Right now, Kitsune and Kirito are on their
way to the governor's office while Kitsune was now checking the list of participants of the third Bullet of Bullets or BoB tournament as he was walking.

Kitsune: Death Gun first rose to infamy
after the second Bullet of Bullets. Both of his
murders to date were committed in public. Not likely he'd been leveling up his character until now to lie low until the time was right.

He continues looking for the names in the list.

Kitsune: BoB is a perfect opportunity for him. There's no doubt he'll participate. Kirito can figure the identity of his avatar and confront him once more. Fallen, is new but able to catch up pretty quickly, something about him, even the name reminds me of that. Now I have to figure out his identity.

He said in his mind with determination to end this, once and for all before he continues to walk toward the venue of the main tournament with Kirito his boyfriend beside him.

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36 minutes remaining as Kirito, Sinon and Kitsune were on separate boards.

Kirito: Hey, Sinon.

Sinon:...

Kirito: Sinon?

Sinon:...

Kirito: Miss Sinon?

Sinon:....

Kirito: Sin—

Sinon: Stop it! I've already said hello. Do you
want anything else?

Kitsune: could've said it early.

Kirito: As a matter of fact I do. I was wondering before the tournament started, we maybe share information.

Sinon just looked at Kirito and Kitsune with an
annoyed look and he just rubbed the back of
his head as Kitsune sweatdrops

Kitsune: We really appreciate it.

Sinon: Fine. I'm sure it'll just be me lecturing
you, though.

Kitsune:*whisper* Of course, it would be...

Sinon: What was that?

Kitsune: N-Nothing!!

Kitsune then motioned Kirito to join with them as they and Sinon then went to a bar in the governor's office, and saw it was full of people.

Kirito: There are a lot more people in here
than yesterday.

Sinon: The main tournament is always like a
big party.

Kitsune: I can see.

Kitsune, Kirito, and Sinon then started to walk past different players as they are talking about them.

Player #1: Hey, look it's Kirito-chan!

Player #2: She hacks a person good with her
photon sword.

Player #3: Oww, Hot berserker with blade!

Kitsune tried his best not to laugh at the misfortune players who mistaking Kirito for a girl. Then they commented about Sinon.

Player #2: Nah, Sinon-chan too. She's my
type.

Player #1: I wouldn't mind getting a bullet
from Sinon.

Player #2: I'd know right.

Player #3: I'd rather get slashed!

Player #1: Then how about you go played ALO with their fairies!

Kirito shrugged in annoyance while Kitsune
chucked a bit while internally making a list to beating up players.

Player #4: Wait, aren't forgetting, Kitsune?

Player #1: But he's a dude.

Player #4: I know that but look, he's with
both of them.

Player #2: Shit! You're right. You don't think
that he and they are-

Player #3: Talk about being with the luckiest
man alive.

Player #1: Must be a dream to live like that.

Player #4: That's what every man can dream off.

Kirito shrugged again and he accidentally bumped into some players.

Kirito: U-Um, sorry.

Player #5: Oh!

Player #6: You're K-Kirito-san! S-Sorry!

Kirito then walked past them and stopped
while they stood there in fear that Kirito gonna get mad at them but instead Kirito did something unexpected.

Kirito: You guys.....*girly voice*Cheer for me!

The male players around them were taken by
Kirito's girly act as Sinon look at Kirito with a deadpan look as Kitsune well trying not to laugh while his fox side/hollow/demon finding ways to **** him.

Player #1: K-Kirito-chan, good luck!

Player #2: I'll bet all my money on you!

Sinon: What the hell is your friend doing,
Kitsune?

Kitsune: I also don't know but it's funny.

The event started in 20 minutes as Kitsune and Sinon were now sitting in one of the booths while Kirito sits at the other table since Sinon threatened to shoot or beat Kirito up if he sat at their table but Kitsune had a dark aura as Sinon backed off.

Kitsune: So just to be clear. In the main tournament, thirty players are randomly
placed on the same map? And you just start
shooting when you encounter someone, and
the last man standing wins.

Sinon: I knew it....You're trying to make me
explain everything to you. Anyway, all that was in the email the admins sent you! Did you even read it?

Kitsune: I did. Not really but whatever...

Sinon: I guess it's all in how you say it.
Basically, you're right. It's a battle royal on a
single map with thirty players. Starting
locations are random, but you'll be at least a
thousand meters from every other player.

Kitsune: that's a large one.

Kirito. Is the map that big?

Sinon: Did you really read the email?

Kirito: we did read it!! Nope.

