Thread:Valgaaf/@comment-29788605-20161022093953/@comment-4567891-20161023210535

Pardon me for interjecting on your conversation, but this information on Alice isn't anything new. The WN ending for PA was written years before the LN finished with Gun Gale Online. Much of its contents in LN version are similar, including Alice's feelings for Kirito, but it is still maintained that Kirito loves only Asuna. Once more, Reki stated that he only did this because he thinks a jealous Asuna is adorable.

Reki Kawahara has consistently said in interviews, afterwords and the like he maintains that Asuna and Kirito are his definition of True Love. He even soft retconned Asuna and Kirito's first meeting to the first floor in Progressive, when originally they didn't meet until after their first year in the game in the first original LN.

His Reason? He stated he couldn't see Kirito traveling without Asuna, and he believed that his fans felt the same way.

And while Alice does have romantic feelings for Kirito, it is deeply intermingled with her deep feelings of respect, admiration and comradery towards him. She basically worships him as an idol or mento and dotes on him like an older sister,  than she loves him as a potential life partner, so her feelings aren't just straight-up romantic in nature. And even in spite of those feelings, what do they matter for Kirito? He knows Suguha's, Rika's,  and Shino's feelings for him, and yet he never encouraged them or budged on his own iron-clad feelings for Asuna. Kirito, unlike other harem protags, is not oblivious when it comes to women's interest in him.

Plus, do you really think he's going to betray his daughter's faith in him not to cheat? C'mon, Kirito is more rigid than that.

And in the new movie, Reki talks about the events of Ordinal Scale(which take place before PA chronologically) will further test and develop Kirito and Asuna's bonds. So yeah, I don't think he's gonna go back on his words. Again, this is the guy who made a short story, where every love interest of Kirito's marries him (including Alice) and rendered non-canon, to mock the very concept of harem to express his own distaste for it.

Even in Accel World, where Haruyuki is in a situation similar to Kirito's, he is completely dedicated to his own love interest and never wavers from his choice.