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Originally Posted by kitten320
You guys are missing my point. In real life would you really beat your fear in few minutes?
He ignored people and hid and then all of a sudden he became saint! Diabel's words were a push but are those words really enough to change a coward into an all carrying brave man in just a second?
In some time yeh, but in a second? He didn't even know Diabel well! If it was a friend, yeh I could see that but a total stranger?
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Adigard pretty well covers it, though changes between the short story they adapted and the anime also play a role.
A small bit of clarification to what Adigard said. There are two types of beta testers. Those that hoarded their information, and used their knowledge to immediately rush out and level up as fast as possible, thereby increasing their own chances of survival, and those that stayed around town, and did stuff like create that manual, or at least help out a few people. Kirito is the first type. He made his choice when he opted to part ways with Klein, rather than help Klein and his friends. This is something that Kirito feels guilty about. Part of the reason he feels guilty, is that a number of players had the same sort of trouble that Klein initially had with the boar. Low level monsters, but their too inexperienced to know what to do. And unlike Klein who had Kirito explaining things, many players had no one, and ended up panicking and dying vs those low level monsters.
So his reactions aren't simply colored by fear, they're also colored by guilt.