# Sword Art Online Alicization War of Underworld
# E0 - Reflection
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRQW71J3R/reflection)
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***SIGN*** Reflection
***SIGN*** Monday, July 6, 2026 7:15AM Ocean Turtle
**[00:22] Asuna (N)**
*The marine research organization known as Rath.*
**[00:26] Asuna**
If only I could dive into the Underworld
and rescue you...
**[00:31] Asuna (N)**
*The company that runs the self-propelled megafloat,
the Ocean Turtle.*
**[00:35] Asuna (N)**
*This is where my search for Kirito led me.*
**[00:39] Atsushi**
But really, Kirito...
**[00:42] Atsushi**
Without your sword,
you're nothing but a feeble little brat, huh?
**[00:45] Atsushi**
I can't believe you're the same swordsman
who beat the crap out of me!
**[00:51] Kirito**
What about you?
**[00:52] Kirito**
You don't have your poisoned weapon of choice.
**[00:55] Atsushi**
Oh, I have it!
**[00:56] Atsushi**
I have a poison weapon, all right!
**[01:01] Kirito**
*Death Gun!*
**[01:09] Kirito**
Asuna! Run!
**[01:21] Asuna (N)**
*One week ago, Kirito was injected with a muscle relaxant
by Atsushi Kanamoto, aka Johnny Black,*
**[01:27] Asuna (N)**
*which caused him to go into cardiac arrest
for over five minutes.*
**[01:32] Asuna (N)**
*As a result, Kirito suffered lethal brain damage.*
**[01:36] Asuna**
Kirito!
**[01:40] Kikuoka**
There's only one facility in the world
that's sufficiently equipped.
**[01:44] Kikuoka**
If we take him there,
Kazuto can get the treatment he needs.
**[01:51] Asuna (N)**
*We were at our wits' end,
when Mr. Kikuoka offered us a helping hand.*
**[01:57] Asuna (N)**
*But soon after we entrusted him to Mr. Kikuoka's care,
Kirito went missing.*
**[02:02] Receptionist**
Um...
**[02:04] Receptionist**
I need to go check with my supervisors,
so please wait here.
**[02:10] Asuna**
Yui?
**[02:11] Yui**
Yes, Mommy.
**[02:12] Yui**
I've checked the security cameras in this area, too.
**[02:17] Yui**
Yesterday at 21:20, a helicopter took off
from that clearing over there.
**[02:24] Asuna (N)**
*With Yui's help, I searched for Kirito and discovered
that he was out at sea, near the Izu Islands.*
**[02:54] Nakanishi**
Dr. Kojiro. We've been waiting for you.
**[02:57] Nakanishi**
And this is?
**[02:59] Asuna (N)**
*I reached out to Akihiko Kayaba's former girlfriend,
Dr. Rinko Kojiro, for help,*
**[03:05] Asuna (N)**
*and disguising myself as her assistant,
I boarded the Ocean Turtle.*
**[03:14] Asuna**
Where's Kirito?
**[03:18] Higa**
What'd I tell you?
**[03:20] Higa**
That kid's this project's biggest security hole.
**[03:24] Kikuoka**
Yes. You were right.
**[03:27] Asuna (N)**
*There I found Mr. Kikuoka,
who seemed to be plotting something,*
**[03:30] Asuna (N)**
*and Mr. Higa, a junior member
of Dr. Kojiro's lab back in college.*
**[03:37] Kikuoka**
Because of the attack by the fugitive
from the Death Gun incident,
**[03:40] Kikuoka**
Kirito's brain sustained damage
that modern medicine is unable to heal.
**[03:45] Kikuoka**
However...
**[03:46] Kikuoka**
Rath is the only place in the world
that has the technology to treat him.
**[03:52] Kikuoka**
I'm sure you've heard of it.
**[03:54] Kikuoka**
The STL... the Soul Translator.
**[03:58] Kikuoka**
If we use the STL
to directly stimulate his Fluctlight,
**[04:01] Kikuoka**
we can induce the generation
of a new neural network.
**[04:05] Kikuoka**
But it takes time.
**[04:07] Asuna (N)**
*While he was missing, Kirito had been undergoing
cutting-edge treatment.*
**[04:12] Asuna (N)**
*Although I couldn't forgive
how he had secreted Kirito away,*
**[04:15] Asuna (N)**
*Mr. Kikuoka promised me
that he'd save Kirito no matter what.*
**[04:20] Asuna (N)**
*For now, I believe him.*
**[04:23] Asuna (N)**
*But Mr. Kikuoka wasn't just trying to save Kirito
out of the goodness of his heart.*
**[04:29] Asuna (N)**
*Kirito was a vital part of his project.*
**[04:34] Rinko**
What are you plotting here?
**[04:36] Kikuoka**
Well, then, may I assume
you're both familiar with the concept of the STL?
**[04:42] Asuna**
It's a machine that reads a human soul,
their Fluctlight,
**[04:46] Asuna**
and allows them to dive into a virtual world
indistinguishable from reality.
**[04:50] Kikuoka**
Correct.
**[04:51] Kikuoka**
But I don't think you know
what this project's objective is.
**[04:55] Asuna**
Objective?
**[04:58] Kikuoka**
To create a bottom-up
multi-purpose artificial intelligence.
**[05:04] Asuna**
A bottom-up type?
**[05:05] Asuna (N)**
*According to Mr. Kikuoka,
there are two ways to approach AI design.*
**[05:11] Asuna (N)**
*One is, like Yui, to preprogram the AI
with experience and knowledge*
**[05:16] Asuna (N)**
*so it will acquire intelligence.
The top-down approach.*
**[05:20] Asuna (N)**
*The other is to replicate the construct
of a biological brain*
**[05:24] Asuna (N)**
*and develop intelligence there.*
**[05:26] Asuna (N)**
*The bottom-up approach.*
**[05:29] Asuna (N)**
*Mr. Kikuoka and his team copied the souls of newborns
whose personalities had yet to form,*
**[05:35] Asuna (N)**
*and produced artificial Fluctlights
to try to create a bottom-up AI.*
**[05:41] Asuna (N)**
*And they used a VRMMO world
as the environment in which to raise them.*
**[05:48] Rinko**
But at that level, that's a civilization simulation.
**[05:51] Kikuoka**
That's true, huh?
**[05:53] Kikuoka**
At this time, 480 years have already passed
in that world,
**[05:57] Kikuoka**
and the population of the capital, Centoria,
has reached 20,000.
**[06:00] Asuna (N)**
*The Underworld.*
**[06:02] Asuna (N)**
*That's the name of the world where these advanced AIs,
the artificial Fluctlights, reside.*
**[06:08] Asuna (N)**
*But during the course of this project,*
**[06:11] Asuna (N)**
*Mr. Kikuoka and his team realized
there was an issue.*
**[06:14] Rinko**
Issue?
**[06:15] Kikuoka**
A governing body called the Axiom Church
had created laws known as the Taboo Index.
**[06:21] Asuna**
Taboo Index?
**[06:22] Kikuoka**
It contained, for example, a law forbidding murder,
like we have in the real world.
**[06:27] Kikuoka**
But just by watching the news,
it's clear how often humans violate such laws.
**[06:33] Kikuoka**
However, the Fluctlights obey those laws.
**[06:36] Kikuoka**
Obey them excessively, you could say.
**[06:39] Asuna (N)**
*Why were the artificial Fluctlights unable
to violate the Taboo Index?*
**[06:43] Asuna (N)**
*To learn why, they had a human,
whose memories had been blocked,*
**[06:47] Asuna (N)**
*grow up the same as the artificial Fluctlights,*
**[06:50] Asuna (N)**
*to see if he could violate the Taboo Index.*
**[06:54] Asuna (N)**
*And they needed a test subject
who was used to moving in a virtual world.*
**[07:00] Asuna (N)**
*In other words, they needed Kirito.*
**[07:04] Kikuoka**
This town is beautiful, and far too perfect.
**[07:07] Kikuoka**
There isn't a piece of garbage on the streets,
and not a single thief.
**[07:11] Kikuoka**
Needless to say,
no murder has ever been committed.
**[07:15] Rinko**
And how is that an issue?
**[07:19] Asuna**
Could it be that your objective...
**[07:22] Asuna**
...is to create AIs capable of murder?
**[07:27] Asuna (N)**
*Mr. Kikuoka and his team's intention
was to send the artificial Fluctlights,*
**[07:31] Asuna (N)**
*once perfected, into battle.*
**[07:34] Asuna (N)**
*He'd been using Kirito without disclosing his true goal,
and I found that unforgivable.*
**[07:42] Lisbeth**
So about Kirito and this... uh...
this Taboo Index? What happened with that?
**[07:48] Asuna**
There was a boy and a girl
who used to play with Kirito,
**[07:52] Asuna**
and it seems like the girl
broke the Taboo Index.
**[07:56] Sinon**
You mean she was influenced by Kirito?
**[07:59] Asuna**
Yes.
**[08:00] Asuna**
And what she broke
was "accessing a restricted address."
**[08:06] Asuna (N)**
*But ironically, the perfected artificial Fluctlight
they'd been seeking all along*
**[08:12] Asuna (N)**
*was a girl who wished not to kill others,
but to value human life above all else.*
**[08:20] Asuna**
But I'm amazed by what that girl did.
**[08:23] Asuna**
After all, it's not easy to overcome yourself.
**[08:26] Leafa**
Does that girl have a name?
**[08:28] Asuna**
Yes.
**[08:32] Asuna**
Alice?
**[08:33] Kikuoka**
Right. That was the name of the girl in question.
**[08:36] Kikuoka**
I was blown away by the staggering coincidence.
**[08:39] Kikuoka**
Because "Alice" is also the name of the concept
that became the foundation of the overall project.
**[08:47] Asuna**
Concept?
**[08:48] Kikuoka**
A highly-adaptive autonomous artificial intelligence.
**[08:52] Kikuoka**
In English, that would be Artificial Labile
Intelligence Cybernated Existence.
**[08:57] Kikuoka**
The initials form the acronym ALICE.
**[09:00] Kikuoka**
Our ultimate goal was
to convert an artificial Fluctlight into an ALICE.
**[09:07] Kikuoka**
Welcome to our Project Alicization.
**[09:13] Asuna (N)**
*Alice.*
**[09:14] Asuna (N)**
*I wonder how meeting Kirito changed her over time.*
**[09:19] Alice (N)**
*My name is Alice Synthesis Thirty.*
**[09:23] Alice (N)**
*I am an Integrity Knight of the Axiom Church,
charged with protecting the Human Empire.*
**[09:31] Alice (N)**
*At this moment, I am battling the pontifex,
Lady Administrator,*
**[09:35] Alice (N)**
*over the fate of the Human Empire.*
**[09:40] Alice (N)**
*The Lady Pontifex is the supreme leader
of the Axiom Church.*
**[09:45] Alice (N)**
*In my eyes, she was an exalted figure,
truly like a god.*
**[09:51] Alice (N)**
*Until yesterday.*
**[09:53] Administrator**
Why you came all this way
without administrator privileges...
**[09:58] Administrator**
I admit I'm a little interested.
**[10:05] Administrator**
But I'm tired of all that now, and I'm sleepy.
**[10:09] Administrator**
I'll have that person give me
a full account later,
**[10:11] Administrator**
and bring this battle to an end
with your blood and screams.
**[10:17] Alice (N)**
*What caused me to rebel against such a person
was my encounter with him... with Kirito.*
**[10:19] Administrator**
Farewell, boy.
**[10:23] Administrator**
Let's meet again someday.
**[10:25] Kirito**
Alice, you don't remember who gave birth to you,
or where you were raised.
**[10:32] Alice**
I was told it's because the moment
Integrity Knights are called here,
**[10:37] Alice**
the goddess Stacia seals our memories
of the heavens.
**[10:41] Alice (N)**
*Kirito said that my memories
as an Integrity Knight*
**[10:45] Alice (N)**
*were manipulated by the Lady Pontifex
and implanted in me.*
**[10:51] Alice (N)**
*And he told me that the real me was a girl
born in Rulid Village named Alice Zuberg,*
**[10:59] Alice (N)**
*with a father named Gasfut,
as well as a younger sister named Selka.*
**[11:04] Alice (N)**
*I confronted the Lady Pontifex with the truth
I had learned from Kirito.*
**[11:10] Alice**
If I may, Lady Pontifex.
**[11:12] Alice**
Those who were concerned
with the current order of Integrity Knights
**[11:15] Alice**
having no hope of fending off
the coming invasion of the forces of darkness
**[11:19] Alice**
were Knight Commander Bercouli
and Vice Commander Fanatio.
**[11:24] Alice**
I share those concerns, too.
**[11:27] Alice**
Lady Pontifex, do you have means to protect
the people if the order of the knights fall?
**[11:34] Alice**
That is not all I want to ask you.
**[11:36] Alice**
You've forcefully taken us from our parents,
**[11:39] Alice**
from our wives and husbands,
from our brothers and sisters,
**[11:43] Alice**
and sealed away our memories
**[11:45] Alice**
to plant false memories of being summoned
from a non-existent heavenly realm!
**[11:52] Alice**
Why couldn't you at least trust
in our loyalty and respect for you?
**[11:57] Alice**
Why would you subject our souls to such a tainted ritual
to force us to submit to your control?
**[12:09] Administrator**
I'm offended. I trusted you very much.
**[12:14] Administrator**
The Piety Modules I gifted you
are the proof of my love.
**[12:20] Administrator**
They freed you from any trifling worries or pain,
**[12:24] Administrator**
so you could remain beautiful dolls for all time.
**[12:29] Administrator**
Don't worry, Alice,
**[12:31] Administrator**
I'm going to erase the memories
causing you such grief.
**[12:37] Administrator**
I'm going to turn you back into a doll
that has no need to think.
**[12:42] Alice**
I admit that, right now, I'm feeling enough pain
and sorrow to rip my heart to shreds.
**[12:49] Alice**
But this pain...
**[12:53] Alice**
I don't wish to erase these feelings
I've never felt before.
**[12:57] Alice**
Because this pain is precisely what tells me
I'm not a puppet knight, but a human being.
**[13:05] Alice**
Lady Pontifex, I don't want your love.
I don't need you to fix me.
**[13:13] Alice (N)**
*And so I resolved,*
**[13:15] Alice (N)**
*not as the Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty,
but as a human named Alice,*
**[13:21] Alice (N)**
*to battle the Lady Pontifex.*
**[13:26] Administrator**
I have no intention
of allowing them to reset the Underworld,
**[13:31] Administrator**
or of accepting the final stress test.
**[13:35] Administrator**
I've already perfected a command
to counter that.
**[13:39] Administrator**
Now then, fight, Golem.
**[13:43] Administrator**
Annihilate your enemies!
**[13:47] Alice (N)**
*But our battle with the Lady Pontifex
was beyond fierce.*
**[14:38] Alice (N)**
*The Sword Golem created by the Lady Pontifex*
**[14:42] Alice (N)**
*had enough devastating power to instantly cut down me,
an Integrity Knight, and Kirito, my equal in battle.*
**[14:52] Alice (N)**
*But we were saved by Lady Cardinal,
formerly known as the other pontifex.*
**[15:02] Administrator**
To be precise, it's four against three hundred,
not even including me.
***SIGN*** Three hundred?
***SIGN*** You... What...
***SIGN*** What depths have you sunk to?
***SIGN*** Are they not the very subjects you should be protecting?
**[15:23] Eugeo**
Subjects? Subjects, as in humans?
**[15:26] Alice**
Which means that monster is human?
**[15:30] Administrator**
As if I would ever bother with petty matters
like "the subjects I should be protecting."
**[15:37] Administrator**
I am a ruler.
**[15:39] Administrator**
As long as those under my rule
exist in the lower world in the manner I desire,
**[15:45] Administrator**
whether human or sword,
then there's no need for concern.
***SIGN*** You...
**[15:51] Administrator**
Oh my, you're not shocked by the matter conversion
of a measly three hundred human units, are you?
***SIGN*** Did you say measly?
**[16:02] Administrator**
And this is only a prototype.
**[16:05] Administrator**
In order to mass-produce the finished version
to handle the awful stress test,
**[16:10] Administrator**
I think I'll need at least half.
***SIGN*** Half of what?
**[16:16] Administrator**
Half of the 80,000 or so human units
residing in the Human Empire.
**[16:21] Administrator**
That should be enough.
**[16:24] Administrator**
To repel the Dark Territory's invasion
and attack the other side.
**[16:32] Alice (N)**
*The idea was so inhumane
I couldn't stop myself from shuddering.*
**[16:39] Administrator**
Now, shall I finish this?
**[16:42] Administrator**
Farewell, Lyserith.
**[16:44] Administrator**
Farewell, my daughter.
**[16:47] Administrator**
And...
**[16:48] Administrator**
my other self!
**[17:10] Kirito**
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
***SIGN*** Why would you apologize?
***SIGN*** You still have a mission you need to complete, don't you?
***SIGN*** The three of you...
***SIGN*** This fleeting, beautiful world...
**[17:28] Alice**
No matter what...
**[17:30] Alice**
No matter what...
**[17:32] Alice**
we'll use these lives you gave us
to complete this mission.
**[17:38] Alice (N)**
*The Lady Pontifex,
with her overwhelming power,*
**[17:41] Alice (N)**
*struck down Cardinal,
said to be just as powerful.*
**[17:48] Kirito**
Stop.
**[17:51] Kirito**
Don't go.
**[17:52] Kirito**
Eugeo!
**[18:03] Kirito**
Eugeo!
**[18:08] Administrator**
You wretched brat!
**[18:40] Alice (N)**
*And with Cardinal's final command,*
**[18:44] Alice (N)**
*Eugeo transformed himself into a sword.*
**[18:47] Alice (N)**
*Though he defeated the Sword Golem,*
**[18:50] Alice (N)**
*he was then destroyed by the Lady Pontifex.*
**[19:03] Administrator**
Farewell, boy.
**[19:07] Administrator**
Let's meet again someday on the other side.
**[19:17] Alice (N)**
*Even so, I refuse to give up.*
**[19:19] Alice (N)**
*Because even on the brink of despair,*
**[19:21] Alice (N)**
*I still believe that Kirito
will stand on his feet again.*
**[19:38] Alice**
What?
**[19:40] Alice**
You can still move after all?
**[19:44] Kirito**
Yeah. Leave the rest to me.
**[19:47] Alice**
I think I will.
**[19:51] Alice (N)**
*I know that you can defeat
even the Lady Pontifex.*
**[19:55] Alice (N)**
*I believe in you, Kirito.*
**[19:58] Kirito**
You can rest.
**[21:31] Asuna (N)**
*What's this sound? Who are these people?*
**[21:34] Asuna (N)**
*What's wrong? What's going on?*
**[21:41] Kikuoka**
Are you there, Kirito?
**[21:43] Kirito**
*Th-That's right!*
**[21:44] Kirito**
*Listen, Kikuoka! Do you...
Do you know what you've done?*
**[21:48] Kikukoka**
You can scold me all you want later!
**[21:50] Kikukoka**
But right now, you need to listen to me!
**[21:53] Kirito**
*What?*
**[21:55] Kirito**
*Hey! What's going on over there?*
**[22:09] Kikukoka**
Sorry, there's no time.
**[22:11] Kikukoka**
Listen, Kirito.
**[22:12] Kikukoka**
You have to look for a girl named Alice.
Then take her—
**[22:15] Kirito**
*I don't have to look for her.
She's right here!*
**[22:18] Kikukoka**
What did you say?
**[22:19] Higa**
Son of a gun! It's a miracle!
**[22:21] Kikuoka**
All right. As soon as this transmission ends,
I'm going to return the FLA rate to 1,000.
**[22:26] Kikukoka**
So take Alice and head to the World’s End Altar!
**[22:29] Kikukoka**
*What do you mean, head to—*
**[22:30] Kikukoka**
Listen! Once you exit the Eastern Gate,
the Altar's due south—
**[22:35] Nakanishi**
Oh no!
**[22:39] Nakanishi**
They're about to infiltrate the electrical room!
**[22:41] Kikukoka**
What?
**[22:46] Higa**
This is bad, Mr. Kiku!
**[22:48] Higa**
If they sever the main power line,
it'll cause a surge!
**[22:52] Higa**
The Lightcube Cluster is protected, but...
**[22:54] Higa**
the surge will hit Kirigaya's STL in Subcon!
**[22:58] Higa**
His Fluctlight will get fried!
**[23:02] Kikukoka**
*I'll handle the lockdown procedure!*
**[23:04] Kikukoka**
*Higa, you take Dr. Kojiro and Asuna
and evacuate to the Upper Shaft.*
**[23:08] Kikukoka**
*Keep Kirito safe.*
**[23:09] Alice (N)**
*Kirito? You're all right. Thank goodness.*
**[23:14] Alice (N)**
*Who are you talking to?*
**[23:16] Officer**
*It's no good, they're cutting the power!
The screw propellers are going to stop!*
**[23:28] Asuna & Alice (N)**
*- Kirito!
- Kirito!*
**[23:36] Alice (N)**
Next time: In the Far North.
# E1 - In the Far North
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRVDJVJXR/in-the-far-north)
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***SIGN*** October 21, 380 HE
**[00:34] Selka**
Sister!
**[00:38] Selka**
Good morning, Sister!
**[00:40] Alice**
Selka.
**[00:44] Alice**
Welcome, Selka.
**[00:46] Alice**
What brings you here today?
**[00:48] Selka**
Since it's so nice out,
I wanted to go to the eastern hill.
**[00:52] Selka**
And Kirito can come too, right?
**[01:00] Alice**
It's such a lovely day.
**[01:02] Alice**
It'd be a shame for him to spend it inside.
**[01:07] Alice**
Shall we go, Kirito?
***SIGN*** In the Far North
**[02:53] Alice**
All right.
**[02:54] Alice**
Let's get going.
**[03:03] Alice**
I'm sorry. I'll get them for you right away.
**[03:34] Alice**
Hold on tight so you don't drop them, all right?
**[03:43] Alice**
You don't think he'll be cold?
**[03:46] Selka**
Really. You're such a worrywart.
**[03:49] Selka**
You've piled enough clothes on him
to make him sweat.
**[03:52] Selka**
Right, Kirito?
**[03:59] Selka**
Eugeo, you think so, too, right?
**[04:19] Alice**
It's beautiful.
**[04:20] Alice**
Far more beautiful than any painting
on the Cathedral's walls.
**[04:25] Alice**
It’s the world you saved, Kirito.
**[04:30] Higa**
*This is bad, Mr. Kiku!*
**[04:32] Higa**
*If they sever the main power line,
it'll cause a surge!*
**[04:36] Higa**
*The Lightcube Cluster is protected, but...*
**[04:38] Higa**
*the surge will hit Kirigaya's STL in Subcon!*
**[04:42] Higa**
*His Fluctlight will get fried!*
**[04:45] Kikukoka**
*I'll handle the lockdown procedure!*
**[04:48] Kikukoka**
*Higa, you take Dr. Kojiro and Asuna
and evacuate to the Upper Shaft.*
**[04:52] Kikukoka**
*Keep Kirito safe.*
**[04:53] Kirito**
Asuna?
**[04:55] Alice**
Kirito.
**[04:56] Officer**
*It's no good, they're cutting the power!
The screw propellers are going to stop!*
**[05:13] Alice**
Kirito!
**[05:16] Alice**
Kirito!
**[05:17] Alice**
Kirito!
**[05:19] Alice**
You've saved my life,
so now you must see things through!
**[05:22] Alice**
Kirito!
**[05:27] Alice**
Kirito.
**[05:30] Bercouli**
Little one.
**[05:32] Alice**
Uncle.
**[05:35] Bercouli**
What happened?
**[05:38] Bercouli**
This is the gravest emergency
since the Axiom Church was founded.
**[05:42] Bercouli**
The pontifex was defeated by two elite disciples
and has left the Human Empire.
**[05:47] Fanatio**
What did you say?
**[05:48] Eldrie**
How... How is that possible?
**[05:51] Bercouli**
And that's not all.
**[05:53] Bercouli**
Prime Senator Chudelkin has also been killed,
and the Senate has ceased to function.
**[05:59] Eldrie**
Why did those disciples tempt the wrath of the gods
by doing such a thing?
**[06:04] Bercouli**
Because the pontifex was pursuing a horrific plan
to convert half of the population
**[06:09] Bercouli**
into monstrous, sword-shaped weapons.
**[06:11] Eldrie**
Her Eminence the pontifex
had such a heinous scheme in motion?
**[06:17] Deusolbert**
Unbelievable.
**[06:18] Eldrie**
Sir Bercouli, where are the two
who murdered Her Eminence?
**[06:23] Eldrie**
They must be captured and interrogated!
**[06:26] Bercouli**
There's no time to deal with them right now.
**[06:28] Bercouli**
What do you think will happen
when the Dark Territory finds out the pontifex is gone?
**[06:34] Bercouli**
Not to mention, the earlier battles
with those swordsmen and the Dark Territory
**[06:38] Bercouli**
have halved the Integrity Knights' ranks.
**[06:41] Bercouli**
If we were to be attacked
by the Dark Territory in this state,
**[06:44] Bercouli**
we couldn't defend against them on our own.
**[06:47] Fanatio**
Then what should we do?
**[06:50] Bercouli**
First, we're going to restore the decimated
Order of the Integrity Knights.
**[06:53] Bercouli**
Next, we'll rebuild the Imperial Knights
of the four empires.
**[06:57] Bercouli**
They'll need to be retrained.
Since there's not nearly enough Integrity Knights.
**[07:03] Bercouli**
I'm sure some of you are unhappy about this,
**[07:06] Bercouli**
but right now,
saving the people is our top priority.
**[07:08] Bercouli**
I ask that you lend me your strength.
**[07:11] All**
Sir!
***SIGN*** June 9, 380 HE
**[07:36] Alice**
Kirito... I wonder if he's hungry.
**[07:40] Priest A**
Hey, is it true
that the rebel swordsman is still alive?
**[07:45] Priest B**
Yeah. But I hear he's in a coma.
**[07:48] Priest A**
It's important that we prepare
for the Dark Territory's invasion,
**[07:51] Priest A**
but shouldn't we execute the rebel
who defied the Axiom Church?
**[07:56] Priest B**
What is Knight Commander Bercouli thinking?
**[08:02] Alice**
*It's not safe for Kirito here.*
**[08:23] Alice**
Let's go to Rulid Village.
**[08:26] Alice**
Since it's where Eugeo and I were born,
**[08:28] Alice**
they might accept us there.
**[08:48] Zink**
Hold on!
**[08:49] Zink**
Strangers aren't allowed to enter our village!
**[08:59] Zink**
This is...
**[09:02] Zink**
You... You can't be...
**[09:05] Alice**
I am Alice. I'd like you to summon
the village elder, Gasuft Zuberg.
**[09:28] Gasuft**
Alice.
**[09:30] Gasuft**
Is that you?
**[09:33] Alice**
Yes.
**[09:34] Gasuft**
Why are you here?
**[09:36] Gasuft**
Have you been absolved of your crime?
**[09:38] Alice**
As punishment for my crime,
**[09:42] Alice**
I've lost all memory
of having lived in this village.
**[09:45] Alice**
Whether or not that means
my crime has been absolved, I can't say.
**[09:50] Alice**
But at this time,
I have nowhere else to go but this village.
**[09:59] Gasuft**
Begone.
**[10:01] Gasuft**
We can't allow a criminal to live here.
**[10:14] Selka**
Sister?
**[10:19] Alice**
It's nothing. Shall we head back?
**[10:24] Selka**
Okay.
**[10:40] Alice**
What's the matter, Selka?
**[10:42] Alice**
Is something troubling you?
**[10:45] Selka**
Well, you see, Mr. Barbossa wants to ask you
**[10:50] Selka**
to help remove another tree from that clearing.
**[10:53] Alice**
What, is that all?
**[10:56] Alice**
You don't have to be worried about that.
**[10:58] Selka**
But...
**[10:59] Selka**
those people are so selfish!
**[11:02] Selka**
Mr. Barbossa and Mr. Ridack
won't even let you live in the village,
**[11:06] Selka**
but they don't hesitate to ask for your help
when they're in trouble.
**[11:13] Alice**
It's all right, Selka.
**[11:15] Alice**
I'm just grateful that they're allowing us
to live near the village.
**[11:20] Selka**
Sister, I'll complete my training period next year,
**[11:24] Selka**
and though it won't be much,
I'll start earning a wage.
**[11:27] Selka**
When that happens,
you won't have to help those people anymore, okay?
**[11:32] Selka**
You and Kirito... I'll... I'll always...
**[11:38] Alice**
Thank you.
**[11:40] Alice**
But just having you close by
is enough to make me happy...
**[11:46] Alice**
Selka.
**[12:00] Barbossa**
Why is this taking so long?
**[12:02] Barbossa**
While you've been wasting time here,
Ridack's men
**[12:05] Barbossa**
- have expanded his land 20 mels in all directions!
- Hello, Mr. Barbossa.
**[12:12] Barbossa**
Alice, so good of you to come!
**[12:15] Alice**
I heard that you wished to see me.
**[12:19] Barbossa**
Look. You can see it, can't you?
**[12:21] Barbossa**
We've been toiling over that pesky platinum oak
since yesterday morning.
**[12:26] Barbossa**
Even with ten grown men hacking at it,
they've hardly made a dent in it.
**[12:31] Barbossa**
And so...
**[12:32] Barbossa**
I know we have a once-a-month arrangement,
**[12:35] Barbossa**
but I wonder if you could
do me a favor just this once, Alice?
**[12:41] Alice**
Very well, Mr. Barbossa.
**[12:44] Alice**
If it's just this once.
**[12:47] Barbossa**
I really owe you, Alice!
**[13:11] Alice**
I'm sorry, Kirito.
**[13:12] Alice**
I'd like to borrow your sword for a little bit.
**[13:30] Alice**
Thank you.
**[13:37] Villager A**
Hey now! You really think you can cut down
a platinum oak with that flimsy sword?
**[13:41] Villager B**
That sword's going to snap in two!
**[13:57] Villager B**
What's that? Did she miss?
**[14:02] Alice**
It's going to fall that direction.
**[14:05] Villager B**
What are you—
**[14:29] Barbossa**
Mag...
**[14:30] Barbossa**
Magnif...
**[14:31] Barbossa**
Magnificent!
**[14:33] Barbossa**
What splendid skills you have!
That was simply divine!
**[14:37] Barbossa**
What do you say, Alice?
**[14:39] Barbossa**
I'll double your fee,
so instead of once a month,
**[14:42] Barbossa**
could you help out once a week—
no, make that once a day?
**[14:46] Alice**
No.
**[14:48] Alice**
The amount you're paying me now is sufficient.
**[14:56] Alice**
My payment.
**[14:59] Barbossa**
That's right, that's right!
**[15:05] Alice**
Thank you very much.
**[15:08] Alice**
Kirito!
**[15:15] Villager C**
- What's this? It's really heavy!
- No wonder even a woman like that
**[15:17] Villager D**
can fell a platinum oak with one blow, right?
**[15:20] Villager E**
Let me.
**[15:32] Alice**
That sword belongs to Kirito.
**[15:34] Alice**
Give it back to him at once.
**[15:37] Villager E**
Look, we did ask that guy to lend us his sword!
**[15:43] Villager C**
And he was generous enough to agree.
**[15:46] Villager C**
Going, "Ah. Ah." You know?
**[15:54] Villager E**
Fine then! No need to look so angry.
**[16:20] Alice**
*What in the world did we fight for,
suffering such unbearable pain?*
**[16:29] Alice**
*Eugeo lost his life.*
**[16:32] Alice**
*Kirito lost the ability to speak and his emotions.*
**[16:35] Alice**
*What did we go so far to protect?*
**[17:02] Alice**
Amayori.
**[17:04] Alice**
You've gained a bit of weight.
**[17:06] Alice**
You've been gorging on too many fish
at the lake.
**[17:17] Alice**
Good night, Amayori.
**[17:35] Alice**
Here.
**[17:43] Alice**
Take your time eating, all right?
**[17:58] Alice**
Is that...?
**[18:08] Alice**
*Amayori's elder brother, Takiguri.*
**[18:12] Alice**
*Which means...*
**[18:17] Alice**
I'm impressed you found this place.
What do you want...
**[18:22] Alice**
Eldrie Synthesis Thirty-One?
**[18:25] Eldrie**
It's been quite a while...
**[18:28] Eldrie**
my mentor, Lady Alice.
**[18:33] Alice**
So how did you find this place?
**[18:38] Alice**
I'm sure the Order can't afford to send dragons all over
just to track me down.
**[18:44] Eldrie**
I followed the bond between our souls,
or so I'd like to say.
**[18:51] Eldrie**
But unfortunately, it was a complete coincidence.
**[18:54] Eldrie**
Recently, we've learned that goblins and orcs
have been mobilizing in the north.
**[19:01] Eldrie**
On the Knight Commander's orders,
we've collapsed the caves to the north, south and west,
**[19:06] Eldrie**
but I've come to make sure
they don't try to dig them out again.
**[19:12] Alice**
So were you able to determine
the forces of darkness' actions?
**[19:16] Eldrie**
I spent a full day
patrolling the perimeters of the cave,
**[19:20] Eldrie**
but I didn't spot a single goblin or orc.
**[19:24] Eldrie**
The interior of the cave was filled
with rocks to the ceiling.
**[19:28] Eldrie**
Afterward, when I mounted to return to the capital,
Takiguri began acting strangely.
**[19:34] Eldrie**
When I allowed him to go where he wished,
this is where we ended up landing.
**[19:39] Eldrie**
Now that I've been reunited with you,
**[19:43] Eldrie**
it is my obligation to say to you...
**[19:46] Eldrie**
Lady Alice, please return to the Knights!
**[19:49] Eldrie**
We need your sword more than we need
an army of thousands!
**[19:55] Alice**
I can't.
**[19:56] Alice**
But why not?
**[20:00] Eldrie**
Is it because of that man?
**[20:02] Eldrie**
The man who broke out of the Cathedral prison
and raised his treacherous blade
**[20:06] Eldrie**
against so many knights and senators,
not to mention the pontifex herself?
**[20:11] Eldrie**
So he's still leading your heart astray?
**[20:14] Eldrie**
If so, then I shall eliminate
the source of that confusion
**[20:18] Eldrie**
right here, this very instant!
**[20:21] Alice**
Stop it.
**[20:23] Alice**
He, too, fought out of a sense of personal justice.
**[20:27] Alice**
Otherwise, how could we,
the mighty Integrity Knights,
**[20:31] Alice**
even the Knight Commander himself,
have all been defeated, one after another?
**[20:35] Alice**
You fought him yourself,
so surely you sensed the weight of his sword!
**[20:40] Eldrie**
If that's true, then why won't this man
take up his sword in battle now?
**[20:45] Eldrie**
Why would he allow himself
to be reduced to such a pathetic state,
**[20:48] Eldrie**
and shackle you, Lady Alice,
to these hinterlands?
**[20:52] Eldrie**
If it's true that he killed Administrator
for the sake of the people,
**[20:56] Eldrie**
then isn't it his duty
to go to the Eastern Gate this moment?
**[21:02] Alice**
Forgive me, Eldrie.
**[21:05] Alice**
I simply cannot go with you.
**[21:09] Alice**
It has nothing to do with Kirito's condition.
**[21:11] Alice**
I can no longer wield my sword.
**[21:14] Alice**
That's all there is to it.
**[21:16] Alice**
If I were to cross swords with you now,
**[21:18] Alice**
I most likely wouldn't last three strikes.
**[21:21] Eldrie**
Is that so?
**[21:23] Eldrie**
Then I won't press you further.
**[21:32] Eldrie**
I bid you farewell, my mentor.
**[21:35] Eldrie**
I, Eldrie, shall never forget as long as I live
the secret sword skills and techniques you taught me.
**[21:42] Alice**
Take care. I pray that you'll be safe.
**[22:10] Alice**
I'm sorry. You must be tired.
**[22:13] Alice**
Then let's go to bed, shall we?
**[22:38] Alice**
Tell me, Kirito.
**[22:42] Alice**
What should I do?
**[22:46] Alice**
What should I...?
**[23:00] Alice**
Kirito?
**[23:05] Alice**
What's wrong, Kirito?
**[23:26] Alice**
Is it an attack by the Dark Territory?
**[23:31] Alice**
Selka!
**[23:36] Alice**
Next time: Raids.
# E2 - Raids
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYW4WGEG6/raids)
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**[00:27] Alice**
Kirito.
**[00:29] Alice**
*It's all right. I'll go.*
**[00:32] Alice**
*After I've rescued the villagers,
I'll come right back.*
**[00:37] Alice**
*Kirito!*
***SIGN*** Raids
**[02:15] Alice**
That's...
**[02:24] Goblin**
Advance! Advance!
**[02:32] Alice**
Why don't they flee south
where there aren't any enemies?
**[02:35] Alice**
Amayori, wait here until I summon you!
**[02:45] Gasfut**
If the enemy breaches our line of defense,
use lethal force!
**[02:49] Barbossa**
Listen! Don't let a single one
get this far into the village!
**[03:05] Selka**
That's...
**[03:18] Alice**
We can't possibly defend against them here.
**[03:21] Alice**
Please have everyone
take the south road to evacuate!
**[03:25] Barbossa**
Don't be ridiculous!
**[03:26] Barbossa**
Abandon my mansion—
no, I mean the village and run off?
**[03:30] Alice**
If you leave now, you can get away
without being caught by the goblins.
**[03:35] Alice**
Your possessions or your lives,
which is more important?
**[03:41] Gasfut**
"Form a circle in the plaza,
and tighten up our defenses."
**[03:44] Gasfut**
Those are Chief Man-at-Arms Zink's orders.
**[03:47] Gasfut**
In a situation like this, even I, the village elder,
must follow such orders.
**[03:53] Gasfut**
That is imperial law.
**[03:57] Selka**
Let's do as Sister says.
**[04:00] Selka**
Father.
**[04:04] Alice**
Selka.
**[04:07] Selka**
Father.
**[04:09] Selka**
Have you ever once known Sister to be wrong?
**[04:13] Selka**
No, even I can tell.
**[04:16] Selka**
If we don't do something...
**[04:19] Selka**
we'll all be killed!
**[04:21] Barbossa**
Flee?
**[04:24] Barbossa**
You're just a child, so stay out of this!
**[04:27] Barbossa**
The village must be protected!
**[04:34] Barbossa**
I-I see.
**[04:36] Barbossa**
I get it!
**[04:38] Barbossa**
You're the one who let those monsters from
the land of darkness into the village, aren't you, Alice?
**[04:43] Barbossa**
Years ago, when you crossed the End Mountains,
you were tainted by the power of darkness!
**[04:48] Barbossa**
You're a witch!
**[04:49] Barbossa**
This girl is a fearsome witch!
**[04:53] Alice**
As a knight,
I hereby revoke Chief Man-at-Arms Zink's order.
**[04:58] Alice**
I order all villagers gathered in this plaza
to evacuate to the forest south of here,
**[05:03] Alice**
with those who are armed in the lead.
**[05:05] Barbossa**
K-Knight? What are you talking about?
**[05:08] Barbossa**
There's no such Calling in this village!
**[05:11] Barbossa**
Claiming to be a knight
just because you can somewhat handle a sword.
**[05:15] Barbossa**
What would happen
if the knights in the capital heard about this?
**[05:21] Alice**
My name is Alice.
**[05:27] Alice**
I am the overseer of the capital city of Centoria.
**[05:30] Alice**
An Integrity Knight... of the Axiom Church.
**[05:35] Alice**
Ranked third!
**[05:37] Alice**
Alice Synthesis Thirty!
**[05:42] Barbossa**
I-I-Integrity Knight?
**[05:49] Selka**
Sister, you're...?
**[05:56] Alice**
I'm sorry I kept it from you all this time.
**[05:59] Alice**
This is the true penalty I was given,
and my true duty.
**[06:04] Selka**
No. I always believed!
**[06:08] Selka**
That there was no way
you could be a criminal.
**[06:12] Gasfut**
I shall follow your command,
Lady Integrity Knight.
**[06:21] Gasfut**
Those of you who are armed, take the lead
and guide the villagers to the south gate!
**[06:25] Gasfut**
Once you've left the village,
evacuate to the forest south of the clearing!
**[06:31] Villager**
Leave the wounded and the elderly to us!
**[06:33] Villager**
We'll lead the others out! Follow us!
**[06:38] Alice**
Father, please take care of everyone,
and of Selka and Mother.
**[06:44] Gasfut**
Lady Knight.
**[06:46] Gasfut**
Take care as well.
**[06:50] Selka**
Sister, don't push yourself, okay?
**[06:55] Alice**
Amayori!
**[07:05] Zink**
What a horde!
**[07:07] Zink**
Retreat! Retreat!
**[07:10] Alice**
Burn them all!
**[07:24] Barbossa**
N-No way.
**[07:26] Selka**
I-Is that Sister's...?
**[07:31] Zink**
A dragon?
**[07:39] Zink**
Wh-What are you doing here?
**[07:41] Alice**
There's no time to explain.
**[07:43] Alice**
Please evacuate with the others.
**[07:46] Alice**
Hurry!
**[07:48] Goblin**
I-Ium woman. I'll kill and devour you!
**[08:16] Alice**
From now on, I'm going to fight
for what I want to.
**[08:20] Alice**
To protect my sister and my parents.
**[08:23] Alice**
And...
**[08:25] Alice**
I will fight to protect the people of the Human Empire
Kirito and Eugeo tried to preserve.
**[08:47] Alice**
*Thank you, Kirito.*
**[08:49] Alice**
*I'll be fine now.*
**[08:51] Alice**
*I'm sure I'll still hesitate,
but I'm going to move forward.*
**[08:56] Alice**
*For you, and for what I seek.*
**[09:01] Alice**
I am Alice, knight of the Human Empire!
**[09:03] Alice**
As long as I'm here,
you'll never find the blood and carnage you desire.
**[09:09] Alice**
Return through the cave to your homeland!
**[09:15] Alice**
Enhance Armament!
**[09:24] Morikka**
Out of my way!
**[09:25] Morikka**
If it's just one little girl,
I, Morikka the Foot Harvester, will—
**[09:31] Morikka**
Wh-What?
**[09:35] Alice**
Storm and churn...
**[09:38] Alice**
...my flowers!
**[10:05] Alice**
This is the wall separating the Human Empire
and the land of darkness!
**[10:09] Alice**
Even if you unseal the caves,
as long as we knights exist,
**[10:14] Alice**
we will never allow you to corrupt this land!
**[10:18] Alice**
Make your choice!
**[10:20] Alice**
Either advance and fall into a sea of blood,
**[10:22] Alice**
or retreat and escape to the land of darkness!
**[10:44] Kid**
I'll make you a new doll!
**[10:46] Kid**
Yay!
**[10:50] Selka**
I think deep down,
Father wanted to come and see you off.
**[10:54] Alice**
I know.
**[10:56] Alice**
Someday, when I've fulfilled all of my duties,
**[11:00] Alice**
I'll come back here as plain Alice Zuberg.
**[11:04] Alice**
I think that's when I'll be able to say...
**[11:09] Alice**
"Father, I'm home."
**[11:18] Alice**
*I'll definitely return to this village one day.*
**[11:26] Alice**
*Even if I fall on the battlefield,
my heart definitely will.*
***SIGN*** Monday, July 6, 2026 2:07 PM Ocean Turtle
***SIGN*** Main Control Room Ocean Turtle 33 minutes after the attack
**[12:26] Vassago**
Hey! It's deserted.
**[12:28] Critter**
Looks like they ran away.
**[12:31] Gabriel**
Where are they?
**[12:34] Critter**
My guess would be...
in the Sub Control Room.
***SIGN*** Sub Control Room Ocean Turtle 23 minutes after the attack
**[12:46] Higa**
We're connected to the backup power now!
**[12:48] Higa**
Now we can use the Sub Control Room.
**[12:56] Asuna**
If Kirito doesn't regain consciousness,
I will never forgive you as long as I live!
**[13:08] Kikuoka**
I know that.
**[13:10] Kikuoka**
I'll see to it that Kirito recovers,
no matter what.
**[13:20] Rinko**
It'll be all right.
**[13:21] Rinko**
I promise you it'll be all right.
**[13:23] Rinko**
He'll definitely come back to you.
**[13:26] Asuna**
Yes, of course.
**[13:29] Asuna**
I'm sorry I overreacted.
**[13:35] Nakanishi**
Reporting in, sir.
**[13:36] Nakanishi**
Confirming that the primary and secondary
bulkheads have been completely sealed,
**[13:40] Nakanishi**
and that all noncombatants
have been evacuated to the bow block.
**[13:44] Kikuoka**
Good work.
How long will the bulkheads hold?
