Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-6697950-20150323181637

Ashleee wrote: He only defeated the game creator because the creator of the entire anime  didn't want him to die. Itou did not write the plot. The actual author didn't make the anime. He wrote a novel that Itou adapted into an anime.

And where did you see his health going up? If you ignore the silly and confusing "rising from the dead" metaphor that only exists in the anime, you'll see that Kirito's body becomes transparent. That's because his avatar is in the process of being deleted. But, apparently, using his willpower, Kirito was able to delay this process long enough to finish off Heathcliff. He still disperses into polygons in the end, so he did not restore his HP.

And for the record, you don't need to quote someone to reply to their post. So, you don't need to make two posts in a row to reply to two different people either.