After taking a sip of sherry, Kyoko spoke faster again.

"Listen, there's no time to waste. You're already two years behind your age, so you'll have to make up for what you've been behind for the past two years. ”

Asuna suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, tried her best to control her emotions, and said calmly.

“…… I'm serious about studying. Didn't I print out the transcript of the first semester and put it on your desk? ”

Kyoko took a sip of sherry and said in a flirtatious tone.

"I've seen it, but the evaluation of that kind of school is not accurate at all."

Asuna looked at Kyoko in amazement, she didn't expect her to comment on her school like this.

"That kind of ...... School? ”

"Tomorrow, the third semester (note: Japanese middle schools generally adopt a three-semester system) begins, in addition to going to school, I will help you hire a tutor. It's not the online teaching that has become popular recently, but the teacher is invited to come to the house. ”

Asuna said with a frown and a slightly excited tone.

"Wait...... Wait, why ...... all of a sudden"

"Look at this."

Kyoko interrupted Asuna's protest in a tough tone, then picked up the thin flat-panel computer on the table. Asuna took the computer and looked at the screen with a frown.

“…… What is it...... Transfer ...... Outline? ”

"Mom desperately asked a friend who was a trustee in high school to let you take the transfer exam for their third year.

It's not your rush school, it's a pretty good high school. The school is credit-bearing, and you should only need to study for one semester to graduate. That way, you'll be able to go to college in September. ”

Asuna could only look at Kyoko's face speechlessly. She put the computer back on the table and raised her right hand slightly, interrupting her mother, who was still trying to continue.

"Wait, wait, Mom just makes a decision, it will only cause me trouble. I love the school now. There are many great teachers in there, and you can learn a lot there. There is no need to transfer schools at all. ”

If you transfer schools now, you will definitely spend less time with Zhang Yu. She also wanted to know more about Zhang Yu.

As soon as she heard Asuna say this, Kyoko sighed deliberately. Then she closed her eyes again and leaned back in her chair with the tips of her left fingers against her temples. This way of silence is Kyoko's technique to make the other party realize that she is in a superior position.

As long as she makes this kind of action in the professor's laboratory, she will feel flustered even if the other party is a man. Even her husband, Shozo, tries his best to avoid disagreements with Kyoko at home.

“…… Mom has already looked into it. ”

Kyoko spoke again in a tone of admonition.

"You're not a school at all, it's full of casual classes and overly simplistic teaching.

Even the teachers were hastily recruited, and there were no good talents at all. It was more of a correctional facility or a hospice than an educational institution. ”

"How...... How can you say that......"

"The idea of a shelter for students who have been out of school due to an accident is simply a spectacle, and the school is just a place to monitor children who may cause problems in the future.

Of course, there are children who continue to kill each other in that strange world, so they need to go to this kind of facility, but you don't have to go to that kind of place! ”

“…………”

After hearing her mother's self-righteous remarks, Asuna couldn't say anything more.

She began attending the school in Nishitokyo after she recovered, and the school was set up in a hurry just two months after the plan was announced, with the aim of helping children who had been stuck in the death game "Sord Art Online" and had dropped out of school for two years.

As long as you are a former SAO player under the age of 18, you can be exempted from entrance exams and tuition fees, and you can also be eligible to take the university entrance examination immediately after graduation. But Asuna, who attended that school, clearly felt that this place was more than just a social welfare facility.

All students were obliged to receive weekly counselling, and the question was clearly asked to investigate whether the student was anti-social. In other words, the "correction facilities" in Kyoko's mouth are not completely unfounded.

But even so, Asuna still loves the "school" dearly. Regardless of what the government or the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (note: Japan's Ministry of Education) thinks, almost all of the teachers in the school volunteer to teach here, so they are sincere with each student.

And the students don't need to deliberately hide their past experiences from each other, not to mention that she can also be with her close friends there, such as Lizbet, Sirika, and several former Raiders partners.

Asuna, still holding a fork in her left hand, bit her lip and fought against the urge in her heart to show her mother everything.

She really wanted to say that she was one of the "children who continued to kill each other" in her mother's mouth, that she lived in a world where she took each other's lives with swords, and that she did not regret those days at all......

Kyoko didn't notice Asuna's inner entanglement at all, and just quickly continued.

"If you take classes in that kind of place, you won't be able to get into a good university after that. Listen, you're eighteen years old. If you're still in school, you don't know when you'll be able to go to college. Your friend from middle school is going to take the test next week. Aren't you in a hurry at all? ”

"Even if it's a year or two late...... It doesn't matter. And it's not just about going to college......"

"No way!"

Kyoko immediately vetoed what Asuna said.

"You're a smart kid, and you know how much effort your mom and dad put into making you play to your talents. But you've wasted two years of that weird game...... If you were an ordinary child, your mother wouldn't ask you that.

But you're not like the average person, are you? It's also a sin to waste your innate talents.

If you have the qualifications and ability to go to a first-class university and receive a first-class education, then you should do so. Whether you want to contribute to the government or enterprises in the future, or stay in the university to continue your research, these mothers will not interfere with you, but I will never allow you to give up the opportunity to receive higher education. ”

"There's no natural talent at all."

Kyoko took a break after a long series of words, and Asuna was finally able to interject.

"People should choose their own way of life, right?

I used to think that going to a good university and then getting into a first-class company was all there was to life. But I changed. I haven't found the answer yet, but I'm almost ready to find what I really want to do. I want to stay at my current school for an extra year and find out about that. ”