Chapter 26: I Can be Your Lover In A Room Full Of Sins

A.N SSSSSUUUUUUP! This story isn't over yet… LOL NAH. But this is the start of a whole new story… More depth on the happy parts of Jay's past, and a lilllll bit of love. Watch out my friends. ;3

The song for this chapter: Payphone by Maroon 5 Ft. Wiz Khalifa (It can be explicit or clean, your choice.)

April 14th (01:32 PM), 2024, Floor 60: Mersenne

: Jay's POV… Duh, it's his story. :

(Holy hell that was the toughest boss fight EVERRRRR… I think like 20 people got slaughtered… Ah well… I wish I had saved that one chick, she seemed pretty cute. I guess I'm still not strong enough…) I slightly tilted my head to look at the amulet in my hand, 616's Charm. I got it from delivering the final blow to the boss, apparently it provides a healing factor. Like a CRAZY healing factor. 1,000 health points every 6 seconds while in battle… The only toll is that I can never sell it or get rid of it; I'm fine with that but geez. Any enemy who's at least 6 levels above me can deal about 2,000 damage every 4 seconds if they had the devotion of a boss monster… Pretty cool. I look at the amulet again and notice that its one big ruby with two onyx side by side on top of it, and small diamonds littering the onyx. I think that's pretty nice, I like it. I then smiled softly and I equipped it onto my character.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot… Rae asked me out. The day after the whole Followers thing, I secluded myself into my house for the whole day and night thinking about Lily and getting over my past… Sorta. Rae enrolled in the front lines and they accepted her immediately after she proved how strong she was… So I'm happier now… I never noticed it, but I love Rae's eyes so much. They had a light blue tint to them, Cass's eyes were similar but they were more of a marine blue type.

Anyways, as I was lying about I felt a something tap my head lightly… I ignored it. Then I felt it tap again, just a little bit harder this time. I put up my hood just encase it was rocks being flown about and such. But suddenly, a fist punched me face first into the bench and my head actually smashed through the bench… As I tuned my mind back into the world as I tilted my head from within the under parts of the bench, I then continued to notice a familiar pair of petite feet and their converse like boots to accompany them. Yanking my head out from under the bench, I looked up at the figure standing above me to see none other than the Cute Devil Queen herself… Rae. She seemed slightly irritated by my lack of attentiveness to her from before, and I noticed that she was willing to throw another punch if I refused to speak up soon!

"H-Hey beautiful! That hurt…" She then suddenly lost her passive aggressive look and smiled lovingly down at me, then I noticed it. She wasn't Japanese… She seemed…Caucasian? No… Spanish? She has a pale yet dark, and very cute, skin tone to her. If she was purely white than her tone would be lighter. So I decided to ask, "Hey, Rae, what nationality are you…? I was leaning towards Japanese at first but then I noticed that you look different than that." She looked at me with surprise, like I had just found out her secrets. Suddenly she blushed lightly, realizing that she had just looked dumb founded probably.

"I-I'm… Spanish. But I was born and raised in America, my family's household always spoke both Spanish and English. My mom was very light skinned and… Uhm… are you ok? You're drooling, babe." She then giggled as I scrambled to wipe way the drool around my mouth, she doesn't know it but the fact that she's from America too made me very happy! Then I perked up, I leaned over to her and held her hands with sparkles in my eyes. "You know Spanish?! I've always wanted to learn, but I had to take my time in learning Japanese for when I came here to Japan… Could you say a sentence in Spanish?"

She giggled again and nodded, saying "Esta historia completa tiene muchos huevos de Pascua y secretos dentro de su contenido." I was awed, she can speak 3 languages! She then smiled and spoke quietly after I let her hands go, while she twirled her index fingers slowly… "Hey… Uhm… Do y-you want to go on another date…? I was thinking abou-" I cut her off by kissing her on the lips tenderly, her lips felt… Soft. Her scent overran my sense of smell, and I could only think of the sweet lavender she seemed to be immersed in.

