The story begins with Yui pondering the concept of "love". It is revealed that ten days before, while in ALfheim Online (ALO), a boy had confessed to her. Mistaking that as an attepmt to monopolise her, she had rejected him. The boy, however, explained that his intention was just to finally talk to her before resigning from the game. Later, the confused Yui asked Asuna what the boy had meant, and she replied that Yui should ask him the next time they meet. However, the boy had already deleted his account, thus Yui accessed the account's remaining personal information in the ALO servers and tracked him to his place of residence. Asuna, connected to Yui through the Audiovisual Bidirectional Communication Probe, went to the house, where she discovered that the boy was actually an elderly man, who had taken up a hobby of going into virtual reality games in his last years but had recently passed away. Before his death, the elderly man had mentioned to his adult daughter that he had seemingly met his deceased wife in ALO.
In the end, Yui concluded that the sense of loss was the meaning of love.
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Cover with text from the Remix collection.
Textless cover from the Assemblage collection.
Introduction from the Assemblage collection.
Cover from the redrawn version from the Remix collection.
Cordial Chords (2017, OS BD/DVD) - Distant Journey (2019, Alicization BD/DVD Vol.1) - If We Could Walk Together (2020, Alicization WoU BD/DVD Vol.8) - If You Were Here (2019, Alicization BD/DVD Vol.8) - If You Wish It (2020, Alicization WoU BD/DVD Vol.2) - Rainbow Bridge (2014, Extra Edition BD/DVD) - Sugary Days (2015, Season 2 BD/DVD Vol.5) - Sisters' Prayer (2015, Season 2 BD/DVD Vol.9) - The Day After (2013, Season 1 BD/DVD Vol.9) - The Day Before (2012, Season 1 BD/DVD Vol.1)
How LLENN Stopped Fretting and had Her Fire for Combat Sparked by Pitohui (2018, AGGO BD/DVD Vol.6) - The Mountain Rabbit Never Sleeps ~I shouldn't have paid him any attention~ (2025, AGGO2 BD/DVD Vol.2)
Girl Meets Gun ~P90 ni tsuite Yoku wakaru Online (PYO)~ (2018, P-90 Airsoft Gun bonus) - Her step, step (2019, ReoNa's Prologue Album) - Minami no Island Online (MIO) (2018, Dengeki Island!) - MZO (2016, Dengeki Splash) - Pitohui, Elsa, and a Fine Day for Handguns (2021, AM.45 Airsoft Gun) - Sugoimizugi Jam (2015, Dengeki Girls Swim Wear Festival) - The Untold Tale of the Vorpal Bunny's Birth ~Otherwise Known as the Worries of Two Gun Nuts~ (2020, Vorpal Bunny Airsoft Gun bonus)
Idle Talk - The Shinobi's Reckless Remarks (2017, Dengeki Bunko Magazine Animate bonus) - The Story of the Matchmaking Bakeneko (2016, Clover's Regret Vol.1 Animate bonus) - The Strange Tale of Makuwa Melons (2016, Clover's Regret Vol.1 Melonbooks bonus)
The Story of the Mysterious Jam Vendor (2023) - The Story of Eating a "Tanmen"-Inspired Dish at a NPC Restaurant (2023) - The Story of Making "Dongpo pork" with "Frenzy Boar" Meat (2023) - The Story of "Pot Helm", an Armour Equipment That Can Also be Used For Cooking (2023) - Service Meatball (2024)
Melodies Go Beyond the Forgetting Curve... - The Grand Plan for a Summer Festival Performance! - The Grand Plan to Overcoming Picky-Eating! - When Asuna and Yuuki Changed into Swimsuits (2015)
Ichiban Kuji Ordinal Scale
A Brief Instant of Reminiscing Right Below the Concert - From Asuna's Diary on a Certain Day in Late April (2017)
SAO x KYOTO NIPPON FESTIVAL
The Great Barrier of the Old Capital of Kyoto (2019)
