Chapter 28: Closed Beta

There was no other reason. The real Kirito was only 14 years old and had a baby face. He followed the same style as the original body, but the difference was that the original body was too extreme and had become a trap, while Naoki Kirigaya could at least be seen as a boy, although he was a cute boy.

However, Kazuto Kirigaya was clearly not satisfied with his appearance. He had deliberately created a more mature look.

According to him, this was based on the hero in his mind.

Although in Naoki Kirigaya's eyes, he was just an uncle.

Well, an uncle without a beard.

"I feel like your look is so weird." Naoki Kirigaya couldn't help but laugh.

Kazuto Kirigaya curled his lips in disdain and said bluntly, "Who uses their real appearance in the game? Although you're very handsome, big brother, aren't you afraid of being bothered by others in real life?"

"Well, that doesn't matter." Naoki Kirigaya smiled, anyway, you'll have to show your real face later.

He knew that Kazuto Kirigaya hated his appearance. He didn't like his somewhat feminine appearance, just like the original body.

"By the way, where's the other person? Didn't you get two closed beta qualifications? Who did you give the other one to?" Kazuto Kirigaya asked, puzzled.

Naoki Kirigaya looked around and saw a flustered chestnut-haired girl. He shouted, "Over here, over here."

Asuna Yuuki heard the familiar voice and turned her gaze to the past, seeing a tall, handsome, and sunny blond boy.

She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She took a few steps forward and ran up to the boy, saying, "Naoki, you're here. By the way, what's with this ID, Roa?"

Naoki Kirigaya chuckled and said, "It's an Eastern deity, like Jesus in the West."

Asuna Yuuki nodded, not dwelling on the name. Only Chinese people would understand that kind of thing.

Kazuto Kirigaya looked at the beautiful girl in front of him with some surprise. He said, "Who is this?"

Naoki Kirigaya said, "A student."

Asuna Yuuki turned her gaze to the boy, who was shorter than Naoki Kirigaya, about half a head shorter, and was a mature middle-aged uncle.

Although Kazuto Kirigaya kept emphasizing that his appearance was that of a hero, Naoki Kirigaya preferred to call him an uncle.

"By the way, Asuna, you're also using your real appearance?" Naoki Kirigaya curiously looked her up and down.

Her chestnut hair was tied into a braid, and her clear eyes were endearing. Asuna was an extremely beautiful woman, with delicate features and a doll-like appearance, and a slender figure, showing that she didn't lack exercise.

She was standing in front of the two of them, wearing a white coarse cloth dress.

Asuna's looks were needless to say,

She was an extremely outstanding woman.

Kazuto Kirigaya was slightly stunned. He looked at his older brother with a questioning gaze, "Is she really like this in real life? I thought she would modify it a little."

After all, most people mainly made themselves look better when creating their characters, such as making their skin whiter, their nose bridge higher, and their eyes bigger.

But a truly natural appearance was rare.

At this time, Asuna Yuuki also fell silent.

She slowly asked, "So that was the character creation? I just clicked confirm."

Naoki Kirigaya couldn't help but laugh. This girl had directly entered the game with the default face.

No wonder she was like this.

She looked like a newbie.

Asuna Yuuki had been looking around since she entered the game, curious about everything.

Wait, a newbie.

Kazuto Kirigaya suddenly thought of an extremely serious problem.

He slowly asked, "Asuna, have you played similar games before? Like this type of game."

Asuna Yuuki was a little confused. She turned her gaze to Naoki Kirigaya and said, "Didn't you tell him?"

Naoki Kirigaya shrugged and explained, "Asuna's mother is very strict and basically doesn't let her play games. She's only playing this game because I forced her to."

Kazuto Kirigaya sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, I originally wanted to compete with you to see who could get to the higher-level boss."

Naoki Kirigaya chuckled and said, "We can still compete. I'll take Asuna to level up, and you can find helpers yourself. It's still the same rules. After a month, we'll see who has cleared more floors."

Kazuto Kirigaya hesitated. He looked at Asuna and then at Naoki Kirigaya, feeling that there was something fishy between the two, and left without thinking too much.

Naoki Kirigaya looked at Asuna and said, "Do you know about sword skills?"

Asuna was at a loss.

"Let's go, I'll take you somewhere first." Naoki Kirigaya grabbed Asuna's hand and pulled her forward.

Asuna was no longer the easily shy Asuna Yuuki. Since the two had been together for almost six years as tutor and student, she didn't have much resistance to this level of physical contact. On the contrary, she was used to it.

In short, Naoki Kirigaya was by no means an honest person. Holding hands during tutoring wasn't too much, right?

Getting a little closer during tutoring wasn't too much, right?

Anyway, he had taken all the small advantages.

The place where they had just appeared was actually the starting village, the Town of Beginnings.

At the northernmost end of this floor stood a sturdy tower with a diameter of 300 meters and a height of 100 meters.

Important locations on the floor: "Tolbana" was the most prosperous town in the valley not far from the labyrinth area.

The streets were surrounded by grasslands where animal-type monsters such as boars and wolves, as well as insect-type monsters such as worms, beetles, and wasps, often appeared.

Going straight south from the gate, the surroundings were endless grasslands, with level 1 wolf-like creatures.

The dire wolves were on all fours, with fierce eyes, but without any intention of attacking people.

Naoki Kirigaya pointed to the small monsters in front of him and said, "I'll explain to you what sword skills are."

Naoki Kirigaya drew the iron sword in his hand.

Lines of small words floated up.

[Iron Sword for Beginners]

[Quality: White]

[Attribute: Sharpness 1]

For some reason, Naoki Kirigaya's system interface was different from Kazuto Kirigaya's system interface.

To be precise, the description of the equipment attributes was different.

It was the same piece of equipment, but the attributes displayed by the two were different.

But these were all minor issues.

He felt the system's sword-swinging mechanism.

Because both the original body and he had been exposed to kendo before, he got the hang of it after only feeling it for a while.

Sword skills.

These were special system-assisted moves in SAO.

SAO emphasized the sense of physical experience. After making the corresponding preparatory movements to trigger the skill, the system would assist the character's movements and speed, performing superhuman techniques that were difficult to do normally.

Although similar movements could be made without activating sword skills, the power, speed, and accuracy could not be compared.

Conversely, because sword skills were system-driven, standardized movements, they could not be changed or stopped until they were completed, so judging the opponent's preparatory movements became an important technique in duels.

In short, ordinary players relied on sword skills to achieve operations that were difficult to complete in reality.

But there was a stiffening and a wind-up before releasing sword skills, and the opponent could make a countermeasure based on your release of sword skills.