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Chapter 785 Seiya and Kirito, Two Brothers in Misfortune
Seiya: "(▽｀) Kirito, we're best buddies, right?"

Kirito: "(ーー；) I guess... I guess so."

"No, no, no, we've been childhood friends since we were little, like we grew up wearing the same pair of pants."

Now that I'm in financial trouble, and you've even squandered almost all of our only food, you won't just stand by and watch me die, will you?

Kirito: "╮(￣▽￣““)╭ You're not thinking of borrowing money, are you?"
Do you think I look like I have money to lend you? At least you can afford instant noodles, but I can't even afford that.

Seiya: "(*｀へ*) Damn it, you poor bastard! You can't lend me money and you still eat all that instant noodles I gave you, shut the hell up!"

Seeing Seiya's sudden change of expression and his complete lack of concern for the beans, Kirito finished slurping up his instant noodles and said in the same tone Seiya had just used, "Don't be like that, we're best buddies, the kind who grew up wearing the same pair of pants."

You can't just watch your brother suffer and die without helping him, can you?

"Get lost! I'm having an even harder time than you!"

After a struggle, Grandpa Kiri finally pulled out all his savings of 560 yen to pay for his meal.

Looking at Kirito, who had searched his entire body but couldn't find a single penny left, Seiya gave him a disdainful look.

"You call yourself 'Black-Clad Swordsman'? I think you should change your name to 'Poor Ghost Swordsman' instead."

"That little bit of money isn't even enough to buy two pineapple buns."

In response to Seiya's mockery, Kirito looked at Seiya and retorted sarcastically, "Tsk, you're not much better yourself, are you?"

"You call yourself the renowned 'Golden Lion Cub' in the professional gaming world? I can't believe you're penniless. You should be called 'Poor Lion Cub' instead."

Faced with Kirito's taunt, Seiya was powerless to retaliate, because after searching his entire body, he only found a few coins, which were not much better than Kirito's, amounting to about 1250 yen.

The two of them had a total of less than two thousand yen in assets, and that was in whole or broken amounts.

“Shengzai, I remember you know quite a few rich women, right? Why don’t you borrow some money from them?”
Or if all else fails, you should just give in to Suguha…

Does Seiya know many wealthy women? That's true, in fact, it's more accurate to say that the women he knows seem to be quite rich.

Asuna, the eldest daughter of the Yuuki family, is not short of money, but now that she's in cahoots with Suguha, there's no way she can borrow any money.

Sylvia, the American champion prodigy, is naturally a wealthy woman in this world where gaming is the mainstream.

Cross-border transfers are impractical, and Seiya doesn't believe their relationship is good enough for him to ask for money.

Panshirgon, also known as Amane Towa, is a top-tier model who can spend tens of millions of yen on a fight against the gravedigger Vezaemon, so he is naturally not short of money.

But this guy is very cunning. If he finds out why Seiya borrowed money, he will definitely tell Sun and Katsuo, and then make fun of him about it later.

After much hesitation, Seiya and Kirito decided to visit the Yuuki family together.

Kirito, the strategist, said that Suguha is easy to coax, so Seiya chose to give in to Suguha rather than borrow money from his rich friend.

However, when the two arrived at the Yuuki family home, they were told by the family's housekeeper that the Yuuki family had taken Suguha on a trip abroad and would not be back for about a week.

"It seems that Suguha is really angry this time. She actually made her brother Seiya eat junk food like instant noodles for a week." "But thanks to a certain guy, I probably won't even be able to eat instant noodles this week."

The two returned home dejectedly, each blaming the other on the way while pondering how to get through the week with less than two thousand yen.

Soon after arriving home, Seiya noticed a figure at his doorstep preparing to turn and leave.

The other person was wearing a suit and glasses; he was a middle-aged man who looked to be around thirty or forty years old.

“Mr. Seiya, I rang the doorbell for a long time but there was no response. I was thinking of visiting another day, but I didn’t expect you to come back just in time.”

And Kirito-kun, I didn't expect you to be with Seiya-san too. That saves me the trouble of running back and forth.

Although the visitor was smiling and spoke politely, Seiya and Kirito were not particularly enthusiastic when they saw him.

The reason is actually quite simple: the man who greeted them was named Seijiro Kikuoka.

His identity is that of an official in the VR environment and he also serves as an official in the Advanced Communications Network Promotion Division of the Department of Internal Affairs and Communications (referred to as the Communications Network Virtual Space Management Division, or commonly known as the "Virtual Division") of the Department of Internal Affairs and Communications.

In the previous GGO Death Gun incident, the other party approached Seiya and Kirito and asked for their help to find "Death Gun," who had been indiscriminately killing people in the game.

Seijiro Kikuoka is from the cybersecurity department, so he usually doesn't come knocking on your door, and if he does, it's usually not for anything good.

In the last "Death Gun" incident in GGO, to be honest, it was only Seiya's extraordinary combat power that made him stand out, and Kirito had the protagonist's halo. If it were anyone else, it probably wouldn't be them hunting Death Gun, but Death Gun hunting them.

"Mr. Kikuoka, you've come to visit again because you've encountered some troublesome matter and are planning to ask us to do something dangerous again, haven't you?"

Seijiro Kikuoka, who was about to speak, was embarrassed by Seiya's interruption and didn't know how to start the conversation.

As a cybersecurity instructor, Seijiro Kikuoka's job is to prevent people from using the current advanced network environment to commit crimes, while also ensuring the safety of in-game players.

Wenren Seiya and Kiritani Kazuto were both surviving players from SAO. They were not only among the lucky 10,000 players, but also highly skilled players in a completely virtual game.

Their performances in SAO, ALO, and GGO have repeatedly proven this point.

Many of the players who survived SAO developed a phobia of virtual stealth games because of their death experience.

When they survived SAO, Seiya and Kirito were not even adults yet.

Seijiro Kikuoka also knew that after his experience of death in SAO, it was somewhat risky for him to entrust two teenagers with finding the murderer in the game.

However, recognizing their talent and abilities, he ultimately decided to do so. After all, while their cybersecurity department were officials managing this field, it didn't mean they were all expert users.

The reason he took the initiative to come to their door this time is because he has something to entrust to Seiya and the others, and just as Seiya said, this entrustment is still accompanied by a certain degree of danger.

In some ways, it is even more dangerous than the previous "Death Gun" incident in GGO.

But Seiya's words just now left Kikuoka Seijiro somewhat at a loss for words.

(End of this chapter)