ばか！バカ！　馬鹿ー月！

Aria - "Compared to my predictions—or rather my expectations, all I could say was that this was far too low. In SAO, the maximum size of a party was 6 people, and by adding together 8 of those you could made a raid party with a total of 48 people."
Zekken (v7c3) - "Then, after discussing it together, we decided. The upper limit of a party is 7 people, there was still one space."

Tap wrote:Aria - "Compared to my predictions—or rather my expectations, all I could say was that this was far too low. In SAO, the maximum size of a party was 6 people, and by adding together 8 of those you could made a raid party with a total of 48 people."
Zekken (v7c3) - "Then, after discussing it together, we decided. The upper limit of a party is 7 people, there was still one space."

Yeah, that makes sense, SAO and ALO limits aren't the same, and so we don't really have such an inconsistency.
And he left the others behind because of the party's size limit.

I had a thought that in the Alicization arc that Kirito is going to end up fighting the former leader of the Laughing Coffin (PoH?) in UW. My main reasoning behind this is just that can we honestly expect the top lieutenants of Laughing Coffin to try something with Kirito, and expect the leader to be a saint? I think not. And also, I don't see any other reason for there to be 4 machines on the facility, and 1 in some other mysterious place. And also we've already established that Kirito won't fight seriously (with two swords) unless there is something important going on, and it can't really be an SAO story arc with out dual wielding, am I right?

Well, we can only speculate at this point. I think it depends on how far they are willing to go to create the perfect A.L.I.C.E

Volume 13 cover:
http://dengekibunko.dengeki.com/newrele ... -891757-5/

Cool cover, but..? Is that Alice behind Kirito?
I don't have any other idea who it could be right now...maybe am missing something?

Oh my. That has to be Alice. Is this development also different from the web novel version? (As an earlier book 13 reveal was also different)

That's obviously Alice. Look at how shiny and golden she is.
And an action-y cover for the first time, that's unexpected.

Could it be right after the events at the end of volume 12?
"The sight of the black-clothed swordsman and the golden knight entangling with each other and getting hurled out of the tower burnt itself into Eugeo’s eyes."

Also at the Dengeki Bunko description, link above the image, there is this:
しかし、キリトとアリスの《武装完全支配術》が暴走して塔の外壁を破壊、二人はカセドラルの外へと投げ出されてしまう。

It says after breaking the outer wall Alice and Kirito were thrown out outside the cathredal.

Maybe that's the reason Alice has this look on her face.

l.kostas wrote:Could it be right after the events at the end of volume 12?
"The sight of the black-clothed swordsman and the golden knight entangling with each other and getting hurled out of the tower burnt itself into Eugeo’s eyes.

Well, I haven't read volume 12 yet (only read up to volume 11 on BT) but if what you said is correct, what do you think are Eugeo's feelings on seeing that sight?

"Oh crap, they're going to fall to their death."

...I mean... yeah.

Hmm yea..derp.

And what is this? http://dengekibunko.dengeki.com/newrele ... -891574-8/

Sword Art Online Comic Anthology.
Official, non-canon fan stories of sorts.

I'm just wondering...since the web-novels ended with the Alicization Arc, would it be the same for the LN series?