2028

After all the virtual worlds Kirito and his companions have crossed, the digital realm can still open doors they have never seen before. Their lives continue between reality and technologies that have become inseparable from their experiences, carrying forward the questions that have followed them from the beginning: what makes a bond real, and where does a game end when the memories and feelings created inside it become part of a person? A new road awaits them, though its shape has yet to reveal itself.

Seven is set to return for a new adventure, but what awaits him on that journey has not yet been revealed.

Lu Mingfei, Caesar, and Chu Zihang are sent far from Cassell College on a mission to Japan, where secrets tied to dragon blood point toward a threat greater than anything they have faced before. Their assignment quickly becomes a conflict with local powers that possess their own long history with the dragon lineage and little patience for outsiders.There, Lu Mingfei meets Erii Uesugi, a girl isolated from the world whose blood carries a secret that makes her valuable to people willing to sacrifice anything. The closer the team comes to the truth behind the Black Moon Tide, the clearer it becomes that their mission is not merely another hunt, but a struggle surrounding the possible return of the White King.

Yuan Juntang and Li Shiya have finally become a couple, stepping into the campus romance they once only imagined. Yet the warmth of being together does not erase the doubts each carries. As daily life settles in, insecurity, confusion, and the pressure to grow begin to test what seemed effortless at first.Their feelings remain sincere, but love now has to coexist with personal ambitions and the realities waiting beyond university. When compromise starts to feel like sacrifice, Juntang and Shiya must decide whether their dreams can still move in the same direction, or whether growing up will ask them to choose different futures.

The girls whose lives became connected through table tennis return to the court, carrying the friendships and ambitions they forged during their first summer together. The white flash that once drew them forward shines again as they prepare to open a new chapter through competition, practice, and the bonds built across the table.