"Click..."

With a crisp ringtone, Su Chen pushed open a small shop named [dicey cafe], curiously looked at the surrounding environment and walked in.

"It should be right here, it's really hard for me to find!"

Su Chen touched the beads of sweat on his forehead and complained in his heart.

In fact, the interior of the house is quite unique. Although it is small in size, with only four round tables and a counter, the neat placement can't help but make people feel a different kind of comfort and elegance.

A bald man was wiping the cup at the counter. He raised his head when he heard the noise, and smiled lightly when he saw Su Chen.

"Oh, it arrived very quickly."

"Uh...hello!"

Su Chen couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he looked at the tall bald man in front of him. After all, this was his first offline meeting with a player he met in the game. You should know that he had never interacted with players in real life before.

"...Ling Xiao, you don't need to be so polite if you're an acquaintance! We fought side by side back then."

The bald man looked at Su Chen speechlessly.

"Sorry, my memory about the game is probably lost, um, so..."

"...Oh, you have lost your memory. I almost forgot. Sorry, sorry!"

"call......"

Su Chen relaxed a little. The things he just mentioned in SAO really made him a little overwhelmed. Fighting side by side had no impression at all.

"Well, um... my name is Su Chen. It's better not to call me Ling Xiao. I feel a little awkward being called that now."

Su Chen said a little embarrassed.

After all, he used to have no interference between reality and the game, but now he is being called by his name in the game in reality, and there is always an indescribable feeling of dissonance.

"Is that Su Chen?"

The bald man touched his head and said with a smile.

"Well, let's get to know each other again. I am 'Andrew Kilbart Milus'. My previous name in the game was 'Agil'. Now I am the owner of this coffee shop and bar. You are welcome to come and play when you have time.

oh."

"..."

Su Chen was a little speechless. This guy was definitely not Japanese. His name was too difficult to pronounce, and his appearance was also different from ordinary people...

"Uh, forget it, you should just call me Agil..."

Looking at Su Chen who looked dazed, the bald man touched his head and expressed his helplessness.

After a brief conversation...

"It's true! This is the first time I've met..."

Agil looked at Su Chen in front of him in surprise.

"Well, that's probably what happened."

Su Chen didn't have much to say, so why should he tell him that he was actually a time traveler and had no memories here?

If he really said that, he would probably be considered to be terminally ill and in urgent need of treatment.

"Tsk, you are really in trouble!"

Agil shook his head and looked at Su Chen beside him with regret.

"Sa, who knows, maybe I will live happily without this memory, haha."

Su Chen said disapprovingly.

"Well, that's right, Sao's memory is indeed not a good memory."

"Yeah, right."

"squeak......"

The door was suddenly pushed open again.

A young man with a thin body, fair complexion, and a girlish profile on his profile, giving an overall androgynous feeling, walked in.

"I didn't expect that you are also a storekeeper in reality! Agil!"

"Hey, you're too slow, someone got there first, Kirito."

Agil looked at the delighted Kirito before him and chuckled.

"Ling Xiao! It's great that you're okay!"

"..."

Looking at the guy named Kirito in front of him, a strange light flashed in Su Chen's eyes, it seemed that he was another familiar stranger.

"...But Asuna..."

Kirito looked happy, but when he mentioned Asuna, he felt a little sad.

"Asuna? Who is..."

Su Chen was a little confused at this time. Although the name that popped out of Kirito's mouth gave him a familiar feeling, as if he had heard it somewhere before, after all, he had no memory of it in the game, so he looked confused.

"Kirito, it's like this..."

Agil on the side explained Su Chen's current symptoms to Kirito.

"What? Amnesia? No way..."

Kirito was very surprised after hearing this. After all, he often went to the hospital to visit Asuna, and he did not encounter such strange things in the hospital.

"Well, I don't know either."

Su Chen pretended to be innocent and spread his hands. After all, he was also suffering from something he couldn't tell.

...

"Wait, listen to my explanation!!"

Su Chen woke up from his dream, sweating profusely and yelled.

In the dream, he seemed to have made a girl cry. She was wearing exquisite clothes like a waiter, with a cute baby face, and her tearful eyes made him feel a strong sense of guilt, and the figure gradually moved away from him.

Getting further and further away gave him the urge to keep her.

"..."

"Huh, it seems to be a dream, but why..."

Su Chen sighed and murmured.

In the month after meeting Kirito Agil, Su Chen always encountered various images similar to otherworldly paintings in his dreams. In the pictures, there were familiar people such as Kirito Agil, dressed in game clothes.

They have unique armor or professional equipment, and they hold various weapons in their hands, including long swords, rapiers, knives, hammers, axes, etc. They fight against bosses and have dinner together, all kinds of beautiful scenes, over and over

flashed through his brain again and again.

Su Chen, who was lying on the bed, looked at the night scene with the moon high in the sky and knew that he had suffered from insomnia again.

"Three o'clock in the morning...tsk..."

I don’t know when I started to have the habit of dreaming, and what I dreamed about were still some images in sao.

"Is this really 'his' memory? Or is it that I actually came to this world two years ago?"

Although Su Chen has been watching indifferently since he woke up with the excuse that everything that happens in this world has nothing to do with him now, he knows that whether it is the inexplicable movements that he often suddenly raises his hands to slide down, or the vague things that appear in his mind when he is waving a branch.

The appearance of a certain term 'sword skill' or even his game ID Ling Xiao in this world silently explained all his current doubts.

He traveled through time, but actually came here two years ago. No, it should be said that he came to the game, this so-called death game [Sword Art Online].

"It seems that if you want to retrieve this memory, you have to enter SAO again, but the game has crashed. Phew, it's really troublesome!"

Su Chen frowned and looked at [nervgear] and murmured.

...

"Oh hey~"

"..."

The time is January 20, 2025

Location: Agil's Coffee Shop

"It's still the same..."

Su Chen looked at a metal-decorated signboard with two dice on it. After pushing the door open and entering, he was still surrounded by an empty space.

"Tsk, why is your store so deserted every time I come here? Is it because the feng shui is bad? Why don't you consider changing to another place?"

Su Chen raised his eyebrows and looked at Agil, the only person in the store, and complained.

"Hmph, stop talking nonsense, business is booming at night."

Agil twitched his mouth and forced himself to explain.
To be continued...