Board Thread:New on Sword Art Online Wiki/@comment-68.56.145.104-20150420231546/@comment-27384850-20160519230454

The synopsis for Clover's Regret was released alongside the announcement, the synopsis was what started the rumors. That said, if she is the protagonist of the series then she won't have a death event in SAO like Kawahara said might happen. The synopsis mentions that the protagonist is an SAO survivor, so if it's Argo then she can't have died in Progressive without either making Progressive non-canon or changing the canon of the series. The third option here is placing CR in an alternate universe, but I doubt that'll be the case. My guess is she stays alive and shows up in v18 (if not already having shown up in v17), and I doubt she'll be the protagonist for CR.