"Asuna, it's the romanization of my name...... But it feels good, and it's in line with the style of this different world. ”

Asuna easily accepted the name, after all, it was originally her own.

The process from strangeness to familiarity often begins with the exchange of names.

The two of them are from the same place...... Well, at least that's what Asuna thinks, and now that they have a name for each other, that feeling is immediately a little closer.

"Have you thought about your next steps? Asuna? Luo Jie asked.

"I don't know."

Asuna lowered her beautiful eyes in confusion, hugged the thin sword tightly in her arms, and the oval cylindrical scabbard was drawn into the deep ravine in the girl's chest, which inexplicably made Luo Jie have a strange association.

Maybe it's time to say that the girls of the second dimension are all talented? Obviously, according to the setting, there is only the age of junior high school students, but this European size makes many adult women embarrassed......

"I had already made up my mind to take the weapon, but now I was suddenly scared again...... Dire-kun, am I useless? ”

Even in the original books, Asuna wasn't called "Flashing Light" from the beginning.

At first, when she learned that she was trapped in SAO and couldn't get out, she also had a time of fear and negativity, locking herself in a hotel in the town of Beginning, not daring to go out, until later she slowly made up her mind and started the battle with the idea that "even if you die at the hands of monsters, you can't lose to this game and this world".

"You've done a great job." Luo Jie threw an encouraging look at Asuna, "When people are doing anything, the first step is the most difficult to take, and you have at least taken this step...... Next, just let it run its course. ”

"Thank you, it feels so much better to have someone to talk to in a place like this."

Asuna's smile was as sweet as ever, but the lingering melancholy between her brows was obviously not offset by a single word or two of painless comfort.

Finding the familiar in an unfamiliar fantasy is a natural response of human beings to pursue psychological security.

Asuna and Luo Jie have known each other for less than half a day, and the real conversation is only a few words, so naturally they can't talk about 100% trust.

However, at the moment, Luo Jie was the most familiar person in such a strange world, and Asuna, who didn't know where she should go, unconsciously followed Luo Jie's footsteps.

The traversers who were summoned from the real world are not so much "savior warriors", but rather strong men forcibly pulled by the Seven Shields Alliance from another time and space, and in this status, their treatment is naturally not high.

Each traveler only starts with 30 silver coins, which can only sustain the standard of ordinary civilians for about a month at most, based on the prices of the Street of Initiation.

That is to say, unless you can find someone who is willing to support you within this month, such as a rich mother-in-law, a rich aunt, a rich girl, a rich loli, etc., you must find a job to make a living for this purpose, whether you want to or not.

Of course, that is only to maintain food and clothing, if you want to live more comfortably, or even enjoy the luxury of an aristocratic life, you can only get it through fighting.

When Luo Jie was eating downstairs in the hotel, he used a few glasses of cheap ale to inquire with a few natives from the other world, in order to encourage the people to go out of the town and fight the monster girls, the Seven Shields Alliance issued an announcement as early as a hundred years ago, and the unlimited purchase of the magic core in the demon object.

No matter who you are, no matter how many magic cores you have, you can exchange them for sparkling gold and silver coins at the official acquisition point as soon as possible.

If it is a boss-level and boss-level magic core, it will also be awarded a knight title or even a knighthood.

It is precisely because of the issuance of this bounty order that the number of monster girls, which has been growing for hundreds of years, has been suppressed to a certain extent, and the human world has been able to continue to this day.

Unfortunately, this bounty order was issued a little late, and now the number of humans in the entire floating city "Ayn Grant" is less than 1 million, and most of them are women and children.

Even if the space-time channel is opened to introduce the Otherworldly Traveler, the current Seven Shields Alliance is actually a little powerless.

"Unless...... a one-armed old man who drank high let out a drunken sigh.

"Unless what?" Luo Jie asked.

The old man showed Luo Jie the empty wine glass meaningfully, Luo Jie immediately beckoned the female clerk to fill another glass of wine for the other party, and the old man burped with satisfaction, and continued: "In fact, there has always been a rumor that after the reincarnation of the world goddess "Reintheia", she left her divine body and divine power in the temple on the 100th floor of the floating city "Ayn Grant", as long as she can inherit the inheritance of the goddess, she can become the supreme god of this floating city "Ayn Grant", and completely remove the previous "demon king" The curse left behind......"

After the old man finished speaking, a fierce aunt in armor at the table laughed, patted Luo Jie's shoulder and said, "Young man, you have fallen for this old thing, what he said, you can know if you ask anyone here, it is not worth the price of a glass of wine at all." ”

Luo Jie smiled indifferently, just a few copper plates, he didn't care about it.

"Is this rumor true?"

"Who knows?" The burly aunt shook her head and smiled as if self-deprecatingly, "Maybe it's just a lie made up by those nobles and priests to appease people's hearts...... And even if it's true, what? Human beings have been going forward for hundreds of years, and they have only stepped into the 55th floor of "Ayn Grant", and God knows how long it will take to reach the 100th floor? Will humans still exist for that long? ”

"That...... Everything will be fine. ”

The kind-hearted Asuna was clearly trying to cheer up the natives, who had become despair and numb, but the pale comfort was a little unbearable even to herself.

Fortunately, the burly aunt understood her kindness, raised her glass, and said with a smile: "Our generation is old, but you still have hope...... Work hard, work hard to have a few more children with the little brother next to you, and the future of this world will depend on your belly! Haha-"

Asuna blushed when she arrived, and hurriedly waved her hand to explain: "Auntie, you misunderstood, I ...... I'm not in that relationship with Dire-kun, we're just regular friends who just met......"

"I understand." The burly aunt raised her thick eyebrows with a teasing face, and her big rough hand like a man put her shoulder on Asuna's shoulder, and said meaningfully: "Which couple didn't start as ordinary friends?" Now that there are so few men, if you find a pleasing one, you should quickly take the initiative to catch it, otherwise there are a lot of beautiful girls waiting behind you......"