Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-68.5.216.252-20151123232331/@comment-35248429-20190904215934

2001:F40:904:C79C:B550:E1B3:5142:6D02 wrote: if they died wouldnt that floating orb thing still be there as in the episode where kirito dies trying to get to the world tree it shows a timer that showed somewhere around 587 and kirito said that he would buy them 3 minutes and 587 is 9 minutes and 47 seconds so wouldnt we be able to see kirito floating orb thingy when they entered the boss room? my guess is once 3 minutes was over kirito trusted asuna to have finished the boss battle and he escaped allowing the raid party to enter the room and found out that they were finished as kirito went back to the wooden cottage and cooked a feast for asuna and her teammates trusting that she had defeated the boss battle and would have wanted to celebrate The three minutes was the amount of time he could hold them off for the Sleeping knights to enter the boss room.

Over two minutes had passed when they finally get inside. Quite a long amount of time passes between them fighting the boss, confronting the other guild again afterwards, opening the teleport gate, and going back to the monument of swordsman before they finally go to the cabin.

Given the state their HP was in when the door shuts, and how many enemies are left, the chance that kirito and klein survive is almost nil.