Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28177874-20160410180008

I am re-reading Sword Art Online right now and in SAO:Progress Joe from the Aincrad Liberation Squad makes sometimes an appearance, the main thing he does is spewing unsubstantiated accusations and thus stirring up the front liners whlie they are already tense ( He was the first to call Kirito a Beta tester, he claimed someone died through the scam of the Legend Braves, and he tires to stirr up the situation further when ALS, DKB and Kirito clash because of the Elf War Quest).

.Somehow while reading it I got the Idea that possibly Joe is Jonny Black, to me it seems like he intentionally tries to drive the front liners to start killing each other (just like Morte) and furthermore there are already this small similarities, between him and Jonny Black. Both are wearing a mask, both are using a dagger/knife with negative effects (Jonny Blacks used poisened dagger(s), Joe is in possesion of "Numb Dagger" a boss drop that occasionally stuns the target) and Joe could be just a nick with wich the mebers of ALS adress him as while his System Name is Jonny ( Jonny "Black" is probably just a nick name just like "Red Eyed" Xaxa). Naturally those similarities could be just plain concidence.

Well at this point everything is pure specualtion and at the pace SAO progress is going right now it could be very well anywere between a few years or a decade (and more) before this speculation is confirmed or proven wrong but I wanted to know what others think of it.  