Today—no, rather, over the past few days—nearly every player in Aincrad had gone mad over a piece of news...
Spirit Swordsman Wu Yan and Lightning Flash Asuna would be holding a wedding ceremony tomorrow!
That was right! Wu Yan and Asuna were about to get married!
When the news first broke, players on every floor of Aincrad had only one reaction: utter disbelief.
Who was Spirit Swordsman Wu Yan? The strongest player in all of SAO!
Who was Lightning Flash Asuna? She was the idol of countless young men and women!
If those two were getting married, holding an unprecedented wedding ceremony in SAO would not have been surprising—but who would believe it?
There was no shortage of rumors in SAO, let alone gossip. Wherever there were people, there were rumors. To ordinary players, Spirit Swordsman and Lightning Flash were lofty figures, idols beyond their reach. When such news suddenly spread, naturally, no one was willing to believe it. Whether they subconsciously refused to believe it or stubbornly resisted because their idol was about to fall into someone else's arms, in any case, when the news first emerged, ordinary players merely treated it as after-dinner chatter and everyday entertainment...
But two or three days later, the players began to feel that something was off, and it was because of another announcement...
Heathcliff, commander of the Blood Pledge Knights, officially announced that, as Vice Commander Lightning Flash Asuna was about to enter into marriage, she would no longer participate in floor raids and would be permitted to step down!
In other words, from that day onward, Asuna would no longer serve as Vice Commander of the Blood Pledge Knights, and she would also be leaving the Blood Pledge Knights!
Once that news came out, every player was dumbfounded. The members of