Screaming, the twists murdered me, good shit op

...Now you've virtually torpedoed my motivation to continue writing my SAO fic. But it was good; was that failed login in Chapter 2 of the Kayaba-focused fic the one Kikouka referenced?

Gods this was amazing! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. So well written, by someone who obviously knows what they're talking abt. I suspected it was Midori from when it was said she had a son, but unfortunately couldn't remember her name so I wasn't sure until it was confirmed. Thanks for a great story 3

This is the best SAO fics I have ever read.

Kudos.

... and then Cardinal issues the kill command to all remaining players, or just stops accepting new commands.

wow. I dont even understand half of what I'm reading. Though I got the gist of it and it's really good

I had a feeling all along that it was Kirito's aunt who was the main character of this story, it was nice to know that my suspicions were right. I'm a little curious to know how this story came about as it's a pretty interesting premise, and definitely one that's very well written. I'm completely serious when I say that you're an absolute master at writing suspense filled scenes and high tension scenarios, it's one of the best things about this story and Fairy Dance of Death. And honestly, I'm surprised that something like this wasn't successfully pulled off in the actual canon story...I mean, sure, then we wouldn't have a plot, but you'd think this kind of effort they'd have been able to pull off successfully *at least* once. I'm not sure they'd be able to succeed with continued attempts or not, but I'm sure they'd have definitely succeeded in an effort like this. The only thing I'm really curious to know about this story is just when within the canon events of SAO it happened and what was specifically going on at the time within the game when they succeeded.

Wow, that was good.

Kirito's bland hero tendencies work really well when he's not the focus of the work. This is evident here, and in the Progressive manga-his inhuman talents and hypercompetence in his field are a good counterpoint to the very human people in his life.

This was a rather well-written and original SAO fan fiction, with some good twists too.

How did I not find this fic earlier? It was great. Thanks.

Utterly awesome.

I knew I should decide myself to check your other SAO fic.

I really loved how you builded the tention until the very last moment, the you just dropped it and called it the end. The revelation of verdana being Midori was alaso a good one. I didn't see it comming, but well, since it's an AU, I just took it as a good idea. And something of a symbol.

It's really nice to see a story with such accurate details. I absolutely love the signed-timestamp bits: it's the first thing I thought of when seeing the title. The other details are also astonishingly realistic: "SoftBank", the gojuuon ordered name list, etc.

One small thing: why could everyone log back on without triggering a server-side timeout check?

Awesome. Some of the jargon was a little difficult to understand at times, but only when I started skimming it. I loved that twist with her being Kirito's mom-didn't see it coming at all!

Interesting story. First I've seen that focuses solely on this side of things.