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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterOfMoogles View Post
    For example, he wanted to bring Klein with him in the beginning, but Klein wanted to stay with his friends so Kirito left because it would've been too dangerous with all of them.

    In this case, Kirito knows Death Gun is targeting strong players, so anyone at the BoB finals would potentially be fair game. By sticking with a potential target he both increases his odds of reaching his goal and can protect her at the same time if need be. The situation is actually kind of similar Scilica's story, except Sinon isn't useless and there are a lot of potential targets.
    Uhh...remind me where that info about Klein was from? I know the other ones were directly shown in the anime...but Kirito just ran off when Klein asked if he wanted to be friends with them. No motivation at all discussed. Kirito was adamantly silent in the anime about everything involving Klein.

    Let's also not forget that Kirito empathized the best with the sociopath that trapped them all in there as part of his little experiment.



    I don't know why he would target Sinon over anyone else though. She's good, but she is not at all overconfident, like DeathGun's preferred targets. DeathGun has only killed or gone after people that are significantly better than their peers. Ones who are confident they cannot be taken down.

    Sinon appears to be the opposite of that. She is extremely careful and methodical. She runs almost all the time and waits for a better spot. She does stupid, suicidal rushes at overconfident people herself (minigun guy, Kirito). She hates people who can enjoy battle for its own sake. If anything, DeathGun and Sinon are compatible, their targets will often overlap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    DeathGun has only killed or gone after people that are significantly better than their peers. Ones who are confident they cannot be taken down.
    Obviously he doesn't give a shit about overconfidence, because they've already shown that she IS on Death Gun's hit list(and is, in fact, the next one on it).

    If you're argument is that Kirito doesn't know that, then fine, but Death Gun is going after the strongest people. And he considers Sinon to be such a person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnderX View Post
    because they've already shown that she IS on Death Gun's hit list(and is, in fact, the next one on it).
    Uhh...refresh my memory with an episode number and a timestamp? I am positive whatever scene you're referencing is not the way I interpreted it, because I don't remember that at all.

    I don't even remember him having a list. He wants to kill Kirito after seeing the name, and anyone else who happens to be good along the way of that goal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    Uhh...refresh my memory with an episode number and a timestamp? I am positive whatever scene you're referencing is not the way I interpreted it, because I don't remember that at all.

    I don't even remember him having a list. He wants to kill Kirito after seeing the name, and anyone else who happens to be good along the way of that goal.
    Episode 3 at 21:45. He opens up a folder containing 3 pics, two of which were X'd out in red and the third was Sinon. He reaches out to caress it in creepy bad guy fashion and cracks a typical "i'm gonna do bad things" smile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crash View Post
    Episode 3 at 21:45. He opens up a folder containing 3 pics, two of which were X'd out in red and the third was Sinon. He reaches out to caress it in creepy bad guy fashion and cracks a typical "i'm gonna do bad things" smile.
    Sort of interesting he seemingly isn't going after Sinon right now, unless what's happening in this episode is only theater and he knows Kirito & Sinon are watching, like I said earlier. Another interesting thing is that if you watch until 21:57 of that same ep 3, another picture has appeared right of Sinon's, though it's not shown fully, so it's a mystery who's that target. It's not just reordering of the same three, though, but a new one. So, he does have more targets preselected, possibly as many as we saw shadows behind the three clear cards at 21:45. He might also not be overly methodological, and those photos could be merely any people he thought interesting at any point, even if not in a lethal manner.

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    I'm sure he does have other targets. His primary motivation, aside from straight up psychosis, is showing the "strong" people what "true power" is. He's clearly just looking to be renowned/feared/legendary ect. His very public show he made in the beginning is evidence of that. How he chooses the order he takes them, if he even does, is a mystery. He may just take them when he has the opportunity. Then again going by previous events i'm not even sure why he's entering the tournament to begin with. He killed the first guy simply by firing at the screen of a live feed, so why the hell isn't he just standing with the spectators busting off shots at every screen in front of the crowd so they can watch them magically keel over one by one?

    None of it makes a great deal of sense, but that's just fine i'm just here for the cool fight scenes anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crash View Post
    Then again going by previous events i'm not even sure why he's entering the tournament to begin with. He killed the first guy simply by firing at the screen of a live feed, so why the hell isn't he just standing with the spectators busting off shots at every screen in front of the crowd so they can watch them magically keel over one by one?

    None of it makes a great deal of sense, but that's just fine i'm just here for the cool fight scenes anyway.
    I reckon the previous victim could have been either a spur of the moment, that is, he got pissed off by the dude's attitude watching the show, or, in the end, there's not really that many choices as long as he wanted to slay the man during the live feed. It's not like he could have invaded the virtual studio in a sensible manner, most likely. However, Death Gun undoubtly enjoys GGO. He has the super rare silenced sniper rifle, for example, so he must have been playing for a while and found the whatever boss that dropped it. It makes sense he would then enter tournaments as well. I imagine he doesn't kill the small fries of the initial matches for real, only specific targets in the finals. If he finds them interesting enough to kill.

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