Nanairo Arshavin

Seven (セブン) is a new game-original character featured in the game adaptation Sword Art Online: Lost Song. Seven's ALfheim Online (ALO) avatar is a Pooka. Her real-life name is Professor Nanairo Alsharvin (アルシャービン).

Background
Professor Nanairo is an MIT alumna from Russia who has appeared in the news as a wonder scientist. She is researching the formation of virtual societies within online networks and is the leader and most conspicuous member of the «Shamrock» guild, though de facto leadership of the guild has been assumed by Sumeragi.

On top of her real life career as a scientist, Seven presents herself as a singing idol in the virtual world, and her songs promote peace. According to her fans, she writes the lyrics to her own music.

In moments involving Kazuto and Suguha in the real world, while she is being interviewed on television, she revealed her admiration for the achievements Kayaba Akihiko made when he created Aincrad; however, she stated that this did not justify the incident he caused. When speaking alone with Kirito, she mentioned that she wanted to play Sword Art Online (SAO) but was not able to. Despite the crimes Kayaba had committed, she wanted to use his idea for virtual reality as a springboard for her own research, as she desired to see where the players of VRMMO games want virtual reality's future to be, despite the division of races in ALfheim Online.

Lost Song
Soon after Kirito and friends logged into ALO, which had recently been updated, word about Seven's popularity and fame spread throughout town. She was first spotted by Kirito and others when she and Sumeragi entered the town plaza and were immediately surrounded by fans, some begging to join Shamrock. Her cuteness eventually won over Klein, who become one of her fans as well.

Seven made her first major appearance in the story when she bumped into Kirito in town while trying to hide from Sumeragi, after the rest of his party logged out for the day. Seven started to seek out Kirito to talk with him more, all the while still being followed by her fellow Shamrock members and Sumeragi. When the two met at Agil's shop, Kirito asked Agil to keep the fact he met her a secret from the others for the time being. Seven and Kirito enjoyed talking with each other, and Kirito started to learn more about how her research stemmed from Akihiko's work with Aincrad.

When asked by Kirito if she knew Rain at the time she was dismissed from Shamrock, Seven claimed that she had not met her. Seven later made an appearance at Kirito's group's party after defeating the boss at Flosshilde, and Seven met Rain in person, lightly punishing her for her reasons for joining Shamrock via deception.

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