Kibaou

Kibaou (キバオウ) is one of the 10,000 players who were trapped in «Sword Art Online». He speaks with a Kansai dialect accent.

Appearance
According to Kirito, he is a short yet solidly built man with sienna, spiky (cactus-styled) hair. He also has a small sienna goatee and brown eyes and wears a scale mail armor with a rather large one-handed sword on his back.

Personality
Kibaou is a power-hungry person who abuses authority to accumulate more wealth and power by extorting taxes and items through intimidation.

Aria in the Starless Night
When he is first introduced in the series, he is seen blaming the beta testers for the deaths of the beginner players and demands that all the beta-testers apologize for the deaths that they "caused" and give out all the items they had acquired to other players. However, Kibaou is later silenced by Agil, who defends the beta testers by revealing that the free guidebook, which can be obtained for free at any store and is written by said beta testers.

Kibaou is one of the players who were part of the boss raid of the 1st Floor and also the leader of group E, in charge of handling the sentinels, during the battle.

The Day Before
Kibaou was mentioned to have been regarded as the leader of the clearing group. Fed with the false information regarding the 25th Floor boss, the clearing group suffered massive casualties.

Kibaou retired from the front lines after the debacle. «Knights of the Blood» took charge of the clearing group afterwards.

Morning Dew Girl
Kibaou's faction was well known to be very corrupt as they abused their authority even on children by extorting taxes and items. With the growing displeasure of him being on the sidelines too much, he ordered the army squad led by Corbatz to take on the 74th Floor's boss, The Gleam Eyes, to prove that he was still contributing to clearing the game. After their slaughter, he was placed under a lot of heat. It was at this point that he staged a coup, stranding the guild's leader, Thinker, in a very high level dungeon and used his influence to stop the rest of «The Army» from interfering. At the end, after Thinker was rescued by Kirito and Asuna from the dungeon, he was finally overthrown.

Kibaou was logged out after Kirito killed Heathcliff, prematurely clearing the game.

Gallery

 * See: Kibaou/Image Gallery

Trivia

 * Kibaou's name is translated as "Fang King", the word Kiba meaning "fang" and ou meaning "king".
 * In the original story, the topic of Diavel's death after the defeat of Illfang the Kobold Lord was brought up by Diavel's party member, named Lind, while Kirito's status as a beta tester was brought up by a member of Kibaou's party. Kibaou himself remained silent during the scene. In the anime adaptation, Kibaou was the one who brought up the topic of Diavel's death, as Lind's role was cut out from the episode.