mos555
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The comparison, of course, is not equivalent in scale, but what if the entire play "Romeo and Juliet", the characters showed very little or no feelings for each other and then, at the end, they meet in a crypt and are poisoned with poison, and Shakespeare, without batting an eye, at the end of the play wrote "To you you just have to imagine that Romeo and Juliet really love each other very much." I think many people just wouldn't understand it.I think it is kind of a stretch to say that Asuna didn't love Kirito in this story. I'm sure she expressed a decent amount of time her love for him. But the "dorkyness" and unassertiveness of Kirito makes Asuna the one wearing the pants in their relationship, hence her chosing when to have action. But to be fair, she has a special relation and idea of sex and maybe that's what made their couple almost platonic. And this only emphasized the NTR when her relationship with Inoda started because it had a more direct approach.
To come back about the love between Kirito and Asuna, we even have a barometer which showed that Asuna considered Kirito as the love of her life. Most probably a tool to help the player simply picture better the love which wasn't necessarily showed in the game.
So Fujino has the same thing in the VISUAL novel, instead of VISUALLY showing the players the relationship of a couple who have been together for several years, he just tells us - "Look at the numbers in the statistics and imagine that they love each other very much." The effect is about the same - misunderstanding.