The next day.

At morning. 

A loud sound was resounding at courtyard,it was the sound of wood clashing with each other. There was also some cheering voice by a child nearby. If you zoom in...you will found a guy fighting with a pretty girl. She dance like fairy while dominate the other guy...Yep this girl was a demon....as I thought that she swipe my leg which made my butt land on ground and then hit my head while shouting..

"Head!!!"(Tsukihime)

As I thought that,Instantly Tsukihime wooden swords land on my head which made let out painful sound...She must use 100% her strength!!!You said you wold hold back!!!!Even thought I retort at my mind..somehow Tsukihime mouth curved and then immediately giggled. On outside maybe it looks cute...but I know there was some killing intent mixing with her giggles...then she hit my head again...

"Really,I shall cleaning some impurities from your brain,sight why you never understand  it was rude to treat a beautiful girl as demon."(Tsukihime)

It was a-....Okay okay I will stop,so don't smile at me like that..Really..I stand up and then wipe some dirt from my clothes. Then once I do that ,I check the timer located at the table at the corner  of courtyard,there was 5 minutes left. I then readied myself once more again and said.

"Another round!!!"(Takuya)

"Sure."(Tsukihime)

Tsukihime give me a gentle smile for a moment,and her eyes become cold. This time she start the fight with a low swing from the right side at was aiming at my waist, I block it  with the wooden sword at my left hand. I expected it give a quite force and push me by a bit. But I never expected I only received a gentle force ,only to noticed  that Tsukihime took out something from inside of her shirt...It was wooden knife. I immediately dodge it by moving my head ,but Tsukihime already grabbed my shirt and then slam me to ground with her knife pointing at my neck. 

"You lost."(Tsukihime)

Once she said that she immediately retract her knife and then help me stand up. Once I stand up I raise my hands up and said.

"Sight ,In term of street fight I was no match of you."(Takuya) 

It was my honest opinion toward  her, maybe if we fight with a sword only I could won...but in term of fight with hidden weapon or free for all fight,she beat me easily. 

You underestimate yourself too much Takuya,If you think I am an 'enemy' then ,at least you could put up fight also you think I didn't notice the lingering fear at your hand?."(Tsukihime)

I can only look away from her eyes..As I felt guilty to not tell her about it. But I don't want her to help me nor worry about it...I want to solve this by myself.

"The test is over. I will tell you later about the result now go take a bath. You were reek of sweat."(Tsukihime)

"Fine,Fine."(Takuya) 

I wonder what the result will be,I hope I had 2 or more . If I am turned average...Then I can't help Tsukihime..With her ability ,I think she was stronger than she look...Still....why she test me in real life instead in game?Looks like chaos generation have deeper secret than I thought..

Narrator POV.

This morning,Tsukihime conduct a test for Takuya,She have two reason for why she do this,First was because she need a 'false reason' for the result,after all there was no way she could said she was spying on him right?Secondly...She wants to know how worse was his fear. Although Takuya never mention to anyone,she knows that takuya hands keep shaking whenever he hold something..

"Mental wounds are harder too deal with than physical wound,Takuya..Can you solve it by yourself?"(Tsukihime)

Tsukihime unconsiously said it,even thought it was in small volume,Lune still catch on it,as they sit beside each other and was waiting for takuya to come.Lune didn't heard clearly either,which made her ask about it.

"?Mom,what are you mumbling about?"(Lune)

"It's nothing."(Tsukihime)

She can only believe in Takuya to solve it on his own...As long takuya can't solve it.....then he could never enter trance state as he liked. He can only enter in trance..If he need to save someone..be it himself nor his friend..which was a huge problem..If he didn't solve it by a year...Then Tsukihime won't bring him to tournament.Without trance he was only better than average half-chaos child. She then drink her tea as she was thinking how to solve this...

Takuya POV.

