User blog comment:B00m666/The special edition on 31 dec/@comment-1173941-20131007124040

My only hope is that last sentence...

"Meanwhile, Kirito comes in contact with someone..."

Kikouka? That IS how Phantom Bullet starts, (excluding the prologue) which wouldn't conflict with canon, seeing as we don't know WHAT the girls were doing, while Kirito was talking to Kikouka.