Simultaneous travel: invincible from the beginning of the anime!

Chapter 596 Grandpa Tong Wants to Play on the Shangri-La Border!
Tokyo City, Wenren Swordsmanship Gym.

Seiya, holding a bamboo sword, practiced sword-wielding continuously in his family's dojo.

After experiencing events like SAO, ALO, and GGO, Seiya is now considered a fairly well-known figure in the MMO gaming community.

SAO and ALO were actually fine, but the "Death Gun" incident in GGO was due to his outstanding performance in the BoB tournament at the time.

So much so that the "Golden Lion Cub" persona he used at the time has been unearthed, and many MMO game developers have even tried to hire him as their spokesperson.

“Seiya, what do you think? Please consider this a favor to me. I will remember your kindness for the rest of my life.”

Seeing Seiya finish training, a black-haired boy next to him very attentively handed him a towel.

Seeing her brother stealing her thunder and showering her with attention, Kirigaya Suguha remarked with dissatisfaction, "Kazuto-nii's life is truly short."

"Just a short while ago, it was a request for a lifetime, and now, so little time has passed, and this is another request for a lifetime."

Kirito didn't care at all about his younger sister's merciless teasing. Instead, he continued to look at his childhood friend and best friend with extremely sincere eyes.

"Kirito, you're putting me in a difficult position. As you know, my life plan has always been to reopen my family's sword dojo after I graduate and become an adult."

Now that I'm an adult, and the dojo has all the necessary permits and funding, you want me to become a professional gamer with you? Isn't that a joke?
I am a master of the Wenren Sword Style, not a professional player of an MMO virtual game…

That's right, in a few months, Seiya will turn 18 and become an adult.

In other words, legally he can inherit the family's dojo and is qualified to operate it.

The procedural issues have been mostly resolved thanks to Asuna's father and Seijiro Kikuoka.

Unexpectedly, just as Seiya was preparing to post advertisements and recruit apprentices, Kirito suddenly showed up and asked him to accompany him to become a professional gamer.

The reason Kirito made this request was quite simple: his love life was not going well.

To be precise, he and Sachi have always had a good relationship, and even after returning to SAO, the two quickly confirmed their relationship.

However, the relationship between the two, who were deeply in love, was soon discovered by Xing's parents.

Fortunately, when she entered SAO, she was already a member of the high school computer research club.

Having been trapped in SAO for two years, plus the recovery period after returning from the death game, all these bits and pieces add up, and now Sachi is almost the age to go to university.

Originally, her family was quite unhappy about Sachi dating Kirito, who was younger than her.

When they learned that Kirito's academic performance was quite average before he was trapped in SAO, and that he had wasted two years in SAO, they became worried about his future.

One can't help but wonder if Kirito would be capable of taking care of Sachi if he were to actually marry her in the future.

It's not fair to say that Xing's parents are materialistic; after all, every parent worries about their child's future.

Compared to the Yuuki family, who were extremely satisfied with Seiya and even thought he was a hidden master, it's quite normal for Sachi's parents to have doubts about Kirito's abilities.

Despite Kirito's incredible dual-wielding skills in the game, his actual achievements in the real world were just average.

The two-year gap in his academic performance caused him to fall far behind his peers. While it's true that good grades don't guarantee a good future, being academically inferior makes one even less competitive.

Besides studying, Kirito doesn't have any other particularly outstanding talents...

No, if I had to say, he does have a special talent: he's incredibly good at playing games.

Moreover, in this era of popular MMO virtual games, Kirito's talent is quite promising.

Therefore, Sachi's parents did not completely reject Kirito's idea, but instead let him prove himself first.

Since you claim to be good at playing games, then show us by becoming a professional gamer first.

Despite Kirito's outstanding performance in games like SAO and GGO.

But no matter how excellent he is, he is still an amateur player after all, without a signed studio or a stable income.

When Kirito tried to submit his resume to various game studios and attempted to become a professional gamer, the result was not as simple as he had imagined.

To become a "professional gamer," in addition to meeting the skill requirements, one also needs to have a certain level of glory and achievements.

To put it simply, it's about whether you have real skills or not. It's not enough to just talk about it; you have to show actual results.

Due to various factors, the records for SAO's battles have been sealed, so the battle records are likely untraceable.

As for GGO, Kirito performed exceptionally well in the BoB tournament, but the final champions were Seiya and Sinon.

With his ranking at the time and the result of only one match, he was simply not qualified to be called a "professional player".

For this reason, Kirito has been searching online for the most popular fully immersive virtual reality games.

And very quickly, he found a masterpiece of virtual games called "Shangri-La Border" that had hundreds of millions of people online at the same time worldwide!
In this story set in the "Shangri-La Border," there are seven extremely powerful monsters, also known as "Special Monsters."

It is said that each of these strongest monsters has a unique storyline, and the conditions for triggering and encountering them are unknown.

And to date, among so many players on the Shangri-La border, no one has been able to successfully defeat these special monsters.

So Kirito's idea was simple: weren't those well-known game studios looking down on him for not having any real achievements?
If he can defeat the special monster in "Shangri-La Border" that no one can defeat yet, then that should be enough to prove that his gaming skills and level are enough to make him a so-called "professional gamer", right?
To better understand the game, Kirito did his homework, scouring game materials and forums for all the information about "special monsters".

Although the intelligence found was extremely scarce, and most of it consisted of eyewitness accounts.

But he also concluded that the so-called "special monster" was indeed extremely powerful.

Both in terms of mechanics and design, it is almost impossible for them to be defeated in a one-on-one fight.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of his plan to become a "professional gamer", Kirito quickly thought of his reliable and quite capable childhood friend and frenemy.

Even Kirito wasn't confident he could defeat the unique monster alone, so he needed a strong ally.

The only person he could think of was Seiya!

(End of this chapter)