Sword Art Online Alicization

E1 - Underworld
E2 - The Demon Tree
E3 - The End Mountains
E4 - Departure
E5 - Ocean Turtle
E6 - Project Alicization
E7 - Swordcraft Academy
E8 - Swordsman's Pride
E9 - Nobleman's Responsibilities
E10 - Taboo Index
E11 - Central Cathedral
E12 - The Sage of the Library
E13 - Ruler and Mediator
E14 - The Crimson Knight
E15 - The Relentless Knight
E16 - The Osmanthus Knight
E17 - Truce
E18 - The Legendary Hero
E18.5 - Recollection
E19 - The Seal of the Right Eye
E20 - Synthesis
E21 - The 32nd Knight
E22 - Titan of the Sword
E23 - Administrator
E24 - My Hero

E1 - Underworld

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SIGN    July 18, year 372 in the time of the realm of humanity
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    Forty-seven!
[00:30] ---
    Fifty!
[00:49] ---
    I only heard three good hits out of fifty.
[00:53] ---
    Let's see, that brings it to 41 total, huh?
[00:58] ---
    Looks like you're treating me
    to the siral water today, Eugeo.
[01:04] ---
    Says the guy who's only at 43 good hits.
[01:06] ---
    I'll catch up in no time.
[01:08] ---
    Come on, it's your turn...
[01:11] ---
    Kirito.
[01:12] ---
    Yeah, yeah.
[01:16] ---
    One year and three months.
[01:18] ---
    After swinging that ax this much every day...
[01:22] ---
    I can't take much more of this.
[01:24] ---
    There's no point complaining.
[01:27] ---
    After all, it's our Calling
    to cut down the Gigas Cedar.
[01:31] ---
    Sure, I know that, but there's no sense
    of accomplishment in this job.
[01:39] ---
    Let's see. How much was its life before this?
[01:43] ---
    Something like 235,590.
[01:48] ---
    A measly 50!
[01:49] ---
    After toiling away for two months,
    just a measly 50 out of 235,000-something?
[01:54] ---
    We could keep going forever
    and never cut it down!
[01:58] ---
    Well, it is a tree that's renowned
    for its steel-like durability.
[02:02] ---
    The six generations of carvers before us
    worked on it for 300 years.
[02:06] ---
    So it should take another 18 generations...
    about 900 years.
[02:10] ---
    Listen, you...
[02:18] ---
    Ouch.
[02:20] ---
    Why are you such a goody-goody?
[02:22] ---
    Figure out how to deal
    with this unfair role of ours instead!
[02:26] ---
    Wh-What are you doing?
[02:28] ---
    D-Darn you!
[02:31] ---
    Let's see how you like it!
[02:34] ---
    Why, you—
[02:36] ---
    All right, do you give up?
[02:38] ---
    Now you've done it!
[02:41] ---
    Take that!
[02:42] ---
    Payback time!
[02:44] ---
    - Cut it out, Kirito!
    - How about here!
[02:47] ---
    Hey! I caught you slacking off again,
    didn't I?
[02:51] ---
    Crap.
[02:53] ---
    H-Hey, Alice.
[02:56] ---
    Y-You're done with your sacred arts class?
[02:59] ---
    I mean, you're pretty early today.
[03:02] ---
    I'm not early at all.
[03:04] ---
    It's the same time as always.
[03:08] ---
    Since you have enough energy to wrestle,
[03:11] ---
    maybe I should tell Old Man Garitta
    to increase your cutting quota?
[03:16] ---
    N-No, anything but that!
[03:18] ---
    I'm only kidding.
[03:20] ---
    Now then...
[03:23] ---
    ...let's have lunch.
[03:28] ---
    It's hot today...
[03:32] ---
    ...so eat fast before it all spoils, okay?
[03:35] ---
    - Right!
    - Right!
[03:39] ---
    The pie sure tastes awesome today!
[03:43] ---
    Your cooking skills are really improving, Alice!
[03:47] ---
    Y-You really think so?
    I felt like it was still missing something.
[03:55] ---
    Still... This lunch is so tasty,
    I wish we could've taken our time enjoying it.
[04:01] ---
    Why does the heat make it spoil so quickly?
[04:04] ---
    What do you mean, why?
[04:05] ---
    During the winter we can leave
    salted raw meat outside and it'll keep for days.
[04:10] ---
    Sure, because it's cold during the winter.
[04:14] ---
    That's right. So if we keep it cold,
    our lunch will last longer, even at this time of year.
[04:21] ---
    Are you going to use the forbidden
    weather-altering arts to make it snow?
[04:25] ---
    An Integrity Knight from the Axiom Church would
    show up before you could blink and spirit you away.
[04:36] ---
    Ice.
[04:39] ---
    We could keep our food cold enough
    if we had lots of ice.
[04:42] ---
    And then we could enjoy these delicious lunches
    for as long as we want!
[04:46] ---
    That's it! Ice!
[04:49] ---
    Let's go search for ice!
[04:50] ---
    Listen, you...
[04:52] ---
    It's summer. Where would we find ice?
[04:56] ---
    I'm sure there isn't even any
    in the Centoria market.
[05:06] ---
    Hey...
[05:07] ---
    Do you remember the story
    about the hero Bercouli?
[05:12] ---
    Which one?
[05:13] ---
    You know.
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    "Bercouli and the Northern White Dragon."
[05:21] ---
    The hero, Bercouli,
    followed the Rul River to the north.
[05:26] ---
    Inside a cave in the End Mountains, he found
    a huge white dragon asleep atop a pile of treasure.
[05:31] ---
    He took hold of a beautiful sword
    in the treasure, but the instant he did...
[05:38] ---
    According to the story, he found giant icicles
    hanging just inside the cave, right?
[05:44] ---
    So if we break some off...
[05:45] ---
    Look, you...
[05:46] ---
    That's not a bad idea.
[05:48] ---
    Come on! You do know, don't you?
    Under the laws of the village...
[05:52] ---
    The village law forbids any child unaccompanied
    by an adult from playing in the End Mountains.
[05:59] ---
    But searching for ice doesn't count as playing.
[06:02] ---
    If it means extending the life of our meals,
    it will benefit the villagers, won't it?
[06:07] ---
    So this should be interpreted as work.
[06:11] ---
    I agree.
[06:13] ---
    You're absolutely right.
[06:14] ---
    Yeah, but going to the End Mountains
    isn't just against village law,
[06:19] ---
    it's forbidden by "that," right?
[06:20] ---
    "That"?
[06:22] ---
    You know what I mean.
[06:23] ---
    The Taboo Index, of course.
[06:26] ---
    We can't just violate the Taboo Index, can we?
[06:31] ---
    Eugeo, this is what it says in the Index.
[06:34] ---
    Taboo Index, Book One,
    Chapter Three, Verse Eleven.
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    "Thou shalt not cross the End Mountains
    that encircle the Human Empire."
[06:43] ---
    By "cross," it means entering the Dark Territory
    on the other side of the End Mountains.
[06:49] ---
    That doesn't include entering the cave.
[06:52] ---
    But...
[06:54] ---
    Ouch!
[06:55] ---
    All right, it's settled! Our next day off
    will be spent looking for the white dragon...
[06:58] ---
    no, I mean the ice cave!
[07:02] ---
    Yeah!
[07:03] ---
    Okay, then we'll meet at the North Gate at 7:00 AM.
[07:05] ---
    Right! And don't oversleep!
[07:07] ---
    Right back at you!
SIGN    July 21, year 372 in the time of the realm of humanity
[07:16] ---
    Jeez. Making us carry everything...
[07:21] ---
    Well, you shouldn't complain.
[07:23] ---
    I mean, we might not get to go out with Alice
    like this much longer.
[07:28] ---
    Since Alice is the daughter of the village elder,
[07:31] ---
    I'm sure she'll get even more tied up
    with her studies.
[07:36] ---
    Well, the reason
    she hasn't been given a Calling
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    is so she can study
    how to hone her sacred arts skills.
[07:42] ---
    And she might be forbidden
    from playing with boys too,
[07:44] ---
    to act as a role model
    for the other villagers.
[07:47] ---
    Hey!
[07:49] ---
    What are you two whispering about?
[07:52] ---
    U-Uh, nothing! Right?
[07:54] ---
    Yeah.
[07:55] ---
    We were just saying, we have to head back
    to the village before the evening bell.
[08:00] ---
    Oh?
[08:01] ---
    That's true.
[08:03] ---
    Then let's turn back
    when Solus reaches the middle of the sky.
[08:07] ---
    Now that that's settled, let's hurry!
[08:19] ---
    By the way, did you know?
[08:22] ---
    When this village was first founded,
[08:25] ---
    occasionally evil spirits like goblins or orcs
    would come from beyond the mountains,
[08:30] ---
    and steal sheep or spirit away children!
[08:33] ---
    What? Are you trying to scare me?
[08:36] ---
    I know about that.
[08:38] ---
    In the end, the Integrity Knights came from Centoria
    and drove them away, right?
[08:42] ---
    Ever since then, on sunny days,
[08:45] ---
    you can see a Silver Dragon Knight
    soaring far above the End Mountains!
[09:00] ---
    There's no way... right?
[09:21] ---
    A cave...
[09:23] ---
    Is this the cave in the End Mountains?
[09:34] ---
    Well, we have no choice but to go in now, right?
[09:39] ---
    System Call.
[09:41] ---
    Generate Luminous Element.
[09:43] ---
    Adhere!
[09:55] ---
    Hey, didn't you say that
    the icicles were hanging just inside the cave?
[10:00] ---
    Did I say that?
[10:02] ---
    You did!
[10:08] ---
    Eugeo?
[10:12] ---
    Bring the light a little closer.
[10:21] ---
    See? You saw that, didn't you?
[10:24] ---
    Seriously? No wonder it feels colder now.
[10:28] ---
    It's summer outside,
    but it's winter inside this cave.
[10:32] ---
    I'm sure there's ice, too!
[10:34] ---
    Yeah. Let's go a little farther in.
[10:37] ---
    Hey, what are we going to do
    if we really come across a white dragon?
[10:41] ---
    We'll have to run, of course.
[10:44] ---
    Don't worry. The white dragon won't mind
    if we just take some icicles.
[10:51] ---
    But it would be great
    to grab at least one scale...
[10:54] ---
    Hey, what are you thinking?
[10:57] ---
    Because if we can bring home proof
    that we saw a real dragon...
[11:07] ---
    Hey, it's ice!
[11:08] ---
    There's ice! There's ice here!
[11:11] ---
    I bet there's more up ahead!
[11:22] ---
    That's...
[11:45] ---
    This much ice should be enough
    to keep all the food in the village cold.
[11:49] ---
    Are you kidding?
[11:50] ---
    We could make it winter
    in the village for a while!
[11:55] ---
    - Hey, don't stop all of a sudden!
    - What is this?
[12:00] ---
    Just what is...
[12:02] ---
    ...this?
[12:08] ---
    The bones of the white dragon?
[12:10] ---
    It died?
[12:16] ---
    Hey...
[12:17] ---
    This is all scratched up.
[12:19] ---
    And the tip's been cut off cleanly.
[12:21] ---
    Was it fighting with something?
[12:23] ---
    But what living creature could kill a dragon?
[12:27] ---
    These are blade marks.
[12:30] ---
    This dragon was killed by a human.
[12:35] ---
    B-But...
[12:37] ---
    ...even the hero Bercouli
    only managed to get away.
[12:43] ---
    An Integrity Knight?
[12:45] ---
    Don't tell me that an Integrity Knight
    from the Axiom Church
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    killed a white dragon,
    a protector of the realm of humanity?
[12:54] ---
    I don't know.
[12:55] ---
    There might be really powerful knights
    in the Dark Territory, too.
[13:00] ---
    But if there are, then the forces of darkness
    could just cross over the End Mountains.
[13:06] ---
    What are you doing, Kirito?
[13:09] ---
    This is really heavy!
[13:13] ---
    Could this possibly be...
[13:15] ---
    Yeah. What Bercouli supposedly tried to steal.
[13:19] ---
    It must be the Blue Rose Sword.
[13:30] ---
    No good. It's too heavy.
[13:34] ---
    Even Eugeo and I together couldn't carry it out.
[13:39] ---
    Looks like there are all kinds of treasure, too.
[13:42] ---
    Yeah. But we can't just take them, can we?
[13:47] ---
    That would be like grave robbing.
[13:50] ---
    But the White Dragon won't mind
    if it's just some ice, right?
[13:57] ---
    So pretty!
[13:58] ---
    What a waste,
    bringing it back just to have it melt.
[14:02] ---
    But if it means our meals will last longer,
    what does it matter?
[14:05] ---
    You mean everybody's meals, right?
[14:08] ---
    We'd better get going,
    or we won't make it back by evening.
[14:12] ---
    You're right.
[14:17] ---
    Hey...
[14:19] ---
    which way did we come in from?
[14:26] ---
    We've been walking a long time now.
[14:29] ---
    Do you think maybe
    we came from the opposite direction?
[14:32] ---
    You're the one who picked this path
    because you thought it was closer.
[14:37] ---
    Did you say something?
[14:38] ---
    No, nothing!
[14:48] ---
    Is that the wind?
[14:49] ---
    We're almost outside!
[14:51] ---
    We picked the right path!
[14:53] ---
    Hey! You'll fall if you run in a place like this!
[15:06] ---
    There's the exit!
[15:23] ---
    This is...
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    ...the Dark Territory.
[15:30] ---
    We can't go any farther.
[15:44] ---
    Dragon Knights...
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    The white one...
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    Is that an Axiom Church Integrity Knight?
[15:51] ---
    So the black one's from the forces of darkness?
[16:57] ---
    No!
[17:11] ---
    Alice!
[17:24] ---
    Taboo Index, Book One,
    Chapter Three, Verse Eleven.
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    "Thou shalt not cross the End Mountains
    that encircle the Human Empire."
[17:33] ---
    Alice!
[17:38] ---
    I-I...
[17:39] ---
    I-It's all right, Alice.
[17:42] ---
    It's not like you left the cave.
    Right? Isn't that right, Kirito?
[17:47] ---
    Kirito?
[17:55] ---
    What's that?
[17:56] ---
    Singular unit detected.
[17:59] ---
    Tracing ID.
[18:01] ---
    Coordinates fixed.
[18:03] ---
    Report complete.
[18:07] ---
    It's gone?
[18:08] ---
    What was that just now?
[18:10] ---
    I don't know.
[18:11] ---
    Let's just head back!
[18:31] ---
    All right, let's go home.
[18:36] ---
    Right.
[18:38] ---
    Okay, I'm going to go put this
    in the basement.
[18:41] ---
    Okay.
[18:42] ---
    See you.
[18:51] ---
    Look forward to tomorrow's lunch, okay?
[18:54] ---
    Sure!
[18:55] ---
    S-Sure.
[19:20] ---
    Alice...
[19:26] ---
    Don't go! Alice!
[19:30] ---
    Alice!
[20:07] ---
    Hey, Kirito!
[20:09] ---
    Yeah. It's the Integrity Knight from yesterday.
[20:13] ---
    No way! Alice...
[20:16] ---
    It can't be.
[20:18] ---
    Just for something like that?
[20:22] ---
    Let's go!
[20:24] ---
    Hey!
[20:44] ---
    Alice!
[20:47] ---
    Kirito! Eugeo!
[20:48] ---
    Quiet.
[20:50] ---
    You'd better get away while you can.
[20:59] ---
    Father!
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    I serve as the village elder.
    My name is Zuberg.
[21:12] ---
    I am the Axiom Church Integrity Knight
    overseeing northern Norlangarth,
[21:16] ---
    Deusolbert Synthesis Seven.
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    For her crimes against the Taboo Index,
    the child of Gasfut Zuberg, Alice Zuberg,
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    will now be apprehended, taken in,
    and, after questioning, executed.
[21:32] ---
    The charge is Taboo Index, Book One,
    Chapter Three, Verse Eleven,
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    trespassing into the Dark Territory.
[22:01] ---
    Sir Knight!
[22:03] ---
    A-Alice never went into the Dark Territory!
[22:07] ---
    She just touched the ground with one hand
    for a second!
[22:11] ---
    That's all she did!
[22:12] ---
    What more do you think she had to do?
[22:16] ---
    Th-Then we're just as guilty as she is!
[22:19] ---
    We were there in that same place!
[22:21] ---
    If you're taking her, then take us, too!
[22:26] ---
    Eugeo... listen.
[22:29] ---
    I'm going to swing the ax at him.
[22:31] ---
    You grab Alice then and run!
[22:33] ---
    K-Kirito... but that's...
[22:36] ---
    Who cares about taboos?
[22:38] ---
    Are you saying they're more important
    than Alice's life?
[23:01] ---
    Kirito!
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    Escort those two kids from the square.
[23:07] ---
    Dammit!
[23:18] ---
    Eugeo, please! Go after her!
[23:40] ---
    Eugeo! At least get these guys off me! Then I'll...
[23:44] ---
    Eugeo!
[24:13] ---
    Alice!
SIGN    Underworld
SIGN    Saturday, June 27, 2026
[25:37] ---
    This is a fully-automatic Tanegashima!
[25:43] ---
    You dirty PK jerks, how do you like this?
[26:04] ---
    Damn!
[26:08] ---
    You're up! I'll cover you!
[26:39] ---
    Photon Swords?
[26:41] ---
    Teams B and C,
    head to Grid 4-6 to back up Team A.
[26:45] ---
    You have permission to use grenades.
[26:47] ---
    Hey, Boss, can I go too?
[26:50] ---
    It's probably too late for that.
[26:53] ---
    Just sit back and watch.
[27:17] ---
    Leave this to me!
[27:43] ---
    Again?
[27:49] ---
    Time's up, huh?
[27:51] ---
    All teams, retreat.
[27:54] ---
    Move away from Grid 1-9.
[27:58] ---
    That would've been
    the last prey for today, right?
[28:01] ---
    You sure you want to end on a loss, Boss?
[28:05] ---
    Battling an irregular squadron like that
    won't do much good, training-wise.
[28:10] ---
    We wouldn't want any negative effects
    to carry over into the actual operation.
[28:14] ---
    Let's go.
[28:20] ---
    Till next time.
[28:26] ---
    Man, I'd heard the rumors,
    but GGO sure is a hardcore game.
[28:32] ---
    I mean, you're allowed to PK all you want
    wherever you are on the field!
[28:36] ---
    Yeah, but even with no-holds-barred PK-ing,
    that squadron we just fought was an anomaly.
[28:42] ---
    Normally, you'd PK for money or items...
[28:46] ---
    But those guys only seemed to be
    focused on killing us.
[28:50] ---
    They were tossing grenades and smoke
    without restraint.
[28:52] ---
    Wouldn't that put them in the red?
[28:54] ---
    Probably. But they're always like that
    whenever they show up.
[28:59] ---
    They attack squadrons that are left isolated
    on the field, massacre them,
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    then vanish without even looting items.
[29:06] ---
    Is it true they have a 100% win rate?
[29:09] ---
    As far as I know, yes.
[29:11] ---
    So...
[29:13] ---
    I thought we could win
    if we went after them in a really unusual style.
[29:17] ---
    That's why I asked you all for your help.
[29:19] ---
    Sorry. My plan had too many holes.
[29:22] ---
    I never thought they'd just retreat like that!
[29:25] ---
    But hey, it's not a defeat, right?
[29:28] ---
    Nah, they're the ones who ran,
    so it's the same as a win!
[29:31] ---
    Not that we have any idea who they really are,
    or what they're after.
[29:36] ---
    Well, that's just... um...
[29:39] ---
    I wish we could've
    at least found out their leader's name.
[29:43] ---
    It wasn't even clear which one of them
    was the leader, though, was it?
[29:49] ---
    Hey! Don't crash out like that!
[29:52] ---
    He said he's been taking time off from school
    since Thursday, touring companies.
[29:56] ---
    He's probably tangled up
    in some bizarre business again, huh?
[30:03] ---
    You guys, thank you so much
    for helping me out.
[30:06] ---
    Hey, no biggie!
[30:08] ---
    Later!
[30:09] ---
    I had fun!
[30:11] ---
    See you!
[30:13] ---
    All right, I'm off, too.
[30:15] ---
    Um... Asuna.
[30:16] ---
    What is it?
[30:17] ---
    There's actually something I need your help with.
[30:20] ---
    You mean with the PK squadron?
[30:22] ---
    Actually, it's something else.
[30:27] ---
    Could you and Kirito meet with me
    on the other side tomorrow?
SIGN    Coming at the end of 2026
[30:31] ---
    Let's see... the evening should be okay.
[30:35] ---
    Is Agil's shop all right with you?
[30:37] ---
    Of course.
[30:38] ---
    Oh, I'll email you the gist of what
    I'm going to ask you. Read it over, okay?
[30:43] ---
    Roger that!
SIGN    Saturday, June 28, 2026
[30:51] ---
    Hey, did you lose more weight?
[30:53] ---
    You think so?
[30:56] ---
    Never mind that.
[30:57] ---
    Didn't you want to ask me something?
[31:00] ---
    Is it about BoB?
[31:02] ---
    Yeah.
[31:03] ---
    There's a player named Subtilizer
    who won BoB IV.
[31:07] ---
    He also won the very first one.
[31:12] ---
    We were all so fired up, you know.
[31:14] ---
    About getting the chance
    to face the legendary Subtilizer.
[31:17] ---
    From what I could tell from the live feed,
    he's got a silent, matter-of-fact fighting style.
[31:23] ---
    It seemed similar to the vibe I was getting
    from yesterday's PK squadron.
[31:27] ---
    Hey, now that you mention it, it is.
[31:30] ---
    The only difference is that
    Subtilizer's on a whole other level.
[31:35] ---
    It was the same with me, too, but...
[31:37] ---
    He read my every move,
    and forced me into extreme close combat.
[31:42] ---
    I was killed
    before I could even aim my gun.
[31:45] ---
    That's incredible.
[31:46] ---
    To be able to anticipate the moves
    of BoB veterans.
[31:52] ---
    After playing enough to be considered a veteran,
    you find yourself bound by theory,
[31:55] ---
    so it might be easy to recognize patterns
    in our movements.
[31:59] ---
    Which brings me to my request.
[32:03] ---
    The way I see it, a player who acts totally off-script
    might be able to outmaneuver Subtilizer.
[32:09] ---
    It may be a little early, but I'd like your help
    in the fifth one at the end of the year.
[32:14] ---
    That's why I've asked you here today.
[32:17] ---
    Huh?
[32:18] ---
    Whoever we're up against,
    we're definitely going to win the next one!
[32:22] ---
    Whatever it takes!
[32:24] ---
    Looks like you're pretty much over it now.
[32:29] ---
    It isn't like I'm not scared at all,
    but I'm getting better.
[32:34] ---
    By the way, how's he doing?
[32:38] ---
    Shinkawa is...
[32:41] ---
    Yeah, his condition's starting to stabilize.
[32:44] ---
    I'm planning to visit him again soon.
[32:47] ---
    I see.
[32:49] ---
    Then that means the Death Gun incident
    is wrapped up now, huh?
[32:55] ---
    Although there's still one perp on the run.
[32:58] ---
    Kikuoka said it's just a matter of time
    before he's arrested, too.
[33:02] ---
    Yeah. I guess so.
[33:05] ---
    Hello!
[33:07] ---
    Hey, there, Shino-non!
[33:09] ---
    A-Asuna!
[33:10] ---
    Hello, Asuna!
[33:14] ---
    About BoB V, it's okay with me!
[33:16] ---
    You asked Asuna, too?
[33:19] ---
    Yes. I was a little nervous that
    you'd spin out of control on your own,
[33:23] ---
    so partly to serve as your limiter...
[33:27] ---
    Hey, Kirito.
[33:29] ---
    You've lost weight, haven't you?
[33:32] ---
    You think so?
[33:33] ---
    You see? Even Asuna thinks so!
[33:36] ---
    It's because of your part-time job, isn't it?
[33:38] ---
    Really. Overdoing it again.
[33:42] ---
    It doesn't seem to be
    affecting you physically, but...
[33:44] ---
    What are you looking at?
[33:48] ---
    What's this?
[33:50] ---
    Don't stare at it like that.
[33:53] ---
    Hold on, is this Kirito's...
[33:55] ---
    You guessed right!
[33:57] ---
    B-But how does that work?
[34:00] ---
    I have a miniature sensor implanted right here.
[34:05] ---
    It sends information more or less in real time
    over the internet to Asuna's smartphone.
[34:11] ---
    Wh-Wh-Why would you...
[34:13] ---
    It wouldn't be an anti-cheating system,
    would it?
[34:16] ---
    - No, no!
    - It's not!
[34:18] ---
    They recommended it to me
    when I started at my current part-time job.
[34:22] ---
    Because it would be a hassle
    to stick electrodes on me every time.
[34:27] ---
    And when I told Asuna about it,
    she started using it for this.
[34:31] ---
    Well, looking at it
    really sets my mind at ease.
[34:35] ---
    To see that Kirito's heart is beating.
[34:38] ---
    It makes me trip a little, you know!
[34:43] ---
    That doesn't sound very good, Asuna.
[34:46] ---
    Anyway, having you on my side
    gives me an edge.
[34:49] ---
    It's like having a heavy machine gun
    in a pillbox!
[34:53] ---
    You won't be sorry you picked me!
[34:57] ---
    Now, then...
[34:58] ---
    Let's hear about your sketchy new job.
[35:02] ---
    Though I'm sure it's as an alpha tester
    for some new VRMMO game.
[35:07] ---
    What I'm testing isn't a game app.
[35:10] ---
    It's a brain-machine interface
    for a new full-dive system.
[35:15] ---
    It's being developed by Rath.
[35:18] ---
    I've never heard of that company.
[35:20] ---
    That's the name of an imaginary creature
    that appears in Through the Looking-Glass.
[35:25] ---
    Some say it's a pig,
    while others say it's a turtle.
[35:29] ---
    So they're going to release
    a next-generation full-dive machine?
[35:33] ---
    I don't know about that.
[35:35] ---
    In the first place, it's completely different
    from the current full-dive tech.
[35:40] ---
    Different? What's the in-game world like?
[35:45] ---
    I don't actually know.
[35:48] ---
    I'm sure it's for the sake of confidentiality,
[35:51] ---
    but any of the memories
    the machine creates in this VR world,
[35:54] ---
    I can't bring back to the real world.
[35:57] ---
    Whatever I saw during the tests,
    whatever I did,
[36:00] ---
    I've forgotten every last detail.
[36:04] ---
    Forgotten every last detail?
[36:06] ---
    Don't tell me it's the same as the Augma?
[36:12] ---
    Uh... no, it's not!
[36:14] ---
    It doesn't put any stress on your brain
    like the Augma did.
[36:17] ---
    It's just that I can't remember,
    since the Fluctlight is blocking the path.
[36:22] ---
    Fluct...?
[36:25] ---
    Should I explain the general concept?
[36:27] ---
    About this machine...
    the Soul Translator technology?
[36:34] ---
    Where do you think the human soul is located?
[36:37] ---
    Soul?
[36:38] ---
    In your head... the brain, right?
[36:41] ---
    The brain is more or less
    a clump of brain cells, right?
[36:45] ---
    So where among the brain cells
    does the soul exist?
[36:50] ---
    All cells, including brain cells,
    are supported by a structural network.
[36:55] ---
    Apparently, they're called microtubules.
[36:59] ---
    Tubes. In other words, hollow pipes.
[37:02] ---
    And there's something
    sealed inside those hollow pipes.
[37:06] ---
    What's inside them?
[37:09] ---
    Light.
[37:11] ---
    Light. A fluctuating light photon.
[37:14] ---
    And that's what comprises the human soul,
    according to Rath.
[37:17] ---
    You mean that cluster of light is the human soul?
[37:25] ---
    And at Rath, this thing that might be
    the human soul is known as...
[37:33] ---
    The Fluctlight.
[37:36] ---
    So the machine that reads Fluctlights
    is called the Soul Translator?
[37:41] ---
    But you could do the opposite as well, right?
[37:43] ---
    Opposite?
[37:44] ---
    The Amusphere allows us
    to experience the virtual world
[37:49] ---
    by sending visual and audio signals
    to the brain, right?
[37:52] ---
    So couldn't the Soul Translator send information
    to the soul in the same way?
[37:58] ---
    Yeah, that's right.
[38:00] ---
    The Soul Translator,
[38:02] ---
    or STL, writes short-term memories
    onto the Fluctlight to insert information
[38:07] ---
    of the sights or sounds
    it wants us to experience.
[38:11] ---
    Apparently, it's called mnemonic visual data.
[38:14] ---
    I have memories of my test dives
    at the very beginning,
[38:20] ---
    but it was different.
[38:21] ---
    It was completely different.
[38:23] ---
    Nothing like the VR world
    created by the Amusphere.
[38:27] ---
    At first, I couldn't even tell it was a virtual world.
[38:31] ---
    But is it really safe?
[38:35] ---
    It scares me.
[38:38] ---
    It was Mr. Kikuoka of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
    who offered you that job, wasn't it?
[38:44] ---
    It's true that I have to be on my guard
    around that guy.
[38:48] ---
    But I want to know.
[38:52] ---
    Where full-dive technology is headed.
[38:55] ---
    I have a feeling.
[38:57] ---
    There's something about the STL.
[38:59] ---
    I mean, sure, terms like "Fluctlights"
    and "mnemonic visual" sound complicated.
[39:05] ---
    But the world created by the STL
    is like a realistic dream.
[39:10] ---
    A dream?
[39:11] ---
    For example,
    you have long dreams sometimes, right?
[39:14] ---
    And when you wake up, it feels like
    you've been dreaming for two or three hours.
[39:20] ---
    But chances are, you've actually
    only been dreaming for a few minutes.
[39:25] ---
    The STL creates the same kind of phenomenon.
[39:28] ---
    Um...
[39:30] ---
    The same way that humans see dreams
    spanning several hours in a matter of minutes,
[39:34] ---
    you can also experience the virtual world
    several times longer than the actual dive time.
[39:40] ---
    That's the STL's featured function.
[39:43] ---
    Fluctlight Acceleration.
[39:45] ---
    FLA for short.
[39:49] ---
    I'm so confused.
[39:51] ---
    So during the three days you were diving,
    about how much time did you spend inside?
[39:58] ---
    I'm not sure.
[39:59] ---
    I don't remember
    whether it was ten days or a month.
[40:05] ---
    The only thing they told me was the code name
    of the experimental virtual world.
[40:10] ---
    What's it called?
[40:12] ---
    The Underworld.
[40:13] ---
    Under... an underground world?
[40:16] ---
    You know, that could be from Alice too.
[40:19] ---
    See, that was what the manuscript version
    of Alice in Wonderland was called.
[40:26] ---
    The original title was
    Alice's Adventures Under Ground.
[40:31] ---
    Is something wrong?
[40:33] ---
    Well, when I heard the name Alice,
    it felt like a memory was about to surface.
[40:38] ---
    Does that mean...
[40:40] ---
    It's like...
[40:42] ---
    It's like there's something
    I need to do right away.
[40:50] ---
    We'll be back soon, Agil!
[40:53] ---
    Right.
[41:00] ---
    Okay, I'll be in touch again about BoB.
[41:03] ---
    Thanks for coming today.
[41:05] ---
    Sure! See you, Shino-non!
[41:07] ---
    Later, Asuna.
[41:10] ---
    Let's go.
[41:13] ---
    What's wrong?
[41:15] ---
    N-Nothing. Let's go.
[41:35] ---
    Kirito?
[41:39] ---
    Asuna.
[41:42] ---
    I'm thinking of going after all.
[41:45] ---
    America?
[41:46] ---
    Yeah.
[41:48] ---
    The next generation full-dive tech research
    is more advanced over there.
[41:53] ---
    I have to see it.
[41:55] ---
    The moment the next world is created.
[41:59] ---
    It wasn't all just fun and games.
[42:01] ---
    There was so much pain and sadness, too,
    wasn't there?
[42:05] ---
    Of course you want to find out
    why that castle summoned you,
[42:09] ---
    and where it all leads.
[42:11] ---
    Not even living several centuries
    would be long enough to find that out.
[42:17] ---
    So...
[42:19] ---
    I-I want...
[42:21] ---
    I want you to come with me, Asuna.
[42:25] ---
    I know that's asking a lot.
[42:27] ---
    But even still, I...
[42:31] ---
    I can't live without you!
[42:40] ---
    Of course I'll go. With you.
[42:43] ---
    I'll go wherever you go. No matter where!
[42:46] ---
    Asuna...
[42:59] ---
    But don't you want to research
    the Soul Translator?
[43:03] ---
    It's a next-generation interface, too, right?
[43:07] ---
    I'm not sure about that.
[43:10] ---
    I have a feeling it's not just a machine
    that enables people to full-dive into virtual worlds.
[43:15] ---
    Then what is it?
[43:16] ---
    It might be a machine for learning more
    about Fluctlights... about human consciousness.
[43:23] ---
    And also...
[43:25] ---
    I think the STL is an extension of his...
    of Heathcliff's philosophy.
[43:31] ---
    The commander's?
[43:32] ---
    Why that guy used the NerveGear
    and SAO to cause thousands of casualties,
[43:39] ---
    why he burned out his own brain,
[43:41] ---
    and on top of that scattered something
    like the Seed all over the place...
[43:46] ---
    I guess I do want to find out,
    but I don't want that to be my career path.
[43:51] ---
    Because that would feel like
    he was still manipulating me.
[43:54] ---
    Didn't you have a talk
    with the commander's consciousness?
[43:58] ---
    Yeah.
[44:00] ---
    I have a feeling that the reason
    he left a copy of himself behind
[44:04] ---
    has something to do with what
    Rath is trying to accomplish with the STL.
[44:11] ---
    Excuse me!
[44:13] ---
    Um, which way is the station?
[44:16] ---
    Let's see...
[44:19] ---
    Kirito?
[44:21] ---
    You were skulking around the Dicey Cafe,
    weren't you?
[44:25] ---
    I guess an ambush isn't going to work.
[44:28] ---
    Who are you?
[44:29] ---
    Hey now, don't be like that, Kirito.
[44:33] ---
    Oh wait, I always had a mask on
    over there, didn't I?
[44:37] ---
    Now that XaXa's been caught,
    I have to show some grit, right?
[44:43] ---
    As the last survivor of Laughing Coffin!
[44:48] ---
    Johnny Black!
[44:57] ---
    Nope! No sword there!
[45:00] ---
    So you're still on the run?
[45:03] ---
    Of course!
[45:05] ---
    But really, Kirito...
[45:07] ---
    Without your sword,
    you're nothing but a feeble little brat, huh?
[45:11] ---
    I can't believe you're the same swordsman
    who beat the crap out of me!
[45:16] ---
    What about you?
[45:18] ---
    You don't have your poisoned weapon of choice.
[45:21] ---
    Oh, I have it!
[45:22] ---
    I have a poison weapon, all right!
[45:26] ---
    Death Gun!
[45:35] ---
    Asuna! Run!
[46:02] ---
    Kirito!
[47:36] ---
    Next time: The Demon Tree.

