Connection and Referencing Story Element from .hack//LINK

"BEWARE FOR THE ULTIMATE SPOILERS, THOSE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO BE SPOILED ARE BETTER TO AVOID THIS PAGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BEFORE IT COULD ALTER YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT .hack//FRANCHISE."[YOU HAD BEEN WARNED]

As for how the Chrono Link and the original LINK is a different story as equal, however, it doesn't mean that they didn't connect to each other, it also brings a whole continuity indirectly together until how the third saga of Third Season Reboot "The End of the Twilight", however, this reference are kept to be indirect until the third episode Re: Countdown as how brings unexpected story will brings a new branch together.

Not just Chrono Link, but RIVES will indirectly connect to the original LINK.

.hack//RIVES

 * In episode 8 of RIVES -Second Season- stated by Ju21 that he had witnessed something that barely shocking him, which revealed that he saw recording with someone who looks like Tokio, including his battling against Aura who like in some disturbing form along with another PCs.
 * This mentioned that Ju21 had seen the footage about the event of .hack//LINK which when Tokio met Saika Amagi to where Tokio with Saika, AIKA, Fluegel, and the others fight against the Brainwashed Aura.
 * But, Ju21 was already been killed at the moment he wants to explain something he had found in the Grand Whale.
 * Sophora seems to have secret knowledge about Tokio, which ever since that he's an AI made by the True Akashic Records log data which seems that he knew him from somewhere that he couldn't remember.
 * In episode 13 of RIVES -Third Season- Part 2 it is mentioned that Davis had the power or abilities to predict the future ahead of him, so that he had knowledge what will happen next after he was gone, but it seems that the future wasn't even easy enough for Tokio as he said.
 * If you play .hack//LINK -Chrono Link- Episode 0 The Lost Saga it is revealed that how he had obtained the power of time and his ability to predict the event, also why he knew Tokio even though he didn't even meet with him, which all because he had foreseen everything the event will tell in event of not just the original LINK, but all story what will happen in the future, all because of the True Akashic Records abilities to able to foresee the future that will come.
 * In episode 13 of RIVES -Third Season- Part 2 also mentioned Akira also having a dream same condition as to how Tokio did, which where he dreamt that his life already ends and been crushed as it seems that he had a very nightmare.
 * It seems that the scene was shown a same scene which takes a place on where Geist had been erased by Jyotaro during he been infected by Outer Dependency Syndrome. That event takes a place only in the original version of .hack//LINK.