Sword Art Online Material Edition 08

Rondo of the Transient Sword is the eighth Material Edition of Sword Art Online. The first chapter was released as a Material Edition, and the rest is a side stories. It narrates Kirto and Asuna's adventure through the second floor of Aincrad.

This story also got a reboot as part of the Progressive Series in it's first Volume.

First Chapter
Four days after the second floor of Aincrad was unlocked, Kirito is disguised getting items to continue training, since his fame as a beater has now spreaded. He finds a scene in which someone is complaining to a blacksmith because it failed upgrading his Anneal Blade four times and now the sword was useless. He later finds Asuna, who also wanted to upgrade her rapier, so Kirito acepts the challenge to help her collect the materials needed to enhance her rapier.

Asuna takes Kirito to hunt wasp monsters and since they needed to kill 100 she decide to make a challenge to see who can kill 50 faster, being overwhelmed by Asuna's ability to connect critical hits, Kirito starts using his, until then secret, Martial Arts skill to regain some terrain, but at the end he loses to Asuna by one monster, so he had to treat her dinner.

Side Story Continuation
While looking for a place, Asuna selects one that Kirito knows very well, it had the most expensive dish in the game yet, and she ordered it, the cake was delicious and Asuna told him that the information was provided by Argo, and teases to ask her about Kirito's information, to what Kirito responds telling that he'll do the same, but Asuna misunderstood.

After an awkward moment they they finish eating and exit the restaurant, while walking and notice a new luck buff from the cake they just ate, while thinking what to do, Kirito decides to take Asuna to the blacksmith and try upgrading her Wind Fleuret. She gives the blacksmith Nezuha the materials needed and the Wind Fleuret, and Kirito and Asuna cross their fingers and the success rate increases to 97%, the process starts, but at the last moment the Wind Fleuret breaks in a thousand polygons, Asuna becomes speechless and Kirito asks Nezuha what happened, he explains that when the game was released a new penalty was added, Weapon Disappearance.

With tears on her eyes and a empty mind, Kirito takes Asuna to a bench where he proposes to buy a new rapier in another city, Asuna declines, and he takes her to an Inn, waits for her to check and enter her room. Then he decides to investigate and follows Nezuha to a Bar.

In the bar, Nezuha reunites with some friends, who congratulate him, while he informs of the items he got that day, then Kirito though of something, but one of Nezuha's friends detected him and tried to follow him. Kirito managed to escape with his hiding skill and then checked the time, and started running toward the Inn in which Asuna was staying, he enters abruptly into her room and tells her to materialize all her items and gives her instructions on how to do so. He starts looking in her pile of items and on the bottom he finds her Wind Fleuret.

Asuna recieves the Wind Fleuret as things calm down and Kirito explains about the methods to loose a weapon, the items propietry and the Materialize All function in the Menu. Asuna decides to thank him, as she was about to hit him for entering her room so abruptly, but she was happy of recovering her beloved weapon.

The next day they head out to the field and encounter two parties formed from members from the 1st floor boss raid fighting a field Boss and other 3 waiting in the back. After an abruptly change of eventes one party is in trouble and one of them, named Orlando enters in action wielding an Anneal Blade.