Pulling back, I lightly placed my hand on her cheek and smiled. "Will you marry me?" I spoke to her lightly… Rae's expression filled with joy, as tears started forming in her soft, sweet eyes… She nodded yes repeatedly, and we kissed again she and I smiling against each other's lips.

… I'm unsure, but I feel like everyone I've lost in my life was smiling down on me at this moment… Mom… Dad… My other mom… my brothers and my little sister… Lily… Hell, I bet my older sis Lana is grinning like a doofus cuz of our connection. I bet she knows I'm happy at this moment, god… I feel terrible for dragging her into this death game with me, and for her having a more badass name than me! Seriously, Syphyll?! THAT'S FRIGGIN' DOPE!

Rae and I walked with her clinging onto my arm, on our way to the wedding chapel we go!… I love her so much. All of this time, when I thought it was Lily I still loved… It was her. Suddenly Rae perked up and looked at me, with sudden fear in her eyes. "Oh no, we forgot to bed wedding bands! We can't get married without them… Damn game, can't you just make it easier…?" I looked at her then blinked a few times, chuckling lightly. She seemed confused as to why I was acting this way, then I held up her wrist to point at the bracelet she had on: Icarus's Lost Property.

She then was much more confused due to this, and then I held a finger up to my lips in a "Shh" motion. Holding her hand tightly, I walked with her all the way to the chapel without saying a word. Once we got up to the marriage pedestal, I put in our information. It then told us to present our wedding band, the item or items we would use as proof of our marriage. I signaled for her to remove her bracelet and place it on the pedestal.

She did, then to her surprise the bracelet started shrinking… and at last it was two rings melded together atop of each other. I picked them up and with a small ting sound, I handed her one of the rings. I submitted each ring as our wedding bands, and a flash of light appeared… And just as fast as it appeared, it vanished. Each of our rings were like mini versions of the original bracelet, but just as beautiful. The only differences each ring had was the names, the effects, and the slight shapes. Rae's ring had a little crown encircling the gemstone on hers, and my ring had a small shield encircling my gemstone. The names? Her ring's name was "Save The Queen" and mine was "Protect The King".

Protect The King's effects are 15% Damage protection at all times from any attack, Save the Queen's effects are that when the user drops into a yellow health bar or worse, the user gains 20% damage protection and 5% attack damage increase and attack speed. Rae gasped and starting tearing up again, looking down at her ring then back at me, she went full on crying. "J-Jay… These are beautiful… Wha- H-How?" I chuckled and kissed her on the lips gently… and after a good 10 seconds, I pulled off and said thus, "When I created that bracelet, I had already maxed out my Blacksmithing skill. I had this potion that doubled my blacksmithing skill for a good 30 seconds, and I drank it before I made that. It gave me the choice of creating an accessory with three full stages… They had certain requirements though. The first requirement was that I couldn't use the bracelet and I had to send it as a gift not as a trade."

She nodded and listened intently as I continued, "-The second requirement applied to the second stage, and it was that the second stage would only be activated if the user got married… The third and last requirement goes into play as the third stage activated. The third stage activates when one of the spouse users of the item dies, and the third stage item would immediately converge onto the surviving spouses' user. I don't know what the item of the 3rd stage is… But let's hope we never find out, right? Haha." I chuckled and Rae smiled a little.

"Yeah." She smiled and we kissed again, happy as can be…

A few days passed by and Rae and I were out on our honeymoon, Asuna and Kirito promised to take our shifts on the front lines while we were gone. Grand wizard Asuna and Rae made up and became insta besties the day we stomped the Followers. Which is good…

Floor 44, the city of marvel they say. I lived here already in a small one story house… But I and she knocked my place down and built a much better place on my owned space… together. I love the idea. Rae and I had PLENTY of spending cash, and we blew half of it on a crib… The place is nice, though. It's 100 feet off of the ground, and it's a two story joint. Not in a building though… Nah, it's a fantastic place. Teleportation machines are the way to get up here and you can't fall out of the side if you lean too close, plus security systems kept undesirables out so that was always a plus. Rae and I sat in our couch in the living room, watching Aincrad TV. Oh should I mention that television is only allowed on this floor? Yeah some teevo loving tech head found that out the moment we got to this floor.