Sinon: The map is ten kilometers in diameter.
It has many mountains, forests, and deserts. The stage also starts during the afternoon, so no one has an advantage or disadvantage due to equipment or stat type.

Kitsune: Is there anyways to find any players?

Sinon: You're shooting at each other with big
guns, so it has to be that big. And the
participants automatically receive an item
called a "satellite scan terminal".

Kirito: Satellite? Like a spy satellite or
something along those lines?

Sinon: Yeah. The idea is that a spy satellite
passes over the stage once over fifteen
minutes. Then it transmits the location
information of each player on the map to the
terminal.

Kitsune: so a UAV from the shooter games like Call of Duty.

Sinon and Kirito: Call of Duty?

Kitsune: never mind that.

Kirito: In other words, you can only hide
in one place for fifteen minutes?

Sinon: That's right.

Kirito: but a rule like that wouldn't put a certain sniper at a disadvantage?

Sinon: Fifteen minutes is more than enough
to fire one shot, kill one person, and move.

Kitsune: unless you have a faster chamber speed, quicker reload time, faster fire rate, quicker to look in the scope and able to run faster or slower whatever you say about it.

Kitsine: that so, huh...

Sinon: Okay, you're done for now? The next
time I find you.

Sinon then went to get up, but Kitsune grabbed her by the wrist and that gotten her to blush a bit.

Sinon: Where do think you're touching me?!

Kitsune: Sorry but I have one more question.

Kitsune then let go of Sinon's wrist as she
sighed and sat back down. Kirito then pulled down his menu and pulled up the list of participants in the BoB.

Kirito: This may seem strange, but how
many players participating do you not recognize?

Sinon then looked at Kitsune and Kirito confused as he sends a list of participants of the BoB to her.

Sinon: Huh? What are you talking about?

Kitsune: Please tell us, it's important.

Sinon looked at Kitsune and Kirito and saw how serious they are and she sighed.

Sinon: Well, as long as it's only names, I don't
mind telling you.

Sinon then started to look through the name list.

Sinon: Other than a certain pervert trap--

Kirito: Excuse me!? I heard that!

Sinon: And his friend obnoxious katana user, only three are new players.

Kitsune: Three new players? Who?

Sinon: "Gunner X" and "Pale Rider"? And... I
guess it's pronounced "Sterben"?

Kitsune then narrowed his eyes at the list.

Kitsune: none of them are Death Gun or even Fallen. Just more victims.

Sinon: What's with you? You haven't explained any of this.

Kitsune: Sorry Sinon, but it's classified.

Sinon: Does it have anything to do with how
you started to act weird in the qualifiers yesterday?

Kitsune: Yeah...it does. Yesterday, a player
from another VRMMO spoke to me. One of
these names are not his at all.

Sinon: A friend?

Kirito looks away as he shivers as Kitsune growls.

Kitsune: No...far from it..It's an enemy...I tried to seriously kill him, and he seriously tried to kill me. but I can't even remember what he used to call himself..

Sinon then looked at Kitsune confused.

Sinon: Kill you? An enemy? Were you in a
party and got into a fight or something?

Kitsune: No..we honestly tried to take each other's life. They...their group..did something absolutely unforgivable..No way in fucking hell could I could be friends with any of them. I had to settle things with a sword.

Kitsune then clenched his hand tightly as he
looks down on the ground.

Kitsune: I had to make them pay for what
they did..I don't regret that at all...but..for the longest time, I've been avoiding becoming aggressive ever since

Kitsune then looked over Sinon.

Kitsune: I'm sorry for saying such weird
things. You can forget everything you heard.

Sinon: You can still pull the trigger anyway?

Kitsune: Yeah, I can. As long as it to protect
those who precious to me, I'm always ready to
pull the trigger. Even it means to become a monster to fight a monster.

Sinon then looked at Kitsune amazed by his
determination.

Sinon: Kitsune, Kirito were you ones of the many players in that game? Sword Art Online?

Kitsune and Kirito looked away in silent as they grips their hands.

Sinon: Sorry, I'm not supposed to ask that, am I?

Kirito: it's okay, Sinon. I'm fine.

Sinon: Kitsune...Kirito..

Kitsune: Yeah?

Sinon: Nothing. We need to head to the standby dome, or we won't have time to focus
our minds or inspect our equipment.

Kitsune: Right.

Kitsune and Sinon made their way to the elevator to head to the standby dome along
with Kirito. The way in the elevator is silent
as Kitsune could feel the tension between Kirito and Sinon.

Sinon: I better not see you on the field
because I will not hesitate to kill you.

Kirito: Would you forget it already?! I'm sorry!!

