Alicization Awakening by Reki Kawahara

Author:Reki Kawahara [Kawahara, Reki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Light Novel
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2019-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

“Look at what you’ve done to yourself…all covered in injuries like this…You’re pushing yourself too hard, Asuna.”

“Let us handle the rest. Everyone showed up for you.”

Just the presence of Lisbeth and Silica hugging her sides brought a warmth to the pain Asuna felt all over, and she felt her aches melting away.

“Thank…thank you…”

Through her overflowing tears, the rain of code fell on the entrance to the ruins. It led to hundreds of new warriors dressed in bright and varied colors.

“The red ones are the enemy!”

“Front line, charge! Push them back!”

“Rear line, pull back and check your spells!”

As soon as they landed, the new warriors traded calls in the language of the Underworld—Japanese—and prepared swords, axes, and spears to meet the oncoming enemy. It was clear from their impressive individual skill and orderly group coordination that these were all experienced VRMMO players.

That’s what it is.

At last, Asuna had enough functioning brainpower to put it all together.

When the American players had joined the battle, it meant that the Underworld’s time-acceleration rate was set to zero by the ship’s attackers. That meant that people from Japan could dive in with their AmuSpheres, too.

But the quality of the reinforcements’ swords and armor made it clear that they weren’t using default soldier loadouts.

They had converted their characters.

It was the only explanation. They’d moved the characters they’d spent so much time and effort into fashioning over to the Underworld.

Even though it wasn’t clear at all if they could get them back to the normal VRMMO world they came from. In fact, considering the way the Underworld was designed, it was quite possible that every character would be permanently deleted the moment they died!

“I’m…I’m sorry…I’m so sorry,” she said tearfully to her friends—and to all the fighters who came to help push back the enemy’s front row.

“What do you mean, Asuna?” Lisbeth asked. Her voice was brimming with absolute determination. “Everything that I’ve worked hard at in SAO and ALO was meant to come into play right here—to protect what’s important to me.”

“Yeah…You’re right………Thank you………”

Asuna let her head drop toward the ground.

There was still something left she didn’t understand. Who had told Liz and the rest about the Underworld’s peril and recruited all these converted reinforcements? It was hard to imagine that Kikuoka and Higa, trapped in the sub-control room of the Ocean Turtle, would devise and carry out such a strategy.

“…Liz, Silica. Who actually brought everyone here…?” Asuna asked.

The girls shared a quick glance, then broke into grins. “Shouldn’t that be obvious, Asuna?”

“It was Yui! Yui did her best to explain what was going on with the Underworld and the people living in it!”

The instant she heard these words, Asuna felt something wrench the muscles deep inside her. Tears flooded from her eyes.

Yui. The little top-down AI created in the old SAO—and Asuna and Kirito’s daughter. Of course…it could only have been her. She’d sensed the plan of the attackers that Asuna and Kikuoka could never have foreseen, and she’d worked to counteract it.

“……Thank you, Yui,” she whispered with all of her being.

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