The next day, at the Yokohama North General Hospital, Asuna was placed in a Medicuboid and the doctors analyze what happened to Asuna.

Sonic: Asuna lost her memories of SAO?

Tails: But how? You don't think it was the Augma, do you?

Kazuto: I have a feeling it was.

After analyzing what happened, the doctor explains what happened.

Doctor: I will need to go through the data so that I can know the details, but it seems that Asuna's brain shows signs of having its memory scanned in certain parts.

Kazuto: Memory scanned? Could it have only read her memories of SAO? But how?

Doctor: It's possible that she could be reliving her memories from SAO, and the single neurons as the key to those memories were noticed, and so the images could have been forcibly scanned with focused electromagnetic pulses. There were multiple similar multiple reports in the past few days.

Tails: There's no doubt about it. It has to have been the Augma that's doing this.

Sonic: Are you sure about this?

Doctor: It's not confirmed yet.

Kazuto: Will she be alright?

Doctor: There's no sign of organic anomalies in the brain at this time. Most likely, her ability to recall those memories were impaired when the electromagnetic pulses degenerated her spine. So I can't really tell without further observation if the symptoms will worsen.

Tails: Do you mean that she might lose even more memory than the already has?

Kazuto and Asuna's eyes widen. A while later, they head back down to the main lobby to meet with Yuuki and Yui.

Yuuki: Are you alright, Asuna?

Asuna: I'm fine. I'm really sorry everyone.

Sonic: Hey, it's fine. It's probably not gonna last very long.

Kazuto: Yeah. It will come back to you soon.

Asuna starts raising her hand forward. She then shakes a little bit, and she collapses on the floor.

Sonic, Tails, Kazuto and Yuuki: ASUNA!

Yui: Mommy!

Later on, Kazuto, Asuna, and Yui log into ALO, and they show her around the first floor of Aincrad, and they head back up to Floor 22. They eat some lunch together.

Kirito: Well?

Asuna: I'm sorry, I can't remember. But I do remember buying this house in ALO. That's all I know.

Asuna starts getting a headache.

Yui: Mommy?

Asuna starts hugging her daughter.

Asuna: I'm sorry Yui. These are precious memories, I know.

Yui: I'm scared.

Asuna: It's ok. Mommy will be fine, right Kirito?

Kirito: Yeah. I'm sure Tails will find out something about OS that will help you get your memories back.

Asuna: Yeah. Even though I can't remember, it's true that we all live her together.

Kirito: Yes, it is.

At sunset...

Kirito: You want me to make some tea?

Asuna: No thanks. I'll do it.

Asuna grabs the plate and she heads back inside. Kirito and Yui wait for a little while. When, Kirito stands up, he hears the sound of glass breaking, and he slightly opens the door and see's Asuna breaking down and crying.

Yui: What's happening to Mommy?

Kirito: It's ok Yui. Nothing's wrong. Everthing's fine.

He closes the door.

Kirito: I swear, I will find a way to fix this, somehow.

Meanwhile, in another place, Eiji takes a sip of his soda.

Eiji: The Lightning Flash and Black Swordsman don't stand a chance now. And I'm just as powerful as Sonic now. It's all thanks to Ordinal Scale. He gets a flashback from SAO, as Nautilus. He was too afraid to join a boss raid with the Knights of the Blood Oath, and then soon, a girl with brown hair, and wearing white and blue reaches her hand for him. He takes it.

Eiji: Soon, I can bring her the promise that I gave to her.

Then, Eiji gets a call from his Augma, and the whole world changes into a computer room.

Eiji: Hello?

Meanwhile, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Mighty, Ray, and Kazuto visit Ryoutarou in the hospital.

Mighty: You doing ok, Klein?

Ryoutarou: Yeah, just fine. Sorry for worrying you guys.

Kazuto: Klein, do you remember anything that happened back in Aincrad?

Ryoutarou: No, not a thing. Whenever I try to remember, my head gets in a haze, but all I know that it wasn't very good. So I said if that's how it is, then so be it.

Sonic: On the night when you broke your arm, did you happen to run into that rank 2 player?

Ryoutarou: Yeah, he knocked my whole guild out.

Knuckles: Well that punk pushed Silica on the ground in the last battle we had, and Asuna saved her, and then she lost her memories of SAO.

Ryoutarou: I swear, that punk is gonna regret it.

At night, Kazuto takes his Augma and makes a post on the OS forums.

Kazuto's Post: Warning about old SAO bosses. It's possible that your memory might be taken away if you fight them in OS. Two of my friends are suffering from this. Everyone, do not fight the old SAO bosses, it's dangerous.

Unfortunately, nobody is believing what Kazuto is saying.

Kazuto: Darn it. Wait, search Ordinal Scale rankings.

The rankings show up, and he finds rank 2, Eiji. At the time of the next event battle, Kazuto, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Mighty, and Ray show up. They all try to look for Eiji.

Ray: Where could Eiji be?

Sonic: Who knows? Wait a minute...

They look and see what looks to be Eiji. Kazuto rushes toward him.

Kazuto: Hey!

The guy looks back and it turns out it wasn't him.

Kazuto: Oh, sorry. I thought you were someone else.

Player: Let's go.

They walk away.

Knuckles: Not him. Maybe he's hiding?

