Nobuyuki Sugou/Relationships

## Family

### Shouzou Yuuki

Sugou is one of Shouzou's employees, but Shouzou doesn't know his name, instead calling him "Versace", as that's what was on his briefcase, much to Sugou's annoyance. Despite this, Shouzou agreed to Sugou's request to marrying Asuna, as it would mean he would stop paying Asuna's medical bills, and Sugou gave Shouzou a briefcase of money as a bonus.

On Sugou's side, he puts a professional front around him, refraining from touching Asuna until her father had left the room. Once he's alone with Kazuto, however, he doesn't hide his low opinion of the man, calling him a "doddering old Ferrari-enthusiast".

### Asuna Yuuki

Asuna is Sugou's fiancé, but only against her will. While the SAO players were getting logged out, Sugou prevented some from waking up, instead redirecting them to ALO, Asuna included. He then bought her from her father and planned to marry her, holding her hostage in ALO until she agreed to do so. Despite all this, Asuna refused to take Sugou as a real threat, refusing to call him by his in-game name, Oberon, as he kept pronouncing it wrong. When Oberon revealed his plans to brainwash the world to do his bidding, Asuna included, Asuna was worried at first, but soon pointed out how stupid Oberon was for revealing the plan, as now she'd be determined to stop it.

As Asuna knew she couldn't really hurt Oberon, since he was the game's admin, she decided to waste Oberon's time by constantly escaping, even though she knew she couldn't escape the game itself, as she knew it would annoy Oberon. After many escape attempts, Oberon tries to break Asuna's spirit by revealing that Kirito was in ALO trying to rescue her, and that he planned to watch his hopes die when he finds that his quest was impossible. However, this only enraged Asuna, and she threatened to brutally kill Oberon if he even hurt a single hair on Kirito's head. Despite being intimidated by Asuna, Oberon stood his ground, claiming that no matter what Asuna does she's powerless to stop him, and she'll be spending the rest of her life in "blissful, mindless servitude" soon.

Despite this, Sugou treats Asuna like they're actually in love, even though they both know the marriage is a sham. He tried to get her to help him plan the wedding and would occasionally call her sugary sweet nicknames. Sugou also seems to be using Asuna for something other than just a target for his perversions, as he seems to be taking the opportunity to plan his ideal wedding, like he's been dreaming of his entire life.

## Allies

### Kayaba Akihiko

While it is unclear if they ever met, Sugou has a complicated opinion of Kayaba. On the one hand, Sugou thinks that Kayaba was an imbecile for causing the SAO disaster and ruining the VR industry, but on the other, he seems to admire him despite his "missteps", calling him a genius when it came to SAO's design once you ignore the glitches. Sugou seems to be grateful to Kayaba, as without him he wouldn't have built ALO or come up with his plan to brainwash the entire world, although he still thinks Kayaba was a fool for wasting the Charisma stat on the idiotic platers of SAO.

### Shoji Yanai

Shoji is one of the brain technicians assigned to monitor the SAO survivors, and also the main target of Asuna's rampages. As such, Shoji acts as a drain to Sugou's funds, as he is constantly in need of psyche evaluations.

### Kyle

Shoji is one of the brain technicians assigned to monitor the SAO survivors. Not much is known their relationship, but Sugou seems to view Kyle as just another minion.

### Sean

Sean was RECT Progress' technical support representative. Not much is known about their relationship, but Sugou was annoyed when Sean was almost tricked into logging out all the SAO survivors, and promptly fired him when he asked if he could do it.

## Enemies

### Kazuto Kirigaya

Kazuto was the only person in the real world Sugou didn't bother to hide his true self from, as he thought that he was powerless to stop his plans to steal Asuna away. Kazuto was initially terrified of Sugou's perverted nature, but eventually found the resolve to fight against him in order to rescue Asuna.

When Oberon found out that Kirito was in ALO to rescue Asuna, he thought it would be more satisfying to watch Kirito try and fail to rescue her, rather than banning his account, as he believed that the quest to get to the top of the World Tree was impossible.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Episode 12
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Episode 14
3. ↑ Asuna's annoying antics
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Episode 15
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Episode 17