SAO Rewatch - S2 Episode 18

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s2e18

New Aincrad, their cabin in floor 22

Jan 2026

everyone sitting around doing homework

Silica falling asleep

Liz reading a book in comfy pose

Yui on Pina on Kirito's lap, all asleep

Mother's Rosario

buncha new people in OP, huh

"Forest House"

couple weeks earlier, Agil's cafe

Kirito and Asuna on a date

Agil met his wife in-game, she was living in the US

decided they'd run the place together in a year

he was the only one that preordered SAO though, still glad it was him not her

joined assault team because of her

Asuna wasn't too anxious to get back, wasn't fond of her own home

no where she felt she belonged, real or virtual

Kirito gave her a home, a place to return to

new update unlocks floors 21-30, so they cleared 21 pretty quickly (under 2 weeks)

Christmas Eve, New Aincrad

good thing they can take more risks this time, also magic

Asuna charging in after casting from a distance

bunch of meatheads, indeed

and to floor 22 on Christmas Eve, looks like

Liz & co. head for teleport gate, leave Asuna/Kirito to find their home

and they can FLY now, nice

a place to come home to

cabin for sale, they grab it of course

snowing too

Yui goes girl-sized rather than pixie

no furniture, time to redecorate

and back to present, everyone but Leafa dozing off

Liz asking if they know Zekken.. alias of some super-strong player

"The Ultimate Sword" or "The Greatest Sword" nickname

rumors started a week or so ago

Asuna was at family compound, in a kimono greeting people and such

trouble boys there, she has to play nice

arranged marriage interviews?

apparently amazing skills but a newbie to ALO

a duelist rather than a PKer, waits by a tree on floor 24

they took out 24 of them in a day, none of them could take out more than 30% HP

Silica took a while to figure out midair battles

Liz/Leafa took them on, also failed apparently

high stakes keeps bringing in challengers

playing for an Original Sword Skill

all-purpose one-handed sword skill, 11 hit combo

Eugene's own is only 8 hits, so well beyond

shown in a demo but not since then

fun old-school RPG style graphics to demonstrate battle

rumor they transferred from another game due to high stats

imp, 1h sword but fairly narrow

maybe Kirito would take them on.. oh, he already did, and failed

didn't use dual-wielding so maybe not going all-out

Kirito not fighting like his life depends on it any more, because it doesn't

Leafa thinks he was serious at least, noticed that they briefly split up due to Kirito saying something, then he couldn't dodge the charge so duel ended

Asuna wants to ask Zekken directly

wondering why he came to ALO, something beyond duels

Asuna has Sylph alt, but gonna stick to her main

uh oh, gonna be late to dinner IRL

Asuna/Liz wondering if he's another SAO survivor..

Kirito didn't think so though

thought if Zekken had been in SAO, they would have earned dual-wielding instead