Yeah, Fujino can't help himself, after most of his fanbase being ok with the 3 months between updates, telling him not to rush the story and take care of himself first, what he does? split the next update basically into 2 parts, probably 30% next week and 70% in 45 days or less which he will have to rush in order to delivery, and here we go again with all the old drama about not having time and such.
You can say he's doing that for the fans, true it's appreciated but this time wasn't necessary like i said most of the fanbase were ok in waiting 3 months.
This give me the impression that Fujino is not confident enough about this next update to make everyone have to wait 3 months so he's doing this "extra event/scene" to keep the fans happy for a while and soften the blow that he's afraid to receive
Looks like he's having problems to move the story IRL foward, if you think about it the last time Fujino was caught in this scenario, first IRL sex scene, he finish the game in part 1, so this IRL NTR Relantionship is uncharted territory for him at least in this storyline. Now he will need a extra dose of creativity and nuance to make the thing beliveable, he cant use or rely only in plot devices, because they make no sense IRL like Inoda's superpowers and dumb luck, the plot need to be more deceptive and better hidden.
And for those who think the NTR element is over, it's not, the relantionship Asuna/Kirito for all intent and purposes is not dead it's just one sided, only Kirito keeping the "fantasy" alive it's enough for the NTR because Asuna will, lie, cheat and deceive from now on but keeping the status quo, and for him everything will be "fine" for a while, since he will not know the truth, NTR 101.