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In Sword Art Online (season 1) episode 9, at about 16:00, someone with blue
hair woke up Kirito. When he regains consciousness, it was Asuna. But she
doesn't have blue hair!

Here are some pictures.

This was just before he woke up:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HXIh0.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HXIh0.jpg)

Then:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UR4TP.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UR4TP.jpg)

What's going on here?


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Who woke up Kirito in episode 9?


That would be Sachi. She's umm.. you know. big spoiler. As you can see from
this screen shot, her hair is blue.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7MS93.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7MS93.jpg)


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I believe it may have been Suguha over Sachi. if we look at a younger image of
Suguha we see she has Blue-ish hair

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jo2p5.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jo2p5.jpg)

also Sachi's sidebangs are longer going past her chin

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JeXw7.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JeXw7.jpg)

while with Suguha, despite the fact in the image bellow they are behind her
ears we can guess her hair length of these side bangs to when she was young
(in the previous image they are the bang just before the flower clip) and
probably isn't nearly as long as Sachi's

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BuYxz.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BuYxz.jpg)

Also the fact the they are trying to wake Kirito up makes more sense that it
is Suguha as she would be wanting Kirito to wake up, maybe some sort of feed
from reality. there isn't much reason for Sachi, or her ghost, to be wanting
Kirito to wake up so urgently while with Suguha, someone she loves is still
almost wasting away in a coma like state.


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The face and the hair colour of the girl trying to wake him up looks similar
to Sachi, the girl from the guild of which Kirito was the member long time
before this scene.

[![Sachi](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3Ysn.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3Ysn.jpg)

I'm pretty sure this is Sachi and not Suguha because of two reasons. Firstly,
at that moment, Kirito wanted to be apart from Suguha because he found out the
family he lived with was not his real family (I mean not his true parents and
Suguha was not his sibling) since the age of 10. Secondly, Kirito joined that
battle (the scene before your illustrations) because he did not want any
friends and guild members ended up disappearing in front of him like the death
of the "Moonlit Black Cats" of which Sachi is the member, so maybe he saw the
blue haired girl due to his guilty feeling.


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I had always thought that it was Sugu, Kazuto's sister. That, somehow, Kirito
briefly glimpsed the real world. But, in retrospect, it was Asuna.

Firstly, it cannot be Sachi: Sachi is dead, and other than the strange
occurrence of Griselda's brief appearance, the dead do not reappear. If Asuna
hadn't seen had Griselda, too, then I would be apt to think that this was a
hallucination. For now I will call it an anomaly or glitch in the system. I am
sure there could be many considering Yui, Asuna defying paralysis, and
Kayuba's surprise when Kirito refused to die before issuing the fatal blow,
just to name a few.

As I said above, the first time I saw the episode and the black-haired girl, I
was certain it was Sugu. I thought that Kayuba had lied and you didn't really
die when your HP hit zero, he had just said that to give a more realistic and
final feel to the game so that the players would take it more seriously. After
Kirito finished it and Kayuba confirmed that everyone who had died in-game was
really dead, episode 9 left me confused. How had Kirito then been able to see
his sister?

Had Kirito, being so near to death, briefly viewed his sister crying over him
in the hospital? But, then, why would she call him 'Kirito'? She did not know
him by that name. In fact, based on her reception of Kirito in Alfheim online,
she had never heard the name before. So, why would Sugu be calling Kazuto by
the name of his avatar? And why would she be using -kun if she knew she was
addressing her brother? As the younger sister she would use the honorific -san
or -sama, but not -kun. Understanding this he can only be hearing Asuna
calling him, which is evident in the next blink when it is Asuna's face before
him and not the black-haired girl. But, who was the black-haired girl and how
had Kirito seen her in the first place?

Again, I can only fall back on the anomaly or glitch in the system theory and
well as the strength of Kirito's own character. Only someone of extraordinary
strength of character would have the capability of defying the system. Yui was
attracted to both Kirito and Asuna because something about them was different
from every other player in the game. Was it their love? Their strength? Their
life-force? Something within their character is strong and Yui sensed it. And,
as previously mentioned, Asuna also showed an anomalous ability by defying
paralysis in order to protect Kirito. Was this strength enough to bypass the
systems parameters so that in a near death experience Kirito could momentarily
glimpse the real world and see his sister? Yes, I think it was.

But, as to who woke up Kirito - while I think he may have glimpsed Sugu, I
belive he was still hearing Asuna for the reasons mentioned above, and that it
was Asuna that actually woke him up.


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It is definitely Sachi. This is evidenced by the mole just below her right
eye.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RcFWx.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RcFWx.jpg)

In your image, the mole appears in roughly the same spot.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EQykz.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EQykz.png)

This is also backed up by the fact that, at the time of this particular scene
being shown, [out of all of the other female characters
introduced](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Female) \- that
being Lisbeth, Asuna, and Silica - **none** of them have a mole on their face.
The only other one that could come _close_ would be Lisbeth, but she has
freckles on her face.


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