Risa Shiramine/Plot

Introductory Arc
Risa pushed Kaede into playing NewWorld Online (NWO).

After the school test period was over, Risa logged into NWO. She created her character, Sally, and met up with Kaede (Maple). Because she wanted to spend time with Maple, Sally went fishing with her. Using Maple's experiences as a reference, Sally went diving and killed lots of fish with her weapons. Sally discovered the Underground Lake Labyrinth dungeon as she collected scales.

Sally explored the dungeon as Maple fished and sent her messages to time her remaining air. After days of exploring she found the door to the boss room and took a breather before challenging it. Her battle with the giant fish boss took place underwater and it ended with a close call even for someone with her skills. Her reward for clearing the dungeon included her own UNIQUE SERIES.

Second Event Arc
Sally joined n the 2nd event with Maple. After exploring the grasslands for a while and conquering a goblin dungeon, they went towards the mountains in the distance to avoid going in circles.

About and hour after walking, they entered a deep forest after sunset and noticed various undead walking around. Sally was scared so she pushed maple to take off her armor and carried her as she rushed to find somewhere to hide. They found a house and rested inside. Around midnight, they heard moans and discovered a man bound in the basement wailing in pain. He passed on after they healed him and left them a [ Ring of Life].

Having rested, Sally and Maple left the house when it was bright outside and started climbing the mountain. They defeated several monster and players aiming for their medals. At the peak, they discovered a teleport circle and met Chrome's party. They let Chrome's party go first after Sally ensured Maple wouldn't regret her choice later. Before Sally and Maple left the summit, the teleportation circle lit up and they prepared to go through it as well.

Sally and Maple used the teleportation circle and began their battle with Silverwing. Sally made use of her agility and skills to deal damage and support Maple. Although it was close, they were able to defeat Silverwing and acquire a bunch of rewards, including a part of monster companion eggs. Sally took the violet egg after Maple selected the green egg.

Having defeated Silverwing, Sally and Maple left through another transportation circle, they traversed the mountain, a forest, and valley. When they took breaks, they warmed the eggs with their body heat until they hatched. Sally's violet egg hatched into a pure white fox she named Oboro and Maple's green egg hatched into a deep green turtle Maple named Syrup.

As they searched for medals, they were separated and forced to face a clone of each other. Sally fought for hours before she defeated Maple's clone and they were reunited.

Sally and Maple moved on and went through a desert until the arrived at an oasis where they met Kasumi, a beauty in a kimono. Sally and Kasumi spoke with ill intent and Kasumi ran away. Sally gave chase and they had a short exchange of blades before Maple came tumbling after them and they found themselves chained together in a dungeon. Sally, Maple, and Kasumi worked together, completed the dungeon, and became friends. Kasumi left them for everyone's safety.

Sally and Maple took a short reset before leaving the desert. They searched through the forest and a sandy beach before they separated because Maple couldn't swim. Sally swam towards an island and dived down as she spotted medals and chests. She explored the island and found a teleportation circle at a shrine before returning to find Maple had built a giant sandcastle and was playing a board game with Kanade, a red-headed boy. After a short exchange, Sally lowered her guard and talked about the island. After Kanade explored the transfer location, he brought news back and they were forced to abandon the battle.

They parted ways with Kanade and went down the shore until they encountered a coastal ruin. As they searched the ruin, they overheard a party talking about a book and a riddle. Sally put on an act and killed the players to acquire the book and their medals. Then, Sally and Maple spent the day trying to solve the riddle and around midnight, they solved the riddle and followed the pathway to the Sea King boss fight. Sally reduced the bosses health by 30% before Maple made a mistake and she found herself on kiting duty. After the 4-hour-long battle, Sally and Maple enjoyed a view of a coral seabed before returning to the event field.

On the sixth day of the event, Sally left Oboro with Maple at a cave to go player killing so they could get the last 2 medals to reach their goal. Sally terrorized the other players and picked up player-given titles; Untouchable Blue Monster and the Nightmare of the Sixth-day. She killed more players than she expected to get the 2 medals they needed and returned to the cave. Since Maple's skilled were still on cooldown, she pretended to be an NPC miniboss and killed players who entered the cave. A while later, the number of "minibosses" doubled when Kasumi joined her. After the day reset, Maple came out from the cave's depths and blocked the entrance before they all played with her board games.

