Episode 21 - HS





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Are those Sleeping Knights folks terminal coma patients or something? Perhaps not even coma necessarily but terminal disease patients nonetheless. Who knows, maybe they are even SAO players who couldn't be awoken, and the old helmets will be removed soon forcibly. It's a bit hard to understand the occasional melancholy and the general secrecy and urgency otherwise. Surely they can't just be something mundane like students soon graduating and moving into jobs, or people marrying, or whatever, and thus not having any time for games anymore. Yuuki seems like she might have lost an older sister, perhaps in the same accident (or SAO or heritable disease, whatever) that made her a patient, if that's the reality.

Not really an overly exciting boss fight otherwise. The fight against the other players in front of the doors was much better.