Kazuto Kirigaya/Relationships

## Family

### Grandfather

Not much is known about Kazuto's relationship with his grandfather, but what we do know is he trained Kazuto in the art of kendo for two years, but he never really took to the sport.

### Father

Not much is known about Kazuto's relationship with his father, but he seems to resent that he's never around.

### Mother

Not much is known about Kazuto's relationship with his mother, but they share an interest in computing, as she was the one who suggested he learned about coding. Much like his father, Kazuto seems to resent that she's never around.

### Suguha Kirigaya

Suguha is Kazuto's sister. The two of them initially had a great relationship, but things started to sour after Kazuto abandoned his kendo lessons. Suguha started to take immense pleasure out of bullying her brother, which is apparently one of the reasons why he escaped into video games. When he returned from SAO he was disappointed to find that she hadn't changed and had only used his new "wife" as ammo for her torment.

Due to all this, Kazuto once considered letting Suguha choke to death on a muffin to end his torment, but subconsciously chose to save her instead by handing her a carton of juice. Despite this, Suguha doesn't even show gratitude and immediately starts mocking him as soon as she catches her breath.

When he logged into ALO, Kirito unknowingly met up with Suguha in her Sylph persona, Leafa. Leafa agreed to show him the ropes of the game and ended up joining his quest to reach the top of the World Tree. Despite being allies, Kirito was very judgy of Leafa, particularly of her treatment of Recon, which he constantly teased her about, as it was clear to him she had feelings for Recon. When Recon trusted Kirito to keep an eye on her, Kirito agreed to do so, but he admitted it was only because he didn't trust her.

As they continued on their journey, Kirito confided in Leafa on how he felt about his sister, unintentionally confronting her with her own actions. Leafa suggests that Suguha is lashing out due to Kazuto hurting her at some point. Kirito this denies, as he didn't do anything, which Leafa suggests might've been the problem. Later, after taking some advice from Yui, Leafa began taking the first steps to try and fix their relationship. Although, do to her being "out of practice" with being nice, she awkwardly stumbled over her words when she tried to thank Kirito when he saved the Sylphs, resulting in Kirito teasing her.

Suguha then decided to take the first steps in repairing their relationship by joining Kazuto in one of his visits to the hospital, only to be confronted with how much he cares about Asuna. This caused her to have an emotional breakdown when she next logged into ALO, realizing that she might be the problem in their relationship, which Kirito eventually comforted her on. After attempting to raid the World Tree on his own, Leafa rescued him and tried to get him to stop. When this didn't work, Leafa accidentally revealed who she was and proceeded to log out in a panic.

Kazuto then followed her and confronted Suguha about her actions. Suguha then revealed to Kazuto that when he left their kendo lessons, their sexist grandfather abused her during her lesson to try and get her to quit. She tried to Kazuto to come back to their lessons, but he shut her out. She was only bullying him to get back at Kazuto for abandoning her. Kazuto tried to defend himself, but Suguha pointed out how hard he fought for Asuna, asking if she wasn't worth the effort. Having listened to his sister vent her feelings at him, Kazuto looked away ashamed, stating he had no idea what Suguha was going through. Suguha then sadly shut the door in his face, telling Kazuto to leave her alone.

### Asuna Yuuki

Asuna is Kirito's partner and love interest. They first met after being trapped in SAO for a month and formed a party to defeat the 1st Floor Boss. Their relationship was initially spiteful, as Kirito took advantage of Asuna's naivete of some of the game mechanics, such as her not knowing how to open the menu. During the first year, Asuna would completely despise the solo-player's existence and they would constantly but heads, making Asuna the only person that could actually counter Kirito's snark.

However, when the two players were forced to partner with each other to solve a murder mystery, Asuna's opinion of Kirito changed when she became aware of his sensitive side, after he voiced his feelings about finding someone special. Kirito in turn admitted that he probably would've never rescued the hostages involved in the case without her help. This allowed their relationship to grow more positively, eventually resulting in Asuna falling in love with him.

Since then, Kirito views Asuna as a strong confidant person, but is absolutely terrified of her. This coupled with her "above average" attractiveness, and possibly the fact that Asuna was willing to love him, eventually resulted in him falling in love with her too, despite being initial unnerved by her forcefulness. Asuna has become one of the reasons, if not the main reason, Kirito chooses not to lose his humanity while in the game, as he sees how broken she is about him almost dying.

