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Another earth creates a treatment for them, but Picard discovers that the plague is long gone, but the "remedy" is in fact a hugely-addictive drug.

In the Extra Edition, where by Kirito retells what occurred all through the first and 2nd arc, the human being he is telling the tale to suspects that it was the will of Kayaba that experienced Asuna and Kirito not die.