I live my life in Tokyo

The configuration of his room is no different from the past, except that there are a lot of soundproof panels on the walls of the room now. Since he shares the room with other people, it is necessary to control the volume. What's more, he will send the recorded electric guitar music to the band group for Maki Nishikino and Yuma Miura to enjoy.

Turning on the desktop computer, the young man checked the bug group and found that there were no modeling bugs that required him to fix for the time being. With nothing to do, he pretended to read the handouts distributed by the teacher for a while, and then clicked the shortcut of Sword Art Online with his mouse.

After logging in with his account and password, Sakakibara Kaede waited for a moment, and the originally black screen suddenly lit up. Accompanied by fantastic and majestic music, the Sword Art Online logo appeared on the screen, and the young man entered his account and password.

When he opened his eyes, what he saw was the dark cave safe zone. He had logged off after spending the entire night here collecting materials from small monsters.

Although he can return to the city with one click, it requires a small but expensive number of return crystals - this thing can currently only be obtained by completing high-level side quests, and they are auctioned one by one in the auction house. The function is that he can return to the city with one click no matter where and at any time, including in combat.

You have to know that this game is not a joke. The death of the player character will cause a loss of experience and proficiency. The higher the level, the greater the penalty.

This thing is a rare treasure now.

After taking a sip of the drink, Kaede Sakakibara controlled the Minotaur Knight and began the long journey back to the city. By the way, the Minotaur race he chose was not chosen by many people when the game was actually installed.

The first place is the cat girl, no surprise, who doesn't like cat girls? The second is the dragon girl, the third is the wolf girl, and the fourth is...

Well, there are quite a few humans.

Perhaps only people with high aesthetic taste and loneliness like Sakakibara Kaede can appreciate the beauty of the Minotaur warrior. It is lonely at the top.

On the way back to the city, Sakakibara Kaede opened the guild page. There were not many people in the guild, but most of them were hardcore online game players who aimed at high-difficulty dungeons. These people were invited by Sakakibara Kaede at random after they completed high-difficulty dungeons. Many people chose to join, so most of them were familiar faces.

He saw the invitations from several of his classmates. Those male classmates were really hardworking... Are the studies in college not important?

After walking for nearly half an hour according to the map, Kaede Sakakibara arrived at the village safety zone slightly closer to the city. The time in the upper right corner reminded him that it was almost dinner time. He relaxed, took the cup and left the room.

Yuuki Asuna's room was still silent. The young man listened in the corridor for a while and then walked into the living room.

There are a lot of food ingredients in the refrigerator, which were bought by the young man in order to let the Yuki siblings see his ability to live independently. He bought so many vegetables, so his cooking skills must be very high, right?

Sakakibara Kaede took out the meat with gritted teeth and put it in the microwave to thaw. He didn't have much practical experience and could only imitate at best, although he had already anticipated that his imitation would be counterproductive.

Listening to light and relaxing music in his headphones, Kaede Sakakibara drained the vegetables, put some oil in a frying pan and started stir-frying them, not forgetting to add some sugar.

Similarly, before putting the meat into the pot, he made sure to apply salt and pepper to the surface of the meat. He didn't have much experience with meat, but when he heard the TV program where the chefs from Totsuki Academy scolded the restaurants they tested, the whole program was filled with harsh but effective comments such as the food was tasteless and limp.

Sakakibara Kaede was busy and flustered for a while. His preparations were indeed thorough, but the actual effect was not good. Cooking is not like in the game where you can just mix the ingredients together and get the finished product with one click.

"Damn it, what's going on? Why are all the vegetables black?" Sakakibara Kaede believed that his cooking skills were not so bad as to throw the whole tomato into the pan and stir-fry the fried eggs with tomatoes, but the blackened vegetables dealt a heavy blow to his self-confidence. It seemed that he would never be able to become a god chef in this life.

"Pfft, let me help."

A heavenly voice came from behind Sakakibara Kaede. The young man slowly took off his headphones. Under the warm orange light, a smiling chestnut-haired angel extended a helping hand to him.

"You...you are!"

"Mo--I'm Asuna. Did Sakakibara-senpai lose consciousness while cooking?"

Asuna Yuuki covered her mouth and laughed. She was doing her homework until she felt hungry. She subconsciously walked out of the room and went to the kitchen to find something to eat. As a result, as soon as she walked out of the room, she smelled the smell of cooking. After entering the kitchen, the previous scene happened.

"Well, luckily I bought an apron before." Yuuki Asuna stretched out her hand to tie her long hair into a long ponytail, rolled up her sleeves and tied an apron on, "Sakakibara-senpai, can you cook too?"

The young man looked gloomy and said something else, "Senior Yuki is so late today. Why don't we see him at this hour?"

Yuuki Asuna chuckled, her eyes narrowed into slits and a healthy blush appeared on her cheeks.

"I thought Sakakibara-senpai was omnipotent."

"That's the biggest misunderstanding. I have 2,000 skills, but cooking is definitely not one of them."

Sakakibara Kaede raised his hands to indicate that he had no idea how to cook.

