The maximum-acceleration phase has begun. Alice successfully logs out of the Underworld, but Kirito doesn’t make it in time. In the real world, Higa and Kikuoka rush to shut down the STL, in order to disable the maximum-acceleration phase.

Cast: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Kenji Nojima, Sanae Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Takahiro Sumi, Akira Ishida, Ai Kayano, Isshin Chiba, Yasunori Matsumoto, Yôji Ueda, Daichi Hayashi, Kôichi Yamadera