New Game? *YES*

Chapter 9 - Romeo and Juliet

*Note*

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Lis POV:

I just put on my shoes and started to head out the door to go attend the SAO Survivor School. It was a school set up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for any students that were trapped in the game. They also offered to school students who weren't involved in the game because of the schools cheaper rates and accessibility for others.

As I was locking the door to my apartment, I was reminded by how I lived alone due to my wanting to separate from my family. I was apart of a wealthy family which owned multiple small businesses which were all decently successful.

I thought of how mine and Asuna's family were different in various aspects. While Asuna was constantly being pushed around by her family to do various things... well, mostly her mother, but my family was different as my parents believed that freedom was the key to success and is what had allowed for the Shinozaki family so successful as it introduces us to make difficult decisions. I also thought of how Asuna was constantly being forced to marry some random strangers, while my family had no care for status. I thought of these various differences between our two families and thought of how much one concept of mind to another.

I was walking towards the school as it was only a five-minute walk or so. I had then gotten a message from Asuna saying she wasn't feeling good and wasn't going to attend school today.

"Dang it Asuna, who am I gonna copy the class work from for science"

I had arrived at the school and saw Silica, who in real life was known as Keiko Ayano, standing at the gate. Silica and I had become pretty good friends after coming out of the game as we both had the same therapist that was required by all the players to meet with bi-weekly. I didn't feel like talking to a therapist and Silica was sitting in the waiting room and after a while of discussion, the two of us hit it off really well.

"Good morning Silica"

"Good morning, what took you so long today? Did you daydream again"

"Sorry about that, was just thinking about a couple of things. Also, Asuna isn't feeling well so she won't be coming today"

"Yea, I got a text not too long ago" she replied while holding up her phone

Both of us headed inside of the building and slipped into our indoor shoes and started to take out our books from our lockers.

"So Liz, what do you think the meeting is gonna be about that Agil says is so important"

"I don't really know, it's most likely got to do something with the media or about the current status of VR. We never know, it might even be about something not associated with SAO."

"Yea, your probably right"

"Hey Silica"

"Yea"

"Do you ever wonder were...he might be"

"Who's he?"

"Nevermind, it was just a thought in my mind. I'll see you at Lunch" I quickly said while a walked in the opposite direction of Silica.

'Why did I say that I shouldn't be worried about him' I thought as I was about to arrive at my classroom. Both Lis and Silica knew that the other had met Kirito and both revealed how they had feelings for the Black Swordsmen. When Asuna told them a couple of days go that Kirito has been found by the Ministry, but they won't tell Asuna the information about him, everyone in their friend group had been very disappointed.