I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

“Meow, meow, meow!”

It's not just that he doesn't want other people to hear this topic, but also because he saw Asuna chasing Imi, who had turned into a cat, around the room. This usually happens when Asuna wants to take her to take a bath.

"Yui, help mom catch her!"

"it is good."

Yui held the cardboard box that Asuna gave to Yimi to play with and accurately caught the kitten jumping in the air.

"Don't go too far, or she'll get angry and hide under the bed and ignore you again."

Kirito reminded.

Asuna is particularly obsessed with bathing. When they first met on the lower level, delicious food might not attract her, but she would stop immediately when she heard about bathing facilities, even though they didn't actually have any physical bodies.

"Old Wu! Old Wu!"

Being held on Asuna's shoulders, Yimi was still cursing at Yui.

Traitor, I will never play with you again.

"sorry."

Yui clasped her hands together and apologized.

"If she doesn't want to wash, don't force her. Besides specific terrains, this world has a vague concept of dirt and mess anyway."

Kirito pulled up a chair and sat down.

"Meow meow."

With a sound of agreement, Yimi broke free from Asuna's shoulder, jumped onto Kirito's legs, and pressed his chest with her front paws.

Kirito: "..."

Yui came over and wanted to apologize to her, but Yimi turned her back to her and licked her messy fur.

Asuna held Yimi in her arms again and patted her back to comfort her: "I just want to take a bath together as a family and enjoy a brief warm moment."

"Including me?"

Kirito pointed at himself.

"Are you dreaming?"

Asuna blushed.

As for things like mixed bathing, at least get the two girls away first.

"We are a family."

Kirito sat down in silence, then suddenly said, "Asuna, let's get married."

"Eh?"

"Can't you?"

"Of course, idiot. But it's too sudden. Shouldn't we choose a better occasion for this?"

Asuna kept standing on tiptoe, and she also noticed that Yimi and Yui were staring at them intently.

Yimi stretched out her claws to grab Yui: "Your father and your mother are getting married."

"..."

"and."

"and?"

Under Kirito's confused gaze, Asuna began to sob with her hands covering her face.

"Hey?"

Kirito quickly grabbed Asuna's hand.

Was she really that moved? Or had Asuna actually been waiting for her to say this?

"sorry."

Asuna suddenly hugged Yimi and Yui, who had turned back into human form, with her left and right hands, and these three words were accompanied by a clear tremor.

Although SAO's facial expressions cannot be reproduced one-to-one, they are extremely detailed, and the tearful and sad look is definitely not fake.

"Mother?"

Yui raised her hand in confusion and wiped her face with her sleeve.

Kirito understood what she meant, lowered his head and remained silent.

"If Mommy told you that one day we would leave you, would you be angry?"

Compared to reality, she really prefers life here, but this moment is destined not to last.

“Asuna…”

Kirito was about to say something but stopped himself and could only put his hand on her shoulder.

"leave?"

Yimi glanced blankly at the system reorganization progress.

38%

Usually it was Maomao who told others that she was leaving, but this was the first time someone had said that to her.

The cat was turned upside down!

Asuna controlled her emotions and looked at them both sadly. "Mom and Dad... No, everyone is working hard to leave this world and leave you behind."

……

……

Getting married is not a complicated process. Just like in real life, there is no need for a wedding. As long as they go through the systematic procedures, their relationship can be considered as husband and wife.

Ever since Yimi brought Yui back, Yimi, who had been sleeping with Asuna, was arranged to sleep with Yui.

"Don't bring that thing to bed."

Yimi pointed at Mr. Crocodile in Yui's hand unhappily.

"Why? Yimi himself is wearing crocodile clothes."

Yui grabbed Mr. Crocodile and swung him left and right.

This is a toy that Yimi hates, but Asuna gave it to Yui, who likes it very much.

“It’s a dinosaur.”

Yimi pointed at herself and corrected herself.

"Then I won't sleep with Mr. Crocodile in my arms. I'll sleep with you in my arms."

