Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30882723-20170104074912/@comment-28251580-20170104120500

v19 is exactly what this was about. everyone anticipated volume 18 - end of the main series. Then we got Kirito will return, and everyone had no idea what was going on, even Kawahara himself said at first, that he isn't sure how to continue yet. By now, we know it will be Cradle.