Sword Art Online Extra Edition

Sword Art Online Extra Edition (ソードアート・オンライン Extra Edition) is a special episode that aired on December 31, 2013 on Tokyo MX, BS11 and Niconico Douga and streamed worldwide two hours after on Crunchyroll, Daisuki, and other streaming sites. . Most of the episode is a recap with some swimsuit scenes mixed in, while the remaining 20 minutes of the episode shows an original new story about the characters' quest in the Underwater Temple of ALfheim Online. This episode features a new ending theme song called Niji no Oto, sung by Aoi Eir.

Plot
The episode begins with Kazuto (Kirito) and Suguha arriving at the SAO Survivor School on his motorbike. After meeting up with Asuna, Rika (Lisbeth) and Keiko (Silica), Kazuto left to attend emergency counseling, while the girls headed off to use the changing rooms to change into swimsuits.



In the locker room, the girls compared their respective styles. Meanwhile, Kazuto arrived at the office to find the counselor and Kikuouka Seijirou waiting for him. The counselor left and Kikuouka dumped a pile of snacks onto the table and placed a recorder to discuss Kazuto's experience in Sword Art Online to determine why Kayaba Akihiko did what he did. Kazuto started explaining at the part when Akihiko first announced that the true nature of Sword Art Online was to create a setting of a «Death Game», and how Kirito later left Klein in Starting City to become a solo player.



At the swimming pool, the girls played in the water, with Suguha getting in with a buoyancy ring, which Rika released the air out of it and teased Suguha about her breasts being able to keep her afloat. However Asuna stopped her and then told Suguha that they would start teaching her how to swim by first having her hold her head underwater. Back at the counselor's office, Kazuto recounted the fight with Illfang the Kobold Lord and the reason as to why he became a solo player and taking on all the hate towards beta players by becoming a «beater» so that the beta testers would not be discriminated by other players. Seijirou concluded that living a life of a beater should have been painful, but Kazuto assured him that the true pain was losing someone he cared the most about, with a flashback shown of Kirito mourning for Sachi's death.



At the pool, Asuna guided Suguha along the pool as she slowly learned to swim with her head underwater. The girls then took a break, when Suguha asked them how they had all met her brother. Silica told them how Kirito saved her, and then helped her bring Pina back. Rika wondered if Kirito really did think Keiko resembled Suguha, teasing that their breasts did not look alike. Rika then proceeded to tell them that her first meeting with Kirito was not as dramatic as Keiko's. A flashback occurred, starting where Lisbeth met Kirito in her blacksmith shop. Rika then recounted to the girls how Kirito had jumped into X'rphan the White Wyrm's nest to save her, and later got them out of there.

As she finished telling them, both Suguha and Asuna apologized for Kirito's actions. At the counselors office, Kazuto explained to Seijirou about boss raids and how dangerous they were to the players, which had him recount the battle with The Gleam Eyes and how he had defeated it with his Dual Blades skill. Kazuto then explained about how players were even more dangerous than the monsters, due to them coming up with more ways to kill other players. Then a flashback of when Kirito was with Godfree and Kuradeel on the 55th Floor and Kuradeel paralysed both Kirito and Godfree, almost killing Kirito, was shown. Kazuto then recounted his duel with Heathcliff, and stated that this duel gave him the clue to his true identity.



At the pool, the girls had lunch. Sughua expressed jealousy at Asuna's cooking style, but quickly hid it when questioned and asked how Asuna met Kirito. Asuna was reluctant, but when Keiko and Rika insisted, she recounted to the girls how she first met Kirito on the 1st Floor after the boss raid meeting, and stated that he showed her that there was joy in living in Aincrad. Back at the counselors office, Kazuto told Seijirou about his battle with Healthcliff and how he defeated him as well as recalled what had happened after he defeated Kayaba Akihiko. A flashback then happened, showing Kirito's battle with Heathcliff, and his meeting with Akihiko after he defeated the game prematurely. After Kazuto finished explaining about his experience in Sword Art Online, he got a message from Asuna which contained a picture of her with Suguha, Rika and Keiko at the pool. This then started a talk about Kazuto joining ALfheim Online to find and rescue Asuna.



As Kazuto started recounting his time in ALO, Suguha told the girls how she had met Kirito in ALO and how she had thought he was rude. A flashback then occured of when Kirito was with Leafa at the Lily of the Valley Pavilion in Swilvane and Kirito was upset about needing to get to the World Tree, which then prompted Leafa to offer to go with him to the World Tree. Asuna thanked Suguha for what she had done, which Suguha replied that it was okay, as she had fun. Rika then asked her what she thought of Kirito, before knowing that he was her brother, to which she replied by saying that he was quick, strong-willed and that she had faith in him, after knowing he was protecting someone. Rika then teased her once again, saying that it was nice that Suguha and Kazuto were so close, but that she was worried that it would become a forbidden love, which caused Suguha to blush and changed the subject to swimming.



