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Please respond, Yuuki.

Seriously, what happened?

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Please respond, Yuuki.

Please respond, Yuuki.

Please respond, Yuuki.

Seriously, what happened?

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Please respond, Yuuki.

Seriously, what happened?

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Please respond, Yuuki.

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Asuna-san...

Siune!

What's the matter with Yuuki?

It has been three days since she last logged in!

Since that day, we too have been unable to contact her.

Asuna-san,

I think Yuuki would prefer to cut ties with you.

For your sake, that is.

Wh-Why's that?

No, I shouldn't act so shocked.

I could tell that you were all trying to keep your distance.

If I'm only a nuisance, I'll let you be.

But not if you tell me it's for my sake!

You're not a nuisance!

We're all so glad to have met you.

You helped us so much

in achieving one last wonderful experience together in this world.

I'm sure Yuuki feels the same way.

But... if you could...

Please forget about us and move on.

Is this goodbye, just like that?

I thought we could stay friends forever, even after the guild disbands.

Was I the only one who believed that?

I'm so sorry.

Wait!

I've been walking in the light all this time

Zutto hikari no naka kinou made wa nakatta

I've been following footprints that didn't exist until yesterday

Ashiato wo tadotte kita hodo

Although I've been in a maze with no goal, with a map drenched in rain

Gooru no mie nai meiro ame ni utareta chizu

I have no regrets at all

Koukai mo nani mo nai kedo

If I cry out

Sakenda koe wa

I'm sure my voice will reach you

Kitto todoku kara

I'm sure my voice will reach you

Kitto todoku kara

The sound of the bell in the beginning of the story

Kono monogatari no hajimaru kane no ne ga

Will connect us during our journey

Tsunagu tabi no tochuu de

The future world that you envisioned

Kimi ga egaita mirai no sekai wa

Will lead you to a sky of that day

Itsuka no sora ni michibikare te

And will make our dream come true and even go beyond miracles

Futatsu no omoi wo hitotsu zutsu katachi ni shite kiseki wo motto koete

The future world that you envisioned

Kimi ga egaita mirai no sekai wa

The future world that you envisioned

Kimi ga egaita mirai no sekai wa

Exists somewhere even now

Ima mo dokoka de iki tsuzukete

Let's add layers of our dream and reach the true pure light

Donna yume kasanete itsuwaru koto no nai ano hikari wo

Ah oh beautiful my way!

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Asuna!

Hello there.

Good morning!

Morning.

We finally caught up with you!

Now fess up and fill us in about that message you sent!

Liz-san said something about you joining a guild.

Yeah, what's it like?

Um, it's...

Sorry, hold on a sec...

Kirigaya Kazuto

Yui, is it working all right?

Can you see me?

It looks a little blurry, Papa.

Maybe there's something off with the autofocus.

Wait, let me see...

Thanks, Papa.

Hey.

So you're dead set on seeing Zekken?

I am.

Even though they said it was for the best if you didn't?

That's right.

I want to see Yuuki and talk with her again.

No matter what!

I see.

You'll be able to see her if you go here.

Or at least, I think you will.

How do you figure that?

It's the only hospital in Japan running Medicuboid clinical trials.

hama Port, Northern G

eneral Hospital

Medicuboid?

Reservations

Um...

Here to see someone?

Yes.

But I don't know her name.

Pardon me?

I think she's around fifteen years old.

Her name should be Yuuki.

That's not enough to go on...

And I think she's getting experimental treatments with the Medicuboid!

Excuse me, but what's your name?

I-I'm Yuuki Asuna.

Please wait for a minute on the bench over there.

O-Okay.

Hello there. I'm so sorry to keep you waiting.

N-No problem.

I suppose you must be Yuuki Asuna-san?

Right.

I'm Kurahashi, Konno Yuuki-san's primary physician.

Konno-san?

I'm amazed you found your way here.

Yuuki-kun indicated to me that a certain Asuna-san might be coming to see her.

She did?

But she also said she never mentioned the name of the hospital.

I told her you'd have no way of finding her here.

It was quite a surprise when the front desk gave me a call.

Um... did Yuuki-san ever mention me to you?

Yes, quite often.

She talks about you all the time.

But every time she stops, she ends up crying.

