Having pre-ordered the game the second midnight had struck the day pre-ordering was available, Kyouketsu Sei was ready for Sword Art Online. The beta release, he had tried to pre-order the game, but within two minute, it was sold out. He wasn't going to miss it again. It was October 2nd that they started, and it ended within 5 minutes. He was glad to have gotten a copy this time. Living his normal life for the next month, November 1st, he lined up. There were actually a few people who lined up already. During the next few days, it seemed it was fine to leave the line, everyone was helping each other, getting food in groups and things. Some people were discussing to make a guild in the game already. Sei enjoyed the company. He had a few friends he had made, but no guild was to be formed at this point in time. 

Getting home, it was early November 5th. It seemed you could do character customization and your IGN for now. He set his appearance, [hider=Start appearance][img=http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/248/7/9/random_anime_character_by_ievgeni-d48ydeb.jpg][/hider] and set his IGN, Umichi. He finished the calibration for the Nerve Gear. He was ready to go tomorrow. Sei went to sleep nice and early, the next day, he had a big lunch, so that he could play long into the night before getting hungry. The time was 12:59. He donned the Nerve Gear helmet. The game was about to start. "Link Start" he shouted. It could be heard amongst the rest of the family.

Awestruck, Umichi looked around. It was beautiful, the graphics seemed so real. Feeling his hands, he stretched his body. Although he didn't need to, it just felt like he was really in it. He jumped a couple of times. Seems he wasn't quite used to it. His jumping didn't reach as high as in reality. Looks like he will need to get used to the game to move as fast as he wanted. Checking his inventory, Umichi saw the starting equipment. Going to an NPC merchant, he got a free guide book, sold the basic sword and got a heavier one handed sword, and got leather armor instead of the basic light armor. With enough col to get another pot. He didn't touch the starting col he had. [i]This is good[/i], he thought, dashing to the fields, reading the guide book. 

[b]Sword Skills[/b] was the thing that interested him the most. The feeling of letting power explode to let a Sword Skill attack. Upon entering the field, he charged up a basic sword skill, Slant. It was a simple diagonal slash, but guaranteed he would hit the Frenzy boar he first saw. It felt good. Turning back to the Frenzy boar, it came rushing towards him, a small side step, and two quick slashes. It was defeated. He went on to continue with this. It was fun. He got a message from someone he met at the store. 
"Hey, nah, I'm fine by myself so far, I've killed like so many of these boars already. I'm gonna head out further." 
He had leveled up pretty quickly, reaching level two. It seemed he was among the first.

It was 16:30. Still good on time. He went further out. Finding a field of Little Nepents. These plants were more vicious than the boars. It took him more than four slashes like it did with the boars. And one of the problems were that he had at least 3 of them at once. He pulled the plants out from their field, so he wouldn't pull more of them. Side stepping each attack, slicing each one once before they turned to him. One of them fell. When he went to side-step again, he got hit, losing 30% of his health. This was dangerous. He shouldn't be attacking these yet, he realised. He charged a sword skill, Sonic Leap, taking down one more. It had dropped something, but he paid no attention to that yet. Barely side-stepping the last Little Nepent's attack, he cut it down three times. He could finally relax. Finding the field, and then killing just the three Nepents. That took a solid hour. He finally went through his items. It appeared he hadn't realised, one of the Nepents were actually a Little Nepents Ovule. That was the one that hit him. It was stronger, and harder to find. Dropping the quest item "Ovule Medicine". He was extremely lucky. There were groups trying to farm out the Ovule apparently, he heard from some of his friends. Only one other person got the quest item so far. 

Umichi was dead tired. He returned to the town, it was about 1800. He completed the quest, an Anneal blade. He seemed to be going really fast into the game. Almost as fast as some beta players. There were some names of people reaching level 3 and 4. He was almost level three. But as he went to quick the Anneal Blade, he was suddenly teleported.

Looking around, it was the Town of Beginnings' town center. [i]What's going on? Is this ... all 10000 people? An event perhaps?[/i] Umichi thought. Looking up, it was Akihiko Kayaba. The game ... became a death game. [i]Fuck, he took a such a good game and turned it into a death trap.[/i] A gift was given out. [i]Mirror? What the hell?[/i] he thought, taking it out from the inventory. Suddenly, glowing in a white flame, just as everyone else was. He looked into the mirror. He saw his own face, his own hair. Looking around, there were some net-okama's around, they were disturbing. All 10000 people were starting to panic. [i]Shit, I need to get to the next town. The fields are going to be picked clean around here.[/i] he thought. It was lucky for him that he had finished one of the quests here already. It was amazing he had killed the three Little Nepents by himself at his level. But he needed to play it safe now. Some of his friends went to do things by themselves, others got groups. Equipping the Anneal blade, Umichi ran out of the group. He then saw a girl, with blonde hair. It seemed she was deciding what to do. 

[i]Damn it.[/i] he thought. He can't just leave someone alone like that. She was small, she seemed young. She looked defenceless. She might have been older and happened to be small in size, but that didn't matter. She looked like she was confused. Everyone in the plaza was confused. But he couldn't lead a group, it wasn't his nature, however, it was in his nature to help people that seemed to need help. Umichi ran past her, grabbing her hand and started to run off with her. "It's better to go to the next town, the fields here will be picked clean in no time" he said to her. He took her out to the field. "Ah ... " Letting go of the hand, "sorry, it seemed like you were confused, and needed some help. The name's Umichi. I plan to head to the next town. I happened to get close to it when I was running around before the .... announcement."
He held out his hand, "Let's get along, and head to the next town." he said.