Comment by elsa-bergwyn on [deleted post] 2023-03-20T21:41:00.338Z

Lovely lovely lovely! I had assumed that the reason the immediate effects of Kirito remained was because the time removal was only first-order, removing only things unique to him and not the things which he did; but of course (in 20/20 hindsight) that wouldn't make sense, because if he truly had been removed from time then Luna's blanket would have simply not been on her, and Wanda simply not in the compartment; it was (to someone smarter than I) entirely predictable that it was only people's memory of him-specifically that was removed. I am very glad he survived after all.