**[13:48] Nakanishi**
The enemy could break through with explosives,
but that's unlikely.
**[13:55] Nakanishi**
Near the primary bulkhead...
**[13:57] Kikuoka**
...is the Lightcube Cluster, right?
**[14:00] Kikuoka**
All right. Let's sum up the situation here.
**[14:04] Kikuoka**
Lt. Nakanishi, please report the casualties.
**[14:07] Nakanishi**
Yes, sir.
**[14:08] Nakanishi**
Minor injuries to three researchers
on the civilian block team.
**[14:12] Nakanishi**
Two heavy injuries and two minor injuries
to the Self-Defense Force.
**[14:17] Nakanishi**
None of them are life-threatening.
**[14:20] Kikuoka**
Any damage to the ship?
**[14:21] Nakanishi**
The bulkheads in the passageway from the bottom dock
to the Main Control Room can't be controlled remotely.
**[14:28] Nakanishi**
Even worse,
now that the main power line has been cut,
**[14:33] Nakanishi**
even though the auxiliary line is providing
a stable power supply to all areas,
**[14:38] Nakanishi**
we can't rotate the screws
without rebooting the control system.
**[14:42] Kikuoka**
Just like a sea turtle without its fins, huh?
**[14:45] Kikuoka**
Plus, it's got a shark latched onto its belly.
**[14:48] Nakanishi**
Yes. Sectors 1 through 12 in the Lower Shaft...
have all been completely taken over.
**[14:56] Kikuoka**
So they've seized Main Control,
STL Room One, and...
**[15:01] Kikuoka**
...even the nuclear reactor, huh?
**[15:05] Kikuoka**
I guess the silver lining
is that their intention isn't to destroy.
**[15:10] Kikuoka**
The question is, who are these guys?
**[15:15] Kikuoka**
Higa, do you have any thoughts?
**[15:17] Higa**
Well.
**[15:20] Higa**
Let's see.
**[15:24] Higa**
Going by the color and specs of their gear,
they don't belong to any official army.
**[15:29] Higa**
And from their average size,
we can assume that they're not Asian.
**[15:34] Kikuoka**
So at the very least,
they're not with a domestic special forces.
**[15:39] Kikuoka**
How lucky for us, huh?
**[15:42] Kikuoka**
And there's one more thing
we can say with certainty.
**[15:45] Kikuoka**
These people know about
the existence of Project Alicization.
**[15:49] Higa**
Yeah, you got that right.
**[15:51] Higa**
I mean, they went straight
to the Main Control Room.
**[15:56] Higa**
Which means their goal is
the true bottom-up artificial intelligence.
**[16:02] Higa**
To seize A.L.I.C.E.
**[16:06] Higa**
Luckily, we were able to
lock down Main Control in time.
**[16:09] Higa**
So now they can't interfere with the simulation
or eject Alice's Fluctlight from the cluster.
**[16:16] Kikuoka**
But the same goes for us, right?
**[16:19] Higa**
Well, yeah, that's right.
**[16:21] Higa**
It's no longer possible to use commands
to eject Alice's Lightcube externally.
**[16:26] Higa**
But Mr. Kiku, at this point,
wouldn't you call this a win?
**[16:31] Higa**
I mean, they can't access the cluster
by physical or informational means.
**[16:36] Higa**
So now if our escort ship
sends some reinforcements,
**[16:40] Higa**
I'm telling you, it's game over.
Game over!
**[16:43] Kikuoka**
Not that we know what kind of game it is.
**[16:47] Kikuoka**
And that's the problem.
**[16:49] Kikuoka**
Tell me, will the Asahi take action?
**[16:52] Nakanishi**
Well, about that...
**[16:55] Nakanishi**
The Asahi was ordered by Fleet Command in Yokosuka
to stand by and maintain its current distance.
**[17:02] Nakanishi**
They've determined that we've been taken hostage
by our attackers, it seems.
**[17:07] Kikuoka**
Most likely, those men in black have a back channel
to the top brass in the SDF.
**[17:14] Kikuoka**
There won't be an order for the Asahi to attack
until after Alice's Lightcube has been secured.
**[17:20] Higa**
Meaning that those guys aren't just terrorists?
**[17:24] Higa**
This could be bad.
**[17:25] Higa**
If they have any experts on their side,
they might figure it out.
**[17:29] Kikuoka**
An operation within the Underworld, huh?
**[17:32] Kikuoka**
Now that they've taken control
of STL Room One,
**[17:36] Kikuoka**
they can certainly execute commands
via the virtual console installed in the Underworld.
**[17:41] Rinko**
What will happen if they do?
**[17:44] Kikuoka**
The target cube will be extracted from the Lightcube Cluster
in the center of the Main Shaft,
**[17:50] Kikuoka**
and transported via air tube
to the chosen control room.
**[17:55] Kikuoka**
There's an extraction hatch there.
**[17:57] Kikuoka**
And of course,
there's one in the Main Control Room, as well.
**[18:04] Kikuoka**
We're going to retrieve Alice's Fluctlight
from the Underworld before they can.
**[18:09] Kikuoka**
The only one who can do that is Kirito.
**[18:12] Kikuoka**
In other words,
our last hope rests on his shoulders.
**[18:18] Kikuoka**
Higa, tell us. What's Kirito's condition?
**[18:22] Higa**
To be concise...
**[18:25] Higa**
he's teetering on the edge
of the worst-case scenario.
**[18:35] Higa**
The assault by the last Death Gun member
left Kirito with damage to his neural network,
**[18:41] Higa**
and to treat him, we blocked his memories
and had him dive into Underworld like before.
**[18:49] Higa**
But for some reason,
his memories didn't get blocked.
**[18:53] Higa**
Kirito was plunged into the Underworld
as Kazuto Kirigaya, his real-world persona.
**[18:59] Rinko**
W-Wait a second!
**[19:01] Rinko**
Then he's been living as himself in the Underworld,
where time's accelerated, for how long?
**[19:08] Higa**
About two years.
**[19:10] Higa**
That's how long Kirito has been interacting
with the artificial Fluctlights of that world.
**[19:17] Higa**
Knowing the entire time that they'll all be destroyed
at the end of the current simulation.
**[19:22] Higa**
That's probably why he went to the console
in the Central Cathedral to contact the real world.
**[19:29] Higa**
To ask you,
Mr. Kiku to protect all of the Fluctlights.
**[19:35] Higa**
And I'm sure it wasn't an easy thing for him to do.
**[19:39] Higa**
But he did make it.
**[19:42] Higa**
Since we were under attack,
I couldn't check the logs,
**[19:45] Higa**
but it seems like he lost some allies
in the battle against the Axiom Church.
**[19:49] Higa**
That's why, when he managed
to get in contact with us,
**[19:54] Higa**
he was berating himself harshly.
**[19:56] Higa**
To put it another way,
he was attacking his own Fluctlight.
**[20:01] Higa**
At that moment,
the men in black cut the power line,
**[20:05] Higa**
which caused a short circuit, and the ensuing surge
caused the STL to spike momentarily.
**[20:12] Higa**
As a result, Kirito's self-destruction impulse was actualized
and his ego was deactivated.
**[20:20] Rinko**
Ego... deactivated?
**[20:24] Rinko**
What does that mean?
**[20:26] Higa**
Take a look at this.
**[20:28] Higa**
Normally, where this black hole is,
what you'd find is, to be precise...
**[20:33] Higa**
...the self-image.
**[20:36] Rinko**
Self-image. One's conception
as determined by the self, you mean?
**[20:42] Higa**
That's correct.
**[20:43] Higa**
Apparently, all our decision making passes
through a "Yes/No" circuit inside our Fluctlights
**[20:49] Higa**
that asks "Should I do this
under these conditions, or not?"
**[20:53] Higa**
For example, Rinko-senpai, have you ever ordered
a second helping at a beef bowl place?
**[20:59] Rinko**
I haven't.
**[21:01] Higa**
Even if your mind is like, "I want to have more.
I could eat another bowl"?
**[21:05] Rinko**
That's right.
**[21:06] Higa**
So in other words, that was the result
of your self-image circuit processing.
**[21:12] Higa**
In Kirito's case,
his Fluctlight is largely unscathed,
**[21:16] Higa**
but because the circuit in question
is non-functional,
**[21:20] Higa**
all he can do in his current state, most likely,
**[21:23] Higa**
is reflexive reactions
triggered by deeply ingrained memories.
**[21:29] Higa**
I don't think he knows who he is,
or what it is he needs to do,
**[21:33] Higa**
and he can't speak voluntarily.
**[21:35] Higa**
I believe that's his current state.
**[23:36] Alice**
Next time: The Final Load Test.
# E3 - The Final Load Test
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GY24GX40R/the-final-load-test)
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***SIGN*** Saturday June 27, 2026 San Diego 9 Days before the attack on the Ocean Turtle
**[00:14] ---**
Leave this to me!
**[00:25] ---**
Time's up, huh?
**[00:27] ---**
All teams, retreat.
**[00:29] ---**
Move away from Grid 1-9.
**[00:32] ---**
That would've been
the last prey for today, right?
**[00:35] ---**
You sure you want to end on a loss, Boss?
**[00:39] ---**
Battling an irregular squadron like that
won't do much good, training-wise.
**[00:44] ---**
We wouldn't want any negative effects
to carry over into the actual operation.
**[00:48] ---**
Let's go.
**[01:07] ---**
Mr. Miller. The men from the NSA have arrived.
**[01:11] ---**
Send them in.
**[01:13] ---**
Mr. Miller, we'd like to hire you,
Glowgen Defense Systems, for a top secret mission.
**[01:20] ---**
And the nature of the mission is?
**[01:22] ---**
To seize the Soul Translation technology.
**[01:25] ---**
What is that, exactly?
**[01:28] ---**
It was developed
by a Japanese company called Rath,
**[01:30] ---**
and it's a machine
that can decipher human souls.
**[01:33] ---**
Souls?
**[01:35] ---**
Decipher them?
**[01:36] ---**
That's right.
**[01:38] ---**
Using this Soul Translation technology,
**[01:41] ---**
Rath has apparently succeeded in not only
analyzing human souls, but in cloning them as well.
**[01:47] ---**
Should this artificial soul,
code-name ALICE, be fully developed,
**[01:52] ---**
it could be installed
into unmanned Japanese weapons,
**[01:54] ---**
which could disrupt the balance
of military power in East Asia.
**[01:57] ---**
The U.S. needs to take control of that technology
before that can happen.
**[02:03] ---**
I see.
**[02:05] ---**
So, tell me the specifics of this mission.
**[02:08] ---**
There's a mega-float for research called the Ocean Turtle,
moored near the Izu Islands.
**[02:14] ---**
We'd like your people to break into it
**[02:16] ---**
and obtain the Soul Translation technology.
**[02:19] ---**
That will require a raid on a Japanese ship...
one of our allies, you know.
**[02:24] ---**
We've made arrangements
with the JSDF top brass.
**[02:27] ---**
Apparently, the JSDF isn't the monolith
it appears to be.
**[02:31] ---**
Use whatever methods you want.
**[02:33] ---**
Just remember that the U.S. isn't involved
in this mission in any way.
**[02:41] ---**
Fine.
**[02:43] ---**
I'll assemble the team,
and lead it myself.
**[02:50] ---**
ALICE, your soul will be so sweet.
***SIGN*** The Final Load Test
***SIGN*** Main Control Room Ocean Turtle 35 minutes after the attack
**[04:36] ---**
Critter, you bastard... just try saying that again!
**[04:39] ---**
I'll repeat it as many times as you want, Vassago.
**[04:42] ---**
Listen up! This console is locked tighter
than a pile of dried turds.
**[04:47] ---**
I could crunch the numbers on the laptop we brought
until you die of old age, and I'd still never crack it!
**[04:54] ---**
You're missing the point,
you damned four eyes!
**[04:57] ---**
You said we got locked out
because we took too long to break in!
**[05:02] ---**
Hey, hey, all I did was point out a fact.
**[05:05] ---**
For someone who hung back cowering
during the battle, you sure are cocky!
**[05:12] ---**
Okay, that's enough, you two.
**[05:15] ---**
There's no time to point fingers at each other.
**[05:18] ---**
We have to consider our next move now, all right?
**[05:20] ---**
Yeah, but Bro,
**[05:22] ---**
this guy needs to be put in his place.
**[05:25] ---**
I'm satisfied with what
this team's achieved till now.
**[05:29] ---**
Our only casualty was Gary getting grazed.
**[05:33] ---**
And we succeeded in taking over the control room,
our primary objective.
**[05:37] ---**
Yeah, but if we're locked out
of the control system itself, what's the point?
**[05:43] ---**
Our ultimate target, the Lightcube Cluster,
is beyond that wall, right?
**[05:48] ---**
That's why I'm saying
we need to come up with a way to breach that wall.
**[05:53] ---**
Still, those JSDF guys won't stay holed up forever.
**[05:58] ---**
Once the real soldiers come charging in
from this turtle's escort ship—
**[06:03] ---**
I was told that the client
and the JSDF have a certain deal in place.
**[06:07] ---**
Apparently, the naval escort won't make a move
for 24 hours after the operation's launched.
**[06:13] ---**
So this operation's not just a burglary, then?
**[06:18] ---**
All right. Now let's go over the current situation.
**[06:21] ---**
It's currently 1447 hours, Japan Standard Time.
**[06:25] ---**
Forty minutes have passed since we broke in.
**[06:28] ---**
Right now, we're inside
the Ocean Turtle's Main Control Room.
**[06:32] ---**
Although we've successfully
taken over our target facility,
**[06:35] ---**
we failed to capture the Rath tech,
**[06:37] ---**
and we've been locked out of the system here.
**[06:40] ---**
Our next objective is to take over
the Sub Control Room.
**[06:44] ---**
Brigg, do you think
you can cut through the bulkhead door?
**[06:48] ---**
It doesn't look too promising.
**[06:50] ---**
It's made of cutting-edge composite materials,
**[06:53] ---**
and it would be impossible to cut through it
within 24 hours using the portable saw we brought.
**[06:59] ---**
Hans, what if we used C-4 to blow it open?
**[07:03] ---**
I wouldn't recommend it.
**[07:05] ---**
The chamber housing the Lightcube Cluster
is just beyond that wall.
**[07:10] ---**
If we blast open the door, there's no guarantee
that the contents of that room would be left unscathed.
**[07:16] ---**
The mission we've been tasked with
**[07:18] ---**
is to find a single Lightcube out of a mountain of them,
and extract it along with its interface.
**[07:25] ---**
We already have the cube's unique ID.
**[07:28] ---**
Come on,
**[07:29] ---**
this scrawny Four Eyes has been giving us this crap
about hacking into the Pentagon,
**[07:35] ---**
and yet he can't even crack open
a flimsy system lock.
**[07:38] ---**
Whoa, what a shock.
**[07:41] ---**
I just got told off by a gamer
who's only fired a gun made of polygons!
**[07:45] ---**
You bastard!
**[07:51] ---**
Do you guys want to go back empty-handed,
and get jeers instead of a bonus?
**[07:59] ---**
Are you incompetent enough
to be outdone by amateur techs?
**[08:06] ---**
Then start thinking!
**[08:07] ---**
Prove that those containers sitting on your necks
are filled with something other than oatmeal!
**[08:22] ---**
*The pressure bulkhead leading to
the Lightcube Cluster chamber can't be breached.*
**[08:26] ---**
*Meaning that our only option
is to control the system from here.*
**[08:30] ---**
How's it looking?
**[08:31] ---**
No chance of logging in
with administrator privileges.
**[08:35] ---**
About all we can do is peek enviously at the fairyland
where the Fluctlights live in such bliss.
**[08:47] ---**
Goblins?
**[08:48] ---**
Hey, you've done your homework, Captain!
**[08:51] ---**
Yeah, but they seem kinda big for goblins.
**[08:54] ---**
Those are Hobs. They're Hobgoblins, I bet.
**[08:58] ---**
Critter.
**[08:59] ---**
Yeah?
**[09:01] ---**
Are these monsters
part of the system?
**[09:05] ---**
Doesn't look that way.
**[09:07] ---**
These guys have artificial souls
loaded into the Lightcube Cluster above.
**[09:12] ---**
They have Fluctlights.
**[09:14] ---**
Are you serious?
**[09:16] ---**
These Hobgoblins have souls,
the same as us?
**[09:20] ---**
Do those Lightcubes
all contain goblins and orcs like these?
**[09:25] ---**
Is our Alice one, too?
**[09:26] ---**
Of course not!
**[09:28] ---**
This realm called the Underworld...
**[09:31] ---**
is divided into the Human Empire,
where normal humans live,
**[09:34] ---**
and the Dark Territory that lies outside it,
which is teeming with monsters.
**[09:40] ---**
It's pretty much a given
that Alice lives in the Human Empire,
**[09:44] ---**
but since it's so gigantic,
**[09:46] ---**
there's no way that we'll ever find her
by just peeking in like this.
**[09:49] ---**
Come on, that's a total no-brainer!
**[09:52] ---**
If that's the case,
all we have to do is dive into this Human Empire,
**[09:55] ---**
and ask whoever we come across,
"Hey, do you know a girl named Alice?"
**[09:58] ---**
Wow, we have a dumbass here!
**[10:00] ---**
What's that, bastard?
**[10:02] ---**
Look, there are tens of thousands of people
living in the Human Empire.
**[10:07] ---**
You really think
you can canvas them all on your... own?
**[10:12] ---**
Wait. Hold on, hold on!
Maybe it doesn't have to be done by one person.
**[10:16] ---**
I see.
**[10:17] ---**
The accounts set up
to log into the Underworld...
**[10:21] ---**
It's unlikely that they'd all be
Level 1 ordinary citizens.
**[10:25] ---**
Isn't that right, Critter?
**[10:30] ---**
For the Rath operators to log in and observe,
or else control it from inside,
**[10:35] ---**
they must be set up with accounts
of all ranks and professions.
**[10:38] ---**
Hey! How cool is that?
**[10:41] ---**
In other words, we should just log in
as a general or president or some other big shot,
**[10:45] ---**
and order them to smoke out Alice, right?
**[10:49] ---**
I don't know, hearing you put it like that...
**[10:51] ---**
makes this idea sound really stupid.
**[10:55] ---**
Dammit, no good, huh?
**[10:57] ---**
They have some hard-core protection
on the high-level account logins as well.
**[11:02] ---**
Looks like we can only dive into the Human Empire
with an ordinary citizen's account.
**[11:08] ---**
Damn, what a letdown!
**[11:11] ---**
Critter, aren't there any high-level accounts
set up outside the Human Empire?
**[11:16] ---**
Outside it?
**[11:17] ---**
But aren't the chances
of Alice being there close to nil?
**[11:22] ---**
Well, yes, I guess so.
**[11:24] ---**
But it's not as if the borders
are totally impenetrable, right?
**[11:29] ---**
That's my bro! Thinking outside the box!
**[11:32] ---**
In other words, you mean,
**[11:34] ---**
go in as general of those monsters
and attack, right?
**[11:37] ---**
That would get me more fired up, for sure!
**[11:41] ---**
A-ha, found it, found it!
**[11:46] ---**
All right! No password!
**[11:48] ---**
Well, well...
**[11:50] ---**
First, here's someone with the rank of Dark Knight.
**[11:54] ---**
His Object Control level is... 70!
We can work with that!
**[11:58] ---**
Hey, not bad!
**[12:00] ---**
That one's mine, all right?
**[12:03] ---**
Right, and here's another one...
**[12:06] ---**
What's this?
**[12:07] ---**
The ranking's blank, and there's no level, either.
**[12:10] ---**
The only setting is its name.
**[12:13] ---**
Now how do you pronounce this?
**[12:15] ---**
Emperor... Vecta?
**[12:19] ---**
Emperor... as in ruler?
**[12:21] ---**
On second thought, I'll take that one—
**[12:23] ---**
No.
**[12:24] ---**
I'm taking that one for myself.
**[12:27] ---**
I won't argue.
**[12:29] ---**
Okay, so you can take on the role of Emperor,
and I'll be the Dark Knight.
**[12:33] ---**
Hey, I'm starting to get pumped up!
**[12:36] ---**
Hey! Four eyes! Can we log in yet?
**[12:40] ---**
What's wrong, Critter?
**[12:41] ---**
Is there some other problem?
**[12:44] ---**
Maybe it's just something that's bugging me,
**[12:47] ---**
but I'm looking at the data,
and this odd phrase keeps popping up.
**[12:51] ---**
I'm not sure what it means yet.
**[12:55] ---**
What kind of phrase?
**[12:57] ---**
"Final load test."
**[13:02] ---**
Um... let's see.
**[13:04] ---**
As far as Kirito's condition
in the real world is concerned,
***SIGN*** Sub Control Room Ocean Turtle 37 minutes after the attack
**[13:07] ---**
like I just explained,
things aren't looking too optimistic.
**[13:11] ---**
That said, Kirito still remains
logged into the Underworld.
**[13:16] ---**
In other words,
**[13:18] ---**
even though his self-image has been damaged,
**[13:20] ---**
his Fluctlight itself is still active,
and is receptive to various stimuli.
**[13:26] ---**
He's lost his own soul
because he blamed himself so vehemently.
**[13:31] ---**
If someone in the Underworld
were to offer him forgiveness, then maybe...
**[13:39] ---**
I'll go!
**[13:42] ---**
Ms. Asuna?
**[13:48] ---**
I'll go into the Underworld.
**[13:53] ---**
I want to go there and tell Kirito...
**[13:57] ---**
that he did a good job.
**[13:59] ---**
To say, "I know you went through
so much sadness and pain,
**[14:03] ---**
but you did the best that you could."
**[14:07] ---**
It's true that we have one more vacant STL.
**[14:11] ---**
But the Underworld isn't exactly stable right now.
**[14:17] ---**
Because we're about to enter the last stage
of the scheduled final load test.
**[14:22] ---**
Final... load?
**[14:24] ---**
What's going to happen?
**[14:25] ---**
The Durability of the Eastern Gate,
**[14:28] ---**
which divides the Human Empire
and the Dark Territory, will reach zero,
**[14:31] ---**
and an army of monsters
will flood the Human Empire.
**[14:35] ---**
If the humans had sufficient defenses in place,
**[14:38] ---**
they would've ultimately
been able to drive them back.
**[14:41] ---**
But during this last experiment,
**[14:43] ---**
Kirito pretty much destroyed
the ruling organization, the Axiom Church,
**[14:48] ---**
so who knows what will happen?
**[14:51] ---**
Either way, we may have reached the point
where one of us will have to dive in.
**[14:58] ---**
Once the invasion begins,
**[14:59] ---**
it's possible that Alice, who's somewhere
in the Human Empire, could be killed in the chaos.
**[15:06] ---**
If someone can enter
with a superuser account,
**[15:09] ---**
transport Alice, under their protection,
to the World End's Altar,
**[15:14] ---**
and from there, eject Alice's Lightcube
to the Sub Control Room.
**[15:21] ---**
Isn't that what you asked Kirito to do as well?
**[15:26] ---**
If he'd made it,
then I'm sure he would've pulled it off.
**[15:30] ---**
Because he was right by Alice at the time.
**[15:33] ---**
You're saying that several months later
in terms of internal time,
**[15:36] ---**
it's highly likely that those two are still together?
**[15:40] ---**
I think it's safe to assume that they are.
**[15:43] ---**
Meaning that having Asuna dive in
might be our best option.
**[15:48] ---**
As well as the ability
to communicate with Kirito,
**[15:51] ---**
whoever goes will need combat ability
to protect Alice in the Underworld, after all.
**[15:56] ---**
Then we should have her use
the highest account level possible.
**[16:01] ---**
Well, the choices are endless, then.
**[16:04] ---**
A knight, a general, a noble...
**[16:07] ---**
There are all kinds
of superuser accounts to choose from,
**[16:10] ---**
Hey, hold on a second.
**[16:12] ---**
What is it?
**[16:13] ---**
Isn't there a chance that
our attackers could come up with the same idea?
**[16:18] ---**
Oh... yeah.
**[16:21] ---**
True, they're just as likely
to catch onto this method, as well.
**[16:23] ---**
But they won't have time to crack the login passwords
for any superuser accounts.
**[16:29] ---**
Their only option would be
a Level 1 ordinary citizen... that's it.
**[16:34] ---**
What's wrong?
**[16:36] ---**
Never mind, it's nothing.
***SIGN*** Everyone, I'm going to the Underworld, too. I'll be coming back with Kirito, no matter what, so don't worry.
**[17:01] ---**
Are you ready?
**[17:02] ---**
Yes.
**[17:03] ---**
Anytime you're ready, please.
***SIGN*** Monday, July 6, 2026 4:56 PM Somewhere in Tokyo
**[18:23] ---**
Again... the guy from that day...
***SIGN*** You have a message from Asuna Yuuki
**[18:28] ---**
Asuna?
***SIGN*** Yui
**[18:29] ---**
*Sinon, there's something
that I'd like to explain to you all.*
**[18:33] ---**
*Would you mind logging into AOL right away?*
***SIGN*** Sylvain
**[18:40] ---**
So you see, in order to repair Daddy's Fluctlight,
**[18:45] ---**
Mommy has decided to dive into the Underworld.
**[18:48] ---**
Big Brother...
**[18:50] ---**
Kirito...
**[18:51] ---**
Oh, he'll be fine!
He's always come back, hasn't he?
**[18:57] ---**
So, is the Ocean Turtle all right?
**[19:01] ---**
Aren't they under attack by some sketchy guys?
**[19:05] ---**
Isn't there something that we can do to help?
**[19:10] ---**
Well, about that...
**[19:12] ---**
We might need to call on you for help later on.
***SIGN*** Main Control Room Ocean Turtle 2 hours and 53 minutes after the attack
**[19:29] ---**
All right, let's do this!
***SIGN*** October 30, 380 HE Dark Territory Obsidia Palace
**[19:59] ---**
Knight Lipia Zancale has returned.
***SIGN*** Dark Knight Eleventh Rank Lipia Zancale
**[20:03] ---**
Good work. You can have a seat.
**[20:06] ---**
Yes, my lord.
**[20:09] ---**
Don't call me "your lord"
when it's just you and me.
***SIGN*** Dark Knight Commander Vixur ul Shasta
**[20:13] ---**
Right, but officially, I'm still on duty.
**[20:19] ---**
So anyway...
**[20:20] ---**
What's this grave incident
that you had to send a familiar to alert me about?
**[20:25] ---**
Right. The pontifex of the Human Empire's
Axiom Church... is dead.
**[20:34] ---**
That immortal being?
**[20:36] ---**
Yes.
**[20:37] ---**
I also found it hard to believe,
so I spent a full week making sure it was true.
**[20:48] ---**
This is our chance.
**[20:50] ---**
Chance for what?
**[20:51] ---**
Needless to say, for peace.
**[20:54] ---**
Do you really believe that's possible, my lord?
**[20:59] ---**
Whether it's possible or not,
it's something we must do, no matter what.
**[21:04] ---**
But...
**[21:05] ---**
How do you intend
to convince the other lords, my lord?
**[21:10] ---**
And would the Order of the Integrity Knights
even entertain peace negotiations?
**[21:17] ---**
Regarding the Integrity Knights,
I believe there's a chance.
**[21:20] ---**
If the pontifex has been defeated,
it must be old man Bercouli at the helm now.
**[21:27] ---**
I can't stand the guy,
but I can have a dialogue with him.
**[21:30] ---**
It's the Council of Ten
that could prove to be a problem.
**[21:33] ---**
I know it sounds contradictory, but we...
**[21:36] ---**
...may be forced to eliminate them.
**[21:39] ---**
Four of them, at least.
**[21:41] ---**
Which four are you talking about?
**[21:43] ---**
Would it be both Goblin chiefs,
the Orc chief, as well as...
**[21:49] ---**
The chancellor of the Dark Mages Guild.
**[21:51] ---**
That woman's gotten her hands
on Administrator's immortality secret,
**[21:55] ---**
and is most likely desires
to become emperor herself someday.
**[21:59] ---**
No way would she accept any talk of peace.
**[22:01] ---**
But...
**[22:03] ---**
that would be far too risky, my lord!
**[22:06] ---**
The leaders of the Goblins and Orcs
may not be our enemies,
**[22:09] ---**
but as for the Dark Mages,
**[22:11] ---**
there's no telling what tricks
they might have up their sleeves!
**[22:22] ---**
Listen, Lipia.
**[22:24] ---**
How long has it been
since you came to me?
**[22:28] ---**
Um... it was the year I turned 21,
so... four years.
**[22:33] ---**
It's been that long already, huh?
**[22:36] ---**
Forgive me for putting you
in such an ambiguous position for so long.
**[22:41] ---**
What do you say?
Isn't it about time you, uh...
**[22:45] ---**
You know...
**[22:48] ---**
Officially... became my wife?
**[22:56] ---**
My lord!
**[22:57] ---**
Sorry that I'm so much older than you...
**[23:09] ---**
Emergency!
**[23:11] ---**
It's an emergency!
**[23:13] ---**
Th-The Throne Room!
**[23:15] ---**
The chain sealing it is shaking!
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: "Dark Territory."
# E4 - Dark Territory
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYQWD4DGY/dark-territory)
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**[00:07] ---**
*Gabriel.*
**[00:13] ---**
Gabriel.
**[00:14] ---**
Unlike humans, insects don't have brains.
**[00:18] ---**
Then where do they think?
**[00:21] ---**
In an insect's case,
all of the nerves throughout its body act as the brain.
**[00:27] ---**
That's why, even if they lose their head,
they can still live for a while.
**[00:36] ---**
If it's still alive even after it loses its head,
**[00:39] ---**
then where is the mantis' soul?
**[00:51] ---**
Gabe!
**[00:55] ---**
Gabe!
**[01:00] ---**
Alicia!
**[01:03] ---**
Gabe, let's play!
**[01:05] ---**
Okay!
**[01:15] ---**
*I wonder where Alicia's soul is?*
**[01:20] ---**
*Unlike insects, humans can't live
if they lose their head.*
**[01:24] ---**
*So the human soul must be in the head.*
**[01:28] ---**
*It must be somewhere in the brain.*
**[01:32] ---**
*Deep beneath Alicia's skin, skull,
and brain matter...*
**[01:37] ---**
*her soul is hidden.*
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Obsidia Palace
**[02:06] ---**
Yo!
**[02:07] ---**
Is that you, bro?
**[02:09] ---**
Are you Vassago?
**[02:12] ---**
Yeah. That's right.
**[02:14] ---**
Looks like we were able to log in as planned.
**[02:25] ---**
*Those are artificial Fluctlights?*
**[02:29] ---**
*You're telling me
they're all humans with souls?*
***SIGN*** Dark Territory
**[04:17] ---**
Hurry! We flatland goblins will be the first
to reach His Majesty, the Emperor!
***SIGN*** Chief of the Flatland Goblins Kubiri
**[04:28] ---**
We're not getting beat
by a bunch of flatland slug eaters!
***SIGN*** Chief of the Mountain Goblins Hagashi
**[04:30] ---**
No one's getting the honor of the first kill
but us mountain goblins!
***SIGN*** Chief of the Giants Sigurosig
***SIGN*** Chief of the Ogres Furgr
***SIGN*** Tenth Champion of the Pugilists Guild Iskahn
**[04:53] ---**
Whatever you do,
don't fall behind the other tribes!
**[04:58] ---**
Let's go!
***SIGN*** Head of the Assassins Guild Fu Za
**[05:34] ---**
I am the head of the commerce guild.
My name is Rengil Gila Scobo.
***SIGN*** Head of the Commerce Guild Rengil Gila Scobo
***SIGN*** Chief of the Orcs Lilpilin
**[05:41] ---**
I'm chief of the orcs, Lilpilin!
**[05:44] ---**
I'm the chancellor of the dark mages guild,
Dee Eye Ell.
**[05:49] ---**
My 3,000 mages, as well my heart and body,
all belong to you, Your Majesty.
***SIGN*** Chancellor of the Dark Mages Guild Dee Eye Ell
**[05:59] ---**
I am the commander of the dark knights brigade,
Vixur ul Shasta.
**[06:03] ---**
Before I offer you my sword,
I have a question for you, Emperor.
**[06:07] ---**
Now that you've returned to your throne,
what is it that you seek?
**[06:15] ---**
Blood and terror. Flames and destruction.
Death and screams.
**[06:23] ---**
The western lands are full of the power of the gods
who expelled me from the heavens.
**[06:28] ---**
The great gate that protects it is about to crumble,
even as we speak.
**[06:32] ---**
I have returned to make my authority known
far and wide across the land.
**[06:38] ---**
The moment the great gate falls,
the Human Empire will belong to the people of darkness!
**[06:44] ---**
I desire only one thing.
**[06:46] ---**
The Priestess of Light, who appeared
at the same time in that land, and nothing else!
**[06:51] ---**
I hereby grant you permission
to kill and seize any other human!
**[06:57] ---**
Soldiers of the dark empire!
The time you have long awaited is nigh!
**[07:07] ---**
I'll kill them!
I'll kill every last one of those White Iums!
**[07:15] ---**
Battle! Battle!
**[07:18] ---**
Battle! Battle!
**[07:50] ---**
I'm surprised you had that kind of talent, Bro.
**[07:56] ---**
You should've become an actor instead.
**[07:58] ---**
I just did what was necessary.
**[08:01] ---**
You really should learn how to deliver
that kind of speech yourself.
**[08:05] ---**
Since you're a level higher than those guys.
**[08:08] ---**
Forget giving orders or speeches,
**[08:11] ---**
I'd rather lead the charge into battle.
**[08:13] ---**
Since we've dived into this mind-blowing VR world.
**[08:18] ---**
This wine and this bottle
seem like the real thing to me.
**[08:21] ---**
But in exchange,
if you get cut, it'll hurt and bleed.
**[08:25] ---**
Since a pain absorber won't work here.
**[08:28] ---**
That's what makes it great.
**[08:44] ---**
*Is that you, Captain?*
**[08:46] ---**
Yeah.
**[08:47] ---**
*We've just returned to the Main Control Room
after watching you and Vassago dive.*
**[08:53] ---**
I see. It's already the night of first day here.
**[08:57] ---**
I already knew about it,
but time acceleration still feels odd.
**[09:01] ---**
For now, everything's proceeding as planned.
**[09:05] ---**
We'll be done preparing the units in a day or two,
**[09:08] ---**
and commence our assault on the Human Empire
two days from now.
**[09:12] ---**
*Wonderful!*
**[09:14] ---**
Don't forget, all right?
***SIGN*** Main Control Room 2 hours and 54 minutes after the attack on the Ocean Turtle
**[09:15] ---**
Once you've taken ALICE into custody,
transport her there,
**[09:18] ---**
and execute the command from the menu
to eject her into the Main Control Room.
**[09:23] ---**
Then ALICE's Lightcube will be ours.
**[09:26] ---**
Oh, one more thing. I want you to drill this
into that idiot Vassago's head.
**[09:30] ---**
*Huh?*
**[09:31] ---**
Since you can't do anything
that requires administrator privileges,
**[09:34] ---**
it won't be possible to reset your account, either.
**[09:37] ---**
*In other words, if you and Vassago die over there,
you can never use those superuser accounts again.*
**[09:43] ---**
*So the next time you log in, it will be as grunts.*
**[09:46] ---**
Right, I understand.
**[09:48] ---**
What's the JSDF doing?
**[09:50] ---**
*Nothing at the moment.*
**[09:52] ---**
*It doesn't seem like they realized you dove in yet.*
**[09:55] ---**
Good. All right, I'm signing off.
**[09:58] ---**
Let's hope the next communication
will be after we've captured ALICE.
**[10:02] ---**
*Roger. I'm counting on you.*
**[10:07] ---**
That bastard Critter.
**[10:10] ---**
Listen, Bro, would it be okay
if I swing by downtown to... No, I guess not.
**[10:16] ---**
Just hold back for a while.
**[10:18] ---**
Once the operation's over,
I'll let you have a whole night.
**[10:21] ---**
Roger that.
So no murder and women for now, huh?
**[10:24] ---**
In that case, I'm just going to hit the sack.
**[10:35] ---**
What are you doing?
**[10:38] ---**
I shall be keeping you company tonight, sir.
**[10:50] ---**
On whose order?
**[10:52] ---**
No.
**[10:53] ---**
This is my duty.
**[10:56] ---**
I see.
**[10:59] ---**
Pardon me.
**[11:11] ---**
Who ordered you to do this?
**[11:13] ---**
This is also my own choice.
**[11:17] ---**
Then who's your commanding officer?
**[11:20] ---**
I don't have one.
**[11:23] ---**
Why did you try to kill me?
**[11:25] ---**
Were you offered money?
Were you promised status?
**[11:29] ---**
It's for the greater good!
**[11:32] ---**
If war breaks out now,
**[11:34] ---**
it will set history back one hundred...
no, two hundred years!
**[11:37] ---**
We cannot revert to an era of oppression
for the powerless!
**[12:12] ---**
*This is... just like what happened that day!*
**[13:23] ---**
*Right now, I'm looking at Alicia's soul.*
**[13:26] ---**
*And I'm also seeing what Alicia's soul is seeing.*
**[13:39] ---**
This soul... I want to see more
of the vision that this soul is showing me!
**[14:00] ---**
*I love you.*
**[14:04] ---**
*My lord.*
**[14:06] ---**
Magnificent. What a magnificent experience!
**[14:12] ---**
*The Lightcube housing this woman's Fluctlight
is connected to my own Fluctlight through the STL.*
**[14:20] ---**
*Did a fragment of the quantum data reverse course
through its circuits?*
**[14:25] ---**
*No, who cares about that?*
**[14:30] ---**
*Ever since Alicia,
I've experimented with so many people,*
**[14:34] ---**
*but just now, I was finally able
to experience that phenomenon again.*
**[14:40] ---**
*Even a woman like this yielded that much.*
**[14:43] ---**
*Meaning that the perfected version, ALICE,
will surely...*
**[14:47] ---**
ALICE, your soul... will be so sweet!
***SIGN*** November 2, 380 HE
**[15:13] ---**
Your Majesty, preparations for battle are complete.
**[15:16] ---**
Just give the order,
and we can launch the assault anytime.
**[15:27] ---**
The life of the Eastern Gate,
**[15:29] ---**
which has divided the Human Empire
and the land of darkness since the time of creation,
**[15:33] ---**
is now about to expire.
**[15:35] ---**
The five tribes of the forces of darkness are all excited
about a major incursion into the Human Empire.
**[15:41] ---**
But the order of the Integrity Knights
protecting the Human Empire are all formidable.
**[15:46] ---**
If we try to push through with superior numbers,
we'll be worn down eventually,
**[15:50] ---**
but by the time that last unit falls,
I can't imagine how much damage we'll have suffered.
**[15:55] ---**
And that will lead to a power imbalance
among the five tribes.
**[15:59] ---**
The Council of Ten will be powerless,
**[16:02] ---**
and our equal treaty among the five tribes
will have no meaning.
**[16:05] ---**
If that happens, it will be the Age of Iron and Blood
all over again. We must avoid that at all costs.
**[16:11] ---**
We must make peace.
**[16:16] ---**
*Integrity Knight Commander Bercouli.*
**[16:20] ---**
*That man, if no one else,
will surely agree to our request for peace.*
**[16:24] ---**
*Therefore, I must kill Emperor Vecta,
who seeks war.*
**[16:30] ---**
By the way, there was an intruder
in my sleeping quarters last night.
**[16:35] ---**
Who had a dagger hidden in their hair.
**[16:39] ---**
I don't intend to condemn the person
who sent that assassin.
**[16:45] ---**
There's nothing wrong with using your power
to gain even greater power.
**[16:50] ---**
Should you want to take my head,
feel free to attack me from behind any time.
**[16:55] ---**
Of course, that's only if you understand that
you'll pay the appropriate price for such a gamble.
**[17:02] ---**
For example, such as this...
**[17:27] ---**
Li... pia...
**[17:32] ---**
We must make peace.
**[17:35] ---**
Although thinking this way is hardly admirable
for a resident of the land of darkness.
**[17:41] ---**
You may be right.
**[17:43] ---**
But I admire you for it.
**[17:54] ---**
That's why I fell in love with you.
**[18:23] ---**
You were just injected with a poison so potent,
**[18:26] ---**
it can kill even a colossal land dragon
with a life of over 30,000 in an hour.
**[18:33] ---**
With your stamina and total life,
I'd say it'll be another two or three minutes.
**[18:52] ---**
Lipia.
**[18:54] ---**
I won't let you stop me!
**[20:05] ---**
Nothing.
**[20:07] ---**
*There's nothing here.*
**[20:09] ---**
*Does this man... not know life?*
**[20:13] ---**
*A man who knows nothing of the radiance of life,
of the soul, or of love.*
**[20:19] ---**
*That's why he seeks other's souls.*
**[20:23] ---**
*This man cannot be killed with a murderous sword.*
**[20:28] ---**
*Because this man's soul is alive,
and yet dead at the same time.*
**[20:36] ---**
*I'm sorry, Lipia.*
**[20:48] ---**
The troops who lost their general are to be
immediately taken over by the next in command.
**[20:54] ---**
We will begin our assault as planned,
one hour from now.
**[21:07] ---**
All hail His Majesty, the Emperor!
***SIGN*** November 2, 380 HE The Eastern Gate
**[22:53] ---**
So that's... the Eastern Gate.
**[22:57] ---**
Stop, Amayori.
**[23:03] ---**
"Destroyed... at the last... stage?"
**[23:32] ---**
*We're out of time!*
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: "The Night Before Battle."
# E5 - The Night Before Battle
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GREXGMW3Y/the-night-before-battle)
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**[00:26] Eldrie**
That's...
**[00:38] Eldrie**
Mentor!
**[00:41] Eldrie**
I always believed in you!
**[00:52] Eldrie**
Lady Alice...
***SIGN*** The Night Before Battle
**[02:29] Alice**
I just looked at the Eastern Gate.
**[02:32] Alice**
There's not much time before the gate's destroyed
and the enemy pushes through.
**[02:37] Eldrie**
The enemy army has about 50,000 troops.
We have 3,000.
**[02:41] Eldrie**
We have to give them what training we can.
**[02:45] Alice**
Where are the other Integrity Knights?
**[02:47] Alice**
From above, I could only see seven outside.
**[02:53] Eldrie**
That's everyone.
**[02:55] Alice**
That's ridiculous!
**[02:57] Alice**
There should be 31 members of the order,
including me!
**[03:00] Eldrie**
Surely you're aware, Lady Alice.
**[03:02] Eldrie**
That Prime Senator Chudelkin
had been used a retuning art
**[03:06] Eldrie**
on knights who showed symptoms
of memory issues.
**[03:09] Eldrie**
Ten of those knights have yet to awaken
from that art.
**[03:14] Eldrie**
At this time, 21 knights are awake.
**[03:17] Eldrie**
Four are watching over the Cathedral
and the capital,
**[03:20] Eldrie**
and four are patrolling the End Mountains.
**[03:24] Alice**
That leaves thirteen.
**[03:27] Eldrie**
Our forces are already stretched too thin.
**[03:30] Eldrie**
And yet, Lady Alice...
**[03:33] Eldrie**
Do you intend to shield that young man
while you fight?
**[03:38] Alice**
Of course I do.
**[03:41] Alice**
Because I swore to protect him.
**[03:43] Eldrie**
You mustn't, Mentor!
**[03:44] Eldrie**
Should you encumber yourself
with such deadweight in battle,
**[03:47] Eldrie**
not only will it diminish the power of your sword,
it could expose you to danger yourself!
**[03:55] Bercouli**
Well, don't get so worked up, Eldrie.
**[03:59] Bercouli**
Yo, little one.
**[04:00] Bercouli**
I'm relieved to see
you look better than I expected.
**[04:03] Bercouli**
Have your cheeks filled in a little?
**[04:05] Alice**
Uncle.
**[04:08] Alice**
It's been a long time.
**[04:13] Eldrie**
Commander—
**[04:19] Alice**
Uncle.
**[04:22] Alice**
*Is he going to kill Kirito?*
**[04:26] Bercouli**
It's all right, little one.
**[04:38] Alice**
U-Uncle...
**[04:40] Bercouli**
Little one, did you just see that?
**[04:43] Alice**
Yes. It was only for an instant,
but I definitely saw the flash of a sword.
**[04:47] Bercouli**
I launched an Incarnate Sword,
or rather, a dagger at that young man.
**[04:52] Bercouli**
If it had hit,
it would've sliced some skin off his cheek.
**[04:56] Alice**
If it had... hit? Which means...
**[04:59] Bercouli**
That's right. He stopped it.
**[05:02] Bercouli**
With his own willpower.
**[05:09] Bercouli**
It doesn't look like the young man's mind is here.
**[05:12] Bercouli**
But he's not dead.
**[05:14] Bercouli**
Listen.
