Heathcliff: "Such an ability really is enviable."
Heathcliff: "If I possessed scientific talent as nearly Idealistic as Lala's, perhaps..."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Perhaps even more people would die in the SAO you created."
Ordinary Group Owner: "You're already outrageous enough as it is."
Ordinary Group Owner: "With Lala's scientific talent on top of that, are you planning to create a real world?!"
Su Yunqing said irritably.
Kayaba Akihiko's ability was evident from the fact that he could create SAO. If he also had Lala's scientific talent, he would not merely be creating a virtual online game. He would probably create a virtual world, one synchronized with reality.
Don't let the things Lala created in her own world, which seemed like mere "small-scale tinkering," fool you. Though they looked absurd and had certain fatal flaws, that did not mean she could not create flawless devices, nor did it mean she could only create such things.
Just as she herself had said, whether she could create a technology depended not on whether she was capable, but on whether she wanted to.
Heathcliff: "That was merely the original timeline. After joining the Chat Group, I had long abandoned that idea."
Heathcliff: "Having seen and personally touched a genuine Otherworld, I no longer had any interest in creating a real Otherworld in reality."
Heathcliff: "No, I cannot say I have no interest. It is simply no longer as simple as creating a virtual game."
The reason Kayaba Akihiko had turned the SAO he created into a Death Game in the original timeline was only because he had been too obsessed with the dream he had imagined as a child: a castle floating in the sky.
He yearned for a fantastical world, one completely unlike reality, a world with monsters, swordsmen, Summoners, Mages, and all