Sword Art Online Material Edition 22

Augmented Magic (オーグメンテッドマジック) is the 22th Material Edition of the Sword Art Online series. Kawahara Reki published it under his pen name, Kunori Fumio. It was sold at COMITIA 119, on February 12, 2017. The story features Kirito talking with Alice in New Aincrad, as well as Kazuto meeting with Kikuoka Seijirou in the the real world.

Part 1
On August 21, 2026, fifteen days since he had returned home after rehabilitation, Kirito was doing his homework while being logged in to Alfheim Online. Having trouble focusing on the school task, he thought of recent events in his life, including sudden disappearence of Kikuoka Seijirou or the fact that Professor Koujiro was now in command of RATH. After a while, he was approached by Alice in her Cait Sith avatar.

While drinking some tea and eating cakes, the two had a casual conversation, when Alice admitted getting familiar with both real world and virtual reality notion. They also reminiscnend recent adventure in ALO when she had helped Silica who had been attacked by Player Killers.

During the discussion, Kirito recalled logging in to Underworld again with Asuna and Alice three days before. Spending five hours there, they had met and befriended two female Machine Knights, who informed them about the events of last 200 hundred years, including Kirito and Asuna being the Star King and the Star Queen of Underworld, as well as their deaths 30 years prior. Since the time in Underworld was now synced to the time in the real world, Kirito already had plans to dive again as soon as possible.

Returning to the present and continuing conversastion with Alice, Kirito was still deep in his mind thinking moslty about helping Alice in awakening her little sister, Selka Zuberg, who slept on the eightieth floor of the Central Cathedral in a state of deep freeze.

Suddenly, Alice broke Kirito's train of thought to inform him that Professor Koujiro had sent a message about the meeting on the following day. Finishing the discussion, the two went on hunting to help Alice raise her skills level, as the girl wanted quickly to learn the ability to tame and ride flying dragon.

Part 2
The following day, at precisely 2:50 PM, Kazuto (Kirito) went on his bike to the Central Ginza district to see Kikuoka Seijirou. During the meeting, he learnt that all students of the SAO Survivor School would be given a new-type device which utilized FullDive technology to create Augmented Reality, despite not being a FullDive machine. The name of the device was “Augma”