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SWORD ART ONLINE 5: Phantom Bullet

REKI KAWAHARA

Translation by Stephen Paul

Cover art by abec

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

SWORD ART ONLINE

©REKI KAWAHARA 2010

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Edited by ASCII MEDIA WORKS

First published in Japan in 2010 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.

English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo, through Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo.

English translation © 2015 by Yen Press, LLC

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First Yen On eBook Edition: June 2017

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ISBN: 978-0-316-56090-0

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