You can't really blame anybody of the worst deeds with the colour of the diamond indicating what they have and haven't done. I wouldn't be surprised if the shady figure tried to get the dishonoured escort dude to use dirty tricks against Kirito.
I'm wondering if that cooking skill really is useless or if there's some underlying mechanism encouraging people to delevop also "useless" skills. Like there being two categories of skills and you can't use all points inside the useful category. Or perhaps cooking can be used as a fast alchemy skill.Originally Posted by Ryll
Anyway, I quite liked this episode. But then again, I don't think anything else was needed but having Kiroto and Asuna in the same scenes to make me happy... Though I'm still wishing Kirito would be colder and more badass in the company of strangers (like would be fitting for the lone black swordsman) and only all mushy in Asuna's company.