Yuuki Asuna felt a little bit of novelty, this was the first time she saw the side of Sakakibara that he was not good at. You know, in their school, Sakakibara was praised by his classmates as an omnipotent super actor, who was proficient in housework and cooking at home, and was good at racing and fighting outside.

It is because of these that he was able to become the leading actor of Kamen Rider.

"Ah, these can still be saved. Sakakibara-senpai, just help me... It's the same as in the Dream Apartment." Yuuki Asuna picked up the spatula and smiled from the side.

The young man's mouth twitched, "It turns out that Yuuki-kun also watched that reality show."

"Yeah, I watched it with my parents."

"..."

Kaede Sakakibara closed her mouth and witnessed with her own eyes how Asuna Yuuki turned decay into magic and saved a pot of food that was originally beyond saving from the edge of the trash can. She simply adjusted the heat, added some seasoning and water, and the soup, which had been smoking like a furnace and about to explode, returned to its calm state.

The young man was surprised, "Yuuki-san's cooking skills are really high."

"Hehe, it's just a hobby." Yuuki Asuna shared with a smile, "Usually, the three meals at home are prepared by the chef, and I don't have many opportunities to cook. Most of the time I practice is in the housekeeping department after school, when I can borrow the school kitchen to cook."

"Try this, it should taste good."

Asuna Yuuki scooped up a bowl of soup with a spoon, blew on it, and then handed it to Kaede Sakakibara.

The young man leaned over, took a sip from the soup spoon, and sighed, "As expected of Yuuki-kun, this taste... is just right!"

"Great~"

Yuuki Asuna put on gloves, picked up the pot and carried it to the dining table, "Thank you, Sakakibara-senpai, you should want to cook for me today, right?"

"That's about right. I see Yuuki Asuna is studying very hard and I can't bear to disturb her."

"Actually, I have finished my homework and review a long time ago. I was just playing the beginner's tutorial of Sword Art Online." Yuuki Asuna said frankly without any embarrassment.

The young man nodded slightly, "I believe in Yuuki-san's ability to manage time. I won't tell you what to do in this regard, but there is one thing, whether you are doing homework or playing games, you must go to bed early. At this age, you are growing up, and staying up late will also reduce the quality of your classes the next day."

"Well, I know."

Yuuki Asuna quickly regained her smile and spoke in a calm and generous manner.

She turned on her phone and contacted her brother at the company. After a moment, she said, "Brother is not going home for dinner today. Senior Sakakibara, let's eat together."

"By the way, let's add a friend later, Qingfeng~"

Chapter 5 My name is Qingfeng, the Qingfeng of Qingfeng Village

Yuuki Asuna handed the homework to Sakakibara Kaede, "Look, are you done?"

The young man has been a tutor for a long time, so he naturally masters the homework of senior high school. Homework is not the most important thing. Whether he learns or not still depends on how much extracurricular exercises he does.

"Wow, I remember this is the test paper for the advanced class. Is Yuuki-san attending the school's advanced class?"

"I'm going home after finishing the student union affairs."

Sakakibara Kaede slapped his forehead. He almost forgot that Yuuki Asuna was also a member of the student union. Perhaps only Yuuki Asuna could manage time so accurately in the busy senior year of high school.

Ah, and Mai Sakurajima.

"Well, let's go online." Sakakibara put down the washed bowl, "Should we use the in-game voice or Line later?"

"Let's use Line." Asuna Yuuki smiled as she thought of the wonderful relationship between the two of them. They knew each other in real life and were good friends who fought together in the game. This fate was really wonderful.

"By the way, Mitte has been playing for a while, you two can guide me." The chestnut-haired girl nodded her chin, "Call Yuuki along, so the four of us can have fun together."

"OK."

The two of them ended the topic tacitly. Asuna Yuuki picked up her phone and started leaving messages in the Line group chat. Kaede Sakakibara made herself a cup of tea and turned off the faucet.

Yuuki Koichiro has worked really hard. When the young man saw Yuuki Asuna making a victory gesture to him and returning to the room, he leaned alone on the bar seat and looked at the stars outside the window.

Glancing at the clock on the wall, Sakakibara Kaede sighed. Since Yuuki Koichiro had the key, the two of them didn't have to open the door for him or anything.

After almost tidying up the living room, Sakakibara Kaede walked into the room while looking at the chat history on Line.

Yuuma Miura: "We are going to record a music video for the second album? When will it be?"

Maki Nishikino: "I went to the office today. Miss Nanakusa informed us. The time is next week, and the location needs to be arranged in person."

"..."

Sakakibara Kaede scratched his head and composed his own words: "I have no problem."

"1"

"I don't have a problem either."

Seeing that both of them had replied, Sakakibara Kaede temporarily put aside the urge to start the game and started to record it on the schedule. Since he was not going to continue filming the TV series, he should spend more time with the band and enjoy the music.

After graduation, Yuuma Miura stayed in school and became a glorious assistant teacher. If everything goes well, he will successfully become a mentor in the future. In addition to attending classes, he and Kaede Sakakibara would go to the office every few days to meet with everyone in the band and perform songs from the next album together.

