Sword Art Online is a hugely popular anime series that has garnered the most support from teenage boys and girls in the 2010s. Commonly known as SAO, the appeal of this work lies in the use of a special device called a VR machine to link the five senses with the game system, allowing players to engage in a variety of competitive game battles in a virtual space. There are various VR games within the world of SAO, but the most brutal and brutal of them all is Gun Gale Online, commonly known as GGO, in which players fight using guns. In GGO, death in the game is not supposed to directly lead to death in real life, but with the appearance of a player known as Death Gun, a fatal accident has occurred in real life. Here we will reveal spoilers about Death Gun.
[Gun Gale Online] A Sudden Fatal Accident and the Death Gun in Gun Gale Online
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The existence of the Death Gun is revealed at the beginning of the story. It begins with the mysterious death of Zexide, a top Gun Gale Online player, during a live broadcast watched by a large audience. Clad in a jet-black cloak and sturdy-looking armor, with two crimson eyes peeking out from under an eerie mask, Death Gun's distinctive appearance gives him a truly villainous avatar, reminiscent of Darth Vader from Star Wars.
[Gun Gale Online] Death Gun's armament revealed!
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Death Gun's most basic weapon is the L115A3 sniper rifle. This is a sniper rifle officially adopted by the British Army in 2007. This gun is an evolution of the L96A1, a sniper rifle designed for use in cold climates, and has an enlarged trigger guard to ensure accuracy is not affected even when wearing mittens. What's more, the Death Gun's L115 is equipped with a silencer, making it extremely troublesome as it makes no sound when fired.
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The Type 54 handgun that Death Gun uses to actually kill players is a Type 54 rifle. This Type 54 rifle was copied and manufactured in Eastern Bloc countries and smuggled in large quantities to Japan. Therefore, it's entirely possible that someone who somehow obtained it would use it in a bank robbery. Its original official name was the "Tokarev T33." This gun, also known as the Black Star, triggered a traumatic past for the character Sinon.
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Perhaps the most troubling piece of Death Gun's equipment is not even his weapon, but his metamaterial light-distorting camouflage cloak, which makes his avatar invisible. This allows him to enter a completely stealthy state, making him invisible even to satellite scans that can locate his avatar once every 15 minutes. This cheat item, combined with the ability to fire a silenced sniper rifle, makes for some seriously impressive pure power.
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The last weapon we'll introduce to Death Gun is the Estoc, crafted using the bayonet skill from a metal used in space battleship armor. The Estoc is a thrusting sword used in Europe, designed to pierce chainmail. While guns are the primary weapon in Gundam Go, Death Gun's commitment is evident in the fact that he goes to the trouble of creating an Estoc using something called a bayonet skill. His sword skills are also on par with or better than Kirito's when he dived into Gundam Go, putting Kirito in a difficult position.
[Gun Gale Online] How strong is Death Gun?
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Death Gun was extremely powerful, so powerful that even Kirito, whose parameters had been converted from ALO, was overwhelmed by his swordplay. In terms of pure strength and technique alone, he surpassed Kirito at the time, and without the power of his will, Kirito might have lost. Her long-range sniper rifle shooting skills were also on par with Sinon, with both of them shooting through the scopes, resulting in a draw. She's a top player at both long and close range, and may have been the strongest of the 3rd BoB players.
[Gun Gale Online] Death Gun's True Identity [Full Spoilers]
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Death Gun's true identity is that of an SAO survivor, a Red Player (those who kill players are called Reds within SAO). He is one of the executives of the murderous guild "Laughing Coffin," also known as Laughcoff, and in SAO he fights Kirito but is defeated. His nickname in SAO is "Red-Eyes Zaza." Kirito had completely forgotten Zaza's name, but during his battle with Death Gundam in Gundam Go, he remembered his SAO name.
[Gun Gale Online] How do you kill Death Gundam?
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In Gun Gale Online, it is virtually impossible for a player shot in the game to die in the real world. Despite this, players have actually been killed by the Death Gun. The secret to this incident is simple: Death Gun player kills were not due to the in-game system, but were actually committed in the real world.
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In other words, several of Death Gun's collaborators sneaked into the homes of players diving into Gun Gale Online in the real world and administered drugs to cause cardiac arrest. Naturally, players killed in the real world were unable to maintain their avatars in Gun Gale Online and disappeared. This is how Death Gun's players are killed (more details below).
[Gun Gale Online] Death Gun's True Identity and Allies
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Death Gun's true identity was revealed to be the ringleaders: Kyoji Shinkawa, a friend of Sinon (aka Shino Asada), and his brother, Shoichi Shinkawa. It was later revealed that a man named Atsushi Kanemoto was also involved. It was later revealed that Shoichi was none other than "Red-Eyes Zaza," one of Rafkov's executives, and that Atsushi Kanemoto was also a survivor of SAO.
[Gun Gale Online] Player-Killing Motives and Plans
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It all started with Kyoji Shinkawa, who unnaturally appeared early on as Sinon's friend... His avatar name in GGO was the result of a personal grudge against Spiegel. Spiegel was deceived by the lie that Zexide, the winner of the 2nd Boy's Battle, had the strongest agility, and was stuck in player training, which left him with a deep resentment towards Zexide. He then consulted his older brother, Shoichi, who was a fearsome murderer in SAO, and came up with the idea of killing players in GGO.
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The Shinkawa brothers' father is the director of a large hospital, allowing them to obtain an electronic unlocking master key that can be used to unlock the hospital in an emergency, as well as succinylcholine, a poison also used as a muscle relaxant. The Shinkawa brothers first obtain the master key and succinylcholine, then plan to murder players who live alone. The player's address was obtained by using the invisibility optical cloak to peer at the touch panel in the Governor's Office where player information is entered.
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After obtaining the addresses of several players living alone, the Shinkawa brothers, with the help of Atsushi Kanemoto, had Death Gun (Shoichi) attack the players with a Type-54 rifle. At the same time, in the real world, Kyoji and Kanemoto sneak into the players' homes and inject them with chemicals to kill them.
[Gun Gale Online] Death Gun's Final Moments
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In the end, the Shinkawa brothers were defeated by Kirito and arrested in the real world. However, Shoichi, also known as Red-Eyes Zaza (the older brother), was no match for Kirito in the SAO era, but his overwhelming combat prowess in Gun Gale Online, where he cornered Kirito, was truly impressive. Even if they fought honestly, Zexide and Yamikaze, who had won every tournament, would probably have been able to easily defeat them.
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However, Atsushi Kanemoto escaped without being arrested. In the end, this incident resulted in three casualties in addition to Zexide, but given Shoichi's strength, I think he could have just beaten them to a pulp in GGO using the cheat functions of the optical cloak and silenced sniper, rather than risking killing a real player (lol). Well, maybe Death Gun is the fate of a player obsessed with killing players.
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
Kirito narrowly won the battle against Death Gundam. However, he was able to do so with some assistance from Sinon, so it's possible that he would have lost in a one-on-one battle. All I can say is that Kirito was lucky in many ways.
