The fault lies with Heathcliff for recruiting a criminal in the first place. For a guild leader, he should have done some research beforehand...now, he's 2 men short, has to deal with every other guild dissing his KoB AND needs to start tracking down two deserters, who just so happen to be his strongest guildies. If only he hadn't challenged Kirito, things would have been normal and Asuna would eventually return after her party with Kirito...Karma's a bitch, amirite?
Really confused about some things though.
- Kirito got paralyzed, but his HP was dropping at a percentile rate, heavy poison style.
- His hand shattered, as if each body part has durability. I thought HP was there to represent that.
- After losing his hand, he went into a bleeding condition, which depleted his HP even faster than the paralysis...and yet he had the freedom to kiss and talk it out with Asuna as if he could survive much longer.Wat.
- He killed Kradeel DBZ style, hand through the chest :O Where did he get the time to train three different fighting styles!?
- Did the pain inhibitors break down when Kayaba hacked the game? Both Kirito and his recently deceased guildie seemed to be in a lot pain and the only time we saw otherwise was on the very first boar hunt of Kirito&Klein.
At least Kirito going off to his resort with his fiancee (who didn't get an engagement ring, cheapskate Kirito xD) is reasonable, they'll take a break for a few months and go back to clearing the game sometime later :P