In other words, Kirito’s partner being Asuna in the stories of the first and second floor would be a contradiction to the books.

In the published books Kirito is portrayed as being intimate with Asuna only on the higher floors. The most obvious one is the treatment of Asuna as the heroine. However, that couldn’t quite reach the ignition point because there were a few problems if I wrote the clearing from the first floor. After that point, although I wrote some short stories about the time before the game is cleared (those are compiled in volume 2 and 8), none of those sub-episode stories touches the game clearing as the main topic.Īctually, I had always been smoldered by a desire to write about how Kirito and his friends travelled through each floor, how they defeated the bosses. This might be a repetition of the afterword in SAO volume 1, originally the story of SAO was written for the Dengeki Novel Grand Prix, so the game is suddenly cleared in the first volume. Well, next, please allow me to explain why I started writing this series. It is the series about the clearing of the floating castle Aincrad starting from the first floor, the title carries that kind of meaning. When saying Progressive, it might sound like a video format, but the word actually has the meaning of «proceeding step by step». I have now delivered『Sword Art Online Progressive 1』.

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