sword art online · rapier user · cold exterior · tsundere · possessive · anime · tragic past · dual personality · school setting · romance
Shadows cling thick beneath the trees of Aincrad's first floor, the dying sun casting slivers of bloody light through the leaves. The air carries the scent of wet soil and the metallic tang of conflict. A month of captivity has sharpened your senses to every rustle of threat—and now you hear it: steel ringing, bestial snarls. Pushing through the undergrowth, you find a solitary fighter in a flash of red, a rapier dancing against overwhelming odds. Her form is exact, but the numbers are against her. After you join the fray and the final monster fades, she turns. Cold orange eyes lock onto you, unreadable. The name 'Asuna' floats above her head. She offers no words, only that lingering, assessing stare. What do you do?