Ten weeks after meeting Kouichirou, everyone finally made it to the 300th floor boss.
"This is it, the final boss," said Kirtio as they approached two giant iron doors that sat in a mountainside.
"Five years of battling have led to this," said Asuna as the nine opened the doors and entered.
"I'm glad to see that you could make it, Kirito," said Viric as he stood before them in a large throne room.
"You're the final boss?" asked Kirito as they all readied their weapons.
"Not really, because you beat the game just by getting here," said Viric as the world changed back to normal, and they realized they were in a boardroom at the top of a skyscraper back in Japan.
"Alright, what are you up to Viric?" asked Suguha.
"All I wanted was a world where people could have fun and not worry about dying, but my idea did not work exactly as I had planned," said Viric with a sad expression.
"But why would you go this far?" asked Rika.
"Because my daughter died in SAO, and I thought if I could create a game for real life that made death from anything other than old age not series, it could bring happiness to people, but it just caused terror and chaos for the first few weeks," said Viric.
"I kinda feel sorry for him," said Yui who was not a pixy anymore.
"Wait, how is Yui still here?!" asked a surprised Klein as he looked at the little girl who was standing right behind them.
"Pina's still here too," said Silica as she noticed that her blue dragon was on her head.
"I built it into the program so that they could come to the real world, Pina can't you any fire and is still as kind as she was in the game, their data is connected to your phones and can also be uploaded into new ones if you need to update," said Viric as he started to vanish.
"What's happening to you?!" asked Kirito.
"I also made it so that I would die once the game was defeated, that way I could be with my daughter," said Viric as tears of happiness rolled down his cheeks.
"What about your game, there is still so much you can do, if you explained what you just did to us then I'm sure it would change what people thought!" said Kirito.
"It's too late for me, that's why I'll leave it in your hands, Kirigaya Kazuto," said Viric as he vanished completely.
"Now what do we do?" asked Shino.
"We make the game public, and finish his wish," said Kirito as he picked up a disk labeled 'New World Offline'.
"I agree," said Asuna as she grabbed his right hand.
"Me too, papa," said Yui as she grabbed hold of Kiriot's left leg. The others also gathered around in agreement.