E2 - The Demon Tree

E3 - The End Mountains

E4 - Departure

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SIGN    Departure
[01:38] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[01:44] Kirito
    Hey, Eugeo, get a hold of yourself!
[01:51] Kirito
    When I count to three,
    we're going to slam into those four.
[01:55] Kirito
    And then knock over those fires.
[01:58] Eugeo
    Okay.
[01:59] Kirito
    Don't lose that glowing grass.
[02:05] Kirito
    Once the fires are out,
    pick up a sword from the ground.
[02:08] Kirito
    I'll take care of that huge one.
[02:10] Kirito
    While I'm doing that,
    keep the others away from me.
[02:14] Eugeo
    I've... never fought with a sword before!
[02:18] Kirito
    It's the same as an ax. Come on!
[02:21] Kirito
    One...
[02:22] Kirito
    Two...
[02:24] Kirito
    Three!
[02:40] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[02:42] Kirito
    Just drive back any that get too close!
[02:46] Eugeo
    Even if you say to...
[02:56] Eugeo
    I see. They don't like the light from this grass.
[03:09] Ugachi
    You think you can challenge
    the great Ugachi the Lizard Killer?
[03:16] Kirito
    You're wrong,
    I'm not going to challenge you,
[03:20] Kirito
    I'm going to beat you!
[03:56] Kirito
    Sword skill...
[03:58] Kirito
    Sharp Nail!
[04:19] Eugeo
    Kirito, are you all right?
[04:21] Kirito
    This hurts too much.
[04:23] Kirito
    In a virtual world,
    no way would I feel... pain like this!
[04:28] Ugachi
    You little White Ium brat!
[04:30] Ugachi
    How dare you slice off my arm!
[04:40] Ugachi
    I won't forgive you!
    I won't forgive you for this!
[04:49] Ugachi
    I could tear you apart, devour you,
    and still never live this humiliation down!
[05:15] Eugeo
    I'm scared...
[05:19] Eugeo
    But I've got to go!
[05:23] Eugeo
    If I don't, it'll be just the same as when Alice...
[05:42] Ugachi
    Die!
[05:43] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[05:48] Eugeo
    This time...
[05:54] Eugeo
    ...I'll be the one...
[05:58] Eugeo
    ...to protect you!
[06:01] Kirito
    Eugeo, run!
[06:14] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[06:21] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[06:28] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[06:31] Kirito
    Stay with me! Eugeo!
[06:35] Eugeo
    W-We promised each other as kids, remember?
[06:39] Eugeo
    Me, you and Alice.
[06:45] Eugeo
    We were born on the same day,
    so we're going to die on the same day.
[06:49] Eugeo
    This time...
[06:52] Eugeo
    ...I'm keeping it.
[07:05] Kirito
    That's right.
    I couldn't keep that promise, either, but...
[07:13] Ugachi
    Die!
[07:25] Ugachi
    You lowly White Ium! I'll put you in your place!
[07:35] Kirito
    I'm not an Ium!
[07:38] Kirito
    I'm Kirito the Swordsman!
[07:40] Ugachi
    So what if you are?
[07:43] Kirito
    He might also be an Artificial Fluctlight.
[07:48] Kirito
    But...
[07:51] Kirito
    ...I absolutely can't lose here!
[07:55] Kirito
    Sword Skill...
[07:57] Kirito
    Sonic Leap!
[08:14] Kirito
    I've taken the head of your boss.
[08:17] Kirito
    If any of you still want to fight, come on!
[08:20] Kirito
    Those who don't,
    return to the land of darkness right now!
[08:38] Kirito
    Hang in there!
[08:45] Kirito
    Selka! Please wake up!
[08:50] Selka
    Kirito? Is that you?
[08:53] Kirito
    Yeah. We came to rescue you. Are you okay?
[08:56] Selka
    Y-Yes. I'm fine.
[09:01] Selka
    Wh-What?
[09:02] Kirito
    Eugeo's been badly hurt.
[09:04] Kirito
    So...
[09:10] Selka
    Impossible.
[09:11] Selka
    A wound like this...
[09:13] Selka
    It's beyond my sacred arts abilities.
[09:15] Kirito
    You have to try, even if it's impossible.
[09:17] Kirito
    You're Alice's younger sister, aren't you?
[09:21] Selka
    I can never be like my sister.
[09:24] Selka
    The most I can heal are simple scratches.
[09:27] Kirito
    You're the one Eugeo came to save, Selka!
    Not Alice!
[09:31] Kirito
    He came to save you!
[09:37] Selka
    Normal healing arts would take too long.
[09:40] Selka
    We'll have to try a dangerous high-level sacred art.
[09:43] Selka
    Kirito, I'm going to need your help.
[09:47] Kirito
    All right. Say the word. I'll do anything.
[09:50] Selka
    Give me your left hand.
[09:55] Selka
    If I fail, we might both lose our lives as well.
[10:00] Selka
    I hope you're prepared.
[10:02] Kirito
    If that happens,
    make it so only my life is lost.
[10:05] Kirito
    I'm ready anytime.
[10:08] Selka
    System Call.
[10:11] Selka
    Transfer Human Unit Durability.
[10:14] Selka
    Right Hand Self to Left.
[10:23] Kirito
    So Selka's transferring my life and her own?
[10:30] Selka
    Kirito? Are you... still okay?
[10:34] Kirito
    No problem.
[10:35] Kirito
    More... Give more to Eugeo.
[10:45] Alice
    Kirito, Eugeo, I'll be waiting for you... always.
[10:53] Alice
    At the top of the Central Cathedral.
[10:59] Alice
    I'll always be waiting for you both.
[11:02] Kirito
    You're...
[11:07] Selka
    K-Kirito?
[11:15] Eugeo
    Fifty!
[11:21] Kirito
    How's your wound, Eugeo?
[11:24] Eugeo
    Yeah, after resting for an entire day,
    it seems to be completely healed.
[11:30] Kirito
    Hey, Eugeo, do you remember?
[11:33] Kirito
    When we were inside that cave,
    you said something strange.
[11:37] Kirito
    You made it sound like
    I'd always been friends with you and Alice.
[11:42] Eugeo
    I remember. But that can't be right
    cause I only just met you.
[11:47] Eugeo
    For some reason,
    I felt so sure about it in that moment.
[11:51] Eugeo
    That me, you and Alice...
[11:53] Eugeo
    ...were born in this village,
    and grew up together.
[11:56] Eugeo
    I think we were together
    the day Alice was taken away, too.
[12:01] Kirito
    I see.
[12:03] Kirito
    By the way, when Selka used that sacred art,
    did you hear someone's voice?
[12:08] Eugeo
    No. I was completely unconscious.
[12:12] Eugeo
    Did you hear something?
[12:14] Kirito
    No, it was just my imagination.
[12:16] Kirito
    Forget I asked.
[12:18] Kirito
    Now then, let's get to work.
[12:21] Eugeo
    Here. Do your best!
[12:25] Kirito
    I'm going to use this.
[12:32] Eugeo
    H-Hey, Kirito!
[12:34] Eugeo
    You can use that sword?
[12:38] Kirito
    Well, just watch.
[12:47] Kirito
    Because of that goblin battle the other day,
[12:49] Kirito
    my Object Control Authority
    has exceeded this sword's number.
[12:55] Kirito
    If so...
[13:08] Kirito
    See?
[13:14] Kirito
    I bet you can swing it too, Eugeo.
[13:29] Eugeo
    Kirito, can you...
[13:36] Eugeo
    can you teach me to use a sword?
[13:39] Eugeo
    I want to bring Alice back.
[13:42] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[13:44] Eugeo
    Because of me,
    Alice and her family have suffered.
[13:59] Eugeo
    For the past six years,
    I've never, ever stopped regretting it.
[14:04] Eugeo
    Wondering why I couldn't do anything
    to save Alice?
[14:10] Eugeo
    I... want to become strong!
[14:14] Eugeo
    So I'll never make the same mistake again!
[14:22] Eugeo
    So that I can regain what I've lost.
[14:26] Eugeo
    That's why...
[14:28] Eugeo
    I want to become a swordsman!
[14:32] Kirito
    All right. I'll teach you.
[14:34] Kirito
    Everything that I know.
[14:39] Kirito
    But the training's going to be tough.
[14:44] Eugeo
    That's what I was hoping for.
[14:49] Eugeo
    By the way,
    what style is your sword technique?
[14:58] Kirito
    My technique...
[15:02] Kirito
    ...is the Aincrad Style.
[15:25] Kirito
    All right. Go ahead, Eugeo.
[15:53] Villagers
    - H-Hey! Look!
    - What is that?
[16:13] Eugeo
    It's like a dream.
[16:15] Eugeo
    I never thought I'd see this day.
[16:18] Eugeo
    I didn't believe in destiny at all.
[16:21] Eugeo
    But...
[16:24] Eugeo
    Kirito, I've been waiting in this forest
    for the past six years for you to come.
[16:33] Kirito
    Yeah. I'm sure...
[16:37] Kirito
    ...that I woke up in this forest
    so I could meet you, Eugeo.
[16:57] Selka
    What, you're alone?
[17:00] Kirito
    Yeah, Eugeo was summoned by the village elder
    and went off somewhere.
[17:04] Selka
    I see.
[17:05] Selka
    But chopping down the demon tree
    is amazing, huh?
[17:12] Kirito
    I guess it was the fruit of Eugeo's labor!
[17:14] Selka
    I've got to study harder, too,
    so I can perfect my sacred arts skills as a Sister!
[17:20] Selka
    Not that I can ever be like my sister...
[17:25] Selka
    Actually, I didn't go into that cave
    to imitate my sister.
[17:31] Selka
    I just wanted to be even a little bit closer to her...
[17:35] Selka
    To go as far as I could.
[17:38] Selka
    To keep going until I couldn't go any further.
[17:42] Selka
    That's where I wanted to make sure
    there was no way I could ever take her place.
[17:48] Kirito
    No, you're amazing.
[17:53] Kirito
    You went so far into that dark cave.
[17:57] Kirito
    You did something only you could do.
[18:00] Selka
    Something only I could do?
[18:04] Kirito
    You're not Alice's replacement.
[18:07] Kirito
    I'm sure there's a talent that's unique to you.
[18:10] Kirito
    So just take your time and develop it.
[18:13] Selka
    Okay.
[18:15] Gasfut
    Everyone! Could I have your attention?
[18:18] Gasfut
    The greatest wish of Rulid's founding ancestors
    has been fulfilled at last!
[18:22] Gasfut
    The demon tree has been felled!
[18:27] Gasfut
    A triumph achieved by the son of Orick, Eugeo!
[18:33] Gasfut
    According to tradition, having completed his task,
    Eugeo is given the right to choose his next Calling!
[18:40] Gasfut
    All right. Go ahead
    and choose whatever path you wish
[19:03] Eugeo
    I...
[19:08] Eugeo
    I will become a swordsman!
[19:13] Eugeo
    I'm going to hone my skills...
[19:16] Eugeo
    ...and head to the central city one day!
[19:19] Gasfut
    Eugeo. Surely you're not...
[19:26] Gasfut
    No. I won't ask you why.
[19:30] Gasfut
    After all, it's your right
    to choose your next Calling.
[19:35] Gasfut
    As the elder of Rulid, I hereby approve
    Eugeo's new Calling to be a swordsman!
[19:52] Eugeo
    Selka.
[19:55] Selka
    Eugeo.
[19:57] Eugeo
    Selka, there's something I want to tell you.
[20:01] Selka
    Wh-What?
[20:03] Eugeo
    I'm going to the central city
    and bring Alice back.
[20:09] Selka
    My sister...
[20:11] Eugeo
    It's something I've been thinking about
    for the last six years.
[20:14] Eugeo
    But I had no idea how to go about it.
[20:21] Eugeo
    But then I met Kirito,
    and I finally have hope of bringing her back.
[20:26] Eugeo
    If Kirito's with me,
    I feel like I can accomplish anything.
[20:30] Eugeo
    I know you and your family have suffered,
    and I'm so sorry.
[20:35] Eugeo
    But I'll definitely bring Alice back.
[20:40] Eugeo
    So I want you to believe in me, and wait.
[20:44] Selka
    That's something only you can do, right?
[20:48] Eugeo
    Yeah.
[20:51] Selka
    I'll wait. So please...
[20:56] Selka
    ...make sure all three of you come back!
[21:00] Eugeo
    Right! I promise!
    All three of us will definitely come back!
[21:05] Selka
    It's a promise.
[21:14] Eugeo
    Sorry to keep you waiting, Kirito.
[21:16] Kirito
    Yo.
[21:19] Eugeo
    All right, let's go.
[21:21] Kirito
    Okay.
[21:24] Eugeo
    I wonder what kind of place the central city is?
[21:26] Kirito
    No idea.
[21:34] Kirito
    Well, it's got to be bigger than Rulid, right?
[21:39] Eugeo
    That's probably true.
[21:45] Eugeo
    The wind feels a little damp.
[21:48] Eugeo
    We should probably get going now.
[21:53] Eugeo
    Kirito?
[21:54] Kirito
    R-Right.
[21:55] Eugeo
    All right, let's go, Kirito.
[21:59] Kirito
    Sure!
[23:36] Asuna
    Next time: Ocean Turtle.

