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Sword Art Online Volume 3 – Fairy Dance

Prologue

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Prologue

There were three deep green lighted dots, they were aligned like

a modest constellation.

Kirigaya Suguha extended the finger of her right hand, probing

the lights.

The LED indicators displayed the current operating status of the

FullDive model VR machine, «Nerve Gear». Situated on the front part of

the headgear, the indicators monitored—from the right—the main

power, network connection, and cerebral connection. At the moment

that the light on the far left edge were to turn red, it would signify the

destruction of the brain of the gear’s user.

The owner of the gear was on a spacious gel bed in the middle of

a completely off-white hospital room, in a never awakening sleep. No,

that was not an accurate expression. In actuality, his soul was currently

fighting day and night in some far away parallel universe—risking his

liberation along with several thousand other people being held as

captive players.

“Onii-chan...”

Suguha called out to her quietly sleeping brother, Kazuto.

“Already two years have passed, huh.... I—next time I’ll be a high

school student, you know.... If you don’t return soon, I’ll eventually get

ahead of you...”

Sword Art Online Volume 3 – Fairy Dance

Prologue

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She lowered her finger from the LED, tracing a line on her

brother’s cheek. During the long coma, Kazuto’s muscles began to wane,

and that razor-thin line gave his profile an exceedingly feminine gloom,

despite his originally androgynous impression. Even his mother joked,

calling him, the family’s «Sleeping Beauty».

His face was not the only part that thinned. His whole body had

grown thin and worn out—he was in a pitiful state compared to

Suguha, who had been training in Kendo from a young age—his body

weight now was obviously insufficient. She wondered, if this kept up,

would he be reduced to nothing...? Recently, she had been seized with

such a fear.

However, Suguha had been struggling against the possibility of

crying while in the hospital room since a year ago. At that time, a

member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication’s «SAO

Incident Countermeasure Team» had informed them. A government

official—with long forelocks that draped over his black edged