Thread:TRon69-SAO/@comment-3250527-20140827232818/@comment-24495343-20140828002937

In Japan, English is taught at school, not German. Most Japanese will not understand the words "Sterben" and "Spiegel". This makes the two characters a bit mysterious.

Edit: I have found something in the light novel.

As Yui answered this, nurse Aki added ' it isn’t like that'. Asuna looked at her, and the nurse frowned her bewitching eyebrows before saying in an extremely tense expression,

“This is a German medical term. It’s read as…«Sterben».”





“Ster…ben.”

Asuna had never heard of this word before. Nurse Aki looked at her troubled expression, hesitated for a little bit and then said with a somewhat hoarse voice,

“It means…«death». It’s a common term in a hospital…when a patient just passes away…” [1] [1] This only applies to Japanese hospitals.

Nonsense, this is not a German medical term. It is only the word for death.