E5 - Ocean Turtle

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[00:14] Kirito
    Asuna!
[00:25] Kirito
    Asuna! Run!
[00:43] Asuna
    Kirito!
SIGN    Operation in Progress
SIGN    Sunday, June 28, 2026 Setagaya General Hospital
[01:06] Suguha
    Asuna!
[01:10] Asuna
    Suguha...
[01:12] Asuna
    Mrs. Kirigaya...
SIGN    Monday, June 29, 2026
[01:38] Doctor
    We believe he's no longer in danger.
[01:42] Midori
    Is that so?
[01:43] Doctor
    That said, since his heart was stopped
    for more than five minutes,
[01:47] Doctor
    his brain may have sustained
    some kind of damage.
[01:51] Doctor
    His mental or physical abilities,
[01:54] Doctor
    or perhaps both,
    may have suffered lasting damage.
[01:58] Doctor
    Worst case, he might never regain consciousness.
[02:02] Suguha
    No!
[02:04] Doctor
    We won't know the extent of the damage
    until he's had an MRI.
[02:10] Doctor
    I'd advise you to transfer him
    to a better-equipped facility.
[02:14] Doctor
    I'll get you started on the paperwork.
    This way, please.
[02:17] Midori
    Okay.
[02:28] Kikuoka
    Asuna. Suguha.
[02:33] Suguha
    Mr. Kikuoka?
[02:36] Kikuoka
    Can you tell me
    where I can find Kirito's parents?
SIGN    Ocean Turtle
SIGN    Monday, June 29, 2026 National Defense Medical College Hospital
[04:20] Suguha
    Thanks for waiting!
[04:26] Asuna
    Where's your mom?
[04:27] Suguha
    She said to go ahead and sign in
    while she parks the car.
[04:32] Asuna
    I see.
[04:35] Asuna
    So this is the hospital
    where Kirito's being treated.
[04:39] Suguha
    Yes. They say he was transported
    by ambulance earlier today.
[04:44] Kikuoka
    There's only one facility in the world
    that's sufficiently equipped.
[04:48] Kikuoka
    If we take him there,
    Kazuto can get the treatment he needs.
[04:56] Suguha
    We'd like to visit one of your patients.
[05:00] Receptionist
    Mr. Kazuto Kirigaya, is it? One moment, please.
[05:06] Receptionist
    Um...
[05:08] Receptionist
    I need to go check with my supervisors,
    so please wait here.
SIGN    Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Sylvain
[05:16] Lisbeth
    You didn't get to see him?
[05:18] Asuna
    Because he's being treated with specialized equipment,
    they said no visitors until he's recovered.
[05:24] Silica
    But can they really do something like that?
[05:26] Silica
    I mean, you're his family!
    You can't visit, let alone see him?
[05:31] Sinon
    Something doesn't seem right.
[05:33] Asuna
    That's right.
[05:34] Asuna
    We thought it was strange, too,
    so we did some digging.
[05:37] Leafa
    According to the data, he's definitely a patient,
[05:40] Leafa
    but the ambulance that transported my brother
    never arrived at that hospital.
[05:46] Silica
    You mean Kirito's not actually there?
[05:50] Sinon
    Didn't Mr. Kikuoka tell you anything?
[05:52] Asuna
    His phone's been out of range,
    and he hasn't returned my emails.
[05:56] Asuna
    When I called the ministry,
    they said he's been away on business since yesterday.
[05:59] Lisbeth
    No matter how you look at it, that's suspicious!
[06:03] Lisbeth
    That geezer has to be up to something!
[06:06] Sinon
    Seijirou Kikuoka, huh?
[06:08] Sinon
    I always thought he was a shady character.
[06:11] Sinon
    I hope he's not making Kirito do something again.
[06:14] Silica
    That can't be! Kirito's unconscious, remember?
[06:19] Sinon
    Unconscious? But that's really only how it looks
    on the outside, right?
[06:25] Sinon
    If they use a machine
    that can access the soul itself...
[06:30] Asuna
    The Soul Translator?
[06:34] Silica
    Soul Trans...
[06:36] Lisbeth
    What's that?
[06:37] Asuna
    There's a new type of dive machine
    that can read human souls.
[06:43] Asuna
    It's being developed by a company named Rath.
[06:45] Suguha
    Rath? Isn't that the company
    my brother was working for part-time?
[06:50] Asuna
    You knew about that, Leafa?
[06:52] Suguha
    Uh, no, nothing specific.
[06:55] Suguha
    But I did hear that the company's in Roppongi.
[06:58] Sinon
    Then Kirito could be somewhere in Roppongi.
[07:02] Asuna
    Actually, there may be one thin connection to Kirito.
[07:08] Sinon
    What is it?
[07:10] Asuna
    I told you about it the other day, Shino-non.
[07:16] Asuna
    You know, Kirito's... this.
[07:18] Sinon
    Oh, you mean that heart rate monitor?
[07:21] Silica
    What? What is that?
[07:22] Asuna
    It's been out of range the entire time.
[07:25] Asuna
    But I'm having someone trace back the data
    and analyze it.
[07:28] Sinon
    Who?
[07:30] Asuna
    Yui? How's it going?
[07:32] Yui
    Yes!
[07:35] Yui
    I will now report the results of my analysis!
[07:37] Yui
    I was only able to acquire three positions.
[07:42] Yui
    This is Setagaya General Hospital,
    where Daddy was first taken.
[07:48] Yui
    And this is the first location I was able to pinpoint.
[07:52] Yui
    Aobadai 3-Chome, Meguro Ward.
    The time was around 20:50 on June 29, 2016.
[08:00] Yui
    I will now display his predicted route.
[08:04] Yui
    This is the second position.
[08:06] Yui
    Shirogane-dai 1-Chome, Minato Ward.
    At around 21:10 on the same day.
[08:11] Yui
    Next...
[08:15] Yui
    Kaigan 2-Chome, Minato Ward,
    at around 21:20, on the same day.
[08:20] Yui
    Since that time,
    there have been no signals from Daddy.
[08:25] Leafa
    So he's not in Tokorozawa or Roppongi?
[08:28] Asuna
    Yui, what's at that address?
[08:31] Yui
    It seems to be a warehouse located
    in the harbor district.
[08:35] Sinon
    Why would they take him there?
[08:38] Asuna
    Minato Ward?
SIGN    Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Near Minato Ward
[08:53] Klein
    It's nighttime, and there's no traffic,
    so we'll be there soon.
[08:57] Asuna
    Klein, thank you so much for driving us!
[09:01] Klein
    Come on, I keep telling you
    there's no need to thank me!
[09:05] Klein
    Still, I just saw him in GGO the other day.
[09:09] Klein
    I really hope Kirito's okay.
[09:12] Suguha
    Seriously, he's always getting tangled up
    in one thing or another.
[09:16] Klein
    By the way,
    didn't you say that this Rath is in Roppongi?
[09:20] Klein
    Shouldn't we be searching there, too?
[09:23] Suguha
    Yes.
[09:24] Suguha
    Sinon and the others are on their way there.
[09:27] Asuna
    But Rath is a complete mystery.
[09:31] Asuna
    Yui thoroughly investigated it for us,
    but could only come up with its location.
[09:36] Asuna
    There was nothing about the structure
    or nature of its business.
[09:40] Suguha
    As for the "Soul Translator,"
    we couldn't find anything at all,
[09:45] Suguha
    including any patents they applied for.
[09:48] Klein
    Reading and writing human souls
    is an extraordinary invention,
[09:51] Klein
    but they haven't even applied for a patent?
[09:54] Klein
    The guys are thorough.
[09:57] Klein
    We're almost there.
SIGN    Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Shinagawa Wharf
[10:04] Klein
    This is it?
[10:06] Klein
    But seriously...
[10:08] Klein
    did they really stash Kirito in a place like this?
[10:18] Asuna
    Liz?
[10:20] Lisbeth
    We did find Rath, but they have tight security
    and wouldn't even talk to us.
[10:26] Lisbeth
    Additionally, we had Yui check
    all the security cameras around here,
[10:31] Lisbeth
    but there's no sign
    that Kirito was ever brought here.
[10:34] Asuna
    Really? I see.
[10:38] Asuna
    Yui?
[10:39] Yui
    Yes, Mommy.
[10:41] Yui
    I've checked the security cameras in this area, too.
[10:46] Yui
    Yesterday at 21:20, a helicopter took off
    from that clearing over there.
[10:53] Suguha
    A helicopter?
[10:54] Yui
    Yes. I believe Daddy may have been on it.
[10:58] Suguha
    Then you mean my brother's been transported
    even farther away?
[11:02] Asuna
    But... wait.
[11:03] Asuna
    Yui.
[11:05] Asuna
    This is the last place
    that any signals were picked up, right?
[11:09] Yui
    Yes.
[11:10] Asuna
    Even if Kirito really did get carried away
    by helicopter,
[11:15] Asuna
    they'd ultimately have to transport him
    to some kind of facility.
[11:20] Asuna
    I can't believe he'd be that far out of range.
[11:22] Yui
    Right. One possibility is that
    he may have been transported overseas.
[11:27] Klein
    Overseas?
[11:29] Yui
    Under the circumstances,
    that would be the most likely scenario.
[11:33] Klein
    If that's the case,
    then there's no way for us to go after him.
[11:36] Suguha
    Big Brother... where did you go?
[11:41] Asuna
    Kirito.
[11:43] Yui
    Please, cheer up, Mommy!
[11:46] Asuna
    Yui.
[11:47] Yui
    When Daddy searched for you in ALfheim,
    he never gave up, not even once!
[11:55] Asuna
    But...
[11:56] Yui
    This time, it's your turn to search for Daddy!
[11:59] Yui
    There's sure to be a connection
    that will lead to Daddy.
[12:03] Yui
    No matter who you're up against,
[12:05] Yui
    I believe that nothing can ever sever
    the bond you have with Daddy.
[12:22] Asuna
    No matter what kind of danger he found himself in,
    Kirito's always made it back safely.
[12:29] Asuna
    He has to be safe now, too.
[12:34] Asuna
    Thank you, Yui! I'm not going to give up.
[12:38] Yui
    That's the spirit!
[12:41] Asuna
    If we can just find one more clue.
[12:45] Asuna
    Assuming that Rath has something to do
    with where Kirito is now,
[12:48] Asuna
    Suguha, do you remember anything
    Kirito might've mentioned?
[12:54] Suguha
    He's been away at work,
    so we haven't had much time to talk lately.
[13:00] Suguha
    I think he said the machine at his part-time job
    in Roppongi was based on the Medicuboid.
[13:08] Asuna
    That machine must be the STL.
[13:12] Asuna
    The Medicuboid...
[13:15] Asuna
    I remember him telling me something once.
[13:17] Asuna
    That the one who created the basic design
    for the Medicuboid was the commander, Akihiko Kayaba,
[13:22] Asuna
    but that someone else developed it further
    for the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
[13:26] Kazuto
    She was looking after Heathcliff's physical body
    while he was diving.
[13:31] Kazuto
    She was doing full-dive technology research
    with him in the same lab.
[13:36] Asuna
    I think the name he mentioned was...
[13:39] Asuna
    Rinko... Kojiro.
[13:42] Yui
    Let me check.
[13:44] Yui
    The most likely match for that name
[13:49] Yui
    is currently working in research
    at a university in California.
[13:53] Yui
    This person.
[13:55] Yui
    I've accessed the university database.
[13:57] Yui
    Looking at her career,
    she's a former member of the Shigemura Lab,
[14:01] Yui
    at Toto Institute of Technology's
    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
[14:05] Suguha
    Wasn't Shigemura the guy
    who developed the Augma?
[14:09] Asuna
    And that's also the commander's research lab.
[14:15] Asuna
    This person might know about STL... about Rath...
SIGN    America California State
SIGN    Seijirou Kikuoka Requesting your participation in the project
[14:43] Rinko
    A castle floating in the sky?
[14:46] Kayaba
    Yes. This castle is made up of numerous floors,
[14:51] Kayaba
    and on each floor you'll find a town,
    a forest, and a vast plain.
[14:57] Kayaba
    After you climb up a long staircase
    between each floor,
[15:01] Kayaba
    there is a palace at the very top.
[15:04] Rinko
    And who would be there?
[15:08] Kayaba
    I don't know.
[15:10] Kayaba
    When I was very small,
    I used to be able to go to that castle every night.
[15:15] Kayaba
    Every night, I'd climb up each staircase,
[15:18] Kayaba
    and get closer to the top, bit by bit.
[15:23] Kayaba
    But then at some point,
    I wasn't able to go there again.
[15:36] Kayaba
    Just a silly dream.
    I've almost completely forgotten about it.
[15:49] Rinko
    Liar.
[15:55] Rinko
    Again?
SIGN    Asuna Yuuki
[16:01] Rinko
    Asuna... Yuuki?
[16:13] Pilot
    It's coming into view.
[16:15] Pilot
    That's the Ocean Turtle.
[16:29] Rinko
    Turtle... I see. It certainly looks like a turtle.
[16:35] Rinko
    Though its face looks more like a pig.
[16:40] Rinko
    A turtle-pig.
[16:42] Rinko
    Did something like that
    appear in Alice in Wonderland?
[16:46] Mayumi
    Rath...
[17:12] Nakanishi
    Dr. Kojiro. We've been waiting for you.
[17:15] Nakanishi
    And this is?
[17:17] Rinko
    My assistant, Mayumi Reynolds.
[17:25] Nakanishi
    I'm Lieutenant Nakanishi.
    I've been ordered to escort you.
[17:30] Nakanishi
    Now then, this way, please.
[17:38] Nakanishi
    Dr. Kojiro, a visiting researcher, and her assistant,
    Ms. Reynolds, will be entering Sector S3.
[17:43] Guard
    Verifying identity.
[17:49] Guard
    Verified.
[17:51] Guard
    I'm sorry,
    but could you please remove those sunglasses?
[17:58] Guard
    Verified.
[18:00] Guard
    Go ahead.
[18:05] Rinko
    Pretty tight security.
[18:07] Rinko
    Even though we're in the middle of the ocean.
[18:09] Nakanishi
    Well, we did omit the full-body check.
[18:14] Nakanishi
    But you've already gone through
    about three metal and explosives detectors.
[18:42] Kikuoka
    Welcome to Rath.
[18:45] Rinko
    Lieutenant Colonel Kikuoka.
[18:49] Rinko
    Why are you dressed like that?
[18:52] Nakanishi
    All right, if you'll excuse me.
[18:56] Kikuoka
    I've been stuck here in the middle of the ocean
    for a month now.
[19:00] Kikuoka
    I can't always be wearing my uniform.
[19:05] Kikuoka
    I'm beyond thrilled to have you here at Rath.
[19:09] Kikuoka
    My persistence in summoning you finally paid off.
[19:12] Rinko
    Not that there's any guarantee I can be of use.
[19:18] Kikuoka
    You're the last of the three people
    I felt would be indispensable to this project.
[19:27] Kikuoka
    And now all three of you are here.
[19:29] Rinko
    Oh? I see.
[19:31] Rinko
    And one of those three...
    I'm guessing that would be you, Higa?
[19:37] Higa
    Well, of course it's me.
[19:39] Higa
    As a member of the Shigemura Lab,
    I have to carry on the senior members' ambition.
[19:44] Rinko
    Really... you haven't changed at all.
[19:47] Rinko
    So? Who's this third person?
[19:50] Kikuoka
    Regretfully, I can't introduce you right now.
[19:54] Kikuoka
    If the opportunity rises in a few days...
[19:56] Mayumi
    Then I'll say the name instead, Mr. Kikuoka.
[20:04] Kikuoka
    Asuna... why are you with Dr. Kojiro?
[20:08] Rinko
    I received an email from her.
[20:14] Asuna's voice
    A machine called the Soul Translator,
    based on the Medicuboid,
[20:19] Asuna's voice
    the medical full-dive machine
    you provided the technology for,
[20:22] Asuna's voice
    is now being developed
    by an organization called Rath.
[20:26] Asuna's voice
    While involved in the test runs for this machine,
    Kazuto Kirigaya disappeared without a trace.
[20:33] Rinko
    Kazuto Kirigaya...
SIGN    Kazuto Kirigaya
[20:36] Kirito
    Inside the old SAO server,
    I met Kayaba's digital ghost.
[20:42] Kirito
    It was there that I received a certain program.
[20:47] Kirito
    Kayaba called it the World Seed.
[20:54] Rinko
    If you feel any hatred for him,
    please dispose of what he gave you.
[20:59] Rinko
    But if there's...
[21:01] Rinko
    If there's something besides hatred inside you...
[21:08] Asuna's voice
    I found your email address in the contacts list
    on Kirito's computer.
[21:14] Asuna's voice
    Doctor, you're the only one
    who can possibly lead me to Rath, to where Kirito is...
[21:21] Asuna's voice
    Please help me.
[21:24] Rinko
    So now do you understand why I felt obligated
    to accept your invitation, Mr. Kikuoka?
[21:31] Kikuoka
    To verify your assistant's identity,
[21:34] Kikuoka
    I'm sure that we ran all kinds of checks
    on a photo we acquired from the university database.
[21:39] Asuna
    Yes, I can't tell you how many times
    they scrutinized my face.
[21:44] Asuna
    But I'd already switched out the photo
    in the database for my own.
[21:50] Asuna
    After all, I have a friend who's skilled
    at bypassing defenses.
[21:54] Rinko
    By the way, the real Mayumi is probably
    on some beach right now, working on her tan.
[22:02] Asuna
    Where's Kirito?
[23:35] Asuna
    Next time: Project Alicization.

E6 - Project Alicization

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[00:04] Asuna
    Where's Kirito?
[00:08] Higa
    What'd I tell you?
[00:10] Higa
    That kid's this project's biggest security hole.
[00:14] Kikuoka
    Yes. You were right.
[00:17] Asuna
    Is Kirito safe?
[00:18] Asuna
    Were you lying
    when you said you could treat him?
[00:21] Asuna
    Please answer me, Mr. Kikuoka!
[00:26] Kikuoka
    Because of the attack by the fugitive
    from the Death Gun incident,
[00:29] Kikuoka
    Kirito's brain sustained damage
    that modern medicine is unable to heal.
[00:35] Kikuoka
    However...
[00:36] Kikuoka
    Rath is the only place in the world
    that has the technology to treat him.
[00:42] Kikuoka
    I'm sure you've heard of it.
[00:44] Kikuoka
    The STL... the Soul Translator.
[00:48] Kikuoka
    If we use the STL
    to directly stimulate his Fluctlight,
[00:51] Kikuoka
    we can induce the generation
    of a new neural network.
[00:55] Kikuoka
    But it takes time.
[00:57] Kikuoka
    Right now, Kirito is inside a full-spec STL,
    which can only be found here.
[01:02] Kikuoka
    The treatment he's getting
    rivals that of any major hospital.
[01:06] Kikuoka
    He even has his own personal nurse.
[01:09] Asuna
    I understand. I'll believe you for now.
[01:13] Rinko
    All right, if we've come this far,
    why don't you just tell us everything, Mr. Kikuoka.
[01:19] Rinko
    Such as why an SDF official like you
    would use the Ministry as a front,
[01:23] Rinko
    what are you plotting here,
[01:26] Rinko
    and why you needed Kirigaya?
[01:30] Kikuoka
    If you're asking that,
    I'm going to have you help me.
[01:32] Rinko
    I'll decide after I hear your answer.
[01:35] Kikuoka
    Well, then, may I assume
    you're both familiar with the concept of the STL?
[01:41] Asuna
    It's a machine that reads a human soul,
    their Fluctlight,
[01:45] Asuna
    and allows them to dive into a virtual world
    indistinguishable from reality.
[01:49] Kikuoka
    Correct.
[01:50] Kikuoka
    But I don't think you know
    what this project's objective is.
[01:54] Asuna
    Objective?
[01:57] Kikuoka
    To create a bottom-up
    multi-purpose artificial intelligence.
SIGN    Project Alicization
[03:36] Asuna
    A bottom-up multi-purpose artificial intelligence?
[03:40] Kikuoka
    There are two approaches
    to developing artificial intelligence.
[03:43] Kikuoka
    One is top-down.
[03:45] Kikuoka
    Wherein you program the artificial intelligence
    with experience and knowledge,
[03:48] Kikuoka
    so that in the end
    it will learn to replicate true intelligence.
[03:53] Higa
    Including the research of Dr. Shigemura,
    who'd been working with us here,
[03:58] Higa
    almost everything considered an artificial intelligence
    right now uses the top-down approach.
[04:03] Kikuoka
    But a top-down type can't react appropriately
    to anything it hasn't learned about.
[04:08] Kikuoka
    In other words, at this time they haven't
    evolved enough to be called true intelligence.
[04:14] Kikuoka
    Next, bottom-up artificial intelligence.
[04:18] Kikuoka
    This is the human brain.
[04:20] Kikuoka
    It involves artificially replicating the construct
[04:23] Kikuoka
    of a biological organ comprised
    of one hundred billion linked brain cells,
[04:26] Kikuoka
    and generating intelligence there.
[04:30] Asuna
    Is such a thing possible?
[04:32] Kikuoka
    Until now, it was thought to be impossible.
[04:34] Kikuoka
    But the Soul Translator can scan a human soul,
[04:38] Kikuoka
    the quantum field we call the Fluctlight.
[04:43] Higa
    And to store almost the same amount of data
    as a human brain,
[04:48] Higa
    we've developed the Light Quantum Gate Crystal,
    aka the Lightcube, as a medium.
[04:53] Rinko
    Which means it can be used to copy a Fluctlight?
[04:57] Kikuoka
    Correct.
[04:59] Kikuoka
    We have, in fact,
    succeeded in replicating the human soul.
[05:04] Rinko
    Then why did you need to summon me
    at this point?
[05:09] Kikuoka
    Because, foolishly enough, we'd missed something.
[05:12] Kikuoka
    The fact that an unbelievably vast
    and deep chasm exists
[05:15] Kikuoka
    between a copy of the human soul
    and a true artificial intelligence.
[05:19] Kikuoka
    Higa.
[05:21] Kikuoka
    Show them "that."
[05:24] Higa
    Huh? We're doing that again?
[05:33] Higa Clone
    Is the sampling done?
[05:35] Higa
    Yeah. Everything completed with no problems.
[05:38] Higa Clone
    Glad to hear it. But it's pitch-black,
    and I can't move my body.
[05:43] Higa
    Is this a glitch with the STL?
    Sorry, but can you let me out of the machine?
[05:47] Higa
    Unfortunately, but I can't do that.
[05:49] Higa Clone
    Hey, what the hell?
    What are you talking about?
[05:52] Higa Clone
    Who are you?
    Your voice doesn't sound familiar.
[05:55] Higa
    I'm Higa. Takeru Higa.
[05:59] Higa Clone
    No way! What do you mean? I'm Higa!
    You'll know once I get out of the STL!
[06:03] Higa
    Calm down. Don't get worked up.
[06:05] Higa
    That's not like you.
[06:07] Higa
    You may be a copy, but you're Takeru Higa.
[06:09] Higa
    You calmly accept situations—
[06:11] Higa Clone
    I'm the same as ever!
[06:13] Higa Clone
    If I'm a copy, then I should feel like one!
    This... This isn't...
[06:17] Higa Clone
    No! Let me out of here!
    Let me out of this thing!
[06:20] Kikuoka
    You need to calm down.
[06:22] Kikuoka
    You're aware of the danger to your Fluctlight
    if you lose the capacity for rational thought.
[06:26] Higa Clone
    I am being rational!
[06:28] Higa Clone
    All right, then why don't I race that imposter there
    by reciting the digits of pi?
[06:32] Higa Clone
    3.14159265358....
[06:44] Higa
    And he's collapsed. One minute, eight seconds.
[06:48] Rinko
    There's a limit to bad taste.
[06:50] Kikuoka
    I apologize for that.
[06:52] Kikuoka
    But now you see
    why I could only explain it by showing you.
[06:58] Kikuoka
    Including myself,
    we've copied the Fluctlights of over ten people,
[07:03] Kikuoka
    and not a single one could bear the thought
    of being a copy.
[07:09] Kikuoka
    If full copies are out of the question,
    what should we do?
[07:12] Rinko
    What should you do?
[07:14] Rinko
    Raise them from the start?
[07:17] Asuna
    Could it be...
[07:18] Kikuoka
    That's right.
[07:20] Kikuoka
    Copy the souls of newborn infants and raise them.
[07:24] Rinko
    But what kind of environment
    would you raise them in?
[07:28] Rinko
    You can't create an exact copy of the real world.
[07:31] Kikuoka
    Yes, that's impossible. But we realized something.
[07:35] Kikuoka
    Plenty of perfect solutions
    already exist on the network.
[07:39] Asuna
    VRMMO worlds.
[07:41] Higa
    You got that right.
[07:43] Higa
    Using the Seed, we created small villages
    and surrounding landscapes,
[07:48] Higa
    and converted them for STL use.
[07:50] Kikuoka
    In the very first town we created,
[07:52] Kikuoka
    four members of the Rath staff raised 16 soul archetypes,
    that is, AI infants, to the age of 18.
[08:02] Kikuoka
    These 16 youths grew up quickly.
[08:05] Kikuoka
    Although we call them artificial Fluctlights
    for convenience,
[08:08] Kikuoka
    the way they turned out
    was more than satisfactory.
[08:12] Kikuoka
    They were all very obedient and upstanding.
[08:15] Kikuoka
    When they were joined in marriage,
    we gave them babies,
[08:18] Kikuoka
    in other words,
    new soul archetypes for them to raise.
[08:21] Kikuoka
    And after accelerating time in their world by 5,000,
    there were more and more generations,
[08:28] Kikuoka
    and by the time 3 weeks,
    or 300 years in their world, had elapsed,
[08:33] Kikuoka
    a massive society
    with a population of 80,000 had emerged.
[08:37] Rinko
    But at that level, that's a civilization simulation.
[08:41] Kikuoka
    That's true, huh?
[08:43] Kikuoka
    At this time, 480 years have already passed
    in that world,
[08:46] Kikuoka
    and the population of the capital, Centoria,
    has reached 20,000.
[08:49] Higa
    At this time, the artificial Fluctlights have matured
    into the bottom-up AIs that we'd hoped for.
[08:55] Higa
    So we were thrilled
    to be able to move on to the next phase.
[08:59] Higa
    However...
[09:00] Kikuoka
    That's when we noticed a certain major issue.
[09:04] Rinko
    Issue?
[09:05] Kikuoka
    A governing body called the Axiom Church
    had created laws known as the Taboo Index.
[09:10] Asuna
    Taboo Index?
[09:12] Kikuoka
    It contained, for example, a law forbidding murder,
    like we have in the real world.
[09:17] Kikuoka
    But just by watching the news,
    it's clear how often humans violate such laws.
[09:23] Kikuoka
    However, the Fluctlights obey those laws.
[09:26] Kikuoka
    Obey them excessively, you could say.
[09:29] Kikuoka
    This town is beautiful, and far too perfect.
[09:31] Kikuoka
    There isn't a piece of garbage on the streets,
    and not a single thief.
[09:35] Kikuoka
    Needless to say,
    no murder has ever been committed.
[09:39] Rinko
    And how is that an issue?
[09:43] Asuna
    Could it be that your objective...
[09:46] Asuna
    ...is to create AIs capable of murder?
[09:50] Asuna
    Both Kirito and I guessed that
    the reason for your interest in VRMMOs
[09:55] Asuna
    was because the technology could be applied
    to police work and SDF training. But...
[10:02] Asuna
    This project is far too ambitious.
[10:04] Asuna
    For an SDF official like yourself
    to attempt something of this scale...
[10:08] Asuna
    What you want is to build AIs capable
    of killing enemy soldiers in battle.
[10:13] Asuna
    Isn't that the reason?
[10:16] Rinko
    Is that true, Mr. Kikuoka?
[10:20] Kikuoka
    Five years ago,
[10:22] Kikuoka
    when the NerveGear was announced,
[10:24] Kikuoka
    it struck me.
[10:26] Kikuoka
    This technology had the potential
    to upend the very notion of war.
SIGN    Ministry of Internal Affairs
    and Communications
[10:33] Kikuoka
    When the SAO incident occurred,
[10:35] Kikuoka
    I volunteered to transfer to the Ministry,
    and joined the task force.
[10:40] Kikuoka
    I did all that
    so I could get this project off the ground.
[10:44] Kikuoka
    It took me five years to finally get to this point.
[10:48] Rinko
    Why did you decide to take part in this project, Higa?
[10:51] Higa
    Well, actually,
    my motive was a bit more personal.
[10:56] Higa
    I was friends with this guy
    when I was a student at a college in Korea.
[11:00] Higa
    And he died while serving in the army.
[11:03] Higa
    And so I thought...
    even if this world is never rid of war,
[11:08] Higa
    at least if people never had to die anymore, then...
[11:12] Higa
    I know it's a pretty childish reason.
[11:15] Asuna
    But you haven't spoken a word of this to Kirito.
[11:19] Kikuoka
    What makes you think that?
[11:21] Asuna
    If you had talked to him about it,
    he never would've agreed to help you.
[11:25] Asuna
    There's one crucial point of view
    missing from your story.
[11:29] Kikuoka
    And that is?
[11:31] Asuna
    The rights of the artificial intelligences.
[11:34] Asuna
    These so-called artificial Fluctlights
    have the same cognitive abilities as humans, right?
[11:39] Kikuoka
    It's not as if they have physical bodies.
[11:42] Asuna
    But they're no different than living beings.
[11:45] Asuna
    Forcing them to kill or be killed as tools of war...
[11:48] Asuna
    Kirito would never play a part in that!
[11:51] Asuna
    Never.
[11:52] Kikuoka
    It's not like I don't understand
    what you're saying.
[11:55] Kikuoka
    But to me, the lives of 100,000 artificial intelligences
    are worth far less than a single SDF soldier's.
[12:05] Rinko
    Anyway, why did you need Kirigaya?
[12:09] Rinko
    Why would you use him at the risk
    of leaking something so highly confidential?
[12:13] Kikuoka
    Oh, right. I was telling you all this
    to help me explain that.
[12:19] Kikuoka
    Why are the artificial Fluctlights
    unable to disobey the Taboo Index?
[12:24] Kikuoka
    That's when I came up with a certain experiment.
[12:27] Kikuoka
    If we were to block all of a real human's memories,
[12:30] Kikuoka
    revert him to childhood
    and have him grow up in the virtual world,
[12:34] Kikuoka
    would the subject be able
    to disobey the Taboo Index?
[12:38] Kikuoka
    To carry out this experiment, we needed a subject
    who was used to moving in a virtual world.
[12:42] Kikuoka
    And not just a week or a month's worth,
    but experience amounting to years.
[12:49] Kikuoka
    You understand now, don't you?
[12:53] Leafa
    I can't believe
    my brother got involved in something like that.
SIGN    Sunday, July 5, 2026 Sylvain
[12:58] Silica
    Do you think it's okay to trust Mr. Kikuoka?
[13:01] Lisbeth
    I really hope he's not hiding anything else.
[13:05] Sinon
    So we're just going to have to trust
    that the STL treatment will work, huh?
[13:11] Lisbeth
    Hey, so about Kirito and this... uh...
    this Taboo Index? What happened with that?
[13:18] Asuna
    There was a boy and girl
    who used to play with Kirito,
[13:22] Asuna
    and it seems like it was the girl
    who broke the Taboo Index.
[13:26] Sinon
    You mean she was influenced by Kirito?
[13:29] Asuna
    Yes.
[13:30] Asuna
    And what she broke
    was "accessing a restricted address."
[13:36] Higa
    We confirmed the death of another Fluctlight
    in the girl's view in the restricted address.
[13:43] Higa
    Most likely, she tried to help him.
[13:45] Kikuoka
    In other words, this girl prioritized
    someone else's life over the Taboo Index.
[13:51] Kikuoka
    That's precisely what we've been seeking.
[13:56] Silica
    That's a lovely story, but...
[13:59] Lisbeth
    If only it wasn't a study on weapons to kill people.
[14:03] Asuna
    I agree. But I'm amazed by what that girl did.
[14:07] Asuna
    After all, it's not easy to overcome yourself.
[14:10] Leafa
    Does that girl have a name?
[14:13] Asuna
    Yes.
[14:16] Asuna
    Alice?
[14:17] Kikuoka
    Right. That was the name of the girl in question.
[14:21] Kikuoka
    I was blown away by the staggering coincidence.
[14:24] Kikuoka
    Because "Alice" is also the name of the concept
    that became the foundation of the overall project.
[14:31] Asuna
    Concept?
[14:32] Kikuoka
    A highly-adaptive autonomous artificial intelligence.
[14:36] Kikuoka
    In English, that would be Artificial Labile
    Intelligence Cybernated Existence.
[14:41] Kikuoka
    The initials form the acronym ALICE.
[14:44] Kikuoka
    Our ultimate goal was
    to convert an artificial Fluctlight into an ALICE.
[14:52] Kikuoka
    Welcome to our Project Alicization.
[14:58] Leafa
    That sounds so complicated.
[15:00] Asuna
    I don't quite understand everything, either,
[15:03] Asuna
    but they said that if they had saved
    the Fluctlight of this girl, Alice,
[15:06] Asuna
    their research would've made huge advances.
[15:09] Lisbeth
    Meaning that...
[15:11] Asuna
    Remember how I said that in the virtual world,
    time passes at an amazing speed?
[15:16] Lisbeth
    Yeah.
[15:17] Asuna
    So by the time they noticed,
    two days had gone by in the virtual world,
[15:21] Asuna
    and that girl's Fluctlight had already been corrected
    by the Axiom Church.
[15:25] Sinon
    Corrected?
[15:27] Sinon
    I thought the Fluctlights only observed each other,
    but they were given that kind of authority?
[15:32] Asuna
    They said that, normally,
    it wouldn't have been possible.
[15:34] Asuna
    But a number of the artificial Fluctlights
    wield the "sacred arts,"
[15:38] Asuna
    which are system access rights
    in the form of magic,
[15:42] Asuna
    so they think
    they might've found some kind of loophole.
[15:46] Asuna
    Sorry! I have to go back.
[15:48] Leafa
    You have something to do?
[15:50] Asuna
    They said that they'd let me see Kirito sleeping.
    It's almost time for that.
[15:55] Lisbeth
    Tell us later how he looked, all right?
[15:59] Asuna
    He's inside a machine,
    so I might not get to see his face.
[16:13] Rinko
    This one's unit four.
[16:15] Rinko
    And that one's unit five.
[16:17] Aki
    Prototype one and unit six, now under construction,
    are at the Roppongi branch,
[16:23] Aki
    while two and three are installed
    in the lower shaft.
[16:27] Asuna
    Ms. Aki!
[16:29] Asuna
    What are you doing here?
[16:31] Aki
    Taking care of Kirigaya, of course.
[16:33] Asuna
    But I thought you were a nurse
    at a hospital in Chiyoda Ward.
[16:37] Asuna
    Were you pretending, just like Mr. Kikuoka?
[16:40] Aki
    Of course not.
[16:42] Aki
    Unlike that old man, I'm an actual nurse.
[16:45] Aki
    It's just that the school I graduated from
[16:47] Aki
    is the Tokyo Self-Defense Force
    Higher School of Nursing.
[16:53] Aki
    I am Sergeant First Class Natsuki Aki.
[16:55] Aki
    I pledge to protect young Kirigaya, life and limb,
    with full responsibility!
[16:59] Aki
    And so on!
[17:03] Asuna
    I'm counting on you, then.
[17:05] Aki
    Right. Just leave it to me.
[17:12] Asuna
    Kirito is coming back, isn't he?
[17:15] Aki
    Of course.
[17:17] Aki
    Kirito's Fluctlight is vital and active
    inside the treatment program, even as we speak.
[17:23] Aki
    And besides, we're talking about the hero
    who cleared SAO, right?
[17:37] Rinko
    Ms. Asuna?
[17:41] Rinko
    There's something I need to tell you.
[17:45] Rinko
    No... not just you.
[17:49] Rinko
    It's something I should confess
    to all former SAO players.
[17:54] Rinko
    You already know that
    during the SAO incident,
[17:58] Rinko
    Akihiko Kayaba and I were hiding
    in the mountains of Nagano?
[18:04] Rinko
    I had a micro-bomb implanted in my chest.
[18:09] Rinko
    Because of that, for two years,
[18:11] Rinko
    I was forced to collaborate with him
    on his terrifying project.
[18:15] Rinko
    But that wasn't really true.
[18:17] Rinko
    I was well aware
    that the bomb would never go off.
[18:22] Rinko
    The weapon he implanted in me was a deception
    so I wouldn't be charged with any crimes.
[18:28] Rinko
    It was the only present he gave me.
[18:34] Rinko
    Apparently, by the time he got into
    Toto Institute of Technology,
[18:36] Rinko
    Kayaba was already
    the head of development at Argus,
[18:40] Rinko
    but I didn't know anything about that,
[18:42] Rinko
    all I could see was a scrawny kid who was a shut-in,
    immersed in his research.
[18:51] Rinko
    You gotta step outside once in a while,
    or no ideas'll ever come to ya!
[18:59] Kayaba
    I need to come up with a way
    to emulate the feeling of natural light on the skin.
[19:05] Rinko
    Although I began dating Kayaba,
[19:11] Rinko
    I couldn't figure out
    why he never pushed me away.
[19:18] Rinko
    Well, from the start...
[19:21] Rinko
    ...I was the one who...
SIGN    Mass Murder in Popular VRMMO Game?
SIGN    Akihiko Kayaba (30) Suspect
[19:26] Rinko
    ...didn't know anything about him.
[19:29] Rinko
    When I went to his mountain lodge,
    it wasn't because I wanted to be his accomplice.
[19:36] Rinko
    I...
[19:38] Rinko
    ...intended to kill Kayaba.
[19:44] Rinko
    But... I'm sorry, Ms. Asuna.
[19:47] Rinko
    I...
[19:50] Rinko
    ...couldn't kill him.
[19:52] Rinko
    Kayaba knew I was armed with a knife.
[19:57] Rinko
    He only said, "What am I going to do with you?"
    like he always did,
[20:02] Rinko
    and then he went back to Aincrad.
[20:09] Rinko
    I... I...
[20:14] Asuna
    Neither Kirito nor I have ever blamed you for that.
[20:19] Asuna
    In fact, I'm not even sure if I really bear a grudge
    against the commander, Akihiko Kayaba.
[20:32] Asuna
    It's true that a lot of lives were lost
    in that incident.
[20:36] Asuna
    The commander's crime isn't something
    that can ever be forgiven.
[20:40] Asuna
    But... I know it sounds really selfish...
[20:44] Asuna
    but that short time I spent living with Kirito
    in that world...
[20:50] Asuna
    I'm sure I'll always look back on it
    as the best days of my life.
[20:56] Asuna
    Just as the commander did something wrong,
    so have I, and Kirito, too...
[21:00] Asuna
    And Ms. Rinko,
    you've also done something wrong.
[21:04] Asuna
    But it's not as if we can make amends,
    even if we're punished for it.
[21:08] Asuna
    It could be that
    we'll never see the day we're forgiven.
[21:12] Asuna
    Even still, we have to continue to face
    what we've done.
[21:28] Kayaba
    Really, what am I going to do with you?
[21:30] Kayaba
    Coming all the way here?
[21:36] Rinko
    What's going on?
    It's still early in the morning...
[21:55] Rinko
    Was that...
[21:57] Rinko
    ...a dream?
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: Swordcraft Academy.

