SAO: SB Introduction

Floor 47, January 21, 2024
Snow's window read,"Duel Lost".

The player, Kirito, was the first to beat him in a Half-Loss duel. On top of that, his reaction time surpassed Snow's.

Snow was tricked into playing the game by Kayaba Akihiko. Snow was an admin and a programmer for SAO, despite his age. His sole mission was to find the best candidate to wield the Dual Blades skill. Dual Blades is a Unique Skill that only one player can carry, other than Snow. What was Kayaba planning, he had no idea.

Snow believes that Kirito could be this candidate.

"Well, that was a good fight, don't you agree?" Snow says after drinking a health potion.

"Yeah", Kirito replies," I see you also use one-handed swords without a shield."

"Eh, I just think it looks cool."

"....well maybe we'll cross paths again. See ya."

They both part. Snow returns to his hotel and sits in his room and begins hacking into Kirito's window screen. He enters his Skills window adds the Dual Blades skill to the list and set a delay of two weeks before it appears.

Once Snow finished, he wondered what he would do now. Fight on the Front Lines? Live a normal life like most of the players here? He'll sleep on it.