Literature
Sword Art Online: Abduction arc (chpt 1)
Nothing was the same after Kirito came out of Sword Art Online. He spent two years of his life in a virtual world, fighting a virtual war with real life consequences and came back changed in a world that stayed the same. His mind had sharpened in the video game, in a constant state of high alert, wary of the people he passed by, prepared to fight if they came at him. But he was in a boring house with his family, doing boring everyday things.
The video game transformed him from a naive, carefree child into a mature adult.
The worst part was there was always a sense of something missing. Like he was waiting for the fuse to bu