sword art online(V1-V12)

alicization rising

Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising

Chapter 07 – The Two Supervisors

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Part 1

I, Kirigaya Kazuto, had logged out of the VRMMO-RPG,

«Sword Art Online», on the 7th of November, 2024.

It was the middle of December when I returned to my home in

Kawagoe City in the Saitama prefecture after my rehabilitation period

ended. I turned sixteen a couple of months before, but as I was

challenging the fiftieth floor of Aincrad while my previous peers of

the same grade were challenging the high school entrance

examinations, there was obviously no school I could attend.

Fortunately – though I hesitate to refer to it as such, I received a

certificate of graduation from the middle school I’ve only went

halfway through, so normally, I would be spending my time at a

preparation school until I take the examinations a year late, next year.

However, there, the country brought forth an unimaginable relief

measure.

The middle- and high-schoolers which numbered over five

hundred, out of the roughly six thousand players who returned alive

from their imprisonment in SAO. It was decided that a school for all

of them would be established in Nishitokyo, Tokyo from the April of

2025, with no entrance examinations or school fees, and the

qualification to take the entrance examinations for university upon

graduating.

Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising

Chapter 07 – The Two Supervisors

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The building used that of a metropolitan high school, abandoned

the previous year, that was awaiting its demolition. The teaching staff

was largely made up of re-employed teachers who retired from old

age, serving part-time. It was a National Specialization School when

classified under the School Education Law.

It wasn’t as if I couldn’t feel a tinge of unease, conversely, at that

unexpected level of kindness, even as a safety net, but I decided to

enter after consulting Asuna and of course, my family. I never

regretted it even once. It was extremely fun designing and creating

various devices with friends in my Mechatronics course and I could

meet Asuna, Lisbeth, Silica and the rest every day. Even after taking

away points for the compulsory counseling session once a week, I

could still claim it was a fulfilling schooling life.

However, I was unable to attend that school to the end as well.

A year and two months after I entered, it was the 6th of June,