had high attack power. It wasn't the first time he'd seen a monster with high attack and low defense.

Maybe after killing them, some rare equipment will be dropped, and these high-sounding strategy teams will pick it up and thank them in their hearts.

No, it’s better not to. After all, what they want is to kill this little guy and cause despair to others.

It's a simple mindset; they're just genuinely enjoying the game, and their actions are just like any other similar PvP game, like looting and destroying other players' items and camps in a construction game, or blinding the opponent when they're about to reload their artillery like in a MOBA game.

Seeing the stunned expressions on the faces of the attacking team, some people directly showed their backs to them, gave up on defending themselves, and attacked in the direction of Yimi in a group with an attitude of "kill him if you want to."

The first guy who did this was even low on health. Of course, there were plenty of people in Smiling Coffin who dared to play with their lives like this, just like Du Dao who was just stabbed to death by Yi Mi. Even with only a sliver of health left, he still laughed and rushed over to stab people twice.

This situation where one blow results in death is precisely the basis for the attacking team to be unable to act and to persuade them to surrender. The biggest criterion for them to compete with the attacking team is that the attacking team is not prepared to kill people.

"You idiot, do you really think you still have a chance?!"

Just as Yimi raised his claws to kill them, a member of the Blood Alliance Knights who had just held back because he didn't want to kill anyone killed the guy who dared to turn his back to him with one knife.

Just as POH had thought, this scene was no longer interesting. The Blood Knights' determination had become much stronger after Yimi appeared. It was just a matter of killing an animal.

"It doesn't matter whether you go back or not. What I see now is that you dare to use your malice towards a child who secretly braids my hair as a prank while I'm asleep!"

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man with long hair.

"That's nothing, she even gave me a nickname!"

"Idiot, everyone in our group has a nickname! Mine is 'Man Like a Woman'."

"Damn it, why haven't I been pranked before?"

What guilt for killing people? They were just protecting the kids next door, or even their own kids, who greeted them every day.

"Has our leader just issued the final notice?"

At this point, the already over-reduced Smiling Coffin couldn't even put any pressure on them.

Those who refused to surrender were killed directly, and those who were willing to surrender were spared and prepared to be escorted to the Black Iron Palace Prison.

This is incredible. I originally thought I could see this NPC show off her skills here.

Heathcliff placed his shield on the ground and looked quietly at Immie over there.

"Well?"

Yimi put down her hand in confusion.

It seemed as if she didn't need to move.

"Hey, Kirito...what's this little girl's name?"

Klein passed by them and pointed at Yimi and asked.

"Yimi."

"Oh~ The Blood Alliance Knights actually secretly keep such an adorable NPC. I'm so jealous of you! Little guy, can I ask you a question? How much do you usually sell that rat soup for?"

"I'll sell it for the same price as the transfer crystal."

"Is that so?! The Blood Knights actually sold it for nearly three times our price!"

Klein yelled.

Kirito raised his hand, and told him, whether intentionally or not, "I can actually buy it from Asuna at a friendship price, and sometimes I can even get it for free."

It's not that I got it for free, but when I visit Yimi and give her snacks, as long as I provide the raw materials, she will happily make them for me for free.

"Is it over? Yimi is almost becoming an idol in the Knights."

Asuna looked at everyone who had already begun to wrap up and breathed a sigh of relief.

She also killed someone with her own hands.

He glanced at Klatir lying on the ground again. He was still pretending to be arrogant and unwilling to face everyone's judgment. It was really frustrating.

Finally, Asuna put her hands on her hips and turned to Yimi with a stern expression: "So how did you get here?"

"Well……"

Yimi turned her attention to the storage space, or more precisely, to the little black-haired girl lying inside.

28

Chapter 28: Last-hitting is a good habit.

"Hiss...Hmm..."

"Don't make any noise."

"Uh……"

"I told you to stop yelling! You're screaming so loudly, have you been cut?"

In the Black Iron Palace prison, a member of the Smiling Coffin who was imprisoned kicked Kradir.

Use the corridor crystal to set the coordinates here, open the portal and lock the surrendered people in. The cost is quite high. Nothing can be done in here except the minimum survival.

The iron gate of the prison is indestructible. It is better to say that most of the buildings in this game are indestructible. As early as the first week of the server opening, some people couldn't stand it and shouted that they wanted to destroy the world, and then they chopped at a certain part of the wall for a long time under the gaze of the closed beta testers who looked at them as fools.

"Hey, is it true that the 'wounds' on this guy haven't disappeared at all? Is it stuck?"

"Being injured in that place is embarrassing even in the game."

"Hey."

Amidst the laughter, a deep voice suddenly emerged: "If this game really ends, what will happen to us in reality?"

"..."

"Will we go to jail in real life? After all, if we kill someone in the game, they're really dead, right? So..."

Before he could finish his words, the foot that had just kicked Kladil kicked him again:

"Idiot! Kayaba Akihiko was the one who killed them. What does that have to do with us? Everyone outside saw it. Kayaba Akihiko held a killing game and then used the 'bomb' he made to electrocute those people. Which law says it has anything to do with us?"

In fact, just as they said, everyone who died in this death game would be blamed on Kayaba Akihiko after they got out.

"Yes, that's true."

"I've had a lot of fun. If those stupid guys..."

"Boom-"

There seemed to be some movement in the far distance of the corridor, sounding like something hitting metal, stifling the voices of Laughing Coffin and the other people in the prison.

