Summary
Sword Art Online,
In 2022, a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (VRMMORPG) calledSword Art Online (SAO) is released. With the NerveGear, a helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds. Both the game and the NerveGear were created by Akihiko Kayaba.
On November 6, 10,000 players log into SAO's mainframe cyberspace for the first time, only to discover that they are unable to log out. Kayaba appears and tells the players that they must beat all 100 floors of Aincrad, a steel castle which is the setting of SAO, if they wish to be free. Those who suffer in-game deaths or f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y remove the NerveGear out-of-game will suffer real-life deaths.
One of the players, named Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya, is one of 1,000 testers in the game's previous closed beta. With the advantage of previous VR gaming experience and a drive to protect other beta testers from discrimination, he isolates himself from the greater groups and plays the game alone, bearing the mantle of "beater", a portmanteau of "beta tester" and "cheater". As the players progress through the game Kirito eventually befriends a young girl named Asuna Yuuki, forming a relationship with and later marrying her in-game. After the duo discover the identity of Kayaba's secret ID, who was playing as the leader of the guild Asuna joined in, they confront and destroy him, freeing themselves and the other players from the game.
In the real world, Kazuto discovers that 300SAO players, including Asuna, remain trapped in their NerveGear. As he goes to the hospital to see Asuna, he meets Shouzou Yuuki, Asuna's father, who is asked by an associate of his, Nobuyuki Sugou, to make a decision, which Sugou later reveals to be his marriage with Asuna, angering Kazuto. Several months later, he is informed by Agil, another SAOsurvivor, that a figure similar to Asuna was spotted on "The World Tree" in another VRMMORPG cyberspace called Alfheim Online(ALO). Assisted in-game by his cousin Suguha "Leafa" Kirigaya and Yui, a navigation pixie (originally an AI from SAO), he quickly learns that the trapped players in ALO are part of a plan conceived by Sugou to perform illegal experiments on their minds. The goal is to create the perfect mind-control for financial gain and to subjugate Asuna, whom he intends to marry in the real world, to assume control of her family's corporation. Kirito eventually stops the experiment and rescues the remaining 300 SAO players, foiling Sugou's plans. Before leaving ALO to see Asuna, Kayaba, who has uploaded his mind to the Internet using an experimental and destructively high-power version of NerveGear at the cost of his life, entrusts Kirito with The Seed – a package program designed to create virtual worlds. Kazuto eventually reunites with Asuna in the real world and The Seed is released onto the Internet, reviving Aincrad as other VRMMORPGs begin to thrive.
Soon after, at the prompting of a government official investigating strange occurrences in VR, Kazuto takes on a job to investigate a series of murders involving another VRMMORPG called Gun Gale Online (GGO), the AmuSphere (the successor of the NerveGear), and a player called Death Gun. Aided by a female player named Shino "Sinon" Asada, he participates in a gunfight tournament called the Bullet of Bullets (BoB) and discovers the truth behind the murders, which originated with a player who participated in a player-killing guild in SAO. Through his and Sinon's efforts, two suspects are captured, though the third suspect, Johnny Black, escapes.
- 1 Chapter 1 - Prologue
- 2 Chapter 2 - 1
- 3 Chapter 3 - 2
- 4 Chapter 4 - 3
- 5 Chapter 5 - 4
- 6 Chapter 6 - 5
- 7 Chapter 7 - 6
- 8 Chapter 8 - 7
- 9 Chapter 9 - 8
- 10 Chapter 10 - 9
- 11 Chapter 11 - 10
- 12 Chapter 12 - 11
- 13 Chapter 13 - 12
- 14 Chapter 14 - 13
- 15 Chapter 15 - 14
- 16 Chapter 16 - 15
- 17 Chapter 17 - 16
- 18 Chapter 18 - 17
- 19 Chapter 19 - 18
- 20 Chapter 20 - 19
- 21 Chapter 21 - 20
- 22 Chapter 22 - 21
- 23 Chapter 23 - 22
- 24 Chapter 24 - 23
- 25 Chapter 25 - 24
- 26 Chapter 26 - 25
- 27 Chapter 27 - The Black Swordsman (Aincrad 35th Floor, February 2024)
- 28 Chapter 28 - The Black Swordsman (Aincrad 35th Floor, February 2024)
- 29 Chapter 29 - The Black Swordsman (Aincrad 35th Floor, February 2024)
- 30 Chapter 30 - Warmth of the Heart (Aincrad 48th Floor, June 2024)
- 31 Chapter 31 - Warmth of the Heart (Aincrad 48th Floor, June 2024)
- 32 Chapter 32 - Warmth of the Heart (Aincrad 48th Floor, June 2024)
- 33 Chapter 33 - Warmth of the Heart (Aincrad 48th Floor, June 2024)
- 34 Chapter 34 - Morning Dew Girl (Aincrad 22nd Floor, October 2024)
- 35 Chapter 35 - Morning Dew Girl (Aincrad 22nd Floor, October 2024)
- 36 Chapter 36 - Morning Dew Girl (Aincrad 22nd Floor, October 2024)
- 37 Chapter 37 - Morning Dew Girl (Aincrad 22nd Floor, October 2024)
- 38 Chapter 38 - Red-nosed Reindeer (Aincrad 46th Floor, December 2023)
- 39 Chapter 39 - Red-nosed Reindeer (Aincrad 46th Floor, December 2023)
- 40 Chapter 40 - Red-nosed Reindeer (Aincrad 46th Floor, December 2023)
- 41 Chapter 41 - Red-nosed Reindeer (Aincrad 46th Floor, December 2023)
- 42 Chapter 42 - Prologue
- 43 Chapter 43 - 1
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