Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-121.219.157.62-20150401050156/@comment-6697950-20160825220025

ALfheim Online was literally a retexturised copy of Sword Art Online. A copy of Aincrad was still left on ALO's server and the new company that bought out ALO after the fall of RECT Progress just found it and decided to incorporate it into the game. Kazuto had nothing to do with this.

As for Pina, Silica ported her SAO avatar (again, ALO is literally a copy of Sword Art Online, along with all character data). Pina was ported along with the avatar. Again, Kazuto had nothing to do with it.