**[05:15] Bercouli**
The boy wasn't protecting himself,
but you, little one.
**[05:20] Bercouli**
So he'll be back one day.
That's what I think.
**[05:24] Bercouli**
Probably when you need him the most.
**[05:37] Bercouli**
So you see, Eldrie.
**[05:40] Bercouli**
We can look after one young man.
**[05:52] Alice**
All right. Wait a moment, okay?
**[06:08] Alice**
Kirito.
**[06:10] Alice**
*Even though your heart has been lost
since that battle,*
**[06:16] Alice**
*you still tried to protect me
from Uncle's sword technique.*
**[06:20] Alice**
*What do you think of me?*
**[06:24] Alice**
*What do I think of Kirito?*
**[06:28] Alice**
*No. I'm only a created being.*
**[06:32] Alice**
*Who continues to occupy Alice Zuberg's body.*
**[06:35] Alice**
*A puppet who exists to fight.*
**[06:37] Alice**
*I'm not allowed the luxury of feeling anything
other than the intent to fight.*
**[06:43] Alice**
*But maybe...*
**[06:46] Alice**
*it's because I've been suppressing my feelings
that you can't hear my voice.*
**[06:55] Alice**
*If I were to unleash all of my willpower
at this moment,*
**[06:59] Alice**
*would you respond?*
**[07:08] Tiese**
U-Um...
**[07:10] Tiese**
W-We've brought your dinner, Lady Knight.
**[07:14] Alice**
Thank you. I appreciate it.
**[07:17] Ronie**
U-Um, it's bread and something to drink.
**[07:20] Alice**
You don't have to be afraid.
**[07:23] Alice**
Are you two from the North Centoria
Imperial Swordcraft Academy?
**[07:27] Tiese**
Yes! I'm Primary Trainee Tiese Schtrinen
of the Human Guardian Army Supply Corps.
**[07:33] Ronie**
Primary Trainee Ronie Arabel, of the same.
**[07:37] Alice**
You don't have to be so formal.
**[07:39] Alice**
Here, I'm just another swordsman,
nothing more.
**[07:43] Alice**
Please call me Alice.
**[07:47] Alice**
What's the matter?
**[07:48] Tiese**
O-Oh, it's nothing.
**[07:50] Tiese**
It's just that you seem so different
from when we met you at the academy.
**[07:55] Alice**
You... think so?
**[07:57] Alice**
Anyway, is there something you wanted?
**[08:01] Tiese**
Yes.
**[08:04] Tiese**
Um, Lady Kni— Lady Alice, we heard
that you arrived with a dark-haired young man.
**[08:11] Ronie**
And we were wondering
if he might be someone we know.
**[08:16] Ronie**
So we thought...
**[08:17] Alice**
Oh, yeah. That's right.
**[08:19] Alice**
You two were friends with Kirito
at the academy, weren't you?
**[08:23] Ronie**
So it is Kirito-senpai!
**[08:25] Tiese**
Then Eugeo-senpai must...
**[08:28] Alice**
This might be too harsh for you to bear.
**[08:33] Alice**
But I have faith,
that as Kirito's, as well as Eugeo's juniors,
**[08:39] Alice**
you're surely capable of accepting it.
**[09:27] Tiese**
I just... heard...
**[09:29] Tiese**
Eugeo-senpai's voice.
**[09:32] Tiese**
He said, "Don't cry. I'll always be here."
**[09:45] Alice**
Did you two have feelings for Kirito and Eugeo—
**[09:48] Ronie**
That's not it! I... I'm...
**[09:52] Tiese**
Lady Alice, you know the Taboo
Kirito-senpai and Eugeo-senpai violated, don't you?
**[09:58] Alice**
Yes. I was told they killed another student.
**[10:04] Tiese**
How about what led them to break that Taboo?
**[10:09] Alice**
No, not that much.
**[10:12] Tiese**
Kirito-senpai and Eugeo-senpai
raised their swords to save us.
**[10:18] Tiese**
If only we'd been a little wiser
**[10:21] Tiese**
they wouldn't have fought the Church
to change the law, and no one would've died.
**[10:27] Tiese**
We've committed an irreparable crime!
**[10:32] Tiese**
That's why...
**[10:34] Tiese**
no matter what happens, we can't ever...
**[10:38] Tiese**
...admit we're in love with them!
**[10:49] Alice**
No, you're wrong about that.
**[10:51] Alice**
You've committed no crime.
**[10:53] Ronie**
Lady Alice, you...
**[10:55] Ronie**
You're an esteemed Integrity Knight,
Lady Alice, so you can't understand!
**[10:58] Ronie**
Our bodies were played with,
and our pride has been tainted by sin!
**[11:04] Alice**
The body is nothing more
than a vessel for your heart.
**[11:07] Alice**
The heart... the soul is the only thing
that truly exists.
**[11:12] Alice**
And what determines the nature of your soul...
**[11:14] Alice**
is you alone.
**[11:18] Alice**
*I know I can do it.*
**[11:27] Alice**
*Just like how Kirito showed me.*
**[11:44] Alice**
You see?
**[11:46] Alice**
Your body and appearance
merely follow your heart.
**[11:50] Alice**
Your heart can't be tainted by anyone.
**[11:52] Alice**
I was born in a village in the hinterlands,
and I should've grown up to be like this.
**[11:58] Alice**
But when I was eleven,
I was taken away as a criminal,
**[12:02] Alice**
my memories were erased by an art technique
and I became an Integrity Knight.
**[12:06] Alice**
There were times when I cursed such a fate.
**[12:08] Alice**
But...
**[12:09] Alice**
Kirito taught me that there was something
that I could do... that I should do.
**[12:15] Alice**
And that's why I'll never hesitate again.
**[12:17] Alice**
I've decided to accept myself as I am
and move on.
**[12:24] Alice**
I'm sure there's a wide, long, and straight path
meant only for you, too.
**[12:44] Bercouli**
Yo.
**[12:46] Alice**
Uncle. Good morning.
**[12:50] Bercouli**
About where we're going to put that young man.
**[12:53] Bercouli**
If you want, I can ask the rearguard unit—
**[12:55] Alice**
No.
**[12:56] Alice**
It's fine.
**[12:57] Alice**
I met his former pages from the academy,
**[13:01] Alice**
and asked them to look after him
once the battle begins.
**[13:04] Bercouli**
Oh? That's good to hear.
So how is that black-haired boy?
**[13:08] Bercouli**
Did he react in any way,
coming into contact with people from his past?
**[13:14] Bercouli**
I see.
**[13:15] Bercouli**
To be honest, I can't help but feel that
he'll be the one to set the course of the coming battle.
**[13:21] Alice**
What?
**[13:22] Bercouli**
Even if he had help from you and his partner,
**[13:25] Bercouli**
defeating the prime senator
and the pontifex was an incredible feat.
**[13:29] Bercouli**
I'm not sure if I'd be a match
for the intensity of his willpower.
**[13:34] Alice**
That can't be.
**[13:36] Bercouli**
When our willpower clashed yesterday,
I definitely felt it.
**[13:40] Bercouli**
That boy has the same amount as,
or even more experience in actual combat than me.
**[13:45] Alice**
What do you mean by actual combat?
**[13:49] Bercouli**
Just what I said. A fight for life.
**[13:54] Bercouli**
The Taboo Index prohibits any battles to the death.
**[13:58] Bercouli**
So where did that boy gain that kind of experience?
**[14:00] Alice**
Uncle, Kirito's actually—
**[14:02] Fanatio**
My lord.
**[14:04] Fanatio**
It's almost time for the war council.
**[14:07] Alice**
Lady Fanatio.
**[14:16] Alice**
*Lady Fanatio... with makeup on?*
**[14:19] Fanatio**
It's been a long time, Alice.
**[14:21] Fanatio**
I'm glad you're well.
**[14:23] Alice**
*She sounds... feminine?*
**[14:25] Alice**
I-It's been a long time.
**[14:27] Fanatio**
Hey, Alice, I hear you brought
that black-haired boy with you.
**[14:31] Alice**
Uh, yes.
**[14:32] Fanatio**
I see.
**[14:33] Fanatio**
Then could I see him briefly
after the war council?
**[14:37] Alice**
Why?
**[14:38] Fanatio**
I just want to thank him.
**[14:41] Alice**
Thank him?
**[14:41] Fanatio**
Yes.
**[14:42] Fanatio**
For fighting and defeating me.
**[14:46] Fanatio**
In all my years as an Integrity Knight,
that boy is the only one
**[14:50] Fanatio**
who fought me all-out,
even though he knew I was a woman.
**[14:54] Alice**
What do you mean...?
**[14:57] Fanatio**
Whenever a man fights me,
there's always a slight difference in his swordplay.
**[15:02] Fanatio**
When I realized that,
I hid my face with a helmet
**[15:05] Fanatio**
and mastered the art of continuous attacks
to prevent opponents from getting close.
**[15:09] Fanatio**
But that was only because
I was self-conscious about my own gender.
**[15:14] Fanatio**
That boy saw right through me,
and didn't hold back as he crossed swords with me.
**[15:19] Fanatio**
During my battle with him,
I unleashed all of my sword skills and art techniques,
**[15:24] Fanatio**
and when it was over,
all my trivial obsessions had vanished.
**[15:29] Fanatio**
See? It's no wonder
I want to thank that boy, right?
**[15:33] Fanatio**
Not to mention, I'm also a little annoyed.
**[15:35] Fanatio**
Because when he saw my exposed face,
he didn't find any womanliness in me.
**[15:40] Fanatio**
So I thought I'd try a few things...
and maybe if I do this or that, he might wake up.
**[15:47] Alice**
I am grateful for your kind words,
but he's resting in his tent right now.
**[15:51] Alice**
I shall pass on your regards to him later.
**[15:54] Fanatio**
Oh, my. I need your permission to see the boy?
**[15:58] Fanatio**
Whenever you asked to meet with the commander
while he was on duty,
**[16:02] Fanatio**
I don't think I ever refused you
due to my personal feelings.
**[16:05] Alice**
Surely I don't need your permission to see Uncle.
**[16:10] Alice**
First of all, if you wished
to be beaten up by a male knight,
**[16:14] Alice**
shouldn't you have just asked Uncle to do so?
**[16:17] Fanatio**
Oh, but he's exempt.
**[16:19] Fanatio**
Since he's the most powerful swordsman
in the world,
**[16:21] Fanatio**
of course he would go easy on everyone.
**[16:24] Alice**
Oh, is that right?
**[16:26] Alice**
Whenever he trained with me, Uncle was always
drenched with sweat from going all-out.
**[16:33] Fanatio Alice**
- My lord, is that true?
- Uncle, it's all your fault for—
**[16:36] Bercouli**
Hey! It's time to start the war council.
**[16:43] Fanatio**
For the last four months,
we've considered all kinds of strategies,
**[16:47] Fanatio**
but have concluded that it will be difficult
to repulse an all-out attack at our current strength.
**[16:53] Fanatio**
On our side of the End Mountains,
**[16:55] Fanatio**
there's nothing but grassland and rocks
for 10 kilors in all directions.
**[16:59] Fanatio**
If they force their way in this far,
then we'll be surrounded and massacred by the enemy.
**[17:05] Fanatio**
Therefore, we...
**[17:07] Fanatio**
...have no choice but to fight in this narrow ravine,
that's 100-mel wide and 1,000 mel long.
**[17:13] Fanatio**
We'll set up a defensive position here,
**[17:14] Fanatio**
and relentlessly repel the enemy's advances,
and strike them down.
**[17:18] Fanatio**
This will be our basic strategy
throughout this operation.
**[17:20] Fanatio**
Does anyone have any thoughts so far?
**[17:24] Eldrie**
The enemy forces include ogre units
equipped with longbows,
**[17:27] Eldrie**
as well as the even more dangerous
order of the dark mages.
**[17:31] Eldrie**
What are we going to do
about their long-range attacks?
**[17:34] Fanatio**
It will be a risky gamble, but...
**[17:39] Fanatio**
There's no sunlight in that ravine,
even during the day,
**[17:42] Fanatio**
and not a single blade of grass on the ground.
**[17:44] Fanatio**
In other words, spatial resources are sparse there.
**[17:48] Fanatio**
If we can consume every last bit of it
before the battle starts,
**[17:51] Fanatio**
in theory, the enemy will be unable
to launch any powerful art techniques.
**[17:55] Fanatio**
Needless to say, the same is true for us.
**[17:58] Fanatio**
However, we only have 100 or so
sacred arts wielders on our side.
**[18:02] Fanatio**
Should we find ourselves exchanging art techniques,
the enemy will be sure to consume far more resources.
**[18:08] Deusolbert**
I see. I believe you're right, Vice Commander.
**[18:11] Deusolbert**
But if the resources are exhausted,
**[18:14] Deusolbert**
won't we be unable
to restore the life of the wounded?
**[18:17] Fanatio**
That's why I said it was a gamble.
**[18:20] Fanatio**
We've brought all of our high-level reagents
and healing potions with us.
**[18:24] Fanatio**
If we restrict all art techniques to healing arts,
**[18:26] Fanatio**
and use our medicines to assist,
the reagents should last for at least three days.
**[18:31] Alice**
There's one more problem.
**[18:33] Alice**
Lady Fanatio.
**[18:35] Alice**
No matter how sparse Solus
and Terraria's blessings may be,
**[18:38] Alice**
there must be a vast amount of resources
in that ravine that have built up over the years.
**[18:44] Alice**
Who would be able to deplete that power
in the short time we have before the battle?
**[18:50] Fanatio**
No, there is someone.
Just one who is capable of that.
**[18:54] Alice**
Just one?
**[18:55] Fanatio**
That would be you, Alice Synthesis Thirty.
**[18:59] Fanatio**
Perhaps you haven't realized,
**[19:01] Fanatio**
but your power has surpassed that
of any Integrity Knight.
**[19:05] Fanatio**
I'm sure you're capable of wielding it now.
**[19:08] Fanatio**
The true sacred power
that can split the heavens and rupture the earth.
**[19:13] Alice**
All right, please look after Kirito for me, will you?
**[19:16] Tiese**
Yes, you can count on us.
**[19:18] Ronie**
Lady Alice, we promise to protect Kirito,
no matter what.
**[19:25] Alice**
Kirito, this could be our last goodbye.
**[19:32] Alice**
I'll do my best, as well.
**[19:33] Alice**
I'm going to burn every last drop
of the life that you gave me.
**[19:37] Alice**
So if I should fall,
and call your name with the last of my strength,
**[19:42] Alice**
will you stand up
and draw that sword for me?
**[19:45] Alice**
If you're awake, it won't matter if the enemy
has thousands, or even tens of thousands.
**[19:49] Alice**
Make a miracle happen again
and protect everybody.
**[19:53] Alice**
After all, you...
**[20:01] Alice**
*After all, you defeated Administrator.*
**[20:06] Alice**
*You're the most powerful swordsman of all.*
**[20:11] Eldrie**
Lady Alice.
**[20:15] Eldrie**
Let's head out now.
**[20:18] Alice**
Eldrie?
**[20:21] Eldrie**
What is it?
**[20:23] Alice**
You've served me well until now.
**[20:27] Alice**
I was truly blessed to have you by my side.
**[20:32] Alice**
You didn't choose a senior male knight
like Sir Deusolbert.
**[20:35] Alice**
You wished to be trained by an amateur like me
because you were concerned about my heart.
**[20:41] Eldrie**
Not at all!
**[20:42] Eldrie**
I would never be so insolent.
**[20:44] Eldrie**
It was just because I was so in awe
of your splendid sword skills.
**[20:50] Alice**
Thanks to your support,
I was able to walk this dangerous path until today.
**[20:56] Alice**
Thank you.
**[21:00] Eldrie**
Lady Alice.
**[21:01] Eldrie**
Why are you speaking in the past tense?
**[21:04] Eldrie**
Why would you imply
that your path is about to end here?
**[21:09] Eldrie**
I... I still haven't learned enough from you!
**[21:13] Eldrie**
My sword, my arts...
I'm still nowhere near your level!
**[21:17] Eldrie**
I need you to continue training and guiding me,
forever and ever...
**[21:22] Alice**
Integrity Knight Eldrie Synthesis Thirty-One!
**[21:26] Eldrie**
Yes...
**[21:27] Alice**
Here are my final orders as your mentor.
**[21:31] Alice**
Make sure you survive.
Live to see the advent of peace.
**[21:34] Alice**
And then, take them back.
**[21:37] Alice**
Your true life and your loved one.
***SIGN*** November 7, 380 HE The Eastern Gate
**[23:36] Alice**
Next time: "Battle of the Knights."
# E6 - Battle of the Knights
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GY8D413GY/battle-of-the-knights)
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***SIGN*** Chief of the Mountain Goblins Kosogi
***SIGN*** Chief of the Flatland Goblins Shibori
***SIGN*** Chief of the Orcs Lilpilin
***SIGN*** Chief of the Giants Sigurosig
***SIGN*** Chief of the Ogres Furgr
***SIGN*** Tenth Champion of the Pugilists Guild Iskahn
***SIGN*** Chancellor of the Dark Mages Guild Dee Eye Ell
***SIGN*** Dark Knight Vassago
***SIGN*** Dark God Vecta
***SIGN*** First Unit, Right Flank Integrity Knight Deusolbert Synthesis Seven
***SIGN*** First Unit, Center Integrity Knight Fanatio Synthesis Two
***SIGN*** First Unit, Left Flank Integrity Knight Eldrie Synthesis Thirty-One
***SIGN*** Second Unit, Right Flank Integrity Knight Sheyta Synthesis Twelve
***SIGN*** Second Unit, Right Flank Integrity Knight Renly Synthesis Twenty-Seven
***SIGN*** Second Unit, Center Integrity Knight Bercouli Synthesis One
***SIGN*** Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty
***SIGN*** November 7, 380 HE The Eastern Gate
**[01:32] ---**
The final load test, huh?
**[01:34] ---**
This puts even Hollywood movies to shame!
**[01:37] ---**
Maybe we should grab this video technology
instead of the AI, bro.
**[01:42] ---**
All we have to do is start a VFX studio
and we'd immediately be billionaires!
**[01:47] ---**
Sorry, but the visuals we're seeing now
can't be written to any media.
**[01:52] ---**
Since the things in this world
aren't made up of polygons.
**[01:55] ---**
It's an extravagant show that can only be seen
by those connected to the STL.
**[02:12] ---**
Soldiers of the land of darkness!
**[02:15] ---**
The time you have long awaited is nigh!
**[02:18] ---**
Kill all living things!
**[02:20] ---**
Pillage all that you can!
**[02:23] ---**
Lay waste to this land!
**[02:33] ---**
First group! Begin the assault!
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Army First Group Flatland Goblin Unit
**[02:40] ---**
Kill them! Kill them!
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Army First Group Giant Unit
**[02:47] ---**
Crush them!
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Army First Group Mountain Goblin Unit
**[02:53] ---**
Charge!
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Army Rear Guard
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army First Unit, Center
**[03:16] ---**
First unit, draw your swords!
**[03:18] ---**
Prepare for battle!
**[03:22] ---**
Monk unit, prepare your healing arts and incantations!
**[03:27] ---**
System Call. Generate Luminous Element.
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army First Unit, Right Flank
**[03:32] ---**
They're coming.
**[03:35] ---**
You cursed dwellers of the darkness.
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army First Unit, Left Flank
**[03:38] ---**
We'll show you what we're made of!
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Second Unit, Right Flank
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Second Unit, Left Flank
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Second Unit, Center
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army The skies above
**[04:05] ---**
It's begun.
**[04:14] ---**
I shall... do what I must.
***SIGN*** Battle of the Knights
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army First Unit, Right Flank
**[06:12] ---**
Wake up, dear.
**[06:18] ---**
It's morning.
**[06:21] ---**
*The one memory from my past
that I have left.*
**[06:26] ---**
*I don't even know when it occurred. But...*
**[06:31] ---**
*in order to protect the world
in which she lived with me...*
**[06:39] ---**
Enhance Armament!
**[07:01] ---**
I am Integrity Knight Deusolbert Synthesis Seven!
**[07:04] ---**
Those who stand before me,
you shall burn so not even your bones remain!
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army First Unit, Center
**[07:59] ---**
First, we're going to restore the decimated
Order of the Integrity Knights.
**[08:02] ---**
Next, we'll rebuild the Imperial Knights
of the four empires.
**[08:06] ---**
They'll need to be retrained.
Since there's not nearly enough Integrity Knights.
**[08:12] ---**
I'm sure some of you are unhappy about this,
**[08:14] ---**
but right now,
saving the people is our top priority.
**[08:17] ---**
I ask that you lend me your strength.
**[08:21] ---**
*My lord, I shall follow you wherever you go.*
**[08:31] ---**
*Found him.*
**[08:33] ---**
Enhance Armament!
**[08:36] ---**
Pierce... O Light!
***SIGN*** Human Empire Army Second Unit, Right Flank
**[09:00] ---**
Oh, it's started, huh?
**[09:03] ---**
It has.
**[09:04] ---**
It looks like Uncle Deusolbert is doing his best.
**[09:07] ---**
The vice commander seems to be doing well, too.
**[09:10] ---**
But...
**[09:11] ---**
The left flank doesn't look so good, does it?
**[09:16] ---**
The first unit's Eldrie is definitely skillful,
but as a knight, he's still a novice.
**[09:22] ---**
And behind him, there's Renlicchi,
who isn't very dependable.
**[09:26] ---**
The Supply Corps is behind the left flank, isn't it?
**[09:30] ---**
Along with that rebel, Kirito, right?
**[09:41] ---**
Everyone! Stay together and follow my lead!
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army First Unit, Left Flank
**[09:49] ---**
Don't let a single one get past us!
**[09:52] ---**
Engage the enemy!
**[09:53] ---**
Sir!
**[09:59] ---**
What's that?
**[10:00] ---**
Now! Throw them!
**[10:10] ---**
This is—
**[10:15] ---**
Everyone! Run!
**[10:20] ---**
- I won't let—
- Wait!
**[10:21] ---**
If we swing our swords now,
we'll end up hitting each other!
**[10:26] ---**
We have to let Sir Renly in the second unit
behind us know what's happening!
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Second Unit, Center
**[10:38] ---**
It seems there's been a disaster
on the front lines!
**[10:40] ---**
The Integrity Knight... Where is Sir Renly?
**[10:45] ---**
The thing is...
**[10:46] ---**
he's nowhere to be found!
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army First Unit, Right Flank
**[11:07] ---**
Everyone! Kill that archer!
**[11:10] ---**
Surround him, carve him up,
and pummel him into oblivion!
**[11:26] ---**
Protect Sir Knight!
**[11:28] ---**
Don't let their blades touch him!
**[11:30] ---**
Sorry. I'm counting on you!
**[11:32] ---**
Leave this to us!
**[12:15] ---**
To think that a mere human
would cause such fear in me.
**[12:21] ---**
It can't be.
**[12:23] ---**
It can't be.
**[12:25] ---**
It can't be. It can't be.
**[12:27] ---**
It can't be. It can't be. It can't be.
**[12:29] ---**
Kill. Kill.
**[12:31] ---**
Kill. Kill. Ki—
**[12:47] ---**
Kill! Ki—
**[12:56] ---**
*I can't move!*
**[13:01] ---**
*Why?*
**[13:02] ---**
Kill human!
**[13:15] ---**
*My lord...*
**[13:17] ---**
Lady Fanatio!
**[13:21] ---**
Dakira?
**[13:53] ---**
Dakira!
**[14:02] ---**
Dakira!
**[14:04] ---**
Don't die!
**[14:08] ---**
I'll see to your wounds right now!
**[14:15] ---**
Lady... Fanatio.
**[14:19] ---**
I shall...
**[14:22] ---**
adore you...
**[14:30] ---**
forev...
**[14:32] ---**
...er.
**[14:43] ---**
We must protect Lady Fanatio!
**[14:51] ---**
I won't forgive you!
**[15:24] ---**
Kill human!
**[15:28] ---**
Return to the bowels of the earth!
**[16:03] ---**
First unit, center, advance!
**[16:06] ---**
Push the enemy back!
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army First Unit, Right Flank
**[16:25] ---**
*So this is what war is.*
**[16:30] ---**
*How long has it been since the battle began?*
**[16:42] ---**
*Not yet? No order to retreat yet?*
**[16:50] ---**
All right, then.
**[16:52] ---**
So you've finally run out of arrows, huh?
**[17:06] ---**
Are you one of the dark empire's Council of Ten?
A goblin chief?
**[17:11] ---**
That's right.
I'm the chief of the flatland goblins, Lord Shibori!
**[17:18] ---**
I am Integrity Knight Deusolbert Synthesis Seven.
**[17:22] ---**
Whoa! Like I care about some Ium's name!
**[17:27] ---**
You're just meat to me!
**[17:29] ---**
The annoying piece of meat attached to the head
I'm about to take!
**[17:33] ---**
All right, everyone, get him!
**[17:37] ---**
How absurd!
**[17:50] ---**
*Four left.*
**[18:13] ---**
Sir Knight!
**[18:47] ---**
O Flames!
**[19:05] ---**
Burn to ash!
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Second Unit, Center
**[19:40] ---**
Reporting.
**[19:41] ---**
Lady Fanatio faced the giant chief,
**[19:44] ---**
and Sir Deusolbert faced the flatland goblin chief,
**[19:46] ---**
and they've defeated them both.
**[19:49] ---**
I see.
**[19:51] ---**
That said, we are still overwhelmingly outnumbered
by the enemy forces.
**[19:56] ---**
It's only a matter of time
before the battle lines for each unit collapse.
**[20:00] ---**
What about the enemy's aerial forces?
**[20:03] ---**
So far, there's no sign
of their flying dragons or minions.
**[20:58] ---**
It's all right.
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Supply Corps Supply Storage Tents
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: Stigma of the Disqualified.
# E7 - Stigma of the Disqualified
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYW4W2V06/stigma-of-the-disqualified)
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***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Supply Corps
**[00:25] ---**
Why are the goblins this far back?
**[00:29] ---**
Zel, there are more than we thought!
**[00:32] ---**
There might be too many
for us to push back on our own!
**[00:35] ---**
Why isn't Renlicchi defending the area ahead
like he's supposed to?
**[00:48] ---**
I knew it.
**[00:49] ---**
That coward.
***SIGN*** Stigma of the Disqualified
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Supply Storage Tents
**[02:32] ---**
Get up. You have to go back to your position.
**[02:36] ---**
No.
**[02:37] ---**
Even if I were there, I'd only be in the way.
**[02:42] ---**
Renly.
**[02:49] ---**
You...
**[02:52] ---**
...seem to be broken.
**[02:58] ---**
Broken?
**[02:59] ---**
You're a failure!
**[03:02] ---**
A defective knight!
**[03:04] ---**
Renly, it seems I have no choice
but to punish you to cryostasis.
**[03:09] ---**
After all, despite being chosen
as master of those Double-Winged Blades,
**[03:13] ---**
you've never managed to achieve
the Perfect Weapon Control art with them.
**[03:17] ---**
As a knight, you're lacking something crucial.
**[03:23] ---**
Good night, Renly.
**[03:27] ---**
For Her Eminence to say good night to you...
What a lucky knight you are!
**[03:32] ---**
I'm so jealous!
**[03:40] ---**
*A failure.*
**[03:43] ---**
*I'm—*
**[03:49] ---**
It doesn't matter whether I exist or not.
**[03:54] ---**
What about here?
**[03:55] ---**
Yes, this tent looks safe.
**[04:00] ---**
Let's hide him in the back
and guard the entrance.
**[04:10] ---**
It's dark, so be careful.
**[04:12] ---**
Is someone there?
**[04:18] ---**
I'm not the enemy.
**[04:20] ---**
I apologize for startling you.
**[04:22] ---**
S-Sir Knight!
**[04:25] ---**
Forgive our rudeness!
**[04:26] ---**
No, it's my fault for scaring you.
**[04:29] ---**
And beside, I'm not...
**[04:32] ---**
...an Integrity Knight anymore.
**[04:35] ---**
I ran away.
**[04:38] ---**
The unit that I was supposed to command
must be in a panic now.
**[04:43] ---**
I'm sure there have been some deaths, too.
**[04:45] ---**
And yet, I can't bring myself to leave this place,
**[04:48] ---**
so how can I call myself a knight?
**[04:53] ---**
We haven't introduced ourselves yet.
**[04:54] ---**
I'm Primary Trainee Ronie Arabel
with the Supply Corps,
**[04:59] ---**
and this is Primary Trainee Tiese Schtrinen.
**[05:02] ---**
And this is...
**[05:05] ---**
Elite Disciple Kirito.
**[05:08] ---**
Kirito?
**[05:10] ---**
The one who defeated the pontifex?
**[05:13] ---**
Sir Knight, forgive me if I'm being forward,
**[05:18] ---**
but would you be so kind as to help us out?
**[05:21] ---**
No matter what... No matter what,
we must keep Kirito-senpai safe.
**[05:30] ---**
To be honest, defeating even a single goblin
is beyond our abilities.
**[05:36] ---**
But that's our mission right now.
**[05:39] ---**
To protect him, entrusted to us
by Lady Alice, at all costs.
**[05:48] ---**
No way! They're here already?
**[05:54] ---**
There's smoke!
**[05:57] ---**
Tiese, are the tents on fire?
**[05:59] ---**
No, it's just some kind of strange smoke wafting in.
**[06:03] ---**
No, wait.
**[06:05] ---**
There are a lot of people
coming out of the smoke!
**[06:22] ---**
A goblin?
**[06:25] ---**
I found some white Ium girls.
**[06:28] ---**
What a haul for me.
**[06:34] ---**
Tiese...
**[06:54] ---**
I'm going to win today...
**[06:56] ---**
Renly!
**[06:57] ---**
Me, too!
**[07:07] ---**
I have you now!
**[07:33] ---**
Renly...
**[07:39] ---**
S-Stay back! Or else!
**[07:44] ---**
- You look tasty.
- If you come any closer...
**[07:47] ---**
I'll slash you!
**[08:02] ---**
Are you...
**[08:04] ---**
*Are you trying to save them?*
**[08:08] ---**
*Even though you can't stand or draw your sword,
not to mention you can't even speak!*
**[08:14] ---**
*And yet... I'm...*
**[08:25] ---**
Renly...
**[08:30] ---**
I want you to become a great knight.
**[08:35] ---**
Do it for me.
**[09:13] ---**
Sir Knight!
**[09:14] ---**
Thank you... very much! You saved us!
**[09:30] ---**
I want you two to stay here and protect Kirito.
**[09:33] ---**
- R-Right!
- R-Right!
**[09:43] ---**
My name is Renly!
**[09:45] ---**
Integrity Knight Renly Synthesis Twenty-Seven!
**[09:49] ---**
If it's my head you want,
be ready to lay down your lives for it!
**[09:53] ---**
It's the captain's head!
**[10:05] ---**
*I can do this.*
**[10:07] ---**
*If I can hold out just a little longer,*
**[10:09] ---**
*reinforcements should arrive from the front lines,
where the smokescreen's thinned out.*
**[10:28] ---**
Are you the captain?
**[10:29] ---**
Yeah. I'm the chief of the mountain goblins, Kosogi.
**[10:36] ---**
You've killed quite a number of them, haven't you?
**[10:39] ---**
Who would've thought
there'd be an Integrity Knight this far back?
**[10:43] ---**
Really, my guess was wrong!
**[10:47] ---**
This is where your war ends!
**[11:01] ---**
The look on your face says,
"But you're just a goblin!" boy.
**[11:05] ---**
But this is what I have to say about it.
**[11:10] ---**
"You call yourself an esteemed knight?"
**[11:13] ---**
A single Integrity Knight is a match for a thousand.
That's what I was told.
**[11:18] ---**
But it looks like that's not the case for you, huh?
**[11:21] ---**
That's why you've been hiding
all the way back here.
**[11:25] ---**
Am I right?
**[11:27] ---**
You seem to be broken.
**[11:30] ---**
*Am I a failure, after all?*
**[11:34] ---**
*Even if I am...*
**[11:38] ---**
Yeah, that's right. As a knight, I'm a failure.
**[11:42] ---**
Even so, don't get the wrong idea.
**[11:45] ---**
I'm the one who's defective, not these!
**[12:06] ---**
Take flight... Double Wings!
**[12:12] ---**
You can try as many times as you like,
but it's futile!
**[12:15] ---**
Release...
**[12:18] ---**
Recollection!
**[12:28] ---**
So beautiful.
**[12:36] ---**
I said it's futile!
**[13:05] ---**
Renlicchi?
**[13:13] ---**
Someone's a bit more knightly now.
**[13:16] ---**
I guess we didn't have to come to your rescue.
We wanted to take credit for that...
**[13:21] ---**
But we did cut off a lot more heads than you.
**[13:28] ---**
Sir Knight, please give your orders.
**[13:35] ---**
We have to make sure
that Tiese, Ronie and Kirito are safe.
**[13:38] ---**
You don't have to worry about that.
**[13:40] ---**
We just had those three join the Supply Corps.
**[13:45] ---**
What about the infiltrating enemies?
**[13:47] ---**
We wiped them all out.
**[13:50] ---**
Then I'll be rejoining my unit.
You two should do the same.
**[13:54] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[13:55] ---**
Understood.
**[14:05] ---**
Thank you.
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Army Second Group
**[14:15] ---**
Lord Sigurosig, Lord Shibori,
and Lord Kosogi have all been killed in battle.
**[14:21] ---**
Damn, so useless!
**[14:23] ---**
Just a bunch of dim-witted demi-humans, after all!
**[14:26] ---**
Were you able to pinpoint
the Integrity Knights' position?
**[14:29] ---**
We've already located
the three we spotted on the front lines.
**[14:33] ---**
We found two more in the rear,
but it'll take some time to get a fix on them.
**[14:38] ---**
Still only five?
**[14:40] ---**
Or are there only a few of them to start with?
**[14:44] ---**
Still, whatever it takes,
we must slaughter those five without fail.
**[14:49] ---**
Okay, release the minions!
My command is...
**[14:52] ---**
"Fly for 700 mels,
**[14:54] ---**
descend to the ground,
**[14:56] ---**
and then, unlimited annihilation."
**[14:58] ---**
The demi-human unit on the front lines
would get caught up in the fray at that distance.
**[15:03] ---**
I don't care.
**[15:04] ---**
Yes, ma'am. How many do you wish?
**[15:07] ---**
Currently, we have all 800
of the hatched minions on site.
**[15:12] ---**
Let's see...
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Army Dark Knights Brigade
**[15:17] ---**
All 800 of them.
**[15:28] ---**
They're here.
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army Second Unit, Center
***SIGN*** Eastern Gate Ruins The skies above
**[15:57] ---**
Time-Splitting Sword!
**[16:01] ---**
Air Slash!
***SIGN*** Human Guardian Army The skies above
**[16:25] ---**
That was the Time-Splitting Sword
under the Perfect Weapon Control art.
**[16:29] ---**
Uncle made his move, I see.
**[16:45] ---**
How can that be?
**[16:47] ---**
No one told me that
the enemy had a mage unit of that power!
**[16:50] ---**
I-I'm not sure... what happened.
**[16:58] ---**
The enemy's flying dragons
haven't appeared yet, correct?
**[17:01] ---**
Correct.
**[17:02] ---**
As of now, not a single dragon has been sighted
in the skies above the battlefield.
**[17:07] ---**
Which means...
**[17:10] ---**
That must be it.
**[17:11] ---**
That was the Integrity Knights' secret weapon,
Perfect Weapon Control art.
**[17:17] ---**
Still...
**[17:19] ---**
who knew it was this...
**[17:22] ---**
But using their weapons in that manner
should consume a massive amount of life.
**[17:27] ---**
They couldn't keep up a barrage...
**[17:30] ---**
Chancellor, we're pinpointed the position
of the two Integrity Knights in the rear.
**[17:35] ---**
We now have all five in our sights.
**[17:39] ---**
Good.
**[17:42] ---**
*I am calm.*
**[17:44] ---**
*Now is the time to seize my first glory.*
**[17:52] ---**
Ogre archers brigade and dark mages brigade!
All hands, advance!
**[17:57] ---**
Once you've entered the ravine,
begin the wide-range incineration projectiles incantation!
***SIGN*** Eastern Gate Ruins Dark Territory Side Rear
**[18:19] ---**
Mage unit, prepare to recite
the wide-range incineration projectiles incantation!
**[18:23] ---**
Spotters, begin the incantation for homing in
on the enemy Integrity Knights' coordinates!
**[18:29] ---**
Ogre unit, prepare to fire your bows!
**[18:49] ---**
*Why?*
**[18:51] ---**
*Why is it that not only the humans of the Human Empire,
but also the souls of the demi-humans,*
**[18:56] ---**
*are generating a sacred power
that's so warm and pure?*
**[19:01] ---**
*If the people of the Human Empire and the monsters
of the land of darkness have essentially the same souls...*
**[19:10] ---**
*If the only difference is whether you were born
on one side of the mountains or the other...*
**[19:16] ---**
*Then why are they... are we fighting?*
**[19:23] ---**
Kirito... as long as you're safe...
**[19:29] ---**
*No, this is my duty.*
**[19:32] ---**
*My responsibility as the one
who turned her sword on the pontifex,*
**[19:34] ---**
*and undermined the authority
of the Axiom Church.*
**[19:41] ---**
*They're here!*
**[19:43] ---**
*On my own, I'm no match for the capacity
of thousands of dark mages to maintain elements.*
**[19:49] ---**
*Not only that, but merely converting sacred power
into Thermal or Cryogenic Elements*
**[19:53] ---**
*wouldn't be a potent enough sacred art
to deplete the spatial resources in the ravine.*
**[19:58] ---**
*But...*
**[20:01] ---**
*If I were to trap Luminous Elements inside a mirror
and reflect them infinitely...*
**[20:11] ---**
System Call! Generate Thermal Element!
**[20:27] ---**
System Call! Generate Thermal Element!
**[20:34] ---**
We're unable to generate any Thermal Elements!
**[20:36] ---**
At this rate, it will be impossible
to activate wide-range incineration projectiles!
**[20:41] ---**
Why aren't the spells activating?
**[20:44] ---**
U-Unit Captain... could it be
that all of the spatial dark power has been depleted?
**[20:49] ---**
That's not possible!
Don't hear all those screams?
**[20:53] ---**
Can't you tell how many humans
and demi-humans have perished!
**[20:56] ---**
So where did all of those lives disappear to?
**[21:03] ---**
*The burden of the sin of taking countless lives
for the sake of one,*
**[21:07] ---**
*I shall carry it on my shoulders.*
**[21:12] ---**
Bloom, my flowers!
**[21:33] ---**
Burst Element.
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: Blood and Life.
# E8 - Blood and Life
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**[00:02] ---**
Burst Element.
**[00:11] ---**
Wh-What's that?
**[00:25] ---**
Due to a drought of spatial dark power
of unknown origin,
**[00:29] ---**
our wide-range incineration projectiles
failed to activate.
**[00:31] ---**
Immediately afterwards,
a large-scale attack by the enemy
**[00:35] ---**
destroyed 90% of the demi-human unit,
**[00:37] ---**
70% of the ogre archer unit,
and over 30% of the dark mage unit.
**[00:43] ---**
What do you mean, a drought of unknown origin?
**[00:46] ---**
That ridiculously massive formal art is what absorbed
every drop of spatial dark power in the ravine!
**[00:52] ---**
But that's impossible.
**[00:54] ---**
An art of that scale, not even I...
**[00:57] ---**
So who was responsible?
***SIGN*** Blood and Life
**[02:47] ---**
Welcome back. You did well.
**[02:54] ---**
The enemy has retreated.
**[02:55] ---**
You brought us this victory.
**[02:58] ---**
Lady Fanatio, the battle isn't over yet.
**[03:03] ---**
We must use healing arts to consume the sacred power
that formal art generated so the enemy can't reuse it.
**[03:10] ---**
After all, their main forces, the dark knights
and the pugilists guild are still untouched.
**[03:17] ---**
Everyone who can move,
take the wounded and fall back!
**[03:20] ---**
Monk unit, focus on healing the wounded
until all spatial power is depleted!
**[03:24] ---**
And watch for any movement by the enemy!
**[03:27] ---**
I'm going to report to the Knight Commander.
**[03:30] ---**
Can I leave things here to you?
**[03:37] ---**
You did well, too, Amayori.
**[03:40] ---**
Go back to your bed and eat your fill.
**[03:51] ---**
Mentor?
**[03:58] ---**
Eldrie!
**[03:59] ---**
You're not injured, are you?
**[04:00] ---**
Right. I haven't sustained any major wounds.
**[04:04] ---**
But I should have perished in battle.
**[04:07] ---**
What are you saying?
**[04:09] ---**
Your duty is to lead the guards
until the battle is over.
**[04:14] ---**
I failed to carry out my duty.
**[04:20] ---**
Not only was my camp breached by the goblins,
**[04:23] ---**
their chief was brought down by Sir Renly.
**[04:26] ---**
How shameful is that?
**[04:29] ---**
I betrayed your expectations of me.
**[04:34] ---**
*To think I had presumed to seek her heart...
her love. It's beyond laughable!*
**[04:41] ---**
I have no right to call myself your disciple!
**[04:45] ---**
You... You did well.
**[04:49] ---**
I, the guard unit, as well as all the people
of the Human Empire need you.
**[04:55] ---**
Why are you being so harsh on yourself?
**[04:58] ---**
Need? For my strength?
**[05:02] ---**
Or...
**[05:21] ---**
Your life must almost be depleted.
**[05:25] ---**
So why are you standing there unarmed?
**[05:28] ---**
I'm the chief of the ogres, Furgr.
**[05:31] ---**
The chief of the ogres?
**[05:33] ---**
A member of the land of darkness's Council of Ten?
**[05:35] ---**
I saw.
**[05:37] ---**
That light art... it was you who unleashed it.
**[05:42] ---**
That power, that appearance...
it's you, the Priestess of Light.
**[05:47] ---**
If I take you back with me, this war will end.
**[05:50] ---**
The ogres can return to the grasslands.
**[05:53] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[05:55] ---**
Priestess of Light? This war will end?
**[05:58] ---**
Curse you! You lowly beast,
how dare you spout such drivel!
**[06:07] ---**
M-Mentor!
**[06:09] ---**
Why?
**[06:11] ---**
I am indeed the Priestess of Light.
**[06:14] ---**
Tell me, where will you take me?
**[06:17] ---**
Who is it that seeks me?
**[06:21] ---**
Emperor Vecta.
**[06:24] ---**
The emperor only wants the Priestess of Light.
**[06:27] ---**
He'll grant any wish to the one
who captures and delivers the priestess.
**[06:32] ---**
The ogres will return to the grasslands.
**[06:34] ---**
Raise horses, hunt birds, and live.
**[06:38] ---**
You don't resent me?
**[06:41] ---**
It was I who massacred your people.
**[06:44] ---**
The strong carry a burden
as heavy as they are strong.
**[06:48] ---**
I also shoulder the burden of chief.
**[06:51] ---**
That's why I'm going to capture you,
**[06:54] ---**
and take you with me!
**[07:24] ---**
This soul, at least, can fly to the grasslands.
**[07:35] ---**
Emperor... Vecta.
**[07:41] ---**
So you're saying the reason your strategy failed
and a thousand dark mages perished
**[07:45] ---**
was because the enemy absorbed and depleted
the spatial dark power before us, is that right?
**[07:51] ---**
Yes!
**[07:53] ---**
That's correct, Your Majesty.
**[07:56] ---**
I wasn't informed that, even with the pontifex gone,
the enemy still had a mage of that caliber.
**[08:02] ---**
Is there no way to replenish that dark power?
**[08:05] ---**
Unfortunately, sir.
**[08:07] ---**
In order to replenish enough spatial dark power
to annihilate the enemy,
**[08:11] ---**
we'd need ample amounts of rich land and sunlight,
but both are absent from the battlefield.
**[08:17] ---**
I see.
**[08:19] ---**
But from what I see, there's no grass or trees in this land,
and the sun seems to have already set.
**[08:24] ---**
What power source were you going to use
to attempt to cast this large-scale spell?
**[08:30] ---**
Well, the blood spilled by both the demi-humans
and enemy soldiers, and their expired lives
**[08:35] ---**
became dark power and had filled the air.
**[08:45] ---**
Blood and life, huh?
**[08:53] ---**
Dee Eye Ell. Would 3,000 be sufficient?
**[08:57] ---**
What?
**[09:09] ---**
That would be enough, Your Majesty.
**[09:24] ---**
Priestess of Light?
**[09:28] ---**
Yes. I don't recall ever seeing such a name
in any of the history books,
**[09:32] ---**
but there's no doubt that
it's what the enemy commander desires.