Sally used her 10 silver medals to learn [Addition Blade].

Guild Founding Arc
Risa continued to play NWO while Kaede took a break from the game because she embarrassed herself. She acquired the items and money for the new content that Kaede was missing from the break. When Kaede (Maple) logged in again, Sally (Risa) told her about the changes and handed over the necessary resources to form a guild. They went house shopping and picked a guild home more on the outskirts of the town before inviting Kanade, Kasumi, Chrome, and Iz to join them. Maple named their guild Maple Tree.

After the 4rd event was announced, Sally and Maple went to recruit players. Although no one from the 2nd layer was interested, they were able to invite a pair of twins, Mai and Yui, on the 1st layer. Sally defeated the 1st layer's boss and Maple defeated the 2nd layer's boss so they could safely bring the twins to the 3rd layer. After Maple leveled the twins up a bit, Sally taught them how to evade broadcasted (piercing) attacks.

Sally, Maple, and the twins relaxed at a beach until Sally noticed a spy, Frederica, and called her out. After a short conversation, Sally and Frederica dueled until Frederica surrendered. Sally deceived Frederica with fake skills that would be take back to the Congregation of the Holy Swords.

Guild Competition Arc
When the 4th event began, Sally and the other members of Maple Tree were transported to the event together. Sally, Chrome, and Kasumi left their base and attacked another guild's base when they found one. Sally parted with Chrome and Kasumi to explore the event map and steal orbs on her own. After acquiring a collection of orbs, she returned to the guild base to turn the orbs into points and took a short rest before heading out again.

As she was collecting orbs, Sally encountered Dred. They had a short clash and Sally showed off the fake skills she showed Frederica. Although Dred ran away, Sally learned Dred was evading her attacks through his fear and instincts and planned to train hers later. Later, she returned to Maple Tree's base to turn more orbs into points and take an extended rest before going out once more.

While collecting orbs, Sally came across the Kingdom of the Flame Emperor's base and used their traps to practice evasion with through instinct and fear. After some experimentation, she left to collect more orbs and encountered Mii's group raiding another base and stole the orb while the Mii's party was dealing with the players. Although Mii spotted her and gave chase, Sally escaped unscathed.

Sally went back to Maple Tree's base to let the orbs she collected become points and went out again after a short rest. Because she wanted Maple Tree to rank high, Sally pushed herself and her endurance was running out. Having collected a horde of orbs, Sally found herself surrounded by Frederica and an army from the Congregation of the Holy Swords. Sally messed Maple before engaging them in combat while tired. As Frederica learned Sally had tricked her with fake skills, Sally's exhaustion caught up with her.

Before Frederica's army could kill Sally, Maple rescued her and they returned to their base. Sally had Kanade remember her map's notes before taking a well deserved long rest. Following her rest, Sally joined the defense team.

Following Maple's raid on the Kingdom of the Flame Emperor with Mai and Yui, Sally went on the offensive with the twins.

Sally and the other members of Maple Tree found it difficult to find orbs and regrouped for a break. Before they could go out in an attempt to dodge an expected raid, Payne, Dred, Drag, Frederica, and 15 general members from the Congregation of the Holy Swords raided their base. Sally was prevented from supporting Maple and worked hard to keep limit the number of players focusing on Maple.

Following the raid, Sally and the rest of Maple Tree rested before taking their orb and disappearing into the night. They followed Sally's plan to raid guilds and steal orbs to cause chaos. During the chaos, they rescued the Kingdom of the Flame Emperor from extinction.

Rulership Arc
Following the 4th layer's release, Sally and Maple fought the 3rd layer's boss. Because of it's defense and immunities, Sally had to wear it down over time. As they visited their guild home on the new layer, the other Maple Tree members logged in and they went back to help them with the dungeon.

Sally killed many monsters during the 5th event and acquired a present box. Just after Christmas, Sally and Maple opened their presents together and Sally learned the [Icicle] skill.

While Maple was sick, Sally and the other members of Maple Tree advanced to the 5th layer when it was released.

Because Maple's drive was reduced when she got to the 5th layer, Sally put in more effort to explore the layer to find things to rekindle Maple's interests in NWO. She explored several places, solved puzzles and defeated an ice arm boss alone.

During the 6th event, Sally explored the jungle and fought a spider monster until she was trapped in its web. She managed to defeat it by biting its eye off at the end and learned the [Web User I] skill.