They continue searching. Flashback from the doctors...

Doctor: I'm not sure if this was an accident, or done intentionally, but if it's the latter, then the same thing might continue to happen.

Sonic: Does that mean that other SAO survivors playing OS might have the same problems like Asuna?

Doctor: Yes.

Kazuto: If we get taken out, we'll lose our memories of SAO. But if we do, will I still be with Asuna and Yui like always?

Back in the time of the event. Yuuki shows up.

Yuuki: Any luck guys?

Sonic: Nope.

Tails: Well, we'll just have to keep fighting.

?: Well, you guys sure aren't slacking.

Shino shows up, along with three other girls.

Mighty: It's Sinon.

Ray: Who are those three? Wait, is that Elsa Kanzaki?

Elsa: Yeah. It's me.

Shino: These are just some friends from GGO. That's LLENN, AKA Karen Kohiruimaki, that's Fukaziroh, AKA, Miyu Shinohara, and of course, Pitohui, AKA, Elsa Kanzaki.

Tails: Pitohui? Isn't that the name of an evil bird?

Karen: You have no idea how she fights.

Miyu: You should see mine and LLENN's avatar. We are tiny.

Miyu shows a picture of them.

Yuuki: Wow! That's so cute!

Sonic: You two look kind of bigger than Yui though.

Miyu: Also, let me say one thing. I can't believe that we are actually meeting you, Sonic.

Sonic: I can't believe it either. Hah. Anyway, what are you guys doing here?

Shino: Kirito told everyone that it's too risky to fight the bosses, and yet you guys continue to do it.

Kazuto: It really is dangerous though. If your HP goes down to zero, you'll just be like Asuna and Klein.

Tails: No she won't. She was never an SAO player.

Yuuki: Neither was I.

Karen: Me neither.

Miyu: Same here.

Elsa: I wish I did play it.

Karen: Pito, just stop.

Mighty: The fight's about to begin.

Kazuto: Here goes.

Everyone: Ordinal Scale, activate!

Kirito, Yuuki, Sinon, LLENN, Pitohui, and Fukaziroh change into their OS avatars. The boss appears before them.

Kirito: That's the boss from Floor 18. Dire Tusk! I thought today was supposed to be the boss from Floor 13.

Tails: There are ten monsters appearing around multiple locations around the city today.

Sinon: Now that's what I call splurging.

LLENN: You got a point there.

Sonic: Too bad for this guy, he's on a chain.

Tails: Basically, the bosses are all being shuffled.

Sinon, LLENN, Pitohui, and Fukaziroh shoot the boss with their guns.

Kirito: It's about to switch to a long distance attack.

The boss starts pulling its chain. A bunch of players start moving in.

Sonic: Stop! Get back!

As soon as the boss attacks with its chain axe, everybody moves out of the way, and then an SAO player goes down.

Mighty: Oh no!

A yellow light gets shot out of the players Augma and flies up to a drone. Tails gets up to the drone, and tries to hack in, but it says keep out.

Tails: Darn it! I can't get in! It's blocked!

Kirito starts attacking the enemy relentlessly in anger.

Fukaziroh: You're being too pushy!

Then, Dire Tusk uses his spinning chain attack. Sinon shoots her gun to cut the chain. Yuuki slashes him with her sword, Sonic, Mighty, and Ray both spin dash, and Knuckles starts punching.

Kirito: You're going down!

Kirito finishes the enemy off with his final blow with his sword. The boss disappears.

Kirito: Guess he wasn't here today.

The entire field changes back into the regular world.

Sonic: Man, you were pretty ticked off back there.

LLENN: And you were also pretty reckless.

Yuuki: He's more used to VR though.

Kirito: Sorry about that guys.

Then, Yuna appears again, wearing her white coat.

Kirito: Wait a minute!

Sonic: Her again.

Sinon: Who is that?

Sonic and Kirito run up to her.

Sonic: Yuna, wait!

She points somewhere again and then disappears. Tails then flies down to them.

Tails: I couldn't get in. It was blocked. But I know that there is a strange program that is working when specific players are damaged by the boss. Those players must be SAO survivors.

Sonic: I knew it.

Kazuto: Darn it!

Kazuto punches a vending machine as soon as Shino, Karen, Elsa, and Miyu show up.

Kazuto: You guys want something to drink?

They all shake their heads. Kazuto gets a free drink from the vending machine.

Tails: Wait a minute. I think I know what that girl is searching for.

Ray: You do?

Tails: Every time we run into her, she points in a certain direction before she leaves. She might be referring to the Toto Institute of Technology.

Tails opens up a map of where the place is located at.

Tails: Here it is.

Kazuto: Maybe if we come here, we'll find something.

Tails: I just found a picture that shows Eiji here. He seems to be a student here.

Kazuto: That guy. That's the man who designed the Augma, Tetsuhiro Shigemura!

Tails: He was also a developer of SAO. He must know something about the memory problem. I'm sure of it.

Kazuto: You want to visit him tomorrow, Tails?

Tails: Yeah. I think it's time for some interrogation.

Miyu: Oh, I love that.

Yuuki: Me too.

Elsa: Let's bring in a demonic voice changer!

Tails: Sorry about that guys, but this is something that only me and Kirito should investigate on.

Sonic: Aww man. Oh well.