"Welcome, do you have an appointment?"

Su Chen opened a spacious and elegant cafe, and a waiter immediately bowed his head respectfully and asked.

After looking at the location and time arranged in the text message on his mobile phone, Su Chen scratched his head and looked around.

"Well, I am..."

click

Just when he was about to ask the waiter, the door was opened again, and a guy who was very familiar to Su Chen walked in.

"Tsk, I didn't expect that guy to even call you over. It seems that my ominous premonition has indeed come true, Kazuto."

Su Chen turned his head and saw the appearance of the person and couldn't help but sigh. This guy was the guy with the ID of Kirito who had been working together in the game for two years.

"Well"

Kirito nodded awkwardly.

Most of the people sitting in the elegant and classic coffee shop were people from the upper class, and some wealthy ladies such as ladies were chatting with each other about their daily life. In short, Su Chen and the two of them felt very awkward and inconsistent.

"Hey! Kirito-kun, Su Chen-kun, this way, this way"

Suddenly, a hearty voice in the elegant and high-end cafe interrupted the originally low conversation and attracted most of the eyes.

Although the eyes contained mostly blame.

The one who spoke was a man in a suit, Kikuoka Seijiro who invited the two of them here.

Bite the bullet, Kirito ignored the gazes of the people around him and walked toward him with his hands in his pockets. Su Chen smiled at the waiter and nodded, indicating that the person he was looking for had been found.

Su Chen and Kirito sat side by side, staring at the man in front of them with careful eyes, who they found very suspicious.

"I'm treating you this time. Just order whatever you like."

"..."

"Well, don't be so urgent. I will explain everything later. Don't worry."

Looking at the slightly suspicious eyes of the two people, Kikuoka waved his hands with a wry smile and said.

"Hmph~ You don't need to tell me, I'm going to give you some money first."

"Then I'm welcome."

Faced with the unceremonious and even cold tone of the two people, Kikuoka still kept a smile on his face and said with an exaggerated expression.

"Well, the way you speak is still so sad. I'm going to cry."

Ignoring the actions of the man in front of them, Su Chen and the two opened the menu.

Looking at the ridiculously priced pastries and specialty foods on the menu, Su Chen couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. The cheapest cream puff usually costs 1,200 yen here. It's really the worst kind of capitalism.

Looking at each other with Kirito, Su Chen felt the same mood. However, a man beside him was humming a tune happily. Hey, he was really worried. This guy was not an ordinary rich man.

"I'll have the chocolate sundae and raspberry layer cake..."

"Cappuccino iced coffee with cream pastry..."

"I understand, please wait."

The waiter checked a few items chosen by Kirito and Su Chen, then nodded and left.

Kikuoka Seijiro, who wore black glasses and looked like a gentleman, watched the two of them finish ordering the menu and held his chin while holding back a smile.

"Hey, I really trouble you two to go all the way like this. I'm really embarrassed."

"Hey, if you thought so in the first place, you shouldn't have called us to a place like Ginza!" (Ginza: It is a representative bustling district in Japan located in the west of Chuo-ku, Tokyo)

"Yeah, but the cream here is really delicious, especially some of the cream-filled pastries."

Licking the corner of his mouth, Kikuoka said with a smile as he savored the cream pudding he had just swallowed.

"Tsk, you really have the style of enjoying yourself."

Su Chen looked at the guy in front of him angrily and complained.

"Well, can you tell us what we want to discuss? By the way, please don't call me 'Kirito' in public!"

After Kirito looked around, he lowered his voice and warned the unconscious man in front of him.

"It's so heartless. It's very troublesome to always worry about these details. No matter what, we are people who stand on a united front."

Kikuoka said with a hint of sadness.

Yes, after all, this guy still belongs to the official force, and Su Chen and Kirito are not so much a united front, but rather Kikuoka's intelligence providers.

In short, it is a relationship of mutual use.

Of course, even if it was such a cold relationship, Su Chen and the two still had no intention of rejecting it. After all, what they got was far greater than what they paid. Maybe it was a feeling of gratitude in it, and they reached out to help in despair.

Actions are often more touching.

"I have no intention of continuing to talk about what happened in SAO today, please don't worry." Kikuoka closed the menu and said in a serious voice, "Today is a little different, and I invite you here because I want to ask for your opinions.

."

"view?"

Su Chen stared in confusion at the man in front of him who squinted like a fox and smiled, feeling increasingly suspicious.

Turning his body sideways, Kikuoka took a small tablet from under the table and handed it to the two of them, and spoke calmly.

"Hey, please take a look at this first."

On the tablet was the face of a strange man, with disheveled hair, dull eyes, protruding cheekbones, and a very depressed look. There was also a series of detailed personal information such as his address below.

"This is"

"Well, let me think about it, probably last month, that is, on November 14th, the landlord who was responsible for cleaning an apartment in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, smelled a foul smell, forced open the door and found

This man, Shigemura Yasuo, was twenty-six years old and is already dead."

"According to the police autopsy, it was found that he had been dead for almost five and a half days. However, although the room was very messy, there were no signs of fighting. The body was lying quietly on the bed. Of course, the most important thing is that he was still wearing an amusphere on his head.

"

"That means this guy was sneaking around at that time?"

"Um."

Kikuoka nodded.

"According to the medical examiner's report, the cause of death was acute heart failure."

"Huh? Has this guy ever had a medical condition?"

"Unfortunately, according to the family members, there is no such thing."

Kikuoka glanced at Su Chen and said calmly.

"The time of death was too long, and the possibility of committing a crime was very low. The deceased had not eaten for almost two days and had been indoors without any signs of going out."

Frowning, Su Chen and both of them fell into deep thought.

To be honest, although this kind of thing is uncommon, it is not impossible. You must know that even if you don't eat or drink in real life, as long as the virtual body eats in the game world, you will feel full.

This illusion is a temporary sensation caused by cutting off nerve transmission.

For those who are useless at gaming, not eating or drinking for two days is simply commonplace, and there is nothing surprising about it.

"Hey, when you called us here, you probably didn't want us to hear these irrelevant things or conclusions. Can your intention be more clear? Kikuoka."

Nodding, Kikuoka Seijiro adjusted his eyes and did not directly respond to Su Chen's question. Instead, he asked in a deep voice.

"Have you heard about the game Gun Gale Online that is now installed?"

"Of course, after all, it is the only MMO game with a professional player group today, although I have never played it."

"Don't look at me, I don't either."

Kirito waved his hand, he was not very interested in firearms.

"According to the subsequent investigation of this person, it was found that he won the title of the strongest player in October in Gun Gale Online, and his ID is axed."

"Then he should still be logged in to ggo when he died."

"No, he seemed to have appeared in the virtual image of zxed in the mmo stream online program, but it seemed that he was suddenly disconnected, which basically coincided with the time of death. Of course, this is all information analyzed later."

"In this case, it seems that I have received this message before. An interview was forced to stop because the guest was disconnected."

Su Chen knocked on the table and said slowly.

"Oh? It must have been that incident. He had a heart attack during the broadcast and was disconnected. Well, although it is strange, it is basically certain." Kikuoka nodded and then said, "At the same time as he got sick,

, something strange happened in ggo, some players mentioned it in their blogs.”

"Strange thing?"

"Well, it was probably at the same time that a certain player screamed at zxed in the bar to accept the sanction and shot him."

"Uh, are you linking zxed's death from heart failure to this player's seemingly venting of anger? Hey, that's not the joke."
Chapter completed!