E7 - Swordcraft Academy

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SIGN    North Centoria Swordcraft Academy
SIGN    March 1, 380 in the time of the realm of humanity
[00:05] Eugeo
    Kirito?
[00:09] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[00:14] Kirito
    Five more minutes.
[00:16] Eugeo
    Kirito! I know it's our day of rest,
[00:20] Eugeo
    but you sleep too much!
[00:29] Kirito
    Morning, Eugeo.
[00:31] Eugeo
    Morning!
[00:33] Eugeo
    It's sunny out today,
    so why don't we go into town?
SIGN    Swordcraft Academy
SIGN    North Centoria District Six
SIGN    March 1, 380 in the time of the realm of humanity
[02:14] Vendor
    Thanks a lot!
[02:19] Kirito
    Delicious!
[02:21] Eugeo
    That's unseemly, Kirito.
[02:24] Kirito
    Well, you can't beat fresh out of the oven.
    You have to eat it right away.
[02:28] Eugeo
    Some things never change, huh, Kirito?
[02:30] Kirito
    Guess not!
[02:32] Kirito
    I can't believe how time flies.
[02:35] Kirito
    It's already been two years
    since we left Rulid, huh?
[02:38] Eugeo
    Yeah.
[02:39] Eugeo
    And so much happened in that time, huh?
[02:42] Eugeo
    Two years ago...
[02:43] Eugeo
    ...we arrived in Zakkaria...
[02:49] Eugeo
    ...and while living and working on a farm,
[02:52] Eugeo
    we honed our swordsmanship skills.
[03:24] Eugeo
    We won the Swordfighting Tournament,
[03:27] Eugeo
    and joined the Zakkaria garrison.
[03:31] Eugeo
    Who would've thought
    that after reaching the capital,
[03:34] Eugeo
    we'd actually get into the Swordcraft Academy?
[03:36] Eugeo
    Sometimes I think I'm dreaming.
[03:39] Kirito
    Come on now.
[03:41] Kirito
    It's already been a year
    since we moved into the dorm.
[03:44] Kirito
    Shouldn't you be used to everything by now?
[03:48] Eugeo
    I guess so.
[03:49] Liena
    Kirito?
[03:54] Kirito
    Liena-senpai!
[03:55] Liena
    What a coincidence.
[03:58] Kirito/Eugeo
    - Good morning!
    - Good morning!
[03:59] Liena
    Good morning. And you're... Eugeo, wasn't it?
[04:05] Eugeo
    Yes!
[04:07] Liena
    Don't be so nervous.
[04:09] Kirito
    What brings you here today, Liena-senpai?
[04:11] Liena
    I went home,
    but they asked me to pick up some things.
[04:15] Eugeo
    W-Would you like us to help you?
[04:17] Liena
    You'd help me?
[04:19] Liena
    But you're Golgorosso Balto's page, aren't you?
[04:22] Eugeo
    I'm sorry, I was out of line. Forgive me!
[04:24] Liena
    Not to mention...
[04:26] Liena
    If anything,
    shouldn't my own page have offered first?
[04:31] Kirito
    Well...
[04:34] Liena
    Really!
[04:35] Liena
    I appreciate the offer.
[04:38] Liena
    But I won't be making any big purchases,
    so I'll be fine.
[04:41] Liena
    This is your day of rest, after all.
    It's all right to forget about work.
[04:46] Liena
    Although that work
    will be coming to an end soon.
[04:50] Liena
    Since we'll be graduating.
[04:52] Kirito
    I wish I could've learned more from you.
[04:55] Liena
    As your mentor,
    no words could make me feel more blessed.
[05:03] Kirito
    I look forward to tomorrow as well!
[05:05] Eugeo
    I look forward to it, too!
[05:08] Liena
    Right.
[05:15] Kirito
    Why are you so rattled?
[05:18] Eugeo
    Well, Sortiliena-senpai is so beautiful
    and has such a presence, you know?
[05:23] Kirito
    That's true.
[05:25] Kirito
    I'm a nervous wreck
    whenever we spar during training.
[05:29] Eugeo
    Golgorosso-senpai has a lot of drive, too.
[05:32] Eugeo
    I still haven't won a single point
    off Golgorosso-senpai yet.
[05:37] Kirito
    Me neither.
[05:38] Kirito
    That power of Liena-senpai's...
    To think that she's second seat in her class.
[05:43] Eugeo
    Makes you wonder just how strong
    First-Seat Volo-senpai is.
[05:46] Kirito
    Who knows?
[05:48] Eugeo
    I can't imagine beating those upperclassmen.
[05:52] Kirito
    Can't imagine it, huh?
SIGN    Swordcraft Academy Primary Trainee's Dorm
SIGN    March 1, 380 in the time of the realm of humanity
[05:57] Eugeo
    Good night, Kirito.
[05:59] Kirito
    Yeah, good night!
[06:08] Kirito
    After spending two years here,
    I've learned the mechanisms of this world
[06:12] Kirito
    can't be measured
    in simple numerical terms alone.
[06:17] Kirito
    The only three things visible on your status
    are your life, your Object Control Authority,
[06:22] Kirito
    and your System Control Authority.
[06:25] Kirito
    If your Object Control Authority is low,
[06:29] Kirito
    it hampers your ability
    to even hold up a higher-class weapon.
[06:32] Kirito
    Conversely, if your stats far surpass that class,
    it feels ridiculously light.
[06:38] Kirito
    Your System Control Authority
    is related to the sacred arts.
[06:43] Kirito
    If you're low-level, you can only use simple spells,
[06:47] Kirito
    But in the same way, you can use
    sophisticated spells once you level up.
[06:53] Kirito
    That part is no different than any other game.
[06:56] Kirito
    Most importantly, and it's a system
    that didn't exist in SAO or ALO,
[07:03] Kirito
    is that a mental image
    can affect these parameters.
[07:08] Kirito
    If you have the confidence, the ego to win,
    your individual power is amplified many times over.
[07:15] Kirito
    That's what makes Liena-senpai so powerful.
[07:18] Kirito
    She's received top-notch training
    in swordsmanship since she was a child.
[07:22] Kirito
    The confidence that she won't lose.
[07:24] Kirito
    In other words, if you can imagine yourself
    to be more powerful than anyone,
[07:28] Kirito
    that gives you the potential
    to rewrite the laws of the world.
SIGN    Elite Disciples' Dorm Training Hall
SIGN    March 7, 380 in the time of the realm of humanity
[08:18] Kirito
    As expected of you, Liena-senpai.
[08:21] Liena
    You've made some progress yourself, Kirito.
[08:23] Kirito
    No, I still have a long way to go.
[08:25] Liena
    Don't be so modest.
[08:26] Liena
    I know you still have some latent power
    that you're hiding from me.
[08:31] Liena
    When I chose you as my page a year ago,
[08:36] Liena
    it was because I sensed a similarity
    in our sword styles.
[08:38] Liena
    But in the last year, it's become clear
    how unrefined my sword skills are.
[08:44] Kirito
    You're really powerful, Liena-senpai.
[08:46] Kirito
    In the end, I wasn't able
    to beat you once during training.
[08:50] Liena
    Nor have I managed to defeat him
    in the last two years.
[08:56] Kirito
    Are you talking about
    First-Seat Volo Levantein?
[09:00] Liena
    Yes.
[09:02] Liena
    To be honest,
[09:04] Liena
    whenever I face Volo, I can feel myself falter.
[09:08] Liena
    No matter how hard I train,
[09:10] Liena
    I just can't convince myself
    that I can withstand his powerful sword.
[09:16] Kirito
    Senpai...
[09:17] Liena
    However.
[09:19] Liena
    That's not why you can't defeat me.
[09:22] Liena
    There's more to the Aincrad Style
    that you haven't shown me, isn't there?
[09:27] Liena
    I want to know everything about you as a swordsman
    before I graduate the day after tomorrow.
[09:37] Kirito
    This wooden sword can't...
[09:41] Kirito
    I understand. But forgive me.
[09:44] Kirito
    Could you wait for just one more day?
    I promise to show you tomorrow.
[09:48] Kirito
    The greatest skill I can wield.
[09:51] Liena
    Tomorrow's a day of rest.
    Training is forbidden, remember?
[09:54] Kirito
    I-It won't be training, though.
[09:57] Kirito
    U-Um... It's your graduation gift!
[10:00] Kirito
    I'm sure it's okay to give someone
    a present on a day of rest, right?
[10:04] Liena
    I've never heard of
    giving someone a sword skill as a gift.
[10:08] Liena
    But I'll gratefully accept it.
[10:11] Kirito
    Right! It'll be my pleasure.
[10:32] Kirito
    Primary Trainee Kirito has returned!
[10:36] Azurica
    You've arrived 38 minutes after curfew.
[10:39] Kirito
    My mentor, Elite Disciple Sortiliena Serlut,
    told me to extend my training session.
[10:45] Azurica
    It's a page's duty to receive the instruction
    of a disciple, so very well.
[10:51] Azurica
    But you seem to view this
    as permission to break curfew, do you not?
[10:56] Kirito
    N-Not at all, Ms. Azurica!
[10:59] Kirito
    My only goal is to hone my sword skills
    as much as I can.
[11:03] Azurica
    Breaking curfew is an unintended result.
[11:07] Azurica
    Mealtime is in 17 minutes.
    Make sure you're not late for that.
[11:13] Eugeo
    You're late, Kirito!
[11:15] Kirito
    Sorry! Liena-senpai gave me
    a special training session.
[11:19] Kirito
    Looks good!
[11:27] Humbert
    I can't tell you how envious I am, Lord Raios.
[11:31] Humbert
    After we toiled so hard to clean this cafeteria,
[11:34] Humbert
    they get to waltz in and merely eat.
[11:37] Humbert
    No, seriously, I envy them!
[11:40] Raios
    Hey, don't be like that, Humbert.
[11:42] Raios
    I'm sure that even those page trainees
    have struggles of their own we can't even fathom.
[11:49] Humbert
    I suppose you have a point.
[11:51] Humbert
    The pages are at their mentors' beck and call.
[11:54] Humbert
    I hear that they can't say no to anything.
[11:57] Raios
    They're an eccentric bunch
    that cherry-picks commoners to be their pages.
[12:02] Raios
    They must issue the most outlandish orders!
[12:05] Eugeo
    Don't pay any attention to them, Kirito.
[12:09] Eugeo
    By the way, Kirito, how's your garden doing?
[12:14] Kirito
    Better and better each day!
[12:17] Kirito
    It should be ready in time for graduation.
[12:19] Eugeo
    Oh, yeah? I'm looking forward to it!
[12:28] Eugeo
    They're really thriving, huh?
[12:30] Eugeo
    They're already starting to bud.
[12:33] Kirito
    Well, I did mess up three times to get to this point.
[12:36] Kirito
    I really hope they'll bloom this time.
[12:38] Eugeo
    Giving Liena-senpai flowers you raised yourself
    as a graduation gift...
[12:44] Eugeo
    It's surprising.
[12:46] Kirito
    I know.
[12:48] Eugeo
    Still, even after spending two years together,
[12:50] Eugeo
    I had no idea you enjoyed this kind of thing.
[12:53] Kirito
    Yeah. That makes two of us.
[12:56] Eugeo
    You never know, this could be a sign
    that your memories are coming back.
[13:00] Eugeo
    Like, maybe you used to grow flowers
    before you showed up in Rulid Village?
[13:04] Eugeo
    Or maybe that was your Calling?
[13:07] Kirito
    Y-Yeah, could be! I'm going to get some water.
[13:11] Eugeo
    Hey, Kirito.
[13:14] Eugeo
    What will you do
    if you do regain your memories?
[13:19] Kirito
    What will I do?
[13:21] Eugeo
    You're training to become an Integrity Knight
    to keep me company, aren't you?
[13:27] Eugeo
    In my quest to find Alice,
    who was taken away by the Axiom Church.
[13:31] Eugeo
    But when you get your memories back,
    you'll go home...
[13:42] Kirito
    Even if I do get my memories back,
    I'm not going home.
[13:46] Kirito
    I was a swordsman.
[13:48] Kirito
    That's the one thing I'm certain of.
[13:50] Kirito
    And what swordsman wouldn't strive
    to become an Integrity Knight?
[13:55] Eugeo
    I'm... a weak person.
[13:58] Eugeo
    If I hadn't met you, I'd probably still be
    swinging that axe every day, even now.
[14:05] Eugeo
    Using my Calling as an excuse
    to never try to leave the village.
[14:10] Eugeo
    The only reason I got into this academy
    was because you led the way.
[14:15] Eugeo
    Even so...
[14:18] Eugeo
    When you said you weren't going home
    even if you got your memories back...
[14:24] Eugeo
    it filled me with such relief.
[14:26] Kirito
    Listen. Let me say that I couldn't have
    made it to the capital on my own, either.
[14:33] Kirito
    I didn't know how to get here,
    and my memory's unreliable.
[14:36] Kirito
    And what's more, I didn't any money.
[14:41] Kirito
    The reason you and I have a place at this academy
    is because we were together.
[14:45] Kirito
    And it will stay that way.
[14:47] Kirito
    We've got to stick together.
[14:50] Kirito
    We can wait to struggle on our own
    after we're Integrity Knights, right?
[14:58] Eugeo
    That's right.
[15:01] Eugeo
    And to do that, first we have to place in the top 12
    on the Advancement Exam, huh?
[15:07] Kirito
    Well, my sacred arts skills
    are a little shaky, you know?
[15:11] Kirito
    Help me with that
    when we get back to our room.
[15:15] Eugeo
    Okay. If you want, I can spend
    our day of rest tomorrow helping you.
[15:19] Kirito
    Uh, tomorrow's not good.
[15:21] Eugeo
    Oh, that's right!
[15:23] Kirito
    Right. It's the day it's going to be ready.
[15:25] Eugeo
    That's something to look forward to!
[15:26] Eugeo
    I mean, I've waited a whole year!
[15:29] Kirito
    I can't wait to use it!
SIGN    March 8 in the time of the realm of humanity North Centoria District Seven, in front of Sadore's Metalworking Shop
[15:37] Sadore
    Look at this!
[15:37] Sadore
    These black-brick grindstones
    are supposed to last three years,
[15:42] Sadore
    but that's six demolished in one year!
[15:47] Kirito
    I'm really sorry.
[15:49] Sadore
    You can only shave a sliver off that branch,
    no matter how hard you try!
[15:54] Sadore
    How much time do you think I spent
    on this one sword?
SIGN    Gigas Cedar Forest
SIGN    March 31, 378 in the time of the realm of humanity
[15:59] Garitta
    This one branch of the Gigas Cedar is the part
    that absorbed the most of Solus' blessings.
[16:10] Garitta
    Take that with you.
[16:13] Garitta
    When you get to the capital,
[16:15] Garitta
    you should leave this branch
    with a craftsman by the name of Sadore.
[16:19] Garitta
    I'm sure he'll fashion a wonderful sword for you.
[16:23] Sadore
    In the first place,
    my Calling is that of a metalsmith, so...
[16:27] Kirito
    S-So... is the sword done?
[16:37] Sadore
    Young man.
[16:40] Sadore
    We haven't discussed payment yet, have we?
[16:44] Eugeo
    Don't worry, Kirito.
[16:46] Eugeo
    Just in case, I brought all my money.
[16:49] Sadore
    I might consider letting you have it free of charge.
[16:53] Sadore
    However! That's only if
    you can swing this monster, all right?
[16:58] Sadore
    The second I was done forging this thing
    into a sword, it actually got heavier.
[17:04] Kirito
    A monster, is it?
[17:19] Eugeo
    What's wrong, Kirito?
[17:23] Kirito
    No, it's nothing.
[17:51] Eugeo
    That was amazing, Kirito!
[17:54] Sadore
    So a trainee from the academy
    is able to swing it, huh?
[17:57] Kirito
    It's a fine sword.
[17:58] Sadore
    You bet it is!
[18:00] Sadore
    And like I promised,
[18:03] Sadore
    that sword is yours.
[18:07] Kirito
    Thank you very much!
[18:10] Kirito
    Okay, I'm going to take some practice swings.
[18:13] Eugeo
    Don't be late for dinner, all right?
[18:15] Kirito
    Right!
[18:26] Kirito
    For some reason,
    sword skills exist in this world, too.
[18:31] Kirito
    I could only manage two-hit strikes
    with my wooden practice sword.
[18:35] Kirito
    But if I use this sword...
[18:47] Kirito
    Looks like I'll be able
    to keep my promise to Liena-senpai.
[18:51] Kirito
    Come to think of it, I couldn't unleash the five-hit strike,
    even with the Blue Rose Sword,
[18:56] Kirito
    but I wonder if this one can?
[19:12] Kirito
    I guess it's no use.
[19:21] Kirito
    First-Seat Levantein?
[19:26] Kirito
    Please forgive me, Elite Disciple Levantein!
[19:29] Kirito
    I respectfully apologize for my rudeness!
[19:32] Volo
    You're Elite Disciple Serlut's page, right?
[19:35] Kirito
    Yes. I'm Primary Trainee Kirito.
[19:38] Volo
    I see.
[19:39] Volo
    Training with the sword is forbidden
    on days of rest.
[19:42] Kirito
    N-No, First Seat! This isn't training.
[19:46] Kirito
    Right. I was just trying out my new sword.
    I just couldn't wait until tomorrow.
[19:52] Volo
    You seemed to be quite fired up
    for someone taking test swings.
[19:57] Volo
    But you're not unlike myself.
[20:01] Volo
    Trying every which way to contrive a reason
    for wielding your sword, even on a day of rest.
[20:07] Volo
    I mean that you're not the only one.
[20:09] Kirito
    Then...
[20:10] Volo
    Yes. I'll overlook the fact
    that you were swinging your sword on a day of rest.
[20:14] Kirito
    I am grateful for your generosity.
[20:16] Volo
    It's too soon to thank me, Trainee Kirito.
[20:19] Kirito
    Y-Yes?
[20:21] Volo
    I never said that I'd forgive you for this.
SIGN    Swordcraft Academy Main Training Hall
[20:31] Kirito
    How did word spread so fast?
[20:33] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[20:36] Eugeo
    What did you do?
[20:38] Kirito
    Well...
[20:39] Eugeo
    No... the fact that you didn't get into any trouble
    for a year is a miracle in itself.
[20:45] Kirito
    As expected of my partner!
[20:48] Liena
    Lord Levantein! What's the meaning of this?
[20:51] Volo
    Your page was a bit disrespectful to me.
[20:55] Volo
    Since I didn't feel that
    it warranted a serious punishment,
[20:59] Volo
    I intend to settle things
    by sparring with real swords.
[21:02] Liena
    What did you say?
[21:03] Kirito
    I'm sorry for worrying you, Senpai.
[21:06] Kirito
    I'll be fine!
[21:08] Kirito
    In fact, I'm honored to get the chance
    to spar with the first seat.
[21:13] Liena
    Kirito... what are the rules of your duel?
[21:17] Kirito
    Since we're using real swords,
    wouldn't that be stop-short?
[21:20] Volo
    Oh, I forgot something.
[21:23] Volo
    I don't do stop-short fights.
[21:26] Volo
    All of my personal matches end
    when one side takes the first point.
[21:30] Liena
    Kirito has never fought a match with real swords!
[21:34] Volo
    Yes. Of course, this match can't happen
    without both our consent.
[21:39] Volo
    If you refuse, we'll have no choice
    but to go with stop-short.
[21:43] Volo
    I'm going to let you choose, Trainee Kirito.
[21:46] Liena
    Don't do it, Kirito. Volo's powerful.
    It's too dangerous.
[21:51] Kirito
    I'll leave the method up to you, Lord Levantein.
[21:54] Kirito
    After all, I'm the one being punished.
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: Swordsman's Pride.

