Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30150700-20161005162327/@comment-30150700-20161007184331

ZeHaffen wrote: He didn't use the revival item, and he certainly didn't use two considering it was literally impossible for him to have gotten a second one. Kirito got the item on Christmas Eve 2023 (the floor was not open on Christmas Eve 2022) and the game was cleared in early November 2024, there is no possible way for a second one to have been obtained.

As for when he did it, we don't know. He could very well have, before the duel, set it to move anyone who died onto that floating platform, as everyone else was paralyzed by the system so only Kirito should have been able to die, and Asuna joined them because she was able to break paralysis. Good point about the revival item theory. I hadn't looked at the dates to see if it was even feasible. Shame, though, because it adds so much to Klein's character if it were to be true.

I'm sure Kayaba had the ability to tell the system, "anyone who dies from this time to this time gets warped to the floating platform" but would he have then also have set it so that the NerveGear's brain frying mechanism would have been shut down, and if so, is that even possible? As far as I understand it, the brain-frying is in the core program of the NerveGear and thus would not be affected by anything in game. Maybe I should just accept that Kayaba is all powerful in the world of his creation but I don't want to :D