Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25556796-20141019094413/@comment-6697950-20141030063208

So, if he's not in god mode to be able to leave whenever he wants, he's automatically forgetting about Asuna? He doesn't have the ability to leave whenever he wants and, technically, less than a day has passed in the real world, so he could allow himself to take the slow route and work his way up to the exit. Doesn't mean that he stopped thinking about Asuna. When he heard Asuna's voice at the end of volume 14, his reaction was "It had a ring so nostalgic, it made me want to cry; a ring so dear I almost went mad.". Of course, then he ended up in a double coma and will pretty much be an empty husk until after Asuna comes to the world, as far as I understand.