Chapter 27: SAO

After the beef had thawed, he poured a spoonful of oil into the pan. When the oil started to smoke, he poured in the ginger slices and chili peppers, and a pungent smell immediately wafted out.

The boy then poured in the beef and slowly simmered it over low heat, and soon the aroma of meat filled the air.

Then he added oyster sauce, a little soy sauce, and finally a handful of celery.

The meat gradually became tender, and Kazuto Kirigaya watched from the side, drooling.

Suguha Kirigaya struggled to plug in the rice cooker.

Naoki Kirigaya glanced at Kazuto Kirigaya, who was doing nothing, and said, "Aren't you going to help your sister?"

Kazuto Kirigaya chuckled and said, "She insisted on taking it over, saying she wanted to appreciate big brother…" Before he could finish speaking, Suguha Kirigaya walked up to Kazuto Kirigaya with a blank expression and gave his foot a hard kick.

Kazuto Kirigaya immediately clutched his foot and cried out in pain.

Naoki Kirigaya suddenly understood. So that's how it was. No wonder Suguha was acting so strange today.

After finishing the meal, everyone lay back in their chairs, satisfied.

"It's so good to have big brother around."

"It's so good to have big brother around."

The same sentence came from two mouths. Kazuto Kirigaya and Suguha Kirigaya looked at each other, and Kazuto Kirigaya chuckled, pretending to be shy and saying, "This is so embarrassing."

Kazuto Kirigaya suddenly sat up from his chair, looked at his big brother, and said seriously, "Then, shall we start?"

"Start!" Naoki Kirigaya replied with an equally serious expression.

The two tacitly turned on their computers, leaving Suguha Kirigaya watching eagerly.

"Suguha, it's not that your second brother won't take you, it's just that you're too bad." Kazuto Kirigaya said cheerfully, seeing the girl watching eagerly.

It would have been better if he hadn't said anything, but as soon as he spoke, he instantly maxed out Suguha Kirigaya 's anger, and she snorted coldly and turned to leave.

"I don't want to play anyway. Who cares?"

Such a sentence came from afar.

Kazuto Kirigaya and Naoki Kirigaya looked at each other and smiled.

Naoki Kirigaya joked, "You really need to change your habit of teasing your sister, or one day I'll suspect she'll rush into your room with a knife."

"It won't come to that." Kazuto Kirigaya waved his hand.

Then they spent the whole afternoon fighting.

Time flew by, and the days without being able to show off passed in a flash.

The yellow-haired boy had grown from a little yellow-haired boy into a big yellow-haired boy.

The grown-up Naoki Kirigaya became more and more handsome, with distinct facial features, a high nose bridge, and increasingly bright red-gold eyes. With this appearance, standing on the street, he could completely seduce a large group of young ladies. And because of long-term exercise and having practiced swordsmanship for a year, his muscles were well-proportioned, and his figure was slender, the kind that looked thin in clothes but muscular when undressed.

Today, he was 15 years old, and today was also the day the Sword Art Online closed beta was released.

Both of them had managed to grab a closed beta qualification. The difference was that Kazuto Kirigaya relied entirely on luck, while he had quietly invaded the official website to extract qualifications by modifying the data, successfully obtaining a closed beta qualification.

Honestly, he admired Kazuto Kirigaya's luck. He knew that only a thousand qualifications were issued throughout Japan. With the popularity of Sword Art Online, the demand far exceeded the supply, and he didn't know if the probability was even 0.01%, but Kazuto Kirigaya had directly broken through.

This could no longer be described as being lucky.

Today was the first day of the "Sword Art Online" closed beta experience release.

"ARGUS," a large electronics manufacturer, had developed a new generation of civilian terminals called "NERvGear," making it possible to utilize full-dive virtual space in ordinary online games. And "SAO" - Sword Art Online was the first large-scale VRMMO to utilize this advanced technology.

Unlike older game consoles that required a flat screen device and a handheld controller as human-machine interfaces, the nervgear interface only had one type. That was a streamlined helmet that completely covered the head to the face.

Its inner side was embedded with countless signal components, and the helmet was directly connected to the user's brain through the multiple electric fields generated by these components. Users did not need to use their actual eyes and ears to have the feeling of seeing and hearing because the machine directly gave information to the brain's visual cortex and auditory cortex. In fact, in addition to hearing and vision, the senses of touch, taste, and smell, the so-called five senses, could all be read out by nervgear.

Full-dive games, a groundbreaking technological invention, and the inventor was Kayaba Akihiko, a genius of an era.

Even Naoki Kirigaya had to admit his cleverness. The game had surprisingly few loopholes, making it almost impossible to install bugs.

Rather than saying that this world was a string of code, its simulation was comparable to another world.

Anyway, after entering the game, he successfully hacked a set of data.

He had invaded his own HP code through dense data.

He hadn't set anything too outrageous, not like one-hit kills or flying and escaping.

He had just set a lock on his health, and only locked the last drop of blood.

As a Fool, wouldn't it be okay not to die?

As a Fool, wouldn't it be okay to increase the attack speed a bit?

As a Fool, wouldn't it be okay to add a little attack power?

As a Fool, wouldn't it be okay to know a bit of Starburst Stream?

Cough, just kidding.

If he really dared to do that, the main body would dare to kill him.

So, he only opened a blood lock.

If he really died, the main body would also kill him.

So he only opened a blood lock, and if he wrote too many abnormal codes, the GM would discover it and start clearing abnormal accounts.

As long as cheating wasn't too obvious, it was like it wasn't cheating.

Did he cheat?

It's like he didn't.

Entering the character creation interface, he thought about it. He didn't have anything to create. It was best to keep his original appearance. What face was more handsome than his own?

It wasn't that Naoki Kirigaya was bragging, but he really hadn't seen a young man as handsome as him in the real world.

Golden hair and golden eyes, a natural protagonist's face.

After entering the interface, he familiarly entered his account password. After thinking about it, he slowly typed four words in his nickname: "Roa," and then began the mental link.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw another scene.

Surrounding him was a huge square. In front of Naoki Kirigaya was a potted plant with a plant he couldn't name.

He tried to open the main menu and clicked on his character's attributes to take a look.

[Character: Roa]

[Strength: 10 (10)]

[Agility: 10 (10)]

[Stamina: 10 (10)]

[Luck: 5 (10)]

Naoki Kirigaya was a little surprised. He looked around and grabbed a guy named Kirito.

"Hey, Kirito, why did you create this appearance?" Naoki Kirigaya said with a teasing expression.