Asuna arrives to school with a Double-sided Visual and Hearing message probe, which was designed and calibrated by Kazuto and the mechatronics course students. After coming to school they head to the teacher's office to introduce Yuuki to the teacher and explain the situation.
In class they begin to study when the teacher asks Yuuki to read from the textbook to the rest of class, and from that point Yuuki becomes a full participant of the class.
After class Yuuki asks Asuna if they can go sightseeing outside of school and see the rest of the area. Once Yuuki and Asuna are outside of the school, Yuuki directs Asuna towards her old house at Hodogaya, in Yokohama. As they arrive at the house, Asuna asks Yuuki whether they should go inside, but Yuuki declines, saying that they only stayed there for less than a year. Yuuki then talks about the time she spent at the house with her sister and family running and playing. About how they cooked barbecue in the backyard, and after hearing about that Asuna never did anything like that Yuuki proposes they have a barbecue party at the house on the 22nd Floor in Aincrad. Yuuki then says that she is worried that once she is gone no one will be left to take care of the house, at that statement Asuna suggests that Yuuki marries someone, possibly Jun, and at that Yuuki says that Jun is too young. In response, Yuuki jokingly suggests marrying Asuna, laughing at the thought of her name becoming Yuuki Yuuki. Asuna balks at the idea, and Yuuki apologizes, reassuring her that she was merely joking and saying that she already knows that Asuna has someone she likes: the person that helped fix the probe. Yuuki warns Asuna about Kirito, saying he is also living in a different world.
Yuuki thanks Asuna again saying that even if the house is torn down, her memories will remain, Yuuki then talks about her mother and how her mom turned to Jesus and talked to her and her sister when they cried. Asuna then talks about her mother never listens to her and she can't muster the courage to talk to her directly and get her to listen. Yuuki then confesses she herself isn't strong here as well, when she was in the real world she always knew her parents were sorry for giving birth to her and as a result she was a brat and held a negative take on the world. She then later decided to smile and act strong despite the pain and even if her actions are a lie if she could present the most realistic side of her to people regardless of what other people think. Asuna then says it was that quality that allow the two to become friends, Yuuki corrects her saying it was her persistence and determination that made them become friends, not her personality, since many people wouldn't have gone to those lengths. Yuuki told Asuna to use that same determination when talking to her mother. Asuna thanks Yuuki and they head back.
After they return to the station, the power to the probe runs out and they promise to go the next day for lessons again, Asuna returns home around 9 PM. After coming home Asuna goes to her brother's room to take his AmuSphere and install her other character memory card Erika from ALO into it, and then logged in putting away her weapons into a chest in her and Kirito's house on the 22nd Floor. She then goes to see her mother, who first asked her why she was late. Her mother then tells Asuna she missed dinner and if she wanted food she would have to get it herself. Asuna then musters up her courage and asks her mother to FullDive with her so they can talk about her transfer. Asuna's mother is still adamant about the transfer and when they dive they end up in the forest. She then tells her mother about the time she visited her grandparents and how there was a time where her mother could not come home due to business and Asuna ended up apologizing to her grandparents for that. They tell Asuna that they understand and that she is out there doing great things. They even kept a book of all her accomplishments despite not having the skills to get digital skills to gather this information themselves. They also said that they wanted their home to be a place that Kyouko could always return to. She then thinks of the house in the forest as the house of rest like Yuuki's house of memories and her grandparent's house. Then Asuna tells her mother that she truly wants choose her way of life after finally understanding what her grandfather told her. After they come out of the FullDive, Asuna's mother agrees to let her stay in the SAO survivor school, under the condition that she receives a regular tutor and prepares for college.
Three days later, Asuna holds a great barbecue to keep a promise made to Yuuki with the other Sleeping Knights, the rest of her friends and even some of the leaders of the spirit tribes Eugene, Sakuya and Alicia came. Later they joined a hunting party and even though the other races tried to recruit the Sleeping Knights, they were all refused. If a group like them joined any one side it would upset the balance of the six races. As the players started talking about the boss of the next floor, the whole party decided to march to the boss room to have a go at the boss. In the 28th Floor's boss room, the party faced a crustacean-like boss and managed to defeat it, having both Kirito and Yuuki's, among a few other names, engraved on the Monument of the Swordsman.
In February, Asuna, together with the Sleeping Knights, took down the 29th Floor Boss, thus repeating their feat from the 27th Floor.
Later, during the ALO sword tournament, Yuuki and Kirito faced off in the finals with Yuuki defeating the single sword wielding Kirito with her 11-hit combo OSS. With this victory Yuuki became the 4th Champion of the ALfheim sword tournament.
Afterwards, Yuuki visited the Kirigaya residence. Although she was wary of Kazuto due to his overly sensitive nature at first, but since both of them were one-handed single sword users, once she got to speak to him, they soon both ended up passionately chatting in depth about Sword Skills and Kazuto's probe on multiple occasions, even making Asuna jealous at times.
Asuna then fulfilled the promise she had made with her mom and went on a trip to Kyoto to the main house. Though she was able to go around and converse with her friends using the two way probe.