Sword Art Online - Ordinal Scale Volume 02 (manga)

Sword Art Online - Ordinal Scale Volume 02 (劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール- 2) is the second volume of the Ordinal Scale manga adaptation. The volume covers the events of the Ordinal Scale movie from the aftermath of Eiji's assault on the Fuurinkazan guild up to Asuna informing Kirito about losing her Sword Art Online (SAO) memories.

Summary
As Ordinal Scale (OS) continued surging in popularity, Kirigaya Kazuto (Kirito) encountered a mysterious white-hooded girl in augmented reality and began investigating the appearances of Sword Art Online bosses in Ordinal Scale. Meanwhile, during one such battle against a Sword Art Online boss with her friends, Asuna sacrificed herself to protect Silica from the boss's attacks, losing all of her hit points (HP) as a result. In the aftermath of the battle, Asuna suddenly found herself unable to recall anything from her days in Sword Art Online.

Chapter 5
On April 26, 2026, as he was practicing fighting in Ordinal Scale at the Yoyogi Park in Shibuya Ward while waiting for Asuna to arrive for their date, Kirito suddenly encountered a mysterious, white-hooded girl, who could only be perceived via the Augma and vanished just as abruptly after pointing him to a certain direction. As Asuna arrived at the scene just a moment later, Kazuto was forced to postpone his thoughts on the strange encounter in favour of his date with his girlfriend.

The couple walked to a nearby café, where one of the topics they discussed was Eiji, the player whom Asuna believed to be a fellow Sword Art Online Survivor. The girl remembered him as a member of the Knights of the Blood guild named Nautilus, who possessed a debilitating fear of death that had prevented him from participating in boss battles in the death game, in great contrast to Eiji in Ordinal Scale. As their conversation switched to the topic of their upcoming stargazing trip, Yui suddenly interrupted their discussions, notifying them that she had discovered something regarding OS event battles.

Once Asuna, Kirito, Lisbeth, Silica, and Sinon had gathered at Asuna and Kirito's log house in ALfheim Online (ALO), Yui unveiled the findings of her analysis of all the previous Ordinal Scale boss battles, concluding that the boss spawn points relative to each other were identical to the ones in Old Aincrad. Since this knowledge allowed them to predict the venue for the next boss battle, most of the girls, excluding Sinon due to her being busy with her part-time job, decided to participate in the next event battle together. Meanwhile, lacking interest in joining the battle himself, Kirito was more concerned about Klein's unusual absence since the previous night.