I, Asuna, don't want to travel around the world

Among the monsters, Asuna took a moment to take a look at Maple's situation.

After all, in her opinion, with Maple's off-the-charts defense that allowed her to withstand the three-headed useless dragon, although she lacked attack power, she could still accumulate damage slowly over time.

Finally kill it!

Plus with all the experience I've been doing here to help her gain experience points, she should have leveled up quite a bit by now, right?

Asuna swung her rapier while taking a look at the status of the team.

On it, the word "10" was already displayed on Maple's Q version avatar.

When they first came here, Maple's level was only level five.

"I'll teach Maple how to distribute her ability points later."

Asuna thought so and quickly quickened her movements.

So much so that she missed the scene where Maple bit the monster to pieces...

“It doesn’t taste very good.”

Maple stood there panting and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

Because only the individual's ability data was synchronized, the skills and equipment from the previous game could not be brought in, so Maple had to waste a little more time killing monsters.

But that’s not the point!

But, these monsters don’t taste good!

It seems that the creator of this game did not expect that there would be players who would kill monsters in such a weird way as "devouring monsters".

I've given you all the skills, why are you still biting me? !

Wouldn't it be better to just be a technical player?

It’s a pity that Maple is such a strange player.

The taste of monsters is an important selection criterion for her to choose monster targets!

"Asuna-sister is so amazing~!"

Standing at the back, Maple leaned back a little, this time took out a small stool from the warehouse and sat down.

Looking at Asuna who was killing monsters at will without receiving any damage, Maple couldn't help but show an envious look.

"It's so fast..."

"Asuna-san's hair seems to be glowing? No, it's starlight~!"

"Could it be a reward for some event? It feels so beautiful!"

"Your sword skills are amazing, do you want to learn from them?"

"But... it feels like a waste to put ability points into other attributes. Let's just put them into defense like before!"

"Hehe, I wonder how strong my defense will be after I can freely enter each game~ Maybe when I stand in front of the event boss, it won't be able to hit me!

Hmm... But in this case, Mr. Boss is really pitiful. Now they can't beat me...

Well, never mind, I'll collect some more strange equipment and skills later!"

At the same time, Maple easily added the ability points gained from the upgrade to defense again.

Asuna's idea of ​​teaching her sword skills was aborted.

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With Asuna, a high-level tool, Maple reached level 16 in just a few dozen minutes.

Even if she didn't do anything, Maple still gained a lot of experience for free just by virtue of the team buff.

"Maple, Maple, wake up, don't sleep anymore."

“…Ugh…Is it over, Asuna-nee?”

"Well, next, I will teach you some sword skills."

"Ah."

"Before that, I'll tell you to allocate the best points. If your ability value doesn't meet the corresponding standard, your sword skills won't work."

"This...is like this..."

"Eh? What's wrong, Maple? Why do you look a little weird?"

"Nothing...nothing. Ha...haha...it's just...ah! Oh no! I haven't finished my homework yet!

"Asuna-sister, I'm going to log off now! See you tomorrow~ Bye!"

"Oh...ok...bye..."

Looking at Maple who seemed to be fleeing in panic, Asuna always felt that she seemed to be hiding something from her?

Could it be that... that kid habitually put points into defense? !

"Looking at her expression...it seems like that's really the case..."

Asuna's mouth twitched involuntarily.

It was clearly agreed that she would learn sword skills and experience the joy of killing monsters, but due to habit, she made the wrong allocation of points...

Is Kayaba Shizuoka researching the technology that allows multiple games to communicate with each other?

But...it doesn't seem to be the case...

Moreover, future activities... Never mind. Why bother with all that? There are only ten minutes left in the game. I should hurry up and complete the side quest of that large mission.

Asuna couldn't help but sigh when she thought that she would have to face a large pile of textbooks and private tutors in ten minutes.

"I've tried so hard... why is mom still so strict..."

Asuna's sigh slowly faded away, and she herself habitually wanted to take out the «Transfer Crystal» and teleport herself directly to the mission location.

