Kirito tells Asuna about a quest that he wasn't able to clear and asked Asuna to have a go at it, Asuna goes on and tried the quest. She met a girl named Konno Yuki and her guild member. She learns that they all very ill people that will die one day, and they have something that hey want to do. They asked Asuna to join them as a temp member and they go on the quest together in order to have their name record in the castle.
Asuna has some real life issues that she is facing, and the issue was her mother. She tries her best to sort thing out with her mother but you could said to no vain. Yuki tells Asuna to show her instead of let her understand her feeling to VR games. Asuna shows her mother the VR world with her second account. Asuna's mother finally understood her.
Asuna goes on to hang out with Yuki more, and when she learns about her condition she goes to her in real life, seeing Yuki's real life self pains Asuna very much and she want to talk to her no matter what, so she requested Yuki's doctor let her borrow one of the Amusphere for her to log in.
Some time pasts again, Kayaba's girlfriend was the people that comes up the design of Medicuboid, and with Yuki they can cure more sickly people, both Asuna and Kirito met with one of the guild member in Real Life.
Rating: 9/10
Sword Art Online Volume 8
In this Volume there are three story, two for SAO, one for ALO.
The first story of SAO, was about a murder case. Kirito and Asuna suddenly heard a terrified scream from outside. The duo rushed to the source of the scream in the town square, where they found an armored player hanging from a window of the second floor of a church, with a black barbed spear impaled into his chest. Before anyone could help him, his avatar disintegrated. Convinced that the player was killed in a duel, Kirito and Asuna quickly searched for a duel winner notice but to no avail. At the church, while examining the rope to which the recently deceased player had been fastened, Asuna theorized how the player killer could have executed his opponent and set it so that everyone could see the spectacle. However, Kirito reminded her there had been no winner notice for a duel, despite duels being the only known method for reducing a player's hit points within a town. Knowing disaster and panic would result if there was a method to kill players within a safe zone, the two agreed to investigate the matter together. Back at the plaza, Kirito and Asuna found that the first person to witness the incident was a woman named Yolko. According to her, the victim was Kains, one of her former guildmates with whom she had dinner just before the incident. However, she claimed to be unaware of the murderer's identity or motives. At 09:00 the next morning, on April 23, Kirito and Asuna met on the 57th Floor, where they discussed Schmitt's actions from the previous day at a cafe. They doubted he was the culprit but agreed that there was a link between Schmitt, Grimlock, and Kains. As Asuna was interested in how Damage over Time would work for a player who entered the Inner Area with the status effect, Kirito proposed an experiment while they waited for Yolko. They travelled outside of town, where Kirito stabbed himself with a Throwing Pick, before re-entering the Inner Area. As the damage was nullified at that moment, this proved that such a trick could not be used for the murder. However, the leader did not return on schedule and no one in the guild could find or reach her. Thus, they visited the Monument of Life, which informed them that she had been killed at 01:00 the night she arrived on the higher floors. As whoever killed the guild leader had to have known of the ring, the remaining guild members began suspecting each other of being the killer, leading to the guild's collapse.Escorted to Yolko's inn by dusk, Schmitt began speaking about Griselda's and Kains's murders as Yolko sat on the room's windowsill, her back facing the window. She speculated on the culprit's identity, thinking of Kains's murder as revenge for the guild members' selfishness regarding the ring. Just when Yolko was about to respond to Schmitt's protest on the issue, a black, barbed throwing dagger suddenly appeared, buried in her back. Kirito rushed to her side, but before he could reach her, Yolko's avatar fell through the window to the street below, where it disintegrated. Three members from the killing guild «Laughing Coffin» showed up at the deceased guild leader's grave and attempted to kill Schmitt, Yolko, and Caynz. Kirito stepped in to save the day. Asuna caught Grimlock, the spouse of Griselda, hiding in the bushes. He admitted to being the mastermind behind the death of his wife, but explained that he did not have her murdered to steal the ring. Instead, he did it because he did want her personality to change from what it had been originally in the real world. After Schmitt, Yolko, and Caynz left with Grimlock to settle matters with him, what seemed to be Griselda's ghost appeared to Kirito and Asuna to thank them for uncovering the truth behind her death, and the two promised to her that they would clear the game.
The second story was ALO's story and it was a quest for the Excalibur. The quest to retrieve «Excalibur» from the base of Jötunheimr was revealed to the public. However, unlike how Kirigaya Kazuto (Kirito) and Suguha (Leafa) expected, it was not a quest to clear the Inverted Ice Pyramid, but another quest to slaughter all beast-type Evil Gods and the sword had yet to be obtained. After Kazuto and Suguha called Yuuki Asuna, Asada Shino (Sinon), Tsuboi Ryoutarou (Klein), Ayano Keiko (Silica) and Rika (Lisbeth) to form a party of seven to attempt raiding the ice pyramid again, they gathered at Lisbeth's shop in Yggdrasil City to prepare and then came to Jötunheimr via a secret passage that Kirito and Leafa had found nearly a year before. Along the way, at the end of the third floor, they encountered Freyja, a captured beauty, and rescued her. During the battle with the final boss, Giant King Thrym, Freyja transformed into the God Thor after retrieving his weapon Mjölnir, the lightning hammer. After defeating Thrym, the group headed into a narrow staircase and found «Excalibur». After much effort, Kirito pulled the blade out while the fortress began to collapse. While falling, Tonky saved the group but to Kirito's dismay, «Excalibur» was lost. Suddenly, Sinon sent a Retrieve Arrow towards the blade and made Kirito swear that he would think of her every time he used the sword before giving it to him. They were then met by Urðr and her sisters Verðandi and Skuld to receive the reward for completing the request. The group was rewarded with treasure, including Excaliber, who then decided to log out and have celebrate their success at Agil's cafe.
The last story was SAO's first day, After the Sword Art Online death game began, Kirito rushed to the village of Horunka to get a head start on the quest which would reward him the «Anneal Blade» which was strong enough to last him for the first three floors. During his quest, Kirito found another beta tester like him. Coper, who proposed that they try to complete the quest together to obtain the quest reward. However, once Kirito acquired the item needed to complete the quest, Coper purposely activated a trap which released a horde of monsters, in a bid to claim the quest item for himself. Kirito realized that Coper was trying to kill him. After a tough fight, he managed to escape but Coper died. This heavily affected Kirito as he realized he could die in this game. Kirito returned and completed the quest, but stayed at the house of the quest giver and watched her tend to her daughter, which tearfully prompted him to remember Suguha.
Rating: 8/10
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