Some time after Maple defeated the King of Light, Sally took Maple to explore the rain area. They met up with Kasumi and went to buy umbrellas before they explored the rainy area. At its end, they fought a human-shaped cloud boss. Sally used [Ice Pillar] and [Icicile] in conjunction with [Web User I] to swing around like Spiderman as they fought the boss. They defeated the boss and left the area on Syrup's shell.

Ghost Layer Arc
In early March, Maple Tree advanced to the 6th layer when it was released. At the 6th layer, Sally paled at the haunted theme and logged off after they reached the guild home. Rather than explore the layer in fear, Sally trained on the other floors so she wouldn't be far behind Maple and the others.

Later, Sally was lured back to the 6th layer by skills and items that were mentioned on the forums. Sally got Maple to help her explore a European mansion on the west side of town. During their exploration, they got separated and Sally tried her best to hide until Maple found her. As they left the mansion together, they learned a new skill and Sally screamed she didn't want it. After they logged off that night, Risa repeatedly called Kaede and kept her up all night.

While leveling up on the other layers, Sally received a message from Maple and met up to receive a pair of shoes and an accessory. She loved the shoes but returned the accessory the next day.

Tower Arc
Several days after Maple visited the twins mansion, the 7th event was announced. Sally and Maple decided to pair up for the tower climb.

Sally and Maple explored the 1st floor of the tower, a floor littered with traps and monsters that feel like bosses. They defeated the earth dragon boss before moving onto the next floor.

They took a day break before exploring the 2nd floor. They defeated animated books and avoided black shadows on their way to the boss. During the giant book boss fight, some of Maple's equipment and skills were taken and used against them. They retreated outside the room before making a second attempt that resulted in the boss's defeat.

Sally and Maple traversed the 3rd floor's rocky terrain that was complimented with lava. Once they reached an impassable obstacle, they back-tracked and found a way to overcome it and defeat the boss, a giant elemental who switches between lava and ice.

They traveled down the 4th floor's waterfall on Syrup's back. Their attempts to skip the waterfall were met with heavy resistance. The boss was a giant turtle and Maple and Sally turned the battle into a vacation of sorts.

Because the 5th floor contained creatures that Sally feared, Maple suspended their exploration for a day. While the other members of Maple Tree took the normal route through the floor, Maple went through the floor with Sally inside a box in her demon form's mouth.

Sally and Maple traversed the 6th floor's cave system while fighting golems made of something resembling diamond. Because they had piercing attacks, Maple hid inside her wool and Sally fought the golems. Sally acquired the [Crystallize] skill scroll before the boss fight and planned to give it to Chrome. After Maple trapped the boss, a human magician who summons countless golems, inside her wool, Sally one-sidedly attacked him as Maple used many of Iz's bombs.

On the 7th floor, they free-fell down a cliff and barely managed to dodge the developers trap thanks to Sally's quick thinking. They had a mild fight with a hedgehog covered in icy spikes before defeating him.

Because the 8th floor wasn't straight forward, Sally and Maple failed to find a boss room and experienced a sneak attack from the boss. They discovered fruits and used them and their skills to overcome the chameleon.

The 9th floor's shadow boss didn't offer much resistance but the floors flying mechanic made his fight tedious.

The 10th floor's boss, a silver knight, was clearly made to hunt Maple. Sally spent much of the battle supporting her and the battle was as close a call as it gets with Maple.

Companions Arc
Maple Tree advanced to the 7th layer together. Because they had their companions already, Sally and Maple focused on helping the others get their companions. Sally created notes as she explored to share with the other members. Also, Sally helped Iz acquire some materials for her companion's quest.

When Frederica challenged Sally to a duel, Sally's fear pushed to to crush Frederica with extreme prejudice. Following their duel, Sally was teased by Frederica and she learned about her companion, Knots. Embarrassed she showed her girly side, Sally promised to crush Frederica just as much the next time they dueled.

Another day, Sally and Maple went to play with wild companions. After they cuddled the cute creatures, they rested in Maple's fur ball and were dragged around until they discovered a key item. They tested a hypothesis and found a map with clues to the other key items they would need. After Kanade gave them some clues when they took a break at their guild home, they hunted down the other two key items and discovered the monster companion city. Sally and Maple followed Oboro and Syrup who left the rings on their own and watched them evolve.