Kirito, I'll Take Care of Your Wife and Daughter...

There was no icon above Yui, so she naturally wasn't some bug!

The reason she had no icon was because Yui was neither a player nor an NPC, let alone a monster. She was an artificial intelligence in 'SAO,' a consultation AI program responsible for maintaining the players' mental health!

In other words, Yui wasn't human!

Wu Yan rubbed his brow and looked down at Yui on the bed, falling into thoughtful contemplation.

As a consultation AI, Yui had originally existed to interact with players, help them resolve psychological issues, and deal with negative emotions. However, when 'SAO' had turned into a death game, Yui had been stripped of her authority to proactively contact players.

She was essentially a psychologist, yet she had been deprived of the authority to contact players. As the contradiction between having an obligation but no power to fulfill it accumulated, the AI had finally malfunctioned, leaving the place where she had always existed and appearing in the outside world!

In the original story, the game had caused the players to develop countless negative emotions, while Kirito and Asuna had emitted powerful positive emotions. That had attracted the confused Yui, causing her to wander around them until Kirito and Asuna found her. Although Wu Yan wasn't Kirito, he held no negative resentment toward 'SAO.' As for Asuna, she might have had some in the past, but now that she was married to Wu Yan, she no longer viewed the world through tinted glasses. She had truly begun to enjoy life, and with Wu Yan by her side, negative emotions naturally no longer existed.

Yui's appearance on the twenty-second floor was probably just like in the original story—she had been drawn here by intense positive emotions. Only this time, Kirito had been replaced by Wu Yan...

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