Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-29058994-20160722021459

If I may offer my opinon on the matter...could Kirito have been able to defeat Yuuki? Possibly. However, as it stands to my viewpoint, even with Excalibur equipped, that would likely mean going after her with the attitude and mindset he had while fighting Heathcliff and Sterben, with the intent to kill. Now if one ponders about it, that might not be pleasant for Asuna: imagine your boyfriend, the one you loved who showed you there's more to the world than what you had experienced, seeking to kill your best friend, the one who inspired you to stand up for your beliefs. All that might result in something invaluable between them all irreparably breaking, and that's something I think we'd rather not find out. So seeing if Kirito could have won over Yuuki is probably something we're never going to see. But Kirito doesn't seem to mind too much, since this is not like SAO or the Death Gun incident, and hey, at least it'll give him a standard to compare and improve himself against.

Sorry if my opinion clashed with anyone else's or stepped on any toes.