LN: Sword Art Online

[shinta|hikari]

I am beginning to really like the Alicization arc. The concept of cloning the human soul was really interesting. It raises a lot of questions, some of which were mentioned in the novel itself.

I like how they mentioned Kirito trying to protect NPCs, and how he treats any reality he was in as real. It really does make him seem insane, being able to treat even extremely primitive AIs, if they even qualify as that, like they are beings with value. I would definitely understand if it was a complex AI like Yui, or the fluclights that were in fact the closest beings to humans, but normal NPCs seem to belong to a different category.

Is Kirito obsessed with trying to maintain the sense of reality in whatever world he was in? For what purpose?

I found it weird how smart Asuna was in this novel. She was even arriving at conclusions faster than Rinko, who should be much more intelligent based on her background. The author kept using the "as expected of those who cleared SAO" as an excuse for her intelligence boost, but even in the previous novels, she has never shown that level of deductive capability.

EDIT: I just read the 2nd chapter, and I bet that the observer is a girl in it's normal form.