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SAO Volume 24 chapter 9 spoilers: Kirito met Eolyne

Plus spoilers of volume 18 (Alicization arc’s Finale) and volume 21 chapter 2 (Unital Ring I).

I know for sure there will be anime-only viewers who will try looking for v24 spoilers so you guys need to know some things from previous volumes to understand, and I feel these plot threads are connecting, so I’ll talk about them as well without going into too much details, so you’ll still have something to look towards to in anime and LNs. Well I’m sure people will get mindfucked from just the first spoiler, so buckle up, you’re in for a ride.

Focal characters in spoiler post: Kirito, Eugeo, Eolyne Herlentz (with few mentions of Asuna, Alice S30, and other spoiler characters).

1) By the end of Alicization arc, there are 2 different Kiritos, literally and separately

If you think your head was already difficult to comprehend 2 different Alices (kid Alice and Alice Synthesis 30), then now we have 2 separate Kiritos: real world Kirito (RW Kirito for short) and Star King Kirito of the Underworld (who is still playing somewhere in the virtual world). Well the situations that lead to this is quite different from Alices so maybe it’s much more easier to digest for you... or not.

Volume 18 spoilers below:

Asuna/Suguha/Sinon’s wills appeared in Kirito’s depressed mind and tried to help him awaken, but due to his own trauma from Eugeo’s death and all sufferings from Aincrad, Kirito refused to awaken, blocked everyone out and tried to kill himself (it’s very graphic). But thanks to Eugeo’s memories being left in the Rose Sword, which somehow gained a pseudo consciousness of his own, he helped Kirito awaken and fought alongside Kirito for the last time, though unfortunately this consciousness also burnt out and disappeared.

Before the final fight, Kirito was informed by Higa that the UW’s acceleration rate will be multiplied 1000x time for plot reasons, so if Kirito didn’t get out he’d get stuck in UW for hundreds of years. Of course Kirito being Kirito, he refused to do so, and told Asuna & Alice to log out before him without telling them about the acceleration. During the fight, Eugeo’s "spirit” (aka Eugeo’s memories in the Sword) burnt out and disappeared. After the fight, Kirito cried his heart out for how he would continue to exist in Underworld alone without any of his loved ones for hundred years. But of course Asuna didn’t listen to him and stayed there for him, because she’s Asuna. So Kirito and Asuna stayed in Underworld, 170 years past and in that time they became Underworld’s Star King and Star Queen.

This is when Kirito’s existence got “splitted” into two:

1. Real world Kirito: the Kirito we know, who got back to real world with Asuna after they were done with their duties in UW. Kirito made a request to Kikuoka to erase all his & Asuna’s hundreds of years’ memories in Underworld because their brain in real world can’t sustain such huge amount of data for a long time without dying soon. Of course the time he had with Eugeo can’t be erased in his mind, he went home, broke down on his bed and cried so much for his lost partner that Suguha had to come in to comfort him and Kirito told her all about Eugeo;

2. Star King Kirito: the Kirito with full hundred years of UW memories who's already got erased with Star Queen Asuna. However Higa hid from Kikuoka and Rinko a copy of Star King’s Fluctlight and he “revived” Star King in secret by installing the copy into a Lightcube Cluster (the mad scientist >”< ). At near ending of Volume 18, Star King Kirito talked to Higa:

His last sentence prompted quite a lot of readers of thinking Star King will become an antagonist in the next arc, Unital Ring.

2) Kirito, Asuna & Alice S30′s 1st dive back to Underworld (end of vol 18, the aftermath was recapped in vol 21 chapter 2)

At end of v18, Kirito, Asuna and Alice S30 dived back into Underworld. This world has spanned outside to its own universe, and there we see two female Integrity Pilots, Stica Stricnen and Laurannei Arabel (who are Tiese and Ronie’s descendants respectively) fighting a Space Beast, Abyssal Horror. Kirito, Asuna and Alice S30 jumped in to defeat the Beast, and through witnessing their powers, Stica and Laurannei recognized them as Star King, Star Queen and legendary Knight Alice. However, when the three waved at the Pilot girls, both also saw a male “spirit” standing beside Kirito. They said they both recognized him from the depth of their souls.

The aftermath was talked about in vol 21 chapter 2 (translation by Defan), the translation below is pretty old, and in official Yen Press version “Machinist” was already changed to “Pilot”: