Eat First? Or Bathe First?...

Today was not a peaceful day...

If anyone had been in a hospital at that moment, or somewhere nearby, they would have found that the hospitals around them had become as bustling as a marketplace, unlike usual.

Uproar erupted incessantly from every corner of the hospitals, nearly blowing the roofs off. Noise, shouts, footsteps, crying—every kind of sound mixed together and rang out across a hundred-meter radius around each hospital. One could only imagine just how lively those hospitals had become that day!

Passersby and residents living near the hospitals gazed curiously in their direction, seemingly trying to guess what had happened inside. Those who were already in the hospitals began running around, searching for anyone who knew the details, hoping to learn the reason from them.

Once they learned how it had all begun from others, they immediately became part of the uproar themselves, raising the atmosphere in those hospitals by several more levels.

Just moments ago, in every hospital, the victims trapped in the 'SAO' game—those who had survived and were undergoing treatment—had awakened! Three years ago, the incident in which ten thousand 'SAO' players had been trapped in the world of 'SAO' had become a terrifying criminal case known throughout the country. If they died in the game, those victims in the real world would die as well. Now, the six thousand surviving players had finally awakened today!

This was an event more than enough to shake countless people across the nation!

The 'SAO' players who occupied so many hospital beds had lain there for three whole years, receiving treatment for three years as well. Calling it treatment was not quite accurate; it would have been more fitting to say they were merely being kept alive by nutrient delivery equipment. They could have died at any moment,