Sword Art Online Episode 16

The Country of Fairies (妖精たちの国) is the sixteenth episode of the Sword Art Online anime adaptation. It aired on October 20, 2012.

Plot
Kazuto comes and visit Agil at his cafe, Dicey Cafe and tease him about his business with his Cafe before questioning him with the the photo that he has sent. Agil shows him a video game call Alfheim Online which is the successor to the NerveGear. Agil explains that Alfheim means "Land of the Fairies"

Agil tells Kazuto that the game is popular, but the system is not the same as SAO. It encourages Player Killing and emphasis on the player's skill which means that there are no actual levels, combat is depends on the player's athletic ability. Also the players are given the abilitiy to fly, the player are able to fly using flight engine but Agil heard it is hard to control. Kazuto is very enthusiastic to try to control the wings but realizing he was getting off topic and ask what did the game had to do with Asuna. Agil shows the pictures again, and explain that the photo was taken inside Alfhiem at World Tree which is a castle at the top of the tree. The Goal of the Game was that players were divided into nice races and would have a race to reach to the castle first. Five players try to reach the top by lining up and flew up but fail though they mange to take some pictures. In the Picture they found a cage and inside the cage was the girl, Agil show. Kazuto question why Asuna was in the game than seeing RCT progress at the back of the game, he recall the conversation he had with Nobuyuki which could be the answer. Agil tells him to go save Asuna before Kazuto leaves with the game.

Back at home, Suguha is thinking about what happen last night with Kazuto but quickly try to forget and ate a muffin but with the sudden appearance of Kazuto, she chokes on her food and tries to reach her juice. Kazuto give her the juice. Kazuto thanks Sugha for making him feel better than leave to his room. Kazuto looks at his NerveGear, recalling his encounter with Nobuyuki before putting the gear on.

A voice of the system welcome Kazuto, telling him to enter his character name and gender, Kazuto types down "Kirito" and chooses his race, Spriggan. Kirito is than transported to the Spriggan's home town but there was a malfunction, Kirito falls into a black hole. Kazuto finds himself in the forest

New Characters

 * Recon
 * Kagemune

Adaptation Notes

 * Adapted Sword Art Online Light Novel Volume 03