[b] November, 6th, 2022 [/b] "I guess that's all of it for today." Shouko said after after she finished the las ditch of her homework before looking at the clock and noticing that it was already 3:00 PM. "Well, what a shame that I missed the grand oppening... I wonder how it'll feel to be able to use them again." She said this while touching her right tigh, after laying in her bed and putting the NerveGear on. "Link Start." --- Shouko ran through the character creation menu at a leisure pace, carefully setting her avatar to look as close her real life self as possible, once she had finshed she named her digital self Minako, while it was a pun based on her real name, it was also a common enough name for her to not draw too much attention towards her self. --- [Welcome to Sword Art Online] The sudden feeling of weigth on her lower limbs as her body finished materializing on the aptly named Town of Beginnings, made Minako fall quite ungraciously on her own butt, however, she found the sensation so good that she couldn't help but to laugh her heart out. "Ha... hahaha!" The people around her, likely other players, turned in her direction with puzzled looks in their faces. "What's so funny?" their gaze seemed to ask. Minako could bet that very feel of them would understand her reason. "Anyway, I gotta start now." She said as stood up and brushed her clothes, even though there was no dust on them. After that, Minako walked through the streets of the Town of Beginnings and, while she did so, some NPCs gave her a lot of free itens, then she exited through the main gate and decided that she would settle for killing the ubiqutous [Frenzy Boar] for a while learning how to handle her weapon nice and slowly before taking more ambitious actions. --- When the in game clock reached 6:00 PM, she was about to reach level three, but then a strange glow engulfed her and she saw herself back at the main square of the town. There, a man in an ominous black robe, who happened to be the games creator Kayaba Akihiko, declared that they couldn't leave the game until they had cleared all of Aincrad's 100 floors and defeated the boss that waited them at the top of the floating castle. Furthermore, chaos soon spread around as people looked into the mirror that had suddenly popped in their inventories and were reverted to what Minako believed to be their real life appearances, needless to say, it didn't affect her at all. She couldn't that she was mad, or even sad, about it though, she knew it was a big selfish thought but as soon as she set her feet on Aincrad she didn't wanna leave in the first place so it worked well for her wishes. Plus, she knew that one day, sooner or later this death game would end anyway. So why not enjoy it while it lasts? With that thought in mind she went to the nearest vendor and sold the drops she got, as well as her beginner equipment, after buying up new goods she decided to put her feet on the road towards the nearest village and, from there, search for raw materials to begin practicing her blacksmithing.