Maki Nishikino was admitted to the Tokyo University of Music as expected and became a junior of Yuma Miura. Everything went smoothly.

Thinking about it now, he is very grateful that the past Kaede Sakakibara was able to learn a musical instrument, as he was powerless in his previous life - the past Kaede Sakakibara was good at liberal arts, and after his soul traveled through time, although Kaede Sakakibara acquired knowledge of liberal arts, he still couldn't get used to writing.

Seeing the game line group start to jump, Sakakibara Kaede bent his fingers and put on headphones.

"Hey, Sakakibara-senpai, can you hear me?"

"Yeah, I can hear you."

Sakakibara controlled the Minotaur and looked down with all his strength, and found a female human jumping on the spot. When he set the height of the race, he naturally set the Minotaur to be the tallest and largest, which can be regarded as the tallest race in the game.

"Wait a minute, I'll pull you into the team."

Asuna Yuuki participated in part of the closed beta test at the time, so she naturally knew a lot about the basic gameplay of the game. Now her game level is 15, and she has just passed the novice tutorial for production tasks.

The weapon used is still the rapier that was used easily during the closed beta test.

Not long after, a man in armor came hopping to Asuna's character and asked to join the team.

"Ah, Sakakibara-senpai, wait a moment. I will approve Mitt's application to join the team."

"Okay... but don't call me Sakakibara-senpai for a while."

"Ahahaha, indeed, you should call me Harukaze."

"I'll just call you Asuna... There are people who actually use the same ID as their name."

Asuna Yuuki leaned back in her chair. Suddenly, she was called by her name for the first time in a long time, and goose bumps appeared all over her body.

She had never had this feeling in the past. Before she met Sakakibara Kaede in real life (Mist), she had no feelings about Harekaze calling her Asuna. After all, it was just the ID of the game.

But the magnetic male voice in the headset, with a hint of smile in the calmness, made Yuuki Asuna feel for a moment that Sakakibara-senpai was calling her Asuna directly.

Who said Asuna and Asuna have the same pronunciation?

The young man next door opened the door to the balcony on his bed. With the clear breeze at night, he drank green tea comfortably and leaned back on his gaming chair. When Yuuki Asuna joined the team, he opened the bug and GM group chat and put aside the lecture notes provided by the female professor to achieve multi-screen operation.

This is how he played mobile games in the past. He would open a multi-screen simulator, put one on this side and one on that side, and watch anime and galgame at the same time. This is what a master of time management is.

"Hey, hey, hey, Asuna, can you hear me?"

"I heard you clearly, Mitt."

"Okay, ah, Uncle Qingfeng is here too, good evening, Uncle Qingfeng."

A lively female voice came from the voice chat. The young man was not surprised that the other party was a girl. He had heard from Yuuki Asuna before that she and Mitt were classmates and friends in real life. Sakakibara Kaede turned on her microphone and said good evening.

"Hey, Uncle Harukaze's voice sounds very young."

"Mitt, Harukaze is not an uncle, this is very rude." Yuuki Asuna said in a low voice.

"Nani, have you guys ever been gay in private? Haha, Asuna is so bold."

Sakakibara Kaede and Yuuki Asuna fell into silence.

"Oh, I was just joking. You two are not really meeting in person, are you?"

The young man took a sip of tea in silence and did not answer.

"No." Yuuki Asuna said quickly, "Yuuki is here, but he said he doesn't have headphones and can't speak."

Yuki's character is an elf girl. In the early stage, she chose to render her equipment in a very stylish purple. She has purple hair, a rapier on her waist, and is level 25.

"Wow, the level is quite high. Bring it on." Mitt, who was at level 20, was typing on the team list.

"Let's take Asuna through the story dungeon first." Sakakibara Kaede, who had remained silent the whole time, spoke up in the four-person chat, "The level suppression for that dungeon is 16, and most people in the wild team now don't know the mechanics of the second and third bosses."

"I can. Wait a minute, I'll change the nanny's equipment." Mitt switched his weapons, and a staff that looked like a sickle appeared in his hand.

"Hey, isn't it true that only the advance pre-order version can get the sickle transmogrification? I heard that there are only 10,000 copies of the entire game."

"Haha, you found it~"

The teasing voices of the two high school girls really brought a lot of vitality to the voice chat. As the captain, Yuuki Asuna checked the professions of the four people and rushed towards the location of the copy.

There is no so-called option to enter a dungeon directly in Sword Art Online. If you want to enter a dungeon, you need to go to the dungeon location in person and click to join - whether it is a cave, a ship, or a valley.

This was also designed by Koichiro Yuuki to give players a greater sense of reality.

While listening to the nonsense of Yuuki Asuna and Mite in the voice chat, Sakakibara Kaede remained silent like Yuuki, while controlling the character to move on the rented horse and looking at the lecture notes sent by the professor.

He had only imagined such a life in the past. Perhaps if he had traveled through time earlier, his high school life might have been like this: after finishing his homework, he would play games... He could finish his homework at school, which meant he could play games when he got home.