V 16,5 question

Cristiano456 said:
Is volume 16,5 legit? Like done by the author and published on the same magazine?

ApacheSnow69 said:


16.5 was written on the writer blogs(he owned a website). During the web novel era, he wrote that chapter for fun.

Here the Q&A :
Q03: Is Chapter 16.5 part of the original storyline? (Chapter 16.5 is a pre-novelized chapter of Sword Art Online)

KAWAHARA: I’m going to say this is a question that should normally be answered. I’m sure, like Kirito, who spent two years in a virtual world, how do you spend that time? I wrote chapter 16.5 in those days when I was sort of wondering. I would like to consider that topic to be disappeared quickly into the darkness of history.