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“Hmm, well...I don’t know if I can answer your question here...” Nurse Aki said that, and then continued with a very hoarse voice, “Humans will definitely forget once they feel that there’s something they should forget. They wouldn’t even have any thoughts of wanting to forget. The more you want to forget, the more the memory’s ingrained in you, which will make it clearer, right? In that case, I guess...deep inside your heart, you subconsciousness, you didn’t really want to forget about that, right?” This unexpected answer caused me to take a slight gasp. The more I want to forget, the more I couldn’t forget...? These words went straight into my heart, leaving a strong bitter taste in my mouth. After I turned it to a self-depreciating smile, I said these words, “...Then, I’m really a bad person...” Evading the ‘why’ stare Nurse Aki was giving me, I looked between my feet on the floor, clenched my fists and placed them at my knees, and used this pressure to release the words from my chest. “...I killed 3 players...in SAO...” The dry voice knocked into the white walls of the patient’s room and returned as a wonderful echo. No, I guess my brain was the only one that was affected. I came to this hospital during November and December last year to recuperate, and Nurse Aki was the one in charge of taking care of me. That’s how she knew that I was imprisoned inside the virtual world for two years. However, I had never told her about what happened in that world.