Recaps

Chen Fan and Asuna exposed and defeated Smiling Coffin, then married and took a brief honeymoon. Asuna chose to leave the Blood Pledge Knights for Chen Fan’s Star Guild, but Heathcliff made her transfer depend on a duel.

• Asuna confronted Chen Fan about skipping the labyrinth raid, and he defeated Kratir in a Deathmatch after Kratir challenged him.
• Chen Fan and Asuna investigated Smiling Coffin, then fought alongside the Army against the Floor 57 BOSS and defeated it after it killed several soldiers.
• On the 58th Floor, Chen Fan and Asuna were surrounded by Smiling Coffin attackers, and Chen Fan killed them before Kratir attacked Asuna and revealed the guild’s hideout.
• Chen Fan and Asuna helped organize a Strategy Group assault that defeated Smiling Coffin, and Asuna confessed that she had killed someone before asking Chen Fan to marry her.
• Chen Fan accepted Asuna’s proposal, and they used the game menu to become husband and wife before spending a week together on the eighteenth floor.
• Asuna told Heathcliff she planned to leave the Blood Pledge Knights and join Chen Fan’s Star Guild, but Heathcliff challenged Chen Fan to a duel with her transfer at stake.

Chen Fan defeated Heathcliff, helped the players clear Sword Art Online, and exposed Akihiko Kayaba as the game’s creator. After the players escaped and Chen Fan reunited with Asuna, he returned to Earth and encountered Issei Hyoudou and a Fallen Angel.

• Chen Fan defeated Heathcliff in a duel, and Asuna left the Blood Pledge Knights to join the Star Guild.
• As the players advanced through Aincrad, Chen Fan and the Strategy Group paused raids to level up before gathering for a dangerous boss fight.
• During the Floor 74 boss raid, Chen Fan used his powers to weaken the Giant Centipede-like BOSS, and the players defeated it despite fifteen deaths.
• Chen Fan identified Heathcliff as Akihiko Kayaba and exposed his Immortal Attribute, prompting Kayaba to challenge him to a duel.
• Chen Fan defeated Kayaba without using his special power, clearing Sword Art Online and allowing the trapped players to log out.
• Kayaba gave Chen Fan the World Seed, and Chen Fan woke in a hospital before finding Asuna and showing her his abilities.
• A month later, Chen Fan met Asuna and their former companions at Agil’s bar, then left Earth through a spatial passageway.
• Chen Fan interrupted Yuma’s attack on Isshin, let the Fallen Angel escape, and flew Issei Hyoudou home after learning he was injured.

Chen Fan joined Rias Gremory’s group, defeated the Fallen Angels who threatened Issei and Kuoh, and helped uncover their attack on Aisha. The arc ended with Chen Fan finding Aisha chained beneath the church after Raynare extracted her Sacred Gear.

• Chen Fan met Issei Hyoudou, learned that Fallen Angels had targeted him, and helped protect him from their attacks.
• Chen Fan met Rias Gremory and her peerage, demonstrated his Vector Manipulation by defeating a stray demon, and declined Rias’s offer to become her servant.
• Chen Fan killed the Fallen Angels pursuing Issei and joined Rias’s efforts to investigate the threat in Kuoh.
• Chen Fan killed Freed Selias after finding him among the victims of a slaughter, and Rias’s group traced the Fallen Angels to an abandoned church.
• Rias’s group attacked the church, where Chen Fan stopped the exorcists’ bullets and defeated the Fallen Angels and their human followers.
• Miteltudo revealed that Raynare was extracting Aisha’s Sacred Gear beneath the church, so Chen Fan smashed through the floor to reach her.
• Chen Fan found Aisha chained beside Raynare, who admitted that she had taken Aisha’s Sacred Gear, Mother’s Smile, to seek a promotion and serve Azazel.

Chen Fan rescued Aisha, then helped Rias prepare for the Rating Game against Laize Phoenix, her unwanted fiancé. As Rias’s team defeated most of Laize’s servants, Chen Fan confronted Laize and remained unharmed by his flames.

• Chen Fan defeated Raynare’s exorcists, rescued the dying Aisha, and stopped short of killing Raynare when Rias asked him to spare her.
• Rias extracted Aisha’s Sacred Gear and revived her as a Demon, while Chen Fan refused Rias’s offer to make him her servant.
• Aisha moved in with Chen Fan and joined Rias’s peerage, while Sona Sitri met Chen Fan at the Supernatural Research Club.
• Rias’s fiancé Laize Phoenix arrived and threatened her servants, so Rias agreed to settle their engagement through a Rating Game.
• Chen Fan helped Aisha contract a Fairy Dragon and trained Yuuto Kiba and Koneko Toujou before the Rating Game began.
• Rias’s team fought Laize’s servants, with Chen Fan and Koneko defeating four opponents and Akeno Himejima later eliminating Yubelluna.
• Laize confronted Chen Fan after Chen Fan protected Koneko from a surprise attack, and Chen Fan split Laize’s flames aside before insisting he would fight alone.
• Laize charged Chen Fan and was slapped into a sporting goods warehouse, but he emerged and attacked with fire while Chen Fan remained unharmed.