Sword Art Online - Project Alicization Volume 01 (manga)

​Sword Art Online - Project Alicization Volume 01 (ソードアート・オンライン プロジェクト・アリシゼーション)​ is the first volume of the Project Alicization manga adaptation. The volume partially covers Volume 9 of the light novels.

Summary
Kirito woke up in Underworld, a virtual world that he was a tester for his job. Unaware of how he got there, and unable to establish contact with the real world, he had to look for an exit in Underworld. He then met Eugeo, a young woodcutter, who wanted to find Alice, his childhood friend, kidnapped a few years earlier by one of the representatives of the highest authority in the world: an Integrity Knight. Determined to elucidate all these mysteries, both of the boys did not hesitate to unite their forces. Then began a long and perilous adventure to the Capital.

Chapter.001
As part of a part-time job, Kirigaya Kazuto (Kirito) entered a virtual world through a device known as Soul Translator. In this world, with his memories of his real life suppressed, Kirito was an eleven-year-old woodcutter at a remote village. With his workmate and childhood friend Eugeo, he was assigned the lifelong Sacred Task of felling the Gigas Cedar, a giant tree that had withstood more than three hundred years of diligent daily chopping over several generations, in order for their village, Rulid, to acquire lands to expand its fields and pastures. Due to their different opinion on their job, the two boys began tickling each other upon finishing their quota for the morning. Just then, they were interrupted by the scolding of Alice Zuberg, their friend, as well as the village chief's daughter, who had come to bring her homemade lunch to them. While discussing how they could maintain their food's «Life» longer, the three children decided to search for ice in the forbidden «Mountain Range at the Edge».