In November 2022, during the winter of her third year of junior high, Asuna was trapped in SAO, until January 2025, when she was freed by Kirito. That’s why this was her first new year’s greeting in the last 4 years. In the Kyoto-styled mansion at the head house, Asuna wore a long-sleeved kimono and repeatedly greeted her many relatives starting with her grandparents. In the end, she felt like she had become a reception NPC. Even so, meeting the cousins she hadn’t seen for a long time should’ve been a happy event, even though they were joyful about Asuna’s return as though it was a matter of their own, Asuna saw something she hated in their eyes. Her cousins all pitied Asuna. They felt sympathetic, sad that Asuna prematurely dropped out of the competition that had been going on since they were born. It was not that she was thinking too much. Asuna could easily tell, having read people’s expressions since she was young. Of course, the current Asuna had a completely different personality from that time. In that world, there was a boy who inexplicably changed Asuna. Therefore her cousins’, uncles’ and aunts’ pity only lightly swept against Asuna’s heart. Above all, she was a «swordswoman», a person who fought using her own power. That belief always supported Asuna’s heart, and didn’t change even after that world disappeared. But her cousins, who considered VRMMOs poisonous could not understand that value. The same went for her mother who was always slightly unhappy when she was with the main family. The obsession to go to a good university and find a good job didn’t exist anymore. Asuna really liked her current school and in