 3 Days later,

It was the fifth day,since Sakura and Yukki never step out the city nothing happened to them,except cooking and cleaning the house in real life there was nothing to do,That's why I spend the rest of my time scouting around outside of city ,bit by bit I expanding the area I that I scout. Day by day the player activity around here was decreasing.. I should ask Tsukihime later. I thought that as I kill another wolf with the flat side of sword... It was troublesome first,but once I am getting used to it ,it was easy.Let's check the result..

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Quest: Leaning way of sword.

Progress:

Slaying monster with  Flat side of  the sword  :10000/10000

Slaying monster with Edge of the sword         :7599  /10000

Slaying monster with Tip of the sword             :100    /10000

Time limit:5 days

Time left:3 Days,3hour

I pick this quest  2 days ago,since It found it was different from that typical quest,It was a quest with absurd difficulty ,The reward was also unkown. Which made me really curious about it. Minimum 30000 monster needed to be slayed. I should finish the second requirement today and finish the third by tomorrow. No one knows these player will return...The respawn limit for these area was 50000,if not for  the low player population around here it would be impossible to clear...The  monster always in group 50 or more which made these quest easier . Althought the monster can one shotted you by raming their body toward you or spit some poison that can't be cured except by going to the church,their movement was extremely slow. Which made me very easy to kill them.... Beside ...I also used these quest to get used to it.. I set my pain level to 100 which made me feel the pain without any cut at all...Thought I keep this secret as I didn't want everyone worry about me....

"Still,the pressure was really immense which had meaning,Human can only achieve their biggest potential when they on verge of death."(Takuya)

I know myself how dangerous was this,There were many people who died because of shock when they playing Virtual games because they set their pain level to 100 to show off. 

"2 More days...maybe I counter enter trance too..."(Takuya)

While I was wondering about this,suddenly a telephone picture appeared . It was also ringing too..Once I touch the picture,I heard Tsukihime voice from other side of phone.

"Takuya!!Leave that place at once!!!!"(Tsukihime)

"What!Why?"(Takuya)

"A city defense raid soon would be issued by Alice rival's  and destroy the whole city!!!That's why please escape!!!!!!"(Tsukihime)

"Okay!!!"(Takuya)

What a pity...But it can't be helped. After all I know A city defense raid was impossible to succeed at this city. Compared to other city ...The player around here was only 1% of the other city population. Most of them also not suited to combat as they only interested in art and didn't learn combat oriented skill. 

Once I arrived at Sakura's waiting room I only found Yukki was crying..Why she was crying?

"Why you are crying?Yukki?"(Takuya)

"Hiks...Takuya.I...I."(Yukki)

"Calm down...Tell me..why you are crying.."(Takuya)

Then Sakura begin telling me a story. A story about 2 Little girl. The older little girl once was pass the selection for being a kid Idol...She later become a very famous Idol...Until one years ago...That she was very tired and often felt sick because of overwork. The younger little sister then asked her older sister to stop it. She wants her to stop from being an Idol...

The older sister see her sister cry everyday. She coudn't stand it.....But she could only do this...She could only continue for being Idol to support her little sister. As they were originated from orphanage and was picked up only because she were talented..she didn't want her to suffer..She want her little sister to live normal girl...3 months later...Their parents told her ,that her Idol role was over...When she heard that she was happy and realized they were still their parents...But when she  see her sister....She fall in despair...as she saw her sister...wore the Idol uniform that she usually wear...

She only realized that their parents didn't care them at all..To them they were just money making tool. But they couldn't run from them. Seeing her being replaced by her own sister pained her very much. That's why she kept searching..a searching to ease her burden. She learned how to do all household chore...she trained herself so she could eased her sister...only to found it was too much for her little sister . It pained her more when she smiled everyday even thought she was very tired.

Later she found A game..A game where you could  do a concert and could be more beautiful than real life concert.It was CZO. She chose this city because she found The studio here  was cheaper than other city. That's why everyday she work hard...She worked hard to gather money to buy the studio at this city... but when she finally gather enough money and bought this studio,The city defense raid happened and  would destroy her hope forever. City that destroyed by raid can be restored.Only if they pay for the repair cost...Other city  may be repaired because they have a good hunting ground or  because they had a good quest reside in them...But this city have nothing....which made no one would repair it. 