The two eventually acknowledged their feelings after Kuradeel's attack and entered into a romantic relationship. However, due to both of them being inexperienced in the matter, the two almost immediately got married, something they both regretted but didn't want to back out of out of stubbornness/fear of hurting the other's feelings. This eventually spiraled into a mind game where they both tried to get the other to admit they were moving too fast, going as far as to adopt Yui. Eventually though, they admitted how they felt and decided they wanted to stay together regardless, something they couldn't believe was so easy to do in hindsight.

When Kirito challenged Kayaba to their fight, he asked Kayaba to make it so Asuna couldn't kill herself if he died. And even though she scoffed at this idea, she pretty much went through with it when she dove in front of Kayaba's final attack to protect him. When SAO was getting erased, and Kirito and Asuna thought they were going to die as a result, Kirito broke down crying, saying he wished he could spend more time with Asuna. Kirito promised Asuna that, if they survived, he would find her and they would be a "real fucking family" and her that he loved her, to which Asuna responded with Han Solo's "I know", showing that she did understand him.

Even though they both viewed it as a mistake, Kazuto still views Asuna as his "wife" and is willing to protect her from anything, even diving into ALfheim Online to save her from a creepy pervert. Whilst explaining to Leafa how much of a rush to rescue her he was in, Kirito described Asuna as beautiful and admitted to a group of Salamanders that he felt like he was nothing without her.

### Yui

Yui is Kirito's in-game adoptive daughter. During the start of their relationship, they were both using each other for their personal goals: Kirito was using Yui as a pawn for his mind game with Asuna and Yui was observing both Kirito and Asuna to understand the meaning of love.

However, Kirito grows to become attached to Yui, seeing her as his own daughter and willing to do anything to protect her. When he thought she was dying, Kirito saved Yui's data as an in-game item in order to save her, in hopes of bringing her back and spending time together like a real family.

Kirito found out later that Yui faked her "death" as a joke to try to lighten the any tension or view changes between her and her adoptive parents, much to Kirito's annoyance. When Kirito explained to Yui the situation with Asuna, Yui became obsessed with finding her as soon as possible, an obsession that scared Kirito.

## Friends

### Klein

Klein was the first player Kirito met in SAO. Even though he constantly mocked him, refusing to stop calling him his embarrassing username, Kirito was offended when he called him an asshole and ran away crying.

The two of them ran into each other from time to time. During one of these times, Klein helped him in a personal quest by holding back the Mafia while he tried to retrieve an item, something that touched Kirito so much that he temporally called him by his preferred name. This didn't last long, as Kirito didn't receive the item he hoped for, but thanked Klein nonetheless for showing him how futile caring for people is, calling him his username once again.

Kirito ran into Klein once again on Floor 74, where he ended up ranting about people while defending them from a Boss. Afterwards, Klein told Kirito to not give up on humanity. Kirito respected Klein enough to "take it under advisement", and proceeded to call him "Klein" from then on. Klein's words affected Kirito for the rest of the game, to the point that he was one of the reasons he wanted to fight Kayaba, much to Klein's excitement.

### Tiffany

Kirito first met Tiffany after the he finished off the Illfang Boss. Tiffany was impressed by Kirito's skills enough to be willing to follow him "to hell itself". This was almost immediately ruined when Kirito proceeded to taunt and ridicule the other players. Eventually though, Tiffany seemed to come to accept Kirito's mindset towards the other player and bond over it, although he did deem Kirito his "least favorite customer" for not buying his cheap wares. Tiffany and Kirito presently have a close relationship, albeit he is less than thrilled that Kirito got involved with and remains with Asuna.

After SAO was cleared, the two stayed in touch. When Tiffany found out that Asuna was trapped in ALfheim Online, he told Kazuto about it because he knew it would make Kazuto happy, even though the idea of her remaining trapped made Tiffany very happy.

### Keita

Keita was the leader of Kirito's first Guild, the Moonlit Black Cats, having been manipulated by Keita's Charisma Hat. Not much is known about their relationship, but from what we saw Kirito seemed to be annoyed by Keita a lot. However, Kirito did seem to care about Keita in some capacity, as he was very upset when Keita committed suicide.

### Sachi

Sachi was a fellow teammate of Kirito's first Guild, the Moonlit Black Cats, being the only other member besides their leader to not be an NPC. When Sachi told Kirito her fear of getting her loved ones killed, this was the first time he was unable to mock someone else's words. Kirito grew to care for Sachi and strived to be a nicer person and refrain from making his usual insufferable comments.