"The NPC who delivered the food?"

The reflection cast by the dusk stretched out, extending all the way in front of them, and the shape was constantly compressed as the position changed during movement. The light and shadow in some places in SAO were not as realistic as in reality.

"who!"

There was not a single sound of footsteps during the entire process. A small creature resembling a panda came into their sight, sitting at the doorway and carefully observing and counting it.

"What is this, cat?"

No one noticed that after seeing this little ball, Kladil, who was groaning in pain, suddenly showed a look of fear and shrank into the corner using his hands and feet.

Of course, everyone in the Blood Alliance Knights had seen the little girl transformed into a cat. Sometimes she liked to lie down on the counter like this and scratch passers-by for no reason.

"Huh? Is this what people in prison eat?"

The guy wearing a cloak and a strange mask on his face pointed at the little ball and made a joke, and then his forearm disappeared in front of him. The speed was so fast that he couldn't even react to the severe pain that was transmitted as if it were real flesh.

Having experienced the lesson of being troubled by the men in black, Yimi will not let Diego's situation happen again.

"Ah! What's going on? It hurts! It hurts! Hey! Why?"

He was able to speak clearly while rolling in pain, and his body, which did not bleed, did alleviate the psychological discomfort caused by the injury to a certain extent.

"Meow."

Yimi licked his paws.

Just like the huge claw before, and the slashing attack now with the claw, she couldn't remember when she learned this thing. She just waved her hand and made the movement and it appeared naturally, without even consuming any energy or physical strength.

Yimi has a very deep impression of what she has learned, and she studies every book seriously and diligently.

"Hey, this guy..."

Someone noticed that a familiar blood bar appeared above Yimi's head.

The health bar that usually curves and appears on the side of the player's face was now directly above the head because it was much smaller. The change in position also successfully allowed them to see the words on the left side that were usually not seen by anyone because they were inconspicuous and intertwined with the head.

A sign that makes it impossible to resist at all.

"Haha, that bastard Kayaba Akihiko has fooled us... everyone."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was beaten to pieces by Yimi, who took advantage of his size to pass through.

"Oh, God!"

The second person's painful performance successfully awakened their fear of death. Some people screamed and banged their heads against the railings, shouting for help and trying to call the guarding NPC. Some people, like Kraldiel, huddled in the corner to reduce their presence.

But they seem to have forgotten to take off their iconic cloak.

"I'm sorry, please forgive me. I will never do bad things again. I'm sorry! I'm sorry..."

This is Kraldir. Among all people, he felt the most profound fear. The pain in his crotch never subsided, and he even began to doubt whether he had suffered the same injury in real life.

“Flesh or Life?”

Yimi remained seated and chanted her own unique soul spell.

Behind her, a substitute condensed from black air was holding a clattering scale, as if weighing the souls of sinners.

As the other orange-named players watched in horror, one after another, the members of Smiling Coffin were strangled and shattered into countless polygons.

It's really strange that people in this world don't even leave behind corpses after death.

Just like a disturbed bat cave, they tried to escape within the confined space of the vast prison. This range was not limited to them, as some who showed weakness also had their health bars slashed without explanation, such as the Titan Hand that Kirito had imprisoned not long ago.

"Please spare me, I've only ever stolen! I've never killed anyone!"

Some people who were locked up early held their heads in their hands, trembling and shouting for mercy, which the other party might not be able to hear.

This is not false. Although everyone has listed a "red player" to distinguish murderers, criminal players are all marked with orange. The "army" of the two major guilds in the original strategy group insists on directly attacking orange players regardless of their crimes. There are still some minor offenders in the prison.

In the dark prison, the special health bar in the center gradually disappeared, leaving only the unlucky guys who were reduced to orange names because of petty theft or were tricked by green-name smiling coffins like Kradir (pretending to attack, and then using the quick knife skill to trick the opponent into attacking first and becoming orange names) who covered their chests and dared not breathe loudly.

Just like when it came, it left without making any sound, because cats don't make any noise when they walk.

But she seemed to have missed one.

"Survived, hahaha...haha?"

Kradir smiled as if he had survived a disaster, because he was basically a rogue, and the murders he participated in were always indirect methods.

He looked down at the light screen where his hips were still in pain. As long as he could return to reality, this illusion should no longer exist, right?

29

Chapter 29 failed for the first time.

"Want to get away for a while?"

Heathcliff looked at Asuna in confusion.

"Well, it's not like we're completely disconnected. Everyone is re-exploring the recent floors. There hasn't been anything special lately."

She wanted to move out and settle down. She was really scared when Kirito was stabbed in the chest during the battle against the Laughing Coffin and when Imi suddenly appeared.

Cherish the present moment, this is a new idea that came to her who has always been eager to make achievements.

If the progress of pushing a floor is too fast, the floor will not be explored enough. In the past, the strategy team used to push through one floor per week on average, but since the cat mask was introduced, this period has been shortened to two or three days.

The difficulty will become higher and higher in the future. It is not a good thing to push too fast and let your equipment and levels not keep up. For this game with no tolerance for mistakes, everyone must at least pass the current level ten before exploring with peace of mind.

There will probably be a long period of vacuum in the future for everyone to develop, and she wants to take advantage of this time to have a good rest, and by the way...

She seemed to have restored the relationship that had gradually become strained with Kirito.