It's like you want to explain it and it's clear in your head but the more you put it in word the more you realise that it's makes no sense in the end.
I don't think they explained why Asuna can't have sex after the second trial but the reason the first trial can't begin was because Asuna was on her period and the quest NPCs consider menstrual bleeding to be unclean so they had to wait until Asuna was "cleansed".
The ritual is a FOG in-game event to get a AI child as a game companion. Kirito and Asuna wanted to use this event to get Yui back. The ritual requires the parents and two god-parents to pass three trials. They couldn't start the trials when Asuna was on her period as I explained. It was not explained how the game knew Asuna was on period. Maybe if Asuna said she the was not on period the game could not check. Or maybe in Fujino's world the VR headset can read EVERYTHING about the user's body. Only he knows.
We'll soon find out if there will be anything else banned in the final part of the challenge. In general, Fujino decided not to reveal the topic of how the game tracks such parameters in irl. Possibly next time when Kirito and Asuna have to have sex to complete the ritual, Inoda will fuck her in irl while she is with Kirito.
Yea i think that this is what's gonna happen and because of this they will somehow fail the ritual since i assume the vr headset will detect something is wrong and this will somehow get spun to be kirito's fault or maybe even asuna's either way its going to start there inevitable falling out, im more interested in whats gonna happen with liz and sinon as it feels like they both have all the cards in there hands and are both after kirito (Both also know asuna is fucking around with inoda which is more leverage to use when they decide to make there moves)
It being her fault would make sense narratively since we've seen Kirito has the supportive capacity of a squirrel and Asuna for whatever reason thinks Inoda is super supportive. Seeking solace w/ Inoda after something she "failed" because Kirito wouldn't understand sounds like something that would happen.
Kind of what i was thinking too. Whether some find it a cop out or not, it makes sense with how Asuna is also delusional enough to think like this.
But what’s the council’s role in all of this, considering they were the ones who created this ritual specifically for the Admin’s goal?
We seem to know their goals. But their activity itself is very vague, so it is difficult to say what it is for. Perhaps if Yui has the same capabilities as in the original, they hope to use her. That is why they arranged this ritual. But perhaps our activity with Alice will somehow disrupt it, because initially, by helping her, we were supposed to find out their plans. Or maybe everything will be completely different, there are many options
Fair point you bring up. Maybe it'll be a combination of the two ideas. Something like Kirito or Asuna might be under the impression that one of them messed it up, but actually the administrator was always going to hijack it.
Where was it said the Council was responsible for the ritual? I don't remember any of their members talking about the ritual. Even their closest member to the party, Sinon, doesn't seem to know or care about it. The only thing I know they done is install those poles everywhere IRL and scan his brain during his investigation.
It was actually our beloved Admin who talked about it, but I think it was in the December update, so I don’t remember exactly what she said. As always, it was vague—I think it was something like the council trying to please her by creating the ritual. She even said that she would have done it differently, but it would suffice, or something along those lines.
Oh that. I thought she was talking about how they are planning on using the Seed in Kirito's mind for her. But it can be vague enough that she could have meant this ritual.
4-kun is right and wrong, actually. Unless I'm heavily misremembering, I'm pretty sure Administrator said that the Council created the 'Ritual' Quest BASED OFF the ritual they're planning to do to bring her back, somehow, now that the ritual quest it's actually meant to resurrect her/summon her XD Otherwise they wouldn't have made this available to ALL players to create their 'AI children', they would have just found a way to give it as an exclusive quest to Kirito and the rest, so while they may have made it as a homage to Administrator it has no direct relationship with their plans of what they need from Kirito to do so :O
since we know that lis will be with inode at the end. her story will most likely be connected with the development of the device that she gave to inode to control him (which depends on stats), probably this device will be turned against her and inoda will start to control and fuck her.
Okay that is pretty solid proof the Council is behind the ritual. I should not be surprised. Of course the Council can make a event in FOG for the Administrator. I bet one of them owns FOG or something. I bet it is the female scientist. She is only one we don't know anything about. If she is not Koujiro Rinko then she is the lead developer of FOG. Or maybe she is both!
