It was October 30th, me and my two friends, Esteban and Cristian, have been waiting in line for a day. We were waiting for the long awaited mmorpg Sword Art Online. We lived in Japan since we were 16. We wanted to study technology here since it's very advanced. But during our time off we binge play video games. Now we've been playing games since the oculus rift and holy shit we were pumped up for the nervegear. We waited in line for a few more hours. We were able to buy nervegears and Sao for about 21000 Yen. Multiply that by 3. That's how much we spent, we ran our asses home. We set it up, in my room I looked in the mirror and couldn't help but smile, I was about to go into a video game... I kept my glasses on and put the nervegear on, after the calibration tests, I was lying on my DxRacer chair with it reclined. I saw the time: 13:00 31/10/2024. I closed my eyes... "LINK START!" I logged in and I was at a character creation menu, I made my username "Rin", Esteban said his was "Kaiba" and Cristian said his was "Bacchus" for some weird ass reason. I made mine a male and made it look like me as much as possible, aside from glasses. I messaged the guys and told them I'm going to the market. There was signs leading to different areas. I bought myself a one-handed sword and some potions, I wasn't dying my first day full-dive! I headed toward the field, and I saw a boar. I unsheathed my blade and swung it in the air a couple times to get used to it. I ran towards the boar, I hit it but it blocked it with its horns. It then charged at me but I dove away and stabbed its side using a sword skill. I jumped in joy "YESSSSSSS!" We all planned to meet at the south gate at 4 so I wanted to train as much as possible. It was 2:30. I decided to slaughter 6 more boars and then headed back to town as it was a 15 minute walk, I killed any monster in my way, gaining more col. By the time I got back I had 12000 col, "holy shit..." I said to myself as I was surprised. I went to the south gate and made it by... I looked at my menu, 3:55, first person there. At 4 they showed up. I looked at Cristian "so what's the plan?"

"I don't know, Esteban what do you think?"

"I say hunt and try out some more skills to practice"

"I've been practicing, look I got 12k col."

"Dude wow, Cristian look!"

"I see that"

Esteban looks down embarrassed and says "I'm having trouble fighting..."

Cris and I offer to help him and we do, we run into this dude called Kirito who was a beta tester and gave us tips along with this guy named Klein. Around 5:30 we get forcefully teleported. I look around and mumble "what the fuck...?!" To myself as everyone else is speaking. You guys know what happened next, many players spoke of it. I pulled "Kaiba" and "Bacchus" away and led them to the markets. "KAIBA GET FOOD, BACCHUS GET POTIONS, ILL GET US CRYSTALS"

We were all in a panic... We ran to the next town and I found us an inn where we slept for the next week. A month later we found the boss dungeon and you know how that went, Kirito decided to pair up with some girl but he probably didn't see us invite him over. During the boss fight I helped Agil fend it off while Kirito healed and I almost died.

End chapter one