After Sachi's death, Kirito reverts to his old ways to prevent any further emotional trauma. Kirito's narcissistic tendencies grow exponentially after Sachi's death, as well as resulting in several PTSD-induced psychotic breaks. Until Kirito starts a relationship with Asuna, Sachi's death would continue to haunt Kirito as he would often scream her name or do things because of his memory of her.

### Derrick and Charlie

Derrick and Charlie were fellow teammates in Kirito's first Guild, both of which were NPCs. Not much of Kirito's interactions with Derrick and Charlie were shown, but Kirito seems to have cared very much for them, calling them "some of [his] best friends", and became very distraught after their deaths, even though he didn't know their names.

### Silica

Kirito first came across Silica after the death of her Dragon, Pina. He initially has no desire to help her, but after she inadvertently reminded him of Sachi's death he begrudgingly agreed to tell her how to revive her pet. Once again, he had he intention of *joining* her on the dangerous quest he had set her on, but once he ran into Rosalia he came up with a plan to go on the quest as a means to use Silica as bait to draw Rosalia out and uncover her true identity.

When all was said and dead, Silica opened Kirito's eyes to the fact that shutting his emotions away was a terrible idea, as he couldn't enjoy his revenge, even if that wasn't her intention. Kirito declared that Silica was a good friend, and that they should go on more adventures, but Silica declined the offer, as Kirito was the worst person she'd ever met. Even though Kirito was hurt by this, he respected Silica for "cutting [him] down a peg".

### Lizbeth

Kirito and Lizbeth's relationship can be seen as on and off in more ways than one. When they first met, Kirito introduced himself with his normal asshole persona which immediately repulsed Lizbeth and it would soon increase when Kirito breaks her one of best swords as a durability test.

Eventually however, Lizbeth begins to see Kirito's gentle side as he was willing to protect her and would grow to bond over being the sole survivors of their previous Guilds. Although Lizbeth fell in love with Kirito, these feelings would be crushed when Asuna threatened to kill her. While initially heartbroken, Lizbeth is reminded how much of an asshole Kirito is and retracts her previous feelings, but they appear to remain friends to an extent.

### Shinichi Nagata

Recon was initially hostile to Kirito at first, due to him being a Spriggan, but immediately became friendly after Leafa assured him that he was "one of the good ones". Recon acts nervous towards Kirito, who treats him with a surprising amount of respect in his standards, despite him being a perfect target for a bully, even showing concern when he mentioned how Cazmer would punish him.

Kirito was very critical of about Leafa's treatment of Recon, calling him a "poor sweet boy" when he heard her description of her love life, and was always defensive whenever Leafa treated him harshly. When Leafa sent him on his mission, Recon told Kirito to watch her for him, admitting that he trusted Kirito to a weird degree.

## Allies

### Diabel

Diabel was the leader of the 1st Floor Boss raid. Kirito didn't interact with him much, but Diabel seems to be vaguely aware of Kirito's nature, as he was surprised when Kirito listened to his orders. Despite Kirito annoying him, to the point he was mortally wounded by the Boss during one of Kirito's lectures, Diabel knew that Kirito was capable of leading the other players through the game, as it was his dying wish. Kirito thought that Diabel and him could have been friends in another life, but Diabel said he doubted it before he died, much to Kirito's dismay.

### Kains

Kirito met Kains when he was pretending to die. Kains didn't take Kirito into account, as he was just a witness to his "death", but Kirito became determined to prove that Kains' death was fake. When Kirito saved him from Laughing Coffin, making him his "slave", Kains was confused and enraged, as he didn't know who Kirito was, and Yolko somehow managed to get him involved in their plan. Kains didn't believe Kirito deductions about Grimlock's guilt at first, but reluctantly heard him out when his reasoning made sense. After proving Grimlock guilty, Kains tried to thank Kirito for his help, but Kirito ruined it by mentioning the slaves thing again.

### Yolko

Yolko tried to use Kirito in her plan to get Schmitt to admit he was the one who killed Griselda, even though it was later pointed out she didn't need to do that. Kirito didn't believe Yolko's claims that Kains had died, and only investigated his apparent death to prove that he was right. Kirito refused to learn Yolko's name, thinking it was Yoga Pants. When Kirito rescued Yolko from Laughing Coffin she was grateful for the help, but she became upset when Kirito told her the reason he saw passed her ghost story was because he's not an idiot.

