A year has passed since Sword Art Online was defeated for good, and everyone was freed from the game. But one young man was still not free of the torment. And a job. Thomas Trey Trenor is now an emotionless husk of who he once was. He once had the whole world ahead of him, but reality set in within Sword Art Online. Once he left Sword Art Online, he would go on to learn of the new state his family was in, being pronounced an orphan. Time passed, and he then would be known by the Kirigaya family, and more specifically; Kirito. The job seemed simple. Just go into GGO–a game Thomas was quite familiar with, find Death Gun and confront him. But nary did Thomas know, it was a lot more difficult than that. CROSSPOSTED FROM AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/works/45923815/chapters/115588999 COVER ART BY YING WEI (d_ying5022).