Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Volume 02

Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online II 2nd Squad Jam (I) (ソードアート・オンライン オルタナティブ ガンゲイル・オンラインII ―セカンド・スクワッド・ジャム ＜上＞―) is the 2nd volume of a Gun Gale Online spin-off light novel series, written by Sigsawa Keiichi, illustrated by Kuroboshi Kouhaku and supervised by Kawahara Reki.

Preview
All of a sudden, the 2nd Squad Jam was announced to all players in Gun Gale Online. Although the victor of the first tournament, LLENN (Kohiruimaki Karen), heard the notification, she did not really feel interested in it.

However, a mysterious stalker crept up on Karen and told her that people would die on the night of the 2nd Squad Jam. The man claimed that the "worst case" could only be avoided by defeating Pitohui, who would be participating in the tournament. After much anguish, Karen decided to participate in the tournament, but......

Prologue
On March 16, 2026, nineteen days before the 2nd Squad Jam, Kohiruimaki Karen was cornered by a man, who had slammed his right hand on the wall beside her left ear. When Karen thought that her situation was reminiscent of a shoujo manga trope, the man, a little shorter than her, suddenly asked whether she had ever seriously loved someone to the point she would be willing to devote her life to them. After she declined, the man exclaimed that she absolutely did not understand how he felt, confusing Karen as a result.

SECT.1 - Soldier Tea Party
Two days after the first squad jam, Karen and the members of the rhytchmic gymnastics club of the high school attached to the university where Karen studied, befriended each other after discovering their real life information. In Karens apartment, the rhythmic gymnastics club watched together with Karen the recording of the first squad jam. Impressed by Karen's action's after jumping out of the suitcase and killing all enemies before her, they watched this scene again and again. Karen stated she could only do that because she was LLENN, but was immediately told that that it's the player who controls the avatar, therefore the winner would not only be LLENN, but also Karen.

The first SJ was a battle royal tournament, but unlike the Bullet of Bullets it consisted of teams up to six members. It was sponsored by a private indiviidual and therefore smaller in scale than the BoB, but nevertheless exciting news for the entire GGO playerbase. The winner's of the first Squad Jam participated only in a two member team. A rough-looking giant with exceptional sniping skills called "M" and the pink chibi avatar called LLENN.

The rewatch continued to the appearance of the members of the rhythmic gymnastics club and everyone gave their comments to everyone's avatar appearance in the game. Karen asked again if everyone wanted to watch the decisive battle. All agreed in unison, saying they needed to watch how Karen killed them and wanted her "unfogivingly harsh commentary on how we died" and learn from it to win the next SJ. Karen fulfilled their wish. They told her how the rhythmic gymnastics club had an awful teamwork at first, but after their coeach suggested to use FullDive technology to train teamwork, they became better after discovering GGO and formed their team "SHINC".

Saki, leader of the rhythmic gymnastics club, enquired if Karen would participate if a second SJ would be held. After pondering for a while, Karen declined and told the the chances of her participating would be low, until something extraordinary happened. The conversation afterwards went to from RL to GGO back to RL and so forth, with Karen even explainng her height complex and showing her P90 model to them. Before parting, Saki told Karen she really wanted her to participate in the second SJ.