Although not as good as Koichiro, but today when Assuna arrives in the third grade of junior high school, he has only been exposed to some free games on mobile terminals.

Although I know about online games, because college tests are imminent, I should not have any interest in online games and no motivation to play.

So, why did she visit her brother's room one day a month ago, in the afternoon of November 6, 2022, put the nervgear on the table on her head and read Linkstart, this reason has never been known to Asuna to this day.

To put it in a word, it was on that day that everything changed, it should be said that it was all over.

Asuna, who hid in a hotel room on Initial Street, waited for the incident to end, and after two weeks of no news from the real world, she gave up the idea that the outside would save her.

And even though the death toll of the player had exceeded 1,000 at that time, the original maze had not yet been breached, and Asuna, who learned the news, realized that the idea of waiting to open the game from the inside was futile.

The only option left is how to die.

I don't know how many months, no, how many years I have been in this safe street. Moreover, the rule that "monsters do not invade the streets" is not guaranteed that it will not last forever.

Rather than worrying about the future, it is better to get out of this street than to stay on your knees and hide in a dimly lit hut.

Learn, exercise, fight as best you can.

If you eventually exhaust your energy and fall, at least you won't regret your past rashness and regret the lost future.

With this in mind, Asuna walked out of the hotel and stepped into the wilderness of an mmoRPg game world where she knew no more about terminology.

Relying only on the weapon of his choice and the only skill he learned, he came to the bottom of such an inaccessible labyrinth.

Now, after four o'clock in the morning on Friday, December 2, Asuna's path should be over because of the nervous reflex loss caused by the fatigue caused by this chaotic battle.

And, near the left side of the "Monument of Life" in the "Black Iron Palace" on the street of the beginning, Asuna's name will be drawn with a horizontal line, and everything will come to an end, as it should be.

"Don't overdo it"

Asuna said this again, squatting four meters away, the black-haired one-handed swordsman who was originally chatting with five girls and eating delicious food, the black pupils of the night sky were still looking at Asuna, and the corners of the man's mouth still had a smile that was enough to change the above impression.

Although it gave people the feeling of being slightly older than herself, this unexpected and innocent act made Asuna frown.

"Do you want to eat?" The black-haired one-handed swordsman, aka Excellence, asked Asuna with a saucer of strawberry mousse cake.

"It's all said, don't meddle with things!"

As if he hadn't heard Asuna's words, this time Excellence walked over with a strawberry mousse cake very briskly, 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 is really a little moved, because of the hunger from excessive fatigue, is constantly eroding her consciousness at the moment, although she is a little ashamed, but her slightly trembling hands still stretched out uncontrollably and caught the dish containing the strawberry mousse.

After all, the food that Asuna chose for the past three days, or four days, was the cheapest piece of brown bread bought at the nPc bakery, and a bottle of spring water that could be taken from all over the street.

Because I have never experienced the pleasure of food in the real world, I can't describe the emptiness of the food in this world, no matter how luxurious and gorgeous the food is, in fact, I haven't even ingested a single sugar.

Although it is believed that food and systems such as fasting and fullness do not exist, hunger three times a day can only be eliminated by ingesting virtual food.

While Asuna can rely on willpower to block out the virtual feeling of fasting when entering the labyrinth, she still has to find something to eat when she returns to the street.

At the very least, you have to order some of the cheapest food to fight hunger, even the dry and hard black bread is quite delicious as long as it can be torn into small pieces and chewed carefully, but this makes me a little unwilling.

Because the food in this game won't get on her hands, so she doesn't have to worry about getting cream on her hands, Asuna cringed and took a bite of the strawberry mousse cake in her left hand.

I have always eaten hard and coarse bread, but now I have changed to a delicious strawberry mousse, and the cream is sweet and smooth, with a refreshing and sour taste like yogurt, and the strawberry flavor is pure and spreads in the mouth.

As if driven by this intoxicating satisfaction, Asuna took two or three more bites, puffing out her cheeks and soaking in them.

When he came back to his senses, the food he held in his hands, as described in the text, was not left at all, and he looked at the black-haired one-handed swordsman beside him, only to see that he still had the flawless smile on his face, and looked straight at himself.

A strong sense of shame came back to Asuna's heart, and she wanted to get out of here, but it would be rude to leave without expressing her gratitude.

"Thank you for your hospitality, how much does this cost, I will return it to you later."

"No thanks, and you don't need to pay this back, you just think of it as the payment I paid for hiring you to team up with the girls behind me for a week, you know, this cake is very expensive-"

In the end, Excellence elongated his voice with a wicked taste.

"Thank you."

Of course, Asuna knew that Excellence didn't really say this out of wanting to hire herself, he actually didn't want to go it alone anymore, so he just wanted to team up with that group of girls, and since Asuna ate other people's cakes, she could only agree.

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

Excellence smiled slightly, and suggested this to Asuna, because he knew that Asuna was also a foodie, otherwise he would not have upgraded his cooking skills to the full level in the original book.

Asuna just looked at the ground at what Excellence had said, and then shook her face hidden under her hat.

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

"yes, so what are you for?"

Excellent voice, very good, after all, his singing voice has been sought after by many people, and he was born with a good voice.

Perhaps it is for this reason that Asuna poured out the words that had never been mentioned to anyone else since she came to this world and were hidden in her heart, little by little.

"I, I'm all for my own existence, and it's better to keep my existence until the last moment than to hide in the initial street of a novice player and slowly decay there."

"Even if I die at the hands of a monster, I don't think I'll lose to this game, or the world, no matter what."

Asuna, rather than the real-world Asuna Yuuki, her fifteenth life is a continuous battle.

Since the kindergarten entrance test, she has undergone many trials large and small, but Asudaya has survived it victoriously. Although she was instilled with the idea that "if you lose once, you are a worthless person", she still withstood the pressure head-on and got to where she is now.

At the end of the fifteenth battle, there was a trial called SAO, and in the face of this, Asuna thought that she probably couldn't win.

With a lot of unknowns, a lot of different rules and cultures, it's a battle that can't be won by any one person.

The condition for victory is to reach the apex of the hundreds of floors of floating city and defeat the last enemy. However, the game has been in the game for more than a month, and one in five players have already quit, and almost all of them are experienced players.

The remaining combat power is no more, no less, and the number of people who can stand up and attack at this time when almost everyone is desperate may not even be 10%, but the road they have to take is still very far after all, it is still the first layer, and the remaining layers are still ninety-nine, which is a desperate number.

to be continued