Rae sat up next to me and smiled big, jumping off of my shoulder she confidently struck a pose with her hands on her hips. Pointing to my nose, she spoke up "Me and you are gonna clear this floors dungeon today!" I blinked a few times then smirked, standing up next to her I kissed her head. Rae is about 4 inches shorter than me so that's an easy feat. "Let's do it!" I said while smiling brightly, she jumped with joy and wrapped her arms around my body while hugging me. Heh… "I love you, Rae." She smiled and responded back "I love you too, Jay."

: Narrators POV :

About 2 hours later Jay and Rae were out in the field, slightly battered and all warmed up. Rae hopped up and down, cheering "Woohoo! Heheheh yeah! We did it!" Jay stood back, with a grin on his face. "That took a little longer than expected, but hell yeah we beat this dungeon." He stretched and cracked his back, smiling lightly he sheathed his twin blades back into their slots and sneaked up behind Rae, he started tickling her belly and sides. To her surprise she started giggling and wriggling all over the place, he kissed her cheek and chuckled. "All right beautiful, ready to go home?" She smiled greatly and sheathed her sword. "Yup!"

But merely moments before Jay had time to reach into his pocket for a teleportation crystal, a small pin knife came out of nowhere and pierced his palm of his hand. He moved his hand up to his face and huffed lightly. "Well that's not normal at all." Rae flipped forward and unsheathed her greatsword, she stood a few ways back from Jay who had threw a larger dagger in the direction of where the pin came from before he unsheathed the swords in his gauntlet.

A small amount of rustling came from the bushes, then a girl… Actually, a loli type girl came out holding the daggers blade from in between her hands. Her hair was unique… Crazy almost like. It went past down her shoulders, and as it went down it got spikier… Her hair was a flame red, and it had yellow streaks in it… Like a pure physical fire! Her eyes, well they were a sun orange. She had a pretty tough looking build, nothing buff and crazy but… Durable.

She threw the knife down into the ground and unsheathed her blade with a fierce look on her face. Her sword… well… It was a one handed murimasa, but she was so small that it was like a two handed sword for her size. The hilt was shaped like a golden sun of sorts, and the grip was pure red. The small girl thus raised her blade and sprung forth at our hooded anti-hero, forcing the swords blade down faster than Jay can make a pun. But Jay attempted to anyways, "Ha, the last time I saw a small girl grip something that long and hard was on Tiny Teens Love Huge Co- AHH!" He scrambled to dodge, and just in time too.

The tiny red head prepared to attack again right before a certain steel haired beauty bolted forward and brought her greatsword down upon the flame heads katana. With her blade pinned to the ground, she growled and glared at our "protagonist". Jay smiled and as quickly as he could, stepped forward and appeared at the small girls throat with one of his blades. "… Now, we won't hurt you if you just cooperate. Ok? Tell us, who're you, how are you able to fight almost as good as us, and why're you here?"

The flame head spat in his face, literally, and then she spat this in his face "… 'Almost as good' is an understatement, I'm the battle instructor. I'm here to kill you because the cardinal system deems you unfit to be in this after school program anymore… And I'm the Layout Internal Rumble Assessor, Lira. I'm the one who taught you all of this crap… I'm also your worst nightmare multiplied by cancer, BITC-"Jay had head-butt her into unconsciousness before she had finished her sentence…

"… Well you've failed your job, lil miss yandere loli." Jay sighed in relief, he and Rae looked at eachother and nodded in agreement that they would take her back home. Geez… Loli's, man.