E8 - Swordsman's Pride

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[00:24] ---
    Kirito.
[00:26] ---
    Liena-senpai.
[00:28] ---
    Kirito, I believe in your strength.
[00:32] ---
    Since I believe in your strength,
    I'll teach you something.
[00:35] ---
    There's a family rule
    hidden within Volo's Levantein family.
[00:40] ---
    "Soak this sword in the blood of the mighty."
[00:43] ---
    "Doing so will make their power your own."
[00:47] ---
    Did you say blood?
[00:49] ---
    Yes. Volo's been engaging in these one-point duels
    with real swords even before he started here.
[00:56] ---
    Those experiences allow him to produce
    his mighty sword.
[01:01] ---
    I see. The power of his imagination, huh?
[01:04] ---
    "You become stronger by absorbing
    the blood of powerful enemies."
[01:08] ---
    This Levantein family rule
    is imbuing Volo's sword with power.
[01:13] ---
    He's planning to convert your sword strength
    into blood, absorb it, and feed on it.
[01:22] ---
    However, let me say it again. I believe in you.
[01:26] ---
    You're not the kind of swordsman
    who'd fall so easily to that man.
[01:30] ---
    You haven't forgotten
    what you promised me yesterday, have you?
[01:35] ---
    Promise...
[01:36] ---
    That's right.
    I promised to show you everything I have.
[01:41] ---
    Then show it to me now, Kirito!
[01:45] ---
    Right. I'll fulfill my promise to you now.
[01:50] ---
    Are you ready yet, Trainee Kirito?
[01:57] ---
    Yes.
[02:00] ---
    Elite Disciple Serlut,
    will you serve as our witness?
[02:06] ---
    Very well.
[02:10] ---
    The one-point match between Elite Disciple Levantein
    and Novice Trainee Kirito will now begin.
[02:19] ---
    As has been mutually agreed,
    both will use real swords.
[02:24] ---
    Real swords?
[04:03] ---
    Swordsman's Pride
[04:27] ---
    Well, well! Is it customary to dye swords black
    in the hinterlands, Lord Raios?
[04:34] ---
    Don't be like that, Humbert.
[04:36] ---
    Those pages must be too busy
    to polish their swords, that's all.
[05:03] ---
    The High-Norkian Style,
    Heavenly Mountain-Splitting Wave stance.
[05:06] ---
    So he's starting off with his secret skill?
[05:11] ---
    That's the two-handed,
    heavy one-hit thrust skill, Avalanche.
[05:16] ---
    And not just any Avalanche, either.
[05:18] ---
    His power of imagination
    should be amplifying its force.
[05:23] ---
    But I can't afford to dodge it.
[05:25] ---
    If I'm going to keep my promise to Liena-senpai,
    I have to block his strike!
[05:32] ---
    I'll counter with a greater amount of strikes
    with a four-hit strike, Vertical Square!
[06:07] ---
    He stopped it!
[06:16] ---
    If I can endure this one,
    I’ll still have my fourth hit!
[06:25] ---
    Is this what Volo's shouldering?
    The Levantein family's...
[06:34] ---
    Is this the source of his power,
    the strength of his imagination?
[06:45] ---
    But I also...
[06:51] ---
    I also...
[06:57] ---
    I also can't afford to lose here!
[07:14] ---
    Did his sword just grow?
[07:46] ---
    That's enough!
[07:54] ---
    M-Ms. Azurica?
[07:59] ---
    We have no choice
    but to obey any ruling of hers.
[08:04] ---
    Uh... why is that?
[08:07] ---
    Because seven years ago,
    during the Four Empire Unification Tournament,
[08:11] ---
    she was the first swordsman
    to represent the North's Norlangarth Empire.
[08:16] ---
    The punishment for Trainee Kirito
    is hereby concluded!
[08:21] ---
    From now on, be careful
    not to fling mud onto anyone.
[08:47] ---
    It went back to its normal size.
[08:54] ---
    I thought you had gotten slashed.
[08:58] ---
    Yes. I thought that, too.
[09:00] ---
    And yet you refused to surrender.
    You hopeless idiot.
[09:08] ---
    That was a magnificent, spectacular fight, Kirito.
[09:13] ---
    I'm truly grateful.
[09:16] ---
    It's too bad that I couldn't have it all to myself,
[09:19] ---
    but as you promised, you showed me a fight
    with you using all of your strength.
[09:25] ---
    Thank you.
[09:26] ---
    O-Oh, but it was a draw.
[09:29] ---
    Achieving a draw against Levantein
    is not enough for you?
[09:32] ---
    N-No, that's not what I meant.
[09:35] ---
    It's no longer a matter of winning or losing.
[09:38] ---
    Seeing you in battle taught me something...
[09:42] ---
    something extremely important.
[09:45] ---
    Why don't we have
    a light celebration in my room?
[09:49] ---
    Let's invite Eugeo
    and Lord Golgorossa, too, shall we?
[09:52] ---
    Right!
[10:10] ---
    It struck me once again today
    as I was watching your match.
[10:13] ---
    Your Aincrad Style has endless potential.
[10:17] ---
    I used to see my own Serlut Style
    as a practical sword skill, but it's still too rigid.
[10:22] ---
    You're not going there again, are you?
[10:24] ---
    I've never once beaten you, Senpai.
[10:28] ---
    The diversity of attacks in the Serlut Style
    is nothing more than stunning.
[10:36] ---
    Actually, Kirito...
[10:40] ---
    Because a distant ancestor of the Serlut family
    displeased the emperor,
[10:44] ---
    we are forbidden from passing down
    our official sword skill, the High-Norkian Style.
[10:51] ---
    So we had no choice but to hone our actual
    combat skills, rather, our irregular sword skills.
[10:57] ---
    That's the Serlut Style.
[10:59] ---
    It's not that I resent it.
[11:01] ---
    On the contrary,
    I've always been proud of our style.
[11:06] ---
    But somewhere in my mind,
    I might have had some doubts.
[11:12] ---
    For two years,
[11:13] ---
    I think the reason I couldn't defeat Volo
    is because he passes down the High-Norkian Style.
[11:20] ---
    Senpai...
[11:22] ---
    But you're different.
[11:24] ---
    Despite also being a wielder of a unique style,
[11:27] ---
    you don't feel inferior compared
    to those trained in the traditional styles.
[11:33] ---
    Watching you closely for a year,
    and seeing you fight against Volo today...
[11:39] ---
    I think I finally understand the reason.
[11:43] ---
    Being the successor to the Serlut Style
    fills me with great pride and also joy.
[11:52] ---
    As well as becoming your mentor, too.
[11:55] ---
    Liena-senpai, I'm counting on you to defeat
    First-Seat Volo in your final ranking exam match.
[12:03] ---
    Right!
[12:25] ---
    Well, well! Perfect timing.
[12:27] ---
    I was just about to go look for you.
[12:32] ---
    What do you want?
[12:35] ---
    Needless to say, I wanted to compliment you
    on your dazzling combat style.
[12:40] ---
    Well, those stunt-oriented sword skills of yours
[12:43] ---
    must've unnerved even the first seat,
    don't you agree?
[12:50] ---
    Are you picking a fight with me?
[12:52] ---
    Of course not!
[12:53] ---
    A high-ranking nobleman
    would never pick anything with a commoner.
[12:58] ---
    Even if we do dole out charity!
[13:05] ---
    In honor of your stunt,
    no, your valiant battle, I extend you this gift.
[13:10] ---
    Please accept it.
[13:12] ---
    Now then, with that, we shall excuse ourselves.
[13:15] ---
    Good night, Sir Kirito.
[13:17] ---
    Don't let it get to your head!
[13:49] ---
    At first, it was just an experiment.
[13:54] ---
    A flower that never blooms
    in the Northern Empire, the zephilia.
[14:00] ---
    Liena-senpai said they were her favorite flower.
[14:03] ---
    I wanted to see if I could make them bloom
    using the power of my imagination.
[14:08] ---
    But along the way,
[14:11] ---
    I'd started identifying with these flowers
    that are fighting so hard to bloom in foreign soil.
[14:19] ---
    Cut off from the real world,
    from those I cared for, from those I loved...
[14:25] ---
    I'd been trying to share
    my loneliness and pain with these flowers
[14:28] ---
    of not knowing when I would ever
    be reunited with them.
[14:36] ---
    I'm sorry.
[14:57] ---
    Believe in them.
[15:00] ---
    In the strength of these flowers
    that have grown this much in foreign soil.
[15:04] ---
    Who're you?
[15:06] ---
    As well as your own strength,
    who has nurtured them until now.
[15:14] ---
    But they're all dead now.
[15:17] ---
    It'll be all right.
[15:19] ---
    The roots in the soil are still trying to live.
[15:22] ---
    Not to mention, you sense it, don't you?
[15:26] ---
    The numerous sacred flowers in these planters
    want to save their tiny friends.
[15:34] ---
    Impossible.
[15:36] ---
    I can't cast advanced sacred arts like that.
[15:40] ---
    All spells are about "Meaning."
[15:43] ---
    They're no more than tools for guiding
    and arranging what you call "images."
[15:49] ---
    Now, feel it.
[15:51] ---
    The flowers' prayers.
[15:53] ---
    The laws of the world.
[15:56] ---
    The intent that emerges from the heart.
    "Meaning."
[16:27] ---
    Please, can you share
    just a little bit of your power, your life?
[16:34] ---
    Imagine the flowers' life force flowing into
    the zephilia's roots, using me as their catalyst.
[17:12] ---
    That voice just now...
[17:18] ---
    Thank you.
[17:23] ---
    Swordcraft Academy
    Main Training Hall
[17:23] ---
    March 31, 380 in the time
    of the realm of humanity
[17:26] ---
    SERLUT
[17:26] ---
    LEVANTEIN
[18:47] ---
    That's the match!
[19:08] ---
    And so, Liena-senpai
[19:10] ---
    graduated the North Centoria Swordcraft Academy
    as its top-ranked student.
[19:19] ---
    And after our Advancement Exam,
    Eugeo and I were ranked seat five and six,
[19:25] ---
    and were promoted to Elite Disciples.
[19:28] ---
    Swordcraft Academy
    Elite Disciple Dorms
[19:28] ---
    April 10, 380 in the time
    of the realm of humanity
[19:30] ---
    Now reporting to Elite Disciple Eugeo!
[19:34] ---
    I have completed today's cleaning!
[19:37] ---
    Good job, Tiese.
[19:39] ---
    You're free to go back to your dorm room now.
[19:42] ---
    And, um...
[19:48] ---
    Sorry, Ronie.
[19:50] ---
    I've told him numerous times to be back
    before you're done cleaning the room.
[19:55] ---
    Oh, n-no! My duty as a page only ends
    when I've made my report!
[19:59] ---
    I can put in a word for you, too, so you could
    get your mentor changed to someone else.
[20:05] ---
    If you serve under him,
    it's definitely going to be a long year for you.
[20:09] ---
    O-Oh, not at all!
[20:11] ---
    Hey, hey!
[20:13] ---
    What are you talking about
    when I'm not around?
[20:18] ---
    Elite Disciple Kirito, allow me to report!
[20:21] ---
    Today's cleaning
    has been completed without issues.
[20:25] ---
    Okay, good job.
[20:26] ---
    Listen, Kirito.
[20:28] ---
    These two are much busier than you, so try
    to get back here before they're done cleaning.
[20:35] ---
    Also, why do you have to come through
    the window, anyway?
[20:38] ---
    Going through this window is the shortest route
    when you're coming from East Third Street.
[20:43] ---
    Ronie and Tiese, if you remember that,
    it'll come in handy someday.
[20:47] ---
    Y-Yes!
[20:48] ---
    Don't teach them stuff
    they don't need to know.
[20:51] ---
    If you went to East Third Street,
    that bag must be from...
[20:55] ---
    If you want some, then just say so, Eugeo.
[21:06] ---
    Here. Have these with your roommates
    when you get back to your dorm.
[21:13] ---
    Th-Thank you very much, Elite Disciple!
[21:15] ---
    To ensure the life of the goods won't decrease,
    we will now return to our dorm at top speed!
[21:19] ---
    See you tomorrow!
[21:23] ---
    I knew it! These are honey pies
    from the Prancing Deer Cafe!
[21:26] ---
    Let's hurry back before they get cold!
[21:28] ---
    - Yeah!
    - Let's go!
[21:33] ---
    What is it?
[21:34] ---
    Oh, it's nothing, really.
[21:37] ---
    I was just wondering if perhaps
    Elite Disciple Kirito has forgotten why we're here?
[21:46] ---
    Like I'd forget.
[21:49] ---
    We've finally made it this far.
[21:56] ---
    Yeah.
[22:00] ---
    It won't be long now, huh?
[23:36] ---
    Next time: Nobleman's Responsibilities.

E9 - Nobleman's Responsibilities

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[00:00] ---
    Elite Disciple Dorms
    Training Hall
[00:00] ---
    May 17, 380 in the time
    of the realm of humanity
[00:06] ---
    In this world, the important thing
    is what you infuse your sword with.
[00:11] ---
    It's the weight of your sword
    that will sway the battle.
[00:14] ---
    Its weight?
[00:15] ---
    That's right.
[00:16] ---
    For Volo Levantein,
[00:18] ---
    it was the pride and pressure of being born
    into a family of swordsmanship instructors.
[00:23] ---
    For Golgorosso-senpai, it's the confidence
    generated by his body of steel.
[00:29] ---
    And for Liena-senpai,
    it was her thoroughly polished skills.
[00:33] ---
    That is what makes their swords so powerful.
[00:37] ---
    I wonder what I should infuse in my sword?
[00:40] ---
    That's something you need to find on your own.
[00:44] ---
    I'm neither a noble nor a swordsman,
[00:47] ---
    so I have nothing except those years
    swinging an axe in the Rulid forest
[00:52] ---
    and the Aincrad style that Kirito taught me.
[00:58] ---
    No, actually, there's one more thing.
[02:39] ---
    Nobleman's Responsibilities
[02:48] ---
    Oh? Disciple Eugeo merely hacks at logs,
    and forgoes any form drills, it seems.
[02:54] ---
    Rumor has it that Sir Eugeo
    used to be a woodcutter in the sticks.
[02:59] ---
    Perhaps the extent of his knowledge
    is how to attack a log.
[03:04] ---
    Goodness gracious.
[03:05] ---
    If that's the case, then as someone
    who trains in the same dorm,
[03:11] ---
    perhaps I should have at least
    instructed him on the proper form?
[03:15] ---
    Ah, how generous of you, Lord Raios.
    You're truly an exemplary knight!
[03:22] ---
    What do you say, Sir Eugeo?
[03:24] ---
    Why don't you accept the generosity
    of Lord Raios and have him train you?
[03:28] ---
    It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
[03:33] ---
    I appreciate it, but...
[03:35] ---
    There's a separate reason
    for the upperclassmen's power.
[03:39] ---
    Is that true of First-Seat Raios
    and Second-Seat Humbert, as well?
[03:43] ---
    What those two share is the enormous conceit
    that they've fostered since childhood.
[03:48] ---
    Conceit?
[03:50] ---
    Raios and Humbert probably nurtured that
    conceit by comparing themselves to others.
[03:56] ---
    That's why they look down on guys like us,
    who aren't from the capital, let alone nobles.
[04:03] ---
    This might be a great opportunity
    to see this conceit that strengthens them.
[04:09] ---
    Then if I may accept your generosity,
    would you honor me with a lesson?
[04:14] ---
    Well, well. Are you serious?
[04:16] ---
    Yes.
[04:17] ---
    If you could advise me directly with your sword
    onto my body, Second-Seat Lord Humbert Zizek.
[04:28] ---
    What's that?
[04:29] ---
    Are you saying that you want to be hit
    by Lord Humbert's sword, Disciple Eugeo?
[04:36] ---
    Of course,
    I would prefer that you stopped short,
[04:38] ---
    but I am the one who is asking to be trained.
[04:42] ---
    It would be forward of me to make such a request.
[04:46] ---
    Very well.
[04:47] ---
    I'll be glad to unveil my sword skills to you,
    Disciple Eugeo.
[04:53] ---
    Now then, let's go!
[04:55] ---
    The essence of the High-Norkian style...
[04:57] ---
    You will absorb this lesson with your body.
[05:00] ---
    That's the Norkian style secret move,
    Lightening Slash...
[05:05] ---
    Here I come!
[05:20] ---
    If it's a test of strength,
    then I have the upper hand!
[05:27] ---
    Don't get carried away, you commoner!
[05:31] ---
    What's this power?
[05:32] ---
    Is this the strength
    that his conceit generates?
[05:35] ---
    You are so unsightly,
    oozing with the lowliness of your style.
[05:41] ---
    I'll crush your right shoulder
    so you can't swing that sword for a while.
[05:45] ---
    I have to switch techniques!
[05:59] ---
    That's the match.
[06:02] ---
    I'm declaring this match a draw.
[06:04] ---
    Lord Raios! How could I merely play to a draw
    with a swordsman from the sticks?
[06:12] ---
    Humbert.
[06:23] ---
    Your outlandish moves
    were greatly entertaining, Disciple Eugeo.
[06:28] ---
    After graduating, perhaps you should consider
    seeking a Calling with the Empire Circus?
[06:33] ---
    I am humbled by your thoughtfulness,
    Disciple Raios Antinous.
[06:40] ---
    Next time, allow me to show you
    the power of a noble.
[06:44] ---
    I would be honored
    to take that lesson right now.
[06:48] ---
    Battle isn't only about swinging a sword,
    commoner.
[06:59] ---
    Elite Disciple
    Dorms
[06:59] ---
    May 20, 380 in the time
    of the realm of humanity
[07:01] ---
    It's been three days.
[07:04] ---
    It feels weird that nothing's happened
    after they hinted of mischief.
[07:12] ---
    There's the Taboo Index
    as well as the school regulations.
[07:17] ---
    I guess it's not easy to harass someone here.
[07:19] ---
    But on the other hand,
[07:22] ---
    that means as long as you don't violate the Taboos,
    you can do anything you want.
[07:27] ---
    Don't violate the Taboos? But what could...
[07:31] ---
    Well, they could be trying to get into our heads
    by just hinting that they might do something.
[07:38] ---
    So let's keep our heads straight. Let's stay cool.
[07:42] ---
    What's that? S-Stay...
[07:45] ---
    Um, that's the first innermost secret
    of the Aincrad style.
[07:49] ---
    I guess it's like, "Let's stay calm."
[07:53] ---
    Though you also use it as a farewell.
[07:55] ---
    Kind of like, "Okay, see you!"
[07:59] ---
    All right. I'll keep that in mind.
[08:01] ---
    S-Stay cool, stay cool.
[08:06] ---
    All right, I guess I'll be going to bed now.
[08:11] ---
    So about tomorrow, Eugeo.
[08:13] ---
    I've got an errand to run, so...
[08:15] ---
    Oh no you don't, Kirito!
[08:18] ---
    We're spending tomorrow's Day of Rest
    with Tiese and Ronie,
[08:20] ---
    and heading into the campus forest
    for a get-together, remember?
[08:26] ---
    They're coming here at nine o'clock,
    so make sure you're ready by then!
[08:30] ---
    Okay.
[08:31] ---
    Well, wake me up at eight, will you?
    Good night, Eugeo.
[08:35] ---
    Eight's too late. Seven-thirty!
[08:38] ---
    Good night, Kirito!
[08:40] ---
    Stay cool.
[08:42] ---
    I did say it was a farewell greeting, but you don't
    use it every night before you go to bed.
[08:49] ---
    You should save it for a real goodbye, okay?
[08:55] ---
    It's pretty complicated, huh?
[09:06] ---
    If what Kirito said is true,
[09:08] ---
    then are Raios and Humbert
    obeying the laws of the Axiom Church reluctantly?
[09:14] ---
    But that's impossible.
[09:17] ---
    It's forbidden by law
    to even doubt the Taboo Index.
[09:22] ---
    If they did allow something like that,
    then that day...
[09:26] ---
    When all I could do was watch Alice
    get taken away...
[09:30] ---
    What have I been protecting,
    and for what purpose?
[09:41] ---
    Alice.
[09:48] ---
    Eugeo-senpai, are you listening?
[09:51] ---
    Senpai?
[09:54] ---
    Sorry, I'm listening. Um, what were you saying?
[09:57] ---
    So you weren't listening!
[09:59] ---
    I-It's just that the forest
    is so beautiful, so I couldn't help it.
[10:03] ---
    There are rare animals here, too.
[10:06] ---
    Rare?
[10:07] ---
    Look, like over there.
[10:10] ---
    That's just a golden fox. There are tons of them
    living in trees growing in the city.
[10:18] ---
    Come to think of it, Tiese,
    you're from the capital, right?
[10:21] ---
    Yes.
[10:22] ---
    Is your home nearby?
[10:24] ---
    My parents' home is in District Eight,
[10:25] ---
    so it's a little far from the academy,
    which is in District Five.
[10:28] ---
    I see.
[10:32] ---
    So, Tiese, you come from a noble family, right?
[10:37] ---
    I thought all the nobles' mansions
    were in District Three and Four.
[10:41] ---
    Only nobles that are fourth rank and above
    can live in the mansion district.
[10:45] ---
    My father is a lower-level, sixth rank nobleman
    who has no judicial authority.
[10:50] ---
    But didn't all nobles have judicial authority?
[10:53] ---
    Absolutely not!
[10:55] ---
    Only nobles up to fourth rank
    are allowed judicial authority,
[10:58] ---
    and nobles ranked fifth and lower
    are actually the subjects of their judgement.
[11:03] ---
    I-Is that right?
[11:07] ---
    Th-That's why...
[11:09] ---
    someone like me, the heir to a sixth rank noble,
    is an aristocrat in name only.
[11:16] ---
    Our lifestyle is really no different
    than most people.
[11:22] ---
    When faced with a High-Norkian style strike
    from above the head,
[11:27] ---
    there are basically
    two things you need to prepare for.
[11:31] ---
    It's either from directly above,
    or diagonally above to the right.
[11:35] ---
    If it's any other trajectory,
    they'll change their footing for sure,
[11:39] ---
    so after seeing that,
    you'll still have time to block it.
[11:44] ---
    That was good!
[11:49] ---
    Um, Eugeo-senpai, Kirito-senpai?
[11:53] ---
    I actually have a favor to ask of you.
[11:56] ---
    It's about Frenica, my roommate at my dorm.
[12:01] ---
    The thing is, the Elite Disciple whom she
    serves under is an extremely strict person.
[12:07] ---
    Especially in the last few days,
[12:08] ---
    he's been giving her orders
    that are thought to be quite inappropriate.
[12:12] ---
    Even if he's an Elite Disciple,
[12:15] ---
    he shouldn't be able to order her to do a task
    beyond the scope of the school regulations.
[12:20] ---
    However, even if it's not a violation, um,
[12:24] ---
    these orders are a bit intolerable
    for a female student.
[12:28] ---
    I understand the situation.
[12:30] ---
    To change Frenica's mentor, she'll need
    the approval of her current mentor himself.
[12:36] ---
    What's the name of this troubling Disciple?
[12:40] ---
    Um, Humbert Zizek.
    The Second-Seat Elite Disciple.
[12:45] ---
    Him again?
[12:48] ---
    A few days ago, I dueled Disciple Humbert
    in the Training Hall, and it ended in a draw.
[12:55] ---
    But he seemed disgruntled by the result.
[12:58] ---
    He may be taking it out on Frenica
    because of that.
[13:03] ---
    Um, in other words...
[13:05] ---
    Do you mean it's retaliation?
[13:08] ---
    I don't understand.
[13:11] ---
    My father always said to me.
[13:13] ---
    We live in a bigger house than general civilians,
    and enjoy some privileges,
[13:20] ---
    and we can never take that for granted.
[13:22] ---
    Nobles must do all they can to ensure that those
    not so privileged can live in peace and joy.
[13:29] ---
    And if war ever breaks out,
    we must be the first to take up our swords.
[13:35] ---
    And yet, because of what Elite Disciple Humbert
    ordered her to do,
[13:39] ---
    Frenica ended up crying in bed all last night.
[13:43] ---
    How can such a thing be allowed?
[13:49] ---
    Thank you.
[13:53] ---
    That attitude your father taught you, Tiese,
[13:56] ---
    in Eng... no, in sacred terms,
    it's called "noble obligation."
[14:02] ---
    Nobles, that is, those with power
    must use it for the sake of the powerless.
[14:10] ---
    Let's see, you could also call it pride.
[14:14] ---
    And that pride
    is more important than any law or regulation.
[14:19] ---
    After all, there are things that you shouldn't do,
    even if it's not forbidden by law.
[14:24] ---
    And on the other hand,
[14:25] ---
    there might be things you should do,
    even if they are forbidden by law.
[14:31] ---
    Um, I think I understand
    a little of what you're saying, Kirito-senpai.
[14:37] ---
    There are important morals
    that aren't described in the Taboo Index.
[14:42] ---
    In other words,
    your own personal justice, right?
[14:47] ---
    Rather than simply obeying laws,
    you need to consider why those laws exist.
[14:51] ---
    Compare it with justice, and reflect.
[14:53] ---
    Perhaps it's more important to critically think
    about it, rather than simply obey.
[14:57] ---
    Yeah, that’s exactly right, Ronie.
[15:00] ---
    A human being's greatest power is to think.
[15:03] ---
    It's more powerful
    than any great sword or secret move.
[15:07] ---
    Even if it doesn't violate
    the Taboo Index or school rules,
[15:10] ---
    what Humbert did is unquestionably wrong.
[15:13] ---
    So somebody has to stop him.
[15:16] ---
    In this case, that somebody would be...
[15:20] ---
    Yeah. That would be our job.
[15:25] ---
    And so...
[15:27] ---
    my friend, Disciple Eugeo, to what do I owe
[15:31] ---
    the pleasure of this visit
    in the evening of our Day of Rest?
[15:35] ---
    I happened to hear of a disturbing rumor
    concerning Disciple Zizek there.
[15:41] ---
    With all due respect, I've come to warn you,
[15:44] ---
    before my fellow student's good reputation
    is maligned.
[15:46] ---
    What did you say?
[15:48] ---
    Well, well.
[15:50] ---
    This is quite surprising, and also unexpected.
[15:54] ---
    To think that you'd be concerned
    for my friend's good name.
[15:58] ---
    Unfortunately,
    I have no idea what rumor you speak of.
[16:08] ---
    From whom did you hear this rumor from?
[16:13] ---
    I heard it from Lord Zizek's page,
    as well as from the Novice Trainees
[16:17] ---
    who share her dorm room.
[16:19] ---
    That Sir Humbert has been issuing
    deviant orders to Frenica, his page Trainee.
[16:25] ---
    Deviant?
    That's a curious choice of word, Sir Eugeo.
[16:31] ---
    Why don't you be more clear,
    and call it a violation of the school regulations?
[16:38] ---
    However...
[16:39] ---
    However, even if it's not forbidden
    by the academy,
[16:42] ---
    there are things that an Elite Disciple should
    never do as a Novice Trainee's mentor, right?
[16:47] ---
    Oh? Well, Sir Eugeo, just what is it
    that you claim Humbert did to Frenica?
[16:55] ---
    W-Well...
[16:57] ---
    What do you say, Humbert?
[16:59] ---
    Do you have any idea
    what Sir Eugeo is talking about?
[17:05] ---
    Not a clue! I have no idea
    of what he's going on about!
[17:11] ---
    But I do admit that I ordered her
    to perform several trivial tasks.
[17:15] ---
    Ever since that duel against Sir Eugeo,
    which shamefully ended in a draw,
[17:19] ---
    I've become a new man,
    and immersed myself in training.
[17:23] ---
    And because I've avoided drills
    that would give me unsightly muscles,
[17:28] ---
    my entire body aches unbearably.
[17:30] ---
    I had no choice but to ask Frenica to give me
    a massage every night at bath time, that's all.
[17:37] ---
    Also lest her uniform get soiled, I was kind enough
    to allow Frenica to strip to her underwear!
[17:43] ---
    It's unfathomable to me of which part
    you consider to be deviant behavior!
[17:53] ---
    Novice Trainee Frenica
    is in anguish day in and day out.
[17:57] ---
    If I don't see any improvement, I will consider
    asking the instructors for an investigation.
[18:03] ---
    - That's my intention.
    - What?
[18:10] ---
    Do as you please,
[18:13] ---
    Disciple Sir Eugeo!
[18:19] ---
    Calm down, Eugeo.
[18:21] ---
    I was sure that
    you would have exploded before me.
[18:26] ---
    It would've been dangerous if you had a sword.
[18:28] ---
    But I thought there might be something else
    behind this, so I kept an eye out.
[18:34] ---
    Something else?
[18:35] ---
    This might be a trap targeting you, Eugeo.
[18:40] ---
    For example, if you'd taken their bait
    and said too much after confronting Humbert,
[18:45] ---
    they might acknowledge that as impropriety,
    and punish you with maximum penalty.
[18:55] ---
    If Humbert continues to abuse Frenica,
[19:00] ---
    we should at least make preparations
    so we can have the instructors look into this.
[19:06] ---
    Yeah, I agree.
[19:08] ---
    Eugeo, if those guys say anything to you again
    when I'm not around,
[19:12] ---
    try not to get so passionate like you did today.
[19:15] ---
    I know already. Stay cool, right?
[19:19] ---
    That's right.
[19:20] ---
    Stay cool.
[19:24] ---
    Elite Disciple Sir Eugeo,
[19:28] ---
    allow me to report.
[19:29] ---
    I've finished today's cleaning.
[19:32] ---
    All right. Good job.
[19:34] ---
    Thanks, as always.
[19:35] ---
    Oh, no, it's my job as your page!
[19:38] ---
    Um, sorry, but do you mind if we have a talk?
[19:44] ---
    I don't want you to stand, so have a seat.
[19:54] ---
    All right, please excuse me.
[20:08] ---
    It's about Frenica...
[20:10] ---
    I confronted Humbert about that yesterday.
[20:13] ---
    Is that so?
[20:14] ---
    I don't think he wants to turn this
    into a worse situation
[20:17] ---
    so I don't think
    he'll give any more deviant orders.
[20:20] ---
    Thank goodness.
[20:22] ---
    Thank you very much, Elite Disciple Sir Eugeo.
[20:25] ---
    You're done with your work,
    so you can call me Eugeo.
[20:29] ---
    Also, there's something
    that I need to apologize for.
[20:34] ---
    I said this yesterday, too,
[20:36] ---
    but it's been made clear now that this incident
    was caused by my duel with Humbert.
[20:44] ---
    I'd like to give her a proper apology as well.
[20:48] ---
    So could you set up a meeting for me?
[20:53] ---
    Is that right?
[20:56] ---
    No, this isn't your fault, Eugeo-senpai.
[21:00] ---
    But I'll be sure to convey your words to Frenica.
[21:05] ---
    Um, c-could I...
[21:09] ---
    sit a little closer to you?
[21:13] ---
    Sure.
[21:22] ---
    Not long after I graduate Swordcraft Academy,
[21:26] ---
    I will take over as head of the Schtrinen family,
[21:30] ---
    and receive a husband
    from the same rank, or one rank higher.
[21:39] ---
    I'm afraid.
[21:42] ---
    If the man who becomes my husband
    turns out to be like Sir Zizek...
[21:47] ---
    Someone without pride, who doesn't
    give a second thought about being cruel...
[21:51] ---
    When I think about what to do...
[21:54] ---
    I get really scared.
[21:56] ---
    I...
[22:07] ---
    Tiese?
[22:08] ---
    Eugeo-senpai, I, um...
    I have a favor to ask of you.
[22:14] ---
    Eugeo-senpai, you'll definitely,
    definitely represent our academy,
[22:18] ---
    win the Swordsmanship Tournament,
[22:20] ---
    and compete
    in the Four Empires Unification Tournament.
[22:23] ---
    W-Well, of course,
    that's what I'm aiming for, too.
[22:28] ---
    Um, and then, uh...
[22:33] ---
    I-If you rank high
    in the Unification Tournament,
[22:36] ---
    I hear you can get appointed to an aristocrat
[22:39] ---
    like Ms. Azurica, the dorm supervisor
    for the Novice Trainees.
[22:43] ---
    Um, if you become one,
[22:46] ---
    Will you...
[22:48] ---
    Will you be my...
[22:53] ---
    I'm striving to compete
    in the Unification Tournament
[22:56] ---
    to become an Integrity Knight,
    and be reunited with Alice.
[23:00] ---
    Just for that reason.
[23:05] ---
    Okay. Got it.
[23:08] ---
    After the tournament,
    I'll be sure to go see you.
[23:13] ---
    Me, too. I'll become stronger, too!
[23:17] ---
    So strong that I can say what's right,
    and say what must be said.
[23:23] ---
    Just like you, Eugeo-senpai.
[23:36] ---
    Next time: Taboo Index.