### Schmitt

Schmitt was one of the players that annoyed Kirito the most, as he was always stressed and paranoid that his haters were going to kill him. It is unknown when Kirito first met him, but he apparently left quite an impression on him, as when Kirito found out he was going to meet Schmitt again he was less than pleased. Kirito seems to know Schmitt very well, more than his friends, as Kirito knew that Schmitt wasn't skilled enough to commit a murder.

Kirito and Schmitt later reunited to fight The Skull Reaper, only to have it die before they could fight it. When Heathcliff was exposed as Kayaba, Kirito used Schmitt as an example of how dumb the players can be, much to his dismay, but Kirito also commended him on his bravery compared to Kayaba.

### Griselda

Not much is known about Kirito's opinion of Griselda, but he seemed to respect her enough to solve her murder, as he could have just given up after he figured out Kains and Yolko's ruse. After Kirito and Asuna were scared off by her ghost, Kirito and Asuna both agreed the event never happened, so all potential knowing anything more about his opinion of her were cut off.

### Corvatz

Kirito was not very impressed by Corvatz, but he did seem very concerned with his wellbeing, as he advised him to abandon his mission to clear the 74th Floor for the sake of his men. Kirito eventually goes to help Corvatz, and when he hears him deploy his "brilliant strategy" Kirito realizes he met Corvatz two years ago at the Illfang raid, and subsequently realizes how doomed he is. When Kirito saw Corvatz get fatally wounded he was very worried for his fate, and his subsequent death motivated Kirito to defeat the Boss.

### Godfree

Kirito was very annoyed with Godfree's chipper knight persona, particularly due to his snarky comment about his loss against Heathcliff. Kirito's opinion on Godfree didn't improve when Godfree planned to bring Kuradeel on their training exercise to "smooth things over" between them. Nevertheless, Kirito seemed shocked by Godfree's death.

### Sasha

Kirito didn't seem to notice Sasha's existence, as he was too focused on trying to one up Asuna. When he did acknowledge her presence, after constantly claiming her achievements as his own, Kirito uses her as an example of how easy a Dungeon on the 1st Floor could be. Since this was the first time Kirito acknowledged Sasha's presence, this sent Sasha into a frenzy, which caught Kirito off guard.

### Yulier

Despite his initial hospitality towards her, Kirito's view of Yulier wasn't very high, he was baffled by her stupidity and visibly uncomfortable hearing her perverted ramblings. Once their quest was over, and she and Thinker were out of harms way, Kirito almost immediately stopped thinking about either of them.

### Thinker

Kirito did not respect Thinker. After hearing about how easily Kibaou tricked him, Kirito was initially unwilling to rescue him, as he felt that he got what he deserved for being so gullible. His opinion of Thinker got worse when he failed to warn them about the Boss that had him trapped properly and when he found out that Thinker was under the impression that the messaging system didn't work in Dungeons just because Kibaou told him that was the case. Once Yulier and Thinker were out of harm's way, Kirito almost immediately stopped thinking about either of them.

### Brian

Kirito wanted to recruit Sakuya in his quest to rescue Asuna, which was difficult due to Sakuya's hatred of the Spriggan race. Kirito was annoyed to find out that the entire Race War was based on Brian and Becky's breakup. When the time to ask for her help, Sakuya was grateful that Kirito helped fight off the Salamanders, but ultimately decided to not help him due to the wish that awaited atop the World Tree was only available to one race, though Brian couldn't remember if the wish actually exists or not.

### Denise

Kirito wanted to recruit Hime in his quest to rescue Asuna, but he was quickly annoyed by Hime's overly weeby personality, particularly by the fact that Hime wanted Kirito to call her "Princess Hime-Senpai" and determined the Cait Sith army a "non-starter". Hime ultimately decided to not help him due to the wish that awaited atop the World Tree was only available to one race, though Denise couldn't remember if the wish actually exists or not.

## Enemies

### Kayaba Akihiko

Kirito and Kayaba have an interesting relationship. For all intents and purposes, Kirito should hate Kayaba, as he was the cause of most of his strife in SAO, but Kirito seemed to view of Kayaba as an annoyance for most of his time in the game. This eventually changed after watching his loved ones get hurt or worse over and over again, which came to a head with Yui's "death", where he exclaimed that he was sick of Kayaba "kicking [his] heart in the dick".

