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.

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. When they had finished their quota for the morning, Kirito and Eugeo began grappling each other. They stopped upon hearing the scolding voice of their friend Alice, the village chief's daughter studying the Sacred Arts in Rulid Village, who had come to bring her homemade lunch to them. While discussing how they could maintain their food's «Life» longer, they decided to search for ice in the forbidden «Mountain Range at the Edge».