**[09:38] ---**
Commander... the Dark God Vecta, huh?
**[09:42] ---**
I find it hard to believe.
A god has been resurrected.
**[09:46] ---**
Little one. Let's assume that Dark God Vecta
has descended to the Dark Territory,
**[09:51] ---**
that he's seeking the Priestess of Light,
and that this priestess is you.
**[09:57] ---**
The question is,
how will that affect the current battle situation?
**[10:02] ---**
*There's no question that the five tribes
of the land of darkness are after the Human Empire.*
**[10:06] ---**
*But if Vecta's target is the Priestess of Light...*
**[10:11] ---**
Uncle. I shall breach the enemy lines alone,
and head to the edge of the Dark Territory.
**[10:16] ---**
If it's the Priestess of Light
that the enemy commander seeks,
**[10:19] ---**
then he'll definitely pursue me
with a considerable force.
**[10:23] ---**
Once enough distance has split them, please counterattack
and annihilate the remaining enemy forces.
**[10:29] ---**
*Not to mention,
the World End's Altar is in the Dark Territory.*
**[10:33] ---**
*All right. As soon as this transmission ends,
I'm going to return the FLA rate to 1,000.*
**[10:38] ---**
*So take Alice and head to the World End's Altar!*
**[10:41] ---**
What do you mean, head to—
**[10:42] ---**
*Listen! Once you exit the Eastern Gate,
the Altar's due south—*
**[10:46] ---**
*If I go there, perhaps...*
**[10:51] ---**
Fine, then.
**[10:52] ---**
But you're taking a third of our troops with you.
**[10:56] ---**
But...
**[10:57] ---**
I can't have you spare a third of your men!
**[11:00] ---**
The enemy still has more than 30,000 troops left.
**[11:04] ---**
I don't think that many would come after you
if you're the sole decoy.
**[11:09] ---**
Only if a big enough number fled together
would it work to split them up.
**[11:14] ---**
You do have a point, but...
**[11:16] ---**
Also, I have one more condition.
**[11:19] ---**
What's that?
**[11:21] ---**
I'll be joining the raid unit.
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Orc Tribe's Camp
**[11:30] ---**
Orc Chief Lilpilin.
**[11:32] ---**
You're to offer 3,000 sacrifices
to be the foundation of the dark mages' attack art.
**[11:39] ---**
Th-That's insane!
**[11:41] ---**
We all came here to fight!
**[11:44] ---**
Not to pay for your failure with our lives!
**[11:48] ---**
This is an imperial order
from the emperor himself.
**[11:51] ---**
Chief.
**[11:53] ---**
We have no choice
but to obey the emperor's orders.
**[11:56] ---**
Lenju.
**[11:58] ---**
I and 3,000 of my troops
will gladly give up our lives.
**[12:03] ---**
For the emperor and for our tribe.
**[12:08] ---**
Lil.
**[12:09] ---**
I believe.
**[12:11] ---**
That the souls of not just humans,
but of orcs will be sent to the heavens after they die.
**[12:16] ---**
Let's meet again there someday.
**[12:20] ---**
I'm so sorry, Len.
**[12:23] ---**
Forgive me. I'm so sorry.
**[12:26] ---**
Gather 3,000 of your troops in close formation
100 mels before the ravine within five minutes.
**[12:33] ---**
That is all!
**[12:48] ---**
All right, let's head out!
**[13:02] ---**
Eldrie.
**[13:06] ---**
Our goal as the raid unit is to split the enemy forces
and destroy the individuals.
**[13:10] ---**
After we've passed through the Eastern Gate,
**[13:12] ---**
the guard unit, the monk unit and the Supply Corps
are to head south immediately.
**[13:17] ---**
If there's favorable terrain,
deploy the troops and get into position.
**[13:21] ---**
Until then, we four elite knights
will act as a diversion.
**[13:32] ---**
We're going to defend this location with our lives.
Everyone, return to your positions!
**[13:34] ---**
Everyone, return to your positions!
**[13:52] ---**
System Call.
**[13:54] ---**
Transfer Human Unit Durability. Area to Self.
**[13:58] ---**
Generate Umbral Element.
**[14:00] ---**
Form Element, Worm Shape.
**[14:20] ---**
Long live the orcs! Glory to the orcs!
**[14:35] ---**
Lenju!
**[14:48] ---**
Damned humans... damned humans!
**[14:54] ---**
Curse those damned humans!
**[15:07] ---**
This sound... is it group chanting of a formal art?
**[15:11] ---**
Impossible! There's not enough sacred power
left in this area to cast a large-scale formal art!
**[15:18] ---**
Those bastards! What have they done?
**[15:26] ---**
What power!
**[15:29] ---**
Ah, how magnificent!
**[15:31] ---**
This devastating spatial dark power.
**[15:40] ---**
Madam Chancellor, there are Integrity Knights
approaching ahead.
**[15:44] ---**
This deathworm curse attack
can't be blocked by swords or armor.
**[15:49] ---**
You damned Integrity Knights...
you'll see what we can do!
**[15:53] ---**
Don't rush! Let them get close enough!
**[15:57] ---**
Not yet.
**[15:58] ---**
Not yet.
**[16:02] ---**
Now! Fire!
**[16:08] ---**
Get close and lure them this way!
**[16:12] ---**
Pull up!
**[16:19] ---**
No...
**[16:20] ---**
Little one!
It won't work! Not that move!
**[16:30] ---**
Eldrie?
**[16:31] ---**
Go!
**[16:37] ---**
No! Eldrie!
**[16:38] ---**
Divine serpent of ancient times!
If you claim to be the king of the snakes,
**[16:42] ---**
then let's see you devour that horde
of mere worms completely!
**[16:51] ---**
Release Recollection!
**[17:02] ---**
This way! You vile insects!
**[17:46] ---**
Not yet! I can't fall just yet!
**[17:58] ---**
Lady Alice...
**[18:05] ---**
Eldrie!
**[18:23] ---**
Eldrie!
**[18:40] ---**
Eldrie! Your eyes... open your eyes!
**[18:44] ---**
I won't allow it!
You're not going to leave me like this!
**[18:50] ---**
Mentor... are you safe?
**[18:53] ---**
Yes. Yes, I am safe, thanks to you!
**[18:58] ---**
Didn't I tell you that I needed you?
**[19:02] ---**
Lady Alice, there are more...
far more people who need you.
**[19:10] ---**
I was such a selfish person...
to think I could keep you all to myself.
**[19:18] ---**
I'll give you whatever you wish for!
So come back!
**[19:22] ---**
You're my disciple, aren't you?
**[19:24] ---**
I already have more than enough.
**[19:29] ---**
Eldrie! Eldrie!
**[19:36] ---**
Don't cry...
**[19:41] ---**
Mo... ther.
**[20:07] ---**
Eldrie.
**[20:15] ---**
After all the havoc you've wreaked...
don't think you're not going to pay!
**[20:21] ---**
Amayori. Takiguri.
**[20:23] ---**
Charge at full speed.
**[20:31] ---**
It can't be! Impossible!
**[20:33] ---**
To extinguish the deathworm curse,
**[20:35] ---**
whose priority level should allow it to devour
the Integrity Knights and the ground troops...
**[20:40] ---**
Just what kind of art did they use?
**[20:46] ---**
Retreat! All hands, retreat!
**[20:50] ---**
You're not getting away! Fire!
**[21:03] ---**
Enhance Armament!
**[21:14] ---**
Shit! Damn! I'm not going to die!
**[21:18] ---**
Not in a place like this!
**[21:20] ---**
I'm going to be empress of the world!
**[21:27] ---**
L-Lady Dee!
**[21:28] ---**
What are you— P-Please stop...
**[21:32] ---**
System Call!
**[21:40] ---**
My name is Alice!
Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty!
**[21:45] ---**
Proxy of the three gods who protect the Human Empire,
the Priestess of Light!
**[21:50] ---**
All those who stand before me,
brace for my holy authority
**[21:54] ---**
to vanquish every last one of you!
**[21:59] ---**
Alice.
**[22:03] ---**
Alicia.
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: Sword and Fist.
# E9 - Sword and Fist
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRNVNM306/sword-and-fist)
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**[00:04] Alice**
My name is Alice!
Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty!
**[00:10] Alice**
Proxy of the three gods who protect the Human Empire,
the Priestess of Light!
**[00:15] Alice**
All those who stand before me,
brace for my holy authority
**[00:18] Alice**
to vanquish every last one of you!
**[00:23] Gabriel**
Alice.
**[00:27] Gabriel**
Alicia.
**[00:31] Gabriel**
*This time... This time I have to capture her!*
**[00:36] Gabriel**
*I have to seize the Lightcube
where that girl's Fluctlight is stored,*
**[00:41] Gabriel**
*and savor it to my heart's content.*
**[00:45] Vecta**
All troops, prepare to move!
**[00:48] Vecta**
With the pugilists guild in the lead, followed by
the dark mages guild and the supply corps, head south!
**[00:55] Vecta**
Capture that knight,
the Priestess of Light, unscathed!
***SIGN*** Sword and Fist
**[02:55] Bercouli**
The Dark God Vecta sure seems obsessed with you.
**[03:01] Bercouli**
He's planning to come after you
with his entire army.
**[03:04] Alice**
I suppose we should be happy about that.
**[03:07] Alice**
It's better than being ignored, at least.
**[03:11] Bercouli**
So about our strategy going forward.
**[03:13] Bercouli**
The raid unit and I will keep leading the enemy away,
and reduce their force's numbers.
**[03:18] Bercouli**
Does that sound right?
**[03:20] Alice**
Yes. We've already annihilated half
of the invading forces,
**[03:24] Alice**
which leaves only the enemy's main force
of the dark knights and the pugilists.
**[03:27] Alice**
We'll wear them down to a certain point,
and if we can defeat the Dark God Vecta,
**[03:32] Alice**
it's highly likely that the remaining enemies
will be open to a truce.
**[03:37] Bercouli**
The problem is, who will be leading the enemy
when that happens?
**[03:43] Bercouli**
If only that Shasta brat were alive.
**[03:46] Alice**
Uncle, you think the dark general is already dead?
**[03:50] Bercouli**
Yeah. I can't detect him in the main enemy force.
**[03:54] Bercouli**
I did have a feeling that maybe...
**[04:02] Renly**
Allow me to report, my lord Knight Commander.
**[04:05] Renly**
There'll be no problem using the designated spot
in the south for our ambush.
**[04:08] Bercouli**
All right. Thanks for checking.
**[04:10] Bercouli**
Have the units prepare to move out.
**[04:14] Bercouli**
Your dragon must be exhausted.
**[04:17] Bercouli**
Be sure to give it plenty of food and water.
**[04:20] Renly**
Yes, sir!
**[04:25] Alice**
Uncle?
**[04:27] Bercouli**
Oh, it's just that...
**[04:28] Bercouli**
Robbing people of their memories,
and freezing their life to create Integrity Knights...
**[04:33] Bercouli**
I agree the Synthesis Ritual shouldn't be allowed.
**[04:38] Bercouli**
But it'll be a shame not to have young fellows like him
joining the order anymore, you know?
**[04:45] Alice**
I don't believe that
having your memory altered and your life frozen
**[04:51] Alice**
is the only way
to become an Integrity Knight, Uncle.
**[04:56] Alice**
Even if none of us are left standing, our souls...
**[05:01] Alice**
our purpose will be inherited
by those who come after us.
**[05:05] Alice**
That's what I believe.
**[05:20] Alice**
Something's coming.
**[05:25] Bercouli**
That has to be the pugilists.
**[05:28] Bercouli**
They're going to be a handful.
**[05:30] Bercouli**
They'll gladly take injuries from a bare fist,
but they absolutely refuse to be slashed with a sword.
**[05:37] Alice**
What? Refuse?
**[05:38] Bercouli**
The more training those pugilists undergo,
**[05:42] Bercouli**
the more they're convinced
"a blade is nothing to be afraid of."
**[05:45] Bercouli**
That becomes their willpower,
**[05:47] Bercouli**
and they literally harden their physical bodies
to deflect any blade.
**[05:52] Bercouli**
Either way, we'll need to prepare ourselves
to defend against them.
**[05:59] Sheyta**
I shall go.
**[06:17] Iskahn**
*Pretty soon, I'll get to fight an Integrity Knight...
someone powerful!*
**[06:31] Iskahn**
Who the hell are you? What are you doing there?
**[06:40] Sheyta**
I'm here... to keep you from advancing.
**[06:46] Iskahn**
You couldn't even stop one brat.
**[06:49] Iskahn**
Or wait... are you a knight
who can only cast arts?
**[06:55] Sheyta**
I'm not skilled in the formal arts.
**[06:59] Iskahn**
Whatever.
**[07:01] Iskahn**
Yotte, fight her.
**[07:02] Yotte**
You got it!
**[07:09] Sheyta**
Only one?
**[07:10] Yotte**
That's what I'm saying, you beanpole!
**[07:13] Yotte**
Shut up and draw your sword!
**[07:24] Iskahn**
What the hell is that?
**[07:29] Yotte**
Don't mess with me!
**[07:53] Administrator**
I'm told that you always keep to yourself.
**[07:57] Administrator**
Why is that?
**[08:01] Administrator**
You don't care for other people? Or...
**[08:05] Administrator**
are you afraid that you'll end up slashing them?
**[08:10] Administrator**
Your desire to slash is written all over your face.
**[08:14] Administrator**
You'd like to slash everything in sight.
**[08:18] Administrator**
It's like you're cursed with a murderous impulse.
**[08:22] Administrator**
Oh, not that I'm scolding you.
**[08:26] Administrator**
And besides, I'm sure this is quite good news for you.
**[08:32] Administrator**
You brought this back from your last
reconnaissance mission of the Dark Territory.
**[08:39] Administrator**
This flower has absorbed massive amounts
of the spatial resources generated on the battlefield.
**[08:44] Administrator**
I'm going to turn it into your Divine Object.
**[08:47] Administrator**
A sword with the highest priority
that can slash anything.
**[09:04] Administrator**
This sword is a manifestation
of the curse carved into your soul.
**[09:10] Administrator**
A curse known as "murderous impulse," created by
the distortion of your inherited characteristic parameters.
**[09:17] Administrator**
Slash... slash... slash on and on.
**[09:20] Administrator**
Only at the end of that blood-smeared path
will you find the key to breaking your curse.
**[09:26] Administrator**
At least, you might.
**[09:44] Alice**
What a savage style of fighting.
**[09:47] Alice**
That said, for how violent her attacks are,
I'm not detecting a murderous impulse from Lady Sheyta.
**[09:53] Alice**
Not even hostility.
**[09:55] Bercouli**
Don't think about it.
**[09:57] Bercouli**
I've known her for over a hundred years,
and I still have no idea what she's thinking.
**[10:02] Bercouli**
Not a clue.
**[10:03] Bercouli**
It's fine if we leave this to her.
**[10:06] Bercouli**
The enemy's main force will catch up soon.
**[10:10] Bercouli**
We have to get ready for their attack.
**[10:14] Alice**
Yes, sir.
**[10:27] Messenger**
The units are in position.
**[10:29] Renly**
Okay.
**[10:31] Renly**
*According to the knight commander,
the pugilists are vulnerable to the sacred arts.*
**[10:36] Renly**
*There might not be enough spatial resources
on the empty grasslands,*
**[10:40] Renly**
*but since there's some growth here,*
**[10:43] Renly**
*the monks should have enough sacred power
to launch a concerted attack.*
**[10:47] Renly**
*And then if we can use our five dragons
to burn the confused enemy forces...*
**[10:55] Renly**
That reminds me, where's the Supply Corps?
**[10:56] Messenger**
Sir.
**[10:58] Messenger**
They're standing by at a distance from the front lines,
so as not to get caught in the battle.
**[11:02] Renly**
Got it. Thank you.
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Shrubland Human Army Supply Corps
***SIGN*** 1 hour before the raid unit advanced
**[11:29] Vassago**
Hey, bro!
**[11:30] Vassago**
Isn't it about time we stop delegating
and wreak a little havoc ourselves?
**[11:35] Vecta**
Then you go and wreak some havoc first.
**[11:39] Vecta**
Let's see...
**[11:43] Vecta**
Stand by in these woods.
**[11:45] Vassago**
So if I stay there, something fun will happen?
**[11:49] Vecta**
Go and have fun. PK-ing, that is.
**[12:00] Vassago**
Five down.
**[12:14] Iskahn**
Don't get so...
**[12:18] Iskahn**
...full of yourself, dammit!
**[12:26] Iskahn**
To my fists...
**[12:28] Iskahn**
your armor is like paper!
**[13:01] Iskahn**
Damn you, woman,
your appearance is totally misleading, huh?
**[13:06] Sheyta**
I'm... older than you.
**[13:11] Iskahn**
Well, of course you are.
**[13:13] Iskahn**
You Integrity Knights are monsters
that don't age for decades, right?
**[13:18] Iskahn**
So should I call you grandma instead?
**[13:23] Sheyta**
I'll allow it.
**[13:25] Sheyta**
Because you're remarkably hard.
**[13:28] Sheyta**
I can barely find any places to slash.
**[13:32] Iskahn**
What are you talking about?
**[13:33] Iskahn**
Still, I guess all those rumors about the Integrity Knights
being crazy powerful like demons were true.
**[13:39] Iskahn**
Just look what you did to my comrades.
**[13:49] Iskahn**
Damn you, you're holding back, aren't you?
**[13:53] Iskahn**
Treating us like we're your training dummies...
That's unforgivable.
**[14:00] Iskahn**
No matter what, I'm going to crush you!
**[14:28] Iskahn**
Here I come!
**[14:42] Iskahn**
Don't think that the only move
a pugilist has is punching!
**[14:49] Iskahn**
Take that!
**[15:09] Iskahn**
You're starting to look like a real fighter now.
**[15:13] Iskahn**
But you don't have nearly enough muscles.
**[15:16] Iskahn**
Eat and train more, woman.
**[15:21] Sheyta**
You, too. Just now, you became a bit softer.
**[15:27] Iskahn**
What the hell did you say?
I'm not going easy on you anymore.
**[15:31] Iskahn**
I'm going to show you what's it like
when I go all-out!
**[15:34] Iskahn**
So you go all-out, too!
**[15:37] Iskahn**
And would you stop looking so sleepy?
**[15:46] Sheyta**
Well, that's the spirit... then.
**[15:50] Iskahn**
Yeah, that's the spirit.
**[16:27] Iskahn**
*I've never fought anyone like her before.*
**[16:29] Iskahn**
*Seriously, she's getting me fired up!*
**[16:45] Sheyta**
*I wonder why I'm doing this?*
**[16:49] Sheyta**
*This pugilist's attack...*
**[16:52] Sheyta**
*I was startled to see him display willpower
worthy of an elite knight,*
**[16:55] Sheyta**
*but he seemed soft everywhere
except his arms.*
**[16:58] Sheyta**
*Just cut off his head and finish it.
That's what I should do. But...*
**[17:04] Sheyta**
*It's unbelievably hard. Will I be able to slash it?*
**[17:08] Sheyta**
*This is fun.*
**[17:12] Iskahn**
*What the hell? You couldn't look more frail,
and you're a well-bred lady from the Human Empire.*
**[17:17] Iskahn**
*But you're the same as me after all!*
**[17:20] Iskahn**
*No good, huh?
I'm getting overpowered here, too?*
**[17:24] Iskahn**
*Nothing I can do.*
**[17:25] Iskahn**
*Well, this isn't a bad way to die.*
**[17:37] Iskahn**
Dampa! What the hell are you doing?
**[17:40] Dampa**
Time's up, Champion.
The main force has caught up to us.
**[17:47] Iskahn**
Woman! Don't think this means you've won!
**[17:53] Sheyta**
Calling me "woman"...
**[17:56] Sheyta**
I want you to stop.
**[17:57] Iskahn**
Listen!
**[17:58] Iskahn**
First of all, how are you going to
get out of a situation like thi—
**[18:08] Iskahn**
You little...
**[18:10] Iskahn**
Hey! At least tell me your name
before you run off!
**[18:14] Sheyta**
I'm not running off. I am...
**[18:19] Sheyta**
Sheyta Synthesis Twelve.
**[18:41] Vassago**
That's right. Keep coming straight this way.
**[18:56] Vassago**
Hey, baby. How'd you spot me?
**[18:59] Ronie**
My senpai taught me not to rely on my eyes,
but to sense everything.
**[19:04] Vassago**
S-Senpai, did you say?
**[19:08] Ronie**
Enemy attack! Enemy attack!
**[19:22] Vassago**
You guys... time to work!
**[19:34] Renly**
The enemy's behind us?
**[19:36] Renly**
Dozens of them?
**[19:38] Renly**
*This is bad! If they burn our supplies,
it would immobilize the whole army.*
**[19:42] Renly**
*Not to mention, those three are behind us.*
**[19:45] Renly**
*I should call for backup. But if we move the raid unit now,
it'll give away our strategy to the enemy.*
**[19:50] Renly**
*No, our ambush has already
been compromised, right?*
**[19:53] Renly**
*Then we should send the entire force south—*
**[19:55] Bercouli**
Who would've thought they figured out
our plan to head south, and placed soldiers here.
**[20:02] Renly**
My lord Knight Commander!
**[20:05] Bercouli**
Renly.
**[20:06] Bercouli**
Give the order to retreat.
**[20:08] Bercouli**
Little one, rush over and help the Supply Corps.
**[20:12] Bercouli**
I'll hold off the enemy coming from the north.
**[20:14] Renly**
Yes, sir!
**[20:16] Alice**
You say you'll hold them off...
**[20:17] Alice**
but Uncle, the enemy pugilist guild
numbers close to 5,000.
**[20:22] Bercouli**
Well, I'll find a way. Now get going!
**[20:26] Alice**
Uncle. Good luck.
**[20:40] Tiese**
Ronie!
**[20:45] Vassago**
This is it! This feeling!
**[20:48] Vassago**
The pleasure from playing with someone's life,
their bonds, with the tip of your sword!
**[20:53] Vassago**
No wonder I can't give up player killing!
**[21:08] Ronie**
Lady... Stacia.
**[21:22] Scout**
Wh-What's going on? The ground!
**[21:47] Vassago**
Are you kidding me? Hey, are you kidding me?
**[21:50] Vassago**
That face. That hair. That presence.
**[21:55] Vassago**
That has to be the KoB's... "Lightning Flash"!
**[23:36] Asuna**
Next time: Stacia, the Goddess of Creation.
# E10 - Stacia, the Goddess of Creation
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***SIGN*** Monday, July 6, 2026 5:10 PM
**[00:16] Natsuki**
Are you ready?
**[00:18] Asuna**
Yes.
**[00:19] Asuna**
Anytime you're ready, please.
**[00:21] Higa**
*Ms. Asuna.*
**[00:23] Higa**
You'll be using the superuser account 01,
Stacia, the Goddess of Creation, 'kay?
**[00:29] Higa**
Although this account gives you admin rights
to run the unlimited landscape alteration command,
**[00:36] Higa**
since there's so much data being transferred
between the STL and the Main Visualizer,
**[00:42] Higa**
it can seriously overload your Fluctlight, 'kay?
**[00:45] Higa**
*So please try not to alter the landscape recklessly.*
**[00:49] Higa**
*If you feel a headache starting while using the command,
stop doing it right away, 'kay?*
**[00:55] Asuna**
Okay.
**[00:56] Aki**
Ms. Yuuki. I'm counting on you
to take care of Kirito.
**[01:00] Asuna**
Of course.
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Shrubland Human Army Supply Corps
***SIGN*** Stacia, the Goddess of Creation
**[03:01] Asuna**
*So this is the side effect of landscape alteration.*
**[03:05] Asuna**
*Where? Where are you, Kirito?*
**[03:13] Tiese**
Lady Stacia?
**[03:16] Tiese**
Are you... a god?
**[03:21] Asuna**
No. I'm sorry. I'm not a god.
**[03:25] Ronie**
But... But you just performed a miracle
and saved my life!
**[03:31] Ronie**
You've saved the guards, the monks
and Kirito-senpai, as well.
**[03:37] Asuna**
I...
**[03:38] Asuna**
I've come here just to see him... to see Kirito.
**[03:44] Asuna**
Please...
**[03:45] Asuna**
Where is he?
**[03:47] Asuna**
Let me see him!
**[03:49] Asuna**
Please take me to Kirito!
**[03:55] Tiese/Ronie**
- Right.
- Right.
**[03:56] Tiese/Ronie**
- This way.
- This way.
**[04:14] Asuna**
Kirito.
**[04:31] Asuna**
Kirito, it's all right. That's enough.
**[04:47] Asuna**
Thank you.
You've been protecting Kirito, haven't you?
**[04:53] Ronie**
Um... if you're not Lady Stacia,
then who are you?
**[04:58] Asuna**
My name is Asuna.
**[05:01] Asuna**
I'm a human being, just like you.
**[05:03] Asuna**
Just like Kirito,
I've come from the outside world.
**[05:06] Asuna**
In order to fulfill the same goal.
**[05:10] Tiese/Ronie**
- The same world as Kirito-senpai?
- The same world as Kirito-senpai?
**[05:13] Ronie**
D-Do you mean the Divine Realm?
**[05:17] Ronie**
The Celestial Realm where the three goddesses of creation,
the gods of the elements, and the angels live?
**[05:23] Asuna**
Not that. Although it is a world
that exists outside of this one.
**[05:28] Asuna**
I'm sorry. I can't really describe it in one word.
**[05:32] Asuna**
I'd like to explain it to the people in command here,
so could you take me to them?
**[05:37] Ronie**
Y-Yes. Understood. Please come this way.
**[05:46] Asuna**
It's all right. Everything's all right now, Kirito.
**[05:51] Asuna**
Just leave the rest to me.
**[06:06] Tiese**
L-Lady Knight! Please stop!
**[06:09] Ronie**
She's not the enemy! Lady Alice—
**[06:12] Asuna**
*Alice?*
**[06:13] Alice**
Who are you?
**[06:15] Alice**
Why did you go near Kirito?
**[06:18] Asuna**
Why, you ask?
**[06:20] Asuna**
Because Kirito belongs to me!
**[06:21] Alice**
What are you talking about, you savage?
**[06:30] Bercouli**
Now this is truly a magnificent sight to behold.
**[06:34] Bercouli**
Two beautiful flowers bursting into bloom.
**[06:38] Bercouli**
Man, it's glorious.
**[06:46] Alice**
Why would you interrupt me?
**[06:48] Alice**
Uncle, she must be an enemy spy.
**[06:51] Bercouli**
I don't think so.
**[06:54] Bercouli**
Because just as I was about to meet
my untimely demise in battle,
**[07:00] Bercouli**
it was this young lady who saved my life.
**[07:04] Bercouli**
I saw it.
**[07:09] Bercouli**
So they're here.
**[07:22] Bercouli**
A rainbow of light came down from the heavens,
**[07:25] Bercouli**
and the earth split open 100 mel wide.
**[07:28] Bercouli**
Even those pugilists were flustered
because they couldn't make the jump.
**[07:33] Bercouli**
That we were this close
to being wiped out in one fell swoop
**[07:36] Bercouli**
and this young lady saved us
is an undeniable fact.
**[07:41] Alice**
Then are you saying
that this person isn't an enemy spy,
**[07:44] Alice**
nor an immoral imposter dressed like
a divine entity depicted in holy art,
**[07:48] Alice**
but rather the real goddess, Stacia?
**[07:52] Bercouli**
I don't think that.
**[07:54] Bercouli**
If this young lady were an actual god,
then she'd be scarier than the pontifex, wouldn't she?
**[07:59] Bercouli**
She'd hurl someone rude enough to attack her
at first sight into the depths of the earth.
**[08:12] Asuna**
Yes. As you say, I'm not a god.
**[08:17] Asuna**
I'm a human, like all of you.
**[08:20] Asuna**
But I do have some knowledge
of the situation you're in right now.
**[08:27] Bercouli**
The rest of your story should be heard
by the other knights and guards, as well.
**[08:32] Bercouli**
Let's talk about this over tea.
**[08:34] Alice**
Very well.
**[08:36] Bercouli**
Right, now that that's settled.
**[08:38] Bercouli**
You young ladies over there!
**[08:41] Bercouli**
Could you get us some hot tea,
and some liquor for me?
**[08:45] Bercouli**
You should listen in, too.
**[08:48] Tiese/Ronie**
- Yes, sir!
- Yes, sir!
**[08:56] Alice**
I want to make one thing clear.
**[08:58] Alice**
From now on, you are not to enter that carriage
without my permission.
**[09:02] Alice**
As it is my duty to ensure Kirito's safety.
**[09:07] Asuna**
You, too! Stop referring to my Kirito
in such a familiar way!
**[09:12] Alice**
Did you say something?
**[09:15] Asuna**
No, nothing.
**[09:23] Tiese**
It looks like things are going to get intense, huh?
**[09:26] Tiese**
Come on, we need to boil some water right away!
**[09:29] Tiese**
The liquor jug's in that carriage over there, right?
Let's go, Ronie!
**[09:38] Ronie**
He's my senpai...
**[09:44] Asuna**
It's nice to meet you all.
**[09:46] Asuna**
My name is Asuna.
**[09:48] Asuna**
I've come here from the outside world.
**[09:51] Asuna**
By "outside," I don't mean that this world
that you all live in, the Underworld,
**[09:56] Asuna**
is psychically connected
to the real world I came from.
**[10:00] Asuna**
They're totally separate worlds.
**[10:03] Asuna**
And now, in a specific location in the real world,
two forces are fighting for control of the Underworld.
**[10:12] Asuna**
I was sent from Rath, one of those forces.
**[10:16] Golgorosso**
Then did you come to this world to rule over it?
**[10:20] Asuna**
The opposite, actually.
My objective is to protect the Underworld.
**[10:25] Asuna**
And the objective of the force opposing us
is to extract a single person from the Underworld,
**[10:32] Asuna**
and then destroy this world completely.
**[10:36] Golgorosso**
Destroy this world?
**[10:37] Guard A**
That's ridiculous.
**[10:39] Guard B**
In the first place, what's this "outside world"?
**[10:41] Bercouli**
It's the same thing.
**[10:43] Bercouli**
Outside the Human Empire lies the Dark Territory,
**[10:47] Bercouli**
where a colossal force of tens of thousands
has been more than eager to invade us.
**[10:53] Bercouli**
That's a fact that no one, including me,
has ever given any serious thought to.
**[10:58] Bercouli**
So what if there's one more world
on the outside now?
**[11:02] Bercouli**
It's not a big deal.
**[11:03] Bercouli**
So this force that's intent on destroying this world,
who's the single person they want to seize?
**[11:14] Alice**
M-Me?
**[11:17] Bercouli**
I see. So that's what this
"Priestess of Light" is about, huh?
**[11:22] Asuna**
There isn't much time left.
**[11:24] Asuna**
The only way to prevent the Underworld's annihilation
is to take Alice to the real world with me.
**[11:31] Asuna**
Once they know that Alice is no longer here,
the enemy should stop interfering with this world.
**[11:36] Alice**
Y-You must be joking!
**[11:38] Alice**
Run away? Me?
**[11:40] Alice**
Abandon this world and everyone who lives here,
to go to this real world?
**[11:45] Alice**
That will never happen!
I am an Integrity Knight!
**[11:48] Alice**
Protecting the Human Empire
is my gravest and only duty!
**[11:51] Asuna**
Then that's all the more reason.
**[11:53] Asuna**
If the enemy, not the land of darkness,
but the invaders from the real world capture you,
**[12:00] Asuna**
then everyone who lives in this world,
the land, the skies, everything will be erased!
**[12:06] Asuna**
The enemy could attack this place
at any moment!
**[12:09] Bercouli**
Whoa. About that,
your information's outdated, little Asuna.
**[12:14] Bercouli**
It seems like these guys you call the enemy
are already here.
**[12:20] Bercouli**
Now it all makes sense.
**[12:23] Bercouli**
The Priestess of Light
and the Dark God Vecta, who's after her.
**[12:27] Bercouli**
This god, Vecta, who's leading the enemy force right now,
must no doubt be a human from the real world like you.
**[12:34] Asuna**
Dark God...
**[12:37] Asuna**
*My goodness. Then the superuser accounts
for the Dark Territory must not have been locked.*
**[12:43] Renly**
Um, m-may I ask something?
**[12:46] Renly**
What exactly is the Priestess of Light, anyway?
**[12:50] Renly**
And why do these invaders from the real world
want Lady Alice so badly?
**[12:56] Sheyta**
Because she broke the Seal of the Right Eye.
**[12:59] Alice**
Y-You knew about that, Lady Sheyta? But how?
**[13:03] Sheyta**
Whenever I think about it,
my right eye hurts.
**[13:06] Sheyta**
The hardest thing in the world,
the indestructible Central Cathedral.
**[13:11] Sheyta**
If I could just slash the whole thing,
what fun that would be.
**[13:16] Bercouli**
Well, I bet there are others here
who've experienced the same thing.
**[13:22] Bercouli**
I referring to how the slightest doubt about
the pontifex's authority or the Axiom Church's system
**[13:27] Bercouli**
triggers a flashing red light in your right eyeball,
along with a searing pain.
**[13:33] Bercouli**
Normally, the pain is so severe
that you'd lose that thought,
**[13:38] Bercouli**
but should those blasphemous thoughts continue,
the pain intensifies drastically,
**[13:42] Bercouli**
and the right side of your vision turns red.
Until finally...
**[13:46] Alice**
Your entire right eye explodes completely.
**[13:50] Renly**
Then, Lady Alice...
**[13:54] Alice**
I fought Prime Senator Chudelkin,
as well as the pontifex, Administrator.
**[14:00] Alice**
In order to muster the resolve to do so,
I temporarily lost my right eye.
**[14:05] Alice**
Come to think of it...
**[14:06] Alice**
when I fought Administrator,
there was something about my right eye...
**[14:11] Alice**
I believe it was Code 8... 7...
**[14:15] Alice**
That's right! Code 871!
**[14:17] Alice**
That's what the pontifex
called the Seal of the Right Eye.
**[14:21] Alice**
She said it was Code 871,
imposed by "that person."
**[14:24] Alice**
At the time, I didn't know what she meant.
**[14:27] Alice**
But could this, too, be a word from the real world,
rather than an ancient sacred term?
**[14:31] Asuna**
Code... 87... 1?
**[14:34] Asuna**
That seal was put in place on the other side...
by someone from Rath?
**[14:38] Asuna**
But no, it would only get in the way
of their objective.
**[14:43] Asuna**
*Rath's goal is to create an AI
with true intelligence.*
**[14:48] Asuna**
*Mr. Kikuoka and Mr. Higa
created the Underworld for that purpose,*
**[14:52] Asuna**
*and they've continued the simulation for centuries.*
**[14:55] Asuna**
*Since Mr. Kikuoka deliberately created an environment
for the AIs to violate the Taboo Index,*
**[15:00] Asuna**
*having a code to force them into obedience
would defeat the purpose of the experiment.*
**[15:05] Asuna**
*No way!*
**[15:06] Asuna**
*Is the Seal of the Right Eye a means of sabotage?*
**[15:09] Asuna**
*Is it the enemy that's attacking us now?*
**[15:12] Asuna**
*This is bad! There's a mole among the Rath staff!*
**[15:16] Asuna**
*On this side of the bulkhead!*
**[15:18] Asuna**
*I have to let Mr. Kikuoka on the outside
know right away.*
**[15:21] Asuna**
*But how am I going to do that
if there are no system consoles nearby?*
**[15:25] Asuna**
*Kirito!*
**[15:29] Kirito**
*Asuna.*
**[15:31] Kirito**
*Please...*
**[15:36] Alice**
Is something wrong?
**[15:37] Asuna**
No. I'm fine.
**[15:39] Asuna**
As Alice said, Code 871, the Seal of the Right Eye,
was set up by someone from the real world.
**[15:46] Asuna**
Someone on the enemy side.
**[15:49] Bercouli**
Isn't there any way to disable that code,
aside from blowing up the right eye?
**[15:54] Asuna**
I don't think it's something
that can be disabled from inside the Underworld.
**[15:59] Bercouli**
In other words,
this enemy you're talking about
**[16:02] Bercouli**
wants to get their hands on someone
who broke the Seal of the Right Eye on their own.
**[16:07] Bercouli**
Let me ask you something.
**[16:08] Bercouli**
Do you real-world folks have the same seal?
**[16:11] Asuna**
No. I have no such seal.
**[16:14] Asuna**
Most likely, whether or not we're absolutely forced
to obey laws and commands
**[16:21] Asuna**
is the one thing that sets apart
the real-worlders and the Underworlders.
**[16:25] Asuna**
The enemy feared the one
who would break that seal in the Underworld.
**[16:29] Asuna**
That the Priestess of Light, as they call her,
would appear, and then fall into the hands of others.
**[16:36] Asuna**
That's because the Priestess of Light can very well
become extremely valuable in the real world.
**[16:42] Bercouli**
That's what I can't understand.
**[16:44] Bercouli**
If the only difference between us
and you real-worlders
**[16:49] Bercouli**
is whether or not we have
the Seal of the Right Eye,
**[16:51] Bercouli**
doesn't that make the Priestess of Light, in other words,
little Alice, an existence equal to a real-worlder?
**[16:57] Bercouli**
Then why are they obsessed
with the Priestess of Light?
**[17:01] Bercouli**
Whether it's the enemy or your people,
**[17:05] Bercouli**
what exactly do they want little Alice to do
once she's been taken to the outside world?
**[17:09] Asuna**
Well...
**[17:11] Asuna**
I'm sorry. I can't tell you now.
**[17:14] Asuna**
Because what I want is for Ms. Alice to see the real world
with her own eyes, and then decide for herself.
**[17:20] Asuna**
It's not a divine nation in any way,
nor is it a utopia.
**[17:25] Asuna**
Far from it. Compared to this world,
it's way uglier and dirtier.
**[17:31] Asuna**
But that's not all there is.
**[17:34] Asuna**
There are so many people there who want
to protect this world and be friends with you all.
**[17:38] Asuna**
That's right, just like Kirito.
**[17:44] Alice**
Very well. I won't ask you anything else for now.
**[17:47] Alice**
However, we should first defeat
the enemy before us,
**[17:51] Alice**
and establish peace with the Dark Territory.
**[17:54] Alice**
The outside world can wait till afterwards.
**[17:56] Asuna**
Right.
**[17:58] Asuna**
Now that I know that
the Dark God Vecta is from the real world,
**[18:02] Asuna**
it could be dangerous for you and me
to leave this unit by ourselves.
**[18:06] Asuna**
I'm going to join you in this battle.
**[18:09] Asuna**
Please let me take care of Vecta.
**[18:13] Bercouli**
Sure, that would be a huge help, but can you do
that ground-splitting thing without limit?
**[18:20] Asuna**
Unfortunately, I can probably only perform
large-scale land alterations once or twice more.
**[18:27] Alice**
How can we rely on an outsider's help
to protect our own Human Empire?
**[18:33] Alice**
It's our turn now to show what we can do.
**[18:35] Renly**
Right... that's right!
**[18:37] Renly**
Asuna's not a god.
Didn't she just say that she's a human like us?
**[18:42] Renly**
So we should be able to fight
just as well as her!
**[18:46] Sheyta**
I, too, would like to fight that pugilist again.
**[18:50] Golgorosso**
The knights are absolutely right!
Let's do this ourselves!
**[18:55] Asuna**
*I'll protect this world that Kirito loved and lived in.*
**[19:00] Asuna**
*From those mysterious attackers...*
**[19:01] Asuna**
*and from Rath as well.*
**[19:11] Alice**
I figured you'd come.
**[19:21] Alice**
Let's make a deal.
**[19:22] Alice**
I'll let you see Kirito.
**[19:24] Alice**
And I'll tell you everything I know.
**[19:27] Alice**
In return, you need to tell me
everything you know about Kirito as well.
**[19:34] Asuna**
That's fine!
**[19:35] Asuna**
But it's a really long story.
**[19:38] Asuna**
It might take more than one night.
**[19:40] Alice**
How long have you spent with Kirito?
**[19:42] Asuna**
Let's see. I fought as his partner for two years.
**[19:46] Asuna**
And then we dated for a year and a half.
**[19:48] Asuna**
During which, we lived together for two weeks.
**[19:53] Alice**
I fought by his side for a full night.
**[19:57] Alice**
After that, I cared for him day and night for six months
while living under the same roof!
**[20:03] Asuna**
Is that so?
**[20:05] Ronie**
Excuse me.
**[20:07] Ronie**
Um, I-I cleaned Kirito-senpai's room
for about two months,
**[20:12] Ronie**
and I also learned sword skills from him,
**[20:14] Ronie**
not to mention that he treated me to honey pies
from the Prancing Deer Cafe more than once!
**[20:18] Ronie**
Compared to you two,
I was with him for a much shorter time,
**[20:22] Ronie**
but, um, I'd like to trade information, too.
**[20:27] Asuna**
All right. You're one of us, then, Ms. Ronie!
**[20:33] Liena**
This information exchange...
would you allow me to take part as well?
**[20:38] Asuna**
I saw you in that meeting just now.
**[20:40] Liena**
I am Norlangarth Imperial Knight Sortiliena Serlut.
**[20:46] Liena**
I was going to wait until the battle was over,
**[20:49] Liena**
but as I, too, have a close relationship with Kirito,
I couldn't stop myself from coming here.
**[20:55] Alice**
And what kind of relationship would that be,
Chief Guard Serlut?
**[20:59] Liena**
If you like, please call me Liena, Lady Knight.
**[21:03] Liena**
At the Norlangarth Imperial Swordcraft Academy,
**[21:06] Liena**
Kirito waited on me as my primary trainee page
for a full year.
**[21:12] Liena**
In addition, I believe I was able to pass on
some of my sword skills to him.
**[21:19] Asuna**
In that case, you must also
have plenty of information yourself!
**[21:23] Asuna**
Please join us.
**[21:35] Alice**
What's wrong?
**[21:37] Asuna**
"Dual-wielding Kirito."
**[21:39] Asuna**
That's what people called him on the other side.
**[21:42] Alice**
Really?
**[21:49] Alice**
Then why don't we start there?
**[23:36] Alice**
Next time: Heartless Choice.
# E11 - Heartless Choice
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6P5M94D6/heartless-choice)
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**[00:03] ---**
Have you ever had a premonition about death?
**[00:07] ---**
A premonition about death?
**[00:10] ---**
When I was less experienced,
**[00:12] ---**
and either the previous dark general
or the one before him easily defeated me,
**[00:16] ---**
I thought that might be it for me.
**[00:19] ---**
But you brought back his head
quite some time ago.
**[00:23] ---**
You haven't had any since?
**[00:27] ---**
You know, I can't really remember.
**[00:29] ---**
But why would you ask me that so unexpectedly?
**[00:32] ---**
Surely Your Eminence is free of such sensations.
**[00:35] ---**
You don't understand, do you, Bercouli?
**[00:38] ---**
It's every day. Every day, I sense death.
**[00:43] ---**
Every morning when I open my eyes...
**[00:45] ---**
No, even in my dreams.
**[00:48] ---**
And why is that?
Because I still don't control everything.
**[00:53] ---**
Because I have enemies who are still alive.
**[00:55] ---**
And because the possibility of a new enemy emerging
at some point in the future is always looming.
**[01:04] ---**
Well, well...
**[01:06] ---**
Being the pontifex certainly isn't easy, huh?
**[01:18] ---**
*Your Eminence...*
**[01:19] ---**
*I think I finally understand
what you meant now.*
***SIGN*** Heartless Choice
**[03:05] ---**
Here, Senpai.
**[03:18] ---**
You look a bit healthier today, Kirito-senpai.
**[03:23] ---**
And you have a good appetite!
**[03:27] ---**
Perhaps sleeping beside four beauties
did him good!
**[03:45] ---**
I see.
**[03:47] ---**
The enemy from the real world
really has some unique strategies.
**[03:51] ---**
Emperor Vecta is taking a risk.
**[04:04] ---**
This is war.
**[04:07] ---**
Unlike the outsider, little Asuna, this is no time
for us to feel sorry for the forces of darkness.
**[04:14] ---**
We have to take this chance.
**[04:16] ---**
Chance?
**[04:16] ---**
That's right.
**[04:29] ---**
*Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!*
**[04:42] ---**
Have your people climb across ropes
cast over the chasm to reach the other side.
**[04:47] ---**
I don't care if there are casualties.
**[04:51] ---**
You're to enforce the tightrope walking
no matter what.
**[04:55] ---**
*They're dying in vain!*
**[04:56] ---**
*Not for the five tribes of darkness's long-cherished goal,
the invasion of the Human Empire...*
**[05:01] ---**
*but for something called the Priestess of Light!*
**[05:05] ---**
*Hurry! Hurry up!*
**[05:07] ---**
*Before something else comes to get in your way!