He met Kayaba for the first time while he was in his Heathcliff persona, where he was relatively unimpressed with the legendary figure of the game. The two almost immediately butted heads when Kirito refused to go along with Heathcliff's plans and challenged him to a fight to show he was better than him. After he lost, Kirito viewed Heathcliff as an annoyance, and didn't even bat an eye when he was trapped behind enemy lines.

When it was revealed that Heathcliff was Kayaba, the two of them found common ground with their love of movies, and even connected due to their mutual suffering as intelligent people surrounded by idiots. However, at this point Kirito had grown as a person and disagreed with Kayaba's philosophy on how to deal with idiots, and fought him so the other players could go free.

After he was defeated, Kayaba revealed that the whole thing was an accident, which disappointed Kirito, as he suspected that Kayaba was a Machiavellian schemer with a plan so brilliant even he couldn't figure it out. This revelation made Kirito view Kayaba as a fuck up like everyone else, and watched in a mixture of annoyance and disappointment as he left the game, not knowing if any of the players will survive the system purge.

### Kibaou

Kirito and Kibaou didn't interact much, but Kirito didn't have a very high opinion of him. When Kirito found out he had amassed a vast amount of power Kirito was shocked, and asked how it was allowed to happen.

### Gary

Gary was a fellow teammate of Kirito's first Guild and was one of the NPCs. Not much of Kirito's interactions with Gary were shown, but Kirito seems to have cared very much for him, even though he didn't know his name. This changed however when Gary escaped from a trap he sprung, leaving Kirito and the others to die, resulting in Sachi's death. After this, Kirito developed a deep hatred of Gary, to the point Kirito tortured him to death when he ran into him again, out of revenge for the death of their friends. Despite the fact that Kirito killed him, Gary's name was still a trigger for Kirito's PTSD, to the point that Kirito would go into a frenzy whenever he heard a word that vaguely sounded like Gary.

### Fluffles

It is shown that Kirito despises Fluffles, due to his role in the death of his former Guild, the Moonlit Black Cats. Kirito and Fluffles even fought at one point, where Kirito got stabbed, and Fluffles got thrown off a cliff (though it was eventually revealed he survived). Despite all this, Fluffles showed a casual demeanor to Kirito, meowing in a friendly manner.

### Rosalia

Kirito despised Rosalia, as she viewed him as weak and she had a very annoying facade. Kirito saw through Rosalia's overly kind demeanor and suspected that she was a part of a dangerous Guild, like Laughing Coffin, which caused Kirito to accept Silica's request for help in order to draw her out.

Kirito's plan worked, as Rosalia came to rob them, but he was underwhelmed by how pathetic her Guild, Titan's Hand, was. Rosalia then began to dissect Kirito's tough guy persona, concluding by mocking his prepubescent voice, which resulted int Kirito going into a frenzy and killing Rosalia. But, Rosalia had the last laugh, as she mocked the fact that Kirito would never have sex before she died. This comment stuck with Kirito, and when Kirito had sex with Asuna he told Rosalia to suck it, which resulted in Asuna punching him for shouting another girl's name in bed.

When Kirito challenged Kayaba to their fight for the fates of the players, Kirito remembered Rosalia's criticism of his persona while reflecting on the person he used to be.

### Jeffrey

Kirito fought along side Jeffrey during the Illfang raid, but they first officially met when Jeffrey was attempting to assassinate Kains, Yolko and Schmitt almost two years later. Kirito tells Jeffrey that he admires Laughing Coffin's reputation, and advises them to restructure their entire operation, as the religious theme was scaring potential customers off. However, since this resulted in Laughing Coffin's demise, this might have been a convoluted lie in order to trick Laughing Coffin into exposing themselves.

### Johnny Black

Kirito first met Johnny when Laughing Coffin were attempting to assassinate Kains, Yolko and Schmitt. When Jeffrey revealed how cheaply they were selling their services Kirito told them that they deserved more money for their work, which Johnny completely agreed with. After Kirito gave a impersonate about how necessary contract killing is, which gave Johnny chills, this inspired Laughing Coffin to pursue a different path. However, since this resulted in Johnny narrating an advert that gave away the location of their secret base and eventual defeat, this might have been a convoluted lie in order to trick Laughing Coffin into exposing themselves.