Meanwhile, Kazuto explained to Seijirou that he had not defeated the Grand Quest and reached Asuna on his own, he had done it thanks to the help of Leafa, Recon, Sakuya, Alicia Rue and the Cait Sith and Sylph warriors. Seijirou stated that Oberon would have shown up and also said that he thought that it would be impossible for a mere player to defeat a GM. A flashback then occured of when Oberon had Kirito stuck to the ground with gravity magic, with Asuna chained up, and Kayaba Akihiko appeared to Kirito, helping him. Kazuto stated to Seijirou that in a game, a GM is pretty much a god, however, that power is only granted to them by the system, they did not earn it, nor train for that power. Kazuto then finished the meeting with Seijirou, saying that he knew the rest of the story.



That evening in ALO, Kirito and Klein were sitting on the beach whilst the girls played in the wate. As they look at the girls, Agil appeared, startling them. In a flashback, it was shown that Yui had talked with Kirito and Asuna about seeing a whale, and Yui in the end said that she wanted to ride one. Thus, after the training at the pool and Kazuto's meeting with Seijirou, the group met up on Turle Island in ALfheim Online before going on a quest rumored to end with a whale.

After Asuna cast «Water Breathing», Kirito led the party underwater while Asuna guided Leafa. As they noticed the temple and a quest NPC, Klein quickly swam over to meet the NPC, thinking that the only people that would need help underwater would be mermaids. However, as Klein began offering his help and looked up at the NPC, he noticed that the NPC, named Nerakk was actually an old man, which caused his jaw to drop in shock. While Klein was frozen at the turn of events, Kirito initiated the «Deep Sea Plunderers» quest. Nerakk explained that thieves stole a pearl from him and requested the group to get it back, though Leafa became a little suspicious as she found the NPC's name to be very familiar, but she dismissed the idea. In the temple, as the Kirito and Klein were discussing about supporting Leafa due to her lack in expertise in underwater fights, they accidentally walked into a drain trap. As soon as they managed to barely swim out of the trap, an Armachthys swam out of the trap. As everyone was fighting the monster, Leafa remembered everyone helping her and also tried to directly attack the creature, rather than staying behind for support, but the Armachthys became aggravated and countered with a whirlpool, knocking her into the trap. Kirito then jumped into the whirlpool to save Leafa, defeating the Armachthys at the same time. As Kirito saved Leafa, she had a flashback to when she was a young child and had fallen into the water and would have drowned, if it were not for Kazuto saving her.



After proceeding deeper into the dungeon and defeating a large crab monster, the group found the pearl needed to complete the quest, Kirito and the others headed back to Nerakk to give it to him. As Kirito was handing the pearl to Nerakk, Lisbeth commented on not seeing the thieves at all during the quest, which caused Asuna to call out to Kirito to stop him from handing Nerakk the "pearl" and, after inspecting which, Asuna discovered it was actually an egg. Nerakk then transformed into his true form, Kraken the Abyss Lord, who Yui stated was much stronger than the floor bosses from New Aincrad. As Kraken the Abyss Lord was about to defeat the party and take the egg, they were saved by Leviathan the Sea Lord. Kraken the Abyss Lord left soon after, stating that he would meet them again. Leviathan then took the egg from Asuna, which caused a Quest Completion box to open up. Leviathan then sent them up to the surface on the top of a white humpback whale.

In the epilogue, Seijirou once again tries to get in contact with Kazuto.

New Characters

 * Kikuoka Seijirou
 * Counseling teacher

Known Monsters

 * Giant crab
 * Whale

Named Monsters

 * Armachthys

Named Bosses

 * Kraken the Abyss Lord

Named NPCs

 * Nerakk (Kraken's NPC form)
 * Leviathan the Sea Lord

Spells

 * «Water Breathing»
 * Unnamed Sylph Buff

Locations

 * «SAO Survivor School»
 * «Turle Island»
 * «Yggdrasil City»
 * Underwater Temple

Errors

 * When Kirito accepted the quest from Nerakk, Nerakk's quest icon mispells "Quest Accepted" as "Qest Accepeted" and after when they listen to Nerakk, "Quest In Progress" is mispelled as as "Qest Progress"
 * Nerakk's quest icon showed a "?" when the quest was not yet accepted and a "!" when the quest was accepted, even though it should have been vice versa.
 * On Kirito's phone screen, Asuna's name is written as Yuuki Asuna (結城 明日菜) instead of Yuuki Asuna (結城 明日奈).
 * Leafa is still being written as Leefa in ALO's menus in this episode.
 * The phone Leafa using is shown as having an earphone jack cap when viewing from the back of the phone, but that is not drawn when viewing from the front of the phone.
 * The ring of words that appeared at the end of Leafa's buff spell only showed "hogg margr illt", instead of the full incantation.

Adaption Notes

 * Adapted from episodes 1-25, with the addition of original content.


 * Kazuto's tandem was Honda's Thailand-made Dash125 in the novel, but it was changed to a Yamaha DT125R at Mr. Kawahara's suggestion. While it is still 125cc, its length is more than 25cm longer.
 * The original scene where Kirito reacted to the undressing Asuna and told her that she had misunderstood his intentions (near the end of Episode 10) had been cut out of the flashback of whole series of event.

Trivia

 * The reason why there were swimsuits in the episode was because Reki Kawahara misread the original requirement and wrote four times the amount of script as originally intended.

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