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Originally Posted by gensouR-1

Clarifying some stuff and some more stuff from AW V23:

Spoiler for AW23:

-Kuroyukihime is one of the Machine Children,children that were the products of humans attempting to duplicate souls(I'm guessing they're trying to perfect the process considering Star King Kirito(whose existence is hinted at in V20 thanks to SSS Order's icon) wasn't exactly a success since he's more of a deviated copy of Kirito thanks to memory wipe at the end of Alicization),she was the result of an attempt to duplicate souls by overwriting a Fluctlight with another,basically cyber reincarnation.Kuroyukihime and Cosmos's mother was one of KAMURA's entrepeneurs while their father is one of their researchers,they were trying to research Fluctlight duplication using the overwrite method by overwriting her Fluctlight when she was in her artificial womb by attaching a baby-size Neuro Linker on her when she was still developing,her parents treated her like an experimental product and it's not really clear how much of KYH's original Fluctlight was overwritten with the template her parents are trying to duplicate.She has a number,20320930 which is 30th September 2032 in reverse to signify the date she emerged from her artificial womb and a barcode on the nape of her neck(which was hidden by her Neurolinker) as evidence she's a Machine Children.
-As expected,Megumi was never executed by Oscillatory for her rebellion but she was hospitallized thanks to being forced to accelerate in the UNF by OU and her consciousness was trapped in Wolfram Cerberus's Duel Avatar and became the new Cerberus III while her Duel Avatar which her consciousness still has a connection with is imprisoned in the 45th Floor of the UNF Midtown Tower,she wakes up from her Brain Burst induced coma after her Duel Avatar is brought to the Exit Point as she's no longer accelerating.
-It was foreshadowed in V9 by Ash,but we got confirmation that the Neurolinker was a descendant of the STL tech tree while BIC was from a seperate tech tree that involves interaction with the brain.
-KAMURA is a network equipment manufacturing company that made the Neurolinkers's software which was based on the Soul Translator while RECT only made the hardware of the Neurolinkers and were the ones who sold them,the former is secretly researching ways to perfect Fluctlight duplication using the overwrite process.
-Rose Milady's real is Tsubomi Koshika.
-Midtown Tower got turned into a dungeon after Metatron was liberated using mobs tamed using Cosmos's Luminary from the Valhalla dungeon,Einhejar and Varjag were among the tamed Enemies.
-Rose Milady decided that Megumi is more important than Oscillatory's cause of freeing Brain Burst of its curse and helped Haru free her from Midtown Tower
-You can actually upgrade Enhanced Armaments in Brain Burst with the help of a blacksmith drone named Mr.Smith whose encounter rate is low enough to be considered an urban legend,Ivory Tower met it and had The Luminary upgraded by giving it heat resistance so the control crowns it produces doesn't get melted by Sun God Inti's heat and imprisoned it in Midtown Tower so as to avoid the hassle of searching it again,Haru freed it from Midtown Tower but not before requesting it to upgrade Lucid Blade with heat immunity to deal with Inti next volume.
-The Luminary is actually a two-piece Enhanced Armament consisting of the Crown and The Scepter,it's abillity is Divine Light which generates a crown of thorns from the crown,the scepter allows one to control the Enemies enslaved by The Luminary.the scepter can be loaned to others so they can use its Enemy control power but the ownership of the crown signifies the true ownership of The Luminary which still belongs to Cosmos.
-3rd Gen Chrome Disaster's name is Centaurea Sentry.
-The last of the 4 Saints is confirmed to be Rudra.

Oh yeah,the stuff established in this volume made me think:

Spoiler for WMG:

Kawahara stated in an interview once that KYH's "biological" parents aren't Kirito and Asuna but he never stated anything about her being their daughter by soul,so maybe the Machine Children are an attempt to reincarnate children who died using STL technology,and KYH is an experimental attempt to succeed at this by overwriting her soul using KiriAsu's possibly deceased child's Fluctlight(doesn't mean KYH's parents are doing this for Kirito and Asuna though,for all we know they're trying to use KYH against them).

I'll do the summary around Wednesday.

Thanks for the info.

Spoiler for But still...:

Looks like legacy of the Alicization Project lives on assuming this is a parallel timeline to SAO but with a twist. Consider the fact that the story Graphite Edge told to Haru and Fuko regarding how the last of the Seven Arcs came to reside in the Imperial Palace is different to the events in SAO. Something tells me that the battle between the two people mentioned in GE's story is still ongoing with Accelerated World as the battleground but from the shadows instead.

Regarding your WMG, I really doubt they are doing this for them. The moment Kirito and Asuna hear of this, they will put a stop to it. Looks like Kuroyukihime is right, there is something more about Brain Burst.

Although I get the feeling the moment Kuroyukihime grow up, she will disappear and be replaced by soul that was overwritten. This will force Haru to truly break his vow to not fight Kuroyukihime. The worst ending would he would lose her in the end despite his efforts. He would become a King to find a way to bring her back.