Sword Art Online 04: Fairy Dance by Reki Kawahara

Author:Reki Kawahara
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9784048684521
Published: 2010-04-09T14:00:00+00:00

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With the door closed in front of me, I stood there for a while.

Soon, I turned and slid to the floor with my back against her door.

Suguha's accusation that I had distanced myself from her because she wasn't my true younger sister was almost correct. I had searched the net for my family registry, but I had found the deletion notice, so I asked my parents about it. I was ten years-old. I began to put some distance between Suguha and myself, but there was no specific reason.

At that time, I did not understand the meaning of the distance between other people.

I did not have any memory of my real parents, Kirigaya Minetaka and Midori had told me the truth, but their love for me did not change so I was not really hurt. However, a seed of a strange feeling was planted in me, by the time it started to bud, it was already deeply rooted.

That is, for someone who didn't even know their relatives, who is that person really? That was my question. I came to think of a family as a set of acquaintances with a long relationship, someone who knows everything. I wondered who that person would actually be. Did I really know someone like that?

That sense of incongruity may be one of the reasons that led me to dive into the world of online games. There, the avatars that come in contact over the network are naturally different within the game. No one really knew who each other is. On this premise we interacted, that was to say it was a false world, that was something I found pleasant. By the time I was a 5th or 6th grader, I was already addicted to net games, without a side glance I moved straight forward. Finally I was imprisoned for two years, in that virtual world.

The world of Sword Art Online would have been something of a utopia for me, if not for the game's rule of death. A false dream that I wouldn't wake up from. The virtual world that could never end.

In that world, I played Kirito, who no one knew.

However, in the abnormal situation of a FullDive net game where I couldn't log out, I was led without force to one inevitable truth.

Whether it was the real world or a virtual world, it was essentially identical.

Because humans understand their world by receiving the information from the five senses that had been processed by the brain. The only reason a net game is a false world is that you can leave by switching off the machine.

A world that your brain recognized through electronic pulses, a world that you can't log out of.

Those are words that describe the real world itself.

When I realized that, I finally realized the emptiness of the question that had been confusing me since the age of ten. Worrying about who people really were was something with no meaning. The only thing you were able to do is believe what you see, and accept it.

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