Looking over the quest, Umichi accepted it.
I don't want to face a hoarde alone again. Better to get the others involved, tell them the details. he thought, as he accepted. Suddenly two PMs came up. One from Fujiwara, another from a friend he had met when he lined up for the game. The one from his friend was almost pointless. It talked about his profession, and how he decided to be safe. "Best of luck to you, let's both stay alive and meet up at some point." Umichi replied. He then read Fujiwara's message.
Fujiwara said
"Well, at least you made the right call. It's the harder choice, but if you're willing to go that far for a girl then who am I to argue? I'll tag along with your group, no problem. Well, at this point it's beginning to bloom into a guild and not just a group, but whatever.
The inn is fine. Grinding's very tedious at this point in time for all parties involved, so the next logical course of action would be to find either a)quests or b)dungeons to grind in that may or may not have valuable crafting materials. If this is an MMO, there's bound to be a developing economy eventually. The inn will do nicely for a meeting spot right now, though."
He decided he would address the course of action when they met up. But he replied to the first section of his message. "It doesn't matter if it's harder. But it's good to have you aboard. Well, it might turn into a guild, who knows? We will wait and see. I have to ask though, how the hell did you know what I was thinking and going through? We only just met and you seemed to understand it all, how?" Umichi was curious as to how Fujiwara was able to say all of that, and be so right about most of it.
Reaching the inn first, he decided he would send a message to Suki. "Um... about before. This place, this world, Aincrad, it has become our reality, our world now. So, although we are fighting and want to clear the game to get out of it, right now this is where we live. I think, we should live to our fullest, even in Sword Art Online, on Aincrad. If you don't mind, when we have some spare time, would you mind if we go on a date?". Umichi hesitated before sending the message. He was so sure about what he was doing until he made this message. Closing his eyes, a few deep breaths, he sent it. There was still no-one at the inn yet. He got out the guidebook and started to look through it a bit.