Sword Art Online: Asgard
Interlude: Ordinal Scale and Aftermath
Kirito touched the Augma, the augmented reality headset that had come out not long ago, becoming a huge hit in Japan. He didn't use it much, mostly just to interact with Yui in the real world, as well as deal with some augmented reality features.
Surprisingly, AR was still quite popular, as was Ordinal Scale. One would have expected it all to be shut down after the mess at the last Yuna concert, but what actually happened was covered up. The company behind Augma claimed it was all a surprise event. And people being idiots, they bought it...
As AR took hold, there was a interesting split ongoing in the gaming community. Full Dive players regarded themselves as more 'hardcore' while they regarded the AR users as 'filthy casuals.' While the AR users looked at Full Dive players as dinosaurs embracing old technology. It was a bit like PC vs Console gamers.
Most former SAO players dropped it like a brick, of course. Even poor Eiji, whom had more reasons than most to hold onto it. As far as Kirito knew the man had dropped out of virtual gaming completely. And Yuna...
Well.
In theory Yuna 'died' again shortly after they defeated the final level of Aincrad to get the final sword Kirito needed.
Long story. Anyway...
Everyone saw Yuna vanish. Both her 'street clothes' version and the idol 'Yuuna.' So that should have been it. But people claimed to have seen her in AR... and apparently there were sightings in Aincrad, in the ALO full dive game.
So who knows? Maybe the attempt to make a Yuna AI had succeded. Somewhat.
"Daddy! The others are waiting in the dungeon!" Yui reminded him.
"Sorry, Yui. I got distracted," KIrito apologized. He too off the AR device, lay down on his bed and put the AmuSphere on. "Link Start!" he cried, and was back in the FullDive dungeon...
To be continued...
Notes: FINALLY got to see SAO Ordinal Scale. After some thought I decided to set this fanfiction after the movie, so just assume that in the 'real world' scenes earlier they were wearing the AR glasses.