"First you'll go through Argo, the short mousey blonde to the left of the table, who'll give you your SAO, ALO, or GGO name. Don't worry about what it means just yet, that'll be explained once everyone's in their gear and I teach you how to line up," Lisbeth explained casually as everyone slowly clambered out of the truck now that she was out of the way. As though they weren't looking at a girl in a pink and red themed close fitting jumpsuit with a white half sleeved halter jacket with a gold hood and knee high boots. Her jacket collar had a series of pins, three shields, two stars, and a large anvil at the very front.

Oh, and did he mention that she had a big ass shield strapped casually to her back and a combat knife strapped to her upper thigh?

Lisbeth's body suit was primarily a darkened hot pink with deep red swatches throughout her sleeves, the inner parts of her thighs and calves and wrapped around her collar which was the shape of a roaring dragon. She had gold trim along her arms, her fingerless gloves, a thin line down her legs and her boots were bright white like some of her back and the base of her hood.

Though for Kazuto, the most distracting part was the unique eye piece over one of her pink hued eyes, since it didn't connect to anything. It just seemed to be connected to her skin rather than the classic eye piece that wrapped around someone's ear.

Still, Kazuto obediently looked over to the left of the tables set out with neat piles of clothes and weapons and shields laid neatly out on the tables beside them.

Where there was indeed a short blonde leaning casually against the corner of the table.

The girl had to be about four-foot-ten and had some kind of claw-like blades sheathed at the holsters at her upper thigh like this Lisbeth girl. Unlike Lisbeth's bright colors however, the short blonde's gear was primarily a muted color midway between brown and tan. She wore a bodysuit too, but hers had the boots integrated into the suit itself with buckles against the tops of her feet and had a bright reflective green stripe down the sides and over most of her chest that tapered off at her stomach.

Her jacket was long unlike Liz and seemed to be built into the front of the jumpsuit with the way her suit only had one zipper at the front yet she had loose material going over her shoulders, curving down toward her sides and flowing of her arms in long semi-mysterious sleeves and a long cape or cloak at her back that went down to her knees. With the jacket was a low hood, the hood nearly hiding her features besides the deep grey whisker-like marks in each of her cheeks, but her eyes gave a mild glow, allowing them to see a bit of her bright green eyes beneath the shadow of her soft green and brown hood.

She was holding a tablet of sorts in one hand with a stylus in the other and Kazuto could see the faint reflections of an eye piece from beneath the girl's hood that, unlike Lisbeth's, wrapped around her ear. The base of her hood had pins like Lisbeth's, but hers were two stars, a knife and a newspaper with two little stars within the pin.

Clearly the pins had meaning, but what did they mean?

"Once you have your name, Ashley, our resident tailor will find which outfit is yours and give it and your pins to you," Lisbeth continued as though this was an every day thing and kept walking. "Then you'll come over to me at the end so I can give you your new weapon or weapons~" She stated casually and picked up one of the semi bland weapons laid out neatly on the tables. "Unfortunately they're not my best work, but hey, a girl's gotta have priorities," she hummed with a laugh and Kirito couldn't put his finger on how familiar it was seeing her casually holding an unsheathed sword across two hands.

"Kazuto?" Sugu whispered and broke Kazuto out of his confusion based staring, "you're staring, is something wrong?"

"Er, no," Kazuto shook his head while the first name was called by Argo, who had a very unique accent to accompany her cheeky sounding voice. "I think I've met that Lisbeth girl before, but I'm not sure…"

"Maybe during one of the moments in time that you can't remember?" Sugu suggested, "but she's not familiar to me so it must've been while you were unconscious and in VR?"

"Maybe…"

Sugu looked over at him with a rather bland expression, "you don't sound very sure, Kazuto."

"That's because I'm not sure," Kirito admitted a bit sheepishly, "I just know she looks very familiar…"

"Cut it out with the flirting! Geez, you'd think that all of the space in your brain is filled up with various ways of flirting!"

"As if you're any better, Liz," Kirito laughed and gave the brunette a nudge, "the only reason you're not flirting is because your girlfriend's over there talking to Caylee."

"Pssh, as if," Lisbeth snorted and gave the boy a shove while her best friend simply rolled her eyes and sighed at the two's banter. "I was over here talking to my best friend before you rudely poked your nose into my business blackie. But if you want…" she raised her voice, "hey Sinon! C'mon over her and give me a kiss, Kirito's being a flirty asshole!"

"Liz, leave the girl alone," Asuna lightly reprimanded her best friend, not that she needed to since Sinon completely ignored her. "You came cause you wanted to swim right? So why're you over here, you goon?"

"I was keeping you company till your boyfriend showed up since you can't swim with your baby sleeping," Lisbeth stated warmly before she added a cheeky wink and took off. "Kay, bye! I wanna see if I can find that oceanic ore!"

"Don't forget to use water breathing potions and that snorkel you engineered!" Asuna hollered after the girl who merely laughed and leaped right into the water, manually shedding her shirt before she hit the water, the cloth dissipating into polygons as it left her fingers. Vanishing into her inventory for safe keeping. "Honestly, that girl," Asuna sighed and got comfortable with the sleeping Yui, who hadn't quite woken up from her nap just yet.

"That's Liz for you," Kirito chuckled and took a seat on the warm sand beside Asuna's shaded spot, "always the bringer of chaos."

"Controlled chaos, but I agree," Asuna chuckled and Kirito smiled at her laughter.

Kirito lurched slightly, a hand flying instantly to his head as pain stabbed violently at the base of his skull.

What was that?

"Kazuto, are you alright?" Sugu quickly stabilized him while he could feel himself shaking. That memory, even if he could only remember bits and pieces of it, it involved his partner, the one he loved and could still feel the empty hole in his heart for her… did Lisbeth know her?

"I… I think…" He spoke hoarsely, shaken, "that Lisbeth knows my missing partner…"

"W-what?"

"Are you alright, Kaz?" Kuroshiro, who seemed to have been the one to do most of the stabilizing, asked in concern, his eyebrows furrowing together in an expression of the emotion.

"Y-Yeah, thanks," Kazuto fumbled through thanking the boy and straightening up in a rush, embarrassment. "I just-"

"Kazuto Kirigaya, Suguha Kirigaya, Kuroshiro Kazuma," Argo suddenly called out, "yer up!"

Did he just hear her stumble almost inaudibly over Kuroshiro's name?