Asuna in Galagil's Sword Art Online 1.3

The line barely moved at all. Players fidgeted with nervous energy, an undercurrent of anxiety thrumming through the crowd.

"I can't wait this long!" whined a pudgy player, his belly protruding from beneath his basic armor like an uninflated balloon. "There's a quest in the fields that resets in an hour!"

"Shut yer trap!" roared a bald, barrel-chested warrior, his meaty hands looking like they wanted to be wrapped around a massive battle-axe "We're all here for the same damn reason!"

The complaining player turned away, his posture cowed and defeated.

"Why are they taking so damn long?"

"It's not surprising though, really," remarked a glasses wearing brunette, "Licensing thousands of players is a massive undertaking."

"But why wasn't it done before hand? Like why isn't done in our menus instead of us having to come out and stand in a line and wait like we're in RL at the DMV?!"

Revy juggled her twin daggers with practiced ease, their gleaming chrome blades flashing in the sunlight filtering through the buildings as she casually put in her own two cents, "LA's probably taking their sweet time on purpose just to screw with us."

"Shouldn't you… you know, put those away?" Asuna ventured, gesturing to the dangerous dance in Revy's hands. "No License for weapons yet, right?"

"Laws are for suckers, kid," she snorted, "These babies ain't going anywhere until I want them to. I'll pop'em into my inventory when I finally make it to the front of this damn line."

"You still obey the rules, though," Asuna pointed out, her voice quiet. "Standing in line, buying licenses…seems a bit contradictory to your whole 'laws are for suckers' spiel."

Revy grinned, a flash of predator in her eyes. "Rules ain't the enemy, kid. They're just tools. You bend them, twist them, use them to your advantage. Like this License Book, see? It's a ticket to play, not a cage. Everyone's all concerned about what you can't do without a License but think about what a License allows you to do... License to drive... License to... kill..."

Asuna flinched at the latter part of the sentence, not at all comfortable with the brunette's line of thought.

Revy's eyes, sharp and calculating, fixed on her. She winked conspiratorially. "Don't worry, I'll look after ya, princess."

"I don't need or want your help." she said stiffly and turned away.

Time oozed like molasses, an endless parade of anxious players shuffling forward a few centimeters at a time. Revy was strangely tolerable to talk to despite the woman being rather scary.

Suddenly, the queue surged forward, only to grind to a halt moments later. Murmurs and curious glances swirled through the crowd as a petite figure with tri-colored hair of bright red, green, and yellow sauntered past from the head of the line, leading a procession of male players.

Their faces were flushed, their strides clumsy, and beneath their trousers, unmistakable tent-like bulges strained against the fabric. The girl's clothes hung askew, her jiggling breasts visible beneath the unbuttoned collar of her white button-up shirt, her hair disheveled, and her lips parted as she giggled breathlessly.

They went around a corner a few meters down and out of sight and it was all too clear what was about to transpire around in that alley. Revy, a predatory gleam in her eyes, nudged Asuna.

"Mind holding my place, kid? Gotta see what they're up to over there. Be right back!"

Before Asuna could protest, Revy was weaving through the snaking line. Within minutes, she reappeared, a mischievous grin plastered across her face.

"Damn," Revy chuckled, leaning closer to Asuna. "That girl's got more hands in her pants than a sweatshop. Handing out tugjobs while getting fingerbanged from like three of'em at once! Crazy stuff!"

Asuna gasped, heat rushing to her face. "Revy!"

The brunette shrugged. "What? It's just a buncha pixels doing naughty things together, no worse than some smutty doujin. And hell, a girl's gotta earn money somehow, I guess."

Asuna's mind churned, pieces clicking into place even as she really didn't want to think about it.

Had the girl really just immediately bought a license for that? Maybe a C-class License that basically turned her avatar into a walking zone of sanctioned pleasure? The very thought was repugnant to Asuna, the thought of selling oneself in that fashion far too lewd and humiliating.

But even so, the girl did need money to stay at an inn, food to eat, the normal costs of survival within this **** game. Her other option was to leave the safety of the Town of Beginnings and possibly die for real fighting mobs, so it made a certain kind of pragmatic sense.

"Hey, Princess," Revy snapped her fingers in front of Asuna's face. "I know, you were totally jealous of her and her harem. Wanna go join her? Betcha'd rake it in."

Asuna's voice was frosty. "Hardly."

Revy grinned. "I knew it. I can tell when a girl's dying for a cock in her mouth." She tapped the side of her nose. "Women's intuition."

"Don't be crude," she huffed, turning away. "And I'm not jealous, thank you."

Revy just smirked and Asuna turned back around, irritated with the crude woman even as she was somehow glad for her company.

Soon enough a portly woman in a garish pink tunic waddled down the line before stopping and facing them, "Hey listen up everyone. Galagil has authorized me" she paused and put strong emphasis on the pronoun, "Hey! HEY! Listen up I said, GALAGIL has placed ME in charge of informing you all that the License Association is not going to serve any players who've been acting like animals in the last 48 hours!"

She shouted the last line and then stood there, a smug satisfaction on her chubby face, apparently satisfied that she had everyone's attention. "That means no public nudity. None of you have licenses for that, so keep your nasty bits covered. No handjobs, no blowjobs, no titjobs, no fingering, no sex, no fucking, no rubbing your nasty bits on others. I don't care what you did yesterday or this morning but today you all need Licenses! If you've done any of that in the last 48 hours and can't prove you bought a license you're not gonna like the Negative Licenses that you're gonna get."

"Make sure you spread the word! Galagil won't tolerate players using Sword Art Online as some kind of sexual playground."

She waddled off with a self-righteous air down the line to repeat her speech.

"Hah! Looks like Galagil's got a stick up his ass." crowed Revy, adding, "There goes that Big Dick Energy I was thinking he had. Probably is a fussy little dev..."

Around them, a few players shuffled away, their heads hung low, apparently having engaged in questionable activities in public. Asuna was glad Galagil seemed responsible enough to enforce some basic standards of decency within the game. Some of the things she'd seen players doing while she'd been wandering around trying to find the License Agreement were downright depraved, not the least of which was the girl Revy had pointed out servicing players in a public alley.