Nishida

Nishida is one of the 10,000 players who were trapped in Sword Art Online and one of the oldest. In the game, he is a fisherman, but in reality, he works for the Tohto Broadband Connection, a network operator company that runs SAO. He was in charge of maintaining the network connection before being trapped in the game.

Sword Art Online
Kirito, on a failed attempt to fish at a lake, meets Nishida on the twenty-second floor of Aincrad. The swordsman invites the elder to his and his new wife's home, where Nishida meets Asuna. At the couple's house, he mentions that the lake Kirito was fishing in had the local god, which takes a form of a fish. Kirito says he would like to take up the challenge, so soon, Nishida and Kirito goes to he lake while Asuna waits on the shore. Nishida first gives the bait to the fish, then Kirito switches out to use his strength to pull the god out of the water. A mishap leads Asuna to fight against the god, and she kills it, but not before revealing her identity as the sub-leader of the «Knights of the Blood». Kirito recieves a fishing rod monster drop from killing the monster, which he gives to Nishida as a gift.