Just make it over, all of you!*
**[05:36] ---**
Enemy attack! Protect them!
Protect those ropes at all costs!
**[05:40] ---**
They're only a small force!
Don't let them get near the ropes!
**[05:56] ---**
Stop!
**[06:05] ---**
So this... So this is war, huh?
**[06:09] ---**
How can you call this a battle?
**[06:12] ---**
No way did they endure all that grueling training
just to die like this!
**[06:22] ---**
*Forgive me. Forgive me, all right?*
**[06:31] ---**
Just as I suspected, the AI of the Human Empire units
appear to be slightly superior.
**[06:37] ---**
No.
**[06:39] ---**
Strictly in terms of adaptability,
they're in a different class.
**[06:44] ---**
Don't mess up, Critter.
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 12:05 AM Ocean Turtle
**[06:53] ---**
Syncing of the Underworld
and the real world times is complete!
**[07:07] ---**
What?
**[07:08] ---**
Hey, is this for real?
**[07:11] ---**
Are they crazy? A PvP with life-like human avatars
AND realistic violence?
**[07:17] ---**
You mean we can like,
cut off arms and heads and stuff? No way!
**[07:21] ---**
No restrictions? Hell to the yes!
The developer is adventurous!
**[07:25] ---**
I'm so signing up for this beta!
**[07:29] ---**
I'll let you have the dark knight accounts.
**[07:32] ---**
Go on and massacre the Human Empire Army
to your heart's content!
**[07:49] ---**
Oh, no!
**[07:50] ---**
Daddy and Mommy are in danger!
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 3:02 AM Shino's apartment
***SIGN*** Incoming Call
***SIGN*** Kazuto Kirigaya
**[08:08] ---**
*Sinon! It's Yui!*
**[08:11] ---**
Y-Yui?
**[08:12] ---**
*I'll explain later!*
**[08:13] ---**
*Get ready to go out right now,
leave your apartment, and get into a taxi!*
**[08:17] ---**
*I'm sending the address
and the fastest route to get there to your phone!*
**[08:21] ---**
A-A taxi? To where?
**[08:23] ---**
*Please hurry! Daddy and Mommy are in danger!*
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 3:02 AM Kirigaya residence
**[08:29] ---**
Um... can you take me to Minato Ward
in Tokyo, please?
**[08:34] ---**
*Sorry, Mom. I promise
that I'll rescue Big Brother, okay?*
**[08:57] ---**
*It's already been ten hours
since Ms. Asuna logged into the Underworld, huh?*
**[09:01] ---**
*Which means that about a year
should have gone by over there.*
**[09:08] ---**
Was the World End's Altar that far
from the Human Empire?
**[09:14] ---**
M-Mr. Kiku! The phone!
**[09:18] ---**
Sub Control Room. This is Kikuoka.
**[09:20] ---**
*U-Uh, that's the Rath main location
STL Development headquarters, right?*
**[09:25] ---**
This is Hiraki at the Roppongi Branch.
We have a problem, or should I say,
**[09:30] ---**
something odd is going on.
**[09:32] ---**
*Someone from outside Rath just showed up
without an appointment.*
**[09:36] ---**
Outside? You mean clients?
**[09:39] ---**
*No. It has nothing at all to do with clients.*
**[09:42] ---**
*And they don't look to be anything
but high school girls.*
**[09:45] ---**
*And there's two of them.*
**[09:47] ---**
D-Did you say high school girls?
**[09:49] ---**
*Yes.*
**[09:50] ---**
And they asked me to contact Seijiro Kikuoka
of Rath headquarters right now,
**[09:55] ---**
*to tell you to check
the Underworld FLA rate immediately.*
**[10:05] ---**
I-It's the same? Since when?
**[10:08] ---**
N-Names! Did those girls give their names?
**[10:11] ---**
*Uh, yes! Actually...
This is going to sound crazy, too, but...*
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 4:34 AM Rath Roppongi branch
**[10:15] ---**
*There's no way it's their real names.*
**[10:18] ---**
*Uh, let's see. They told me to tell you
that it's "Sinon" and "Leafa."*
**[10:24] ---**
*I mean, they look totally Japanese to me, but...*
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 4:40 AM ALO New Aincrad Floor 22
**[10:35] ---**
For crying out loud.
**[10:36] ---**
Damn him, he had to go off on his own
and get mixed up in some trouble again?
**[10:41] ---**
A virtual world created by the SDF,
and an honest-to-goodness AI named Alice?
**[10:48] ---**
But that's so beyond the realm of a game!
**[10:52] ---**
Not only that, but they're going to load her
into a fighter jet and make her wage war?
**[10:57] ---**
Apparently, for now, Rath intends to use that technology
in demonstrations both domestically and internationally.
**[11:04] ---**
But my guess is that
the attackers occupying the Ocean Turtle
**[11:08] ---**
have a more specific application in mind.
**[11:13] ---**
Who the heck are these attackers, anyway?
**[11:17] ---**
It's extremely likely that the U.S. military
or a U.S. intelligence agency is involved.
**[11:23] ---**
Th-The U.S. military?
You mean the American army?
**[11:26] ---**
If Alice were to fall into the hands
of the U.S. military,
**[11:30] ---**
in the not-so-distant future, she'd most likely
be deployed in battle as an unmanned AI weapon.
**[11:37] ---**
I'm sure Daddy and Mommy want to prevent that,
if nothing else.
**[11:41] ---**
Because...
**[11:43] ---**
Because Alice...
**[11:45] ---**
is proof that all VRMMO worlds,
beginning with SAO,
**[11:49] ---**
and the people who lived in them,
really existed,
**[11:52] ---**
and she's also the fruit of massive amounts
of time, material, and mental resources!
**[12:02] ---**
I am convinced beyond a doubt
that the true objective created by the Seed package
**[12:09] ---**
is none other than the birth of Alice.
**[12:12] ---**
Throughout countless connected worlds,
**[12:14] ---**
so many people have laughed,
cried, grieved, and loved
**[12:20] ---**
and because the radiance of their souls resonated,
a new form of humanity was born in the Underworld.
**[12:28] ---**
Daddy. Mommy. Leafa. Klein.
Lisbeth. Silica. Agil. Sinon.
**[12:35] ---**
As well as so many other people. It was from the cradle
woven by your hearts that Alice was born!
**[12:44] ---**
Yeah. That's true, isn't it?
**[12:46] ---**
We're connected to all of it.
**[12:49] ---**
Time, people, and our hearts, too.
**[12:52] ---**
Like a huge river.
**[12:55] ---**
Don't worry... Yui.
**[12:58] ---**
We'll go save Kirito and Asuna.
We're definitely going to save them.
**[13:05] ---**
So please don't cry.
**[13:07] ---**
You heard her!
You should've come to us sooner, Yuippe!
**[13:10] ---**
There's no way we'd ever abandon Kirito!
**[13:13] ---**
We owe that guy big time, after all.
**[13:16] ---**
We should pay him back a little now, at least.
**[13:19] ---**
Everyone, thank you so much!
**[13:23] ---**
Thank you so much.
**[13:27] ---**
Still, 30,000 VRMMO players diving from America?
It could even be 100,000.
**[13:34] ---**
And they'll all side with the enemy
against the Human Empire, huh?
**[13:37] ---**
What if we exposed the experiment or the attack
on the American VRMMO sites,
**[13:44] ---**
and asked them not to take part
in the fake beta test?
**[13:49] ---**
The reality is that this is war for a secret
between the U.S. and Japanese militaries.
**[13:53] ---**
If we were to give off any hint of that,
it could very well backfire.
**[13:58] ---**
Posting "Your opponents are real humans,
so please don't kill them," wouldn't help, huh?
**[14:06] ---**
Well, then all we have to do
is take a page from their book!
**[14:08] ---**
By making our own notification site for the beta test.
**[14:11] ---**
If the Rath guys give us accounts of equal level,
we can drum up 30 or 40,000, just like that!
**[14:17] ---**
But there is one problem, you know.
**[14:21] ---**
What problem?
**[14:23] ---**
The time difference.
**[14:24] ---**
Right now, it's 4:30 am in Japan,
meaning the period with the fewest connections.
**[14:30] ---**
On the other hand, in the U.S.,
it's 12:30 noon in LA, and 3:30 PM in New York.
**[14:35] ---**
There are way more active players over there.
**[14:39] ---**
Agil is right about that.
**[14:42] ---**
We couldn't hope to gather
anywhere near 10,000 people right now.
**[14:48] ---**
If we were to use accounts
of the same level as the enemy,
**[14:51] ---**
our chances of holding our own
would be extremely low, I'd have to say.
**[14:55] ---**
But aren't any more of the god account
that Asuna used, are there?
**[15:00] ---**
Not that we have time
to level up from scratch like Kirito did.
**[15:04] ---**
So it's game over, huh?
**[15:07] ---**
No.
**[15:08] ---**
Accounts do exist.
**[15:11] ---**
Accounts far more powerful in terms of level and equipment
than the default accounts being used by the enemy.
**[15:18] ---**
Wh-Where are they?
**[15:19] ---**
The very accounts you're logged in with
at this moment!
**[15:26] ---**
Data conversion!
**[15:27] ---**
All of you, as well as scores of other VRMMO players
**[15:32] ---**
must convert the characters that you've trained
throughout the Seed worlds into Underworld accounts.
**[15:38] ---**
I get it! Never thought of that!
**[15:41] ---**
That said, this particular method
does have a few problems.
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 5:02 AM ALO Neutral City Arun
**[15:51] ---**
This is neither a lie or a joke.
**[15:55] ---**
Soon, tens of thousands of American players
will unknowingly dive into the Underworld,
**[16:02] ---**
a virtual world based on the Seed
created by a certain Japanese research company,
**[16:06] ---**
and they're going to massacre
everyone who lives there!
**[16:12] ---**
The residents of the Underworld aren't mere NPCs!
**[16:16] ---**
They share the same emotions and souls as us!
**[16:20] ---**
Please lend us a hand to protect them!
**[16:24] ---**
Everyone, please convert your existing character data
to the Underworld!
**[16:33] ---**
Lisbeth, I know that you and your friends
wouldn't joke around this early in the day,
**[16:41] ---**
and the fact that Kirito hasn't logged in for more
than ten days means this is no trivial matter. But...
**[16:49] ---**
To be honest, I find it hard to believe.
**[16:51] ---**
AIs with the same souls as humans,
with the U.S. military out to seize them?
**[16:57] ---**
Both scenarios are far too unrealistic.
**[17:00] ---**
Moreover, didn't you also just say
that there'd be several problems with conversion?
**[17:07] ---**
Would you mind explaining
what those issues are first?
**[17:11] ---**
Yes.
**[17:13] ---**
The Underworld...
**[17:16] ---**
isn't being operated
as a normal VRMMO game.
**[17:20] ---**
Which is why diving into it
will present some problems.
**[17:25] ---**
First of all, the Underworld has no operational UI.
**[17:30] ---**
In other words,
you can't log out of your own accord.
**[17:35] ---**
The only way to log out is to "die" in-game.
**[17:39] ---**
But that would trigger yet another problem.
**[17:43] ---**
The Underworld has no built-in pain absorber.
**[17:48] ---**
If you take enough damage to drop your HP to zero,
you're likely to feel the most excruciating pain.
**[17:55] ---**
And finally...
**[17:57] ---**
at this time, the developers are unable
to operate the Underworld.
**[18:03] ---**
Which means that
once you've converted your character data,
**[18:06] ---**
there's no guarantee
it can be converted back to the original game.
**[18:10] ---**
In some cases,
it may even end up in character loss.
**[18:15] ---**
Hold on a second.
**[18:16] ---**
What's up with that?
**[18:17] ---**
Loss?
**[18:18] ---**
Give me a break!
**[18:19] ---**
D-Don't give us that!
**[18:22] ---**
Character loss, you say?
**[18:23] ---**
So if they're lost,
are you guys going to make good?
**[18:26] ---**
Or is this just a trap to weaken us, tribe by tribe?
**[18:31] ---**
I'm sorry! We won't be able to compensate you.
**[18:34] ---**
We're keenly aware that money can't buy
the characters you've raised until now!
**[18:41] ---**
That's why we're pleading with you! To help us.
**[18:45] ---**
To help our friends who are desperately fending off
the American attack in the Underworld, even as we speak!
**[18:52] ---**
These friends you're talking about,
you mean SAO survivors, don't you?
**[18:57] ---**
You can't fool us! We know that you former SAO players
all secretly look down on the rest of us!
**[19:04] ---**
What do we care about invasions,
artificial intelligence, or souls!
**[19:07] ---**
Don't waste our time with all this talk
about bringing the real world into a VRMMO!
**[19:11] ---**
You guys can deal with
that kind of thing yourselves!
**[19:14] ---**
Just you survivors, celebrated even in real life!
**[19:24] ---**
*It didn't work.*
**[19:25] ---**
*My words weren't enough
to get through to them at all.*
**[20:00] ---**
That's right, this is happening in the real world!
**[20:04] ---**
Like you said, those of us who came from SAO might have
the tendency to blur what's real and what's virtual!
**[20:11] ---**
But I swear to you, we don't think of ourselves
as heroes, or anything special!
**[20:18] ---**
This girl and I...
**[20:20] ---**
we attend a school made up of only survivors.
**[20:23] ---**
The students there have to undergo counseling
once a month, no matter what.
**[20:29] ---**
We get asked all these uncomfortable questions.
**[20:31] ---**
And they make a lot of kids take meds
against their will.
**[20:36] ---**
We're all part of the government's
potential criminal watch list.
**[20:42] ---**
And it's not just the students at the returnee school
who are being treated that way.
**[20:48] ---**
All VRMMO players are looked upon that way,
more or less.
**[20:53] ---**
As if we're dead weight
that doesn't contribute to society.
**[20:57] ---**
People who refuse to face up to reality,
not paying taxes or social security.
**[21:01] ---**
Some people even argue
that the military draft should be reinstated,
**[21:03] ---**
so we can be forced to serve.
**[21:07] ---**
But there's one thing I know! And I believe it!
**[21:10] ---**
That reality is right here!
**[21:16] ---**
This world, as well as
the countless virtual worlds connected to it,
**[21:21] ---**
in no way are they make-believe refuges!
**[21:25] ---**
For me, this world is the reality
where I have a real life,
**[21:29] ---**
real friends, real encounters and partings,
and real smiles and tears!
**[21:34] ---**
Don't you all feel the same way?
**[21:36] ---**
Aren't you all doing your best
because this world is your alternate reality?
**[21:41] ---**
And yet, if it's just a game,
**[21:44] ---**
if you abandon it
because it's nothing but a virtual fake,
**[21:48] ---**
then tell me, where is our truth?
**[21:55] ---**
All these worlds that we've grown came together
just like this World Tree and started to bud.
**[22:03] ---**
And caused this flower called the Underworld
to bloom.
**[22:06] ---**
Well, I want to protect it.
**[22:09] ---**
Please!
**[22:11] ---**
Please... help us.
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Northern Chasm
**[22:51] ---**
All right! On to the sixth rope!
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: Ray of Light.
# E12 - Ray of Light
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GREXG043Y/ray-of-light)
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**[00:31] ---**
Wh-Who are you?
**[00:42] ---**
Charge!
**[00:43] ---**
Kick their ass!
**[00:48] ---**
Wh-What are you...
**[00:50] ---**
You aren't on our side?
**[00:57] ---**
Who is that group of soldiers?
**[01:01] ---**
That's...
**[02:34] ---**
Ray of Light
**[02:39] ---**
Dude, that's awesome!
**[02:43] ---**
That's gross!
**[03:31] ---**
I can't collapse now.
**[03:46] ---**
Alice?
**[03:47] ---**
Don't overdo it, Asuna.
Leave the rest to us, the Integrity Knights.
**[03:52] ---**
But those red soldiers are from the real world.
**[03:56] ---**
They're enemies who came from my world.
**[04:02] ---**
Even so, if they're merely a bloodthirsty lot,
haphazardly flailing their swords,
**[04:08] ---**
there's nothing to fear
even if there are thousands of them.
**[04:10] ---**
Exactly!
**[04:12] ---**
How about sharing a little bit of the glory?
**[04:24] ---**
Everyone. Thank you.
**[04:29] ---**
All right!
**[04:32] ---**
All troops, form a phalanx!
We're going for a single-point breakthrough!
**[04:58] ---**
I-I have to inform the emperor
that we're aborting the mission.
**[05:30] ---**
Ch-Champion!
**[05:47] ---**
Ch-Champ...
**[05:57] ---**
The emperor didn't give us any orders
regarding those red soldiers.
**[06:03] ---**
Isn't that right?
**[06:04] ---**
Yes, that's correct, but...
**[06:06] ---**
Then if we were to slaughter them,
it would have nothing to do with the emperor.
**[06:13] ---**
Champion.
**[06:16] ---**
Listen. Once a bridge goes up over the valley,
charge in with the entire army.
**[06:21] ---**
Whatever it takes,
you have to rescue our people on the other side!
**[06:24] ---**
Huh? Bridge? How—
**[06:27] ---**
It's obvious.
**[06:30] ---**
Ask someone who can do it.
**[06:38] ---**
If I can't cross the ropes,
**[06:43] ---**
then I'll just have to jump it myself!
**[06:54] ---**
Champion!
**[07:14] ---**
Damn it!
**[07:47] ---**
Stop.
**[07:49] ---**
Stop.
**[07:52] ---**
Stop!
**[08:07] ---**
Take this!
**[08:33] ---**
They're all weak.
**[08:35] ---**
*A person from the Dark Territory?*
**[08:49] ---**
Amazing.
**[08:53] ---**
Let's make a deal.
**[08:54] ---**
Deal?
**[08:58] ---**
Yes. You're the one who made those fissures
and that giant chasm, right?
**[09:03] ---**
Yes.
**[09:04] ---**
Listen. Put a bridge across the crack behind me.
It can be narrow, as long as it's sturdy.
**[09:08] ---**
Do that, and my 4,000 pugilists will fight with you
until we annihilate every one of those red soldiers.
**[09:15] ---**
The Dark Territory Army will fight with us?
**[09:20] ---**
I don't think this man would lie.
**[09:29] ---**
All right.
**[09:31] ---**
I'll build a bridge over the chasm.
**[10:17] ---**
*They're...*
**[10:18] ---**
*anomalies!*
**[10:22] ---**
Move.
**[10:24] ---**
Move!
**[10:34] ---**
System Call.
**[10:38] ---**
Discharge!
**[10:44] ---**
I'll incinerate them
all at once from the top of that hill!
**[10:47] ---**
Move!
**[10:49] ---**
Little one, don't run off by...
**[10:59] ---**
Little one!
**[11:02] ---**
Enhance Arma...
**[11:09] ---**
You bastard!
What are you doing to my apprentice?
**[11:17] ---**
Get out of the way!
**[11:19] ---**
Release Recollection!
**[11:24] ---**
Knight Commander, please go!
**[11:27] ---**
Sorry! I'll leave the rest to you!
**[11:42] ---**
Go!
**[12:18] ---**
Amazing.
**[12:20] ---**
Being impressed isn't going to cut it.
**[12:23] ---**
If we do make it south,
what are we going to do then?
**[12:27] ---**
Defeating that many enemies
might be difficult, even for us.
**[12:32] ---**
When you break through the enemy lines
and make it south,
**[12:34] ---**
keep advancing,
and distance yourselves from the enemy.
**[12:38] ---**
I'll create another fissure
and isolate the enemy.
**[12:42] ---**
A message! A message!
**[12:45] ---**
Integrity Knight Alice has been carried away
by the enemy commander on his dragon!
**[12:49] ---**
The dragon seems to have flown to the south.
**[12:52] ---**
Wh...
**[12:53] ---**
Did you say the emperor flew away?
**[12:57] ---**
So he wasn't just looking on
as a spectator earlier?
**[13:00] ---**
Hey, woman!
**[13:01] ---**
Alice is the Priestess of Light, isn't she?
**[13:03] ---**
Why does the emperor want her so badly?
**[13:06] ---**
What's going to happen
if the emperor captures the Priestess of Light?
**[13:12] ---**
This world will be destroyed.
**[13:16] ---**
When the Dark God Vecta seizes Alice,
the Priestess of Light,
**[13:20] ---**
and reaches the World End's Altar,
**[13:22] ---**
this world, both the Human Empire
and the Dark Territory,
**[13:25] ---**
will be returned to nothingness.
**[13:32] ---**
Dragons can't fly forever.
**[13:35] ---**
The most they can fly
without a break is half a day.
**[13:39] ---**
Then it looks like you'll have to put
your spirit into it and give chase, right?
**[13:42] ---**
"Give chase"? But you...
**[13:46] ---**
Aren't you with the Dark Territory Army?
Why would you say that?
**[13:50] ---**
Emperor Vecta told us, the council of ten,
in so many words,
**[13:56] ---**
that all he was after was the Priestess of Light.
**[14:00] ---**
The moment he flew away with the priestess,
the emperor's goal was achieved.
**[14:04] ---**
In other words,
**[14:06] ---**
whatever we do now,
**[14:09] ---**
even if it's helping the Human Empire Army
steal back the priestess from the emperor,
**[14:15] ---**
it's our choice.
**[14:18] ---**
Isn't that right?
**[14:21] ---**
I... We... can't defy the emperor directly.
**[14:26] ---**
If the emperor gives us another order
to fight all of you,
**[14:31] ---**
we have to obey.
**[14:33] ---**
So we, the pugilists guild,
will stop the red soldiers here.
**[14:37] ---**
I want you and the Human Empire Army
to go after the emperor.
**[14:41] ---**
And then tell the emperor... that bastard...
**[14:47] ---**
Let that bastard know!
**[14:49] ---**
That we're not his damned puppets!
**[14:56] ---**
All right!
**[14:58] ---**
Everyone! Hold that breach!
**[15:03] ---**
And you two get out of here.
We can only hold out for so long.
**[15:08] ---**
Thank you.
**[15:09] ---**
I will remain here, too.
**[15:12] ---**
Understood. Please take care of the rearguard.
**[15:22] ---**
Are you sure about this, woman?
**[15:24] ---**
I already told you my name.
**[15:27] ---**
Are you sure about this, Sheyta?
There's no guarantee that you'll live through this.
**[15:31] ---**
I'll be the one to slash you.
**[15:33] ---**
They can't have you.
**[15:36] ---**
Whatever!
**[15:40] ---**
All right! Come on, everyone,
show me some fire!
**[15:46] ---**
Circular formation!
**[15:47] ---**
All-around defense!
**[15:49] ---**
Any morons that come near us, give them hell!
**[15:54] ---**
You're fired up, huh, Champion?
**[15:59] ---**
Yeah!
**[16:00] ---**
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 6:01 AM Ocean Turtle
**[16:09] ---**
Oh, hey! You're awake, huh?
**[16:12] ---**
I figured your brain cells got fried up.
**[16:15] ---**
Shut up.
**[16:17] ---**
That's right.
**[16:19] ---**
I fell into a bottomless hole, and...
**[16:23] ---**
How exactly did you die over there?
**[16:26] ---**
You've been out for eight hours!
**[16:29] ---**
E-Eight hours?
**[16:32] ---**
Don't be so surprised.
**[16:35] ---**
Don't worry. At the time of your death in there,
the acceleration rate went down to 1:1.
**[16:41] ---**
D-Did you say 1:1?
**[16:43] ---**
Hey! You know what that means,
right, Four Eyes?
**[16:47] ---**
Twelve hours from now,
the JSDF command is going to attack this place.
**[16:52] ---**
Yeah I know.
**[16:53] ---**
These are all Captain Miller's orders.
**[16:57] ---**
Right now, I'm sending U.S. players
into the Dark Territory via a satellite connection.
**[17:04] ---**
What?
**[17:08] ---**
This is the movement log
for you and the captain.
**[17:12] ---**
Right now, the captain's gone past where you died,
and is heading further south.
**[17:16] ---**
And he's left behind the entire Dark Territory forces
in the north. He's going solo.
**[17:21] ---**
What that means is...
**[17:23] ---**
He's either chasing Alice,
or has already captured her, huh?
**[17:28] ---**
Yeah, but there's one problem. Look at this.
**[17:34] ---**
What's marked in red
is the horde of U.S. players.
**[17:37] ---**
And the black part surrounded by the red
is the Dark Territory Army.
**[17:42] ---**
The problem is this white group here,
or what's barely left of it, that is.
**[17:47] ---**
That's the Human Empire Army.
There're at least 700 of them.
**[17:50] ---**
If they catch up to the captain,
it's going to be a pain.
**[17:53] ---**
I have to stop them somehow.
**[17:56] ---**
Stop them, sure, but how?
**[18:01] ---**
These are the U.S. players
waiting for the second connection.
**[18:05] ---**
Once it hits 20,000, I'm going to flood
the Human Empire Army's position with them.
**[18:09] ---**
That's twenty-eight times the combat power.
They'll be crushed instantly!
**[18:13] ---**
And then I'll set the acceleration rate
back to 1,000:1.
**[18:16] ---**
That should give the captain plenty of time
**[18:19] ---**
to capture Alice and reach
the southernmost system console.
**[18:24] ---**
I hope it'll go that smoothly.
**[18:27] ---**
The Human Empire Army
is tougher than you think.
**[18:30] ---**
Those Integrity Knights are especially insane.
**[18:34] ---**
They did mow down
the entire first wave of the Dark Territory Army.
**[18:38] ---**
Otherwise, I never would've been defeated
in such a... shameful...
**[18:45] ---**
Lightning Flash.
**[18:47] ---**
That's right! There's no mistaking it.
**[18:49] ---**
It was definitely that woman!
**[18:51] ---**
Huh? What are you saying?
**[18:54] ---**
Hey, you stupid geek!
**[18:56] ---**
Those Rath guys holed up in the second control room
are doing the same thing as us!
**[19:01] ---**
There's a Japanese VRMMO player
mixed in with the Human Empire Army!
**[19:06] ---**
What?
**[19:07] ---**
If Lightning Flash Asuna is there,
that could mean that he did a dive, too.
**[19:13] ---**
Are you serious?
I can't just sit here like this!
**[19:16] ---**
Hey! I'm going back in!
**[19:19] ---**
Send me to the white group's location
at the same time as the 20,000 reinforcements.
**[19:23] ---**
Even if you want to go back, there's no dark knight
account anymore since you wasted it.
**[19:28] ---**
If you're okay with one of the reinforcement's
grunt account, I have plenty of those.
**[19:32] ---**
I have an account. A real special one!
**[20:20] ---**
I leave the rest in your hands.
**[20:27] ---**
Oh no. Sir Renly is sacrificing himself
to break through.
**[20:31] ---**
Don't!
**[21:11] ---**
It can't shoot rapid-fire?
**[21:12] ---**
That's fine.
**[21:14] ---**
Single-shot weapons
are more fitting for me, anyway.
**[21:34] ---**
Sorry to keep you waiting, Asuna.
**[21:44] ---**
Shino-non!
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: The Great Underworld War.
# E13 - The War of Underworld
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYNV4359R/the-war-of-underworld)
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**[00:26] Sinon**
Sorry to keep you waiting, Asuna.
**[00:35] Asuna**
Shino-non!
***SIGN*** The War of Underworld
**[02:16] Sinon**
Asuna, about five kilometers south of here,
you'll see what looks like abandoned ruins.
**[02:21] Sinon**
I think we can attack the enemy there
without being surrounded.
**[02:25] Asuna**
All right, Sinon.
**[02:28] Asuna**
No matter how huge
the American VRMMO population may be,
**[02:31] Asuna**
I doubt they can get anymore right away.
**[02:35] Asuna**
If we can beat the players they have now,
the enemy won't be able to do anything... I think.
**[02:39] Sinon**
All right, leave it to me.
**[02:42] Sinon**
So by the way, is Kirito in this unit?
**[02:46] Asuna**
There's no need for you to sound so formal.
**[02:50] Asuna**
Kirito's in here.
**[02:52] Sinon**
Is that so?
**[02:53] Sinon**
Then I guess I'll go say hi.
**[03:11] Ronie**
L... Lady Solus?
**[03:15] Sinon**
Hello! Nice to meet you.
**[03:18] Sinon**
I may look like Solus,
but not on the inside.
**[03:20] Sinon**
My name is Sinon.
**[03:28] Sinon**
That's right, like Asuna,
I'm from the real world.
**[03:32] Sinon**
And I'm Kirito's... friend.
**[03:35] Tiese**
I see.
**[03:37] Ronie**
They're all female!
**[03:39] Sinon**
And we're not the only ones.
**[04:02] Sinon**
*Even if your soul's been deeply damaged,*
**[04:06] Sinon**
*there are so many people
who know your soul so well.*
**[04:09] Sinon**
*See, can't you can feel it?*
**[04:12] Sinon**
*The you that's inside me.*
**[04:14] Sinon**
*The sarcastic, mischievous, stubborn,
and naïve one...*
**[04:18] Sinon**
*the strongest, kindest of all.*
**[04:32] Sinon**
Don't worry. Kirito will be better in no time.
**[04:36] Sinon**
At the moment when we really need him, right?
**[04:42] Sinon**
All right, I'm going to go on ahead
and fly to the ruins to get the lay of the land.
**[04:48] Sinon**
You guys look after Kirito, okay?
**[04:52] Asuna**
H-Hey, Sinon, did you just say "fly"?
**[04:55] Asuna**
Meaning... you can fly?
**[04:58] Sinon**
Y-Yeah.
**[04:59] Sinon**
Apparently, it's a unique power
gifted to the Solus account.
**[05:02] Sinon**
I was told that there's no time limit
or anything, either.
**[05:05] Asuna**
Then we're not the ones who need to be rescued!
**[05:08] Asuna**
It's Alice. Please go after Alice,
who's been abducted by the emperor!
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Ruins of the Eastern Gate
**[05:25] Lilpilin**
Len.
**[05:30] Lilpilin**
What were we fighting for?
**[05:35] Lilpilin**
Why did you all have to die for them?
**[05:52] Leafa**
Ouch!
**[05:56] Leafa**
Jeez!
**[05:58] Leafa**
This is why I can't stand brand-new equipment!
**[06:12] Lilpilin**
Don't look! Don't look at me!
**[06:19] Leafa**
Um, good afternoon.
**[06:22] Leafa**
Hup.
**[06:23] Leafa**
Or should it be good morning?
**[06:27] Lilpilin**
Why aren't you running away?
Why aren't you screaming?
**[06:30] Lilpilin**
You're a human, so why not?
**[06:32] Leafa**
Why?
**[06:34] Leafa**
Because you're a human, aren't you?
**[06:36] Lilpilin**
H-Human? Me? How ridiculous!
**[06:40] Lilpilin**
Can't you tell by looking? I'm an orc!
**[06:44] Lilpilin**
An orc, which you Iums revile as pig-people!
**[06:46] Leafa**
But you're still a human, right?
**[06:48] Leafa**
After all, you and I are standing here talking.
What else would you need?
**[06:53] Lilpilin**
What else?
**[06:55] Leafa**
More importantly, where are we now?
**[06:59] Leafa**
Um, what's your name?
**[07:04] Lilpilin**
I-I'm Lilpilin.
**[07:06] Leafa**
Lilpilin? That's a nice name. I'm Leafa.
**[07:11] Leafa**
Hello, nice to meet you.
**[07:21] Lilpilin**
You're a knight from the Human Empire Army,
aren't you?
**[07:24] Lilpilin**
Then I'm taking you as my prisoner.
**[07:26] Lilpilin**
And I'm taking you to the emperor!
**[07:28] Leafa**
By emperor, you mean Vecta,
the god of darkness, right?
**[07:31] Lilpilin**
Th-That's right.
**[07:33] Leafa**
All right.
**[07:33] Leafa**
Then take me to him.
**[07:43] Lilpilin**
*Who is this girl, anyway?*
**[07:45] Lilpilin**
*If I can talk, I'm a human?*
**[07:48] Lilpilin**
*The goblins, ogres, and giants can all speak, too,*
**[07:51] Lilpilin**
*but just because we look different,
the humans treat us with scorn.*
**[07:56] Lilpilin**
*And yet, this girl...*
**[08:00] Lilpilin**
Come on.
**[08:06] Lilpilin**
What's this?
**[08:27] Lilpilin**
Y-You're Dee Eye Ell!
**[08:30] Dee Eye Ell**
The smell... Oh, the smell!
**[08:34] Dee Eye Ell**
So sweet, the fragrance of life!
**[08:39] Dee Eye Ell**
What splendid prey you've captured!
**[08:43] Dee Eye Ell**
Good job, pig.
**[08:47] Dee Eye Ell**
As a reward,
I'm going to show you something amusing!
**[09:00] Dee Eye Ell**
Well? You've never seen
a human woman's body before, have you?
**[09:04] Dee Eye Ell**
Perhaps this is too much for a pig to see?
**[09:07] Dee Eye Ell**
But this is where the fun begins.
**[09:10] Dee Eye Ell**
Just watch.
**[09:23] Dee Eye Ell**
System Call!
**[09:25] Dee Eye Ell**
Transfer Human Unit Durability, Left to Self!
**[09:35] Dee Eye Ell**
Incredible! So incredible!
**[09:38] Lilpilin**
- How thick and sweet it is!
- Wh-What are you doing?
**[09:41] Lilpilin**
That girl is my prisoner!
I'm taking her to the emperor!
**[09:46] Dee Eye Ell**
Silence, you damned pig!
**[09:48] Dee Eye Ell**
Have you forgotten that
the emperor has given me full command?
**[09:53] Dee Eye Ell**
My will is the emperor's will.
**[09:55] Dee Eye Ell**
My orders are the emperor's orders.
**[10:15] Dee Eye Ell**
I don't believe it!
**[10:17] Dee Eye Ell**
It's surging... it's overflowing again!
**[10:38] Dee Eye Ell**
It's mine! This is all mine!
**[10:42] Leafa**
*I have to endure.*
**[10:44] Leafa**
*I can't kill anyone from this world
without knowing what's going on.*
**[10:51] Lilpilin**
Stop.
**[10:56] Lilpilin**
Stop!
**[10:58] Dee Eye Ell**
What's that? Are you giving me an order?
**[11:04] Dee Eye Ell**
Didn't I tell you, pig?
**[11:06] Dee Eye Ell**
This prisoner is mine now!
**[11:08] Dee Eye Ell**
No matter how much life I suck out of her,
**[11:10] Dee Eye Ell**
or if I choke the life out of her right here,
it has nothing to do with you, see?
**[11:16] Dee Eye Ell**
But hold on.
**[11:18] Dee Eye Ell**
It was you who found her, after all,
so maybe a slight concession is in order?
**[11:23] Dee Eye Ell**
All right, let's see you strip naked right now.
**[11:27] Lilpilin**
What are you talking about?
**[11:29] Dee Eye Ell**
Ever since I first saw you in that preposterous armor
and cloak, it's always made me gag.
**[11:36] Dee Eye Ell**
A lowly pig looking almost human.
**[11:39] Dee Eye Ell**
If you strip naked on the spot,
crawl around on all fours, and squeal,
**[11:43] Dee Eye Ell**
then I might let you have this girl back.
**[11:47] Leafa**
*But you're still a human, right?*
**[11:51] Leafa**
*What else would you need?*
**[12:09] Leafa**
Don't.
**[12:11] Leafa**
I'm... fine, so...
**[12:15] Leafa**
don't do it!
**[12:17] Dee Eye Ell**
Come on, what's wrong, pig?
Just strip already!
**[12:21] Dee Eye Ell**
Or could it be that you're aroused
by the sight of naked human flesh?
**[12:29] Lilpilin**
I'm...
**[12:31] Lilpilin**
I'm...
**[12:38] Lilpilin**
I'm...
**[12:41] Lilpilin**
a human!
**[13:00] Dee Eye Ell**
You stinking pig!
**[13:05] Dee Eye Ell**
How dare you put a scratch on me!
**[13:14] Dee Eye Ell**
I'm going to chop you up,
mix you with hay,
**[13:17] Dee Eye Ell**
and then feed you...
**[13:20] Dee Eye Ell**
to the boars!
**[13:40] Dee Eye Ell**
A human, slashing another human to save a pig?
**[13:45] Leafa**
It's not that.
**[13:47] Leafa**
I'm slashing evil to save a human!
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Southern Ruins
**[14:09] Asuna**
I'm counting on you to take care of Kirito.
**[14:12] Ronie**
Right! Please leave it to us, Lady Asuna!
**[14:15] Tiese**
We promise to protect him!
**[14:17] Sortiliena**
Even if it costs us our lives.
**[14:21] Asuna**
Don't worry.
We won't let the enemy get this far.
**[14:36] Renly**
Attack!
**[15:09] Vassago**
As merciless as ever when she snaps!
**[15:12] Vassago**
I'm so going to kill that woman!
**[15:22] Bercouli**
Why aren't I catching up?
**[15:24] Bercouli**
Even though I'm switching between
three different dragons?
**[15:27] Bercouli**
Can this god of darkness
manipulate the life of a flying dragon?
**[15:32] Bercouli**
No way around it, eh?
**[15:38] Bercouli**
Forgive me, nameless flying dragon.
**[15:41] Bercouli**
Time-Splitting Sword...
**[15:57] Bercouli**
Uragiri!
**[16:05] Bercouli**
Uragiri is "the sword that slashes the past."
**[16:09] Bercouli**
Even an emperor won't be able to rewind time!
**[16:14] Bercouli**
If I fall, head back north and rejoin the unit.
**[16:23] Bercouli**
*Emperor Vecta.*
**[16:24] Bercouli**
*Not all real-worlders are demons like you...*
**[16:28] Bercouli**
*I know just from looking at that Asuna girl.*
**[16:30] Bercouli**
*But you've driven the people of the land of darkness
onto the battlefield,*
**[16:34] Bercouli**
*and caused not just us,
but tens of thousand of them to die senselessly.*
**[16:39] Bercouli**
*That proves a human like you
is utterly evil to the core.*
**[16:44] Bercouli**
*You must pay.*
**[16:45] Bercouli**
*You will know the weight of all the lives
that perished on the battlefield.*
**[16:48] Bercouli**
*With this blow,*
**[16:52] Bercouli**
I'll make it clear!
**[17:04] Bercouli**
How did he evade that?
**[17:15] Bercouli**
*I've got you!*
**[17:16] Bercouli**
Time-Splitting Sword... Karagiri!
**[17:31] Bercouli**
So you can devour people's Incarnation?
**[17:36] Vecta**
Incarnation?
**[17:37] Vecta**
I see. Mind and will, huh?
**[17:40] Vecta**
Your mind is like an old vintage wine.
**[17:44] Vecta**
Rich, thick, heavy... with a lingering aftertaste.
**[17:49] Vecta**
It's not to my taste,
**[17:51] Vecta**
but perhaps good for cleansing the palate
before the main course.
**[17:59] Vecta**
Now, let me drink more.
**[18:03] Bercouli**
Don't mock me!
**[18:24] Bercouli**
*I win!*
**[18:40] Bercouli**
*What's going on?*
**[18:42] Bercouli**
*No, what was I going to do in the first place?*
**[18:52] Bercouli**
Did I just space out during battle?
**[18:59] Bercouli**
You bastard, did you suck my Incarnation
straight from my sword?
**[19:04] Bercouli**
This is entertaining and all, Your Majesty.
**[19:08] Bercouli**
But not being able to cross swords
makes this a tough battle.
**[19:11] Bercouli**
Seriously!
**[19:13] Vecta**
That reminds me, I haven't tried this yet.
**[19:19] Bercouli**
No way, not from a distance, too?
**[19:40] Bercouli**
*Just having that sword pointed at me
stopped my conscious thought?*
**[19:44] Bercouli**
*How can I counter that?*
**[19:45] Bercouli**
*I've already used Karagiri once,
so it won't work again.*
**[19:49] Bercouli**
*My other secret skill is the Memory Release Uragiri,
but who knows if it'll have any effect?*
**[19:56] Administrator**
*Have you ever had a premonition about death?*
**[20:01] Bercouli**
This is the place where I may die, Your Eminence?
**[20:10] Bercouli**
*Little one.*
**[20:12] Bercouli**
*I wasn't able to give you
the fatherly love you craved deep inside.*
**[20:19] Bercouli**
*After all, I don't even remember my own parents.*
**[20:23] Bercouli**
*But I do know one thing.*
**[20:26] Bercouli**
*A parent will die protecting their child.*
**[20:30] Bercouli**
Not that you'll ever understand that
as long you live...
**[20:36] Bercouli**
you monster!
**[20:39] American Player A**
What the hell? This game really sucks!
**[20:42] American Player A**
I'm going to log out soon!
**[20:58] Asuna**
My won't give out until my mind does.
**[21:03] Asuna**
So I will stay standing forever!
**[21:06] American Players**
Go!
**[21:16] Asuna**
Enemy... reinforcements?
**[21:46] Asuna**
A sword... skill?
**[21:51] Asuna**
You're...
**[21:54] Klein**
Hey, sorry to keep you waiting, Asuna.
**[21:57] Asuna**
Klein?
**[23:36] Asuna**
Next time: End to Eternity.
# E14 - End to Eternity
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**[00:09] Asuna**
Agil!
**[00:11] Agil**
Sorry I didn't get here sooner.
**[00:17] Asuna**
Liz! Silica!
**[00:22] Asuna**
You came! You actually came!
**[00:24] Lisbeth**
Of course we'd come!
**[00:26] Silica**
How could we not?
**[00:30] Lisbeth**
You've been pushing yourself so hard...
look how banged up you are.
**[00:33] Lisbeth**
You're overdoing it, Asuna.
**[00:36] Silica**
Leave the rest to us. Everyone's here!
**[00:40] Asuna**
Everyone?
**[00:57] Alicia**
Those red guys are the enemy!
**[00:59] Eugene**
Vanguard, charge!
**[01:01] Eugene**
Push them back!
**[01:03] Sakuya**
Rearguard, join the Underworld forces for now,
and check your spells.
**[01:08] Klein**
It's not like we have a personal beef with you,
**[01:11] Klein**
but we're going to make you pay
for what you did to our friend.
**[01:15] Klein**
Three times the amount...
no, make it a thousand!
**[01:18] Klein**
You bastards!
***SIGN*** End to Eternity
**[03:05] Asuna**
You might not even make it back,
but you still converted your precious characters.
**[03:11] Asuna**
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
**[03:13] Lisbeth**
What are you talking about, Asuna?
**[03:15] Lisbeth**
I believe we all made it through SAO and ALO
**[03:18] Lisbeth**
so that we could protect what we love
right here, right now.
**[03:25] Asuna**
Yeah. You're right.
**[03:28] Asuna**
Thank you.
**[03:30] Asuna**
Hey, Liz, Silica.
**[03:32] Asuna**
Who was it that brought you all here?
**[03:36] Lisbeth**
Come on, Asuna, who do you think?
**[03:39] Silica**
It was Yui.
**[03:41] Silica**
Yui gave us this heartfelt speech
about the Underworld and the people who live here.
**[03:53] Asuna**
Thank you, Yui.
**[04:09] Renly**
Um... Lady Asuna?
**[04:11] Renly**
Who exactly are these people? And also...
**[04:14] Renly**
those knights?
**[04:16] Asuna**
They're my precious friends!
**[04:19] Asuna**
They've come from the real world to help us.
**[04:29] Renly**
Is that right?
**[04:31] Renly**
I'm so glad!
**[04:32] Renly**
I thought that everyone
from the outside world,
**[04:36] Renly**
aside from Lady Asuna,
would look scary, like those soldiers.
**[04:40] Lisbeth**
Of course we're not all like that!
I'm Lisbeth! Nice to meet you, Mr. Knight!
**[04:45] Silica**
I'm Silica! It's very nice to meet you!
**[04:48] Renly**
Right, nice to meet you! My name is Renly.
**[04:54] Asuna**
Liz, how many people converted in all?
**[04:58] Lisbeth**
Um, maybe a little over two thousand, I think?
**[05:01] Lisbeth**
I did my best, but I couldn't convince
every single player who heard me out.
**[05:08] Asuna**
That's more than enough!
**[05:10] Asuna**
But to keep reconverting a possibility,
I'd like to avoid a war of attrition.
**[05:15] Asuna**
Let's not expand the front lines too much,
and bolster our healing.
**[05:18] Asuna**
Liz and Silica, I want you to fall back with 200 or so
and form a support unit.
**[05:23] Silica**
Understood!
**[05:24] Lisbeth**
Okay! You can count on us!
**[05:26] Asuna**
I know this isn't what you want to hear,
but please join the monks and use your healing arts.
**[05:31] Asuna**
Since the real world swordsmen
aren't familiar with the sacred arts,
**[05:35] Asuna**
it would really help
if you could teach them the formal arts.
**[05:38] Renly**
Uh, right, Lady Asuna!
