Extraordinary Ordinary Days

Extraordinary Ordinary Days is a short manga-format side-story, from the point of view of Lisbeth. It was written by Kawahara Reki, under the pen-name "Kunori Fumio", and drawn by Kurusu Tatsuya, under the pen-name "ponz.info".

Summary
The story starts at Lisbeth's Smith Shop in Lindas on the 48th Floor, where Lisbeth is in the middle of creating a sword, when Asuna walks in to greet her. Lisbeth casually greets her, and Asuna says that she should try to act more cute, and enthusiastically greet her customers. Lisbeth decides to try this out, and cheerfully greets the next person who happens to enter her shop after Asuna. This happens to be Kirito, and Lisbeth quickly becomes embarrassed. Asuna, Kirito, Nishida, and Klein all came to Lisbeth's shop in order to purchase fishing rods, so they could go fishing.

Kirito realizes that a Fishing rod is considered a weapon by the system, as demonstrated when Nishida uses a «Sword Skill» with a fishing rod. Lisbeth points out to the group that she would only be able to make a metal fishing rod, and asks what kind of fish would they be going after, with such strong fishing rods. Nishida quickly looks up lakes with large fishes, and suggests a large sea-serpent from the 32nd Floor.

Lisbeth then smiths the 4 fishing rods for the group, and hands them to Asuna (which claims they are heavy). Nishida pays Lisbeth for her service with 1000 «Col», along with a Jade dropped by a "Lord of a River" from a lower floor. He suggests that she take it to an artisan to craft it into an accessory. She happily accepts his gift (wishing Kirito and Klein were as courteous).

Asuna invites Lisbeth to a party they'll be having later that day, with the fish they capture, while Klein and Kirito competitively bicker about fishing, Kirito saying that he's trained his Fishing Skill a lot. The group of four eventually leave to go fish, and leave Lisbeth to return to her work.

Trivia

 * This story was published in, "Sword Art Online: Lisbeth Edition", with the side-story, "Sound of Water, Sound of Hammer".
 * Likely non-canon, as after Nishida learned of who Kirito and Asuna were, the two were called back to the front-lines, before beating the game, so these events could not have occurred within the given time-line.

Extraordinary Ordinary Days