That day, the entire nation was stirred once again.
"Miracle! The victims have returned!"
"Three hundred lives return overnight!"
"The true end of the death game!"
"The biggest surprise, two months late!"
Headlines like these continued appearing online, spreading among the public.
After SAO was cleared and thousands of people returned from the death game, the fact that three hundred players still had not awakened had once caused a huge stir.
Now, after two months, all three hundred players had finally awakened. Naturally, the entire nation was thrown into an uproar.
As a result, reports on the matter began appearing not only online, but also in all kinds of news broadcasts.
However, it was the story reported afterward that caused an even greater commotion.
"According to reports from informed sources, the reason the three hundred SAO survivors only awakened after two months was that they had been subjected to illegal experiments."
When such reports appeared before the public, countless people were finally moved.
No one had known why those three hundred players had only awakened after two months.
Even the government had been unaware of the matter. Otherwise, it would never have stood by and done nothing.
But now, the truth had finally come to light.
"The full-dive game devices 'NERvGear' and 'AmuSphere' focus the projection of electronic pulse waves solely on the brain's cortical region, then provide signals from a virtual environment. If this restriction is removed, it may become possible to control functions other than the brain's sensory processing."
"In other words, thought, emotion, memory, and so on could all be controlled and processed through artificial means."
"This kind of operation requires a large number of test subjects."
"The mastermind behind the scenes set his sights on the SAO players."
Because the experiments involved testing human brains, such