Sword Art Online II Episode 08

Bullet of Bullets (バレット・オブ・バレッツ) is the eighth episode of the Sword Art Online II anime adaptation, as well as the eighth episode in the Phantom Bullet Arc. It aired on August 23, 2014.

Plot
After much persistence, Kirito was able to convince Sinon to tell him the details of the Bullet of Bullets (BoB) royale. Afterwards, Kirito stopped Sinon from leaving and asked her whether there were BoB participants whom she did not know about. He found out that, aside from him, there were three other players who had not participated in the former tournaments: Pale Rider, Jūshi X, and Sterben. Kirito deduced that one of these players was Death Gun. In return, Sinon demanded Kirito to explain his motives, which he reluctantly did, revealing that he intended to kill his enemy.

During the tournament, after sniping Shishigane, Sinon moved to a safe place where she checked on the satellite scan. She noticed that the closest players, aside from Lion King Richie, were Dyne and Pale Rider; thus, she decided to target them. Having found a sniping position on the west side of the bridge that Dyne had crossed, she prepared to take action. Upon hearing movement behind her, she tried to draw her side arm but was quickly countered by Kirito, who had unintentionally snuck up on her. He then asked Sinon not to take any action and to observe Dyne and Pale Rider's battle. After Pale Rider had defeated Dyne, he was suddenly shot with a silent stun bullet by Death Gun, who was hiding in the shadows of the bridge. As Death Gun prepared to fire, Kirito yelled at a confused Sinon to shoot the cloaked man.

New Characters

 * Lion King Richie (cameo)
 * Keith (cameo)
 * Shishigane
 * Pale Rider

Inventory

 * Lion King Richie
 * «Vickers» machine gun


 * Sinon
 * «PGM Ultima Ratio Hecate II»
 * Glock 18C with an extended magazine.


 * Dyne
 * SIG SG 550


 * Pale Rider
 * «ArmaLite AR17»


 * Death Gun
 * «Accuracy International L115A3»
 * «Type 54 "Black Star"»

Locations

 * «SBC Glocken»
 * «Governor's Office of SBC Glocken»
 * «ISL Ragnarok»

Adaptation Notes

 * Adapted from Volume 6, Chapter 9 and 10


 * In the novel, the advertisement for Bullet of Bullets is in huge red font.
 * In the novel, Sinon did not ignore Kirito's request for information.
 * The scene where Kirito was acting girly in front of other players was not part of the novel.
 * The scene where Sinon thought that Kirito was boasting when he showed her the BoB participant list was omitted.
 * In the novel, the Satellite Scan map was displayed on the screen of the satellite terminal, but in the anime, this was changed into a hologram.
 * Sinon's comment about people seeing Kirito in underwear was omitted.

Errors

 * The second kanji in 夏侯惇 (Kakouton) was incorrectly written as 候 (season, weather), instead of 侯 (marquis, lord).
 * Sinon's avatar type was erroneously written as M9000, which is Kirito's avatar type, even though it should be F4000.

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