Although it is not as good as Koichiro, Aoi Na has only been exposed to some free games on mobile terminals today when she was in junior high school.

Although I know about online games, because college testing is imminent, I should not have any interest in online games and motivation for playing them.

So, why did Asuna never know this reason until now, at afternoon on November 6, 2022, visit her brother's room and put NervGear on the table ready to be put on her head and read LinkStart.

In one sentence, on that day, everything changed... no, it should be said that it was all over.

Asuna, who hid in a room in the hotel on the Original Street and was waiting for the end of the incident, did not receive any news from the real world after two weeks. At this time, she gave up the idea of ​​external rescue.

Moreover, although the number of players' deaths exceeded one thousand at that time, the initial maze was still not broken. Asuna, who learned the news, understood that the idea of ​​waiting to open the game from the inside was futile.

The only option left is how to die, this is the only one.

If this continues, I don’t know how many months or years it will be in this safe street. Moreover, no one can guarantee that the rule of “monsters will not invade the street” will not last forever.

It is better to walk out of this street than to worry about continuing to hug your knees in the dim hut in the future.

Do your best to learn, exercise, and fight.

If you end up exhausting your energy and falling down, at least you won’t regret the past’s impulse or regret the lost future.

With this idea, Asuna walked out of the hotel and embarked on the wilderness of a MMORPG game world that she did not understand the terms at all.

Relying solely on the weapon you choose and the acquisition of the only skill, I came to the bottom of such a rarely-at-distant maze.

Now, after 4:00 a.m. on Friday, December 2, I'm afraid it's because of the fatigue caused by this messy Lien Chan. Asuna's path should have ended.

Moreover, near the left side of the "Monument of Life" in the "Black Iron Palace" of the Original Street, Asuna's name will be drawn with a horizontal line, and everything will end here, which should have been like this.

"Don't worry too much..."

Asuna said this again, squatting four meters away, one-handed swordsman who was chatting with five girls and eating delicious food. Her black eyes were still looking at Asuna, and the corner of the man's mouth still had a smile that could rewrite the above impression.

Although it gives people a feeling that it is a little older than me, this unexpected innocent behavior makes Asuna frown.

"Do you want to eat?" asked Asuna, the black-haired one-handed swordsman, who was holding a plate filled with strawberry mousse cake.

"I said it, don't meddle in other people's business!"

It seemed that he hadn't heard Asuna's words. This time, Zhuoyue walked over with a strawberry mousse cake very lightly. After all, the two were not far apart, and they still said the same thing, "Do you want to eat?"

Looking at the very delicious strawberry mousse, I have to say that Asuna was really moved. The hunger caused by excessive fatigue was constantly eroding her consciousness at this moment. Although she was a little ashamed, her slightly trembling hands still reached over uncontrollably and caught the plate containing the strawberry mousse.

After all, Asuna's food choices for the past three days, or four days, are the cheapest black bread purchased at the NPC bakery, and a bottle of spring water that can be taken away anywhere in the street.

Since I have never experienced the pleasures brought by food in the real world, it is impossible to describe the emptiness of the diet in this world. No matter how luxurious and gorgeous food you eat, the body actually does not even have a piece of sugar.

Although it is believed that food and systems like empty stomach and fullness do not exist, only by ingesting virtual food can it be removed.

When entering the maze, although Asuna could rely on her willpower to block the virtual empty stomach, she still had to find something to eat after returning to the street.

At least order some of the cheapest food to resist hunger. Even the dry and hard black bread can be torn into small pieces and chewed carefully, but this makes me feel a little unwilling to accept it.

Because the food in this game won't get any food, so don't worry about cream on your hands. Asuna timidly took a bite and took the strawberry mousse cake on her left hand.

I have always eaten hard and thick bread, but now I have changed it to a delicious strawberry mousse, which is sweet and smooth, with a refreshing and sour taste like a cheese. The strawberry taste is very pure and spreads in my mouth.

As if driven by this intoxicating satisfaction, Asuna bit two or three more times, bulging her cheeks and immersing it in it.

He came to his senses and the food he held in his hands was as described in words, without leaving any left. He looked at the black-haired one-handed swordsman beside him, and he still had a flawless smile on his face, and he looked straight at himself.

A strong sense of shame once again came to Asuna's heart. She really wanted to escape from here quickly, but it would be too rude to leave without expressing her gratitude.

"Thank you for the hospitality, how much does this cost, I will return it to you in the future."

"No need to thank you, and you don't need to pay back this. Just treat it as the reward for me to hire you to form a team with the girls behind me for a week. You know, this cake is very expensive-"

At the end, Zhuoyue stretched out his voice in a very bad way.

"Thank you..."

Of course, Asuna knew that Zhuoyue did not really say this because she wanted to hire him. He actually didn't want to act alone and just let himself team up with the girls. Since Asuna had eaten someone else's cake, she had to agree.

"Actually, if you want to eat more delicious food in the future, you can learn cooking skills. As long as you have ingredients, you can make all kinds of delicious food yourself."

Zhuo Yue smiled slightly and suggested to Asuna, because he knew that Asuna was also a foodie, otherwise the original work would not have upgraded his cooking skills to the maximum level.

Asuna just looked at the ground and shook her face hidden under her hat.

"..." After a brief silence, Asuna spoke, "No. I didn't come to this neighborhood just to eat something delicious."

"Is that true, then what are you doing?"

His excellent voice is very nice. After all, his singing has been sought after by many people, and he is born with a good voice.

Maybe it is precisely because of this reason that Asuna has never mentioned the words hidden in her heart after coming to this world, and has been expressed little by little.

"I, I am all for my own existence. Compared to hiding on the initial street of novice players and slowly decaying there, it is better to maintain my own existence until the last moment."

"Even if I die at the hands of a monster, I don't think I lost to this game, or the world, I won't be able to do so anyway."

Asuna is better to say that it is Yuki Akana in the real world. Her fifteenth year of life is a continuous battle.

Since the kindergarten entrance examination, she has undergone many trials of all sizes, but Asuna has successfully passed. Although she was instilled with the idea of ​​"just lose once, she is worthless", she still endured this pressure and has come to this day.

When the fifteenth year of the battle was about to end, a trial called SAO was ushered in. Faced with this, Asuna thought she might not be able to win.

A large number of unknown events, many strange rules and cultures are a battle that cannot be won by personal power no matter what.

The victory condition is to reach the top of the floating city with hundreds of floors and defeat the final enemy. However, the game has been started for more than a month, and one-fifth of the players have left the game, and they are almost all experienced players.

The remaining combat power is no longer greater or less. The one who can stand up for a strategy when almost everyone is desperate may not even be 10%, but the path they are still far away... After all, it is still the first floor now, and the remaining floors are still ninety-nine, which is a desperate number.
Chapter completed!