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Originally Posted by Clarste
Uh, no. Them escaping is not a threat. He's the one who gave them an escape route, after all. If he didn't want them to escape he could have just not added that rule. Or, if he wanted them to be motivated in the same way, just lied about it. In the end though, he kept his promise and freed them after losing as the final boss. And, well, he made the promise to Kirito in the first place. All evidence points directly towards "them escaping is not a threat to him". It's just part of the story he wanted to tell, in the world he created to tell it.
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Just a post ago, you were talking about "narrative" and what happened in ALO when everyone isn't bound to the world like SAO. Kayaba needs to keep his fantasy going, so he can't allow a way out that isn't by the rules he created. You must have heard stories about criminals kidnapping people to recreate or fantasize a certain critical moments or desires in their lives and how they react when their victims didn't play along. I see this as akin to that.