Sword Art Online: The End of Aincrad

At sunset a huge cone-shaped castle floats above a sea of clouds and breaks apart. Large pieces fall from its base toward the clouds, and small blue lights rise around it. A man in black and a woman with long hair sit side by side on a glass floor in the foreground and watch.

This is the end of the first story of Sword Art Online, a series of novels by Reki Kawahara. The game is over, and the floating castle Aincrad breaks apart at sunset.

Kirito and Asuna sit on a floor of glass above the clouds and watch the castle fall. The painting has 6,840 brush strokes.