Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-3179363-20131112084028/@comment-1173941-20131112092026

It looks like Reki's art style... though, I find it amusing that it says "A.L.I.C.E & 桐 ヶ 谷悠司" (Kirigaya Yūji)

That being said, CotM takes place inside Underworld... And in there, Kirito doesn't have the family name "Kirigaya". What's more, if Yuuji was in fact conceived during CotM, then due to circumstances, chances are he's either dead or in a deep sleep.

As for it "not connecting with SAO", that's not the case. It connects with SAO, it's just that Reki wrote it in a way that you could read it as its own standalone story, without needing to have read the rest of SAO to understand what's going on. (at least, that's my interpretation) seeing as everything that occurs in CotM coincides with the Web Novel of SAO...