A Spot of Sunshine in the Winter

A side story about Silica set on New Year's Eve.

Summary
Silica fulldives into ALO after having an argument with her parents because despite they agreed to visit her grandparents for New Year, she wanted to stay in home, so her parents left her.

She logs in and enters Kirito and Asuna's house along with Pina, she checks if there's someone but doesn't find anyone, until Pina flies off her and lands on Kirito, who's sleeping. He wakes up and she asks why is he logged in, and he answers that he wants to prove the Excaliber he just got against Eugene. Kirito asks Silica why she logged on and she explained that she didn't want to go to her grandparent's house because she didn't want to talk to her cousins about the Sword Art Online incident as she disliked the way they looked at her when she spoke about it. Silica then says she's scared that their situation might change and one day she may be separated from Kirito and her friends. Silica then takes a deep breath and asks Kirito to a New Year's Eve date at Ikebukuro in the real world and after some argument he agrees.

Trivia
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 * This story was published in, "Sword Art Online: Silica Edition," with the side-story, "The Final Promise".