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Don't spend any time trying to fit this game into the canon timeline. This game diverged as soon as the OC Inoda survived SAO. Fujino said he used the story of Mother's Rosario to try to deepen his story so it was not a attempt to fit into the canon.Fujino's SAO world currently has a significant deviation from the original timeline, but roughly corresponds to the content of Volume 7. The conversation between Asuna and her mother about transferring schools, as seen in the flashback, actually comes from this volume.
However, in Fujino's version of the story, the Phantom Bullet arc did not occur, and there is no Konno Yuuki. In the original, it was Konno Yuuki, not Kirito, who made Asuna's character stronger and more complete.
It seems that Fujino intends for Inoda to replace Yuuki in driving Asuna's character development, but this direction is definitely deviating from the right path.
Of course I could be wrong. Feel free to laugh at me if in the next arc Kirito is attacked and sent to Underworld, thus giving Inoda and Asuna plenty of time alone.