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    Summary

    Haunted by guilt and bullied by her unempathetic peers, Asada Shino, survivor of armed assault and accidental killer in self-defence copes with her social isolation online as famed and skilled GGO veteran Sinon. However, her mask comes with the price of little in the way of friendship and her fame (and gender, and looks) come with harassment that combined leave her feeling deserted by girls and contemptuous of boys and men. This leaves her with little time to worry about sex or romance with one gender that seems to hate her and one she seems to hate, an almost welcome distraction from the fact that she struggles to get to grips with her attraction to both

    Until she meets the new girl to her online domain, Kirito, who starts to first reopen her reflection on her sexuality, then as she gets to know them more, shatters that reflection with an endless stream of questions, and reignites an internal debate about what friendship is and what she needs from it.

    Just when she thinks she has found her level of comfort in love and friendship, things get at least twice as complicated when Kirito introduces her to their "old friend from SAO", the beautiful Asuna...

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