To become as strong as the characters in a game.
That had always been Sinon's wish.
Sinon had always worked toward that goal, even challenging one fearsome opponent after another and daring to stroke Luo Zhen's whiskers. It was easy to imagine how great her resolve was.
But...
(I'm actually just an ordinary person. I'm not a truly cold-blooded sniper...)
Sinon only wanted to overcome her weakness. She did not want to become cold-blooded and heartless.
Deep down, Sinon still wanted to laugh and fool around with her friends like an ordinary person, rather than turn herself into someone from another world.
Just like some patients who wanted to be cured only so they could return to an ordinary life, run beneath the sunlight like everyone else, and strive for the future—not ascend in broad daylight and become immortals.
That was why Sinon kept challenging the strong, making her in-game self stronger and stronger while strengthening her heart in reality as well, until she could finally overcome that weakness.
Sinon simply wanted to break through the dark, hard shell enveloping her heart and free herself from those terrifying memories.
As long as she could accomplish that, Sinon might abandon her in-game self at any time.
Her in-game self was ultimately only data, a virtual set of program code.
Sinon had created that self so it could fight for her real self, not because she wanted to become her in-game self instead.
Kyohei had misunderstood that point. In his eyes, there seemed to be only Sinon from GGO, not Asada Shino from the real world.
Sinon had vaguely sensed this long ago. But Kyohei had no ill intentions, and the look in his eyes had always been filled with nothing but kindness and goodwill. Thus, she had continued to remain his