Civilization Guardian Front

Tomorrow Nai suddenly came to the spirit.

"Riding around the hills of the vineyard with a pretty girl like you."

"Hey?"

The moment she heard the young man's answer, Asuna opened her eyes.

Her fair face was stained with a drunken blush at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Chios pursed his lips, looked at the girl tenderly with a smile, and continued to talk nonsense:

"Although sharing a horse is also kind of romantic, but I know that you are not the kind of girl who likes to rely on others blindly. Even if you really want to do that, it is because you want to act like a baby to someone, not because you have no choice."

"~~~"

Asuna put down the hojicha bottle, put her hands on the table, buried her face that was about to erupt from steam, and hummed out a thin and weak moan in a nasal voice.

After a while, the girl raised her head slightly, revealing her shining eyes, and stared at the young man sitting across from her.

As her cherry lips were still pressed against the sleeve of the sweater, her voice was a little husky:

"Teacher, you are always sneak attacking, and you often say such words that penetrate people's hearts. Sooner or later, a girl will hold a knife and force you to take responsibility."

"Are you talking about yourself?"

"I mean other people who have been treated like this by you!"

Hearing this, Chios shrugged seriously, and replied with a relaxed face:

"That's great, I'm safe now."

"Liar..."

Asuna couldn't believe it.

Just the teacher's face can make many women go crazy, plus family background, ability, and the most terrifying words...

Maybe in the teacher's hometown, there are countless girls who have fallen under his charm for a long time, weeping and missing him.

Ugh...

What should I do in the future?

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In the two-hour course, Chios systematically taught Asuna the basic knowledge and skills of approaching, leading the horse, getting on and off the horse, sitting posture, moving forward, stopping, turning, hitting waves, pressing waves, pushing waves...etc.

In a 30-45 minute riding class, beginners can generally at least learn to adjust the body to sit up and ride waves according to the horse's pace, so as to walk slowly or fast, and there are not a few people who ride a horse and run for the first time.And Asuna Naben has a good sense of balance and coordination, and his comprehension is good enough, and he can learn much faster than most people.

This is naturally related to the fact that the horses provided by the racecourse for beginners are gentle, have been trained for a long time and are familiar with the initial process, and are easy to control.

Such obedient mounts are difficult to obtain, especially in a place where horses are widely used as travel mounts, war mounts, or agricultural animals. Few people are willing to devote a lot of time to mental training, and the value cannot be measured simply by money. sale.

Chios is currently unable to make an accurate judgment on the situation on the battlefield he is about to go to.But only based on the conjectures deduced from the existing information, after entering the world of black souls, there will probably no longer be such venues and horses specially adapted for beginners.

By then, the cost of mastering the ride will likely multiply.

If you are unlucky, you may be thrown off and disabled during the learning process, or even trampled to death by a horse's hoof.

Sooner or later, Asuna had to learn how to take care of and cultivate her own mount.

But the most important thing now is undoubtedly to make her familiar with the feeling on horseback as soon as possible and become a qualified beginner rider.

Therefore, for the details of each movement and posture of Asuna Nai, Chios teaches extremely rigorously, and requires repeated practice to strengthen muscle memory, so as to prevent students from developing bad habits to the greatest extent.

Any key knowledge and experience absorbed now will become the capital for students to survive in that cruel world in the future.

For Asuna, Chios turned into an unreasonable devil instructor overnight.

It is completely different from the way of teaching her the day before yesterday when she was relaxed and relaxed in golf, and occasionally had some ambiguous physical contact during the process. Except for going to the toilet, she was not allowed to leave the horseback for rest and drinking water. Each pause was limited to 1 minute. To continue training.

It was as if she wanted to pour the content of the ten lessons that ordinary people had given into her limbs and brain in the shortest possible time. It was so severe that it was frightening.

By the end of the class, her sore legs and waist were almost exhausted.

Being carried off the horse and put into the passenger seat of the sports car, holding the hand of the young man beside him who has returned to his usual gentle temperament, surrounded by the beautiful light music playing on the stereo, Asuna quickly couldn't resist the drowsiness and closed his eyes that were gradually increasing.

"...hiss...hoo..."

Hearing the girl's thin and regular breathing, Chios pressed the function key on the steering wheel to lower the speaker output volume.

"Thank you for your hard work..."

he whispered.

Lighten the accelerator and keep within the speed limit, Chios drove the SF90 Spider smoothly back to downtown Tokyo.

Thirty minutes later...

Parking in the parking lot near Tokyo Bay in Shinagawa District, Chios sent a message to Kyoko Yuki, telling her that today's class was over, and he planned to send Asuna home after having dinner in the city.

It didn't take long for Chios to receive a reply from the student's parents agreeing.

After waking up Asuna who was sleeping soundly in the passenger seat, after explaining the situation, he helped the girl whose legs were still sore, and walked into a high-end American restaurant with good reviews that he had just found on the Internet.

The waiters and customers in the store cast strange glances at them.

immediately...

The eyes that implied condemnation and admiration coincidentally fell on Chios.

After all, the young girl who limped and limped while holding his arm and walked forward in small steps, with a clear and beautiful face showing obvious fatigue, frowning from time to time as if she was enduring physical discomfort...

It really looked like he had tasted the forbidden fruit for the first time and was tortured severely by his boyfriend.

Everyone secretly blamed the young people for not being sympathetic to the cruelty of "destroying flowers with hot hands".

"Teacher, what's wrong with these people?"

Asuna asked in a low voice.

She has no relevant experience, of course she doesn't understand what kind of misunderstanding her current weak state will cause.

"You'll find out later."

