Risa Shiramine

Risa Shiramine (白峯理沙 Shiramine Risa), known as Sally (サリー Sarī) in NewWorld Online, is one of the main characters of the series. She is Kaede Honjou's best friend who invited her to VRMMO “NewWorld Online”. Rich in game experience, she avoids all attacks with outstanding concentration and player skills.

She is a co-founder of the Maple Tree alongside Kaede.

Appearance
A healthy girl with a thin body and a flat chest. Her eyes and hair are ash brown. Her hair is held up by a white ribbon with bangs framing her face. Her attire in-game focuses on cool blue shades with minor gold and silver accents on things like her blade handles, breastplate and belt buckle. Her clothing looks to permit more mobility and endurance.

She wears a pair of boots that are dark grey that meet her knees in height with blue striped socks. Her one-piece turtleneck is accompanied by a pair of dark blue shorts and a silver breastplate covering only her upper ribs and clavicle. She is also in a scarf and open tench coat with puffy sleeves.

Personality
Sally is extroverted, cautious, and practical, a reflection of her past experience with other games. She also has a creative and tricky side to her, evidenced by her choice to become a swashbuckler so that her party with Maple "would never take any damage", as opposed to the more conventional choice of being a mage so she could support Maple from the rear.

While Sally is afraid of ghosts and other horror-related things, she gets fired up and highly aggressive when it comes to PvP, as she goes out of her way to slaughter many players towards the end of the second event just for a couple of silver medals. One may speculate that Sally greatly enjoys sports in general, as she has great reflexes and is a good swimmer, even in real life.

Plot
Compounded by her desire to see Maple succeed and develop, even though at times meta-gaming and broken, she strives to keep up with her, being a veteran gamer herself and uses her wit and strategic cunning to her own and guilds advantage.

History
Risa's evasive ability is great and improves the more she concentrates. Her evasion skills have been thoroughly trained in other games where she's been hit and died in numerous times.

Before the 3rd event, Risa has a duel with Frederica and convinces her Attack Guidance (攻撃誘導) and Running Water (Stream; 流水) are skills.

After a battle with Dread, Risa decides to improve her evasion based on his methods; instinct and fear.

Physical Skills

 * Status Abnormal Attack III (or Affliction III )
 * Sword Fencing II
 * Slash : Cuts a enemy with a single swing of her daggers.
 * Double Slash : Shoots energy shaped like slashes twice.
 * Triple Slash
 * Gale Slash
 * Down Attack (or Knockdown )
 * Power Attack : Attacks with high damage
 * Switch Attack
 * Addition Blade (Event 2 Medal skill): Adds an extra attack of ⅓ weapon power on successful attacks.
 * Defense Break: a penetrating attack.
 * Taijutsu V
 * Shoulder Throw
 * Impact Fist
 * Great Eruption : A move that causes lava to come from the ground and create a field of fixed damage for 1 minute. MP cost: 50. Cooldown: 3 minutes.

Magic Skills

 * Ancient Sea (Event 2 Scroll, Sea King loot): Can summon fishes cover in blue light from the Sea King fight. The water effect decreases AGI by 10. (details incomplete)
 * Fire Magic I
 * Fire Ball : Shoots of ball of flames.
 * Water Magic II
 * Water Ball : Shoots a ball of water.
 * Water Wall: Create a wall of water.
 * Wind Magic III
 * Wind Cutter : Shoots a slash shaped wind.
 * Wind Wall
 * Cyclone Cutter
 * Earth Magic I
 * Sand Cutter
 * Dark Magic I
 * Dark Ball
 * Light Magic II
 * Refresh
 * Heal : Heals the target
 * Phantom World! : Creates three clones of the target for 3 minutes.
 * Icicle : Consume 3 MP to create an indestructible icicles. Lasts 1 minute. Maximum 5 at once.
 * Ice Pillar

Defensive Skills

 * Poison Resistance (Small)

Support Skills

 * Sword Dance : Each attack grants STR+1% (max +100%). Boost resets when damaged.
 * Acquire: The acquisition condition was no damage until reaching level 25.
 * Super Acceleration (or Super Speed) : AGI +50. Cooldown: 30 minutes.


 * Encouragement: Raises nearby party member's [STR][AGI] by 20%. Radius: 15 meters. Duration: 1 minute. This boost does not affect the skill user.
 * MP Enhancement (Small): MP +10.
 * MP Cut (Small): MP cost of skills reduced by 7.
 * MP Recovery Speed Enhancement (small): MP recovery rate +50%.
 * Muscle Strengthening (Small): STR +50%.
 * Consecutive Attack Strengthening (Small): On consecutive attacks, power increases to a maximum of STR +100%.
 * Knowledge of Daggers II
 * Jack of All Trades: AGI +10. DEX +10. Damage is reduced by 30%. MP consumption is reduced by 10.
 * Knowledge of Magic II (or Magic Proficiency II )
 * Leap III : Can jump higher.
 * Stealthy Steps II (or Shinobi Foot II)
 * Hiding Presence II (or Sensory Blocking II )
 * Sense Presence II (or Sensory Awareness II )
 * Mining Speed Enhancement (small) (or Harvesting Speed boost (small) )
 * Fishing : Chance of catching fish with a fishing rod increases.
 * Swimming X
 * Diving X : Dive underwater for up to 40 minutes.
 * Cooking I
 * Empty shell : If an attack would cause you to go from full health to 0, the damage is nullified and gain [AGI + 50%]. Only can use once per day
 * Acquire: The acquisition condition was no damage until reaching level 35.
 * Freezing Area : For 10 minutes after using a water-type skill, you can use this skill. You can freeze magic and objects, but not players or monsters. The magic or objects frozen gain the ice attribute regardless of friend or foe.
 * Web User I : Use to activate or deactivate. The user controls webs and can shoot them from their hands and feet. The firing distance is 5-meters. After skill level 5, the webs can be stretched.
 * Connection to the Underworld : Doubles the effects of items.

Fake Skills (Skills Sally made up to bait the enemy)

 * Attack Incitement: (or Coax Attack ): Dodge any attack
 * Stream (or Cascade ): Deflect attack for a limited instant

(note: In episode 4 of the anime, Oceania (大海:Ocean) is misinterpreted at Torrent.)

Equipped Skills

 * Mirage: Confuses target‘s sense of vision so that it sees a mirage of the user in a different location. Effective against anyone other than user. Should an attack hit ‘Mirage’ it will dissolve. Maximum usage is 10 times per day. Effect duration is 5 seconds.
 * Oceania: Creates a shallow pool of water in a 10 Meter radius within user. Contact with this water decreases AGI by 20%. Caster is unaffected by “Oceania” Cannot be activated in Mid-air. Maximum usage is 3 times per day. Effect duration is 10 seconds.
 * A Step towards the Underworld : When using this skill, your stats decrease by 5 and you can make footholds in the air. The footholds last 10 seconds and the stat reduction lasts 20 minutes.

Equipment
Risa acquire her unique series at the end of second episode of the anime.
 * Note: This armor doesn’t have Skill Slots.

Relationships

 * Maple: Best friends in real life.
 * Oboro: Monster companion.
 * Kanade:
 * Kasumi:
 * Mai & Yui
 * Iz

Trivia

 * Her nickname Sally (サリー) is a anagram of her real name Risa (リサ)
 * It's possible she's a veteran gamer. In the anime, we see many trophies with her name related to gaming competitions.