E10 - Taboo Index

E11 - Central Cathedral

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[00:03] Eugeo
    Alice?
[00:07] Eugeo
    Alice, is that you?
[00:23] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[00:25] Alice
    Watch what you say and do.
[00:28] Alice
    I'm authorized to decrease your lives
    by 70 percent.
[00:33] Alice
    The next time you try to touch me without permission,
    I will cut off your hand.
[00:41] Eugeo
    Alice...
[00:43] Kirito
    So that knight's the Alice
    you've been searching for?
[00:47] Kirito
    Let's do as she says.
    Even if it's as criminals,
[00:50] Kirito
    as long as we get inside the Central Cathedral,
    we should understand the situation a little better.
[00:55] Alice
    Come with me.
[00:57] Alice
    Elite Disciple Eugeo. Elite Disciple Kirito.
[01:01] Alice
    For running afoul of the Taboo Index,
[01:04] Alice
    I shall apprehend you, take you into custody
    and, after questioning,
[01:07] Alice
    I shall execute you.
SIGN    Central Cathedral
[03:03] Eugeo
    Tiese!
[03:04] Kirito
    Ronie!
[03:14] Tiese
    L-Lady Knight! W-We have a request!
[03:17] Ronie
    Please grant us permission
    to return these swords to our senpais!
[03:21] Alice
    Fine. However,
    I cannot allow criminals to carry swords.
[03:26] Alice
    I'll hold onto them.
[03:33] Alice
    If you wish to speak with them,
    I'll allow one minute.
[03:42] Tiese
    Eugeo-senpai!
[03:43] Tiese
    Eugeo-senpai, I'm so sorry.
    This is... this is my fault...
[03:48] Tiese
    because I did something so foolish.
[03:53] Eugeo
    You didn't. You're wrong.
[03:55] Eugeo
    You're not to blame.
[03:57] Eugeo
    You did the right thing for your friend.
[04:00] Eugeo
    It's my fault that this happened.
[04:03] Eugeo
    You have nothing to be sorry about.
[04:06] Tiese
    This time, I'm going to save you!
[04:10] Tiese
    I'll work hard to become an Integrity Knight,
    and then I'll save you!
[04:16] Tiese
    So please, wait for me, all right?
[04:19] Tiese
    I promise... I promise!
[04:25] Ronie
    Um... this is your lunch.
[04:32] Ronie
    Please have it when you get hungry.
[04:35] Kirito
    Tha—
[04:37] Alice
    Time's up. Step away.
SIGN    July 6, 2026 7:15AM Ocean Turtle
[05:41] Asuna
    If only I could dive into the Underworld
    and rescue you...
[06:05] Asuna
    Excuse me.
[06:14] Asuna
    A-A robot?
[06:34] Higa
    Hey!
[06:36] Higa
    Stop that, Ichiemon!
[06:40] Asuna
    M-Mr. Higa... what is this?
[06:43] Higa
    Uh, well... it's Ichiemon, 'kay?
[06:47] Higa
    Its full name is
    Electroactive Muscled Operative Machine.
[06:50] Higa
    EMOM for short.
[06:52] Higa
    I added "Ichi" as in the number one, so...
[06:56] Higa
    Ichiemon, 'kay?
[06:59] Asuna
    So what is this Ichiemon doing here, exactly?
[07:02] Rinko
    Well, actually—
[07:03] Rinko
    Higa's making me help him tune the program.
[07:07] Rinko
    Even though we're not colleagues
    in a college seminar anymore.
[07:10] Asuna
    Ms. Rinko!
[07:13] Rinko
    Good morning, Ms. Asuna.
[07:18] Rinko
    Just as we thought,
    the balancer's processing speed is the bottleneck.
[07:22] Rinko
    You have the budget, don't you?
[07:23] Rinko
    Can't you use a faster chip?
[07:25] Higa
    If you factor in the exhaust heat
    and battery consumption,
[07:28] Higa
    this is the best I can do for its mind, 'kay?
[07:31] Higa
    The only option is to curb it
    by tuning the EAP actuator.
[07:35] Rinko
    Those polymer muscles are last generation.
[07:39] Rinko
    Why don't you use CNT?
    Doing that will make it lighter, am I right?
[07:46] Rinko
    I'm sorry, Asuna, for being so rowdy.
[07:50] Asuna
    It's fine.
[07:52] Asuna
    I'm sure Kirito likes it better
    when it's lively around him.
[07:56] Higa
    We're building this thing
    at the old guy's request, too, 'kay?
[08:00] Asuna
    Mr. Kikuoka? Why would he...
[08:03] Rinko
    I don't have any idea how serious he is, either.
[08:07] Rinko
    If we're going to invite Fluctlights
    raised in the Underworld here,
[08:11] Rinko
    he says they're going to need bodies
    they can operate as well.
[08:15] Asuna
    Then you mean this robot
    is being built to house an AI?
[08:19] Higa
    No way. We're definitely not
    housing it in this thing, 'kay?
[08:22] Higa
    Other than Ichiemon, we have a second unit
    designed for an AI to test-pilot.
[08:26] Higa
    And it functions way better, 'kay?
[08:28] Asuna
    A second unit?
[08:30] Asuna
    And what would its name be?
[08:35] Higa
    Niemon, 'kay?
[08:37] Asuna
    'Kay— No, I mean... is that so?
[08:41] Asuna
    By the way, why would it function better
    if it's piloted by an AI?
[08:49] Rinko
    The human brain adjusts balance on its own.
[08:52] Rinko
    When you attempt
    to replicate that system mechanically,
[08:55] Rinko
    the body will balloon in size no matter what.
[09:00] Asuna
    So if its mind is an artificial Fluctlight,
[09:03] Asuna
    the auto-balancer would perform
    just like a human's.
[09:07] Higa
    Yes! And if that happens,
    we can create a near-perfect humanoid body.
[09:12] Higa
    Or so we hope.
[09:14] Higa
    But it's still just a pipe dream.
[09:17] Higa
    But Niemon back at the development department
    looks pretty human, or at least its silhouette does.
[09:23] Rinko
    If you're going to be so proud of it,
    show it to me, alread—
[09:26] Rinko
    This Niemon still can't walk autonomously yet, can it?
[09:30] Higa
    Well, of course not, 'kay?
[09:32] Higa
    It may have a CPU loaded,
    but the control program itself is empty.
[09:38] Rinko
    I see.
[09:39] Rinko
    Ms. Asuna?
[09:41] Rinko
    Are you going to have breakfast now?
[09:43] Asuna
    Oh, yes.
[09:44] Rinko
    Then let's go down to the cafeteria together.
[09:46] Rinko
    Since it seems like
    Higa will be eating here with Ichiemon.
[09:52] Higa
    Take your time, 'kay?
[10:06] Asuna
    See you later.
[10:26] Rinko
    What's the matter, Asuna?
[10:29] Asuna
    No, it's nothing!
[10:31] Rinko
    Okay.
SIGN    May 25, 380 in the time of the realm of humanity
    Central Cathedral Underground Prison
[10:53] Kirito
    I think it's been about a day and a half
    since we were put in here.
[10:58] Kirito
    So? Feeling a little calmer now?
[11:01] Eugeo
    Somehow, it all seems like a dream.
[11:04] Eugeo
    Me slicing off Humbert's arm...
[11:06] Eugeo
    Not to mention Raios ending up like that.
[11:09] Kirito
    Don't think too much on it.
[11:11] Kirito
    Right now, you should be thinking about
    what happens next.
[11:15] Eugeo
    What happens next?
[11:20] Eugeo
    You're absolutely right, Kirito.
[11:22] Eugeo
    We have to break out of this cell somehow,
    and find out what happened to Alice.
[11:27] Eugeo
    Yeah. There has to be a way out of here.
[11:33] Eugeo
    I wonder if Alice was locked up in here, too,
    eight years ago?
[11:37] Kirito
    I wonder. Maybe?
[11:40] Kirito
    Hey, Eugeo. I just want to make sure, okay?
[11:44] Kirito
    That Integrity Knight
    who called herself Alice Synthesis Thirty,
[11:48] Kirito
    there's no question
    that she's the Alice you've been searching for?
[11:52] Eugeo
    That voice... that golden hair
    and those deep blue eyes...
[11:56] Eugeo
    I could never forget them.
[11:58] Eugeo
    She just seemed like a totally different person.
[12:01] Kirito
    For a childhood friend,
    she sure didn't hold back when she clobbered you.
[12:05] Kirito
    Does that mean her memories or mind
    are being controlled somehow?
[12:11] Eugeo
    But I didn't find any sacred art spells like that
    in the textbooks.
[12:14] Kirito
    The church's higher-ranking priests
    can manipulate life, right?
[12:18] Kirito
    I bet they could easily control memories.
[12:21] Kirito
    But if that knight really was Alice,
    then what was that?
[12:27] Kirito
    Two years ago, in the northern cave of Rulid...
[12:31] Alice
    Kirito, Eugeo, I'll be waiting for you... always.
[12:38] Alice
    At the top of the Central Cathedral.
[12:44] Alice
    I'll always be waiting for you both.
[12:47] Eugeo
    Yeah... you told me.
[12:50] Eugeo
    That when you and Selka
    were trying to treat my wounds,
[12:53] Eugeo
    you heard a voice that sounded like Alice's.
[12:55] Kirito
    Waiting at the top of the Central Cathedral, huh?
[13:00] Kirito
    It's still so far away...
[13:09] Kirito
    That's right, do you think
    we can access our Stacia windows here?
[13:13] Eugeo
    We never tested that.
[13:15] Eugeo
    Let's try now.
[13:16] Kirito
    Okay.
[13:22] Kirito
    It appeared!
[13:27] Eugeo
    No wonder they won't budge
    no matter how hard we pull on them!
[13:31] Eugeo
    To break these chains, we're going to need a weapon
    or tool that's at least class 38 as well.
[13:40] Kirito
    I guess you're right.
[13:47] Eugeo
    No matter how hard you search, there's only the beds,
    water skins, and chains in here.
[13:53] Kirito
    Only the chains...
[14:01] Kirito
    No, that's not all. We have two of them.
[14:05] Kirito
    These damn chains.
[14:18] Eugeo
    Um, Kirito...
[14:20] Eugeo
    You're not actually thinking
    of pulling on them like this, are you?
[14:23] Kirito
    That's right.
[14:24] Kirito
    Since these two chains
    have identical priority levels,
[14:27] Kirito
    pulling on them
    with our Object Authority Control over 40
[14:32] Kirito
    should theoretically be the same
    as them wearing down each other one's life.
[14:36] Kirito
    Hold on tight, okay?
[14:43] Kirito
    Ready, set...
[14:47] Kirito
    All right!
[14:48] Eugeo
    Keep your voice down! The guard will wake up!
[15:00] Kirito
    All right, let's go.
[15:04] Kirito/Eugeo
    - Ready, set...
    - Ready, set...
[15:12] Eugeo
    That knocked at least 100 off my life!
[15:16] Kirito
    Well, isn't that a small price to pay?
[15:19] Kirito
    Here, look.
[15:25] Eugeo
    Now then.
[15:29] Kirito
    I'm going to ask to be sure,
    but you're okay with this, right?
[15:33] Kirito
    Eugeo, if we escape from this cell
    and start searching for the truth about Alice,
[15:38] Kirito
    we'll be directly defying the Axiom Church.
[15:42] Kirito
    From now on, there'll be no time to feel conflicted
    every time we take action.
[15:47] Kirito
    If you can't prepare yourself for that now,
[15:51] Kirito
    you're better off staying behind.
[15:54] Eugeo
    Yeah. I know.
[15:57] Eugeo
    But I've already made up my mind.
[15:58] Eugeo
    To even defy the Axiom Church,
    if it means that I can go back to Rulid Village with Alice.
[16:04] Eugeo
    To draw my sword and fight, again and again,
    if that's what it takes.
[16:07] Eugeo
    If that Integrity Knight is the real Alice,
[16:10] Eugeo
    I'm going to find out why she lost her memories,
    and turn her back into who she was before.
[16:15] Eugeo
    That's the most important thing to me.
[16:18] Eugeo
    That day we went into the woods with Ronie and Tiese,
    you said so yourself, Kirito.
[16:22] Eugeo
    That there are things we have to do
    even if they're against the law.
[16:27] Eugeo
    I finally understand what you meant now.
[16:31] Kirito
    I see.
[16:37] Kirito
    Your resolve... couldn't be more clear.
[16:55] Kirito
    All right. Let's make a run for it
    before the guard comes.
[17:46] Kirito
    I think we should be okay now.
[17:48] Eugeo
    Kirito, these are...
[17:50] Kirito
    Wh-What? What's wrong?
[17:52] Eugeo
    I've never seen any before...
[17:55] Eugeo
    but I'm positive.
[17:56] Eugeo
    These are... roses, Kirito.
[17:59] Kirito
    Roses?
[18:03] Kirito
    Are you serious?
[18:04] Kirito
    All of these flowers growing in this labyrinth?
[18:06] Eugeo
    For there to be so many precious roses here...
[18:10] Eugeo
    Even now, I just can't believe any of this.
[18:13] Eugeo
    You and I are in the Central Cathedral.
[18:17] Kirito
    Well, not as Integrity Knights like we planned,
    but as escaped prisoners.
[18:22] Eugeo
    But this might've been the right thing all along.
[18:25] Eugeo
    Since if we'd become Integrity Knights,
    we might've ended up like Alice, too.
[18:29] Kirito
    They could've controlled our memories, too, huh?
[18:33] Kirito
    But if that's true of all Integrity Knights,
[18:37] Kirito
    who do they think they are, I wonder?
[18:41] Eugeo
    I don't know.
[18:42] Kirito
    In other words, even if those knights' memories
    have been sealed away,
[18:46] Kirito
    they should know things like who their parents are,
    and where they were born, right?
[18:50] Kirito
    After all, that's the fundamental root
    of being human.
[18:54] Kirito
    That's why I think it would be hard
    to fake knowledge like that.
[18:57] Eugeo
    Right, those knights can easily go anywhere
    in the human realm on their flying dragons.
[19:02] Eugeo
    Even if the memories of their real birthplace
    were sealed away and replaced with fake ones,
[19:07] Eugeo
    once they actually visited their hometowns,
    they'd know right away that it was a lie.
[19:14] Kirito
    I see.
[19:19] Kirito
    You!
[19:21] Kirito
    You just realized we might find a way
    to restore my memories in this tower, didn't you?
[19:25] Eugeo
    Uh, n-no, I...
[19:30] Kirito
    Come on now!
[19:32] Eugeo
    Wha— Stop that, Kirito!
[19:34] Kirito
    You're still such a worrywart! I told you.
[19:38] Kirito
    Whether I get my memories back or not,
    I'll be with you on this journey till the end.
[19:44] Eugeo
    Don't treat me like a kid.
[19:47] Eugeo
    It's not like I'm doubting your word.
[19:50] Eugeo
    I mean, you've said it so many times.
[19:53] Eugeo
    But when I think about how our journey
    might be coming to an end, somehow...
[20:00] Kirito
    If it's going to end anyway,
    let's make it a happy... no...
[20:05] Kirito
    Let's end it on a blissful note.
[20:08] Kirito
    You're going to restore Alice's memories,
    and go home to Rulid with her.
[20:13] Kirito
    Hey, but in that case,
    you'll have to choose another Calling, right?
[20:18] Kirito
    You should start thinking about that now.
    Since the next one might last the rest of your life.
[20:23] Eugeo
    I think you're getting ahead of yourself.
[20:26] Eugeo
    Well, but either way,
    I've had it with being a woodcutter!
[20:30] Kirito
    I don't doubt it!
[20:32] Kirito
    All right, let's go.
[20:45] Eldrie
    As expected.
[20:47] Eldrie
    My mentor, Lady Alice is very perceptive.
[20:50] Eldrie
    After all, she predicted the very unlikely escape
    of our prisoners.
[20:56] Kirito
    "My mentor"?
[20:57] Eldrie
    Anticipating that you would break out,
    I was ordered to spend the night here.
[21:03] Eldrie
    To be honest, I was extremely skeptical,
    but for you to really show up...
[21:14] Eugeo
    An Integrity Knight!
[21:16] Kirito
    Lady Alice? "My mentor"?
[21:18] Eldrie
    Needless to say, I will be sending you back
    to the underground prison,
[21:22] Eldrie
    but first, it looks like
    I'll have to administer some harsh punishment.
[21:28] Eldrie
    I'm sure you two are prepared for that.
[21:31] Kirito
    Then you must also be prepared for us
    not to take that punishment without a fight, right?
[21:42] Eldrie
    So spirited!
[21:43] Eldrie
    Out of respect for your bravado,
    I shall tell you my name.
[21:50] Eldrie
    I am Integrity Knight Eldrie Synthesis Thirty-One.
[21:55] Eldrie
    As I was summoned a mere month ago,
[21:58] Eldrie
    I am just a novice,
    without my own territory...
[22:02] Eldrie
    Perhaps you'll be so kind as to forgive that?
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The Sage of the Library.

E12 - The Sage of the Library

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[00:03] ---
    Eldrie?
[00:04] ---
    I've heard that name...
[00:06] ---
    Eugeo.
[00:08] ---
    We're going to fight him.
    I'll face him first,
[00:11] ---
    and you wait for my signal.
[00:13] ---
    All right.
[00:16] ---
    You're going to use those chains
    as your weapons?
[00:19] ---
    Then let me fight not with my sword,
    but with this instead.
[00:24] ---
    System Call! Enhance Armament!
[00:29] ---
    Don't worry.
[00:30] ---
    If it's a whip, as long as
    we keep an eye on the distance...
[00:34] ---
    ...it can't possib—
[00:37] ---
    It extended?
[00:42] ---
    Ah, so you managed to withstand a blow
    from my Divine Object, the Frostscale Whip at first sight?
[00:47] ---
    Kirito!
[00:49] ---
    These class-38 chains...
[00:51] ---
    Eugeo. I'll find a way to stop his whip,
    so you strike him.
[00:58] ---
    Are you done discussing, prisoners?
[01:01] ---
    Now then... try to keep me
    at least somewhat entertained!
[02:36] ---
    The Sage of the Library
[02:44] ---
    System Call!
[02:46] ---
    Generate Thermal Element!
[02:49] ---
    Generate Cryogenic Element.
[02:54] ---
    Form Element, Arrow Shape!
[02:57] ---
    Form Element, Bird Shape.
[03:00] ---
    Counter Thermal Object.
[03:04] ---
    Discharge!
[03:06] ---
    Discharge.
[03:30] ---
    Did I overestimate you after all?
[03:32] ---
    Allow me to show you some mercy.
[03:35] ---
    I'll knock you unconsciousness quickly.
[03:49] ---
    Not done yet!
[03:54] ---
    Perhaps I should take back what I said
    about underestimating you?
[03:58] ---
    To think you could inflict such a wound on me!
[04:02] ---
    Thanks, I guess.
[04:04] ---
    Still, that move... that combat style...
    Strangely enough, it seems familiar to me...
[04:11] ---
    Oh yeah? Then maybe you've fought a swordsman
    of the Serlut style before.
[04:17] ---
    That's not possible, prisoner.
[04:20] ---
    I was summoned to the human realm
    as an Integrity Knight only one month ago.
[04:25] ---
    This summoning...
[04:28] ---
    It sounds like somebody ordered you
    to come to this human realm.
[04:47] ---
    Release Recollection.
[05:03] ---
    No wonder Lady Alice was cautious of you.
[05:06] ---
    That attack has no form or anything,
    but that's why it exceeded my expectations.
[05:11] ---
    To think that you made me use
    my secret skill, Memory Release!
[05:16] ---
    Now I remember.
[05:18] ---
    From the start, I knew I'd heard that name before.
[05:22] ---
    You were this year's Norlangarth North Empire
    top representative swordsman,
[05:26] ---
    and the winner
    of the Four-Empire Unification Tournament...
[05:31] ---
    Eldrie Woolsburg.
[05:33] ---
    Me, the North Empire representative swordsman?
[05:37] ---
    Eldrie Woolsburg...
[05:40] ---
    That's right.
[05:41] ---
    If I remember correctly, you won every match
    with a single point using your graceful sword skills.
[05:46] ---
    What are you talking about?
[05:48] ---
    I'm the Integrity Knight
    Eldrie Synthesis Thirty-One!
[05:52] ---
    I've never heard it! The name Woolsburg!
[05:55] ---
    But...
[05:56] ---
    Never heard of it!
    I... I've never heard of it.
[06:00] ---
    I... was invited by the pontifex, Administrator
[06:05] ---
    to descend upon this land from the heavens
    as an Integrity Knight!
[06:24] ---
    Wh-What just...
[06:29] ---
    Did Alice lose her memories
    and change personalities because of that?
[06:35] ---
    Eldrie!
[06:36] ---
    Eldrie Woolsburg!
[06:40] ---
    Eugeo, do you know anything else?
[06:42] ---
    It can be anything.
    You have to revive more of his memories!
[06:46] ---
    Eldrie!
[06:48] ---
    You're the son of the general
    of the Imperial Knight Order, Eschdor Woolsburg!
[06:52] ---
    Your mother's name is... I think... Almera?
[06:56] ---
    Right, it's Almera!
[06:58] ---
    Al... me... ra.
[07:05] ---
    Mo... ther.
[07:09] ---
    That's right, remember...
[07:11] ---
    ...everything!
[07:14] ---
    Kirito!
[07:28] ---
    Kirito!
[07:29] ---
    You criminals. Step away from Knight Thirty-One!
[07:33] ---
    You won't be forgiven for the sin of tempting
    a brilliant Integrity Knight to fall from grace.
[07:39] ---
    After piercing all four of your limbs,
    I shall throw you back into your cell!
[07:44] ---
    Run!
[07:52] ---
    A fork in the road.
[07:54] ---
    Go right!
[07:56] ---
    Eugeo, go right!
[08:05] ---
    Kirito! Up ahead!
[08:07] ---
    It's a dead end!
[08:09] ---
    Hey!
[08:10] ---
    This way!
[08:12] ---
    Dive!
[08:30] ---
    Ouch!
[08:34] ---
    Where are we?
[08:38] ---
    We've been detected.
    Can't use this back door anymore.
[08:54] ---
    Um, thank you for rescuing us. Uh...
[08:58] ---
    It's nice to meet you. I'm Eugeo.
[09:00] ---
    H-Hey!
[09:01] ---
    And this is Kirito.
[09:08] ---
    Thanks. You saved us.
[09:10] ---
    Um, do you live here?
[09:13] ---
    Of course not.
[09:16] ---
    Come with me.
[09:21] ---
    Is this inside the Central Cathedral now?
[09:25] ---
    You could say that it is.
    You could also say that it isn't.
[09:28] ---
    As I've deleted the regular door,
    although this place exists inside the cathedral,
[09:34] ---
    no one is able to enter.
[09:38] ---
    Unless it's at my invitation.
[09:53] ---
    A great... library?
[09:55] ---
    Indeed.
[09:56] ---
    The records of all history,
[09:59] ---
    and the structural formulae of all things under the heavens
    since this world was created,
[10:03] ---
    as well as every system command,
    or what you call the sacred arts, are stored here.
[10:09] ---
    Wh-Who are you, exactly?
[10:12] ---
    My name is Cardinal.
[10:15] ---
    I was once the regulator of the world,
[10:17] ---
    now I am the sole librarian of this great library.
[10:23] ---
    All history?
[10:24] ---
    Yes. Even the creation account
    from when the gods Stacia and Vecta
[10:28] ---
    divided the world into the realm of humanity
    and the realm of darkness are recorded here.
[10:34] ---
    You may read them if you wish.
[10:37] ---
    But first, both of you hold out your right hands.
[10:45] ---
    There.
[10:52] ---
    Are you okay, Eugeo?
[10:53] ---
    Yeah.
[10:58] ---
    Looks like you need to warm yourself up.
[11:02] ---
    It's not spacious, but beyond that corridor,
    there's a bathroom. Go on now.
[11:06] ---
    Thank you.
    I'll gladly accept your kind offer.
[11:10] ---
    Also, Ms. Cardinal...
[11:13] ---
    Um, well...
[11:17] ---
    Beyond those stairs is the history gallery.
[11:20] ---
    I'll get you something to eat after you bathe.
[11:23] ---
    Thank you very much!
[11:25] ---
    Please excuse me for a bit.
[11:33] ---
    Although the records here were, unfortunately,
    fabricated by the pontifex of the Axiom Church.
[11:40] ---
    So no gods exist in this world, then?
[11:44] ---
    None.
[11:46] ---
    The myths that
    the Underworld people believe in
[11:49] ---
    are merely the propaganda spun by the church
    to cement its rule.
[11:54] ---
    Although the names of the gods have been registered
    as super accounts for emergencies,
[11:59] ---
    no human from the outside world
    has logged in through that.
[12:04] ---
    So you're not a resident of the Underworld.
[12:08] ---
    You're an existence close to the system supervisors
    from the outside world!
[12:13] ---
    Indeed. And you're the same as well, right?
[12:17] ---
    Unregistered resident Kirito.
[12:20] ---
    Yeah, that's right.
[12:22] ---
    The name of the people
    who created the Underworld is Rath. Am I right?
[12:27] ---
    Indeed.
[12:28] ---
    And you're the Cardinal System.
[12:31] ---
    An autonomous program
    to control the virtual world.
[12:34] ---
    Oh? So you know about that?
[12:37] ---
    Have you contacted my counterparts
    on the other side?
[12:41] ---
    Well, yeah.
[12:43] ---
    But as far I know, the Cardinal System never had
    an anthropomorphic interface built in.
[12:51] ---
    So what kind of an existence are you?
[12:53] ---
    What are you doing here?
[12:58] ---
    Let me be as succinct as possible.
[13:02] ---
    First, eat.
[13:07] ---
    Since I've cast a spell on it,
    those wounds will heal soon, too.
[13:11] ---
    Wow, no wonder you're the supervisor.
[13:14] ---
    I'm not the supervisor.
[13:16] ---
    I can only manipulate the objects in this library.
[13:21] ---
    Oh, can you get in contact with the real world?
[13:25] ---
    Idiot! If I could, I wouldn't be confined
    inside a dusty place like this for centuries.
[13:31] ---
    Unfortunately, the only one
    who has the means to do that is the pontifex.
[13:35] ---
    I-Is that right?
[13:37] ---
    There!
[13:44] ---
    A moment ago,
    I told you that no gods exist in this world.
[13:48] ---
    But when this world was created
    some 450 years ago,
[13:53] ---
    something similar did exist.
[13:56] ---
    Back when the capital city, Centoria,
    was no more than a tiny village, there were four Gods.
[14:02] ---
    I bet they were humans,
    the Rath staff who built this world, right?
[14:07] ---
    It's as you say.
[14:08] ---
    Four people from the outside world
    descended upon this land,
[14:11] ---
    and raised eight "children" each on two farms.
[14:15] ---
    From reading and writing,
[14:17] ---
    and how to raise crops,
[14:19] ---
    from how to raise livestock...
[14:21] ---
    Until they arrived at what would become the basis
    for the Taboo Index, the ethics of morality.
[14:26] ---
    From the way the "Original Four" fulfilled
    the difficult mission they were given splendidly,
[14:31] ---
    it's obvious that as humans,
    they had intelligence of the highest order.
[14:36] ---
    But...
[14:37] ---
    There was just one among them who,
    though highly intelligent, was unethical.
[14:42] ---
    And the children of this person inherited selfish desires,
    such as the thirst to possess and rule.
[14:49] ---
    And it was those children
    who became the ancestors.
[14:51] ---
    Of the nobles, and of the high ministers
    of the Axiom Church.
[14:57] ---
    And reigning over them all
    is a single woman, the pontifex of the Axiom Church,
[15:02] ---
    who is now the system supervisor as well.
[15:07] ---
    She calls herself "Administrator,"
    the most arrogant name imaginable.
[15:11] ---
    That name...
[15:13] ---
    The Integrity Knight Eldrie said that name, too.
[15:16] ---
    I think he said something like,
    "I was summoned by the pontifex Administrator."
[15:21] ---
    That's exactly who I've been talking about.
[15:25] ---
    And though it's disgusting,
    this Administrator is my elder twin sister, so to speak.
[15:32] ---
    Wh-What do you mean by that?
[15:33] ---
    I'll tell you the story in order.
[15:35] ---
    Several decades after the "Original Four"'
    had logged out,
[15:38] ---
    the first political marriage
    between two families of lords was orchestrated,
[15:44] ---
    and a baby girl was born from that union.
[15:50] ---
    Her name was Quinella.
[15:54] ---
    My daughter, Quinella.
[15:56] ---
    I grant you the Calling, "sacred arts research."
[16:00] ---
    I gratefully accept, Father.
[16:06] ---
    System Call.
[16:08] ---
    No one else realizes it,
    but sacred words each have their own meaning.
[16:13] ---
    "Call" means to summon.
[16:15] ---
    "Generate" means to produce.
[16:21] ---
    Over here!
[16:33] ---
    System Call. Generate Thermal Element.
[16:37] ---
    Form Element, Arrow Shape. Fly Straight.
[16:41] ---
    Discharge!
[17:00] ---
    Lady Quinella, I beg you to heal his legs!
[17:04] ---
    Very well.
[17:07] ---
    System Call. Generate Luminous Element.
[17:11] ---
    Form Element, Liquid Shape.
[17:20] ---
    She's a child of God!
[17:22] ---
    Surely, Lady Quinella
    is the holy child of the god Stacia!
[17:25] ---
    Lady Quinella!
[17:28] ---
    Even as a gentle smile was on her face,
[17:31] ---
    Quinella knew that the time had come
    for her to fully sate her endless thirst to rule.
[17:41] ---
    Soon, we will have a place to pray to the gods.
[17:53] ---
    In order to rule over the ever-growing masses,
    I will need a written law.
[17:59] ---
    First, to ensure that no one with a higher
    authority level than mine will ever appear,
[18:03] ---
    I must make hunting taboo.
[18:06] ---
    As well as murder.
[18:14] ---
    Lady Quinella, you wanted to see me?
[18:16] ---
    This is a holy book,
    a compilation of the god Stacia's oracle.
[18:21] ---
    It is called the Taboo Index.
[18:23] ---
    Replicate it, distribute it to every town and village,
    and have the people obey it.
[18:29] ---
    Yes, ma'am.
[19:01] ---
    System Call.
[19:04] ---
    Open List.
[19:06] ---
    System Call.
[19:09] ---
    Read List.
[19:23] ---
    System Call.
[19:26] ---
    Inspect List.
[19:31] ---
    And then, Quinella opened it at last.
[19:36] ---
    The Forbidden Door, that is.
[19:41] ---
    Either by way of an impossible coincidence,
[19:44] ---
    or perhaps with a little help
    from someone from the outside world...
[19:49] ---
    Let me show you.
[19:51] ---
    System Call!
[19:52] ---
    Inspect Entire Command List!
[19:57] ---
    This is...
[19:59] ---
    Yes. Displayed in this window
    is the entire catalogue of system commands.
[20:05] ---
    Quinella's first action was to completely
    restore her life, and halt its natural decline.
[20:11] ---
    And then restore her looks.
[20:15] ---
    She regained the dazzling beauty
    of her late teens.
[20:25] ---
    She should've been satisfied at that point.
[20:28] ---
    But...
[20:30] ---
    For Quinella, there could be no one else
    who had authority equal to hers...
[20:35] ---
    She couldn't even tolerate the existence
    of the Cardinal System.
[20:39] ---
    Plotting to seize
    the Cardinal System's authority level,
[20:43] ---
    she composed a lengthy sacred art command
    and recited it.
[20:47] ---
    As a result...
[20:50] ---
    She burned the fundamental command
    assigned to the Cardinal System
[20:54] ---
    onto her own Fluctlight
    as a non-editable behavioral principle.
[20:59] ---
    Her intent was to steal its authority level,
    but she ended up fusing her soul with the Cardinal System.
[21:07] ---
    Preservation of Order.
[21:09] ---
    That is the basic command of the Cardinal System,
    and reason of existing.
[21:13] ---
    As someone who spent time in a world controlled
    by the same system, you should understand.
[21:19] ---
    Constantly observing
    the actions of you, "the players,"
[21:22] ---
    and deal with anything that skews the balance
    as soon as its detected, mercilessly.
[21:33] ---
    Quinella had lost consciousness,
    and awakened after she slept for an entire day.
[21:38] ---
    By that time, she'd ceased to be human
    in any sense of the word.
[21:44] ---
    No longer aging,
    drinking no water, eating no bread...
[21:47] ---
    Her only desire was to preserve this human realm
    that she ruled, as it currently was, forever.
[21:54] ---
    I am both ruler and supervisor...
[21:57] ---
    As of today, I am the pontifex of the Axiom Church...
[22:02] ---
    I am Administrator.
[23:36] ---
    Next time: Ruler and Mediator.

