Goodness it's like neon sour candy just splurged all over my screen! D8 Dem colors!
As usual, along with your high quality coloring, I really like the little jewels and details you added to their outfits.
The new expression on Asuna's mouth is a bit vague, but it works well enough.
I feel I prefer the composition in one of the stages of your wip chart though - the one at the top right, because the final piece feels off balance to me, mainly from Asuna's position. Having her raised and tilt back slightly so the sword isn't parallel to the bottom edge feels a lot better to me (and creates a more pleasing V-shape with the other girl's bow). The final piece has her really tight along the bottom that makes me a bit uncomfortable. In the wip it's also nice to have the sword closer to the bottom third, but I realize that if you went with that placement there would be a lot to reconstruct on her body. Also not satisfied with the HD crop since extending the two sides would be fine, and would allow you to see the tip of the sword's handle that you worked hard to vector!
So overall it's high quality and the colors whet my sweet tooth, but the final composition doesn't quite bring it all together yet, I feel. Great to see another wall from you and it's good your mom is doing well again too. :3