That girl never complains, no matter what she has to endure.

She wants to see you, but said she couldn't.

That's what Yuuki-san and her friends told me after we said goodbye in the virtual world.

But why? Why can't I see her again?

To answer that, I better start by explaining the Medicuboid.

All right.

The Medicuboid is a project under development by the government,

code name for the world's first medical FullDive system.

A medical FullDive system?

Indeed.

For patients with vision or hearing impairments,

it is truly a great blessing.

Amuspheres can transmit audiovisual information to the brain.

But that's not the full extent of their capability.

Amuspheres can also mute senses by canceling out their effects.

For example, the right electromagnetic pulse here will temporarily induce analgesia.

In other words, it can substitute for general anesthesia.

But isn't that impossible?

Amuspheres limit sensory feedback levels far below what that would require.

You're exactly right!

I couldn't have put it any better.

The Amusphere... No, even the NerveGear cannot alleviate high levels of pain.

That's why the Medicuboid amplifies the electromagnetic pulse.

It surrounds the bed, so we can cover the brain and entire spinal cord.

It could change the field of medicine forever.

With the Medicuboid's specs,

we could add a camera to show the patients in AR in real-time.

That sounds like a fantastic breakthrough.

Yes.

I agree wholeheartedly.

But it is unable to treat the underlying illness.

As such, it is expected to have

the greatest impact in terminal care.

Terminal care?

Treatment for patients with terminal illnesses.

Terminal...

Yuuki-kun told me that if you wished to hear, I'd inform you in full about her situation.

But she also said that you might come to regret it.

I won't.

Please continue.

I didn't come here to close my eyes and ears.

Yuuki-kun came into this world in May 2011.

Hers was a difficult birth, so her mother needed a C-section.

At the time, she was given a blood transfusion.

Unfortunately, the blood she received was infected with a virus.

It was detected in September

during a routine post-transfusion test for her mother.

Regrettably, by that time her entire family had already...

Special Measurement Devices Lab One

Here we are.

On the other side of the glass here is an air-controlled sterile room, so you can't go inside.

I hope you understand.

Yuuki...

Doctor, what is she ill with?

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

AIDS.

AIDS isn't as terrifying a disease as many think.

If detected early on, proper treatment can delay the onset of symptoms for many years.

But the particular strain she was infected with is resistant to drugs.

Yuuki-kun's mother despaired for her children's future,

and at times she even contemplated murder-suicide.

In the end, she decided to continue fighting for her life.

To keep fighting...

Yes.

Yuuki-kun started multi-drug therapy as soon as possible.

But such a harsh treatment regimen is difficult for a young child.

Not to mention the drugs' side effects.

And it's my understanding she suffered from prejudice as well.

Regardless, Yuuki-kun and her family continued to have hope, and she managed as best she could.

She was only in fourth grade when her immune system rapidly deteriorated.

In other words, that marked the onset of full-blown AIDS, and she was hospitalized here.

But through it all, Yuuki-kun never stopped smiling.

Doctor,

why did she decide on Medicuboid treatment?

The timing coincided with the height of public panic about the NerveGear incident.

That's when the first Medicuboid prototype was completed.

But there wasn't any patient to test it. The long-term effects of the electromagnetic pulses,

which are several times stronger than the NerveGear's, were unknown.

Nobody was willing to take the risk of this new, experimental treatment.

When I first heard of it,

I made Yuuki-kun and her parents a proposal.

If she agreed to be the first,

I could keep her in a sterile room,

greatly reducing her chances of infection.

At times, I still wonder if it was really for the best.

Yuuki-kun and her parents spent a long time mulling the decision.

Her desire to explore the unknown in new virtual worlds was likely the deciding factor.

Ultimately, she agreed, making her the first patient to ever try it.

Yuuki-kun has spent her days with the Medicuboid ever since.

This whole time?

Yes, that's right.

Yuuki-kun rarely stops treatment, returning to the real world.

As we speak right now, she's relying on the Medicuboid to cancel out and assuage her pain.

So she's been diving the entire time?

For all...

...three years, yes.

A full year longer than we did?

A product of the FullDive environment itself.

That's the impression I got.

Thank you so much...

for letting me see Yuuki.

Yuuki is safe here, right?

