ACCEL WORLD, Volume 1,Chapter 1(8)
Black, hoof-shaped hands and feet. Plump limbs and a ball-like torso a vibrant peach-pink. He couldn’t see them, but he should also have had a flat noise protruding from the center of his face and large ears hanging down. In short, he was a pink pig.
Wearing this ridiculous avatar, he dropped down with a thud in the middle of a fairy-tale forest in the Ministry of Education’s recommended design.
Giant mushrooms grew everywhere, and in the center of a patch of grass framed in a circle of light from the particularly bright sun, a crystalline spring bubbled up from the ground. On its outer edge, enormous, hollow trees formed a circle and towered over the area. The inside of each tree was divided up into several levels you could use to chat or play, connected by stairs.
This virtual space was the in-school local net for Umesato Junior High School, a private institution in Suginami City, Tokyo.