Prologue

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"Haha! You loser!" a voice screams in the dark.

"Why do you even exist?" Another mocked.

"Why can't you just disappear?" a different one laughed.

A girl wakes with a start in a dark room void of anything but a bed, a computer with a collection of games, and her NerveGear. She looked at the pale walls with a sigh and whispered softly, "Even in my dreams they never leave me alone..."

The girl's jade hair falls down her back as she moves to sit up. Once she's up, she goes and shuffles over to her door and locks it. Then moving away from the door she drifts over to her desk with the computer and grabs the 'how to' book for SAO, a brand new virtual MMORPG, that was released to the public today. She had previously been one of the lucky thousand to participate in the beta test and had figured out how everything worked fairly quickly; she was one of the few that made it to the higher floors and beat most of the bosses she came across.

She grabbed the NerveGear and placed it onto her head. Laying down on her bed, she closed her eyes and with two simple words she sealed her fate, "Link Start!"

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