Talk:Sword Art Online Episode 16/@comment-186.176.222.229-20121013214904/@comment-24.184.1.43-20121014072313

Spoilers:

The end of Volume 4 is May 2025 (four months after Kirito saves Asuna from ALO) and the beginning of Volume 5 takes place in November 2025. At this point, they had been a couple for a year (since you would count the fact they became a couple during October 2024 while still in SAO).