Unless there's a torso, you never consider a character expressionless -- and that lesson often holds true in anime likewise. Countless times someone has been declared dead, only to plough upward alive and well later on. This may only be the case inSword Fine art Online: State of war of Underworld.

Vassago, a recurring villain who has been effectually e'er since SAO'south original Aincrad arc, was gravely wounded in War of Underworld. At the time, his physical trunk was surrounded by his peers -- only for him to somehow pull a Houdini and disappear from the isolated Ocean Turtle. It raises the question: did Vassago really die? If not, what happened to his trunk?

Vassago Casals was born to a Japanese father and Castilian mother out of wedlock in San Francisco. His father had a legitimate son with his married woman who was born with a kidney defect, and forced Vassago'due south mother to give nativity in order to utilise the baby as a donor when he got older. As a result, Vassago's mother hated him and named him after a demon from the Ars Goetia, a portion of a larger work called The Keys of Solomon that instructs the reader on how to summon 72 demons of Hell. When he was one-time enough, Vassago told his male parent he would donate his kidney -- under the status that he be brought to Japan to live a meliorate life. This didn't work out like he wanted due to Japan's strict laws on residency, and so he somewhen turned to crime to earn a living.

This led Vassago to bring together a Korean crime syndicate, which eventually saw him get on an assassination mission in the world of Sword Art Online. He was ane of the 10,000 players trapped in the game globe, starting the infamous player-killing social club chosen Laughing Bury nether the monicker "PoH," for Prince of Hell.

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Vassago used Laughing Coffin to enact hate crimes against the game'south East Asian players, whom he despised because of his history with his Japanese father. After the remaining players were freed from Sword Fine art Online, Vassago returned to America to join a individual military contractor. This led to him joining Gabriel Miller (Emperor Vecta in War in Underworld) and attempting to steal the Bottom-Upwardly AI the Japanese Self-Defence force had developed for Project Alicization. While the mission wasn't a complete success, Vassago and Miller end upward inbound the Underworld to steal the AI from within the program.

After a titanic battle inside Underworld, Vassago's mind was trapped in the game due to his avatar being transformed into a cedar by Kirito. This was done to prevent Vassago from logging out and escaping. In the real world, the residue of Vassago's mercenary group broke the Fluctlight Acceleration, causing the arrangement to shift into overdrive and seemingly killing the longtime Sword Art Online antagonist.

While his body is shown to exist seemingly dead, it was never actually recovered during the mercenary group's withdrawal. This leaves room for Vassago to make an unlikely return in future Sword Art Online arcs, but what affect the Maximum Acceleration had on his mind remains equally unknown.

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Molly Kishikawa is an American artist living in Nihon. Starting with the original broadcast of Sailor Moon on Toonami, she has been an avid anime fan since. Living in Japan for 2 years, she has seen start-hand how the land views anime and manga. She also enjoys video games, Dungeons & Dragons, and J-Rock.

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