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Yeah, I get you there. From the observer's perspective, it's obvious that elements from different "timelines" were just thrown together for the sake of Asuna x Inoda, and others were just cut off.Yeah, sorry, but I was just trying to be as impartial judging this as I felt I could after playing the update. As someone who doesn't care much for the main story I could "feel" the obviously rushed parts more easily because I wasn't dancing over the moon about Inoda finally getting to fuck Asuna willingly (In-game at least), so the way things felt 'off' for the sake of convenience stood out more. Suguha being there in the cafe for example, as you said, felt like it could have been the beginning of her showing even more of her concern about him and his relationship with Asuna from the last update, but it was simply cut short and her being there was pointless and could have easily have been Agil instead who already was around earlier. And then Leafa showing up in FOG but immediately being turned off felt like how a before-previous-update interaction with her would have gone, aka the typical excuse for her to get fucked again by Hebishima while the plot tried to paint it as "Kirito's fault", so it felt even more off for me.
Once again, if this was just Fujino being tired/overwhelmed and deciding to put it off then it can't be helped, but my fear is that it felt like he completely dropped the previous new storyline he had added for her that I was so excited about because of said tiredness, given it was much easier than focusing on a Suguha development 'nobody' cared about![]()
If we had at least gotten the scenes of Sugu x Kirito, it would be reassuring. Right now, if we don't get them in the next update, then I guess he's emphasizing that nothing happened between them, and he dropped Sugu's story.