Dimensional Chat Room

Chapter 127 Asuna’s mood

Asuna has been fighting for as long as she can remember.

Starting from the kindergarten entrance exam, she has to pass the trials that befall her one after another, and she must win them all. As long as she failed once, she would be useless as a human being. She had been carrying this heavy burden and struggled for fifteen years.

Having received an elite education since she was a child, she had no doubts about this. Mechanically executes parents' instructions, fulfills parents' requests excellently, and responds fully to parents' expectations. In fifteen years, it has never failed.

But now, the battlefield has just been moved to the virtual world called 'Aincrad'. Although it has extremely heterogeneous and unknown rules and culture, it is impossible to win alone. The presence.

Asuna long thought, what would happen if she was alone?

Lonely waiting for rescue?

Or will it burn like a meteor and eventually fall?

Or is it like what is described in the animation?

Now she has no way of knowing.

However, Asuna has thought about this issue repeatedly. I have only been exposed to free mobile games at most, so why would I do it on a whim? Why can't I feel satisfied just touching the NERvGear? Why pick up a rigid helmet, put it on and shout out the connection command?

Occasionally, I would have nightmares in my light sleep with such regret. In the dream, classmates whose faces could not be seen clearly laughed at themselves for having such a big fall in the winter of the third year of junior high school, when they were facing such an important moment as the entrance exam. There are also relatives who sympathize with the fact that they may continue to lose in countless competitions to come. And, the parents who continue to stare down at themselves, unable to see their expressions clearly...

Every time she dreams of such a scene, Asuna always wakes up breathless. Is this really okay? Already one step behind.

More than a month has passed, and the entrance exams should have started. Asuna looked out at the bright starry sky from the window in the treehouse. No matter how beautiful this scene was, it was still just false.

There are indeed many incredible people gathered in the chat room, and it is all thanks to them that I can sit here so comfortably. But what does the achievements of others have to do with yourself?

magic? Miracle? Unknown knowledge? Different world? monster? Monster? myth?

Even if all these things exist, it cannot change the fact that he is still just an ordinary person. After being liberated from this world, what I faced was still the life planned by my parents, and I could only move forward by stepping on my footsteps.

But this time, she felt unwilling and resistant. I don’t want to live a life of being manipulated like a puppet on strings. Asuna can certainly understand her parents' painstaking efforts. It is every parent's expectation that their children can have higher achievements in the future. But my parents, who live in the upper class, firmly believe that ‘it is best to follow your own plans’.

But where is the way forward for me? Asuna didn't know. Seeing Blank, Ye You and Black Cat working hard for the things they like, Asuna was really envious. Ever since she met them, Asuna had often been alone and troubled on such quiet nights.

She didn't want to continue to accept the life that her parents had prepared. Asuna was touched by everyone's appearance in the chat room and wanted to use her own will to find a new path. The girl came up with this idea - but what should she move towards? What's the direction forward?

Asuna was seriously confused.

"Forget it, let's take a bath first."

In the imaginary virtual world, bathing is just a simulated false feeling, but it is really just a matter of the girl's mood. Stretching her hands and feet in hot water is a very relaxing and enjoyable matter.

The Akatsuki Car Guild's headquarters is equipped with a bathroom, but since Asuna cannot log off, it has become her exclusive room. Asuna walked into the bathroom. It was a rather large and luxurious room. The floor was covered with thick carpets. The rest of the room was occupied by a bathtub. The hot water was steaming upwards, creating a dense white mist. It was high on the wall. There is a water outlet with monster faces everywhere, and water splashes are constantly falling from there.

Asuna breathed out the single-view window, pressed the "Ready to Disarm" button on the right half of the screen to fully release weapons and armor, and her coat turned into a point of light and disappeared. This simple instruction to change clothes made Asuna once again confirm that this was just the emptiness of the virtual world.

At this moment, her long chestnut-colored hair fell down her back, and she was left with only a three-quarter-sleeved knitted sweater and leather tight trousers. The button she pressed just now changed to 'Full Clothing Release'. After pressing the button, all the clothes and pants disappeared, leaving only the last cotton underwear. Then press the button again to continue changing to 'underwear complete release'. With just three presses, you can completely undress.

The imaginary coldness immediately touched Asuna's skin. Aincrad's climate setting was synchronized with reality, so the indoor temperature in early December was also quite low.

Asuna dipped her left foot into the warm water, and a cold and slightly hot composite electrical pulse signal rushed straight to her forehead. Then Asuna slowly immersed her entire body in the warm water, leaning her back against the smooth stone of the bathtub, and couldn't help but moan in comfort.

Whether it's the feeling of your skin being immersed in hot water, the pressure of the water against your body, or the sheen reflected on the water's surface, it all has a strange feeling that is different from reality. But after fighting for a day, Asuna felt extremely comfortable. She couldn't help but close her mouth and sink into the hot water, relaxing her muscles and bones.

——It would be great if there were delicious pastries here.

Asuna couldn't help but think of this.

This sudden desire confused her.

The food here is indeed not bad, but it is completely fake. The so-called "food" is composed of taste signals pre-set by the neural simulation system and complex polygons. After all, the feeling of taking a bath is the same. At best, the reflectivity and penetration rate are lowered. The warm touch is just a list of false NERvGear electronic signals received by the sensory cells of the brain's neurons.

Why would you desire such a false thing?

But, but...

A month ago, would I have had such an urge to take a bath? Do you crave pastries so much? On the cold table, I didn't want to eat, but under the instructions of my parents, I mechanically repeated the action of eating, or now I feel happy just thinking about the pastries. Which one is the 'real thing'?

Asuna realized that she seemed to be thinking about something very important, so she couldn't help but open her eyes, gently propped herself up, and held her breath.