Sinon: I don't trust you and never gonna trust
you!

Kitsune: Alright, alright. Calm down both of you. If we gonna settle this, we settle this at the battlefield.

Sinon then walked up to Kitsune and point
her index finger at his back.

Sinon: And you. I understand that you have
your reasons for what you're doing. But your
promise with me is something different. I'm
going to pay you back for yesterday's final
round. So...If you let anyone else shoot you, I'll never forgive you.

Kitsune: I understand.

Kitsune then looked back at Sinon, he takes off his fox mask revealing his race and smiles at her.

Kitsune: If I'm to die, it will be by your bullet and your bullet alone.

Sinon looked at Kitsune and started to blush
as she looked away.

Sinon: Thank you..

She looks at Kirito who was blushing a bit. She connected the dots and gasped.

Sinon: are you two!!

Kitsune: Bisexual, Sinon

Kirito:*blush* s-same here.

Sinon: oh long?

Kitsune: since Like a couple months when SAO start to become a death game. People get so offended by the smallest things like fictional character relationships, can't tell between fiction and reality, "fixing" art but looks more of a mess.

Sinon: that I agree, they're wasting their time of complaining and not do something else in their lives.

(Timeskip)

Kitsune, Kirito, and Sinon then reached floor B20 and the door opened as they went their own separate ways as the Host voice could be heard on the screen above.

Host: You battle junkies who love the smell of
gun oil and gun smoke, are you ready? The
deadline for the bets is almost over. Alright!
It's time to see who the toughest player in the
hardest VRMMO, GGO, is!

The crowd then shouted in cheers as all the
participants for the main tournament in their
own room preparing for the battle.

Host: The MMO stream will be showing live
footage of the battle! Now, time for the
countdown!

Everyone: Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five.
Four. Three. Two. One.

Host: Bullet of Bullets, start!

All the participants then got teleported to the
BoB map as the Bullet of Bullets officially started the match.
——

Every player all around GGO including those who watched the live streaming all started to cheer.

In the tournament, many players started to
shoot at each other as soon as they met, giving their best to win the tournament. With Sinon, she got teleported to the mountain area. As soon as she teleported, she quickly runs off and hides behind a bush and she equips her sniper.

She then looks through the scope and found a
nearby player. He was all alone, use a rifle
and he just walks around the terrain. Sinon
then found a chance to attack the player as
she found two bombs hanging on the player's
waist.

Using her chance, she pulled the trigger of
her sniper and shot at the bombs of the poor
guy who didn't notice this.

Sinon: Bingo.

The bomb then explodes making a huge
explosion as the player died and got out of the
game. After sniping the player, Sinon moved
to a safe place where she checked on the
satellite scan.

Sinon: Only Twenty-one players are still alive in the match.

She noticed that the closest players, aside
from Lion King Richie, were Dyne and Pale
Rider; thus, she decided to target them. Suddenly, her mind went on thinking about
Kitsune.

Sinon: Is he still alive?

The memories of Kitsune suddenly come
into her mind as she tightened the grip of her
fist.

Sinon: I don't care what happens to him!! That cute...hot...idiot...

She just shakes her head to get Kitsune's face out of her mind. Then, she stands up and started to make her way to kill Dyne. Having found a sniping position on the west side of
the bridge that Dyne had crossed, she prepared to take action.

Sinon: You should always check your six, Dyne.

However, she suddenly heard movement from behind as her eyes widened in shock and she immediately pulled out her pistol and aims it behind her.

Sinon: Who's there?!

The person then quickly slaps her gun out of
her hand and pinned her to the ground as she
closed her eyes.

????: woah!! Slow down Sinon, it's me!!

Sinon heard a familiar voice, she opened her
eyes and saw the person who snuck up on her
is none other than Kitsune.

Kitsune: Please wait, I have a plan.

Sinon: In this situation, there aren't any plans
or compromises! One of us dies. That's all!

Kitsune: Please...I don't want them to notice us.

Sinon: What do you mean?

Kitsune: I want to watch the battle on the
bridge till the end. Until it ends, please don't
attack.

Sinon: Watch and do what?

Kitsune: What comes after that, depends on
what l've seen before. Don't worry, I will leave this area after that and I won't attack you.

Sinon: I might shoot you from behind.

Kitsune: If that's your choice, that's fine. Okay it's now starting.

He said as he looks at the match in front of
him as Sinon just thought about it for a
moment before she spoke up.

Sinon: If we get a chance to start over, will
you fight me for real?

Kitsune: Yeah, I promise. You can fight me
whenever you want hell even Kirito kinda wants payback ffor you calling him a perverted trap, but not now, let's just watch this, right?