Defending the city?It was impossible...No one willing because city defend set pain level to 100 hundred and only give a good reward toward those who achieve rank above 10  Or crowded MVP from system. That's why she could only accept it...Accept the destruction of her hope. This alone already made her  felt crying....only to know what her parent done was more cruel to her...It destroy all of her hope.The one who bougth the raid scroll was their parent...they give it as apology for hindering the opposite party bussiness and for more money....after all they didn't believe their daughter can do well..and was more interested to  defend the firm business in reality instead of this virtual world. If this city was destroyed...then she could just gather more money and one day buy studio from bigger city...but when she knew this...She knew there was nothing she could do....Their parent going to stop them with all they have to plant a seed at this virtual world. For her able to watch her sister sent straight to her own desmise.....It must be very painful...

It was normal for yukki to cry like these...No matter what she do  their life was already doomed.  Both of their life was doomed from the start. I hugged yukki and then said...

"I won't let you suffer more than this,that's why please believe in me and stay here.I will create a miracle...A miracle for you.."(Takuya)

Narrator POV

"TAKUYA!!!!!!Participating Alone in raid!!Are you seeking death!!"(Tsukihime)

When Tsukihime saw the sign the raid would start in one hour,she was surprised. But when she saw takuya's name...and only his name...Tsukihime near didn't believe it.. THe first thing she was to do..was contacting Takuya. This was insanity!!!

"Tsukihime,I believe it was possible after  all the raid would only attack one gate which was located in front of gate itself...It also only had 5 wave instead of 10...I believe it was possible!!!"(Takuya)

"No!!!What you can't do by yourself?!!Takuya even if it was only 1 wave there was over 10.000!!10.000 monster!!!That was impossible no matter what!!!!!!You can't fight 10.000 by yourself!!!!Even if you didn't die the gate would be destroyed because they overwhelmed you by sheer number!!No matter what it was impossible...even with me join you...that wasn't possible.."(Tsukihime)

"If only I lived once maybe it was impossible...But I could ressurect...by treating my life as 10 lifes I could ressurect that number of times...when I was ressurecting all of my skill cooldown will be resetted. Raid was different from quest as it had deploy limit. The deploy limit for this raid was 5000 point,for player being 1 point ,NPC soldier 2 points and weapon 2 point. The NPC here only limited by 1000 soldier and all of them were low quality which made them not better than normal player....even with weapon they could only serve as hindrace to opposed monster. That's why I planned to made them to be an archer...At least it would be useful than form kamikaze squad considering 5 soldier was needed to kill one monster.....for the rest 1000 points...I would use it to ressurect myself 100 times."(Takuya)

Hear That Tsukihime trembled and tears begin formed at her eyes...

"TAKUYA!!!I BEG YOU PLEASEE STOP!!!!I DIDN'T WANT LOSE YOU!!!!I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO DIE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE ESCAPE!!!"(Tsukihime)

Tsukihime knew Takuya  wanted to kill himself to reset the skill cooldown ....If it was once then maybe it was fine...But it was 100 times!!!100 times to die!!!Not to mention..They would felt 100% pain...

"Sorry,I can't. If I run from this...I can't face it....I can't face my own weakness!!!."(Takuya)

"TAKUYA!!!"(Tsukihime)

Takuya hang up! Takuya right now was on top of castle wall.... he then immediately jumped down and draw both of his sword  .In 30 second....The raid would start. Takuya eyes was focused to the front...

"To not abandon anyone...Indeed it was very hard...nearly impossible...Now I understand why others saying not to abandon anyone was just an Ideal. Still I will fight!!!I will struggle as hard as I can!!!!I won't let my friend suffer anymore!!!!!!Come monster!!! I will kill you all!!!"(Takuya)

The raid then started.