What if the creator of Sword Arts Online had controlled Kirito and his friends, turning them into evil, and brought the game into the real world, turning it into a giant game world? Well, this is the situation where our ordinary protagonist Roxas Nietes, or Spark78Reformed, as his player username, had found himself.
  Being a foreign high school student living in Japan with his friends in a shared house owned by his school would make his life there difficult, but his intelligence on basically anything instead made him prepared and an actionist. He was an ambivert who loved music, art, writing, picture taking, philosophizing, and best of all, making scenarios of all kinds in his mind.
  So, the day before SAO was brought into the real world, Roxas had unknowingly received a mysterious-looking email from a player named Anko Tachibana, who was a deceased player. That email is a request for help because he, who knew Kirito and his friends before, wants someone to help them, who are now known as the Elite Players, snap from their state of being brainwashed by the game. Roxas accepted it after some thinking, but there’s one condition: he will be Anko’s vessel because Anko is now a spirit after his death in the game. To be free from Anko’s ghostly possession, he needed to complete the task in any way he could.
  Now that he was Anko’s vessel, what would Roxas do to do this big and seemingly impossible mission? Well, he will use his intelligence, ambivert personality, and scenario-making mindset to do it, plus action. That combination sounds ridiculous and unorthodox, but for him, it will be a good one.
  So, join him, Anko, and their friends in a now-altered reality fighting monsters and bosses across Aincrad-ridded Japan and getting into the Tower while trying to get Kirito and his friends out of their brainwashed state. 
  But the dark side of Sword Art Online was slowly revealed as Roxas and his friends went deeper and deeper for their mission through their spirit guardians. One of them was the origins of Eugeo and Alice (This was what if Eugeo and Alice were once humans who were killed and were forced to be bots in the games?)
Warning: This story is dark, and the cover photos for this are NOT mine! Credits go to the original owner!

[Flashback to 6 years ago at the Cagsawa Ruins, Bicol]


 In the same place in the Bicol Region, I, an 11-year-old boy, was exploring around the place when Roxas, who was about the same age as me, approached me and asked in English, "Hey, are you new here?" I was startled a bit and looked at him. "Y-Yes?"


 "Yes, I am, my family and I are here for a vacation."


 "Oh, okay then…same goes for me, too."


 But both of us eventually said our introductions to each other and became friends. That time was the only time we talked to each other.


[Flashback ended, back to the present…]


 Roxas and Anko, who had gone to the same place the next morning, looked at each other and smiled at each other. "Welcome back, my friend…" their minds said to each other. They had reunited despite being from different worlds.


Chapter 87 - Chapter 86 - Reunited Despite Being from Different Worlds