Nishida

Nishida is one of the oldest players in Sword Art Online. In the game, he is a fisherman, but in reality, he works at Tohto Broadband Connection, which is a network operator company that runs the game. He was in charge 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 strenghth to pull the god out pf the water. A mishap leads Asuna to fight against the god, and she kills it, but not efore 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.