Sword Art Online

[Ryllharu]

Which, I guess means that unless these people all live in the same town, doesn't seem very likely without more than one person outside.

They very likely do because the writing is bad...but I actually think it makes sense when you put all the puzzle pieces together, the ridiculous way Kirito divined them anyway. I think we can give this one to the series, whether it was intentionally written that way or if the gaps can be filled purely by accident.

1) They are looking up the competitor's addresses directly.
2) Most of the targets, if not all are prominent players that were in the previous tournament (Sinon says she only doesn't recognize a few players plus Kirito).
3) We were shown the file folder with DeathGun's list of targets, with Sinon remaining.
4) DeathGun is very selective of who he/they kill spectacularly to prove their "power."

The duo has probably looked up which prominent GGO players are in Tokyo, possibly narrowing it down to a few districts at most. They're only picking targets the partner can reasonably get to in time for the execution.

In fact, within the tournament, they would only execute two (Pale Rider and Sinon). They'd both love to get Kirito, but he's paranoid and didn't put in his address.

[shinta|hikari]

Even if he did, he's in a hospital.

[MasterOfMoogles]

They hate him enough that they would probably go kill him later, though. It would be super dangerous.

[shinta|hikari]

Not if he knew they were coming.

[kmkze04]

Even if they lived all in the same town, there would be no way for GGO Death Gun to communicate which target he was hunting next to an outsider, especially with him staying off the scanners. Otherwise it would be simple for Kirito or Sinon to send someone to her house and ambush the real world Death Gun while he's waiting to inject her.

[shinta|hikari]

Kirito should just raise his heart rate, automatically log out, then go to Shino's apartment to stop the killer.

All he needs to do is stare at that ass long enough.

[MasterOfMoogles]

Haha, I don't know that he could get up to 180ish bpm just by doing that. Not to diss Sinon's behind or anything.

I know you're kind of just joking with your post, but I think it is interesting to consider this.
Any scenario involving confronting the murderer is pretty dangerous. Let's say he did log out, options then are:
1) Call police on Shino's apartment
2) Go there alone
Both involve the murderer being trapped in her apartment unless he can escape out a window or something. It would potentially turn into a hostage situation.

Given the scenario, the absolute safest option seems to be to defeat Death Gun in game and hope the murderer follows the code they have set. If DG gets knocked out of the tournament, hopefully the killer leaves quietly. If, by fighting Death Gun, Kirito remembers the guy's SAO name or gets him to tell him, then they can look up his address and catch him. Then you would hope to catch any co-conspirators via interrogation/plea bargain or by raiding the guy's phone/computer logs.

[Ryllharu]

Only in Japan would a pair of homicidal murderers be polite enough to lose in a video game and not be enraged enough to take revenge anyway.

I only believe it because I know they line up in game to each take their turn doing "Kill 10 Vicious Wombats" quests.

[Kraco]

Only in Japan would a pair of homicidal murderers be polite enough to lose in a video game and not be enraged enough to take revenge anyway.

I'm no expert, and in fact I shouldn't in this case argue with an American (since you certainly make the most iconic serial killer movies, ever since Hitchcock), but I think it's precisely because they are serial killers that they stick to their own methods and rules. They aren't like terrorists trying to produce as many indiscriminate victims as possible. They are carefully selecting the victims and the way the victims apparently died is carefully produced.

I'd say they would only kill outside of their plans if it was to preserve the secrecy of their methods in order to keep going. Otherwise they would need to drop the Death Gun act.

[shinta|hikari]

That makes sense.

[DarthEnderX]

So what you're saying is...Death Gun has a dark passenger.

[kmkze04]

I will die laughing if one of the eps is titled Dark Passenger.

[fireheart]

I only believe it because I know they line up in game to each take their turn doing "Kill 10 Vicious Wombats" quests.

For the record I saw people do this in Archeage on the EU server just yesterday so it's not really limited to Japan.

[lelouch]

For the record I saw people do this in Archeage on the EU server just yesterday so it's not really limited to Japan.

I dont get it, what is this?

[fireheart]

I dont get it, what is this?

What don't you get, the lining up to get a mob or what Archeage is? Or was that just sarcasm?

[lelouch]

What don't you get, the lining up to get a mob or what Archeage is? Or was that just sarcasm?

Lining up for wombats? I've heard of archage but never played it.

[MasterOfMoogles]

In MMOs, since you have to wait for monsters to respawn, it can be a real pain to do quests. The example here is kill 10 wombats. If everybody is killing all of the wombats, you basically have tons of players scouring the area and nobody gets their quest done in a reasonable amount of time. It is also very frustrating.
Most often I've seen this with very rare spawns, where a specific rare monster spawns in a specific location and people wait in line to kill it.
If you don't wait in line, it basically becomes a mess where everyone is just trying to grab the monster first and kill it.

This isn't really an issue in most recent MMOs thanks to having multiple instances of zones.

[Munsu]

Sword Art Online II Episode 12 Horriblesubs

[Kraco]

What goes around, comes around. I guess Kirito shouldn't have ignored the dude back in SAO. Still, considering Kirito has been playing a sword fighting game all the time, whereas Death Gun has been playing a modern shooting game, one has to wonder why exactly Kiroto would be rusty with swords, not Death Gun. Could it be that Kirito has been doing no PvP sword fights, not even to train? Fighting AI controlled monsters and NPCs wouldn't really do the trick.

Death Gun remains the most interesting character in this show, that's for sure.

Btw, when two marksmen shoot at each other from considerable distance, one from a really high position, the other from the ground level, one with a large calibre gun and one with a smaller, would the trajectories of the bullets meet at the halfway point? They aren't beam weapons, after all.

[MFauli]

This anime is such shit, lol. We are always shown how Kirito is THE best sword fighter. And out of nowhere, this guy pwns Kirito? Makes no sense. Of all the possible developments, this one makes the least sense. Seriously, Kirito has been blocking bullets for 10 episodes, and now this? As Kraco says, there´s no reason to believe he´d be rusty in terms of sword skills.

Most interesting piece of information, though, was Death Gun replying to Kirito´s explanation for Death Gun´s crimes, "you have a fascinating imagination". Maybe I´m being optimistic here, but imo this wording implies that Death Gun finds Kirito´s reasoning funny, further implying that it´s 100% wrong. To be honest, at this point in the story I´d prefer if it turns out that Death Gun truly CAN kill people with his gun alone after all. Putting this ridiculous "partner who´s driving around whole of Japan, using superior lock-picking skills to inject poison into victims´ bodies" bs. No idea how it´d be explained then, but idc.

As for the sniper duel, dear god, for a moment I feared they´d go full-retard and have the bullets hit each other in mid-air. Would have been soooo corny.