Yui put Mr. Dinosaur down, put her arms around Yimi's neck and rubbed her face against the hood of Dinosaur's pajamas.

Yimi turned around in confusion: "Don't you know Diego?"

"Diego?"

"A terrifying person who travels through the world."

"do not know."

"Well……"

Yimi turned around and looked at Yui: "What is your main mission?"

Because of what Asuna said, and the fact that everyone she met in this world had the same system, she was convinced that everyone in this world could travel through time like her.

"Main quest?"

Yui looked at her in confusion.

"Without a main quest, how can you travel across the world?"

"Don't you know, Yimi?"

Yui's expression was a little lost. "I thought Yimi would know. We are just a program in this game."

"Meow?"

She remembered it from when Yimi used the Love Train on Yui. Although it was only a little bit that could be considered a 'memory', she still remembered that little bit.

As the game's mental state management support program, she was banned after the server was launched and could only remotely observe the players' desperate state but was not allowed to intervene.

32

Chapter 32 Console.

Mental Health Care Auxiliary Program Experiment No. 1, this is Yui's type on the system. As the name suggests, it monitors the player's mental health status and provides timely psychological counseling when necessary.

But at the beginning, Kayaba Akihiko ordered her not to interfere with the players, which resulted in her watching the desperate players lose their minds and self-destruct while she herself collapsed due to program conflicts.

For an AI like her that is endowed with simulated emotions, all her actions may just be simple imitations, including pretending nothing happened after recovering her memory.

Cardinal is the core system of SAO. Its significance is that even if there is no one to maintain it, it can still assess the standards and adjust the balance of items and monster AI and numerical values ​​by itself.

Under its detection, most of the items made by Yimi should not be recognized, let alone the things created later, so after Yui regained her memory, she always believed that Yimi was actually Cardinal himself.

On the one hand, Yimi and the game crashed almost at the same time. On the other hand, Yui could never directly observe Yimi. Except for the time when the game crashed, she could only see Yimi by looking at Kirito and Asuna.

Among the many depressed players, the rare feeling of "happiness" also made her very curious. After finding out the reason, she successfully met Yimi again.

The voice that spoke that day was just trying to talk to Yimi through the bug rift connecting to the Blood Alliance Knights, but such behavior did not seem to be within her authority, so the system crashed due to an error.

Yimi, with her arms around his neck, looked up at the ceiling.

The kitten didn't understand a word she heard. Words like "program" and "maintenance" were not words she should be exposed to at her age.

She put her shoes back on and pointed at Yui: "Don't hide Mr. Crocodile in the bed."

Then he turned and left, wanting to find Asuna and Kirito to ask for clarification.

"What are you thinking about?"

This was the first time Asuna and Kirito had been in the same room since he joined the Knights of the Blood Alliance. After all, it was only today that they had made their relationship clear.

Kirito hesitated for a long time before asking a rather impolite question: "Asuna, does our relationship only exist in the game?"

Marriage in games has never been authoritative.

Asuna pouted. "I'm going to get angry if you ask me that kind of question. Are the tears in the game fake?"

"sorry."

"Then what happens next..."

Asuna took a deep breath and clicked the menu to remove her outer garment.

"Eh? What are you going to do?"

Kirito covered his eyes in panic.

"You're asking me what I want to do? That's obviously why you want to stay in the same room with me today, right?"

Asuna glared at Kirito in shame and anger, because she felt embarrassed by his pretending to be innocent.

This game allows you to remove certain age restrictions in the menu. In other words, you can do those things in the game and get a sense of pleasure...

Of course, she had heard about this from other female members of the guild, but she didn't research it herself out of boredom.

“Asuna…”

"crunch-"

The door lock that was set to prevent others from entering was opened. Yimi looked at them in confusion: "What are you doing?"

"what!"

With a startled cry, Asuna quickly covered herself with the quilt, her eyes wandering: "Mom and Dad are about to go to bed, what's wrong?"

Who are mom and dad?

Yimi put her hands on her hips in dissatisfaction, but Asuna was already lying on the bed, so she walked over and stepped on the leg of Kirito who was still standing.

"..."