"Asuna, it's the Roman pronunciation of my name...but it feels pretty good, and it fits the style of this other world very well."
Asuna accepted the name easily, after all, it was her own choice.
The process from strangers to familiarity often begins with sharing each other's names.
The two of them came from the same place... Well, at least that's what Asuna thought. Now that they called each other, the feeling immediately became a little closer.
"Have you thought about your next plan? Asuna?" Luo Jie asked.
"I have no idea."
Asuna lowered her beautiful eyes in confusion, hugging the thin sword tightly in her arms, and the oval-shaped scabbard inserted into the deep ravine on the girl's chest, which inexplicably made Luo Jie feel.
A strange association occurred.
Perhaps it should be said that girls in the second dimension are all talented? They are obviously only junior high school students according to the setting, but this European style size makes many adult women feel embarrassed...
"I had already made up my mind to take the weapon, but now I suddenly became afraid again... Lord Nightmare, am I useless?"
Even in the original work, Asuna was not called "Flickering Light" from the beginning.
When she first learned that she was trapped in SAO and could not exit, she also had a period of fear and negativity. She locked herself in a hotel in the town of Beginning and did not dare to go out. It was not until later that she slowly made a decision and held "
Even if I die at the hands of a monster, I can't lose to this game and this world." The battle began with the thought.
"You've done a great job." Luo Jie cast an encouraging look at Asuna, "When a person does anything, the first step is the most difficult to take, and at least you have stepped out of this.
One step...the next step, just let it take its course."
"Thank you. In a place like this, I feel much better if I can have someone to express my inner thoughts to."
Asuna's smile was as sweet as ever, but the lingering melancholy between her brows obviously couldn't be offset by just one or two words of painless comfort.
Looking for familiar things in a strange fantasy world is a natural human reaction to pursue psychological security.
Asuna and Luo Jie had known each other for less than half a day, and they had only had a few real conversations, so naturally there was no 100% trust.
However, Luo Jie was now the person she was most familiar with in such a strange world. Asuna, who didn't know where to go, followed Luo Jie's footsteps unconsciously.
The time-travelers who were summoned from the real world are not so much "heroes who save the world" as they are strong men who were forcibly pulled from different time and space by the Seven Shields Allies. Under this status, their treatment is naturally unlikely to be as high as
Where to go.
The initial capital of each time traveler is only 30 silver coins. According to the prices in the starting street, this money can only support the standard life of ordinary civilians for about a month at most.
In other words, unless you can find someone 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 whether you are willing or not.
livelihood.
Of course, that can only maintain food and clothing. If you want to live more comfortably, or even enjoy a luxurious life like a noble, you can only get it through fighting.
While Luo Jie was eating downstairs in the hotel, he drank a few glasses of cheap ale and asked a few aboriginal people from other worlds that in order to encourage citizens to go out of town to fight monster girls, the Seven Shields Alliance issued an announcement a hundred years ago, without restrictions.
The opening acquires the magic core within the monster.
No matter who you are, no matter how many magic cores you have, you can immediately exchange them for shiny gold and silver coins at the official purchase point.
If it is a leader-level or BOSS-level magic core, it will also be awarded the title of knight 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 can continue to this day.
Unfortunately, this bounty order was issued a little late. Now the number of humans in the entire floating city "Aincrad" is less than 1 million, and the vast majority of them are women and children.
Even if the time and space channel is opened to introduce travelers from other worlds, the current Seven Shields Alliance is actually somewhat helpless.
"Unless..." A drunken one-armed old man let out a drunken sigh.
"Unless what?" Luo Jie asked.
The old man showed his empty wine glass to Luo Jie meaningfully. Luo Jie immediately asked the female clerk to fill up another glass of wine for him. Only then did the old man burp with satisfaction and continued: "Actually, there has always been a glass of wine.
Rumor has it that when the world goddess "Leliantia" was reincarnated, she left her divine body and divine power in the temple on the 100th floor of the floating city "Aincrad". As long as she can inherit the goddess's legacy, she can
Become the supreme god of this floating city "Aincrad" and completely lift the curse left by the previous "Demon King"..."
After the old man finished speaking, a tough aunt in armor laughed loudly at the table, patted Luo Jie on the shoulder and said: "Young man, you have been fooled by this old man. What he said, you can tell anyone here
Anyone who asks will know that it is not worth the price of a glass of wine."
Luo Jie smiled indifferently. He didn't care about a few copper coins.
"Is this rumor true?"
"Who knows?" The burly aunt shook her head and smiled as if she was self-deprecating, "Maybe this is just a lie made up by the nobles and priests to appease people... Besides, what if it is true?
After hundreds of years of continuous efforts, humans have only reached the 55th floor of "Aincrad". 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 obviously wanted to cheer up these aborigines who were numb from despair, but even she couldn't bear to listen to this pale comfort.
Fortunately, the burly aunt understood her good intentions, raised her wine glass to her, and said with a smile: "Our generation is old, but you still have hope...work harder, and try to have more children with the little brother next to you.
Child, the future of this world will depend on your belly! Haha——"
Asuna immediately blushed, hurriedly waved her hands and explained: "Auntie, you misunderstood, I... I don't have that kind of relationship with Nightmare-kun, we are just ordinary friends who just met..."
"I understand." The burly aunt raised her heavy eyebrows teasingly. She put Asuna's rough hands on Asuna's shoulders and said meaningfully: "Which couple didn't start out as ordinary friends? Now men are so
Young Master, if you find someone you like, just grab it quickly, otherwise there will be a lot of beautiful girls behind you waiting eagerly..."
All kinds of requests for votes...Suddenly I found that the world background created by this mix is quite interesting...As for Asuna's name in the last chapter, please don't compare it with the Japanese pronunciation. Just think of it as a different world where everyone speaks Chinese.
In the context of the world, language is a bug that cannot be circumvented. If you are too serious, you will not be able to read any books.