Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-121.54.44.95-20140101175241/@comment-6697950-20140101195544

1. The revival item works only in the first 10 seconds after the HP of a player reaches 0. That's the time needed for a person to shatter to polygons and for the kill switch to be activated.

2. Akihiko intentionally raised the death rule for Asuna and Kirito as he wanted to talk to them after the battle. That was the only exception to the death rule, aside from Akihiko himself not being affected by the rule.

3. The 300 intercepted players are part of the group that actually survived (they were intercepted while the players were being gradually logged out as the server's security was disabled as soon as the game was cleared; it was impossible to affect the servers before that). Dead people are dead.

2 players aren't most. Give me an example of a dead player still being alive aside from Kirito and Asuna, since they were a special case.