Sword Art Online Progressive 7 by Reki Kawahara and abec

Author:Reki Kawahara and abec [Reki Kawahara and abec]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2022-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Forty minutes later, when Argo returned to the Ambermoon Inn, we heard from her that both the ALS and DKB had lost their bets on the last match, and along with it, all of the fifty-thousand-plus chips they had won prior to it.

8

MY EYES DRIFTED OPEN, LIKE A DANDELION PUFF picked up on the breeze and falling back to earth.

The heavy lids opened just enough for me to glance at the time. It was two in the morning—only two hours since I’d gone to bed.

I wasn’t the deepest sleeper in the real world, but strangely enough, I could completely knock out in Aincrad. Even I didn’t know why I was able to sleep so soundly while trapped in a game that could kill me. Either the focus I needed to survive the day left me wiped out, or the device was shutting out all the extra sensations that would normally keep me from sleeping, or—as much as I didn’t want to admit it—it was possible that I actually felt comfortable in this place.

So it was strange that I popped awake without a reason like this. I’d set my alarm for six o’clock, so I needed to sleep that extra four hours in preparation for the day ahead. I closed my eyes to go back to sleep—but then I felt a gentle shaking and frowned.

It was the vibration that had awakened me. Was it wind? An earthquake? A big wave? Or was Aincrad itself falling?

“Kirito, wake up,” said a soft voice in my ear. I yelped and bolted upright. Or I would have, if I hadn’t collided with something close to the bed. Purple light flashed in my eyes.

““Aurrg!”” said two voices together.

My head fell back to the pillow, where I blinked rapidly, trying to focus my eyes.

To the right of the bed, holding her hands to her temples, was my temporary partner. There was no real pain in this world, but when encountering phenomena that typically caused pain, your brain tried to create a kind of phantom sensation. The NerveGear was supposed to diminish even that phantom pain, but it couldn’t stop you from imagining the pain from a sudden reaction like this.

So for the moment, Asuna and I groaned at the lingering effect of bonking our heads. Once we could look at each other again, I realized that the source of the shaking was not an earthquake or a gust of wind, but it had been her.

“…Um, what in the world…?” I asked.

The fencer grimaced and explained, “I kept calling your name, but you wouldn’t wake up. So I had to shake you, and then you just jumped up out of bed.”

“W-well, sorry about that…But why were you waking me up?”

“I was just thinking I’d like to leave a little bit early.”

“Huh…?”

I had to check the clock again, thinking I’d read it wrong. But it was still two o’clock in the morning. The pale light coming through the crack in the window blinds belonged to the moon, not the morning sun.

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