E13 - Ruler and Mediator

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SIGN    Under the rule of the absolute Administrator,
    this world entered a long period of peace and idleness.
SIGN    But 70 years after Quinella became Administrator,
SIGN    she became aware
    that she had undergone some kind of change.
SIGN    To her astonishment, her soul's capacity
    for preserving her memories had reached its limit.
SIGN    But this only drove her to come up
    with yet another demonic solution.
[00:40] Quinella
    I appreciate your coming here.
[00:43] Quinella
    Now, this way.
[00:45] Liserice
    Yes, ma'am.
[00:48] Quinella
    If I can copy my own Fluctlight's thoughts
    and memories by overwriting this child's Fluctlight...
[00:55] Quinella
    Close your eyes.
SIGN    And so Administrator,
    through this diabolical ceremony...
SIGN    the Synthesis Ritual, a secret technique
    signifying the fusing of soul and memory,
SIGN    finally succeeded in seizing control
    of another's Fluctlight.
SIGN    But that ended up being Administrator's...
    no, Quinella's mistake.
[01:21] Kirito
    Mistake?
SIGN    That's right.
SIGN    Because after she'd taken over the young girl, for the split second that she disposed of her previous self,
SIGN    she and the girl had become two gods wielding equal authority.
SIGN    Kirito, you're familiar with my original version, are you not?
SIGN    Tell me the features of the Cardinal System.
[01:42] Kirito
    Um...
[01:44] Kirito
    To operate over an extended period of time
    without any adjustments or maintenance by humans?
SIGN    Correct.
SIGN    To achieve that, the Cardinal System has two core programs, a main and sub.
SIGN    While the main process performs balance controls...
[02:01] Kirito
    The subprocess does an error-check of the main.
SIGN    That's right.
SIGN    It wasn't just the preservation of order
    Quinella had etched into her own Fluctlight.
SIGN    Deep inside her soul, I had this thought as her subprocess...
SIGN    "I must correct this woman's errors."
SIGN    I... I steadfastly waited for that moment.
SIGN    For 70 long years!
SIGN    Ruler and Mediator
[04:12] Administrator
    And now, this child's Fluctlight is mine.
[04:16] Liserice
    System Call.
[04:19] Liserice
    Generate Luminous Element.
[04:21] Liserice
    Lightning Shape.
[04:23] Liserice
    Discharge!
[04:24] Administrator
    What?
[04:27] Liserice
    System Call!
[04:30] Liserice
    Generate Luminous Element!
[04:32] Administrator
    System Call! Generate Umbra Element. Ball Shape!
[04:37] Administrator
    - Discharge!
    - Discharge!
[04:41] Administrator
    System Call! Redefinition Object!
[04:46] Administrator
    Sword Class!
[04:48] Liserice
    System Call. Redefinition Object! Rod Class!
[04:53] Administrator
    System Call! Change Field Attribution!
[05:00] Liserice
    Impossible.
[05:01] Liserice
    She made this a restricted area
    for System Commands?
[05:19] Liserice
    I can't defeat her in this body.
[05:35] Liserice
    System Call! Generate Aerial Element!
[05:39] Liserice
    Stream Shape!
[05:43] Liserice
    There are just two locations in this world
    that even Administrator can't control.
[05:49] Liserice
    One is the other side of the End Mountains.
[05:53] Liserice
    And the other is...
[05:57] Liserice
    System Call!
[05:59] Liserice
    Generate Blizzard Gate... Zero One!
[06:04] Liserice
    ...the Great Library!
SIGN    In that instant, this place was completely isolated
    from the outside world.
SIGN    In the 200 years since, I immersed myself
    in nothing but observation and deliberation,
SIGN    working on a plan that would allow me
    to strike back against Administrator.
SIGN    But she anticipated my ambush
    and assembled a retinue of loyal and powerful followers.
[06:34] Administrator
    Through the Synthesis Ritual,
    this man will be reborn.
[06:38] Administrator
    As the ultimate warrior,
    a Integrity Knight swearing absolute fealty!
SIGN    The first to become an Integrity Knight
SIGN    was a true hero known as an extraordinary swordsman
    who hated the church's rule,
SIGN    who, with his comrades, made his way
    to a remote region and founded his own village.
SIGN    The name of that knight was Bercouli Synthesis One.
SIGN    Administrator and I are nearly on equal footing in one-on-one combat.
SIGN    But with the situation changed, it became clear that I also needed a collaborator.
SIGN    I tried to find that collaborator, no matter the risk.
SIGN    Each time, I would open a door as far away as possible,
SIGN    I would cast Sensory Sharing and other arts onto the nearby birds and insects,
SIGN    and release them all over the world.
SIGN    See.
SIGN    Her name is Charlotte.
SIGN    She's been observing the two of you ever since you left Rulid Village.
SIGN    From time to time, she did more than just watch.
[07:53] Kirito
    She guided us when we were running
    from the Integrity Knight?
[07:57] Kirito
    Th-That's right!
[07:59] Kirito
    When all my zephilia buds were cut off,
    was it you who encouraged me?
SIGN    Charlotte's the most ancient of the observation units that I enchanted and released into the world.
SIGN    Her long, long mission is finally coming to an end, now, eh?
SIGN    Since I froze the degradation of her life, I've had her working for me for more than 200 years.
[08:25] Kirito
    Thank you.
[08:28] Kirito
    So you've been searching for a human collaborator
    while barricaded in this Great Library for over 200 years?
SIGN    Indeed. But as I observed this world, even I couldn't figure it out.
SIGN    Why would the gods of the outside world turn a blind eye to the tyranny of this fake god, Administrator?
SIGN    As I pondered, and referred to the database stored inside the Cardinal System,
SIGN    I arrived at one conclusion.
SIGN    That the true god, Rath, doesn't wish for the people of this world to lead happy lives.
SIGN    Quite the opposite, in fact.
SIGN    They're observing how the people will resist as they slowly tighten a vise about them.
SIGN    That load is increasing by the day,
SIGN    until eventually, the greatest trial of all, the final phase of the load test will arrive.
[09:27] Kirito
    Final phase?
SIGN    You know it well yourself... what lies outside the realm of humanity.
[09:34] Kirito
    The Dark Territory.
SIGN    Correct. That world of darkness was created to subject the people to the ultimate agony.
SIGN    The monsters who have Fluctlights like humans, except for their greater impulse to slaughter and plunder.
SIGN    They can hardly wait to invade the realm of humanity, and commit atrocity upon atrocity.
SIGN    Most likely, that day isn't too far off.
[10:01] Kirito
    Is Administrator aware of that?
SIGN    She underestimates the forces of darkness,
SIGN    convinced that she and her Integrity Knights alone can repulse them.
SIGN    She even had the guardian dragons of the north, south, east, and west slain,
SIGN    despite their valuable fighting power, because she couldn't exert control over them.
SIGN    But it's not possible for them to defeat the forces of darkness on their own.
SIGN    Their overall numbers are too few.
[10:28] Kirito
    But doesn't that mean
    that whether or not you defeat Administrator,
[10:33] Kirito
    the path this world is destined to take
    will stay the same?
SIGN    That's correct.
SIGN    At this point, I have no way of stopping the invasion from the Dark Territory.
[10:45] Kirito
    In other words, once you've attained your objective,
[10:49] Kirito
    you couldn't care less
    what happens to this world afterwards?
[10:52] Kirito
    Is that what you're saying? Cardinal?
SIGN    Perhaps I am.
SIGN    However, I...
SIGN    For having engineered the end of the world...
SIGN    I will never accept a god like Rath!
SIGN    Therefore, I arrived at the only possible conclusion.
SIGN    That I would return the Underworld, both the human realm and the Dark Territory, to nothingness.
[11:21] Kirito
    Return it... to nothingness?
SIGN    Just what I said.
SIGN    I'm going to delete every Fluctlight stored in the Lightcube Cluster.
SIGN    Of every last resident of both the realms of humanity and darkness.
SIGN    Kirito.
SIGN    If, with your help, I'm able to eliminate Administrator,
    and regain all my authority,
SIGN    then, before I extinguish this world,
    I'll grant you a wish, to a degree.
SIGN    If there are people you'd like to save,
SIGN    I won't delete their Fluctlights,
    and leave them archived instead.
SIGN    I believe it should be possible, after you've escaped to the outside world,
SIGN    for you to secure the Lightcubes of ten or so.
[12:11] Kirito
    I... I...
[12:14] Kirito
    Cardinal.
[12:15] Kirito
    You just told me that your soul
    was a copy of Quinella's, right?
[12:20] Kirito
    Then that means that the pure blood of the nobles
    flows in your veins as well.
[12:25] Kirito
    The genes of those
    who seek their own profit and desires.
[12:29] Kirito
    So why didn't you abandon everything
    and try to escape?
[12:34] Kirito
    Why would you continue to wait alone
    in a place like this for 200 years?
SIGN    For me, as the Cardinal subprocess, all profit and all desires amount to just one thing.
SIGN    Eliminating Administrator and normalizing the world.
SIGN    In my eyes, a normalized world is no longer possible unless it's returned to complete nothingness.
SIGN    Therefore... Therefore, I...
SIGN    No, perhaps I'm wrong.
SIGN    Even I have a desire. Just one...
SIGN    In the last 200 years, there was something I was desperate to know.
SIGN    Hey, Kirito. Stand up, too.
SIGN    That should do it.
SIGN    Hey, Kirito, come over here.
SIGN    Come closer.
SIGN    No complaining.
SIGN    Raise both arms.
[13:42] Kirito
    Like this?
SIGN    Hold them in front of you and make a circle.
SIGN    Really! Do I have to spell it out for you?
SIGN    I see. So this is...
SIGN    This is what it means to be human, huh?
SIGN    So warm.
SIGN    At last, I feel rewarded.
SIGN    Those 200 years I spent weren't in vain.
SIGN    Just discovering this warmth
    is enough to satisfy me.
SIGN    I feel rewarded... more than enough.
SIGN    How long are you planning to stand there in a daze?
[14:43] Kirito
    No way.
SIGN    So? Have you made a decision?
SIGN    Are you going to accept my proposal, or reject it?
[14:54] Kirito
    All right.
[14:55] Kirito
    I'll take part in your plan. But...
[14:59] Kirito
    But I'm not going to stop thinking about it.
[15:03] Kirito
    I'm going to keep searching for a way.
[15:06] Kirito
    A solution to somehow avoid tragedy
    and allow this world to survive peacefully.
SIGN    Geez, what an absurdly optimistic person you are.
[15:15] Kirito
    After all, I don't want you to disappear, either.
[15:20] Kirito
    When you tell me to pick ten people,
    you'll definitely be among them.
SIGN    And you're also a fool.
SIGN    Who's going to extinguish this world if I escape?
[15:34] Kirito
    Hey, I'm just saying that I understand the situation,
    but I won't give up on struggling in vain!
SIGN    One day, you too will know the bitterness of giving up.
SIGN    Not of coming up short after giving your all,
SIGN    but of being forced to accept the likelihood that you'll fail.
[16:06] Kirito
    Thanks for waiting!
[16:08] Kirito
    Sorry we left you on your own.
[16:09] Eugeo
    Kirito! And also, um...
[16:13] Kirito
    Yeah, this person, Cardinal was banished
    by the current pontifex, Administrator,
[16:20] Kirito
    and she used to be another pontifex.
[16:22] Eugeo
    Pontifex?
[16:24] Kirito
    She's going to help us fight the Integrity Knights.
[16:28] Eugeo
    H-Help?
[16:29] Kirito
    Yeah, she has a goal to defeat Administrator
    and regain her status as pontifex.
[16:36] Kirito
    So... well, I guess that means we're joining forces.
SIGN    Indeed.
[16:41] Eugeo
    Then do you know if Alice...
    the Integrity Knight, Alice Synthesis Thirty,
[16:46] Eugeo
    is the same person
    as Alice Zuberg from Rulid?
SIGN    I'm sorry, but the information I can access here is extremely limited.
SIGN    I do know that an Integrity Knight named Alice was indeed born, but...
SIGN    However, what I can do is tell you how to reverse the Synthesis Ritual for producing Integrity Knights.
[17:08] Eugeo
    How do we do that?
SIGN    Simply remove the Piety Module embedded in their foreheads.
SIGN    It looks like a triangular prism.
[17:18] Eugeo
    Like the one we saw...
SIGN    The Piety Module is inserted in a way that blocks links to memories.
SIGN    This seals away the past of the person becoming an Integrity Knight,
SIGN    while simultaneously forcing absolute fealty to the Axiom Church and the pontifex.
[17:35] Kirito
    In other words, to break the spell we have to
    jog the Integrity Knight's memories of their past, huh?
SIGN    That alone wouldn't be enough.
SIGN    There's one more thing that's absolutely necessary.
[17:46] Eugeo
    Wh-What's that?
SIGN    What originally existed where the module's been embedded.
SIGN    In other words, the memory fragment most valued by the Integrity Knight.
SIGN    Administrator's a cautious woman.
SIGN    The memory fragments extracted from these knights are without a doubt stored in her chambers...
SIGN    on the top floor of the Central Cathedral.
[18:11] Kirito
    You mean...
[18:13] Kirito
    to restore an Integrity Knight to their former state,
    we'll need the stolen memory fragment.
[18:18] Kirito
    But to get our hands on it,
    we'll have to breach the knights' defenses
[18:22] Kirito
    and somehow make our way to the top floor
    where Administrator is.
SIGN    Don't be so naive as to think you can
    defeat an Integrity Knight without killing them.
SIGN    The most I can do for you is to provide you with equipment equal to that of the Integrity Knights.
SIGN    The rest depends on whether you're able to fight your best.
[18:45] Eugeo
    But what if Alice is the one who shows up?
[18:48] Eugeo
    I can't bring myself to fight her.
[18:49] Eugeo
    I came all this way to get Alice back!
SIGN    Indeed. You have a point.
SIGN    Eugeo, I understand your goal.
SIGN    Fine. Should Integrity Knight Alice be the one standing in your way, then use this.
[19:11] Kirito
    What is it?
SIGN    Whoever is stabbed with this dagger will be linked to me by an inseverable connection.
SIGN    Meaning that any sacred arts I use will affect her without fail.
SIGN    Eugeo, use this to stab anywhere on Integrity Knight Alice's body.
SIGN    In that instant, I'll send Alice into a deep sleep using my sacred arts.
SIGN    Until you've regained her memories and are prepared to remove the Synthesis.
[19:39] Eugeo
    Understood.
    If I can't talk sense into Alice, I'll use this.
SIGN    I originally created it to use against Administrator,
SIGN    and kept another one as a spare, but well... if you can succeed on your first try, it should be fine.
[19:55] Kirito
    That's a huge responsibility.
[19:58] Kirito
    What you just said, "equipment equal to that
    of the Integrity Knights," did you mean...
SIGN    You and Eugeo have your own powerful swords, don't you?
SIGN    I'm going to help you get them back.
[20:10] Eugeo
    You mean my Blue Rose Sword
    and Kirito's black one?
SIGN    I'm quite certain that your swords are being stored in the armory on the third floor of the cathedral.
[20:21] Kirito
    By the way,
    what floor are Administrator's chambers on?
SIGN    The Central Cathedral grows by the year, so...
SIGN    it should've reached 100 floors by now.
SIGN    Unfortunately, there's one more thing you need to do.
[20:39] Kirito
    Wh-What is it?
SIGN    I know you two have powerful swords,
SIGN    but that alone won't be enough to bring down the Integrity Knights.
SIGN    That's because they have the terrifying technique of amplifying their weapons' abilities multiple times.
[20:52] Eugeo
    Do you mean the Perfect Weapon Control Art?
SIGN    Weapons of the Divine Object class take on the properties of the object they're fashioned from.
SIGN    By fully releasing a weapon's memories, so to speak,
SIGN    the Perfect Control Art realizes offensive powers more potent than normally possible.
SIGN    Both of you close your eyes and think of your sword.
SIGN    All right, that's enough.
SIGN    There.
SIGN    Memorize that thoroughly.
SIGN    Eugeo... and Kirito.
SIGN    The fate of the world rests on you.
SIGN    Whether it's engulfed in hellfire,
    or sinks into nothingness.
SIGN    Or perhaps you'll find a third path.
SIGN    I've told you all that I can tell,
SIGN    and given you all that I can give.
SIGN    All you have to do now
    is follow the path you believe in.
[22:39] Eugeo
    Thank you very much, Ms. Cardinal.
[22:42] Eugeo
    I'll definitely get to the top of the cathedral
[22:45] Eugeo
    and restore Alice back to who she was.
SIGN    Now...
SIGN    Go!
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The Crimson Knight.

E14 - The Crimson Knight

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[00:20] Kirito
    System Call. Generate Luminous Element.
[00:29] Eugeo
    Amazing... these are all weapons?
[00:32] Kirito
    Let's go. We have to find our swords.
[00:36] Eugeo
    Here they are!
[00:52] Kirito
    How long are you going to stand there in awe?
[00:56] Eugeo
    I couldn't help it.
[00:58] Eugeo
    Hey, Kirito.
[01:00] Eugeo
    Do you think the Church is planning
    to build its own army someday?
[01:03] Eugeo
    The Integrity Knights alone should be enough.
[01:07] Kirito
    It's the opposite. They're not building an army.
[01:10] Kirito
    The Church gathered all these weapons here
    to make creating one impossible.
[01:14] Eugeo
    What does that mean?
[01:16] Kirito
    In other words, I'm saying the person
    who has the least faith in the Church's authority
[01:19] Kirito
    might be the pontifex herself.
[01:24] Kirito
    Come on, we don't have time.
[01:26] Kirito
    Let's get out of here.
[01:28] Eugeo
    Uh, yeah. You're right.
[01:32] Eugeo
    What do you think, Kirito?
    Should we borrow some armor, too?
[01:36] Kirito
    Well, we've never worn armor before.
[01:39] Kirito
    We should stick to what we know.
[01:42] Kirito
    Let's help ourselves to those clothes over there.
SIGN    The Crimson Knight
[03:49] Kirito
    Burst Element!
[03:56] Kirito
    Straight ahead!
[03:59] Deusolbert
    Such absurd antics.
[04:18] Eugeo
    Kirito! You okay?
[04:23] Kirito
    B-Barely.
[04:25] Kirito
    I'm okay this time.
[04:35] Eugeo
    Let's go.
[04:36] Deusolbert
    System Call.
[04:45] Kirito
    This is bad. That's not an elemental command.
    It's the Perfect Weapon Control art!
[04:51] Deusolbert
    Enhance Armament.
[05:15] Kirito
    That's amazing.
    I wonder what that bow's source is?
[05:20] Eugeo
    This is no time to be impressed!
[05:23] Deusolbert
    It's been two years since I was last engulfed
    by the Conflagration Bow.
[05:28] Deusolbert
    I see.
[05:29] Deusolbert
    You criminals do indeed have the skills
    to contend with Sir Eldrie Thirty-one.
[05:35] Deusolbert
    But that makes it all the more unforgivable.
[05:39] Deusolbert
    That instead of fighting
    as a proper knight should,
[05:41] Deusolbert
    you resorted to the vile dark arts
    to lead Thirty-one astray!
[05:46] Kirito
    D-Dark arts?
[05:48] Eugeo
    Y-You're wrong! We just talked about Mr. Eldrie's life
    before he became an Integrity Knight!
[05:53] Deusolbert
    Before he became a Knight?
[05:55] Deusolbert
    None of us has a past.
[05:58] Deusolbert
    From the moment we were summoned here
    from the heavens,
[06:01] Deusolbert
    we have always been glorious Integrity Knights!
[06:06] Deusolbert
    I've been ordered to capture you alive,
    so I won't reduce you to cinders.
[06:11] Deusolbert
    But now that I've unleashed the Conflagration Bow,
    prepare for at least one of your arms to be burned off.
[06:27] Kirito
    It doesn't matter if he's out of arrows
    or his bowstring's broken, huh?
[06:30] Eugeo
    Any ideas?
[06:32] Kirito
    I have to believe that he can't fire rapidly.
[06:35] Kirito
    I'll somehow block his first shot,
    so you charge in.
[06:38] Eugeo
    Have to believe?
[06:49] Eugeo
    Got it!
[07:04] Kirito
    System Call! Generate Cryogenic Element!
[07:10] Kirito
    Discharge!
[07:14] Deusolbert
    Ludicrous!
[08:09] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[08:13] Kirito
    Keep going, Eugeo!
[08:24] Deusolbert
    Don't insult me, boy!
[08:31] Eugeo
    What now?
[08:33] Kirito
    In this world, the important thing
    is what you infuse your sword with.
[08:38] Eugeo
    I wonder what I should infuse my sword with?
[08:41] Kirito
    That's something you need to find on your own.
[08:56] Eugeo
    Right. That's all that matters.
[08:59] Eugeo
    I'm definitely going to rescue Alice this time. So...
[09:03] Eugeo
    Please, Blue Rose Sword!
[09:05] Eugeo
    Lend me your strength!
[09:07] Eugeo
    I have to move forward!
[09:36] Eugeo
    You...
[09:37] Eugeo
    ...ever since the world's creation,
[09:40] Eugeo
    were forged by the bitter cold blizzards
    at the top of the End Mountains.
[09:46] Eugeo
    Don't let these pathetic flames...
[09:50] Eugeo
    ...defeat you!
[10:15] Eugeo
    You're not getting away!
[11:12] Deusolbert
    Boy, what's the name
    of that first secret skill you used?
[11:18] Eugeo
    The Aincrad-style two-hit strike sword skill,
    Vertical Arc.
[11:22] Deusolbert
    A two-hit strike attack...
[11:26] Deusolbert
    And you?
[11:28] Deusolbert
    What skill did you use?
[11:29] Eugeo
    Kirito! Are you hurt?
[11:31] Kirito
    I'm okay.
[11:32] Kirito
    I mostly healed the worst burns.
[11:35] Kirito
    Old man knight, that was the Aincrad-style
    defensive skill, Spinning Shield.
[11:44] Deusolbert
    From one end of the realm of humanity
    to the other...
[11:47] Deusolbert
    I was sure that I'd seen past that.
[11:51] Deusolbert
    But in this world, there are still swords I've never seen,
    skills I've never encountered, eh?
[11:58] Deusolbert
    Your skills were suffused
    with the weight of years of earnest training.
[12:05] Deusolbert
    I accused you of using vile arts to lead Sir Eldrie astray,
    but I was mistaken.
[12:15] Deusolbert
    Please tell me your names.
[12:18] Eugeo
    Eugeo the Swordsman. No family name.
[12:21] Kirito
    I'm Kirito the Swordsman.
[12:25] Deusolbert
    On the fiftieth floor of the cathedral,
[12:28] Deusolbert
    in the Great Hall of Ghostly Light,
    there are several Integrity Knights awaiting you.
[12:35] Deusolbert
    They've been ordered not to take you alive,
    but to extinguish your lives.
[12:41] Deusolbert
    If you charge them head-on like you just did,
[12:44] Deusolbert
    your lives will be snuffed out in an instant.
[12:48] Kirito
    H-Hey, old man. Is it okay for you to tell us that?
[12:53] Deusolbert
    As I've failed to carry out Administrator's order,
[12:58] Deusolbert
    I will be stripped of my armor and Divine Object,
    the proof of my knighthood,
[13:03] Deusolbert
    and will be frozen indefinitely.
[13:06] Deusolbert
    So before I submit to such shame,
    I want you two...
[13:12] Deusolbert
    ...to take my life.
[13:16] Deusolbert
    No need to hesitate.
[13:18] Deusolbert
    After all, it was your splendid sword skills
    that defeated me.
[13:24] Deusolbert
    Me... Integrity Knight Deusolbert Synthesis Seven.
[13:38] Eugeo
    Deusol... bert?
[13:45] Kirito
    Eugeo?
[13:47] Eugeo
    So you're... from back then...
[13:59] Eugeo
    You're telling me to take your life?
[14:04] Eugeo
    You say it was a splendid battle?
[14:08] Eugeo
    She was just...
[14:10] Eugeo
    She was just an eleven-year-old girl,
    and you bound her with chains!
[14:13] Eugeo
    You suspended her from your dragon
    and took her away...
[14:17] Eugeo
    ...so don't say that, after everything you've done!
[14:34] Eugeo
    Why are you stopping me, Kirito?
[14:38] Kirito
    That old man doesn't intend to fight anymore.
[14:41] Kirito
    You can't raise your sword
    against someone like that.
[14:46] Eugeo
    He... he's the one who took Alice away!
[15:02] Kirito
    I'm pretty sure the old man doesn't remember.
    About taking your Alice away from Rulid Village.
[15:11] Kirito
    He hasn't forgotten, his memory's been erased.
[15:21] Deusolbert
    It's as the black-haired boy says.
[15:26] Deusolbert
    I apprehended a young girl
    and took her away with my dragon?
[15:32] Deusolbert
    I don't remember doing such a thing.
[15:35] Eugeo
    You don't remember?
[15:37] Eugeo
    It was only eight years ago.
[15:39] Kirito
    Old man... I mean, Sir Deusolbert.
[15:43] Kirito
    You were the Integrity Knight in charge of guarding
    the northern border of Norlangarth.
[15:48] Kirito
    That's true, right?
[15:49] Deusolbert
    Indeed. I oversaw Norlangarth's
    northern border in District Seven.
[15:56] Deusolbert
    Yes... until eight years ago.
[16:00] Deusolbert
    At that time, due to a great feat,
[16:04] Deusolbert
    I was awarded the duty of guarding
    the Central Cathedral, as well as this armor.
[16:10] Kirito
    Do you remember what that feat was?
[16:15] Kirito
    I'll tell you what it was.
[16:17] Kirito
    Your feat was discovering
    Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty.
[16:23] Kirito
    Administrator gave you credit
    for bringing Alice to this tower,
[16:27] Kirito
    but she also had to erase your memories
    of that incident.
[16:33] Kirito
    Integrity Knights have no past.
[16:35] Kirito
    That's because they've been summoned
    from the heavens.
[16:39] Kirito
    Or so you said.
[16:41] Kirito
    The pontifex must've told you that
    right after you awoke as a knight.
[16:46] Kirito
    To convince you that was why
    you couldn't remember anything
[16:49] Kirito
    from before you became an Integrity Knight.
[16:53] Kirito
    But to get you to accept that story,
[16:55] Kirito
    it wasn't just your memories of being a human,
[17:00] Kirito
    but also your memories of any other knight's creation
    that had to be erased.
[17:06] Kirito
    Because there'd be chaos if a sinner you brought here
    showed up the next day as a fellow knight.
[17:13] Deusolbert
    I don't remember anything.
[17:16] Kirito
    Your precious memories were seized
    by Administrator,
[17:19] Kirito
    and instead embedded fealty to the Church in you,
    turning you into an Integrity Knight.
[17:26] Kirito
    You're a human, just like us.
[17:28] Deusolbert
    Me? A resident of the realm of humanity
    like yourselves?
[17:33] Deusolbert
    My memories, manipulated? Unbelievable.
[17:37] Deusolbert
    To think that the pontifex
    would cast such a spell on me.
[17:43] Kirito
    But it's the truth.
[17:45] Kirito
    There has to be something still in your mind.
[17:49] Kirito
    Something like a precious memory
    no art can completely erase
[17:55] Deusolbert
    Ever since I descended to the realm of humanity,
    I keep having the same dream.
[18:00] Deusolbert
    A small hand shaking me awake,
[18:03] Deusolbert
    and the silver ring worn on its finger.
[18:13] Deusolbert
    But when I wake up, no one's there.
[18:19] Kirito
    Administrator stole your memory
    of the owner of that hand and ring.
[18:26] Kirito
    You decide what you're going to do next.
[18:30] Kirito
    Go back to Administrator
    and accept your punishment,
[18:33] Kirito
    heal your wounds and come after us,
[18:36] Kirito
    or...
[19:10] Kirito
    We've been climbing for a while,
    so how far up are we now?
[19:13] Eugeo
    The next floor is the twenty-ninth.
[19:15] Eugeo
    Another half hour of climbing
    and I think we'll reach the fiftieth floor he mentioned.
[19:20] Eugeo
    Are we going to charge straight in?
[19:25] Kirito
    Well...
[19:29] Eugeo
    Where'd those come from?
[19:38] Kirito
    Based on the battle with that old man,
    they're not used to combo moves.
[19:44] Kirito
    More like they have almost no experience.
[19:47] Kirito
    I'd like to think we have a chance
    if we can get into one-on-one close combat.
[19:51] Kirito
    But not only are we up against multiple enemies,
    they're also waiting for us fully prepared.
[19:57] Eugeo
    Then should we look for another route,
    instead of going straight in?
[20:02] Kirito
    I don't know about that.
[20:04] Kirito
    Cardinal made it clear
    that these stairs were the only way.
[20:09] Kirito
    And even if we did find a shortcut,
    we could still get caught in a pincer attack later on.
[20:14] Kirito
    I'd rather take out the knights on the fiftieth floor,
    even if we have to use the ace up our sleeve.
[20:18] Eugeo
    Right. The Perfect Weapon Control art.
[20:21] Kirito
    Yeah. Maybe the instant we charge
    onto the fiftieth floor,
[20:24] Kirito
    we can strike first with the Perfect Weapon Control art
    and neutralize as many knights as we can.
[20:30] Eugeo
    Uh, about that...
[20:33] Eugeo
    My Perfect Weapon Control art isn't a direct attack
    like that Integrity Knight's.
[20:41] Kirito
    R-Really?
[20:43] Eugeo
    Well, Cardinal wrote the command for me, so...
[20:47] Eugeo
    I mean, I was the one who imagined
    what kind of technique it should be...
[20:51] Kirito
    Well, let me take a look at the command.
[20:54] Eugeo
    O-Okay.
[21:00] Kirito
    I see. You're right,
    I wouldn't exactly say it's for offense,
[21:04] Kirito
    but depending on its use, it'll come in handy.
[21:08] Kirito
    And it seems like it'll be compatible
    with my Perfect Weapon Control art.
[21:11] Eugeo
    Really? What's your skill like?
[21:14] Kirito
    You'll have to wait and see.
[21:22] Eugeo
    Okay, should we...
[21:37] Kirito
    You two... who are you?
[21:50] Eugeo
    Th-They're kids?
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The Relentless Knight.