**[05:42] Asuna**
I...
**[05:44] Asuna**
will fight at the front!
**[05:58] Asuna**
*Now we won't lose.*
**[06:04] Asuna**
*Now that everyone's here.*
**[06:27] Asuna**
*It's all right. We can win!*
**[06:33] Asuna**
*All together...*
**[06:36] Asuna**
*we can definitely win!*
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 7:18 AM Ocean Turtle
**[06:55] Higa**
You think that was in time?
**[07:01] Rinko**
It was in time.
**[07:04] Rinko**
Definitely.
**[07:15] Higa**
Seriously, I can't believe I was so careless.
**[07:19] Higa**
Who knew that they'd have American VRMMO players
dive into the Underworld?
**[07:26] Higa**
Not only that, but it was an existing AI
connected to Asuna's cell phone that detected it.
**[07:33] Rinko**
Even if there was no other way,
**[07:36] Rinko**
letting those players in has made some information
on the Project Alicization public.
**[07:42] Higa**
Compared to Alice falling into enemy hands,
**[07:44] Higa**
and being used as a passive AI
on an unmanned weapon, this is way better.
**[07:53] Higa**
That's right, Alice isn't just a control AI
for UAVs anymore.
**[07:59] Higa**
She's a new form of humanity
born in a true alternate world.
**[08:03] Higa**
You realized that long ago.
**[08:06] Higa**
Isn't that right, Kirito?
**[08:28] Higa**
H-Hey, Rinko! Could you take a look at this?
**[08:34] Rinko**
What are these fluctuations?
**[08:35] Higa**
It means his lost consciousness showed activity
for just a moment.
**[08:43] Higa**
But there's no way that could happen.
**[08:49] Rinko**
Wait a moment.
**[08:50] Rinko**
Aren't both of these times
when the girls used the STL to dive?
**[09:00] Higa**
What does this mean?
**[09:02] Higa**
Is it just that he had a strong reaction
because someone close to him showed up?
**[09:07] Higa**
No, the damage Kirito sustained isn't something
that could be repaired for such a poetic reason.
**[09:14] Higa**
Something has to be causing this.
**[09:16] Higa**
The self. The subject.
**[09:19] Higa**
The image that defines you as you.
**[09:22] Higa**
Could there be a backup
of that quantum pattern somewhere?
**[09:25] Higa**
No, that's impossible.
We never once duplicated Kirito's Fluctlight.
**[09:30] Rinko**
Hey.
**[09:31] Higa**
Even if there was a backup, it would be impossible
to extract the self-image and copy it over.
**[09:37] Rinko**
Hey, Higa.
**[09:39] Higa**
Is there an active quantum pattern
that can be connected to his Fluctlight?
**[09:44] Higa**
Where? Where is it?
**[09:46] Rinko**
Higa, listen!
**[09:49] Higa**
What is it?
**[09:50] Rinko**
Higa, you keep mentioning
the subject and the object,
**[09:54] Rinko**
but can you really separate them that easily?
**[09:59] Rinko**
Aren't the subject and the object
just philosophical concepts for expressing relationships?
**[10:04] Rinko**
But humans are social creatures.
It's not as if we exist as solitary beings.
**[10:09] Rinko**
The others who exist in you.
The you that exists in others.
**[10:12] Rinko**
Up to a point, they're all connected,
like a network.
**[10:17] Rinko**
Wouldn't you agree?
**[10:19] Higa**
The you... who exists... in others.
**[10:22] Higa**
Right!
**[10:24] Higa**
A backup self-image.
**[10:27] Higa**
We have it. We have it!
**[10:29] Higa**
We have data we can use
to restore Kirito's shattered subject!
**[10:33] Higa**
It's inside the Fluctlights
of the people closest to him!
**[10:37] Higa**
But to extract that data, we'll need an STL.
**[10:43] Higa**
And we couldn't reproduce it effectively
with just one person.
**[10:45] Higa**
We'd need at least two... no, three people.
**[10:48] Higa**
Mr. Kiku, the girls diving from Roppongi
are connected to Kirito, right?
**[10:54] Kikuoka**
Yeah, that's right.
**[10:56] Kikuoka**
Sinon teamed up with Kirito
to resolve the Death Gun Incident six months ago.
**[11:01] Kikuoka**
And Leafa is Kirito's younger sister.
**[11:05] Higa**
We can do it!
We might be able to restore it, then!
**[11:08] Higa**
Kirito's self-image, that is!
**[11:10] Higa**
If we can extract the image of Kirito
saved onto their Fluctlights,
**[11:15] Higa**
and connect it to the areas he's lost...
**[11:19] Higa**
That should do it!
**[11:22] Higa**
You're kidding me!
**[11:26] Higa**
The only place we can do all that
is the Main Control Room!
**[11:31] Kikuoka**
Don't be so disappointed, Higa.
It's good knowing that there's hope for Kirito.
**[11:37] Kikuoka**
We can launch the actual operation
after all this is resolved,
**[11:40] Kikuoka**
and those people have been
driven off the Ocean Turtle.
**[11:43] Higa**
But by then it'll be too late!
**[11:46] Higa**
If the commando unit
from the naval escort Asahi storms in,
**[11:50] Higa**
and a huge battle ensues in the Main Shaft,
the sub-power would probably get knocked out, too.
**[11:54] Higa**
If that were to happen,
**[11:56] Higa**
Kirito would be forcibly logged out
of the Underworld while still unconscious.
**[12:01] Higa**
And then most likely, Kirito wouldn't make it
past the initialization stage to log in,
**[12:06] Higa**
and he'll never be able to connect to the STL again.
**[12:10] Higa**
That's why, no matter what,
**[12:12] Higa**
we have to treat him while he and those three girls
are still diving in the Underworld.
**[12:20] Higa**
I'm going, okay, Mr. Kiku?
**[12:23] Kikuoka**
Going... where?
**[12:26] Higa**
STL Room Two, where Kirito is now,
and Maincon below the pressure bulkhead
**[12:32] Higa**
are connected by a cable duct
on the stern side of the Main Shaft.
**[12:36] Higa**
There should be a maintenance connector in there.
**[12:40] Higa**
I should be able to control Kirito's STL from there.
**[12:44] Kikuoka**
But the maintenance connector is on the other side
of the pressure bulkhead.
**[12:49] Kikuoka**
If they notice you,
you could get attacked from below.
**[12:52] Higa**
So let's go with a decoy operation.
**[12:54] Kikuoka**
Decoy, did you say?
**[12:57] Higa**
Of course, we wouldn't send in
valuable human resources.
**[13:01] Higa**
Once we unlock the pressure bulkhead door,
**[13:02] Higa**
we'll have it charge down the stairs for humans
on the other side of the duct.
**[13:07] Higa**
That.
**[13:10] Kikuoka**
I see.
**[13:13] Kikuoka**
You mean Ichiemon.
**[13:15] Rinko**
Hold on! All that one can do now
is slowly go up and down stairs.
**[13:20] Rinko**
It can't possibly rush back here
if the enemy spots it!
**[13:24] Higa**
I do feel bad for Ichiemon,
but he's just going to have to do his best.
**[13:28] Higa**
But given the way he looks,
the enemy might not open fire on him.
**[13:33] Rinko**
Well, that's true,
he's sure to stick out like a sore thumb,
**[13:37] Rinko**
so we can probably convince them
that we have an epic plan up our sleeves.
**[13:42] Higa**
At the very least,
they won't be able to ignore him!
**[13:45] Higa**
So while the enemy's dealing with Ichiemon,
**[13:48] Higa**
I'll infiltrate the lower cable duct,
**[13:50] Higa**
and operate Kirito's STL
through the maintenance connector.
**[13:54] Kikuoka**
While we're at it...
**[13:56] Kikuoka**
do you think we could deploy Niemon, too?
**[13:58] Higa**
Unfortunately, that's not possible.
**[14:01] Higa**
Like I said before, without a balancer,
**[14:05] Higa**
Niemon will only fall over
as soon as he starts descending the stairs.
**[14:08] Kikuoka**
I see.
**[14:09] Rinko**
But Higa, even if you did fool them long enough
to unlock the bulkhead,
**[14:14] Rinko**
there'd still be some risk of you being spotted.
**[14:18] Rinko**
Shouldn't you take a bodyguard with you?
**[14:21] Higa**
No. As it stands now,
we can't spare any of the JSDF staff.
**[14:26] Higa**
Besides, the only one who can easily move
through that cramped duct... is scrawny little me!
**[14:33] Higa**
I'm going to zip over, and zip right back, okay?
**[14:37] Higa**
If it weren't for Kirito,
Alice's Fluctlight wouldn't have become what it is now.
**[14:42] Higa**
That alone is such a great achievement,
**[14:46] Higa**
but while trying to protect Alice...
**[14:49] Higa**
That's why, if there's a chance we can treat him,
we have to take any risk.
**[14:55] Higa**
Or we won't be able to look him in the eye,
am I right?
**[15:00] Higa**
Um...
**[15:02] Yanai**
I'll go with you, Chief Higa.
**[15:07] Yanai**
As you can see, I'm scrawny, too,
but I think I can at least take a bullet for you.
**[15:13] Yanai**
And besides, I'm the one
who's been maintaining those cables till now.
**[15:20] Yanai**
To be honest, I don't really remember
where that maintenance connector is.
**[15:24] Higa**
So thanks for coming along...
**[15:27] Higa**
Mr. Yanai.
**[15:59] Higa**
I've grown tired of this.
**[16:01] Vecta**
Your soul is so heavy.
**[16:04] Vecta**
It's too thick. And tedious, as well.
**[16:08] Vecta**
The only thing on your mind is killing me.
**[16:11] Vecta**
Begone.
**[16:15] Vecta**
Don't be like that.
**[16:18] Bercouli**
I've still got enough left to enjoy this!
**[16:23] Bercouli**
*Just a little longer.*
**[16:28] Bercouli**
Where are you?
**[16:29] Bercouli**
Where did you go?
**[16:32] Bercouli**
Is that it?
**[16:41] Bercouli**
Huh?
**[16:42] Bercouli**
Or was it this way?
**[16:45] Bercouli**
*Thirty seconds more.*
**[16:51] Bercouli**
*There.*
**[16:54] Bercouli**
*Found it.*
**[16:55] Bercouli**
*579... 580... 581... 582!*
**[17:02] Bercouli**
You're up to something, aren't you?
**[17:10] Vecta**
So I missed, huh?
**[17:12] Bercouli**
Forgive me, little Asuna... Alice.
**[17:24] Bercouli**
Hey, now... didn't I tell you to stand by?
**[17:32] Bercouli**
*You've never once disobeyed my orders.*
**[17:48] Bercouli**
*Hoshigami, this moment you've created for me
won't go to waste!*
**[18:15] Bercouli**
The Time-Splitting Sword Uragiri
is "the sword that slashes time."
**[18:19] Bercouli**
I just slashed your past.
**[18:53] Bercouli**
*So warm.*
**[18:57] Alice**
*Father.*
**[19:07] Alice**
Uncle?
**[19:11] Alice**
That's right, I was captured
by the emperor's flying dragon, and...
**[19:19] Alice**
U-Uncle? Lord Bercouli?
**[19:30] Alice**
Uncle!
**[19:33] Alice**
It can't be...
**[19:45] Alice**
No!
**[19:48] Alice**
Hey, now. Don't sob like that, little one.
**[19:52] Bercouli**
My time was always going to come,
and now it has, that's all.
**[19:55] Bercouli**
Right?
**[19:57] Bercouli**
You'll be fine, little one.
You can make it on your own now.
**[20:02] Bercouli**
After all, you're my only apprentice,
as well as my daughter.
**[20:09] Bercouli**
Hey, not a bad way to go, huh?
**[20:13] Bercouli**
That's right.
**[20:15] Administrator**
You have so many people who will cry for you.
Consider yourself blessed.
**[20:21] Administrator**
What, you were alive all along?
**[20:25] Bercouli**
Of course not!
This is the me that exists in your memory.
**[20:32] Administrator**
The memories of Administrator
you've kept inside your soul.
**[20:39] Administrator**
I'm not sure I get it.
**[20:41] Bercouli**
Still, I'm glad that in my memories,
you're able to smile like that.
**[21:14] Bercouli**
Don't you resent me at all?
**[21:17] Administrator**
When I'm the one who locked you
in a prison of never-ending time,
**[21:20] Administrator**
and robbed you of your memories
over and over?
**[21:23] Administrator**
I admit it went on so long it got old,
**[21:26] Bercouli**
but it was a hell of an interesting life.
**[21:30] Bercouli**
I mean it.
**[21:32] Bercouli**
Is that so?
**[21:38] Administrator**
*Forgive me, Fanatio.*
**[21:41] Administrator**
*It looks like we won't be
seeing each other again.*
**[21:46] Bercouli**
*I'll leave the rest to you.*
**[21:56] Bercouli**
*To give our child a happy life.*
**[22:13] Bercouli**
My lord!
**[22:22] Fanatio**
Have no fear, Lord Bercouli.
**[22:26] Fanatio**
I will raise this child to be proper.
**[22:29] Fanatio**
To become a gallant, proud human like you.
**[22:45] Fanatio**
Well done, Captain.
**[22:48] Critter**
Well, you got your butt kicked though, huh?
**[22:51] Critter**
What's the status?
**[22:52] Gabriel**
Like you ordered, I sent in those 50,000 players
we scraped up from all over America.
**[22:58] Critter**
That bastard Vassago died
and came back once,
**[23:01] Critter**
but then he got super excited,
converted his personal account, and dove back in.
**[23:06] Critter**
Oh? I see...
**[23:09] Critter**
I see.
**[23:16] Gabriel**
All right, I'm diving in again.
Convert this account to the Underworld.
**[23:36] Gabriel**
Next time: Instigation.
# E15 - Instigation
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6J058JDR/instigation)
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**[00:25] ---**
Did you... come from the real world, as well?
**[00:31] ---**
Yes. My name is Sinon.
**[00:34] ---**
I came here to save you and Bercouli
from the Dark God Vecta, but...
**[00:40] ---**
I'm sorry. I was too late.
**[00:45] ---**
No.
**[00:47] ---**
I was such a fool.
**[00:51] ---**
How's the battle going?
**[00:55] ---**
Asuna and the Human Empire Army are holding off
the red forces from the real world...
**[01:01] ---**
but just barely.
**[01:03] ---**
In that case, I'll head back north.
**[01:06] ---**
You can't do that.
**[01:08] ---**
Alice, you need to continue south
to the World's End Altar.
**[01:14] ---**
If you can touch the console...
no, the crystal panel on the altar,
**[01:19] ---**
you should hear voices from the real world.
**[01:22] ---**
Why would I?
**[01:23] ---**
Emperor Vecta is dead, isn't he?
**[01:26] ---**
The thing is, he's not.
**[01:30] ---**
When a real-worlder dies in the Underworld,
**[01:33] ---**
they don't lose their actual life.
**[01:37] ---**
The enemy who dwelled in Emperor Vecta...
**[01:40] ---**
there's a chance he could return to this world
in a different form.
**[01:46] ---**
So the man that
Uncle sacrificed himself to kill isn't dead?
**[01:53] ---**
He's simply vanished temporarily,
to come back to life as if nothing happened?
**[01:58] ---**
Is that what you're saying?
**[02:02] ---**
Then what was it all for...
why did Uncle have to die?
**[02:12] ---**
A duel where only one risks their life... it's...
**[02:17] ---**
It's nothing but a farce!
**[02:24] ---**
Then, Alice, are you saying
that Kirito's suffering is also false?
**[02:31] ---**
Kirito's a real-worlder, too.
**[02:34] ---**
Even if he dies in this world,
he's not really going to die.
**[02:39] ---**
But the wounds he sustained are real.
**[02:43] ---**
The pain he felt, his damaged soul...
they're all real, too.
**[02:50] ---**
I... like Kirito.
**[02:53] ---**
I like him so much.
**[02:55] ---**
That's true for Asuna and the others.
**[02:57] ---**
And we're all... worried about Kirito.
**[03:01] ---**
We're wondering
why Kirito had to go to such lengths.
**[03:08] ---**
Kirito sustained those wounds
to save you, Alice.
**[03:13] ---**
And so did the knight commander.
**[03:15] ---**
In order to save you,
he suffered all those blows
**[03:20] ---**
and bought you enough time
to escape from the enemy.
**[03:31] ---**
Sinon,
**[03:33] ---**
if I go to the real world
through the World's End Altar,
**[03:36] ---**
will I be able to return to this world?
**[03:40] ---**
Will I be able to see my loved ones again?
**[03:44] ---**
Yes. As long as you, and the Underworld, are safe.
**[03:51] ---**
Very well.
**[03:53] ---**
Then I'll head south.
**[03:56] ---**
I don't know what awaits me
at the World's End Altar,
**[03:59] ---**
but if that's what Uncle,
as well as Kirito, would want...
**[04:05] ---**
What will you do, Sinon?
**[04:09] ---**
I think that Dark God Vecta
will come back to life right here.
**[04:13] ---**
I'm going to do the best I can.
**[04:17] ---**
I appreciate that.
**[04:19] ---**
I won't let your efforts go to waste.
***SIGN*** Instigation
**[07:17] ---**
Well, I guess dying like this won't shame me
if I see the previous leader in the afterlife.
**[07:39] ---**
What is this pain?
**[07:42] ---**
I know I want to slash that person.
**[07:52] ---**
*I want to savor that battle again...
that burns everything to its core.*
**[07:58] ---**
*And then I want to sever those fists,
harder than diamonds.*
**[08:03] ---**
*I was sure that was my only desire.*
**[08:07] ---**
*Why, then?*
**[08:10] ---**
*Slash... slash... slash on and on.*
**[08:14] ---**
*Only at the end of that blood-smeared path
will you find the key to breaking your curse.*
**[08:20] ---**
*At least, you might.*
**[08:23] ---**
Oh, I see.
**[08:49] ---**
Thank you for all of this time.
**[09:04] ---**
Thank you, too, Yoiyobi.
**[09:08] ---**
You must be tired. Let's rest now.
**[09:12] ---**
Sorry. Your precious sword's broken
because of me.
**[09:17] ---**
It's all right. I finally know why.
**[09:23] ---**
Why I've been slashing everything.
**[09:28] ---**
To find what I don't want to slash.
**[09:31] ---**
To find what I do want to protect.
**[09:34] ---**
That's why I kept fighting.
**[09:37] ---**
It was you.
**[09:44] ---**
Dammit. I wish I could've had a family with you.
**[09:49] ---**
What a strong kid we would've had.
**[09:52] ---**
Way stronger than the previous leader, than me...
**[09:58] ---**
The kid would've been the strongest pugilist of all.
**[10:01] ---**
No. I'm raising that child to be a knight.
**[10:32] ---**
Looks like things
are about to wrap up, huh?
**[10:37] ---**
Thank you.
**[10:39] ---**
Klein...
**[10:41] ---**
I don't know how to show my appreciation.
**[10:44] ---**
Hey, come on. Don't be like that.
**[10:47] ---**
I owe you and that damn Kirito way too much
to ever be able to pay you back.
**[10:54] ---**
He's in here, too, right?
**[10:57] ---**
After this battle, please go see him.
**[11:01] ---**
If you start telling your lame jokes again,
he might wake up just to tell you off.
**[11:08] ---**
Man, that's harsh!
**[11:18] ---**
It'll be all right.
**[11:20] ---**
Everything will go our way. I'm sure.
**[11:20] ---**
Advance!
**[11:25] ---**
You said it!
**[11:27] ---**
Now then, there's one more round to go.
**[11:31] ---**
Right.
**[11:35] ---**
What's wrong?
**[11:37] ---**
Hey, Klein.
**[11:39] ---**
Doesn't that person look familiar?
**[11:45] ---**
Look familiar?
**[11:47] ---**
But with that raincoat on...
their face won't...
**[11:54] ---**
No, it can't be.
**[11:56] ---**
There's just no way!
**[12:00] ---**
Am I seeing a ghost?
**[12:02] ---**
A-A ghost?
**[12:04] ---**
What do you mean?
**[12:05] ---**
Well, I mean, that black raincoat...
**[12:09] ---**
no, that leather poncho...
**[12:12] ---**
That's the leader of Laughing Coffin...
**[12:22] ---**
- What?
- Who is that?
**[12:24] ---**
That's PoH!
**[12:26] ---**
It can't be!
**[12:43] ---**
Stop. Just stop.
**[12:46] ---**
This is bad. This is really bad!
**[12:50] ---**
That colossal force didn't come
from Japan or America.
**[12:56] ---**
It's from China and Korea!
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 8:47 AM Seoul, South Korea
**[13:15] ---**
I'll have to enlist soon, huh?
**[13:18] ---**
If only they had these in the army.
**[13:25] ---**
Link start.
**[13:40] ---**
"A bunch of Korean, American
and Chinese gamers
**[13:43] ---**
made a new VRMMO and their server's been hacked
by some Japanese players.
**[13:53] ---**
They're attacking the testers in game right now."
**[13:56] ---**
What's up with that?
**[13:58] ---**
*Those red guys are the enemy!*
**[14:00] ---**
Is that Japanese?
**[14:00] ---**
*Vanguard, charge!*
**[14:02] ---**
*Push them back!*
**[14:03] ---**
It looks like a massacre of the American players
by the Japanese players,
**[14:08] ---**
but the Japanese side
seems way too desperate for that.
***SIGN*** Shanghai, China
**[14:22] ---**
Hey, Moonphase, did you see that video?
**[14:26] ---**
*Is that you, Mei Mei Xiang?
Yeah, I just saw it.*
**[14:30] ---**
Then hurry and download the client.
**[14:34] ---**
*The client?*
**[14:39] ---**
"Seeking volunteers to help save the testers
from the vicious Japanese attackers.
**[14:47] ---**
For anyone who'd like to join, please download
the required client software to your Amusphere."
**[14:56] ---**
Is this it?
**[14:57] ---**
Mei Mei Xiang, what's your take on all this?
**[15:01] ---**
I'm not really sure.
**[15:03] ---**
But if it's true, then our comrades
might be in trouble, right?
**[15:10] ---**
Well, yeah, I guess. But that video...
**[15:13] ---**
*Why don't you just go ahead and install it?
I'm going on ahead.*
**[15:20] ---**
I guess I'll find out once I get there.
**[15:22] ---**
And it looks like most of my friends
are taking part.
**[15:39] ---**
Here he comes!
**[16:08] ---**
*There's no doubt... I know him!*
**[16:12] ---**
*Those eyes... that face... I know him!*
**[16:31] ---**
Subtilizer...
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 9:03 AM Ocean Turtle
**[16:55] ---**
*Well, Higa? Any problems?*
**[17:01] ---**
Y-Yeah, we're managing.
**[17:03] ---**
I think we should be able to climb down
to the pressure bulkhead in another five minutes.
**[17:08] ---**
Understood.
**[17:10] ---**
Once you're ready,
I'll give the Ichiemon team the order to move in.
**[17:14] ---**
*Roger!*
**[17:16] ---**
*Sorry about this, Mr. Yanai.
Please look after him for me, all right?*
**[17:22] ---**
Roger that.
**[17:26] ---**
How many tens of thousands
of them are there?
**[17:29] ---**
Do they hate each other?
**[17:32] ---**
What's that?
**[17:34] ---**
The lock on the bulkhead has been disabled!
**[17:38] ---**
S-Someone go check the corridor!
**[17:52] ---**
*The invaders just started attacking
the Ichiemon team!*
**[17:55] ---**
*Hurry!*
**[17:58] ---**
The cable maintenance connector
is ten meters away.
**[18:02] ---**
*Then I'll monitor Kirito's Fluctlight in Subcon.*
**[18:07] ---**
*Higa, good luck!*
**[18:08] ---**
Right!
**[18:16] ---**
There you are, Moonphase.
**[18:17] ---**
What took you so long?
What've you been up to?
**[18:20] ---**
Sorry. I was getting ready for my class.
**[18:27] ---**
This is the test server?
**[18:29] ---**
What are we supposed to do?
**[18:31] ---**
Are those guys really Japanese?
**[18:37] ---**
Comrades!
**[18:39] ---**
I am deeply grateful to you
for answering my call to arms.
**[18:44] ---**
Unfortunately, the test players
who were alpha testing this site
**[18:49] ---**
have already been killed
by the Japanese.
**[18:53] ---**
However, they've moved
to another test location,
**[18:56] ---**
so they can do the same thing there.
**[18:59] ---**
The Japanese have hacked the server,
**[19:02] ---**
and can produce as much
high-spec equipment as they want!
**[19:06] ---**
Whereas, since we've been stripped
of our admin privileges,
**[19:10] ---**
we can only offer you
the default equipment!
**[19:15] ---**
Let's kick the cowards out!
**[19:18] ---**
Protect our server!
**[19:22] ---**
However, your sense of justice and unity
won't be defeated by any sword or armor!
**[19:26] ---**
What's going on here?
**[19:28] ---**
It's like that voice is speaking
directly into my mind.
**[19:31] ---**
Is that guy really an admin?
**[19:36] ---**
Can't he just shut down the server's power?
**[19:38] ---**
The enemy is right in front of us!
**[19:41] ---**
Go!
**[19:59] ---**
Don't overdo it, Asuna.
**[20:02] ---**
Give us a chance to shine, too.
**[20:04] ---**
He's right. Just leave this to us!
**[20:07] ---**
- Charge!
- Attack!
**[20:45] ---**
Damn it!
**[21:22] ---**
The maintenance connector is in here.
**[21:33] ---**
Finally.
**[21:46] ---**
All right!
**[21:47] ---**
Now I can control the STLs with Kirito and Asuna,
as well as their two friends!
**[21:55] ---**
Here we go!
**[21:56] ---**
D-Don't move!
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: Code 871.
# E16 - Code 871
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR0XN38GY/code-871)
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**[00:05] Yanai**
Don't move.
**[00:07] Higa**
Mr. Yanai, why are you doing this?
**[00:10] Yanai**
L-Listen, you've got the wrong idea,
treating me like a traitor.
**[00:17] Yanai**
I'm just following through with my goal.
**[00:20] Yanai**
I'm going to carry on the boss' legacy.
That's why I infiltrated Rath!
**[00:26] Higa**
Th-The boss' legacy?
Who are you talking about?
**[00:32] Yanai**
Someone you know really well!
**[00:35] Yanai**
It's Mr. Sugou!
**[00:37] Higa**
Carry on his legacy?
But he's not even dead!
**[00:44] Yanai**
He might as well be!
**[00:46] Yanai**
He'll be locked up for at least ten years.
**[00:48] Yanai**
It was a close call for me, too.
**[00:51] Yanai**
But I blamed it all on my coworker
and managed to get away.
**[00:56] Higa**
Then you were involved
in Sugou's human experiments, too?
**[01:00] Yanai**
I wasn't just "involved"!
**[01:02] Yanai**
I was the one
who gathered the data for it.
**[01:06] Yanai**
That was fun research.
**[01:08] Yanai**
You know, like the virtual tentacle play.
**[01:11] Yanai**
Well, my current life might be
coming to an end,
**[01:15] Yanai**
but the line he connected is still active.
**[01:18] Yanai**
So I have to make use of it,
otherwise he'll be upset, right?
**[01:24] Higa**
Line? To where?
**[01:28] Yanai**
The American National Security Agency.
**[01:32] Higa**
You're the one who's been leaking information
about Project Alicization to the Americans!
**[01:37] Yanai**
If the Americans down below
succeed in retrieving Alice,
**[01:41] Yanai**
there'll be a big bonus
and a position for me overseas!
**[01:46] Higa**
What is that, if not the American success story
Mr. Sugou dreamed of?
**[01:52] Higa**
*If we don't hurry, then Kirito will...*
**[01:54] Higa**
*Please notice, Ms. Rinko!*
**[02:00] Yanai**
D-Don't move!
***SIGN*** Code 871
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Rocky Mountain
**[03:47] Sinon**
You're Subtilizer!
**[03:51] Subtilizer**
Did Alice escape?
**[03:53] Subtilizer**
No matter. I'll catch up soon enough.
**[03:56] Subtilizer**
If I remember correctly,
I fought you in Gun Gale Online, didn't I?
**[04:01] Subtilizer**
Your name's... Sinon, isn't it?
**[04:05] Subtilizer**
To think we'd meet again here.
**[04:07] Sinon**
And you? Why are you here?
**[04:10] Subtilizer**
Because it's inevitable, why else?
**[04:15] Subtilizer**
This is fate.
**[04:17] Subtilizer**
It is the power of our souls
that attract them to each other.
**[04:21] Subtilizer**
Now we'll be able to understand
all kinds of things.
**[04:23] Subtilizer**
Like whether or not one can also suck in the soul
of a living human through an STL.
**[04:30] Subtilizer**
And also, after not getting to taste it in BoB,
finding out just how sweet your soul is.
**[05:05] Sinon**
*I can't. I have to resist. I have to fight.*
**[05:13] Subtilizer**
Sinon, have you ever considered
the meaning of the name Subtilizer?
**[05:21] Subtilizer**
It means, "one who sharpens,
one who renders, one who chooses...
**[05:25] Subtilizer**
and one who steals.”
**[05:27] Subtilizer**
I shall steal you, and steal your soul.
**[05:33] Sinon**
*I can't.*
**[05:36] Sinon**
*Stop. Don't steal it.*
**[05:42] Sinon**
*Stop.*
**[05:55] Sinon**
This is...
**[05:58] Sinon**
This is Kirito's... but what's it doing here?
**[06:08] Sinon**
You saved me again, didn't you?
**[06:15] Sinon**
Then I can do this.
**[06:32] Sinon**
You're not a god or a devil.
**[06:35] Sinon**
You're just a human!
**[06:39] Sinon**
Don't lose!
**[06:41] Sinon**
Don't lose... Hécate!
**[07:07] Sinon**
Bring it on.
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Southern Ruins
**[07:18] Asuna**
Protect the people of the Underworld
at all costs, no matter what!
**[07:23] Human Soldier**
Stop! Please, stop!
**[07:33] Asuna**
*Someone help.*
**[07:36] Sakuya**
All right! We're going to break through!
**[07:39] Sakuya**
Bellflower Team, Lily Team,
push the battle to the right!
**[07:43] Sakuya**
Here we go! Synchronized sword skills... ready!
**[07:47] Sakuya**
On my count!
**[07:48] Sakuya/Alicia**
- Five, four, three...
- Everyone, don't give up!
**[07:53] Alicia**
Buy as much as time as possible!
**[07:59] Sakuya**
Rue!
**[08:07] Alicia**
No! Go back, Sakuya!
**[08:09] Sakuya**
Stop!
**[08:19] Sakuya**
Rue...
**[08:26] Siune**
*I have to... I have to do something.*
**[08:29] Siune**
*Sometimes you have to fight
to get your point across.*
**[08:32] Siune**
*Isn't that right, Yuuki?*
**[08:34] Siune**
Everyone, please!
**[08:36] Siune**
Create a breakpoint for me, just this once!
**[08:39] Jun**
Understood! Tecchi, Talken, Nori,
let's synchronize our big attacks and blast them!
**[08:44] Jun**
On my count! Two, one...
**[09:02] Siune**
Listen! You've all been deceived.
**[09:05] Siune**
This server belongs to a Japanese company,
and we're not hackers, we're legitimate users!
**[09:11] Korean Player A**
You're lying! We saw you.
**[09:13] Korean Player A**
You guys just slaughtered a bunch of players
the same color as us, didn't you?
**[09:19] Siune**
Those players were Americans who dove in
after being given false information, just like you!
**[09:24] Siune**
You're the ones being used
to sabotage the Japanese company.
**[09:28] Siune**
Think it through again.
**[09:30] Siune**
Does that rage and hatred truly belong to you?
**[09:38] Moonphase**
Is what you're saying true?
**[09:45] Moonphase**
I'm Moonphase. And you are?
**[09:48] Siune**
I'm Siune.
**[09:50] Moonphase**
I see. Siune, this whole thing
seemed odd to me, too.
**[10:01] Mei Mei Xiang**
Hey, let me through.
**[10:05] Mei Mei Xiang**
Moonphase, I finally found you.
**[10:08] Mei Mei Xiang**
Something's off about this game, after all.
**[10:10] Moonphase**
Mei, you think so, too?
**[10:13] Mei Mei Xiang**
Yes.
**[10:14] Moonphase**
We were told it was Japanese hackers attacking,
**[10:18] Moonphase**
but to me, it looks more like
they're trying to protect something.
**[10:22] Siune**
Then you believe me?
**[10:24] Mei Mei Xiang**
But we need some kind of proof, or else—
**[10:31] Vassago**
What are you doing there
with the Japanese?
**[10:40] Vassago**
We don't need traitors here!
**[10:43] Vassago**
Everyone!
Don't be fooled by those dirty Japanese!
**[10:47] Vassago**
If this is a Japanese server,
and you all are legitimate users,
**[10:52] Vassago**
why are you the only ones
with top-tier equipment?
**[10:56] Vassago**
You must have cheated
and created whatever you wanted!
**[10:59] Korean Players**
He's right!
**[11:01] Siune**
You're wrong!
**[11:02] Siune**
Our equipment's different because
we converted our main characters to this world!
**[11:09] Vassago**
What kind of moron would convert
their main character to a test server?
**[11:13] Vassago**
That's a lie! It's all lies!
**[11:19] Siune**
It's true! Please believe me!
**[11:21] Siune**
We came here knowing that
we could lose our characters—
**[11:26] Korean Player B**
Shut up!
**[11:30] Moonphase**
Siune!
**[11:32] Mei Mei Xiang**
Everyone, calm down!
**[11:34] Korean Player**
We can't forgive hackers!
***SIGN*** Dark Territory Northern Chasm
**[12:10] AmericanPlayers**
- Go!
- Go!
**[12:19] Iskahn**
So this is it, huh?
**[12:29] Iskahn**
Who's that?
**[12:31] Sheyta**
That's...
**[12:39] Lilpilin**
Are you guys all right?
**[12:41] Iskahn**
Why? I thought you were standing by
on the emperor's orders?
**[12:47] Leafa**
Because we're comrades, aren't we?
**[12:49] Leafa**
Lilpilin, you withdraw with the pugilists.
I'll take care of this, all right?
**[12:54] Lilpilin**
We'll fight with you!
**[12:56] Leafa**
No, don't! I don't want you to suffer
any more casualties than you already have!
**[13:01] Leafa**
Don't worry!
**[13:03] Leafa**
I don't care how many of them there are,
**[13:06] Leafa**
I won't let them win!
***SIGN*** Ocean Turtle Corridor near the bulkhead
**[13:24] Kikuoka**
H-How's Kirito doing?
**[13:26] Rinko**
Higa's operation just started.
**[13:29] Rinko**
Is the decoy working?
**[13:31] Kikuoka**
I had them throw our entire supply
of smoke grenades.
**[13:35] Kikuoka**
We should be able to distract them
until the smoke clears from the corridor,
**[13:38] Kikuoka**
but after that,
we'll have to lock the bulkhead again.
**[13:41] Kikuoka**
We don't have much time.
**[13:43] Rinko**
Well, Higa said we should see results
in five minutes, at most.
**[13:55] Rinko**
Let’s see. "Limit, opposition quotient...
detection threshold... report"?
**[14:00] Rinko**
What is this?
**[14:02] Kikuoka**
Wh... What?
**[14:03] Rinko**
Wh-What's wrong?
**[14:07] Kikuoka**
There's no question.
**[14:08] Kikuoka**
It's a new limit-breaking Fluctlight.
**[14:11] Kikuoka**
But why now, at a time like this?
**[14:14] Rinko**
You mean it's a second ALICE?
**[14:17] Kikuoka**
Technically, it's not on the same level as Alice.
**[14:21] Kikuoka**
It looks like the artificial Fluctlight
broke its limits
**[14:24] Kikuoka**
through its emotional circuits,
rather than its logical circuits.
**[14:27] Kikuoka**
Oh, no! It's moving towards
the group of Americans to the south!
**[14:33] Rinko**
Hey, Mr. Kikuoka?
**[14:35] Kikuoka**
Wh-What is it?
**[14:36] Rinko**
What is this external command inserted here?
**[14:42] Rinko**
"Injecting simulated pain
into the right ocular region"?
**[14:45] Rinko**
You were actually restricting
the people of the Underworld like that?
**[14:49] Kikuoka**
N-No, we didn't do that!
**[14:52] Kikuoka**
Of course we wouldn't!
**[14:53] Kikuoka**
That would defeat the purpose.
**[14:55] Kikuoka**
In fact, it's clearly sabotage.
**[14:58] Rinko**
It is, isn't it.
**[15:00] Rinko**
Not to mention,
this code doesn't have Higa's idiosyncrasies.
**[15:04] Rinko**
Something's commented out
near the beginning.
**[15:07] Rinko**
"Code 871." What's 871?
**[15:10] Kikuoka**
871? I've never even heard that number before.
**[15:15] Kikuoka**
No, hold on. Hold on a sec.
**[15:17] Kikuoka**
I think I just saw it somewhere...
**[15:25] Kikuoka**
That lab coat belongs to the staff member
who just went down below with Higa, Mr. Yanai.
**[15:32] Kikuoka**
8(ya) 7(na) 1(i)...
**[15:35] Kikuoka/Rinko**
- Yanai!
- Yanai!
**[15:44] Yanai**
Well, I didn't mean to hit you.
**[15:47] Yanai**
I was only planning
to mess with your work a little,
**[15:51] Yanai**
then escape down
to the Main Control side.
**[15:55] Yanai**
It's not like anyone with Rath has died,
so as long as we can retrieve Alice safely,
**[16:01] Yanai**
it would've been a happy ending
for everyone.
**[16:04] Higa**
No one has died?
**[16:06] Higa**
But if we don't take this chance to treat Kirito,
he'll never regain consciousness again!
**[16:13] Higa**
And the one responsible for killing his soul
will be you!
**[16:17] Yanai**
Oh, yeah, that's right.
**[16:21] Yanai**
That brat can die.
**[16:24] Yanai**
After all, he was the one who killed her.
**[16:29] Yanai**
My precious Admi, that is!
**[16:31] Higa**
"Ad... mi"?
**[16:33] Yanai**
The pontifex of the Axiom Church,
Her Eminence, Administrator!
**[16:38] Yanai**
See, I'd promised her.
**[16:41] Yanai**
That I would do everything I can to help her
assume absolute control over the Underworld.
**[16:45] Yanai**
And even if the server got reinitialized,
I'd preserve her Lightcube.
**[16:53] Higa**
So you corrupted the Underworld?
**[16:57] Yanai**
No, she was the one who made first contact.
**[17:01] Yanai**
When I was on the late shift one night,
I suddenly heard this girl's voice over the speakers.
**[17:06] Yanai**
That really startled me.
**[17:08] Yanai**
She'd found the entire command list
for the Underworld on her own,
**[17:13] Yanai**
and opened a line to our side.
**[17:15] Yanai**
And then I used an STL to secretly visit Admi.
**[17:19] Yanai**
It turned out that Admi's personality, voice,
and mannerisms were all my ideals.
**[17:27] Yanai**
She promised me.
**[17:30] Yanai**
That if I helped her,
she'd make me her number one servant!
**[17:34] Higa**
*I was wrong.
It was Mr. Yanai who was corrupted.*
**[17:40] Yanai**
But now she's dead.
**[17:42] Yanai**
She was murdered by that kid.
**[17:45] Yanai**
I have to avenge her,
or else poor Admi won't rest in peace, right?
**[17:50] Yanai**
That's right. That's right.
**[17:53] Yanai**
On second thought,
I need to kill at least one person...
**[18:00] Yanai**
...if I'm going to honor her memory, right?
**[18:14] Asuna**
Stop.
**[18:17] Asuna**
Please, stop!
**[18:24] Vassago**
Stop!
**[18:42] Silica**
Agil! Please hold on! Agil!
**[18:59] Lisbeth**
Everyone... I... I did this to everyone.
**[19:03] Asuna**
No. No, you didn't. Liz!
**[19:11] Vassago**
Lay down your weapons and surrender.
**[19:14] Vassago**
Do that, and I won't kill you
and those behind you.
**[19:18] Sortiliena**
Don't be absurd! Do you really think
we'd be reluctant to die at this point—
**[19:22] Asuna**
Listen to him!
**[19:24] Asuna**
Please! You must live!
**[19:27] Asuna**
No matter how humiliating it might be,
please go on living!
**[19:31] Asuna**
That's... That's our... our one...
**[19:43] Red Player A**
We win!
**[19:45] Red Player B**
Victory is ours!
**[19:48] Vassago**
Yo. Long time no see, Lightning Flash.
**[19:57] Asuna**
PoH.
**[19:58] Vassago**
Hey, that name brings back memories.
**[20:01] Vassago**
I'm glad you remember it.
**[20:04] Asuna**
Is this vengeance?
**[20:07] Asuna**
For the Assault Team
wiping out Laughing Coffin?
**[20:15] Vassago**
Are you a freaking idiot?
**[20:16] Vassago**
Let me tell you something.
**[20:18] Vassago**
The one who tipped off your Assault Team
about Laughing Coffin's hideout?
**[20:23] Vassago**
That was me.
**[20:29] Asuna**
Why would you...
**[20:32] Vassago**
I wanted to make you guys murderers.
**[20:37] Vassago**
The Assault Team, posing as heroes,
acting all high and mighty on the front lines!
**[20:43] Asuna**
That's what you wanted?
**[20:45] Asuna**
To force Kirito to be burdened from PKing?
**[20:49] Vassago**
Yes. Absolutely, yes.
**[20:52] Vassago**
I was watching that battle from hiding.
**[20:57] Vassago**
When Professor Blackie snapped
and killed two of them,
**[21:00] Vassago**
I came this close to bursting into laughter
and blowing my cover.
**[21:04] Asuna**
D-Do you know how much
Kirito agonized and suffered over that?
**[21:10] Vassago**
Yeah? Glad to hear it.
But that sounds suspicious.
**[21:15] Vassago**
If he actually regretted it,
**[21:18] Vassago**
wouldn't he be too repulsed
to even look at another VR game?
**[21:22] Vassago**
Because of the guilt
from the guys he killed.
**[21:25] Vassago**
I know. He's in here, too, right?
**[21:31] Vassago**
Well, I'll ask him myself.
**[21:47] Asuna**
Stop! Anything but that!
**[21:52] Vassago**
It's showtime!
**[23:36] Asuna**
Next time: Prince of Hell.
# E17 - Prince of Hell
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRZJNWP36/prince-of-hell)
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**[00:05] ---**
These connections.
**[00:08] ---**
Are they from the old SAO server?
**[00:11] ---**
Who could it be?
***SIGN*** Prince of Hell
**[02:03] ---**
What is this?
**[02:05] ---**
Hey, Blackie, wake up.
**[02:07] ---**
You hear me, Mr. Black Swordsman?
**[02:10] ---**
Kirito-senpai kept trying to stand,
over and over, during the battle.
**[02:15] ---**
Ronie.
**[02:17] ---**
You get it, don't you?
**[02:19] ---**
He fought and fought and fought to the end,
and now he's wounded!
**[02:23] ---**
So leave him alone!
Please just leave Kirito alone!
**[02:27] ---**
Hey, hey, hey, you're kidding!
This isn't any fun at all!
**[02:32] ---**
Hey, I said wake up!
**[02:34] ---**
Stand up! Good morning!
**[02:36] ---**
Kirito!
**[02:44] ---**
What the hell? So you're busted for real?
**[02:48] ---**
The great hero's a vegetable now?
**[03:01] ---**
You moved!
**[03:03] ---**
What, you want this?
**[03:13] ---**
Come on, say something!
**[03:17] ---**
You bastard...
**[03:18] ---**
You bastard, don't you dare touch Kirito!
**[03:23] ---**
- Klein!
- Klein!
**[03:25] ---**
You're the one bastard...
**[03:28] ---**
I'll never forgive!
**[03:48] ---**
Who the hell are you?
**[03:56] ---**
You're...
**[03:58] ---**
Eiji?
**[04:29] ---**
You scum.
**[04:31] ---**
Get out of my face!
**[04:37] ---**
He's a dirty Japanese!
Don't forgive these cowardly hackers!
**[05:03] ---**
Yuna?
**[05:03] ---**
Eiji, sorry to keep you waiting!
**[05:05] ---**
Yuna?
**[05:06] ---**
For real?
**[05:07] ---**
Is it really her?
**[05:09] ---**
Let's do this, Eiji!
**[05:13] ---**
Yeah.
**[05:16] ---**
Who the hell are you two?
**[05:32] ---**
This is round two!
**[06:00] ---**
This voice... It really is Yuna!
**[06:03] ---**
Then is this a Japanese server?
**[06:29] ---**
Bastard. Who are you?
**[06:34] ---**
I'm...