### Grimlock

Kirito was absolutely disgusted with Grimlock. Originally, Kirito thought Grimlock killed his wife for the profits, but when he found out that he killed her for such a petty reason Kirito was shocked that someone could kill someone over something so stupid. Kirito tried to give Grimlock a emotionally fuelled speech about how he wasted his love for Griselda, but Grimlock wasn't phased, and was instead brought down by a dig at his hat.

### Kuradeel

Kirito didn't hate Kuradeel at first, he only saw him as a target of ridicule, due to his ugly face. When Kirito found out that Kuradeel had overstepped his boundaries as Asuna's bodyguard, these insults increased, to the point that Kuradeel wanted to teach Kirito a lesson. This didn't work though, and Kuradeel ended up being humiliated.

When Kirito found out that Kuradeel was a fanboy of Laughing Coffin this made him ecstatic, as now he had another thing to mock Kuradeel with. Even though he was getting killed by Kuradeel, Kirito refused to stop mocking him, as he knew it would ruin his revenge because Kuradeel couldn't enjoy it as much as he could.

### King of Ashes

Not much is known about Kirito's relationship, but from what we can see Kirito did something that broke the peace treaty between the King and the Knights of the Blood Oath, even to the point the King sent Kirito a message that said he will "FLAY YOUR FUCKING SOUL!!!".

The King's pursuit of Kazuto continued after he was freed of SAO, and the King eventually him tracked down on twitter and sent him a death threat, to which Kazuto liked it and responded sarcastically.

### Shouzou Yuuki

Kazuto has a semi-hostile relationship with Asuna's father, as they have very different views on how to take care of Asuna while she is in her coma. Kazuto wants her to keep living, while Shouzou wanted to pull her plug, which Kazuto was obviously against. Other than that, Kazuto just seems to think Shouzou is an idiot, but tries his best to be polite, unless provoked.

### Nobuyuki Sugou

Kazuto was the only person in the real world Sugou didn't bother to hide his true self from, as he thought that he was powerless to stop his plans to steal Asuna away. Kazuto was initially terrified of Sugou's perverted nature, but eventually found the resolve to fight against him in order to rescue Asuna.

### Jonathan

As a Spriggan, Kirito is one of PantySmasher's enemies. When Kirito killed his friends, PantySmasher wanted to challenge Kirito to a fight and "settle this like fairies". But when he found out that Kirito couldn't fly, PantySmasher found this hilarious and taunted Kirito for it, only to have a sword flung near his head. PantySmasher then tried to make an ominous threat before departing, but he ended up saying something out of character, which he blamed on Kirito and Leafa "throwing him off his rhythm".

### Dylan and Trevor

Kirito didn't seem to see DeezGunz and Keith more than obstacles, as he killed them with little to no effort, without waiting to hear what stories they were trying to tell.

### Travis

Kirito first met Cazmer when he came to collect Leafa. Kirito was very critical of Cazmer's wedding storyline before he met him, but when Cazmer kept insisting Leafa came with him Kirito leant into his criticism further, saying that a respectable gentleman like Cazmer must have plenty of cousins that could replace Leafa as his wife. When this enraged Cazmer, Kirito poked fun of his storyline even further, referencing the movie Stardust in the process, a reference that Cazmer caught.

When Kirito found out that Cazmer had betrayed the Sylphs, he initially assumed it was a grab for power, having gotten tired of waiting to marry into the family. However, Kirito was shocked to learn that Travis was actually trying to stop the Race War. When Travis apologized to Kirito for how he treated him, Kirito couldn't look him in the eyes out of shame. So far, Travis is the only enemy Kirito has felt bad about defeating.

### Becky

As a Spriggan, Kirito is one of Eugene's enemies. Kirito wanted to avoid a fight with the Salamanders, since he was on a time limit, so he made up a complicated lie about being associated with the Undine. Eugene doubted this lie but offered to settle things with a duel between the two of them. During the fight, Eugene taunted Kirito for being another Spriggan "pokin' his big ol' nose into other people's bidness", inadvertently revealing the reason why everyone hates Spriggans involved someone stealing Kirito's name, which enraged Kirito. After defeating Eugene, Kirito hoped to recruit the Salamanders, but was disappointed when Becky broke character to argue with Brian, followed by them leaving.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Episode 17
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Episode 16
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Episode 12
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Episode 13
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Episode 14
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Episode 15
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Episode 2
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 Episode 6
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Episode 8
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 Episode 9
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 Episode 10
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Episode 11
13. ↑ Episode 1
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Episode 3
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Episode 5
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Episode 4
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Episode 7