After settling this one, Asuna prepared to find the next. With her hands on her hips, she left Lisbeth's hospital room and headed for the next room.
Mizumoto Chizuru and Usagisawa Misumi looked at each other. Mizuhara Chizuru, especially, tilted her head in confusion and asked, "Why is she so fired up?"
Usagisawa Misumi spread her hands. "Who knows?"
Once outside, Asuna quickly found Argo the Rat's hospital room.
People who had stayed in Aincrad were actually quite easy to find, since they had all been placed in the same hospital, where they were being collectively protected and treated at Maruo Nakano's hospital.
So after asking around a little, Asuna learned which room Argo was in.
Asuna shoved the door open—and did it violently enough that the entire room shook.
It gave Argo the Rat, who was secretly eating cookies inside, quite a scare. Her cookie even fell to the floor, and her face was covered in crumbs.
Asuna had just been about to speak when she saw Argo the Rat secretly filling her stomach with a cookie worth only fifty yen. Her brow immediately furrowed.
"You're eating that?"
"You're hospitalized right now. Shouldn't you be eating something better to build yourself back up?"
Argo the Rat rolled her eyes dramatically. She picked up the cookie that had fallen on the floor, dusted it off, stuffed it into her mouth, and started eating it.
As she ate, she said, "You think I don't want to eat something better? My family's poor. We can't afford it... If this hospital hadn't waived all medical fees because of the game incident, I wouldn't even be able to afford staying here."
From just those few words, Asuna roughly understood Argo the Rat's family situation. Sighing, she quickly walked over to her bed and plopped