10/18/2024
Floor 50
I wake up and get ready for the day like any other morning. I'm making breakfast when I get a knock on my door.
Hiro *mind*- Who could that be?
Hiro- Hold on I'm coming.
I go to my door and open it and I see a bunch of people.
Hiro- Uh, can I help you?
Person 1- Are you Hiro?
Hiro- Who's asking?
Person 2- We are info brokers and would like to know your skills and stats. We're not leaving until you do.
Hiro- Um hold that thought.
I quickly slam my door shut and lock it.
Person 3- Break his door down.
Hiro *mind*- Are they serious?! They'll go this far for a scoop. Fuck this shit. I'm out.
I get a message from kirito saying to meet him at Agil's place.
I go to my nearest window jump out of it. I run all the way to Agil's place while avoiding anyone who was looking for me. I get to the location and find kirito and Agil sitting at a table.
Hiro- Sup guys.
Agil- How ya doing.
I pop a squat in a chair next to them.
Hiro- A bunch of info brokers showed up at my place and forced to flee it.
Kirito- That's what happened to me too. I kinda regret telling people now.
Hiro- You did this?!
Kirito- Yeah and it's blowing up right in my face.
Hiro- Thanks a lot. Now I need a new bachelor pad.
Lisbeth walks in.
Liz- Well, you can always move in with me. I got a spare room.
Hiro- I may have to take you up on that offer. It beats spending coal on a hotel room everyday. As for you kirito, what happened to keeping our shit a secret?
Kirito- I said I was sorry ok geez.
Hiro- You owe me for this.
Kirito- Yeah yeah.
We hear footsteps coming and in comes Asuna.
Asuna- What are we gonna do kirito? We got ourselves a huge problem!
Timeskip to the next day
Floor 75
I'm in kirito warm up area with Asuna and Calixta because she wanted to see the duel with me.
Asuna- My god, you're such an idiot. How could you agree to a duel?
Calixta- Dude, you got some major balls challenging Heathcliff to a fight.
Hiro- What are you guys worried for? Kirito's got this.
Kirito- It's not like I had any other choice in the matter.
Asuna- The other day when you and Hiro unleashed your skills, I've never seen anything like that. The thing is, the commander has his own unique skill too.
Hiro- The Divine Blade.
Calixta- It maximizes his offensive and defensive moves. His defense is incredible.
Asuna- No one's ever seen the commander's HP bar dip into the yellow zone before. His invincibility is way beyond the normal game balance. What if you lose. I don't care if I don't get my leave of absence. I care about you having to join the Knights of the Blood Oath.
Kirito- Well, I'm not planning on losing easily.
He gets up and heads to the middle of the stadium to meet Heathcliff while us three watch from the opening.

They have a little conversation then the timer for the duel to start started. The both unsheathed their weapons and got into their stances. Once the timer hit zero, kirito started it off by dashing at Heathcliff and thrusting his dark repulsor at Heathcliff's chest but it gets blocked his cross shield. Kirito starts wailing on Heathcliff but each sword strike is blocked by Heathcliff's Shield. Heathcliff does an upward strike but kirito blocks it with both swords but is sent back a bit. Heathcliff rushes kirito and was a about to strike him with his sword but fakes out and hits kirito in the gut with the pointy end of his shield. Kirito flys back and doesn't get a moments breath because he blocks another strike from Heathcliff which sends him back again. Kirito charges his swords and strikes Heathcliff's shield and goes behind him. That's when they both just go in on each other, trying to get one another with everything they got.

Kirito finally landed one by cutting Heathcliff's cheek. Kirito then started his starburst stream and managed to get Heathcliff's Shield out the way which left him wide open.
Hiro- He's got this.
Just as I said that, it seemed as everything slowed down to snails pace and everything went black except for Heathcliff and kirito. Kirito seemed frozen while Heathcliff moved his shield to block the finishing blow. Time resumed, Heathcliff moved out the way and hit kirito which made his HP go yellow, and he won. He gave a downed kirito an ugly look before turning to leave. But before he left, he stopped and looked at me and gave me the same look as if I saw something I wasn't supposed to see. He left after that.
Hiro *mind*- I know what I saw. I'm not crazy. What are you hiding Heathcliff?
Author: That is it for this one. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Make sure to leave a vote and a comment. I'll shout you out in the next chapter if you do. I'll see y'all in the next one. Indigo Prince over and out.