Just what in the world was Kimi staring at? Maybe she had that thousand yard stare people sometimes got, Suto had seen a few other players get it after a traumatic experience. Though nothing recently had been even remotely traumatizing, maybe she was just zoning out. Smiling he stuck a hand in her face, snapping his fingers to try and rouse her back to reality. It worked, and she was all moody with him when she looked over. "I don't have any slack Kimi, sorry to disappoint you. No guarantees on the shiny things though, I really do like them." he replied teasingly, giving a cheeky grin. All business, she really should lighten up a bit and enjoy herself. The sound of creaking doors drew both their attention elsewhere, and after watching Jason open the way to the next area he glanced back at Kimi. "Yes boss, on my way!" he chimed, folding his hands behind his head and strolling after her. If she couldn't handle that then she was going to be in for a real fun time with him. Now that things were back to a sense of normalcy he could really relax and goof off a bit, and by the looks of things it would only annoy her. 

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Hm... Who would have thought that there would be a giant sand pit so far above the ground? Aincrad really had this weird thing for towers, this final room just didn't make an ounce of sense. This had to be the boss room, everything pointed out that it would be, yet there was no boss. Nothing really but sand, pillars and chains. Maybe someone had beat them to it and it hadn't respawned yet, that would be a real pain. As Alphard and Jason went on ahead he paused at the entryway, giving his head a scratching as he looked around. Hopefully the boss was here somewhere, it would be such a letdown if they came all this way for nothing. Experience told Suto that their enemy was here, just not in plain view. Often times the boss was concealed, something had to be triggered in order to make it appear. Whether that was entering the room, finding a switch or triggering some event he didn't know, but there must be some trick to it. Frowning he put his hands on his hips, walking towards the coliseum while staring down at the floor. With a building that large it might take some time to figure this one out. Or maybe they just had to enter the sand pits, who knows. No sooner had he finished that thought did he notice a faint trembling sound, noting that some of the pebbles on the ground began bouncing. Furrowing his brow in confusion Suto lifted his head, eyes widening and jaw slacking just in time as he saw a massive worm erupt from the ground, sending both Alphard and Jason flying away. 

Welp, they found the boss! And it was kind of big! Far as he was there was little that Suto could do immediately, which was bad considering the position his friends were in. Thankfully the others were much closer, and Kimi was quick enough to save Alphard from an untimely demise. Man, exactly the kind of enemy he had no desire facing. It wasn't that the size of the beast intimidated Suto, or he was afraid of worms, nothing remotely like that. His battle style revolved around speed, quick hits and small, bursty stuns. He wasn't so sure any of that would work against something like this. Sure he could pound away all day, but was it going to do anything? He didn't have much time to debate that as he was called by Nero, being made to join the other boy. Now that the battle was beginning they had to pair up, and he certainly didn't mind fighting alongside Nero. Nodding his head he tightened his hands into fists, his combat gloves appearing on his hands with a blue flash. A neat trick he'd learned, it was really quite simple, just making a sort of shortcut to equip his weapons. With himself being armed he hurried in after Nero, joining up with the others in the sand. Up close the worm was even bigger than it appeared initially, and it was massive before. Staring up as it let out an earth-shattering roar Suto smiled sheepishly, "Uh... So how do we wanna do this?"