**[06:36] ---**
the Knights of the Blood Oath's...
**[06:40] ---**
Nautilus!
**[07:01] ---**
Never heard of you, scum.
**[07:14] ---**
True, back then, I was...
**[07:20] ---**
...a completely useless weakling.
**[07:23] ---**
But!
**[07:32] ---**
For murdering so many of the other players
and my comrades in Aincrad, you're the one person...
**[07:38] ---**
...I'll never...
**[07:42] ---**
...forgive!
***SIGN*** Operation in Progress
**[08:55] ---**
A pissant Japanese like you.
**[09:01] ---**
Did you really think...
**[09:04] ---**
you could beat me?
***SIGN*** 2015 San Francisco, America
**[09:13] ---**
It's because you were born
that my life is as miserable as it is.
**[09:21] ---**
Devil's spawn!
**[09:27] ---**
Good to see that you're healthy.
**[09:29] ---**
After not showing your face for years,
don't try to act like my dad now.
**[09:34] ---**
What do you want?
**[09:36] ---**
Your older half brother is suffering
from congenital kidney failure.
**[09:41] ---**
He needs a kidney transplant.
**[09:45] ---**
So what?
**[09:47] ---**
I've chosen the best hospital in Japan for my son.
**[09:51] ---**
And I've secured the top surgeon in that field.
**[09:54] ---**
All he needs is a kidney donor.
**[09:58] ---**
What the hell?
**[09:59] ---**
You bastard!
**[10:01] ---**
If you refuse,
I can't continue to support your mother.
**[10:36] ---**
Damned Japanese!
**[10:39] ---**
*I'm in front of Tokorozawa General Hospital.*
***SIGN*** Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Japan
**[10:43] ---**
*Victims of the SAO Incident
have been continuously arriving.*
**[10:48] ---**
*Even now, three days since the incident,
there are no solutions in sight*
**[10:52] ---**
*as the death toll has reached 478,
and is expected to continue rising.*
***SIGN*** Recall of VR Devices: No End in Sight
**[10:57] ---**
*Currently, the police are rushing
to confiscate the NerveGear,*
**[11:01] ---**
*but there are reports of it
being sold on the black market.*
**[11:03] ---**
That's it.
**[11:26] ---**
Link start.
**[11:41] ---**
*Devil's spawn!*
**[11:55] ---**
In this world,
I can kill all the Japanese I want.
**[12:07] ---**
Eiji, you—
**[12:11] ---**
Look at you now, you dirty Japanese!
**[12:15] ---**
Time for you to go.
**[12:22] ---**
I'm not the same as I was before!
**[12:26] ---**
You little...
**[12:27] ---**
You annoying bastard!
**[12:37] ---**
Yuuna...
**[12:38] ---**
Did I do what I needed to?
**[12:43] ---**
Good job, Ei!
**[12:59] ---**
Doesn't that emblem look familiar?
**[13:02] ---**
Yeah. Isn't that the mark of Laughing Coffin?
**[13:06] ---**
Laughing Coffin?
**[13:07] ---**
The ones who massacred hundreds in SAO, right?
**[13:10] ---**
So that guy is a serial killer?
**[13:26] ---**
Stop, everyone!
**[13:27] ---**
Calm down!
**[13:28] ---**
Get a hold of yourselves!
**[13:30] ---**
He's a serial killer!
**[13:31] ---**
Are you going to do what he says?
**[13:33] ---**
Don't attack our comrades!
**[13:35] ---**
Don't give in to his power!
**[13:36] ---**
Please! Just hear us out!
**[13:50] ---**
Is he a devil?
**[13:54] ---**
Just you wait.
**[13:55] ---**
I'll wake you up soon.
**[13:59] ---**
If you keep lying there in a daze,
everyone's going to die.
**[14:29] ---**
*The Hécate II holds seven rounds per magazine.*
**[14:33] ---**
*This is my seventh shot.*
**[14:37] ---**
*However, the Barrett XM500 can hold ten rounds.*
**[14:42] ---**
*Which means...*
**[14:44] ---**
*he has two shots left.*
**[14:59] ---**
*I'm sorry, Asuna.*
**[15:01] ---**
*I'm sorry, Yui.*
**[15:05] ---**
*I'm sorry...*
**[15:06] ---**
Kirito.
**[15:17] ---**
Verdurous Anima!
**[15:54] ---**
*It's like a curse.*
**[15:57] ---**
*The Terraria account's unlimited regeneration ability.*
**[16:01] ---**
*No matter how badly I'm wounded
and how much pain I'm suffering, I can't fall.*
**[16:11] ---**
*But if it were Big Brother,*
**[16:13] ---**
*he would never fall from wounds like these.*
**[16:17] ---**
*So...*
**[16:19] ---**
I won't fall, either.
**[16:21] ---**
It won't be a problem to cut down
all these enemies myself.
**[16:26] ---**
Because I'm...
**[16:28] ---**
Big Brother's...
Kirito the Black Swordsman's...
**[16:35] ---**
...little sister!
**[17:35] ---**
*I won't give up.*
**[17:37] ---**
*Even if my imagination's transformed my gun,*
**[17:41] ---**
*its system features should still be intact.*
**[17:46] ---**
*I'll never give up.*
**[17:49] ---**
*I have to believe. In myself.*
**[17:51] ---**
*In Hécate.*
**[17:53] ---**
*In Kirito.*
**[17:59] ---**
*Solus' bow automatically absorbs resources
from its surroundings to recharge its attack power...*
**[18:05] ---**
*the power of Annihilate Ray.*
**[18:07] ---**
Fire!
**[18:31] ---**
All right.
**[18:33] ---**
I'll face you as many times it takes!
**[18:54] ---**
Kirito.
**[19:06] ---**
I put up a good fight, didn't I, Big Brother?
**[19:19] ---**
Higa, watch out!
**[19:33] ---**
Higa, are you all right?
Answer me! Hey!
**[19:38] ---**
Uh, well, you did startle me...
**[19:40] ---**
I didn't know you could scream like that.
**[19:43] ---**
H-How can you be so calm?
Are you hurt? Were you shot?
**[19:47] ---**
Uh, well... No, I'm totally fine!
It's just a scratch!
**[19:52] ---**
I'll continue the operation.
**[19:54] ---**
So please continue to monitor Kirito!
**[19:57] ---**
You're sure you're okay?
I'll take your word on it!
**[20:00] ---**
If you're lying, I'll never forgive you!
**[20:02] ---**
Yes, of course, you can trust me!
**[20:05] ---**
Then I'll head back to Subcon,
**[20:07] ---**
but I'll be back here
as soon as there's a change on the graph!
**[20:10] ---**
I'm counting on you, Higa!
**[20:12] ---**
R-Rinko-senpai!
**[20:15] ---**
Uh, well... um...
**[20:19] ---**
Um, when all of this is over,
do you want to go out for dinner sometime?
**[20:23] ---**
Fine. Hamburgers, beef bowls...
I'll treat you to whatever you want!
**[20:28] ---**
So good luck with this!
**[20:31] ---**
What a cheap date.
**[20:33] ---**
Actually, that line had "death flag"
written all over it.
**[20:37] ---**
Connecting STL #1 to #4.
**[20:40] ---**
#5, #6... connected.
**[20:48] ---**
All right, Kirito. Time to wake up.
**[21:13] ---**
*Please, Kirito.
I'll give you my heart, my life, my everything...*
**[21:19] ---**
*So open your eyes! Kirito!*
**[21:26] ---**
*Big Brother.*
**[21:31] ---**
*Kirito!*
**[21:37] ---**
*Now, Kirito...*
**[21:57] ---**
*Kirito...*
**[22:00] ---**
What? It was a dream?
**[23:36] ---**
Next time: Memories.
# E18 - Memories
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6XJXQZ2R/memories)
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**[00:22] Kirito**
Guess I'll head home.
**[00:30] Kirito**
*It's like...*
**[00:32] Kirito**
*It's like there's something
I need to do right away.*
**[00:51] Announcement**
*Next, last stop, Hon-Kawagoe, Hon-Kawagoe.*
***SIGN*** In 2022, mankind finally
***SIGN*** built a full virtual environment
**[01:29] Sachi**
*Kirito.*
**[01:49] Kirito**
Sachi!
***SIGN*** Memories
**[03:40] Moonphase**
Stop, everyone!
**[03:41] Moonphase's Friend A**
Calm down!
**[03:42] Mei Mei Xiang's Friend A**
Get a hold of yourselves!
**[03:44] Moonphase's Friend B**
He's a serial killer!
**[03:45] Mei Mei Xiang's Friend B**
Are you going to do what he says?
**[03:47] Mei Mei Xiang's Friend C**
Don't attack our comrades!
**[03:49] Moonphase's Friend C**
Don't give in to his power!
**[03:50] Mei Mei Xiang**
Please! Just hear us out!
**[04:04] Moonphase**
Is he a devil?
**[04:08] Vassago**
Just you wait.
**[04:10] Vassago**
I'll wake you up soon.
**[04:13] Vassago**
If you keep lying there in a daze,
everyone's going to die.
**[04:25] Vassago**
If you won't wake up...
**[04:29] Vassago**
then I guess I'll start by killing this guy.
**[04:32] Asuna**
How could you?
**[04:37] Asuna**
It's no use.
**[04:39] Asuna**
I can't even stand.
**[04:41] Yuuki**
It's all right.
**[04:43] Yuuki**
I know you can stand, Asuna.
**[04:49] Yuuki**
Now stand, Asuna.
**[04:52] Yuuki**
To protect what you love.
**[05:47] Asuna**
What is it you want?
**[05:51] Vassago**
Isn't it obvious?
**[05:53] Vassago**
The one in black.
**[05:56] Vassago**
Ever since I tried and failed to kill him
on floor 5 in Aincrad,
**[06:00] Vassago**
he's been the only thing I want.
**[06:03] Asuna**
Why do you hate Kirito so much?
What did he ever do to you?
**[06:08] Vassago**
Hate?
**[06:10] Vassago**
I thought you, of all people,
would understand how much I love that guy.
**[06:17] Vassago**
In a world full of scumbags,
he's the only guy I could believe in unconditionally.
**[06:25] Vassago**
Never breaking down,
no matter how much I tormented him,
**[06:27] Vassago**
never getting corrupted,
no matter how much I tempted him,
**[06:30] Vassago**
he's always given me hope and joy.
**[06:34] Vassago**
That's why...
**[06:36] Vassago**
it's unforgivable that he ended up like this
when I wasn't around.
**[06:41] Vassago**
I'm going to wake him up no matter what.
**[06:44] Vassago**
And whatever it takes to do that...
**[06:45] Vassago**
I don't care who, or how many thousands,
or tens of thousands,
**[06:48] Vassago**
I'll kill them!
**[06:51] Asuna**
Hope? Joy?
**[06:55] Asuna**
Because of what you did,
how much did Kirito... how much...
**[07:03] Vassago**
I figured out how this world works, too.
**[07:06] Vassago**
All the spilled blood and lost lives here
is converted into energy.
**[07:12] Vassago**
Back in Aincrad, the stats of my Mate-Chopper
would go down every time it killed a monster,
**[07:18] Vassago**
and the stats would go up
if it slashed a player.
**[07:21] Vassago**
Look.
**[07:23] Vassago**
Here in the Underworld, it's naturally powering up
by absorbing human life.
**[07:31] Vassago**
On this battlefield, all the lives you people took
are swirling around,
**[07:36] Vassago**
as well as the lives
of the Japanese fighters they took.
**[07:40] Vassago**
If everyone starts killing each other,
it will flood this place with a lot more life.
**[07:45] Vassago**
And once I've absorbed all of the life,
**[07:48] Vassago**
I'm going to kill
every artificial Fluctlight in this world.
**[07:53] Vassago**
All those monsters in the land of darkness,
and the humans in the Human Empire.
**[07:58] Vassago**
If I do that much,
it should wake him up.
**[08:02] Vassago**
If he is the Black Swordsman I believe in.
**[08:09] Vassago**
Don't worry. I won't kill you yet.
**[08:13] Vassago**
I'm just going to make sure
you can't interfere anymore.
**[08:17] Vassago**
You need to witness it.
**[08:21] Vassago**
Him waking up,
only to die in my arms.
**[08:43] Yuuki**
It's all right.
**[08:46] Yuuki**
I'll always be by your side.
**[09:05] Lisbeth**
Asuna!
**[09:07] Lisbeth**
You can do it, Asuna!
**[09:09] Silica**
Asuna! Asuna!
**[09:11] Agil**
Get up, Asuna!
**[09:12] Klein**
Asuna!
**[09:18] Asuna**
I won't lose.
**[09:20] Asuna**
To someone like you,
who only knows how to hate...
**[09:26] Asuna**
I will never lose!
**[10:47] Asuna**
Thank you... Yuuki.
**[11:01] Sortiliena**
Oh no! That man's sword
is absorbing sacred resources!
**[11:25] Vassago**
My allies! This is the true nature
of the Japanese!
**[11:29] Vassago**
These spineless traitors
and the dirty Japanese...
**[11:35] Vassago**
Kill every last one of them!
**[12:05] Asuna**
Kirito.
**[12:23] Kirito**
Don't! Stop!
**[12:25] Kirito**
Don't!
**[12:51] Sasamaru**
Tetsuo!
**[12:52] Sasamura**
Damn it!
**[13:22] Keita**
You were a beater...
**[13:27] Keita**
You never had any right
to get involved with us!
**[13:37] Kirito**
*No more! I don't want to see any more!
I don't want to hear any more!*
**[13:58] Kirito**
*I don't want to remember anymore.
I don't want to know what happens next.*
**[14:03] Kirito**
You've hurt Asuna...
**[14:05] Kirito**
way more!
**[14:12] Oberon**
My hand!
**[15:35] Kirito**
I... I'm the one who should've died!
**[15:57] Asuna**
Kirito.
**[16:02] Kirito**
Asuna.
**[16:04] Shino**
Kirito.
**[16:08] Kirito**
Sinon.
**[16:10] Suguha**
Big Brother.
**[16:14] Kirito**
Sugu.
**[16:19] Kirito**
*But...*
**[16:21] Kirito**
*I don't have any right
to receive your forgiveness.*
**[16:27] Kirito**
I'm sorry.
**[16:31] Kirito**
I'm sorry, Asuna.
**[16:33] Kirito**
I'm sorry, Sinon.
**[16:35] Kirito**
Sorry, Sugu.
**[16:38] Kirito**
I can't stand anymore.
**[16:40] Kirito**
I can't fight anymore.
**[16:43] Kirito**
I'm sorry.
**[16:48] Higa**
Why? How come, Kirito?
**[16:51] Higa**
This still isn't enough?
**[16:55] Higa**
Just one more person.
**[16:57] Higa**
If only there was one more person
with deep ties to Kirito,
**[17:00] Higa**
who'd accumulated
a strong mental image of him!
**[17:06] Higa**
What's this connection?
**[17:09] Higa**
Is it coming from an object
inside the Underworld?
**[17:12] Eugeo**
Kirito.
**[17:19] Eugeo**
Kirito.
**[17:20] Kirito**
Eugeo!
**[17:22] Kirito**
You're alive, Eugeo?
**[17:28] Eugeo**
This is the memory of me
that lives inside you.
**[17:32] Eugeo**
And the fragment of memory I left behind.
**[17:36] Kirito**
Memory?
**[17:37] Eugeo**
That's right.
**[17:39] Eugeo**
Have you forgotten already?
**[17:42] Eugeo**
At that time, we were both certain.
**[17:45] Eugeo**
Memories...
**[17:48] Eugeo**
are right here.
**[17:51] Kirito**
Yeah.
**[17:55] Kirito**
Right here forever.
**[17:58] Asuna**
We're always connected to you.
**[18:03] Shino**
No matter how far apart we may be.
**[18:06] Shino**
No matter if we have to part one day.
**[18:10] Suguha**
Memories and feelings
will stay connected forever. Isn't that right?
**[18:18] Kirito**
It's okay, Eugeo?
**[18:20] Kirito**
It's really okay for me to start walking again?
**[18:26] Eugeo**
Of course, Kirito.
So many people are waiting for you.
**[18:33] Eugeo**
Now, let's go, together,
to wherever this takes us.
**[19:11] Asuna**
Kirito.
**[19:25] Asuna**
Is this... the scent of roses?
**[19:46] Kirito/Eugeo**
- Enhance Armament.
- Enhance Armament.
**[20:09] Ronie**
That's...
**[20:10] Sortiliena**
a Perfect Weapon Control art!
**[20:21] Asuna**
Kirito!
**[20:33] Vassago**
I've waited so long for you.
**[20:35] Vassago**
Now, let's dance...
**[20:38] Vassago**
Kirito!
**[20:39] Sortiliena**
Oh no!
**[21:55] Asuna**
Welcome back, Kirito.
**[21:59] Kirito**
I'm back...
**[22:02] Kirito**
Asuna.
**[23:36] Kirito**
Next time: Awakening.
# E19 - Awakening
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR243D286/awakening)
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**[00:07] Sortieliena**
Kirito.
**[00:09] Ronie**
Kirito-senpai.
**[00:13] Asuna**
Welcome back, Kirito.
**[00:19] Vassago**
So you're finally awake, huh?
**[00:22] Vassago**
Seriously, you're the best, Kirito.
**[00:38] Vassago**
All right, let's pick up where we left off.
**[00:41] Vassago**
What got put on hold back in Aincrad.
**[00:46] Vassago**
The continuation of "showtime!"
***SIGN*** Awakening
**[02:39] Vassago**
Come on. Don't let me down, all right?
**[02:48] Vassago**
I've been waiting almost two years
for this day.
**[03:03] Vassago**
Just throw away that crappy sword
and use your left hand.
**[03:07] Vassago**
Those guys you froze
killed a ton of your comrades.
**[03:12] Kirito**
I know how you do things.
**[03:15] Kirito**
Turning people on each other,
sowing the seeds of hatred,
**[03:18] Kirito**
and inciting the next battle.
**[03:20] Kirito**
You really messed with us in SAO,
**[03:23] Kirito**
but you won't get away with that
in this world!
**[03:26] Kirito**
No way!
**[03:28] Vassago**
Yeah? Then what will you do?
**[03:31] Vassago**
Once the ice melts, those guys are going
to massacre all of your precious friends.
**[03:36] Vassago**
The only way you can stop that
is to kill those guys first.
**[03:39] Vassago**
Go on, give the order.
**[03:42] Vassago**
To slaughter them all!
**[03:48] Vassago**
Well, if you want to be stubborn and die,
that's fine.
**[03:53] Vassago**
Don't worry. After I kill you,
I'll put Lightning Flash and the others,
**[03:59] Vassago**
every last one of them, into the ground!
**[04:08] Asuna**
Kirito!
**[04:13] Tiese**
Please. Kirito-senpai....
**[04:33] Vassago**
How are you...?
**[04:44] Eugeo**
Let's do this, Kirito!
**[04:46] Kirito**
Eugeo.
**[05:15] Kirito/Eugeo**
- Release Recollection!
- Release Recollection!
**[05:30] Asuna**
What was that?
**[05:43] Asuna**
Are those the players' life resources?
**[05:47] Asuna**
Kirito is logging them out
so they won't suffer, right?
**[05:52] Vassago**
You bastard, you've got to be kidding me!
**[05:55] Asuna**
No! Not again!
**[05:57] Yuuki**
It's all right.
**[06:00] Yuuki**
Look.
**[06:03] Vassago**
What? Why aren't the resources coming to me?
**[06:08] Yuuki**
You said so, didn't you, Asuna?
**[06:10] Yuuki**
That "life is for transporting
and imparting souls."
**[06:13] Yuuki**
And all the people from these different countries
who came to this world
**[06:16] Yuuki**
don't really want to kill each other.
**[06:19] Yuuki**
Everyone wants the same thing.
An exciting and thrilling world.
**[06:24] Yuuki**
Like the land of fairies where you and I met.
**[06:27] Yuuki**
They want to go to a beautiful, fun,
and joyous world.
**[06:31] Yuuki**
That's all there is to it.
**[06:33] Asuna**
Yes.
**[06:36] Asuna**
You're right, Yuuki.
**[06:48] Kirito**
Release Recollection.
**[06:58] Vassago**
Damn it!
**[07:02] Tiese**
Eugeo-senpai once told me.
**[07:04] Tiese**
Kirito-senpai's black sword
used to be a huge black cedar tree
**[07:09] Tiese**
in the far north of the Human Empire.
**[07:11] Sortiliena**
I see. That's why
that sword can absorb sacred resources.
**[07:43] Asuna**
Kirito.
**[07:49] Vassago**
You really are the best, Kirito.
**[07:53] Vassago**
You're the only one who's made me want to kill
of my own free will this much.
**[07:59] Vassago**
It's a shame to end this now,
but no venue could ever top this one.
**[08:06] Vassago**
Now, let's have some fun, Black Swordsman!
**[08:09] Kirito**
Yeah. Let's end this.
**[08:36] Kirito**
Burst Element!
**[10:00] Vassago**
Impressive. That's more like it.
**[10:04] Vassago**
But it's not over yet.
**[10:07] Vassago**
Even if I log out of this world,
I'll never stop coming after you guys.
**[10:14] Vassago**
Until I've slit your and Lightning Flash's throats
and ripped out your hearts,
**[10:21] Vassago**
I'll just keep coming!
**[10:23] Kirito**
No. It's over now.
**[10:31] Kirito**
You'll never log out of the Underworld.
**[10:45] Kirito**
This sword was originally
the Demon Tree in Rulid Village.
**[10:49] Kirito**
A giant tree the villagers couldn't chop down
**[10:52] Kirito**
even after swinging their axes
for two hundred years.
**[10:54] Kirito**
I just sent the memory of this sword
into your body.
**[10:58] Kirito**
I don't know how many years or decades it will take
before you're let out of the STL,
**[11:03] Kirito**
but you'd better pray it's not too long.
**[11:07] Kirito**
Someday, when pioneers
build a village around here,
**[11:10] Kirito**
maybe some kids
will chop you down with an ax.
**[11:22] Kirito**
System Call.
**[11:23] Kirito**
Transfer Durability, Right to Area.
**[11:51] Klein**
Kirito.
**[11:53] Klein**
Kirito, bro.
**[11:56] Klein**
You're always stealing the spotlight,
way too much!
**[12:06] Ronie**
Senpai!
**[12:09] Agil**
Seriously, he's something else.
**[12:12] Lisbeth**
Thank goodness! Thank goodness!
**[12:15] Silica**
Yes! I'm so glad he's okay!
**[12:34] Renly**
I knew from the moment I first met him.
**[12:38] Renly**
That he and those two swords would save us all.
**[12:42] Asuna**
Yes.
**[12:45] Kirito**
Everyone, thank you.
**[12:48] Kirito**
I definitely won't let your feelings,
or all the blood and tears you shed, go to waste.
**[12:53] Kirito**
Truly, thank you.
**[13:04] Asuna**
Kirito, Emperor Vecta and Alice are...
**[13:08] Kirito**
Right. It's hazy,
but I remember the situation.
**[13:12] Kirito**
Let's go rescue her.
I'll need your help, Asuna.
**[13:34] Kirito**
Excuse me.
**[13:36] Asuna**
What? Wait. Kirito?
**[13:38] Kirito**
Okay, we're off.
**[13:54] Critter**
Damn! What's that moron Vassago doing?
**[14:02] Critter**
The JSDF commando unit will storm in
in eight hours and twenty minutes.
**[14:07] Critter**
Per Captain Miller's orders,
once eight hours are left,
**[14:10] Critter**
I'm supposed to resume
time acceleration inside the Underworld.
**[14:14] Critter**
It can't be helped.
Vassago, hang on a little longer.
**[14:25] Critter**
I need a key.
**[14:28] Brigg**
Let me handle this.
**[14:30] Rinko**
Hey, Higa! Hey, I'm talking to you!
**[14:34] Rinko**
Open your eyes! Come on!
**[14:41] Higa**
H-How's Kirito?
**[14:43] Rinko**
Kirigaya's Fluctlight activity
has been completely restored.
**[14:47] Rinko**
It's almost too active now, to be honest.
**[14:50] Higa**
I-Is that right?
**[14:53] Kikuoka**
Really, now. After I told you not to overdo it.
**[14:56] Kikuoka**
Although I'm to blame for not realizing
we had a mole among the tech staff.
**[15:02] Higa**
What's going on with the Underworld
and with Alice?
**[15:05] Kikuoka**
The players connected from America, China,
and South Korea have logged out.
**[15:12] Higa**
They came from China and South Korea, too?
**[15:14] Higa**
Not as reinforcements, but as enemies?
**[15:17] Rinko**
Apparently someone played on
their mutual animosity as online gamers
**[15:21] Rinko**
to lure them into the Underworld.
**[15:24] Higa**
Is that right?
**[15:27] Kikuoka**
The 2,000 players from Japan
who came as reinforcements were mostly wiped out.
**[15:32] Kikuoka**
At that point, there were still more than 20,000 Chinese
and South Korean players left,
**[15:37] Kikuoka**
but luckily, that was when Kirito woke up,
and in a flash he—
**[15:42] Kikuoka**
Wh-What?
**[15:46] Critter**
N-No way.
**[15:49] Machine**
*Fluctlight Acceleration rate safety limiter disengaged.*
**[15:52] Machine**
*Fifteen minutes
until maximum-acceleration phase.*
**[15:56] Machine**
*For any personnel in the Soul Translators,
please initiate disengagement protocol immediately.*
**[16:01] Rinko**
What does maximum acceleration mean?
**[16:04] Rinko**
Isn't the FLA rate limit 1,200?
**[16:07] Higa**
1,200 is the safety limit factoring in the lifespan
of a real-world human's soul.
**[16:13] Higa**
5,000 is the limit at which
we can observe the Underworld.
**[16:18] Higa**
Neither are the hardware limit
imposed by physical constraints.
**[16:21] Rinko**
Th-Then what is the hardware-based limit?
**[16:25] Higa**
During the maximum-acceleration phase,
the FLA rate will be just over 5 million.
**[16:30] Higa**
The two STLs in Roppongi connected by satellite
will disconnect automatically
**[16:34] Higa**
once they can't keep up with the speed,
**[16:37] Higa**
but in the case of Kirito and Asuna,
here on the Ocean Turtle...
**[16:40] Rinko**
Are you serious? Then hurry!
**[16:42] Higa**
- Hurry, we have to get them out of those STLs!
- But the initial acceleration phase has already begun!
**[16:47] Higa**
If we pull them out of the machines now,
it will damage their Fluctlights!
**[16:52] Rinko**
Then start the disengagement protocol right now!
**[16:55] Higa**
Mr. Kiku, I'm going down there again.
**[16:59] Kikuoka**
All right. I'll go with you this time.
**[17:01] Kikuoka**
I should have enough stamina
to carry you down that ladder on my back.
**[17:04] Nakanishi**
It's too risky, Lieutenant Colonel!
Allow me to undertake that mission—
**[17:07] Kikuoka**
No, I need you all to defend the stairs.
**[17:11] Kikuoka**
Since we'll be opening the bulkhead again.
**[17:14] Kikuoka**
And you'll be engaging the enemy directly,
so the danger will be greater for you.
**[17:18] Kikuoka**
Even so, I must ask you to go.
**[17:22] Nakanishi**
Understood!
**[17:27] Higa**
Mr. Kiku!
**[17:29] Higa**
When I was operating the STL earlier,
I secured a communication channel with Kirito!
**[17:34] Higa**
You can reach him on line C-12!
**[17:37] ---**
Why do I need to?
**[17:38] Higa**
Have him escape from inside!
**[17:43] Asuna**
Is Alice... safe?
**[17:45] Kirito**
She hasn't been captured yet.
**[17:47] Kirito**
But there's a massive presence chasing her.
**[17:50] Asuna**
I see.
**[17:51] Asuna**
Then we'll protect her.
**[17:55] Kikuoka**
*Kirito!*
**[17:56] Kikuoka**
*Kirigaya! Can you hear me? Kirito!*
**[18:00] Kirito**
Mr. Kikuoka?
**[18:01] Kirito**
There's no system console, so how—
**[18:04] Kikuoka**
*I don't have time to explain.*
**[18:06] Kikuoka**
*The situation is dire.
The time acceleration rate...*
**[18:10] Kikuoka**
*They've disengaged the FLA limiter!*
**[18:12] Kirito**
Limiter?
**[18:13] Kikuoka**
*According to Higa's calculations,
no matter how fast we disconnect the STLs,*
**[18:18] Kikuoka**
*two hundred years will have passed in there.*
**[18:21] Kirito**
Two hundred?
**[18:23] Kikuoka**
*Listen, Kirito. You have ten minutes.*
**[18:26] Kikuoka**
*You have to reach the console by then,
and log out manually.*
**[18:30] Kikuoka**
*You can't log out by depleting your HP.*
**[18:32] Kikuoka**
*If you die after
the maximum-acceleration phase starts,*
**[18:35] Kikuoka**
*you'll spend two hundred years there
in a state of total sensory deprivation!*
**[18:38] Kirito**
Got it. I'll find a way
to get out through the console.
**[18:42] Kirito**
Of course, I'll bring Alice with me,
so be ready for that.
**[18:47] Kikuoka**
*Thanks.*
**[18:48] Kikuoka**
*But I want you two to prioritize your escape
over securing Alice now.*
**[18:53] Kikuoka**
*Listen. Even if we can delete your memories
after you log out,*
**[18:56] Kikuoka**
*two hundred years is far longer
than the life span of the human soul.*
**[19:01] Kikuoka**
*The odds of you regaining normal consciousness...
are almost zero!*
**[19:07] Kirito**
Don't worry. We'll definitely get back.
**[19:10] Kirito**
And Mr. Kikuoka,
**[19:12] Kirito**
*six months ago... no, last night,
sorry for the harsh things I said to you.*
**[19:16] Kikuoka**
No, we certainly deserved to be criticized.
**[19:21] Kikuoka**
*It looks like Higa's ready.
I have to go now.*
**[19:25] Kirito**
Okay.
**[19:26] Kirito**
I'll see you in ten minutes, Mr. Kikuoka.
**[19:30] Asuna**
Kirito, did Mr. Kikuoka contact you?
**[19:33] Asuna**
Is something wrong?
**[19:35] Kirito**
No. Time acceleration's resuming in ten minutes,
so he wants us to hurry up.
**[19:42] Asuna**
Right, we can't stay like this,
or it wouldn't be fair to Alice.
**[19:47] Asuna**
Come on, let's go rescue her!
**[19:49] Kirito**
Yeah. I'm going to fly again.
**[20:14] Alice**
Amayori and Takiguri.
**[20:16] Alice**
This is farewell.
**[20:18] Alice**
This is my final order.
**[20:20] Alice**
Fly back to the Human Empire and return
to the dragon nests in the Western Empire.
**[20:23] Alice**
Amayori, find a husband,
and Takiguri, find a wife.
**[20:27] Alice**
Have many babies
and raise them to be strong.
**[20:31] Alice**
Strong, strong children who will someday
be able to carry knights as they fly.
**[20:44] Alice**
Now, go!
**[20:50] Alice**
Ama... yori?
**[20:55] Alice**
No! Don't!
**[21:35] Alice**
Amayori!
**[22:00] Alice**
Kirito.
**[23:36] Kirito**
Next time: The Night-Sky Blade.
# E20 - The Night-Sky Blade
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6QWV0X46/the-night-sky-blade)
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**[00:08] Alice**
Kirito.
**[00:32] Alice**
Ama... yori.
**[00:38] Alice**
Thank you.
**[00:40] Alice**
Welcome back, Kirito.
**[00:43] Kirito**
I made you worry for so long.
**[00:47] Kirito**
Thank you, Alice.
**[00:50] Alice**
Kirito.
**[00:51] Asuna**
It will be all right, Alice.
**[00:55] Asuna**
Let's believe in Kirito.
We need to hurry to the World's End Altar.
**[01:24] Alice**
Asuna!
**[01:25] Asuna**
I'm... all right.
**[01:27] Asuna**
Let's hurry.
**[01:29] Asuna**
We don't have much time
before the altar closes.
**[01:41] Alice**
*Kirito.*
**[01:43] Alice**
*There are so many things
I want to tell and ask you.*
**[01:48] Alice**
*You have to win.
Win and come back to me again!*
***SIGN*** The Night-Sky Blade
**[03:38] Kikuoka**
*According to Higa's calculations,
no matter how fast we disconnect the STLs,*
**[03:43] Kikuoka**
*two hundred years will have passed in there.*
**[03:49] Kirito**
Who are you?
**[03:52] Gabriel**
One who seeks, steals, and robs.
**[03:56] Kirito**
What are you seeking?
**[03:58] Gabriel**
Souls.
**[04:01] Gabriel**
And who are you? Why are you here?
**[04:05] Gabriel**
What gives you the right to stand before me?
**[04:08] Kirito**
Who... am I?
**[04:12] Kirito**
I'm...
**[04:30] Eugeo**
*Kirito. You're Kirito the Swordsman.*
**[04:35] Kirito**
I'm Kirito! Kirito the Swordsman!
**[04:44] Kirito**
What's your name?
**[04:46] Gabriel**
Gabriel. My name is Gabriel Miller.
**[05:13] Kirito**
Let's go, Gabriel!
**[05:22] Kirito**
Generate All Elements!
**[05:28] Kirito**
Discharge!
**[06:10] Gabriel**
I estimate another five minutes
until they reach the system console.
**[06:15] Gabriel**
I'll give you three minutes.
**[06:17] Gabriel**
Be sure to keep me entertained.
**[06:22] Kirito**
How generous of you.
**[06:26] Kirito**
Fine. I'll entertain you.
**[06:42] Gabriel**
I stole this from you.
**[08:19] Kirito**
*I thought I just had to prolong this battle
long enough for Asuna and Alice to escape,*
**[08:24] Kirito**
*but I was being too optimistic.*
**[08:26] Kirito**
*I'll have to spend
the next 200 years here if I fail.*
**[08:31] Kirito**
*No, maybe that was what I was hoping for.*
**[08:36] Kirito**
*To stay forever in a true alternative world
that's surpassed even Aincrad.*
**[08:41] Kirito**
*I never stopped to consider
the amount of grief, sorrow and tears*
**[08:46] Kirito**
*that would cause for Alice, Asuna,
and everyone who saved me.*
**[08:51] Kirito**
*In the end, I'm the kind of person
who doesn't truly understand how others feel.*
**[08:57] Eugeo**
You're wrong, Kirito.
**[09:00] Eugeo**
If you didn't want to leave this world,
it wasn't for your own sake.
**[09:06] Eugeo**
It's because you love the people you met here.
**[09:20] Eugeo**
But that's not true of your enemy.
**[09:22] Eugeo**
That man is the one
who doesn't understand how others feel.
**[09:25] Eugeo**
He can't understand them.
**[09:26] Eugeo**
That's why he seeks. And tries to steal.
And tries to destroy.
**[09:31] Eugeo**
And that's because...
**[09:34] Eugeo**
he fears them.
**[09:42] Gabriel**
It seems he's afraid now.
**[09:45] Gabriel**
The fear that wells up when someone
as cocky as him is on the brink of death...
**[09:50] Gabriel**
I wonder how it tastes.
**[10:09] Gabriel**
Your emotions, memories,
heart and soul... everything!
**[10:15] Gabriel**
I'll devour them all now!
**[10:18] Kirito**
As if you'd find... the heart or memories there.
**[10:24] Kirito**
The body... is just a vessel.
**[10:28] Kirito**
Memories are always...
**[10:31] Gabriel**
What?
**[10:33] Kirito**
Release Recollection!
**[10:38] Kirito**
Release Recollection!
**[11:17] Sinon**
What's this?
**[11:21] Sinon**
I see. This night is Kirito's heart!
**[11:25] Sinon**
Then, please... send my heart to him, too.
**[11:38] Leafa**
Big Brother.
**[11:40] Leafa**
*Send the last of my strength
to Big Brother's sword.*
**[11:52] Iskahn**
Hey, Sheyta.
**[11:54] Iskahn**
What do you think it means
to have power... to be strong?
**[11:59] Sheyta**
You already know the answer.
**[12:02] Sheyta**
There's a greater power than anger or hatred.
**[12:28] Lisbeth**
*Kirito.*
**[12:31] Lisbeth**
Hey, Silica. I...
**[12:34] Lisbeth**
...love Kirito after all!
**[12:37] Silica**
So do I!
**[12:49] Lisbeth**
*It'll reach you, right, Kirito?*
**[12:52] Lisbeth**
*Because our souls are connected!*
**[12:57] Renly**
What it means to live.
To live, fight, and connect our lives and hearts.
**[13:04] Renly**
And that... that's the only proof of strength.
**[13:31] Selka**
Eugeo, please.
**[13:33] Selka**
Protect my sister and Kirito.
**[14:41] Alice**
Kirito!
**[14:43] Alice**
*It may be an ephemeral soul
that only lived a brief time as an artificial knight,*
**[14:49] Alice**
*but these emotions,
these sensations flooding my heart are real!*
**[15:02] Asuna**
*Kirito.*
**[15:14] Gabriel**
Null...
**[15:16] Gabriel**
Null...
**[15:18] Gabriel**
Nu... ll...
**[15:24] Gabriel**
Null!
**[16:15] Shasta**
Cast away all murderous intent.
**[16:17] Shasta**
His empty soul cannot be slashed
by an Incarnation of murder.
**[16:21] Bercouli**
Have no fear, boy.
**[16:24] Bercouli**
The weight of the world itself
rests on your sword.
**[16:28] Administrator**
Now, show me.
**[16:30] Administrator**
The strength of willpower
you inherited from me.
***SIGN*** Kirito, you must believe.
***SIGN*** In the hearts of the many people you love and who love you.
**[16:49] Kirito**
Starburst... Stream!
**[17:00] Gabriel**
Null! Null!
**[17:04] Kirito**
Take this, Gabriel!
**[17:08] Gabriel**
Null!
**[17:16] Gabriel**
Null!
**[17:33] Eugeo**
Come on, now's your chance, Kirito!
**[17:36] Kirito**
Thank you, Eugeo.
**[17:56] Gabriel**
It's pointless!
**[17:57] Gabriel**
I'm going to drink every last drop,
and devour all of you!
**[18:01] Kirito**
As if you could!
**[18:02] Kirito**
Someone who's scared and intimidated
by the power of the human heart!
**[20:18] Kirito**
Goodbye, Eugeo.
**[21:03] Kirito**
Thank goodness.
**[21:05] Kirito**
They were both able to log out.
**[21:09] Kirito**
Good luck, Alice.
**[21:16] Kirito**
Now then, 200 years, huh?
**[21:21] Kirito**
Asuna, Sinon, Leafa, everyone...
**[21:28] Kirito**
I'm sorry.
**[21:57] Asuna**
Kirito.
**[22:00] Kirito**
Asuna?
**[23:36] Kirito**
Next time: Beyond Time.
# E21 - Beyond Time
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYNV452ZR/beyond-time)
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***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 9:59 AM Ocean Turtle Sub Control Room
**[00:17] Rinko**
Asuna.
**[00:18] Rinko**
Alice has been safely ejected.
**[00:20] Rinko**
It's just you and Kirito now.
**[00:23] Rinko**
Hurry!
**[00:25] Asuna**
*I'm sorry, Ms. Rinko.*
**[00:27] Asuna**
*I'm...*
**[00:29] Asuna**
*staying here.*
**[00:32] Rinko**
Wh-What are you...
**[00:34] Asuna**
*Please take care of Alice.*
**[00:37] Asuna**
*Alice is a kind person.*
**[00:39] Asuna**
*She's full of so much love,
and she's loved by so many people.*
**[00:45] Asuna**
*For the sake of all the souls
who are gone now,*
**[00:48] Asuna**
*and for Kirito's sake as well,*
**[00:51] Asuna**
*please don't let the military use her,
no matter what.*
**[00:55] Asuna**
*Please tell everyone
that I said, "I'm sorry."*
**[00:59] Asuna**
*"Thank you. Goodbye."*
***SIGN*** Beyond Time
**[02:49] Rinko**
*Higa?*
**[02:51] Rinko**
*I've secured Alice's Lightcube.*
**[02:54] Rinko**
*But...*
**[02:56] Rinko**
*Asuna chose to stay behind with Kirigaya.*
**[03:03] Higa**
Understood.
**[03:05] Higa**
We'll do all we can to log them out
as soon as possible.
**[03:15] Nakanishi**
Dr. Kojiro.
**[03:17] Nakanishi**
We're ready to reopen the bulkhead hatch.
**[03:21] Nakanishi**
Whenever you're ready.
**[03:22] Rinko**
Thank you very much.
**[03:25] Rinko**
*One minute has elapsed since the start
of the maximum-acceleration phase.*
**[03:28] Rinko**
*Which means ten years
have already passed there.*
**[03:32] Rinko**
*Higa, Mr. Kikuoka, hurry!*
**[03:46] Kikuoka**
"What a surprise..."
**[03:48] Kikuoka**
...right?
**[03:50] Kikuoka**
Isn't that what you're thinking?
**[03:52] Higa**
N-No, um...
**[03:55] Kikuoka**
I want you to know.
**[03:57] Kikuoka**
There's a reason I'm doing this.
**[04:01] Higa**
O-Oh?
**[04:04] Kikuoka**
I always consider the worst-case scenario.
**[04:10] Kikuoka**
For now, it's better to let the enemy think
they still have a chance to seize Alice.
**[04:19] Higa**
W-Worst-case, huh?
**[04:22] Higa**
Ms. Rinko! We're here!
**[04:24] Higa**
*Please disable the bulkhead lock!*
**[04:34] Critter**
They just opened the bulkhead again.
**[04:38] Critter**
Now that they have Alice,
**[04:40] Critter**
all they have to do
is wait for the JSDF to storm in.
**[04:44] Critter**
So why?
**[04:48] Critter**
This is...
**[04:53] Critter**
All right! Except for Brigg,
everyone head for the stairs.
**[04:58] Critter**
Blast away and seize control of the bulkhead.
**[05:01] Hans**
You make it sound so easy.
**[05:04] Brigg**
Hey, what am I supposed to do?
**[05:06] Critter**
You and I are going to
check out this cable duct.
**[05:10] Critter**
I have a feeling
this is what the enemy's really after.
**[05:15] Brigg**
I see. Sounds good to me.
**[05:40] Brigg**
He's dead.
**[05:42] Critter**
Isn't he our Rath informant?
**[05:45] Critter**
Did they find out he was a spy
and execute him?
**[05:51] Brigg**
Shit!
**[05:57] Higa**
M-Mr. Kiku! Are you all right? Mr. Kiku!
**[06:02] Kikuoka**
They... got me.
**[06:05] Kikuoka**
Looks like I took one to the vest.
**[06:09] Kikuoka**
Never mind me, are you all right?
**[06:12] Higa**
Y-Yeah.
**[06:14] Higa**
Neither I or the computer got hit.
**[06:17] Kikuoka**
All right, then let's continue.
**[06:26] Critter**
*These Rath guys aren't playing around.*
**[06:29] Critter**
*It might be time for last-resort measures.*
**[06:32] Critter**
*But to do that...*
**[06:36] Critter**
*I need the captain to decide!*
**[06:56] Gabriel**
Who's that?
**[07:05] Gabriel**
This is...
**[07:07] Gabriel**
This face is...
**[07:10] Gabriel**
It's mine.
**[07:11] Gabriel**
Wh-What...
**[07:20] Alice**
So you've finally come to this side, Gabe?
**[07:24] Gabriel**
Alicia?
**[07:27] Gabriel**
So, this is where you've been, Alicia?
**[07:36] Gabriel**
It's so cold. Let go, Alic—
**[07:39] Alicia**
I won't, Gabe.
**[07:41] Alicia**
We'll always be together from now on.
**[07:44] Alicia**
Come on, let's go.
**[07:53] Gabriel**
S-Stop! Let go! Stop!
**[08:00] Gabriel**
Stop!
**[08:06] Gabriel**
Stop! S-Stop!
**[08:09] Gabriel**
Stop!
**[08:36] Critter**
Captain Miller! Alice is in the enemy's—
**[08:45] Critter**
C...
**[08:47] Critter**
Cap... tain?
**[08:58] Critter**
D...
**[09:00] Critter**
Dead!
**[09:03] Critter**
Vassago! Wake up already! The captain's—
**[09:07] Critter**
D-Dead...
**[09:18] Hans**
Brigg is dead?
**[09:21] Critter**
Yeah. The captain and Vassago, too.
**[09:27] Critter**
Don't.
**[09:28] Critter**
They have Alice's Lightcube.
**[09:31] Critter**
There's no reason to fight anymore.
**[09:34] Hans**
No, we still have orders.
**[09:37] Hans**
If we can't steal it, then destroy it.
**[09:40] Hans**
You have an idea, don't you?
