022-04 Sisters' Prayer Serene Garden May 2024
The memories of the very first day connecting to the original Medicuboid test prototype were still vivid.
Test Unit One was a rather artless combination of large headgear and a prebought gel bed. Dozens of colorful cables spilled down onto the floor, with gobs of monitors and tools arranged all around. There wasn’t an official code name yet, just MFT1, for Medical Full-Dive Tester One.
She was a little afraid the first time she lay down on the bed, in part because the SAO Incident had started just three months ago and was still unsolved. But her big sister, Aiko, was there to hold her hand, and Dr. Kurahashi promised her it was absolutely safe and wouldn’t hurt. So she withstood her nerves and waited for the moment to arrive.
An electronic contraption like a huge helmet came down from above and fit over her head, plus her entire face. She closed her eyes and gripped her sister’s hand.
“You’ll be fine, Yuu,” said a faint voice, and the hand squeezed back. There was a strange whistling, rushing sound, and the feeling of her sister’s hand and the pressure of the gel bed faded away. Eventually, there was a colorful ring of light before her eyes, despite the fact that they were closed. And then Yuuki Konno was in a VR world with a new body.
It was a year and three months after she’d developed multidrug resistant AIDS. She was twelve years and nine months old.
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