A Small Step

Kyouji attacks Shino, saying he’ll kill himself after she’s dead. Kazuto saves her at the last second by jumping Kyouji. During the fight, Kazuto is hit with Kyouji’s poison syringe, but miraculously it doesn’t work and Kirito is saved. The next day Kazuto and Shino go to meet Kikuoka, and discuss the incident. Kikuoka has a message from one of the captured Death Guns…