"Can't I?"
At that moment, Naoha was genuinely worried.
"Brother Qing He and Brother Kazuto, honestly. Things are already like this, yet they're still fooling around so much."
That was right—they were just playing.
In Naoha's eyes, the match between Luo Zhen and Kirito was nothing more than play, and it left her feeling utterly helpless.
Although the three siblings had been required to learn kendo at a nearby dojo since elementary school because of their late grandfather, Luo Zhen had never been interested in sports. After learning kendo for a few days at his grandfather's insistence, he promptly gave it up. Kazuto liked keyboards even more than bamboo swords, and under Luo Zhen's influence, he also quit after studying for less than a year. Naoha, who had originally only tagged along with her brothers to watch, was the only one who developed an unusual fondness for the sport and stuck with it until now.
Thanks to that, fifteen-year-old Naoha had already placed among the top eight nationwide in her final middle-school tournament the previous year. By this spring, she had also secured a recommendation and would be attending a school with a renowned kendo club. Her skill in kendo far surpassed that of Luo Zhen and Kazuto.
On top of that, Luo Zhen and Kazuto had loved hiding in their rooms to play games since they were little, unlike Naoha, who had kept up her physical training. To be honest, her two older brothers might not even have been as physically fit as their younger sister.
With all that, and the aftereffects of the SAO incident, Naoha could not help worrying about her brothers. In her eyes, picking up bamboo swords and challenging each other on a whim was simply reckless.
Her concern only grew when she saw the