Too lazy to explain in words, Chios finished dealing with the students casually, then turned his head to look at the waitress whose complexion changed slightly when she heard the name "teacher".

"Dine for two."

Facing the young man's bewitching gaze, he was still hesitating for a second whether he should call the police, but the nervous waiter immediately calmed down.

"Yes..." She was extremely submissive.

"The two of you please."

Following the waiter's lead into the restaurant, they sat down at the bar where it was convenient for the bartender to make cocktails. After Chios and Asuna finished ordering, they turned their attention to the large screen hanging high on the wall.

Maybe it's because there is nothing worth watching at noon on weekdays, and the TV is broadcasting the news at this time.

"NerveGear, the world's first civilian full-stealth device, which had security concerns, broke out at the beginning of last month, and it has sparked another topic these days..."

In the screen, the anchor raised his hand to signal the projection wall beside him.

The photos of several foreign scholars and their names immediately appeared in front of the audience.

"This Wednesday, a number of heavyweight scholars in the field of electronic information from well-known universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Caltech jointly launched a petition to the White House, demanding that the ban on full stealth and related The administrative order on the development of technical products has caused a huge response on the Internet. In less than three days, more than 80 people have signed the petition. Many supporters of full-dive technology and game enthusiasts from all over the world made posters and organized themselves... 」

It took about 5 minutes to tell the story, and the host then cut to the chase:

"This matter has also caused heated discussions in this country. Can fully submerged equipment be safe? What impact will the virtual world have on our future lives? In this special program, we are honored to invite an authority who studies non-invasive brain-computer interfaces, Professor Shigemura Toruda from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Toto Institute of Technology came to the scene to help us understand, welcome Professor Shigemura!"

oh oh oh...

Wearing rimless glasses, graying hair neatly combed, and a serious-looking middle-aged man with a beard walked into the screen, there was some commotion in the restaurant.

"Why...everyone reacted so excitedly?"

"Of course it's because..." Chios picked up the bartending Negroni on the table and shook it lightly, answering Asuna's question:

"That person is the teacher of Akihiko Kayaba, the designer of the NerveGear device and the SAO game."

"Teacher, are you also paying attention to virtual reality games?"

"certainly."

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Seeing the apparent surprise on Asuna's face, Chios smiled and asked:

"Surprised?"

"Yeah." Asuna nodded in acknowledgment.

In her eyes, a person like Chios who has to take care of double majors and two subjects, and also has to find time to cultivate extracurricular expertise, exercise and fitness, and socializing, and who is going to take over the family business in the future, is just busy with real things. It's not over, there must be no extra time to play games.

It was beyond her expectation that Chios would be interested in virtual reality.

Looking back now, the same is true for my brother Yuki Koichiro.

Even if you have already left the society and have work to do, you still continue to pay attention to the news of Complete Stealth, and subscribe to relevant magazines and periodicals.Last month, I also said that I would buy the "SAO" game device NerveGear, which was mentioned by the TV anchor just now, and the public beta was canceled due to security concerns.

"I don't quite understand, ugh! It's so sour..."

The girl took a sip of the lemon juice she ordered, frowned from the sourness, and quickly swirled the bottom of the cup with a pink straw knotted in the shape of a heart.

While stirring the incompletely dissolved syrup evenly, she couldn't help thinking.

She has received traditional elite education since she was a child, and her views on video games are very similar to her mother's.

That's why I don't understand...

If it weren't for inspiration to make a living as an e-sports player, live broadcast host, etc., no matter how much a person achieves in the game, it will still be of no help to reality.

"Isn't it true that investing a lot of time, energy and even money in the game can only be exchanged for nothing in the end?"

Hearing Asuna's question, Chios actually wanted to answer her "You asked the wrong person".

(Ask people who have already distorted their mentality like me, and they will not get a sincere answer...)

Chios thought self-deprecatingly.

For him, besides being with women, the main pleasure in life is to be superior to others by various means.

Whether it is the real "Earth Online" or the virtual game world, he will use his accumulated knowledge and skills to do everything possible to become the winner at the top of the pyramid.

When he failed, no matter what the process was, it tasted bitter in his mouth.

Suppressing the feeling of nausea and swallowing, it is to remember this unwillingness.

Only winning can make him happy.

However, Chios couldn't tell the truth to Asuna.

He can only use his understanding of the personalities of different people to weave a sufficiently convincing argument.

"Isn't it an interesting choice to pass the time occasionally, see a different world, and experience another life without the shackles of the real world?"

There was a slight pause in the conversation, and Chios picked up the rock cup and sipped the classic concoction based on spirits, with the aroma of herbs and the sweetness of orange peel.

When the previous words began to ferment in the student's heart, he slowly put down his wine glass as if satisfied, and continued:

"Without the surname, I am no longer expected, no longer the "Asuna Yuuki" who was destined to embark on the path of elites since childhood, and I live only as "Asuna (Asuna)", What kind of life will you lead?Do you dare to say that you have never been curious? "

"!?" Asuna's pupils shrank suddenly.

The young man sitting next door seemed to be careless, and the few rhetorical questions he asked lightly were like thunder on the ground, breaking the stillness of the lake in her heart and stirring up waves.

Nah...

Canary, don't you long for freedom?

Even the illusory freedom is better than living in this cage for the rest of your life, right?

...

2023年01月08日，9：13

The doors of the tram opened, and the crowds packed into the carriage poured out like a dam opening.

step, step...

The boy in the gray-black brushed jacket was pushed and shoved by the torrent, and stumbled onto the station platform.

Stepping steadily, he raised his neck that had been drooping before, revealing his slender features hidden under the shadow of bangs, like a girl's face, and his eyes fell on the advertising billboard in front of him.