"Happy New Year!"
Kirito, Leafa, Liz, and Silika wished everyone a happy New Year together.
"Happy New Year!"
Luo Zhen, Asuna, and Yui returned the greeting and wished everyone a happy New Year as well.
With Luo Zhen and Asuna's arrival, the entire guild became even livelier than before, and the cheerful atmosphere continued to rise.
Just as Yui had said, Luo Zhen and Asuna were the guild's president and vice president respectively. Luo Zhen in particular was the spiritual pillar of everyone in the guild, even an object of faith. Whenever they saw him appear, everyone instinctively felt reassured.
Thus, the arrival of the two finally gave the guild the true vitality of the New Year.
Luo Zhen and Asuna greeted everyone one by one.
Then, as guild president, Luo Zhen paid out of his own pocket and handed every member a New Year's gift of money. This immediately provoked cheers from everyone, and one guild player after another shouted, "Long live the guild president!" The atmosphere rose another level.
The treatment of the "Red Wings" had always been the best in all of ALO, which was also why they were powerful enough to rival the Nine Races.
However, Kirito and Leafa did not receive any New Year's money.
That was because Luo Zhen had already generously given each of them a large red envelope in the real world, filled with actual money. The two had been grinning from ear to ear earlier, so naturally they did not care about Yurut in the game and merely stood to the side, smiling along with everyone else.
Luo Zhen had asked about it, at least.
"What about Xing, Klein, and Agil?"
Among all their friends, it seemed that only those three were missing.
Naturally, they had not been absent without reason.