But in Leafa's eyes, its meaning was completely different.
This man still refused to give up, even after all this...
Why exactly was that?
Some string in Leafa's heart twitched slightly.
Finally, after Akasaka fell from above for the fifty-eighth time and lay there staring blankly at the sky, Leafa walked over and asked:
"Hey, why are you doing something so meaningless?"
Only then did Akasaka notice a blonde, blue-eyed girl walking toward him. She crouched down and looked at him lying on the ground.
Akasaka accidentally caught a glimpse beneath her skirt.
Unfortunately, the game had an anti-peeping patch, so he couldn't see anything—only a blank area where there should have been something.
Akasaka hurriedly got up, dusted himself off, and resumed what he had been doing before: climbing upward. Still, he answered Leafa's question:
"The person most important to me is up there. I have to go see her."
That familiar answer made Leafa freeze. Her Brother had said those exact words before.
Leafa stood up as well, intending to help him. She didn't know why, and neither did she herself.
Akasaka didn't refuse. Instead, a mischievous idea came to him.
The two of them spread their wings at the same time and flew into the sky.
They flew toward the top of the World Tree.
Flapping her nimble, transparent wings, Leafa asked curiously:
"Hey, what exactly are you trying to do?"
Without looking back, Akasaka replied as he flew, "Can you use wind magic?"
This game world was based around magic. If Akasaka remembered correctly, Leafa should have been able to use wind magic.
That's right. From the very first moment he saw Leafa, Akasaka had known she was Kirigaya Suguha—Kirito's Sister.
But Akasaka had no time to think about that. Right now, he only wanted to