In ALO, logging out is not something that can be done anytime, anywhere.

Although many times players need to log out of the game immediately, if the operating company does not restrict the logout behavior at all, and can use the logout to go offline and escape the disaster in case of a crisis, then the game will have little replayability.

As a result, most fully stealthy games have some restrictions on logging out, even ALO.

For example, only when the player is in the territory where their race is located, the player can log out anytime and anywhere, and go offline instantly, but outside the territory, even if the player logs out, the characters in the game will remain on the scene for a period of time and become the target of others' attacks.

In view of this, when in the wild, players will basically either look for a safe place to log out, or they will alternately guard each other, leaving one person to watch first, and waiting until the remaining characters are logged out by teammates before finding a safe place to go offline, in order to be absolutely safe.

Now, Luo Zhen and Lifa are in such a situation.

"I'll take a look at you first." Luo Zhen volunteered: "Next time it's your turn to look at me." ”

Hearing this, Lifa pondered for a moment, and then nodded briskly as if she didn't think there was any need to dwell on such a trivial matter.

"Then please."

"Go ahead."

After a brief conversation, Lifa summoned the main window, began to operate, found the option to log out, and clicked on it.

The next second, Lifa closed her eyes and lowered her head, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep, and there was no movement.

At this point, the player who manipulated the character of "Lifa" went offline, and what remained here was just an empty shell.

Luo Zhen looked at Lifa like this, and after smiling knowingly, he turned around and looked around boredly.

The player who controls the character of "Lifa" returns to reality and wakes up in his bed.

............

"Uhhhhhh

In the room filled with the fragrance of the girl, the owner lying on the bed let out a soft groan and slowly opened his eyes.

The girl was greeted by a familiar ceiling with an oversized poster on it.

The image on the poster is something that is captured from the screen and then enlarged and printed.

Above, an elven girl flying in the infinite sky, dancing with a flock of birds, with a ponytail flowing in the wind, is flying.

That elven girl was none other than Lifa.

The girl is a player of the character "Lifa".

With shoulder-length short black hair and a protruding figure, this girl is named ———— "Naoba Kiritani".

That's right.

Lifa is Naoha, the younger sister of Luo Zhen.

Naoba raised his hands and slowly took off the game console on his head.

It is a crown-shaped mechanism connected by two rings, which looks like an all-round goggle, and it is undoubtedly much thinner than the "NERvGear" that can cover the entire head, and it gives people a low sense of restraint.

This is the second generation of the AmuSphere, a fully stealthy machine ————developed by RECT, a comprehensive electronic instrument manufacturer.

Taking the machine down, Naoba first stared blankly at the ceiling for a moment, and then smiled.

It's a beautiful, silly, happy smile.

"Finally..."Naoba muttered, "Finally able to meet my brother in an imaginary world and play a game together..."

Thinking of this, Naoba couldn't help but hug his cheeks, and his legs kept kicking, looking like he couldn't be happier.

If Kirito was here and saw this, he wouldn't want to believe his eyes, would he?

His sister, who had hated games since before, now has her own completely stealth game console, not to mention, and has been playing games for a whole year, which is something he could never have imagined anyway.

However, this is the truth.

Naoba only came into contact with the game a year after the SAO incident, that is, a year ago.

Before that, for Naoba, the game was nothing more than an abomination of taking away his brother.

This is not the result of SAO's Deathgame events, but rather something much earlier.

You know, before the age of seven, the relationship between Naoba, Luo Zhen and Kirito was very good, so good that the neighbors were envious.

Especially Luo Zhen, who came to the Kiritani family when he was four years old and became the adopted son of the Kiritani family, has always taken good care of Naoba, who is only three years old.

Who made the grandfather, who was not dead at the time, not take care of the children at all, the father and mother often had to go out to work, and even traveled for a long time to work overtime, and were often away from home, and Kirito was just a four-year-old kid who didn't understand anything at all?

Therefore, Luo Zhen, who came to Tonggu's house at that time, almost became the nanny of these two little ghosts, and he needed to take care of them all day long, so Luo Zhen complained a lot about it.

But it is precisely because Luo Zhen has taken care of Kirito and Naoba since he was a child that Kirito and Naoba have such a good relationship with Luo Zhen, and they are still very sticky to him.

At that time, Naoye has been following Luo Zhen's ass and never leaving an inch, you can imagine how good the relationship between Luo Zhen and Naoye was at that time.

It is also because of this that since he was a child, Naoba has been admiring Luo Zhen.

Obviously only one year older than him, but he has been taking care of his younger siblings.

It's not much bigger than me, but my grades have always been at the top, which is amazing.

In addition, Luo Zhen is very smart, and his family has always been very reassuring to him, letting him take his younger brother and sister and love him very much.

With such a perfect brother, Naoba, who was just a little girl at the time, was naturally adored and longed for.

It wasn't until he was seven years old that Luo Zhen and Kirito gave up kendo together, leaving a deep chasm between the three.

Especially after Luo Zhen and Kiritto gave up kendo, they indulged in computer games as if they wanted to fill the long-awaited desire in their hearts, and after they distanced themselves from Naoba, who insisted on practicing kendo, this gap became deeper and deeper.

For Naoba, the world in which the brothers live is really not something they can understand, but the brothers are so immersed in it that they have embarked on a different path from themselves.

In view of this, Naoba has always had a huge sense of rejection of the game, and the distance between the three of them has become more and more distant.

Therefore, for Naoba, the game is the object of taking away his brother, and he hates him so much that he has nothing to say about Luo Zhen and Kirito who are immersed in the game world, and becomes extremely unfamiliar.

Actually, Naoba has always felt very lonely, and he really wants to talk more to his brothers, especially Luo Zhen, Naoye has always wanted to follow him like when he was a child, play together, dance together, play together, chat happily together, listen to what stories he tells him about Chaldea and automata, and hope that he can come to watch his game and cheer for himself.

Unfortunately, none of this can be realized.

And then that happened.

When he saw Luo Zhen, who was tied up in many pipes and fell into a deep sleep with the hateful "NERvGear" on his head, Naoba cried for the first time in his life.

Maybe, in the future, he will never talk to Luo Zhen again.

As soon as he thought of this, Naoba was extremely regretful and remorseful.

Why didn't I make an effort to bridge the distance between me and my brother earlier?

Why do you want to distance yourself from your brother for such a trivial matter?

Actually, we could have been better.

As a result, Naoba began to have the idea of wanting to understand the world that Luo Zhen and Kirito loved deeply.

"I want to go to the game world..."

This idea changed the trajectory of Naoba's life.