As the alliance had just started and the group was low on money to buy gear, he gave them a large package of coins each worth 100,000 Before they could reach Alne in the early morning hours of January 22, the two triggered a trap that forcefully transported them to In the morning in the real world, Kazuto greeted Suguha and they decided to go the hospital together. After Cardinal finished her story, he said that he wanted to save her and the people of Underworld. Thus, he started to visit Asuna on occasion. After a seemingly endless descent and landing on his face instead of his feet, he found himself in the Hoping to find more clues about what was happening, he checked his item window, only to find dozens of lines consisting of enigmatic numbers and characters. She learned how to play ALO from her classmate, In an obscure part of her childhood, she fell into the pond in her home's backyard trying to catch a water strider. Kirito is someone who is not good with words, as stated by Klein, and can be quite direct. Due to being pressed for time and not planning to play the game too seriously, he selected the Spriggan race because of its initial black-themed equipment rather than based on the race's strengths and weaknesses. On October 7, 2024, Suguha visited Kazuto in his hospital room to celebrate his birthday. Shioko Kirigaya (桐ヶ谷塩児, Kirigaya Shioko), known as Shiki in Sword Art Online, ALfheim Online and ], is the protagonist in Sword Art Online: Reversal Rewind written by Yasuda Izumi. His delicate face showed no trace of masculinity, allowing people to easily mistake him for a girl.Kirito's clothes later in the game consisted of black pants with a black belt that had a large silver buckle, a black V-necked shirt that was worn underneath a black trench-coat with gray lining going down the sleeves, and black boots with silver plates to protect his shins. As Yui believed he could reach the top because of his speed, Kirito decided to play the role of the attacker, while asking Recon and Leafa to provide support as healers. He then disappeared, and Kirito called for Yui and promised her that the two would come back to ALfheim and start again. Kirito then told him not to run, as Kayaba had never run from him during their fight. Kazuto later logged into ALO, which was now owned by a new company, to bring Leafa to the afterparty. At that moment, he was asked to lend his bathroom. Kazuto then told his sister that the government plans to use a local school to As Kirito was flying towards the World Tree, Leafa tried to warn him of a barrier the admins had put after several players nearly managed to reach the top of the Tree that way. Kirito then told Leafa that he wanted to apologize to her, but he did not know what to say and wanted her to have a free hit on him. As Kirito and Leafa left for the World Tree the next day on January 21, under Leafa's advice, Kirito decided to buy some new equipment to replace his starting equipment.
He talked with her and made her forget her fear of dying, while she helped him clear his conscience of lying to the other members of the guild. Kirito dodging the NPC gunman's bullets in the Untouchable! When Kayaba Akihiko announced that Sword Art Online had become a Death Game, Kirito was able to quickly accept the new conditions of the game and take immediate action to increase his chances of survival. After Yui checked the system, Kirito learned from her that the ALO server was a copy of the SAO servers, using the same graphics engine, but an older version of the Cardinal System and different game components, and that the game used an almost identical save data and skill proficiency format to the one SAO used, which was why he was able to inherit his skills, with the exception of data denoting HP and MP. He arrived at the scene just in time to stop Raios from killing Eugeo.