Sword Art Online Material Edition 08

Rondo of the Transient Sword is the eighth Material Edition of Sword Art Online. The first chapter was released as a Material Edition and the rest is a Side Storie

First Chapter
Four days after the second floor of Aincrad was unlocked, Kirito is disguised getting items to continue training, since his fame as a beater has now spreaded. He finds a scene in which someone is complaning to a blacksmith because it failed upgrading his sword four times and now the sword was useless. He later finds Asuna, who also wanted to upgrade her rapier, so Kirito acepts the challenge to help her collect the materials needed to enhance her rapier.

Asuna takes Kirito to hunt wasp monsters and since they needed to kill 100 she decide to make a challenge to see who can kill 50 faster, being overwhelmed by Asuna's ability to connect critical hits, Kirito starts using his, until then secret, Martial Arts skill to regain some terrain, but at the end he loss to Asuna by one monster, so he had to treat her dinner.

Side Story Continuation
While looking for a place, Asuna selects one that Kirito knows very well, it had the most expensive dish in the game yet, and she ordered it, the cake was delicious and Asuna told him that the information was provided by Argo, and teases to ask her about Kirito's information, to what Kirito responds telling that he'll do the same, but Asuna missunderstood.

After a akward moment they continue walking and notice a new luck buff from the cake they just ate, while thinking what to do, Kirito decides to take Asuna to the blacksmith and try upgrading her Wind Fleuret.