Sword Art Online - Fairy Dance Volume 01 (manga)

Sword Art Online - Fairy Dance (ソードアート・オンライン フェアリィ・ダンス) is a manga adaptation of the light novel series by Kawahara Reki. This manga covers Volume 3 and Volume 4 of the light novel series and is illustrated by Hazuki Tsubasa.

Summary
Kirito returns from «Sword Art Online», only to find that Asuna (along with 300 people) is still asleep, and is witnessed in another game, called «ALfheim Online».

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Two years ago the next generation VRMMO, Sword Art Online (SAO) was launched. On its launch day its creator, Kayaba Akihiko trapped 10,000 players inside the game and claimed that if the player died in the game, they would die in the real world.

Among those trapped was Kirito, who found Kayaba's disguise as a comrade in arms and fought with him on the 75th Floor of Aincrad, defeated him and cleared the game.

Two months after finally logging out of SAO, Kirigaya Kazuto decides to have a kendo match with his sister, Kirigaya Suguha, he doesn't wear protection, but is able to keep up with her. After the practice, he tells her that he might take up kendo again, if she teaches him. She considers telling him a secret, but at the last moment she decides not to. As Kazuto leaves for the hospital, his sister remembers how she discovered that they were cousins rather that siblings while he was trapped in SAO.

In the hospital, Kazuto thinks about his beloved, Yuuki Asuna, who is still trapped in the SAO servers with another three hundred players. In Asuna's room he encounters her father, Yuuki Shouzou, and meets her fiance, Sugou Nobuyuki. After Shouzou leaves, Sugou confesses that Asuna hates him, but he can do as he pleases because he has the right due to his department maintaining the server that keeps Asuna alive. Kazuto wishes to pierce him with a sword when he announces that the ceremony will be held a month later and asks him not to approach Asuna or her family.

Back at home Kazuto is depressed due to his inability to do anything to help Asuna. At that moment, Suguha enters his room and cheers him up before both of them fall asleep on his bed. Kazuto wakes Suguha the next morning and she runs away, then he notices a mail from Agil (Andrew Gilbert Mills), a friend from SAO with a picture of an avatar that resembles Asuna.

At Andrew's restaurant, he tells Kazuto about a game called ALfheim Online and its basics, before explaining that the picture was taken from a place in the game. Kazuto notices that RECTO is the company that designed the game and decides to investigate, in order to find out whether Asuna really is trapped within the game.

At home, Suguha is ashamed and in pain because she likes Kazuto, but he cherishes Asuna instead. Kazuto enters the game and creates his character. Two characters are preparing to fly again, while Kazuto, in his avatar, Kirito, finds himself in a forest instead of the starting city of his race.