**[09:43] Critter**
Yeah. I kinda do, but...
**[09:46] Critter**
It's no good. I can't make this decision
without the captain.
**[09:50] Hans**
Tell me.
**[09:54] Hans**
Tell me what it is!
**[09:59] Critter**
Th-The engine.
***SIGN*** Ocean Turtle Sub Control Room
**[10:07] Rinko**
*We're ten minutes into
the maximum-acceleration phase.*
**[10:10] Rinko**
*The memory capacity of Kirigaya and Asuna's
Fluctlights will reach its limit soon.*
**[10:16] Nakanishi**
Doctor.
**[10:18] Nakanishi**
The enemy is now in retreat.
**[10:21] Rinko**
R-Retreat?
**[10:23] Nakanishi**
Looks like they intend to escape via submarine.
**[10:27] Nakanishi**
But why now, all of a sudden?
**[10:30] Rinko**
Wh-What's that? What's happening?
**[10:33] Nakanishi**
This is—
**[10:35] Nakanishi**
Don't tell me they—
**[10:37] Nakanishi**
These vibrations are from the main core
operating at full power, Doctor.
**[10:41] Rinko**
Main core?
**[10:44] Nakanishi**
The main engine.
**[10:46] Nakanishi**
In other words, the pressurized water reactor
at the base of the shaft.
**[10:55] Nakanishi**
Damn it! What have they done?
**[10:58] Nakanishi**
Look there!
**[11:02] Nakanishi**
It's likely plastic explosive.
**[11:05] Nakanishi**
If it destroys that,
the control rods can't descend...
**[11:14] Rinko**
And there'll be no stopping the fission reaction?
**[11:19] Nakanishi**
I'll go remove the explosive.
**[11:23] Nakanishi**
I'm sure they left ample time
before the detonation so they could flee.
**[11:28] Nakanishi**
We should have another five,
maybe ten minutes left.
**[11:32] Rinko**
B-But Mr. Nakanishi,
**[11:34] Rinko**
by now, the temperature
in the engine room must be...
**[11:37] Nakanishi**
Please. It's no more than a sauna
with the heat turned up.
**[11:41] Nakanishi**
Rushing in to pull out the detonator
should be easy enough.
**[11:45] Rinko**
M-Mr. Nakanishi!
**[12:09] Higa**
M-Mr. Kiku.
**[12:11] Higa**
The reactor... those guys...
**[12:13] Kikuoka**
I know.
**[12:15] Kikuoka**
For now, just focus on shutting down the STLs.
**[12:19] Higa**
R-Right.
**[12:24] Kikuoka**
Oh, Higa?
**[12:26] Kikuoka**
Do you think
you can handle the rest by yourself?
**[12:30] Higa**
Mr. Kiku, don't tell me
you're going down there.
**[12:32] Kikuoka**
Oh, hey. Well, I'm just going to check on things.
**[12:36] Kikuoka**
I won't do anything reckless.
**[12:37] Kikuoka**
I'll be right back.
**[12:39] Kikuoka**
All right, I'm counting on you, Higa.
**[12:42] Higa**
B-Be careful, okay?
**[12:56] Higa**
M-Mr. Kiku!
***SIGN*** Tuesday, July 7, 2026 10:12 AM Ocean Turtle Reactor Emergency Control Room
**[13:26] Nakanishi**
One stayed behind?
Why? Does he want to die?
**[13:35] Hans**
What?
**[13:38] Techie A**
Is that... Niemon?
**[13:41] Techie A**
What's it doing there?
**[13:43] Kayaba**
*Rinko.*
**[13:47] Rinko**
I-Is that you, Akihiko?
**[13:57] Kayaba**
*I'm sorry for leaving you alone for so long.*
**[14:02] Rinko**
So this is where ya been the whole time?
**[14:05] Kayaba**
*Rinko, I was blessed to have met you.*
**[14:10] Kayaba**
*You were the only thing
keeping me connected to the real world.*
**[14:15] Kayaba**
*I want you to be the one
to keep it connected.*
**[14:20] Kayaba**
*My dream...*
**[14:23] Kayaba**
*to connect the two worlds
that are still divided.*
**[14:27] Rinko**
Yes, of course.
**[14:31] Rinko**
Of course!
**[14:46] Nakanishi**
*No good! If this keeps up...*
**[14:56] Nakanishi**
Lt. Colonel Kikuoka!
**[15:01] Rinko**
Akihiko.
**[15:15] Techie A**
Not good. The battery cable's damaged.
**[15:18] Techie A**
If that goes, it'll be completely immobilized.
**[15:23] Rinko**
No way.
**[15:35] Rinko**
Please...
**[15:39] Rinko**
Akihiko!
**[15:53] Techie A**
It's lost all power.
**[16:01] Rinko**
Akihiko!
**[16:02] Rinko**
You're Heathcliff of the Divine Blade, aren't you?
**[16:06] Rinko**
You're Kirito the Black Swordsman's
greatest rival, aren't you?
**[16:09] Rinko**
So show us...
**[16:11] Rinko**
that you can perform at least one miracle?
**[16:31] Techie A**
N-Number Two has reactivated!
**[17:17] Rinko**
Akihiko.
**[17:44] Critter**
Seems like the explosion didn't go off.
**[17:47] Critter**
Still, I never thought Hans would stay behind.
**[17:50] Critter**
I guess he had a longer history with Brigg
than we thought.
**[17:54] Critter**
What can you do, right?
**[17:59] Critter**
Two?
**[18:01] Critter**
Hey, Shack?
**[18:03] Critter**
Your team collected the bodies, right?
**[18:06] Critter**
Isn't one missing?
**[18:09] Shack**
It was only Brigg and Captain Miller, right?
**[18:12] Shack**
Who else died?
**[18:14] Critter**
Well, there was one more in the STL room.
**[18:19] Shack**
We only found the captain dead in there.
**[18:21] Shack**
Seriously, I'm going to be haunted by that face.
**[18:35] Higa**
*Ms. Rinko, Kirito and Asuna's logout process
will be complete soon.*
**[18:39] Higa**
*Sixty seconds left.*
**[18:40] Rinko**
Roger that.
**[18:41] Rinko**
I'll send someone to get you right away.
**[18:44] Higa**
*Please do.*
**[18:46] Higa**
*I don't think
I can make it up this ladder on my own.*
**[18:50] Higa**
*Anyway, Mr. Kiku went down there
to check on things.*
**[18:54] Higa**
*How's he doing?
I'm pretty sure he's wounded.*
**[18:58] Rinko**
Yes, the lieutenant colonel really put on a show.
**[19:02] Rinko**
Better than a Hollywood action movie.
**[19:05] Higa**
*That doesn't sound like him.*
**[19:08] Higa**
*Thirty seconds left.*
**[19:10] Rinko**
I'm going to where Kirigaya is now.
**[19:13] Rinko**
Contact me if anything happens.
**[19:16] Rinko**
Over.
**[19:17] Techie A**
*This is the Engine Room.
Dr. Kojiro, do you read me?*
**[19:21] Rinko**
Yes, I read you. What's going on?
**[19:24] Techie A**
*A-Actually... we were able to
remove the explosive, but...*
**[19:28] Techie A**
Um... Number Two is...
**[19:31] Techie A**
There's no sign of Niemon's body anywhere.
**[19:35] Rinko**
What?
**[19:39] Higa**
Please, come back to us.
**[19:42] Higa**
Asuna.
**[19:44] Higa**
Kirito.
**[21:28] Asuna**
Kirito.
**[21:31] Kirito**
Asuna?
**[21:36] Asuna**
You're still a crybaby when you're alone.
**[21:40] Asuna**
I know everything about you.
**[22:13] Asuna**
Do you think Alice will scold us
when we get back?
**[22:17] Kirito**
It'll be fine. As long as we remember.
**[22:21] Kirito**
As long as we don't forget
one second of the time we spent with Alice.
**[22:27] Asuna**
Yes. You're right.
**[22:29] Asuna**
About Alice...
**[22:31] Asuna**
Liz, Klein, Agil, Silica...
**[22:35] Asuna**
and Yui...
**[22:38] Asuna**
As long as we don't ever forget about them,
it should be fine, right?
**[22:48] Asuna**
So, how long will we be staying
in this world?
**[22:53] Kirito**
A minimum of 200 years, apparently.
**[22:57] Asuna**
Even if it were a thousand years,
it wouldn't feel like a long time.
**[22:59] Asuna**
If I'm with you.
**[23:02] Asuna**
Come on, let's go, Kirito!
**[23:06] Kirito**
Yeah, let's go, Asuna.
**[23:10] Kirito**
We have a lot to do.
**[23:12] Kirito**
This world was only just born.
**[23:36] Kirito**
Next time: Alice.
# E22 - Alice
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYXJXQ526/alice)
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***SIGN*** Saturday, August 1, 2026
**[00:02] Rinko**
Thank you for taking time
out of your busy schedules.
**[00:06] Rinko**
Today, our organization
is announcing
**[00:09] Rinko**
the birth of the world's first
true artificial general intelligence.
**[00:21] Rinko**
And now, allow me to introduce...
**[00:24] Rinko**
Alice!
**[00:52] Alice**
People of the real world,
I'm pleased to meet you.
**[00:56] Alice**
My name is Alice. Alice Synthesis Thirty.
***SIGN*** Alice
**[02:37] Alice**
*My name is Alice. Alice Synthesis Thirty.*
**[02:42] Silica**
That's our school uniform!
**[02:44] Lisbeth**
I heard she requested it.
**[02:47] Lisbeth**
"The same uniform as the order of knights
who came to the aid of the Human Guardian Army."
**[02:52] Lisbeth**
Although her first choice was
the same gold armor she wore over there.
**[02:58] Leafa**
Not even Rath could afford that, could they?
**[03:03] Sinon**
Still, I'm an amazed
by the re-creation they did.
**[03:06] Sinon/Rinko**
- You can barely tell the difference through the screen.*
- I'd like to start with a question and answer session.*
**[03:12] Male Reporter A**
Let's start with the basics.
**[03:14] Male Reporter A**
What makes Ms. Alice different
from existing programmable robots?
**[03:21] Rinko**
It's her brain... or what we're calling her brain.
**[03:25] Rinko**
The consciousness that exists
in the photonic brain stored within her skull
**[03:29] Rinko**
is not a program
that can be rewritten with binary code.
**[03:32] Rinko**
It's essentially no different
from our human brains.
**[03:36] Rinko**
That's what makes her categorically different
from existing robots.
**[03:42] Male Reporter A**
Then we'd like you to demonstrate that in a way
that would make it clear to us and our viewers.
**[03:47] Rinko**
You have her Turing test results
in your handouts.
**[03:52] Male Reporter A**
No, that's not what I mean.
**[03:53] Male Reporter A**
If you could open up her skull, and show us
what you call the photonic brain inside...
**[03:59] Alice**
Yes.
**[04:01] Alice**
I don't mind.
**[04:02] Alice**
But first, would prove
that you yourself are not a robot?
**[04:08] Male Reporter A**
What? I'm a human.
How I could prove that—
**[04:12] Alice**
It's simple. Please open up your skull
and show us your brain.
**[04:18] Leafa**
Wh-Whoa, Alice is upset.
***SIGN*** World's First True Artificial General Intelligence ALICE Announced
**[04:24] Female Reporter**
Uh, this question is for Dr. Kojiro.
**[04:27] Female Reporter**
Some labor unions are already raising concerns
about the industrial use
**[04:32] Female Reporter**
of advanced artificial intelligence
causing a further rise in unemployment.
**[04:37] Rinko**
Those concerns are unfounded.
**[04:39] Rinko**
Our organization has no intention
of deploying true AI into the unskilled labor force.
**[04:46] Female Reporter**
However, the financial world has high hopes
that they can be used as industrial robots.
**[04:52] Female Reporter**
Do you have any comments?
**[04:53] Rinko**
True AIs, what this organization calls
"artificial Fluctlights,"
**[04:59] Rinko**
cannot be mass-produced
in a short time.
**[05:03] Rinko**
*Like us, they're born as infants and raised
by their families from childhood to adulthood,*
**[05:09] Rinko**
*and they mature while developing
their own unique personalities.*
**[05:13] Rinko**
*In our opinion, to load such an intelligence
into industrial robots*
**[05:16] Rinko**
*and force them into labor
shouldn't be allowed to happen.*
**[05:21] Female Reporter A**
In other words, Doctor, are you saying
that you acknowledge this AI's human rights?
**[05:27] Rinko**
At this moment, I'm sure
that many of you would feel uncomfortable
**[05:31] Rinko**
if asked to acknowledge artificial Fluctlights as humans
and to grant them human rights.
**[05:37] Rinko**
But in another century,
or perhaps two centuries,
**[05:41] Rinko**
we'll be living in the same society as them
as a matter of course,
**[05:44] Rinko**
interacting with them without discrimination,
even marrying and starting families with them.
**[05:51] Rinko**
That's what I firmly believe.
**[05:53] Rinko**
And if that's the case, shouldn't we shy away
from treating them as objects and abusing them?
**[05:59] Female Reporter A**
But, Doctor!
**[06:00] Female Reporter A**
Their existence is too different from ours!
**[06:05] Female Reporter A**
How can we possibly acknowledge man-made machines
as being the same as humankind?
**[06:12] Alice**
I acknowledge and accept the fact
of you real-worlders as our creators.
**[06:19] Alice**
I am grateful to you for creating us.
**[06:22] Alice**
But as another person
born in my world once said,
**[06:27] Alice**
"What if the real world
is also a world created by others?
**[06:31] Alice**
What if there were
even more creators outside it?"
**[06:36] Alice**
If, one day, your own creators
appeared before you
**[06:40] Alice**
and ordered you into slavery,
what would you do?
**[06:44] Alice**
Would you grovel on the ground,
pledge your loyalty, and beg for mercy?
**[06:52] Alice**
I have already had many interactions
with real-worlders.
**[06:57] Alice**
I am all alone in a strange world,
but they've encouraged and supported me.
**[07:03] Alice**
They've taught me many things,
and taken me to many places.
**[07:08] Alice**
I am very fond of them.
**[07:11] Alice**
And that's not all.
**[07:13] Alice**
I even love one of these real-worlders.
**[07:17] Alice**
Whenever I think of this person,
whom I'm unable to see now...
**[07:21] Alice**
Even this steel chest of mine
feels like it's about to burst.
**[07:31] Alice**
I have a right hand that I will extend
to the people of the real world.
**[07:37] Alice**
But I will not fall to my knees
or grind my forehead in the dirt.
**[07:42] Alice**
That's because I am a human.
**[07:48] Newscaster**
*The organization known as the Oceanic Resource
Exploration & Research Institution*
**[07:51] Newscaster**
*is widely reported to have been involved
in the raid and occupation incident*
**[07:55] Newscaster**
*on the self-propelled mega-float,
the Ocean Turtle, correct?*
**[07:59] Commentator**
*Yes. According to one theory,
the goal of that raid*
**[08:02] Commentator**
*might have been the seizure
of this artificial intelligence.*
**[08:06] Newscaster**
*Another problem is that
a JSDF officer perished.*
***SIGN*** JSDF Officer Killed Casualty of the Raid Incident Mr. Seijirou Kikuoka The Ocean Turtle Attack... Why Did It Happen?
**[08:13] Higa**
I never thought that you'd end up
being the lone casualty, Mr. Kiku.
**[08:21] Kikuoka**
You're right, who knew?
**[08:25] Kikuoka**
But this was for the best, Higa.
**[08:28] Kikuoka**
Seriously, they would've pinned the blame on me,
so I could've actually been eliminated.
**[08:34] Kikuoka**
And because of the pressure from that fatality,
our opposition in Japan was driven into a corner.
**[08:43] Kikuoka**
Well, even I was shocked to learn
it was the vice minister of defense leading them.
**[08:49] Higa**
Seems like the vice minister was getting a hefty payoff
from those American weapon manufacturers.
**[08:54] Higa**
But are you sure you're okay with
going public about the artificial Fluctlights?
**[09:00] Higa**
I mean, that's going to derail Rath’s ultimate goal,
the autonomous weapons loading project.
**[09:07] Kikuoka**
It's fine. As long as
the Americans know we can do it.
**[09:13] Kikuoka**
Now their weapon manufacturers can't force us
to go public under the pretext of joint development.
**[09:19] Kikuoka**
After all, we've already perfected
the artificial Fluctlight.
**[09:25] Kikuoka**
After watching this press conference,
they'll have to give up.
**[09:29] Higa**
That's true.
**[09:30] Higa**
And we have him to thank for all of that, right?
**[09:43] Kikuoka**
Hey, Higa. Look. Look at that!
**[09:46] Higa**
What is it, Mr. Kiku?
**[09:47] Higa**
The press conference should be
almost over by now, right?
**[09:56] Rinko**
Our hope is that, through the virtual world,
you can all interact with newly-born artificial Fluctlights,
**[10:02] Rinko**
and that this will change
how you feel about them.
**[10:05] Rinko**
That's all we ask
of everyone watching this broadcast.
**[10:11] Questioner**
Doctor!
**[10:13] Questioner**
Is there any danger of the AIs annihilating us humans
to take over the planet?
**[10:21] Rinko**
Aside from one possibility,
that would never happen.
**[10:26] Rinko**
That would only happen
if we were to attempt to annihilate them first.
**[10:31] Questioner**
But think of all the books and movies till now—
**[10:34] Alice**
I must go.
**[10:36] Alice**
Please excuse me.
**[10:46] Higa**
M-Mr. Kiku!
**[10:51] Alice**
Kirito!
**[10:52] Higa/Kikuoka**
- Alice?
- Alice?
**[11:05] Kirito**
Hey, Alice. Long time no see.
**[11:08] Alice**
Kirito!
**[11:12] Kirito**
Alice.
**[11:14] Kirito**
Your little sister, Selka, chose to go
into Deep Freeze to wait for your return.
**[11:20] Kirito**
On the eightieth floor of the Central Cathedral,
she's still asleep even now on top of that hill.
**[11:35] Kirito**
All right, Mr. Higa.
**[11:37] Kirito**
Go ahead and delete the memories
of the last two hundred years
**[11:40] Kirito**
since the start
of the maximum-acceleration phase.
**[11:44] Kirito**
My and the queen's roles are done.
***SIGN*** Tokorozawa National Defense Medical College Hospital
**[12:05] Kirito**
Come in.
**[12:10] Asuna**
Sorry! I got here a little late.
**[12:12] Kirito**
No, I just woke up a second ago.
**[12:25] Asuna**
I'd say you're still only ninety percent
of the normal Kirito.
**[12:29] Asuna**
Are you eating enough?
**[12:30] Kirito**
I'm eating. I'm eating a lot.
**[12:33] Kirito**
What do you expect?
I was bedridden for more than a month.
**[12:37] Kirito**
Anyway, I found out when I'll be discharged.
**[12:40] Kirito**
In three days.
**[12:41] Asuna**
Really?
**[12:42] Asuna**
Then we need to celebrate!
**[12:46] Asuna**
First in ALO, and then in real life, too.
**[12:49] Kirito**
Yeah, I guess.
**[13:30] Asuna**
It's all right.
**[13:31] Asuna**
Even if our memory are gone,
the memories will never vanish.
**[13:36] Eugeo**
*That's right, Kirito. Don't cry.*
**[13:40] Eugeo**
*Stay cool.*
**[13:42] Kirito**
Yeah. I'm sure...
**[13:45] Kirito**
we'll see them again someday.
**[13:52] Kirito**
Come in.
**[13:53] Kikuoka**
Hey, there! I hear they're finally releasing you, Kirito.
**[13:57] Kikuoka**
That calls for a huge celebration!
**[13:59] Kirito**
I'm not even going to ask how you already know
what I just learned from Nurse Aki.
**[14:06] Kikuoka**
Well, I'm really glad for you.
**[14:09] Kikuoka**
Getting this far in your recovery
after only a week of rehab?
**[14:12] Kikuoka**
Got to hand it to youth!
**[14:14] Asuna**
We were told that
the public thinks you're dead.
**[14:18] Asuna**
What are you going to do now?
**[14:20] Asuna**
Dr. Rinko's been appointed
the official head of Rath,
**[14:24] Asuna**
and you can't just stop by
the Roppongi office, right?
**[14:27] Kikuoka**
Not to worry.
**[14:29] Kikuoka**
I still have a lot to do.
**[14:32] Kikuoka**
For now, I have to do all I can
to keep the Ocean Turtle and the Underworld safe.
**[14:36] Kirito**
Right, that's it!
**[14:38] Kirito**
What's going to happen
to the Underworld now?
**[14:42] Kikuoka**
Well, things aren't looking very good.
**[14:45] Kikuoka**
The government's trying to find someone to blame,
and the negotiating is still ongoing.
**[14:51] Kikuoka**
But eventually, Rath will be dissolved,
**[14:53] Kikuoka**
and all related technology will be absorbed
by the major conglomerates.
**[14:58] Kikuoka**
Alice will be seized,
**[15:00] Kikuoka**
and there'll be no saving the Lightcube Cluster
on the Ocean Turtle from being reinitialized.
**[15:03] Asuna**
N-No way!
**[15:05] Kirito**
You already have a plan in mind
to keep that from happening, right?
**[15:10] Kikuoka**
Not so much a plan as... a hope, I guess?
**[15:15] Kikuoka**
My hope is that
while the government's tied up in negotiations,
**[15:18] Kikuoka**
public opinion acknowledging the human rights
of artificial Fluctlights will form, that's it.
**[15:23] Kikuoka**
To achieve that, we need to have
as many people from the real world as possible
**[15:28] Kikuoka**
interact with the artificial Fluctlights
for as long as possible.
**[15:32] Kikuoka**
That's probably the very purpose
of the Seed Nexus.
**[15:36] Kirito**
Yeah... I guess.
**[15:38] Kikuoka**
But for that to happen,
we must have a high-bandwidth connection
**[15:43] Kikuoka**
so the Underworlders
can connect to the Seed Nexus.
**[15:47] Kikuoka**
The satellite connection used by the Ocean Turtle
has been cut off by the government.
**[15:53] Kikuoka**
I'm going to see what I can do
to restore that connection.
**[15:56] Kikuoka**
We took the initiative
with that press conference the other day.
**[16:00] Kikuoka**
That should've bought us some time.
**[16:04] Kirito**
Connection, huh?
**[16:10] Kirito**
Mr. Kikuoka...
**[16:12] Kirito**
please!
**[16:14] Kirito**
Protect the Underworld.
**[16:20] Kikuoka**
You don't need to ask me.
**[16:23] Kikuoka**
The Underworld is the dream
that I'd stake my life on, too.
**[16:38] Higa**
*Of course it's not going to run.*
**[16:41] Higa**
*It's definitely going to collapse right away.*
**[16:44] Higa**
*That's what happened
to both my and Mr. Kiku's copies.*
**[16:49] Higa**
*There's no way that a human soul
saved onto a Lightcube*
**[16:52] Higa**
*can stand to know
that it's a copy of itself.*
**[16:57] Higa**
*Even... even if it's...*
**[17:08] Kirito**
*This is Mr. Higa, I presume?*
**[17:12] Higa**
Th-That's right.
**[17:14] Kirito**
*So you didn't delete me.*
**[17:16] Kirito**
*Or to be precise, you've copied me?*
**[17:20] Higa**
I couldn't... I couldn't delete you!
**[17:24] Higa**
You're the first Fluctlight to survive
the passage of two hundred years!
**[17:29] Higa**
No, you're the longest-living person
in human history!
**[17:34] Higa**
I could never delete you.
**[17:36] Higa**
Isn't that right, Kirito?
**[17:42] Kirito**
*I had a feeling
that something like this might happen.*
**[17:46] Kirito**
*Mr. Higa, was my Fluctlight
the only one you copied?*
**[17:50] Higa**
Y-Yeah.
**[17:52] Higa**
During the memory-deleting operation,
**[17:53] Higa**
yours was the only one I managed to copy
behind Lt. Colonel Kikuoka's and Dr. Kojiro's backs.
**[18:01] Kirito**
*I see.*
**[18:06] Kirito**
*Her Majesty... Asuna and I once discussed this.*
**[18:10] Kirito**
*What we do if something like this happened.*
**[18:14] Kirito**
*This is what Asuna told me.*
**[18:16] Kirito**
*If she were the only one who got copied,
she would have herself deleted right away.*
**[18:21] Kirito**
*If both of us were copied,*
**[18:23] Kirito**
*then we should use what little time we had left
to unite the real world and the Underworld.*
**[18:29] Higa**
Then, if you were the only one?
**[18:32] Higa**
What would you do then?
**[18:34] Kirito**
*In that case, I would fight only for the Underworld.*
**[18:38] Kirito**
*Because I am the protector of that world.*
**[18:44] Higa**
F-Fight?
**[18:46] Kirito**
*The situation the Underworld is currently in
is extremely unstable.*
**[18:50] Kirito**
*Isn't that right?*
**[18:51] Higa**
Yeah... that's true.
**[18:54] Kirito**
*Compared to the real world,
that world is tragically powerless.*
**[18:58] Kirito**
*Energy, hardware, maintenance,
and networking...*
**[19:04] Kirito**
*We have to depend on the people of the real world
to keep the infrastructure operating.*
**[19:08] Kirito**
*That doesn't bode well for its long-term safety.*
**[19:12] Higa**
But there's no way around that, though.
**[19:15] Higa**
The Underworld's physical presence, the Lightcube Cluster,
can't be moved off the Ocean Turtle.
**[19:21] Higa**
Not to mention,
the ship's under government control now.
**[19:24] Higa**
On a whim, the government could decide
to cut off all power tomorrow,
**[19:27] Higa**
and the entire cluster could be reinitialized.
**[19:31] Kirito**
*How long will the nuclear reactor's fuel last?*
**[19:34] Higa**
Um...
**[19:35] Higa**
Well, since it's a pressurized water reactor
for a nuclear sub,
**[19:39] Higa**
if it's only maintaining the cluster,
then four or five years, maybe?
**[19:42] Kirito**
*Then basically, there'd be no need
to refuel during that time.*
**[19:47] Kirito**
*In other words, as long as we can prevent
any outside interference,*
**[19:50] Kirito**
*the Underworld will continue to exist.*
**[19:52] Kirito**
*Am I right?*
**[19:53] Higa**
B-But if you're trying to prevent,
**[19:55] Higa**
there isn't a weapons system
on board the Ocean Turtle.
**[19:59] Kirito**
*I said that I would fight.*
**[20:01] Higa**
F-Fight?
**[20:03] Higa**
But the satellite connection has been cut off,
**[20:06] Higa**
and there's no way
to contact the Ocean Turtle.
**[20:09] Kirito**
*There is a connection. There must be.*
**[20:12] Higa**
Wh-Where?
**[20:13] Kirito**
*Heathcliff.*
**[20:15] Kirito**
*No, Akihiko Kayaba. We need his help.*
**[20:19] Kirito**
*Mr. Higa...*
**[20:21] Kirito**
*you'll help, won't you?*
**[20:23] Higa**
K-Kayaba-senpai?
**[20:26] Higa**
He's alive?
**[20:29] Higa**
*A copy of Akihiko Kayaba
and a copy of Kazuto Kirigaya.*
**[20:34] Higa**
*If these two copies... no, these two people
were to meet, what would happen?*
**[20:40] Higa**
*Could it be that I've opened Pandora's box?*
**[20:47] Higa**
*I want to see.*
**[20:49] Higa**
*I want to know what will happen.*
**[20:52] Higa**
All right.
**[20:54] Higa**
I have some old contacts I can reach out to.
**[20:56] Higa**
I'll send out some encrypted messages.
**[21:22] Eugeo**
*If you're going to take a nap, do it after you're done
with your sacred arts homework.*
**[21:28] Eugeo**
*Are you planning to copy mine again?*
**[21:33] Eugeo**
*Hey! I tweaked that skill
you taught me the other day a little.*
**[21:37] Eugeo**
*Let's head to the training hall later.*
**[21:39] Eugeo**
*Hey, you snuck out again
to buy some snacks, didn't you?*
**[21:43] Eugeo**
*Of course you got some for me, too, right?*
**[21:46] Eugeo**
*Come on, wake up, Kirito.*
**[21:50] Eugeo**
*Kirito.*
**[22:02] Kirito**
I should've had them
delete all of my memories!
**[22:06] Kirito**
All the memories of the two and a half years
I spent with Eugeo!
**[22:26] Suguha**
Hey, tell me about it, Big Brother.
**[22:29] Suguha**
What happened in that world. The good.
**[22:32] Suguha**
The bad. Everything.
**[22:38] Kirito**
When I first met him, deep in the forest,
**[22:45] Kirito**
Eugeo was just a woodcutter.
**[22:48] Kirito**
It might be hard to believe,
**[22:51] Kirito**
but for three hundred years,
and over multiple generations,
**[22:55] Kirito**
they were trying to cut down
a single cedar tree.
**[23:15] Alice**
Kirito.
**[23:18] Alice**
I...
**[23:22] Alice**
...feel I'm might wither away.
***SIGN*** Incoming Call
Rinko Kojiro
**[23:36] Kirito**
Next time: New World.
# E23 - New World
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR1XM3ZZR/new-world)
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**[00:02] Kazuto**
Alice is missing?
**[00:04] Rinko**
*Yes. I've been worried
that she may be doing too much.*
**[00:09] Rinko**
*But every time I ask,
"Are you tired? Do you need to rest?"*
**[00:13] Rinko**
*she just smiles and shakes her head.*
**[00:18] Kazuto**
I'll head over there for now.
**[00:22] Kazuto**
Then we'll be better able to take action
as soon as we hear from her.
**[00:34] Kazuto**
It can't be.
**[00:41] Kazuto**
Alice!
**[00:46] Deliveryman**
Large package for you.
**[00:52] Kazuto**
From Rath?
**[00:54] Kazuto**
What could it be?
**[01:17] Alice**
Would you kindly stop making a such a scene
and pull me out of here?
**[01:22] Alice**
Kirito?
***SIGN*** New World
**[01:34] Kazuto**
Alice, why would you do this?
**[01:38] Alice**
I am sorry for escaping like that.
**[01:43] Alice**
But I was desperate to speak with you alone,
face-to-face,
**[01:48] Alice**
not in your virtual form,
but as someone with a real body.
**[01:52] Alice**
Kirito...
**[01:54] Alice**
I am angry with you.
**[01:56] Alice**
Why didn't you tell me that day?
**[01:59] Alice**
That it might be our final farewell?
**[02:02] Alice**
If only you'd told me that
at the World's End Altar, I...
**[02:07] Alice**
I...
**[02:08] Alice**
I would not have fled on my own!
**[02:13] Alice**
I am a knight!
**[02:15] Alice**
Someone whose destiny is to fight! So...
**[02:18] Alice**
why did you choose to face
such a dreadful foe all alone,
**[02:23] Alice**
and why didn't you want me by your side?
**[02:30] Alice**
Who am I, Alice Synthesis Thirty, in your eyes?
**[02:36] Alice**
What am I to you?
**[02:44] Kazuto**
You're...
**[02:45] Kazuto**
my hope.
**[02:48] Kazuto**
And not just my hope, either.
**[02:50] Kazuto**
For all those scores of people who lived
and died in that world, too,
**[02:54] Kazuto**
you're our irreplaceable hope.
**[02:57] Kazuto**
That's why I couldn't bear to lose you.
**[03:00] Kazuto**
That hope...
**[03:01] Kazuto**
I wanted to link it to the future.
**[03:06] Alice**
The future...
**[03:08] Alice**
What exactly will the future look like?
**[03:12] Alice**
After I've endured the endless loneliness
of living in the chaos of the real world,
**[03:17] Alice**
inside this unwieldy steel-element body,
what could possibly be awaiting me?
**[03:23] Kazuto**
Sorry. Even I don't know that yet, but...
**[03:30] Kazuto**
you being here will change the world.
You're the one who will change it.
**[03:36] Kazuto**
And when all is said and done,
Cardinal's, Administrator's, Bercouli's, Eldrie's...
**[03:44] Kazuto**
and Eugeo's hopes will finally be rewarded.
I have no doubt of that.
**[03:56] Alice**
We must let Dr. Rinko know.
**[03:59] Alice**
It wouldn't do to make her worry so much.
**[04:03] Kazuto**
Yeah, good idea.
**[04:09] Kazuto**
Yes.
**[04:10] Kazuto**
She's much calmer now.
**[04:13] Kazuto**
Yes. I understand.
**[04:15] Kazuto**
Bye, then.
**[04:19] Kazuto**
Don't worry, she wasn't mad.
**[04:22] Kazuto**
Actually, she said she felt bad for you.
**[04:26] Kazuto**
And she said that you can spend the night here.
**[04:31] Alice**
R-Really?
**[04:33] Kazuto**
Yeah.
**[04:34] Alice**
In that case, I'd like you
to show me around this house first.
**[04:40] Alice**
I've never seen any traditional buildings
in the real world before!
**[04:45] Kazuto**
Sure... no problem.
**[04:47] Kazuto**
But... it's just a family home,
so it's not like there's a lot to see.
**[04:54] Kazuto**
That's right.
**[04:55] Kazuto**
I know where to take you.
**[05:07] Alice**
Is this...
**[05:10] Alice**
a training hall?
**[05:12] Kazuto**
Yeah. Over here, we call it a dojo, though.
**[05:16] Alice**
Dojo.
**[05:25] Alice**
This is a wooden training sword, right?
**[05:29] Alice**
It's so different
from the ones in the Underworld.
**[05:38] Kazuto**
What?
**[05:40] Alice**
Isn't it obvious?
**[05:42] Alice**
What else would one do in a training hall?
**[05:48] Kazuto**
But Alice...
**[05:50] Kazuto**
in that body, you're...
**[05:53] Alice**
No need to hold back.
**[06:04] Alice**
Well, this brings back memories.
**[06:05] Alice**
Of that day when I first crossed swords with you
in the garden on the cathedral's eightieth floor.
**[06:10] Kazuto**
You really clobbered me that day.
**[06:13] Kazuto**
It won't happen again today.
**[06:52] Alice**
I win, right?
**[06:54] Alice**
And the winning move was the secret skill,
Steel Headbutt.
**[06:59] Kazuto**
I've never heard of that move.
**[07:01] Alice**
I just created it.
**[07:07] Alice**
Kirito. I'll be fine now.
**[07:10] Alice**
I know I can live in this world.
**[07:13] Alice**
As long as I can wield a sword,
wherever I may be, I will be myself.
**[07:18] Alice**
I've just realized...
**[07:20] Alice**
that my battle isn't over yet.
**[07:23] Alice**
And neither is yours.
**[07:26] Alice**
So I will look forward, and only forward,
and keep moving ahead.
**[07:33] Suguha**
So then, Big Brother fell, and...
**[07:35] Alice**
Really? So even Kirito was once like that.
**[07:38] Midori**
Seriously, Kazuto could be
such a handful back then!
**[07:42] Minetaka**
Kazuto, we have a lot to talk about,
**[07:46] Minetaka**
but first I want to hear you say
what needs to be said.
**[07:59] Kazuto**
Dad, Mom. I'm really sorry
that I made you worry yet again.
**[08:06] Midori**
We're used to it by now.
**[08:08] Midori**
And didn't you accomplish
something really important this time?
**[08:13] Midori**
When a person agrees to take on an article— a job,
they have to see it through to the end, no matter what.
**[08:19] Suguha**
Mom, you're making it personal.
**[08:22] Minetake**
That might be your mother's take on it,
**[08:24] Minetake**
but you have no idea how much stress
she was under while you were missing.
**[08:29] Minetake**
I get that it was a crucial mission,
and you got it done,
**[08:32] Minetake**
but that doesn't mean you can just forget.
**[08:35] Minetake**
Kazuto, what is your duty?
**[08:38] Kazuto**
Being a high school student.
**[08:40] Minetaka**
That's right.
**[08:41] Minetaka**
And so it should be clear where you should
be putting all of your effort right now.
**[08:47] Kazuto**
To study, and to get into college.
**[08:50] Minetaka**
It's already the summer of your junior year.
**[08:52] Minetaka**
Your mother mentioned that
you were looking to study abroad in America.
**[08:56] Minetaka**
Have you made any progress?
**[08:59] Kazuto**
Well, about that...
**[09:03] Kazuto**
Sorry. I want to change my focus.
**[09:07] Minetaka**
Please explain.
**[09:08] Kazuto**
I want to enter the electrical engineering department
at a Japanese university,
**[09:12] Kazuto**
preferably the Toto Institute of Technology.
**[09:14] Kazuto**
After that, I'd like to work at Rath—
**[09:17] Kazuto**
no, I mean the Oceanic Resource Exploration
& Research Institution.
**[09:31] Alice**
Father.
**[09:32] Suguha**
"Father"?
**[09:34] Alice**
My own father never forgave me
for choosing to become a knight.
**[09:40] Alice**
But by making my own beliefs clear
through my actions,
**[09:44] Alice**
I am convinced that in the end,
he came to understand that choice.
**[09:48] Alice**
Kirito...
**[09:49] Alice**
I mean Kazuto, is someone
who can follow the path he believes in.
**[09:54] Alice**
And that's because, despite being
an ordinary student in this world,
**[09:57] Alice**
in that other world he was, without question,
the most powerful swordsman of all.
**[10:02] Alice**
Because he's a hero who fought gallantly
to protect an untold number of residents.
**[10:07] Kazuto**
Alice.
**[10:09] Minetaka**
Ms. Alice.
**[10:11] Minetaka**
His mother and I already know that.
**[10:14] Minetaka**
Kazuto's already a hero in this world, too.
**[10:18] Minetaka**
Isn't that right, Black Swordsman?
**[10:21] Minetaka**
Kazuto.
**[10:23] Minetaka**
To choose your path, study, take exams,
advance to college, and then get a job,
**[10:28] Minetaka**
all of those things are just part of a process.
**[10:30] Minetaka**
But at the same time,
they're also the fruits of your labor.
**[10:34] Minetaka**
Even if you feel lost or uncertain at times,
try to live with no regrets.
**[10:44] Kazuto**
I promise to do that.
**[10:46] Kazuto**
Thanks, Dad, Mom.
**[11:03] Alice**
Kirito.
**[11:04] Alice**
Please wake up, Kirito.
**[11:17] Kirito**
A-Alice—
**[11:19] Alice**
Please lower your voice.
**[11:21] Kazuto**
Y-Yeah, it's just that,
this is kind of inappropriate, or should I say—
**[11:30] Alice**
P-Please don't look at me.
**[11:36] Kazuto**
So, what happened this late?
**[11:39] Alice**
About five minutes ago,
**[11:41] Alice**
I received an alarming communication
through the remote messaging art...
**[11:45] Alice**
or rather, it came to me over the "network."
**[11:49] Kazuto**
An email? From whom?
**[11:51] Alice**
There was no name in the sender line.
**[11:54] Alice**
As for the content...
**[11:55] Alice**
rather than hear me read it,
it'd be better for you to see for yourself.
***SIGN*** [Climb the white tower, and ye shall reach unto yon world.
Training Hall #2.Media Storage.Senate.Geographical Records Room]
**[12:09] Kazuto**
This is...
**[12:19] Kazuto**
Yui, are you awake?
**[12:23] Yui**
Good morning, Daddy.
**[12:25] Kazuto**
Sorry to wake you up, Yui.
**[12:28] Kazuto**
Can you take a look at this?
**[12:32] Yui**
These are the names of the floors
in the Central Cathedral, right?
**[12:37] Alice**
Yes.
**[12:38] Alice**
Yes, Training Hall #2 is on the fifty-second floor,
Media Storage is on the sixty-eighth floor,
**[12:43] Alice**
the senate is on the ninety-sixth floor,
**[12:45] Alice**
and the Geographical Records Room
is on the fifty-eighth floor.
**[12:52] Kazuto**
Is this...
**[12:53] Kazuto**
...an IP address?
**[12:55] Yui**
Yes.
**[12:57] Yui**
I think that the white tower to be climbed
refers to the address in the second line.
**[13:02] Yui**
And when you've climbed to the top,
you reach "yon world."
**[13:05] Yui**
Which means the server
this address is pointing to is...
**[13:11] Kazuto**
I-I see!
**[13:14] Kazuto**
Alice, this connects to that world.
**[13:18] Kazuto**
It's the path to the Underworld!
**[13:21] Alice**
Connects... path.
**[13:24] Alice**
Does that mean that I can go—
I mean, return home? To that world...
**[13:30] Alice**
To my world?
**[13:34] Kazuto**
Yeah.
**[13:42] Kazuto**
By the way, Alice,
when we do go back to the Underworld,
**[13:47] Kazuto**
um, is it okay if we bring Asuna along, too?
**[13:54] Alice**
I suppose not.
**[13:56] Alice**
If there's an unexpected emergency,
we'll need as many fighters as we can get.
**[14:05] Kazuto**
This is it.
**[14:10] Rinko**
Most likely, he's involved in this.
**[14:14] Kazuto**
Yes. Probably.
**[14:22] Kazuto**
Yui. Did you find out anything about that address?
**[14:25] Yui**
*I got as far as the server's relay point,*
**[14:29] Yui**
*but it has such a robust firewall
that I can't dig any deeper.*
**[14:32] Kazuto**
I see. Thanks.
**[14:35] Kazuto**
Well, we're heading out.
**[14:37] Kazuto**
We won't be in any danger this time...
**[14:39] Kazuto**
I think.
**[14:40] Yui**
*If something happens,
I'll come to save you right away!*
**[14:44] Kazuto**
I'm counting on you. All right, see you later.
**[14:49] Kazuto**
Remember, it's been 200 years.
**[14:52] Kazuto**
There's no telling what's become
of the Human Empire and the land of darkness.
**[14:56] Kazuto**
Be on your guard.
**[14:58] Asuna**
Administrator ruled over the Human Empire
for three hundred years, didn't she?
**[15:02] Asuna**
It hasn't been as long.
**[15:05] Asuna**
I bet it hasn't changed that much.
**[15:09] Asuna**
Once we're back,
let's go wake up Selka first, okay?
**[15:15] Alice**
Thank you, Kirito, Asuna.
**[15:20] Rinko**
Are you ready?
**[15:22] Rinko**
All right, here we go.
**[15:23] Kazuto/Asuna/Alice**
Right!
**[15:43] Alice**
Wh-What is this?
**[15:49] Kirito**
Outer space?
**[15:55] Alice**
Kirito...
**[15:57] Alice**
look there.
**[16:02] Asuna**
What's that?
***SIGN*** Star World Year 582
**[16:37] Alice**
O World! Underworld where I was born
and which I love! Can you hear me?
**[16:44] Alice**
I have returned.
**[16:48] Alice**
I... am here!
***SIGN*** Integrity Pilot Stica Schtrinen
**[17:10] Stica**
Laura! Laura, are you all right?
**[17:13] Laurannei**
I'm fine, Sti.
**[17:15] Laurannei**
I'm safe. But this one...
***SIGN*** Integrity Pilot Laurannei Arabel
**[17:19] Laurannei**
...can't fly anymore.
**[17:21] Stica**
You have no choice but to abandon ship.
**[17:24] Stica**
The thrusters on your outfit should be enough
to get you back to Cardina.
**[17:27] Laurannei**
Not happening!
**[17:29] Laurannei**
I can't do that!
**[17:31] Laurannei**
I can't just abandon her and flee!
**[17:34] Stica**
No. No, you can't.
***SIGN*** Mythic Spacebeast The Abyssal Horror
**[17:40] Stica**
Then let's fight to the end.
**[17:45] Laurannei**
Roger that!
**[18:07] Stica**
Is that... a human?
**[18:25] Stica**
Don't tell me he's going to fight with swords?
**[18:32] Kirito**
Release Recollection.
**[18:52] Kirito**
Release Recollection!
**[19:32] Stica**
D-Did they kill it?
**[19:34] Stica**
A monster like that?
**[19:36] Laurannei**
*No, not yet!*
**[19:42] Stica**
No! Don't let it get away!
**[19:44] Stica**
We have to burn all of them up!
**[19:55] Stica**
I know this swordswoman... no, this knight.
**[20:01] Laurannei**
Me, too.
**[20:03] Stica**
Lady... Alice?
**[20:08] Alice**
Release Recollection.
**[20:30] Stica**
Amazing.
**[20:43] Laurannei**
Sti, I know him. I know who that person is.
**[20:49] Stica**
Yes, Laura. So do I. So do I!
***SIGN*** This is where the story ends.
***SIGN*** But the battle continues for Kirito,
Asuna, Leafa, Sinon and the others,
as well as for Alice.
***SIGN*** They will next take up their swords
on the final, greatest battle of all,
the "Inter-Intelligence War,"
***SIGN*** but as of this moment,
every possibility is but a faint flicker,
wavering beyond a fluctuating light.