Sinon looked at Kitsune and nodded to her
head. Kitsune then got off from her and
pulled out his binoculars to watch the fight.

Sinon: You should be more cautious..

Sinon then put her pistol away and looked
down using her scope on her sniper.

Sinon: If he tries to move, I'll shoot him first.

Kitsune: By all means. No, wait.

Kitsune and Sinon both looked down and
saw one of the players suspected to be Death
Gun, Pale Rider. Pale Rider was a tall, skinny
male who wore blue and white camouflage
clothing. Due to his black helmet, his face
could not be seen. Pale Rider used an
ArmaLite AR17 shotgun as his main weapon.

He was walking towards Dyne and Dyne tried
to shoot at him, but Pale Rider effortlessly
dodged his shots by moving his head to the
side. He then jumps to the left, attaches his
arm to one of the pillars, and uses this momentum to get on the main cable of the
hanging bridge.

Sinon: He's strong....He limited the weight he carries in order to boost his 3-D movement
ability.

Pale Rider then ran across the cable and Dyne
shot at him to stop him from getting close to
him. But, Pale Rider jumps to the side to
dodge the bullets and grab on the suspender
cable as he uses it to get down on the ground.

Sinon: And his acrobatics skill is really high!!

With his insane acrobatics skill plus light
equipment, Pale Rider started running as
soon as he landed on the ground and started
got in close to Dyne. As Dyne was frustrated
as his bullets didn't hit Pale Rider, he didn't
notice that he run out of bullets.

As Dyne reloads his weapon, Pale Rider uses
this chance to shot at Dyne with his shotgun.
After shooting two bullets at Dyne, Pale Rider
manage to get in front of Dyne and shot one
last bullet at Dyne on the head, killing him.

Sinon: If he had the time to swap magazines,
he should have shot from the hip.

Kitsune: That's not him, he's another victim.

Sinon looked at Kitsune as she remembers
what Kitsune said to her before BoB started.

—-
Kitsune: An enemy....... I tried to seriously kill him, and he seriously tried to kill me.
—-

Sinon just looks Kitsune and then looked back at the scope.

Sinon: I'm going to shoot him.

Kitsune: Okay. But if he really is that man...

Sinon: You think he can dodge at this range?
You're kidding me.

As the two of them were looking at Pale
Rider, he's suddenly got shot from the side
and that got the two of them shocked.

Sinon: I missed the gunshot?

Kitsune: No, I definitely didn't hear it. Oh no...

Sinon: The only possibilities are a quiet laser
rifle or a physical gun with a silencer...But he
shouldn't be dead, so why isn't he moving?

Kitsune: It looks like he was shot from the
forest.

Sinon: No. I think it was from farther than
that. I just looked all the way to the end of the
map, and no one's within a kilometer. Wait,
Kitsune, Where did you come from?

Kitsune: I just followed Pale Rider after I found him on the map. And I was in the river during the scan to avoid it.

Sinon: With that equipment? How?

Kitsune: Of course I unequipped all my
items and moved them to item storage.

Sinon: Then if you're at the bottom of the
river, the satellite scan can't pick you up,
huh? I'll remember that.

Kitsune: Sinon, his avatar has a strange
light effect.

Sinon then looked down and saw what looked
like a dart in Pale Rider's shoulder.

Sinon: A stun bullet?

Kitsune then looked over and saw something in the corner and his eyes widened in shock when he saw Death Gun standing there from the shadows of the bridge along with Fallen.

Kitsune: that's them!!

Death Gun and Fallen then started to walk out of the shadows, towards Pale Rider and Sinon then saw the gun he had from his cloak and she
was shocked.

Sinon: Silent Assassin?!

Kitsune: Is the name of that sniper rifle?

Sinon: Yeah I heard it. A high-level sniper rifle that comes equipped with a silencer. I'd heard
rumors that it existed within GGO, but this is the first time I've seen one. If he can use a gun
like that, who is he?

Fallen then walked up to Pale Rider and
then stood over him. Death Gun then pulled out a handgun and aimed it at Pale Rider.

Sinon: Is he going to finish him with that
handgun?

Fallen then suddenly make a weird hand
sign before Death Gun shot Pale Rider. Kitsune felt an dark energy coming from Fallen, similar to his powers as he spoke up.

Kitsune: Sinon, fire.

Sinon then turns to Kitsune and looks at
him.

Sinon: At which one?

Then he turns to her as his eyes turned pink with honkai energy.

Kitsune: The one in the mantle! Please shoot them! Hurry! Before they fire!!!

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