Sword Art Online II Episode 10

Death Chaser (死の追撃者) is the tenth episode of the Sword Art Online II anime adaptation, as well as the tenth episode in the Phantom Bullet Arc. It aired on September 6, 2014.

Plot
As Sterben (Death Gun) was about to shoot Sinon, he was interrupted by Kirito, who shot him with a sniper and then threw a smoke grenade, which forced Sterben to retreat. Kirito then grabbed the petrified Sinon and her sniper and ran for a nearby buggy and horse rental point. He put down Sinon in the only working buggy and then told Sinon to shoot the only functional mechanical horse to make it unusable. However, Sinon could not exert force on the trigger and they were caught up to by Sterben, who then took the mechanical horse to chase them. During the chase, after Kirito drove through a ramp, he helped Sinon pull the trigger. Though Sinon missed Sterben and hit the fuel tank of a truck, the explosion of the truck forced Sterben to abandon his horse and thus allowed Kirito and Sinon to escape. The two then drove into the desert, where they found a cave that they could hide in and avoid the next satellite scan. The pair then discussed whether to fight Death Gun, and then they got into an argument. Afterwards, both Sinon and Kirito told each other about having killed someone in the past.

New Characters

 * Musketeer X (cameo)

Inventory

 * Sterben
 * Accuracy International L115A3
 * Type 54 "Black Star"


 * Sinon
 * PGM Ultima Ratio Hecate II
 * Glock 18C with an extended magazine.


 * Musketeer X
 * «M14EBR» (Mk 14 Enhanced Battle Rifle)


 * Kirito
 * Kagemitsu G4
 * FN Five-Seven
 * Smoke Grenade (taken from Musketeer X)
 * «M14EBR» (taken from Musketeer X)

Locations

 * ISL Ragnarok
 * Lost City
 * Stadium
 * Desert
 * A cave

Adaptation Notes

 * Adapted from Volume 6 Chapter 12


 * The scene where Kirito used a first-aid kit to heal up in the cave was omitted.
 * The part mentioning the road obstacles that was slowing the buggy down and Death Gun getting closer was omitted.

Trivia

 * In the novel, the scene where Sterben was riding the mechanical horse was later referenced in the A Murder Case in the Area story where XaXa (Sterben) told Kirito that he would one day use a horse to hunt him down. This reference was omitted in episode 6 of the first season of the anime.
 * Although the novel had a furigana reading for the kanji part of Metamaterial Optical Distortion Camouflage (メタマテリアル光歪曲迷彩) as Optical Camo (オプチカル・カモ), in the anime, the term was read without accounting for the furigana.