Third-person POV
Then, after that exhausting, deadly dance battle with Evil Sinon and the three brown grizzly bears, Roxas and his friends ate a light, simple breakfast at the campfire. Foods for today's breakfast are nattō, fried eggs and bacon, and some fried eggplants, accompanied by tea and water. Roxas seemed to skip coffee this morning. While having breakfast, Roxas did his Christian Baptist prayer for the bounty of a meal before all of them ate up.
Once the meal was done, Roxas pulled his Eastern Evangelical Baptist hymnbook from his messenger bag and sang a soft, short hymn in English. Though they are not Christians like Roxas, Shuto and others just listened to his singing as something to do after their slightly heavy meal.
After that, all of them headed out to explore the surrounding forest and mountain. Along the way, Minato temporarily separated from the group and went somewhere else because Hideyoshi wanted him to look for the coordinates where he had died in the gaming world of Aincrad. Roxas, Anko, and Sachi accompanied them. Hideyoshi had a hunch that the area around their campsite had the similar coordinates as it was in Aincrad. And after much digging and finding, Minato managed to find it, which was under a pine tree, and signaled the others to that spot.
"Here?" Roxas asked. "Aquí?"
Anko confirmed the Spanish word as here in English.
Hideyoshi then confirmed that spot as the right one and went on to explain how he had died in the game.
According to him, it was a strong, Level 50 monster who killed him.
Minato and others were shocked and felt bad for him. And thus, Minato had unknowingly completed the side achievement Sympathy for the Dead Player. So, he was rewarded with a choice of either a set of 3 incense sticks or 2 candles. Minato was taken aback by this side achievement and rewards for completing it but eventually chose the first option. Then, 3 incense sticks, all lit, appeared on the ground marking Hideyoshi's final place in this mixed world.
"Well, rest in peace, my friend," Minato said before doing a prayer gesture to pray for Hideyoshi.
Hideyoshi was happy that his vessel had given respects to that spot that was his final moments in the game.
"Yeah, vâng," Roxas added softly. "When I found the spot where Anko-kun met his final moments, it was on a sidewalk back in Kanagawa. And it was Evil Eugeo who killed him."
Minato shivered down his spine, while Hideyoshi and Sachi sympathized with Anko more.
Meanwhile, Roxas pulled out his notepad and read through his first edition of his planned chronological list of what Elite Player to be released from Akihiko. It was like this:
Keita
Sinon
Silica
Lisbeth
Klein
Agil
Eugeo
Alice
Kirito and Asuna (at the same time because they were a couple)
"Oh, Keita-san goes first?" Sachi chirped while hovering near Roxas's shoulder.
"Yes, hai, evet," replied Roxas. "I completely hypothesized that he was comparably weaker if we subtracted Akihiko's artificial dark power from him since he died in the lower levels."
Minato let out a steady, short, and amazed breath.
His mind said, "Man, Ro-kun knows how to use information and analyze stuff…"
And then, Roxas flipped to another blank page to write something in his handy notepad. That something is his own concept known as PPM, or Physical-Psychological Manifestation - where a person manifests his/her other egos/personalities by twofold:
Physical - by their actions
Psychological - by their way of thinking and internal behavior.
After that, Roxas looked at Anko and explained to him about it and its created definition for it.
Anko was stunned at his creativity, before wondering how to do that with his current ability as a spirit guardian.
But then, a giant, Level 50 scorpion ambushed the five from the trees. Luckily, Hideyoshi acted immediately by taking control of Minato's body and made him avoid the attack. Minato was taken aback by the monster's presence and immediately got his halberd from his inventory, before charging towards it in retaliation. "Take this, you damned monster!"
Roxas responded almost immediately, and Anko boosted his power and strength to fight the monster.
The noise from the giant scorpion was heard by Shuto and the others, who then ran to check out what was making that noise.
Meanwhile, Minato was busy fighting off the monster with his sword as Hideyoshi powered and guided him and his movements. Then, the giant scorpion went smart and stabbed him in the back with its poisonous tail. Minato felt pain and stopped. His health bar was draining as the poison status had fueled its draining. Shuto and the rest arrived at the scene, only to be shocked to see Minato in pain.
"Minato-kun!"
"No!"
Eiji and Shuto retaliated by grabbing their weapons from their inventories and charged towards the monster to defeat it.
Roxas then sliced the giant scorpion's tail with the Bicol Blade, causing it to growl loudly and releasing Minato.
Meanwhile, Koyuki ran to Minato and managed to remove the sliced tail from his body.
She was about to get a healing potion from her inventory when Minato's stab wound was healed by Hideyoshi.
Koyuki was stunned and dumbfounded to see him being healed into full health and removed the poison status. "Wait, how did you…?"
No longer feeling any pain, Minato looked at her with cool and positive confidence. "Yup, someone is now living within me, my friend."
Hideyoshi then came out of his body and greeted Koyuki nicely, "Hello!"
"Eh?" Koyuki was surprised to see him. "Who are you? Are you dead?"
"Yup, my name is Hideyoshi Kitagawa," Hideyoshi replied back. "Nice to meet you. I am Minato-kun's spirit guardian."
Meanwhile, Roxas and Shuto managed to defeat the monster and got some XP from it.
"Yes, we did it!" Roxas responded to this.
"We did it, my good friend," added Shuto, before sheathing his sword.
Both boys then looked at Minato and ran towards him, asking him if he was okay.
"Yes, I am fine," Minato replied back. "Surprise! I have a spirit guardian of my own!"
Hideyoshi then looked at Shuto and Eiji. "Hey there…"
Shuto and Eiji were taken aback by his presence.
"Woah!"
"You're Minato-kun's spirit guardian?"
"Yes," Hideyoshi replied back nicely. "My name is Hideyoshi Kitagawa. Nice to meet you all. I am Minato-kun's spirit guardian."
Eiji, Koyuki, and Shuto were amazed while Minato felt proud for his spirit guardian. Roxas and Anko snickered and casually revealed how a void revealed Minato's secret. Hideyoshi became lightning-fast friends with the rest of the group.
Meanwhile, Evil Sinon was watching them from a branch of a tree, smiling at them with evil intent, before informing her friends about their current status and whereabouts.