Chapter 70 - Side Story: Hallow Reasons

Fuck it I'm bored so I write

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October 31, 2025 Halloween Night At Reaping Bell

So its almost the month the death gun murder strings. Start up and well right now I'm standing behind my store counter. On Halloween night waiting for people to arrive for a small party. Which is only between us older in the older group really. As I sent the six brats out with my real kids to go trick or treating. Sinon is upstairs cooking something simple as she's not that great. So I'll have to cook the more tasty stuff with Agil tonight.

While thinking such things the first to arrive are Kirito, Asuna, and Suguha. Which its not a costume party yet everyone is going to wear. Their armor I remade in real life, of course I never told them this. Their armors and weapons have the actual skills and stats they did in game. Just they never really figured it out even during our bouts. Once the three came in though I just pointed at the stairs going up. So the went up quickly just as Klein came in the shop. So he scurried after them quickly as he knows. A girl is cooking so he had a shit eating grin.

Following after him twenty minutes later was Lisbeth and Silica. Helping Agil carry in ingredients that'll be used. Then well our final guest is a laughing coffin member. Which he may be a killer but he killed for very specific reasons. His name is Wolf Grave Digger, he's a american psychologist. He used to work at the base here with me surprisingly as such. Just now a days he works as a normal psychologist, at the SAO survivor school. So the brats, Asuna, Kirito, Silica, and Lisbeth also know him well. Just he's a normal psychologist as a cover up during the day.

At night like me he's a grim reaper hunting people down. So we've run into each other quite a bit at night that we've. Become drinking buddies and well Agil knows he's a laughing coffin. But after hearing the reason he could only sigh. Thus us three became the three oldest in the group. Once Grave was inside I sent him up stairs to the others. While I armed the security system in the shop thats tracking. Everyone in here so it go off on us but maybe when the kids. Decide to come back home it might if they forget to disarm it first.

Now you may be wondering why Grave was a laughing coffin. Well its because he and his wife we're playing together. When well the first group of red players appeared and attacked. His wife got rȧpėd in the game before they lopped her head off. While he was pinned with a great sword through the back screaming. He lived but he started using his psychology knowledge. To blend in and murder people who were like that group. Till eventually he was a laughing coffin member drenched in blood. He can deny he only kills to rid scum but we both know the truth. We both really know the true reason.

That will never change as for us who've gone to far. Snapped and tasted the flesh under blade you'll never go back. You'll want more so you kill more, and more till your a blood drenched monster. Heh I'm lucky that when I snapped though my dėsɨrė. My need to protect twisted my snapped mind into something. That I like to call "Deranged Guardian" so unless its a threat. To well my targets of protection I won't go off the deep end. Grave however, he snapped thinking of revenge. So he's your typical "Fallen Avenger" type of insane person that. Moves with one simple goal and they'll do anything to accomplish it.

End of it all though both of our reasons are hallow. Like a hallow rock there's the reason on the outside. But on the inside its just hallow as we just want to slaughter. Sighing I head up the stairs to party, Emperor hopping onto my shoulder. From his perch which Emperor is the death Phoenix. Just when he's not active he looks like a small lazy black dove. Hanging out in the stairwell on a perch to the side asleep.