Even a sterile room

does not neutralize the bacteria and viruses already in her system.

So...

Yuuki-kun's condition is terminal.

Perhaps now you can understand why she tried to cut ties with you.

No!

That can't...

Asuna...

I-I...

Leave it to me, Nee-chan!

Doctor... Does Yuuki have a sister?

Hm? Yes, that's right.

A twin sister, in fact.

Her name's Aiko-san.

She'd always be quietly watching over her energetic little sister with a smile on her face.

Actually,

her sister may have been a lot like you.

"May have been"?

Two years ago, Yuuki-kun's parents passed away.

Last year, her sister also left this earth.

Yuuki...

Yuuki!

You shouldn't cry, Asuna!

Yuuki! Yuuki!

Can you see me?

Sure can,

through the camera lens and video feed, Asuna.

Wow.

You look almost exactly like you do in-game.

Thanks a bunch for coming.

Yuuki, I...

I...

Doctor, please let her use the adjacent room.

Go ahead.

The Amusphere I always use to talk with her is in there.

Right!

ALO is on the system app launcher.

As soon as you get logged in, go to where we first met.

One last time...

I want to see you one last time!

Then I can tell you what I've really been meaning to say!

Yuuki!

Yuuki!

Yuuki...

I'm not sure why,

but I had a feeling that you'd be able to find me.

But I hadn't said anything about my whereabouts,

so I figured it was impossible.

Somehow, you found me anyway.

It's rare for my dreams to come true.

I'm so happy.

You smell like my sister did when she hugged me.

Just like the sun.

Aiko-san?

Did she also play VRMMOs?

Yeah.

She was the founder and leader of the Sleeping Knights.

She was way, way stronger than me.

She met Siune and the others online in Selene Garden, a virtual hospice.

We started out with nine members.

But my sister, Clovis, and Merida

have all passed away.

We decided that after the next person's time,

we would disband the Knights.

Asuna, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you the truth before.

The Sleeping Knights isn't disbanding in the spring because we'll be too busy to keep playing the game.

The real reason is that two of our members have been told they have only three months left.

That's why we wanted so bad to make one last memory together in this wonderful world.

We decided we'd better leave our names on that huge monument as proof that we were really here.

We wanted to have an incredible adventure we could brag about to my sister and everyone.

But it wasn't really working out.

So we tried finding someone who could help us.

That's how we ended up dragging you into all this bother.

Sorry.

I'm sorry, Asuna.

You can still go back and forget about us.

I can't do that.

I'm so glad I met you, Yuuki, and all your friends,

and that I was able to help.

I still wish I could join the Sleeping Knights.

Yeah.

I'm really happy I was able to come to this world and meet you...

Just hearing those words is enough. More than enough for me.

I couldn't wish for anything more.

No...

Isn't there a lot you still haven't done?

There are all kinds of places in Alfheim you've yet to see.

Including all the other virtual worlds, the possibilities are endless.

Don't say you couldn't wish for any more.

The last three years,

we've had tons of adventures in a bunch of different worlds.

I'd like the last page in the book to be about the one I had with you.

Don't you have things you want to do or places you want to see?

Yeah, I guess so.

I want to go to school.

S-School?

Sorry, I know that's crazy!

I'm so happy you're asking and all.

But really, I don't need anything more.

I think you just might...

You might be able to go to school!

The street lights cast a glow on cheerful laughter

Machi akari terashita nigiyaka na warai goe to

And footprints in the back-alley

Rojiura no ashiato

I wonder how much you understood of the feelings

Tsutae tai omoi wa

I've always wanted to convey to you

Dore dake todoi tan darou

I always turn around to you and make sure

Itsumo furi muite tashikameru

Because no matter how I am,

Itsu datte mayowazu

I believe you'd always chase after me without any hesitation

Kimi wa kitto donna boku mo oikakete kureru kara

When I gazed at your eyes, I saw the proof that I've lived

Jitto mitsumeta kimi no hitomi ni utsutta boku ga ikita shirushi

Whenever my heartbeat was about to stop,

Nando mo togire souna kodou

You made it ring out very, very loudly

Tsuyoku tsuyoku narashita

I want to go far beyond today

Kyou wo koete mitainda

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