"Oh... I forgot that the «Transfer Crystal» is gone due to a bug... Leafa and the others are not online... Forget it, let's go offline and study..."

With a cry of self-abandonment, Asuna ran back to the town with a desperate look on her face. After spending a lot of money to buy a lot of "Transfer Crystals", she logged off to meet her lovely textbooks.

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"Hey, Maple, how's your time in SAO?"

"Hey, I met a warm-hearted big sister. She has reached level 16!"

"Oh~! I heard that the level increase in SAO is very slow. It seems that big sister should take you to kill those high-level monsters!

How is it? How does the monster there taste? (laughs~)"

"Oh, it's not very delicious, and I didn't gain any skills or items..."

"Hahaha, isn't that a given? After all, no one except you, Maple, would eat monsters!"

"Oooooh...Sally!"

"Hey, I see. For the next few days, you can enjoy your vacation in SAO. You don't have to worry about the big maple tree.

There just happened to be no activities these days, and without you around, we actually had more fun chatting~!"

"Eh?! Why is this happening~?? Are you guys having more fun without me?!!!"

"Yeah, everyone is talking about how long it will take you to stand out in SAO~"

"Eh??!"

"Well, do your best. Even though you can't bring your equipment and skills, with your stats, Maple, I'm sure all SAO players will know of your existence soon!

Come on! I bet with them that you can let SAO know your existence within three days!"

"Hmm... this weird trust... Okay, I'll try my best, Sally..."

Chapter 11 Something went wrong?

"Hey, Liz, are you free lately?"

"...Review?...Okay then. Sorry to bother you."

"It's okay, it's okay. I just met an interesting kid in the game."

"Yeah... okay... bye, do well in the exam!"

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"Hey, Silica-chan, do you have time recently?"

"Eh? Are you reviewing too?"

"Oh, okay……"

"It's okay, it's okay, I just met an interesting kid in the game..."

"Well...ok...bye..."

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"Um...Kirito-kun, do you have time recently?"

"Eh?! Do you have to help Suguha with her studies? Her grades aren't..."

"Oh... okay then... by the way, are you outside? Why does your breathing sound so heavy?"

"Oh, were you practicing kendo with Suguha just now... Okay, sorry to bother you."

"Well...bye...you guys continue."

I feel like Kirito-kun is doing something very strenuous... His breathing is so heavy...

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I contacted three friends who I got along well with in the game, but they all said in unison that they needed to review for an exam in the near future.

Asuna tangled her long chestnut hair in her hands and played with it with a bit of boredom.

"Ah...! As expected, I should go study!"

She suddenly stood up from the bed, and her long hair moved from her back to her chest due to the impact.

Asuna smoothed her hair and stood up with a low voice.

Her two little feet fumbled to put on the slippers, and her face looked very reluctant, but since she had nothing to do, she could only continue to sit at the desk in the bedroom to study.

Because the tutor had not arrived yet, Asuna was distracted while doing the questions that were no longer difficult for her.

"Friends in real life...it seems..."

Asuna murmured softly with her eyes somewhat dazed, and several vague figures appeared in her mind.

"Asuina, come down and have some fruit."

"...Oh! I see, mom."

Downstairs, Kyoko Yui's voice called out, awakening Asuna from her trance.

What was I thinking just now?

Asuna leaned back, pushed her chair away, and walked downstairs with a hint of confusion in her eyes.

Looking at her mother sitting on the sofa, Asuna subconsciously slowed down her footsteps, stroked her long hair with one hand, and walked over quietly.

From a female perspective, Kyoko Yuki is quite tall.

Although she looked a little thin, she didn't look weak. Her short dark brown hair was neatly parted in the middle and just reached her shoulders.

Her expression was very calm, and she seemed to be holding some document in her hand, looking at it carefully.

Asuna sat quietly on the sofa on the other side of the coffee table, trying not to make any noise to disturb her mother.