Premiere

Premiere (プレミア) is a game adaptation-original character in Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization. Unlike the other main characters, she is a Non-Player Character (NPC), born from the creation of Sword Art: Origin.

Hollow Realization
Premiere was first seen by Kirito among the other players still in town shortly before logging off on the day of the beta opening of Sword Art: Origin. When Kirito tried to reach her, Premiere disappeared into the crowd, after which Kirito received a mysterious message.

The next day, Premiere was encountered by Kirito again, who discovered that she was a quest giving NPC. However, Premiere's quest of bringing her out of town only rewarded one Col on completion. After Yui revealed to everyone that Premiere was an NPC with no original coding telling her how to act, Premiere was given her name by the group and taken under their care until they could learn her original settings.

Same time later on, when Kirito met with Asuna to complete a special event quest, Premiere appeared and silently gave the impression that she wanted them to assist with her quest line, to which they agreed to forgo the special event. Along the way to their destination, they stopped to eat some homemade sandwiches, to which Premiere revealed she was hungry in a sense and enjoyed the food. Then Kirito suggested taking a scenic detour from her usual route, during which they decided to explore a cleared cave. However, upon reaching the end of said cave, they were surprised to see a path existing where the wall should have been. After wondering what could have caused such a change, they proceeded further into the dungeon and defeated a skeleton miniboss before finding themselves in a long hall with a mysterious stone on a pedestal at the end. As they approached the stone, Premiere folded her hands in a praying gesture, whereupon the stone began glowing, which only grew doubly brighter when they directly handed it to Premiere, who simply commented on its beauty. Stunned at the new turn in events, Kirito and Asuna decided that the stone's reaction to Premiere's touch was part of her true quest, and allowed her to take possession of it before returning to the Town of Beginnings to report their findings to everyone else.

When players were misinformed that killing NPCs would earn them great rewards, Premiere was assaulted by another player outside of town, who was only stopped due to the intervention of Kirito and Argo. After this event, Premiere was asked to allow Kirito to protect her, to which she agreed.

Later, while Kirito, Asuna, and Sinon were discussing how to advance Premiere's quest further, Premiere approached them and personally requested Kirito to teach her how to protect herself. After Kirito hesitantly agreed to train her, he took her to the fields outside the Town of Beginnings and showed her how to wield a rapier, though she initially experienced difficulty performing Sword Skills. She offered to terminate the lesson, as it was merely a personal request, but Kirito encouraged her to continue. With a little more persistence, Premiere finally executed a successful Sword Skill, much to her satisfaction, and they moved to practice her techniques on several boars. Afterwards, she was allowed to join Kirito's party in battles outside of town.

Gallery

 * See Premiere/Image Gallery