Sword Art Online Episode 25

The World Seed (世界の種子) is the twenty-fifth episode and final episode of the Sword Art Online anime adaptation. It aired on December 22, 2012.

Plot
Kazuto continues riding his bicycle to the hospital, and arrives at the entrance. While running towards the entrance, someone jumps out towards him. When he realizes he has been cut in his right arm, he turns around to identify his attacker, Sugou, who, despite feeling a lot of pain, decides to kill Kazuto himself.

Kazuto falls on the pavement and Sugou starts to kick him. Finally deciding to finish him off, he tries to stab Kazuto, but fails, saying that it's because his right eye is still blurry (because Kirito had stabbed him in his right eye with the pain absorption level at 0, and Sugou said at level 3 and lower, it would affect the body in real life). Sugou tries again, but this time Kazuto grabs his arm and reverses the situation. He takes the knife, smashes Sugou's head against a car and puts the knife to his throat. Contemplating everything he had done to him and Asuna, he was about to kill him for revenge, but, in the end, he decides to spare him, leaving the fainted Sugou to the police.

Kazuto arrives at Asuna's room and moves the curtain only to find her waiting for him, so he comes up to her and tells her that everything is over now. They hug and kiss, afterwards Kazuto looks at the window and sees their SAO avatars, who hold their hands and leave together.

Months later, on May 16, 2025, Kazuto is at his new school. As one of his classes is now over and it is time for a lunch break, he walks to park outside the school, where Asuna is waiting for him. She greets him as Kirito but he reminds her that it's bad manners to call another person by the names they use in games, but they finally laugh when they remember that the school was specially formed for the survivors of SAO incident who were still students, so everybody must know their identities already.



Asuna reminds him that they could be watched from the cafeteria, so Kazuto backs off. Asuna brings out the sandwiches she prepared and they continue talking, about the current events.

Kazuto tells her on that snowy day, Sugou was arrested in the parking lot. He was then interrogated, trying to frame Kayaba for the expirements, but once one of the employees were sent for questioning, he confessed. The players who didn't escape from SAO were freed, and could return back to society. However, because of these expirements on ALO, the VRMMO's reputation was extremely damaged (first time because of the SAO death game, and now the ALO expirements). RECTO Progress Inc. was disbanded, and even RECTO suffered a huge loss. The VRMMO dangers also made Kazuto expect to see five or six other VRMMO's to die out eventually.

After telling her what had happened, Asuna asks what happened to the Commander. Kazuto tells her that he died, and the authorities suspected that he committed suicide, which Asuna is suprised at. Kazuto tells her that when SAO collapsed, he performed a high-output scan on himself, which was to copy his consciousness into the Internet. Kazuto also tells her that he had a 1/1000 of succeeding, and thinks about him, mainly because of meeting him in ALO and about the seed he had given him.

After spacing out thinking of Kayaba, Asuna reminds him of the meeting with the others, and then leans on him. In the cafeteria, as Rika is angrily watching them, so Keiko calls her to stop and reminds her of the reunion they're holding later.



Kazuto and Asuna are walking on the street holding hands and Suguha is following them quietly. Kazuto turns around to ask her if she has met Agil. She answers that yes, but only in ALO, so he warns her that he's equally tall in real life. When they arrive everyone is already there. Kazuto asks them why is everybody already there, so Rika explains that they arrived an hour earlier to greet them. Everybody congratulates Kazuto for wining SAO and freeing them from the game. Suguha only sits quietly in a corner, feeling out of place with the SAO survivors.

Later, Kazuto sits in the bar with Thinker and Klein and they chat with Agil about the World Seed and how the VRMMOs are developing. Agil tells them that it is going well, with 50 mirror servers, 100,000 downloads and 300 major servers that run it. The program Kayaba gave to Kirito was a program that ran a full-dive MMO called The Seed. He asked Agil to upload it on a server. Then everyone that could download it, could create their own virtual reality world. This "revived" the VRMMO virtual franchise. ALO data was transfered to other company, and other companies and even people began to run their own server of thier own game, and those began to be compatable with the others, achieving the goal that the same avatar can be used at different games.

In ALO, Leafa is flying alone and tries to reach the moon, but is stopped by the Altitude Warning sign. While falling, she remembers the recent events and in the clouds she is caught by Kirito, who came to get her since they were about to meet with the others soon on Yggdrasil City. She asks him why he did not returned to his SAO avatar. Kirito responds that his work was done. She teaches him of a new mechanic in the game, dancing, and opens a bottle which plays music for them, all just to lighten up the mood, since she is sad that she'll never be able to catch up to everyone else.

Kirito doesn't believe her, so he grabs Leafa and flies near to the World Tree, stopping near the tree to show her the new Aincrad Castle.



She asks why is it in ALO and he explains that this time he's going to finish it this time. He tells her that his stats were reset and asks if she will help him to she gracefully agrees. Klein yells that Kirito is late and then other players appear, among which are the survivors of SAO as well as players of the old ALO, with everybody heading to the New Aincrad. Asuna stops and calls for Kirito and Leafa. Kirito mutters something before he starts flying, surprising Asuna and Leafa, but then just says "lets go" heading to the floating castle.

Locations

 * New Aincrad
 * ALfheim Online (above Freelia, the capital city of Cait Sith)
 * Real World: Torokazawa Hospital, School, Dicey Cafe

Adaptation Notes

 * Adapted from Sword Art Online Light Novel Volume 4 Chapter 8 and 9


 * It isin't mentioned what happened to the known orange players (PKers) in the anime after the SAO incident, and in the novel, they are put under counseling and observed.
 * Kazuto doesn't tell the receptionists what happened in the anime, while in the novel he tells them and grabs a guest card in the progress.

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