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No—not the Kirito she’d met in the Bullet of Bullets preliminaries. This one was different. His avatar was leaner, sharper. And his eyes… even through the hood’s shadow, they burned with a hollow, predatory light.

He smiled—a thin, broken thing. “Wouldn’t dream of it.”

The word hung in the dry air. Sinon’s scope wavered. For a fraction of a second, she saw not Kirito’s hooded assassin, but a boy in a hospital bed. A boy with empty eyes and a sword made of regret.

Sinon didn’t move. She counted her heartbeats. One. Two. Three. She had one shot before he closed the distance. Sword Art Online II Episode 7

“Sinon, I’ve got a visual on—wait. Who’s that?” The scout’s voice cracked.

Kirito’s hood fell back. His face was young, tired, and terrifyingly sincere. “Together?”

“Why?” she asked.

“Don’t get in my line of fire.”

“They were already dead.” He stepped closer, unafraid of her rifle. “That sniper in the clock tower? He’s not a player. He’s a Death Gun proxy. If he’d fired, you’d be dead in real life. Not logged out. Dead. ”

The GGO arena was a ghost of its former self—a shattered coliseum of rust and dust under a dying red sun. For most, it was a death trap. For Sinon, it was home. No—not the Kirito she’d met in the Bullet

Kirito.

“You just killed my squad.”