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Sword Art Online Volume 18, Yen Press release
The full story has been told.

This tale ends here.

But Kirito and Asuna and Leafa and Sinon and others will join Alice in battle beyond this point.

When next they gather, swords in hand, it will be for the final, greatest battle of all: the Inter-Intelligence War.