4x10 Stacia, the Goddess of Creation

Here comes Asuna, Destroyer of Kirito's Harems :sweat_smile: Alice took it surprisingly well, but I feel sorry for Ronye. She had no chance to begin with, but seeing her trying to stand her ground against Asuna and Alice was so cute.

But let's talk about the episode itself: Aside from the harem's utopian peaceful collapse two more or less important set pieces were placed.
Asuna delivered a sort of vague revelation of Underworld's nature to some of its inhabitants and stopped short of telling everyone they are just fakes. I'm not sure Asuna thinks this, but here talk about "real world" sounds very much like it. On the other hand she compared UW's inhabitants to humans with just one limitation, the right eye seal - Code 871.
And that's the second set piece: It implies that there is a yet unfound traitor in Rath's group and, even though Asuna said he could not be in the inner circle, we all know he very likely is. That's just how it goes.
We also got a time table for how the story is probably going to proceed from here: Kill (or server kick) Vector, forge peace between UW's humans and Dark Territory, and then lead Alice out to the "real world" and let her decide her own faith.

It was not the flashiest episode ever, but it was far from a waste of time. Important set pieces were laid out, new alliances forged and the course of the story laid out.