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In the _Sword Art Online_ anime, after getting the Resurrection Item Kirito
gives it to Klein, as Kirito wanted it to bring Sachi back to life, but for it
to work it had to be administered within 10 seconds.

Do they ever explain what happened to the item after that; the anime doesn't
show if Klein ever used it or not?


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What happened to the Resurrection Item?


This item was not mentioned after it's introduction.

During that introduction Klein was given it with the instruction to use it on
the next teammate who dies in front of him.

During the final battle he has every motivation and opportunity to use it as
the wife of the man who gave it to him has died right in front of him! He does
not use it here. It is unreasonable to think he would not use it under that
circumstance.

An object like that would not be disposed of carelessly.

This yields two possible answers: he followed the instructions given to him
(Very possible) or he gave/sold it to someone else and they used it, sold it
again, or retained it until it did not matter anymore.

In either case, this is neither a plot hole nor a deep mystery as it was a
relatively minor plot element, we were told exactly how he should use this
consummable, and, if he did so properly, it would not have been a large enough
plot point to warrent it being shown. I doubt it would retain its value by the
later stories so it doesn't even matter if it wasn't used by a purchaser by
the end of SAO.


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After giving the item to Klein, it's never explained what became of the item.
The reason for this is because of the way SAO was written. I would go into
details, but I'll try to make it simple.

SAO was originally a Web Novel, written from 2002 to 2008, before the author
was asked to publish it in 2009. Most of the side-stories that took place in
the "Aincrad Arc", were written around 2002-2004 (After the first "Volume" was
already written), between the other major arc, Fairy Dance and Phantom Bullet.
"Red Nosed-Reindeer" (the story that Episode 3 is adapted from) is different.
Kawahara didn't write this story until after 2005, when he had already began
writing the final arc of SAO (which isn't even in the anime yet)

Effectively, when he first wrote SAO, the Stone was not a concept he had in
mind. When he began publishing, he never bothered to write the stone into any
other story either (even though he included "Red-Nosed Reindeer" as a side-
story in the second book)

I would have to assume that the stone was used to save one of Klein's
Guildmates, considering that in the novel it was said that his Guild never
suffered a single casualty.


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In my opinion, that stone was something that could have been brought back in a
major way. A previous poster mentioned the stone would have been perfect to
resurrect Kirito in that final battle, but his will to overcome the system
after witnessing his true love fall for him would've been less meaningful to
the whole story, and stories ahead. Or it could have been used in any of the
floors skipped in the amine. To me I it just seems like Klein followed
Kirito's instructions and just used it on the next person he saw die; which
was probably a lot considering the rate of deaths that likely would have
happened in his presence. This is this only thing to go off based on actual
fact of the Anime.

I've never read the light novels, because I wonder if they have more content
from the floors that they majorly skipped in the show.


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