E15 - The Relentless Knight

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[00:18] Fizel
    Um...
[00:21] Fizel
    I'm... no...
[00:23] Fizel
    I'm Fizel, an Axiom Church sister-in-training.
[00:28] Fizel
    And this is my fellow sister-in-training.
[00:31] Linel
    I-I'm Linel.
[00:33] Fizel
    Um, are you two the intruders
    from the Dark Territory we heard about?
[00:42] Kirito
    I'm not good with kids.
[00:44] Kirito
    I'll leave this to you.
[00:49] Eugeo
    U-Um, well...
[00:52] Eugeo
    We're actually from the Human Empire,
[00:55] Eugeo
    but as for being intruders, well...
    you're not wrong.
[01:03] Fizel
    Geez! They look like ordinary humans, Nel!
[01:08] Fizel
    There's not any horns or tails.
[01:10] Linel
    All I said was
    that was how the books described them!
[01:14] Linel
    You're the one who jumped to conclusions, Zel!
[01:17] Eugeo
    Um...
[01:19] Eugeo
    Won't you get into trouble
    if you're found talking to us?
[01:28] Fizel
    This morning, all the monks, nuns
    and apprentices
[01:32] Fizel
    were ordered to lock themselves
    in their rooms.
[01:37] Fizel
    So there's no risk of getting caught
    even if we go take a look at the intruders!
[01:48] Fizel
    They're human?
[01:49] Linel
    Yes, they're human.
[01:52] Linel
    You were thrown into prison,
    but you broke your spiritual chains and fled,
[01:57] Linel
    not only that,
    they say you defeated two Integrity Knights,
[02:01] Linel
    so we were sure
    you were monsters of darkness,
[02:03] Linel
    or else actual dark knights had invaded,
    and that's why we were waiting.
[02:12] Linel
    One last thing...
    may we ask what your names are?
[02:20] Eugeo
    I'm Eugeo.
[02:22] Eugeo
    This is Kirito behind me.
[02:25] Linel
    Don't you have family names?
[02:27] Eugeo
    No, since we're the children of settlers.
[02:31] Eugeo
    Is that true for you as well?
[02:33] Linel
    No.
[02:34] Linel
    We do have them.
[02:44] Linel
    My name is Linel Synthesis Twenty-eight.
SIGN    The Relentless Knight
[04:31] Kirito
    Euge—
[04:37] Fizel
    And I'm Fizel Synthesis Twenty-nine.
[04:42] Eugeo
    You're...
[04:45] Eugeo
    Integrity...
[04:54] Linel
    No need to be so scared, Mr. Eugeo!
[05:05] Linel
    It's only a paralysis poison.
[05:08] Linel
    Of course, the only difference is
    whether you'll die here or on the fiftieth floor.
[05:13] Linel
    You must be wondering, aren't you?
[05:16] Linel
    How two children like us
    became Integrity Knights, right?
[05:24] Linel
    We were born and raised inside the cathedral.
[05:28] Linel
    Administrator ordered the monks
    and nuns here to create us.
[05:35] Linel
    To use us in an experiment to restore completely lost life
    with a resurrection sacred art.
[05:43] Linel
    We received our Callings at the age of five.
[05:47] Linel
    Our job was to kill each other.
[05:51] Linel
    We were given toylike swords,
[05:54] Linel
    and then we'd pair off,
    taking turns stabbing each other.
[06:29] Fizel
    Administrator's resurrection sacred art
    was such a disaster at first, wasn't it?
[06:36] Fizel
    There were kids who exploded into bits,
[06:40] Fizel
    and others who ended up
    as weird chunks of flesh.
[06:43] Fizel
    And some who, even though they came back to life,
    were different people!
[06:47] Linel
    We wanted to avoid any unnecessary pain,
    and not being able to come back to life,
[06:52] Linel
    so we researched together
[06:54] Linel
    and found that if we could kill cleanly with one strike,
    the pain would be minimal,
[06:58] Linel
    and the odds of being resurrected would be higher.
[07:02] Linel
    But...
[07:04] Linel
    the question was how to deal that strike.
[07:08] Linel
    If we could cut off the head or strike the heart
    as quickly and smoothly as possible...
[07:17] Linel
    But in the end, it seemed that
    it was too difficult to master complete resurrection,
[07:22] Linel
    and around the time we turned eight,
    the resurrection experiment was abandoned.
[07:28] Linel
    We'd started out with 30 comrades,
    but by then, only Zel and I were left.
[07:37] Linel
    Since we'd survived, Administrator made us
    Integrity Knights as a special exception.
[07:44] Linel
    But she said we hadn't learned enough
    to go on guard duty like the other knights,
[07:50] Linel
    so we've been studying the laws and sacred arts
    for two years now, but...
[07:55] Linel
    Honestly, we're so sick of it.
[07:59] Fizel
    We'd been discussing how to quickly earn
    our dragons and Divine Objects,
[08:04] Fizel
    when we heard the warning that the cathedral
    had been infiltrated by minions of the Dark Territory.
[08:10] Fizel
    We thought that if we could capture
    and execute them before the other knights,
[08:14] Fizel
    Administrator would make us proper knights,
    so that's why we were waiting on the stairs.
[08:24] Linel
    We're sorry for using poison.
[08:27] Linel
    It's just that we wanted
    to bring you to the fiftieth floor alive, if possible.
[08:33] Linel
    Oh, please don't worry.
[08:35] Linel
    Fizel and I are really good at killing!
[08:39] Linel
    It won't hurt!
SIGN    Central Cathedral, Fiftieth Floor Great Hall of Ghostly Light
[08:57] Linel
    Standing over there are the members
    of the Four Whirling Blades,
[09:01] Linel
    as well as Vice Commander Fanatio Synthesis Two.
[09:05] Fizel
    If Sir Fanatio of the Heaven-Piercing Blade
    bothered to show up,
[09:09] Fizel
    the senate must be panicking more
    than we thought.
[09:13] Fanatio
    What are you two young apprentices doing
    on this honorable knights' battlefield?
[09:18] Fizel
    How ridiculous!
[09:20] Fizel
    It's because you bring honor
    and tradition into battle
[09:23] Fizel
    that you mighty Integrity Knights lost
    not once, but twice!
[09:28] Fizel
    But there's no need to worry.
[09:31] Fizel
    To keep the knights
    from disgracing themselves any further,
[09:35] Fizel
    we've captured the intruders for you!
[09:38] Linel
    We're going to decapitate these intruders now,
[09:43] Linel
    so watch closely
    and be sure to report it to the pontifex!
[09:48] Linel
    Surely honorable Integrity Knights such as yourselves
    would never stoop to stealing the credit.
[10:03] Linel
    How?
[10:04] Fizel
    I can't mo—
[10:27] Kirito
    The paralysis will wear off in a few minutes.
[10:30] Kirito
    Once you can move your lips again,
[10:32] Kirito
    start reciting the Perfect Weapon Control art
    without drawing the knights' attention.
[10:37] Kirito
    When you're ready,
    hold it and wait for my signal.
[10:47] Kirito
    You must be wondering
    how I could move, aren't you?
[10:53] Kirito
    You two gave it away.
[10:55] Kirito
    All of the monks and nuns had been ordered
    not to leave their rooms.
[11:01] Kirito
    But no one in the cathedral
    could possibly violate that order.
[11:06] Kirito
    So if you weren't obeying the order,
    you couldn't be actual apprentices.
[11:14] Kirito
    Not only that, those scabbards on your hips...
    they're made of ruby oak, right?
[11:19] Kirito
    The only material that won't rot
[11:22] Kirito
    even if it makes contact
    with swords made of toxic Ruberyl steel.
[11:25] Kirito
    There's no way you'd have something like that
    if you were a sister-in-training.
[11:30] Kirito
    That's why I started reciting a poison-dissolving art
    before you got near us.
[11:36] Kirito
    Although it took some time to dissolve.
[11:39] Kirito
    Strength isn't just about sword speed.
[11:55] Kirito
    I won't kill you.
[11:58] Kirito
    Instead, watch closely.
[12:00] Kirito
    At how strong the Integrity Knights
    you're mocking actually are!
[12:15] Kirito
    Sorry to have kept you waiting, Sir Fanatio.
[12:23] Kirito
    Kirito the Swordsman... is coming!
[12:45] Blade D
    You insolent criminal,
    thinking you can battle Sir Fanatio one-on-one...
[12:50] Blade D
    We, the Four Whirling Blades,
    are your opponents!
[12:53] Fanatio
    You four, stay back.
[12:55] Fanatio
    I'll be his opponent.
[12:58] Blade ????
    Yes.
[13:05] Fanatio
    System Call.
[13:08] Fanatio
    Enhance Armament!
[13:51] Eugeo
    Ki—
[13:53] Eugeo
    My voice.
[13:55] Eugeo
    Now I can...
[13:57] Eugeo
    System Call.
[14:08] Fanatio
    You may be a criminal, but if you've lived in the capital,
    you must know what a mirror is.
[14:16] Fanatio
    That instrument is capable of reflecting Solus's light
    more or less completely.
[14:22] Fanatio
    Long ago, the eminent pontifex
    used one thousand huge mirrors
[14:26] Fanatio
    to focus Solus' midsummer light on a single spot,
    producing pure white flames.
[14:32] Fanatio
    Within minutes,
    those flames melted away a man-sized boulder.
[14:38] Fanatio
    The pontifex then bound the thousand mirrors
    with a divine skill, forged them...
[14:46] Fanatio
    and created a single sword.
[14:56] Fanatio
    This Divine Object, the Heaven-Piercing Blade.
[14:59] Fanatio
    Do you understand, criminal?
[15:01] Fanatio
    What pierced your stomach and foot
    was the power of the sun god, Solus.
[15:07] Kirito
    A sword... that can reflect light?
[15:12] Fanatio
    And now, farewell, you young, foolish criminal.
[15:18] Kirito
    Discharge!
[15:40] Fanatio
    You saw, didn't you?
[15:44] Fanatio
    You're looking at me that way, too...
[15:48] Fanatio
    just like that man!
[15:51] Fanatio
    Even traitors like you,
    targeting the Church,
[15:55] Fanatio
    the instant you discover I'm a woman,
    you can't fight me seriously?
[16:03] Fanatio
    I am an Integrity Knight!
[16:12] Kirito
    I see. So that sword and that skill.
[16:16] Kirito
    They allow you to exchange blows
    without revealing that you're a woman.
[16:20] Kirito
    Isn't that right, Lady Fanatio?
[16:23] Fanatio
    H-How dare you!
[16:26] Kirito
    Just so you know,
[16:28] Kirito
    the reason I was shocked just now
[16:30] Kirito
    was because your spirit became so weak
    the moment your helmet broke.
[16:35] Kirito
    Hiding your face and your sword style...
[16:38] Kirito
    ...aren't you the one
    who's most conscious of being of woman?
[16:44] Fanatio
    Shut up! I'll kill you no matter what!
[16:48] Kirito
    I intend to do the same.
[16:50] Kirito
    I don't intend to hold back
    because you're a woman.
[16:54] Kirito
    I've lost plenty of battles to swordswomen!
[17:23] Eugeo
    Incredible.
[17:41] Fanatio
    I understand.
[17:44] Fanatio
    Criminal.
[17:46] Fanatio
    I can see that you're unlike
    the ones I've fought before.
[17:51] Fanatio
    No man has tried to seriously slash me
    after seeing this detestable face.
[17:58] Kirito
    Detestable, huh?
[18:00] Kirito
    Then for whose sake do you comb your hair
[18:05] Kirito
    and apply color to your lips?
[18:16] Kirito
    I'm fighting to take down the church
    and the pontifex
[18:19] Kirito
    so that humans like you can express love normally
    and lead normal lives!
[18:27] Fanatio
    I see that you're not a minion of darkness
    as the prime senator said.
[18:31] Fanatio
    But that doesn't mean
    you're not extremely dangerous.
[18:35] Fanatio
    You could still disrupt the Church and us knights
    not just with your sword, but with your words as well.
[18:42] Fanatio
    Our most crucial mission as Integrity Knights
[18:44] Fanatio
    is to protect the Human Empire
    and those who reside there.
[18:48] Fanatio
    That's why I must defeat you.
[18:53] Fanatio
    Even if it means trampling on my pride as a knight.
[18:56] Fanatio
    Light concealed within the Heaven-Piercing Blade,
    cast off your shackles!
[19:01] Fanatio
    Release Recollection!
[19:27] Kirito
    You...
[19:31] Kirito
    ...stupid idiot!
[19:36] Eugeo
    Now!
[19:38] Eugeo
    Now's my only chance!
[19:40] Eugeo
    Enhance Armament!
[19:49] Fanatio
    Th-This is...
[19:51] Eugeo
    Bloom! Blue Roses!
[19:56] Fanatio
    Curse you.
[20:09] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[20:10] Eugeo
    Hang on. I'll cast a healing art right—
[20:12] Kirito
    Don't!
[20:14] Kirito
    Keep the skill going!
[20:17] Kirito
    This...
[20:19] Kirito
    ...isn't enough to bring her down.
[20:28] Eugeo
    System Call!
[20:39] Eugeo
    You...
[20:41] Eugeo
    None of you...
[20:43] Eugeo
    ...know what justice is!
[20:55] Eugeo
    Stop! Stop right now!
[21:07] Eugeo
    I can't win. Not how I am now.
[21:10] Eugeo
    I can't beat her.
[21:13] Kirito
    You can't defeat her with hatred, Eugeo.
[21:20] Kirito
    You didn't come all this way
    because you hated the Integrity Knights, right?
[21:25] Kirito
    Aren't you're here because you want to get Alice back...
    because you love her?
[21:32] Kirito
    And those feelings aren't in any way
    inferior to her justice.
[21:36] Kirito
    It's the same for me.
[21:38] Kirito
    I want to protect everyone in this world.
[21:40] Kirito
    You... Alice...
[21:43] Kirito
    I even want to protect her.
[21:45] Kirito
    So right now, we can't lose to her no matter what.
[21:51] Kirito
    Isn't that right, Eugeo?
[22:01] Eugeo
    Enhance Armament!
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The Osmanthus Knight.

E16 - The Osmanthus Knight

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[00:02] Kirito
    Enhance Armament!
[00:58] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[00:59] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[01:01] Eugeo
    Are you all right? Kirito!
SIGN    The Osmanthus Knight
[02:37] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[02:38] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[02:45] Eugeo
    System Call. Generate Luminous Element!
[02:57] Eugeo
    System Call.
    Transfer Human Unit Durability, Self to Left!
[03:08] Eugeo
    Kirito.
[03:10] Kirito
    Thanks, Eugeo.
[03:13] Kirito
    I'll be okay now.
[03:15] Eugeo
    Hey, don't overdo it.
[03:16] Eugeo
    After all that,
    you probably have internal wounds we can't see.
[03:21] Kirito
    It's not as bad as what the goblins did.
[03:25] Kirito
    Anyway, I'm more worried about her.
[03:27] Eugeo
    But she...
[03:29] Eugeo
    But she tried to kill you.
[03:34] Eugeo
    You just said that
    you can't defeat someone with hatred.
[03:38] Eugeo
    True, I don't think that Integrity Knight was driven
    by any personal grudges or hate. But...
[03:47] Eugeo
    But I... just can't bring myself
    to forgive the Church or the Integrity Knights!
[03:52] Eugeo
    Not just their devastating power,
    but also what they aspire to.
[03:56] Eugeo
    If they really have the desire
    to protect the Human Empire,
[03:59] Eugeo
    why wouldn't they use that power for more...
[04:03] Kirito
    I'm sure those knights are struggling
    with their own conflicts.
[04:07] Kirito
    I think we'll learn more about that
    if we meet up with their commander.
[04:14] Kirito
    Eugeo, your Perfect Weapon Control art
    was incredible.
[04:18] Kirito
    You're the one who defeated those knights.
[04:21] Kirito
    So now...
[04:23] Kirito
    you have no reason to hate Fanatio as a human
    or the Four Whirling Blades anymore.
[04:30] Eugeo
    Human. Yeah, I guess so.
[04:34] Eugeo
    That's the one thing I sensed during our battle.
[04:37] Eugeo
    She was human.
[04:39] Eugeo
    That's why she was so powerful.
[04:41] Kirito
    That's exactly right.
    They see themselves as absolute good,
[04:46] Kirito
    but to you they must've been absolute evil,
[04:50] Kirito
    but you, me and those Integrity Knights
    are all human.
[04:54] Kirito
    There's no way humans can determine
    absolute good or evil.
[05:00] Kirito
    Oh, I almost forgot.
[05:03] Kirito
    Use that to counteract the poison in the kids.
[05:07] Kirito
    Before you give it to them,
    break the poisoned swords
[05:09] Kirito
    and make sure
    they don't have anything else suspicious.
[05:13] Eugeo
    Kirito.
[05:14] Eugeo
    Can you feel the same way,
    even towards the pontifex, Administrator?
[05:33] Kirito
    System Call! Generate Luminous Element!
[05:42] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[05:43] Kirito
    Help me! I can't stop the bleeding!
[05:46] Eugeo
    All right.
[05:51] Eugeo
    It's useless, Kirito. She's lost too much blood.
[05:55] Kirito
    But... if she dies, she'll be erased.
[05:59] Kirito
    After living for a hundred years,
    wavering, falling in love, suffering...
[06:04] Kirito
    I can't erase a soul like that!
[06:07] Kirito
    Can you hear me? Anyone at all!
[06:10] Kirito
    I know there are more of you Integrity Knights!
[06:12] Kirito
    Come save your companion!
[06:15] Kirito
    A monk or priest! Somebody come help!
[06:20] Kirito
    I'm begging you,
    if you're watching, come help us!
[06:28] Kirito
    That's right!
[06:30] Eugeo
    You can't, Kirito!
    You're supposed to use it on Administrator!
[06:34] Kirito
    I know that!
[06:36] Kirito
    But I can save her if I use this.
[06:38] Kirito
    I can't have a way to save her and not use it!
SIGN    Jeez, you really are something else.
[07:00] Kirito
    Cardinal, is that you?
[07:03] Kirito
    I'm sorry. I just...
SIGN    There's no point in apologizing now. I understand the situation.
SIGN    I agree to undertake the treatment
    of Fanatio Synthesis Two.
SIGN    However, since a full recovery will take some time,
    I'll take her body into my care.
SIGN    As far as I can tell, it's highly likely that Administrator is still in her unawakened state.
SIGN    If you can make it to the top floor before she awakens,
SIGN    you can still eliminate her without using the dagger.
SIGN    Hurry. There are only a few more Integrity Knights left.
[07:42] Kirito
    Sorry I lost control, Eugeo.
[07:45] Eugeo
    No, there's nothing to apologize for.
[07:56] Kirito
    Now that I think of it,
    Cardinal said something strange.
[08:00] Kirito
    Something about Administrator's
    unawakened state...
[08:04] Eugeo
    Did she mean she's asleep?
[08:08] Kirito
    Cardinal told me Administrator and the Integrity Knights
    have to strain their resources in various ways
[08:13] Kirito
    in order to be able to live for centuries.
[08:16] Kirito
    Administrator especially
    spends most of the day sleeping, it seems.
[08:21] Kirito
    Well, I guess we'll find out
    when we get up there.
[08:41] Kirito
    What's this?
[08:51] Kirito
    Hey, something's coming!
[09:17] Operator
    Thank you for your patience.
    Which floor would you like to visit?
[09:21] Eugeo
    Did you say which floor?
[09:23] Eugeo
    Does that mean you're going to take us
    to the higher floors?
[09:30] Kirito
    Um, we're fugitives who broke into the Cathedral.
[09:35] Kirito
    You sure that eleva— uh, not that...
[09:38] Kirito
    You sure it's okay
    to let us ride that floating platform?
[09:40] Operator
    My job is only to operate this floating platform.
[09:45] Operator
    I've received no other orders.
[09:48] Kirito
    Is that so? Then we'll accept your offer.
[09:53] Eugeo
    Hey!
[09:55] Eugeo
    Are you sure it's okay?
[09:57] Kirito
    There doesn't seem to be
    any other way up.
[10:00] Eugeo
    That's... You have a point, but...
[10:03] Kirito
    Okay then, can you take us
    as high as you're able?
[10:07] Operator
    Understood.
[10:11] Operator
    System Call. Generate Aerial Element.
[10:19] Operator
    Burst Element.
[10:31] Eugeo
    How long have you been doing this?
[10:36] Operator
    This year marks the one-hundred-and-seventh year
    since I received this Calling.
[10:41] Eugeo
    O-One hundred and seven years?
[10:43] Eugeo
    And you've been operating this floating platform
    that entire time?
[10:46] Operator
    Not the entire time.
[10:49] Operator
    I am granted a lunch break at noon,
[10:52] Operator
    and I sleep at night, of course.
[10:55] Eugeo
    No, that's not what I meant.
[10:57] Kirito
    What's your name?
[11:00] Operator
    My name is...
[11:02] Operator
    I've forgotten it.
[11:05] Operator
    Everyone calls me the Operator.
[11:12] Eugeo
    Um... So, we're on our way to defeat
    an important person in the Axiom Church.
[11:18] Eugeo
    The one who assigned you this Calling.
[11:21] Operator
    Is that so?
[11:23] Eugeo
    If the Church ceases to exist and you're released
    from this Calling, what would you do?
[11:30] Operator
    Released?
[11:33] Operator
    I have no knowledge of the world
    other than this shaft.
[11:38] Operator
    Therefore, I cannot say
    what new Calling I would choose.
[11:44] Operator
    But if you mean what I wish to try, then...
[11:52] Operator
    I would like to fly freely through the sky
    on this floating platform.
[12:08] Operator
    Thank you for your patience.
[12:10] Operator
    This is the eightieth floor, the Cloudtop Garden.
[12:15] Eugeo
    I used to think that nothing could be
    more endless then my previous Calling.
[12:22] Eugeo
    But it was a gift
    to be able to retire when I got old.
[12:25] Eugeo
    Compared to that girl's Calling...
[12:28] Kirito
    Cardinal said that even if you freeze
    the natural degradation of life with a spell,
[12:33] Kirito
    you can't stop the soul from aging.
[12:35] Kirito
    The memory is affected bit by bit,
[12:38] Kirito
    until it's destroyed in the end.
[12:41] Kirito
    What the Axiom Church is doing is wrong.
[12:46] Kirito
    That's why you and I came all this way
    to defeat Administrator.
[12:50] Kirito
    But...
[12:51] Kirito
    But that doesn't mean
    things will end there, Eugeo.
[12:55] Kirito
    The real challenge is still ahead.
[12:59] Eugeo
    As long as we defeat Administrator,
    can't we let Cardinal handle the rest?
[13:07] Kirito
    No. I'll explain after we get Alice back.
[13:11] Eugeo
    Kirito?
[13:33] Eugeo
    This is...
[14:05] Eugeo
    Alice.
[14:09] Alice
    Please wait a little longer.
[14:12] Alice
    Since the weather's so nice,
[14:14] Alice
    I want to give it ample time
    to bask in the sunlight.
[14:21] Kirito
    Don't fight, Eugeo.
[14:24] Kirito
    Just focus on piercing Alice with Cardinal's dagger,
    no matter what.
[14:29] Kirito
    I'll block her attacks,
    even if it means risking my life.
[14:34] Eugeo
    But...
[14:34] Kirito
    There's no other way.
[14:36] Kirito
    I'll take Alice's first strike intentionally
    and then restrain her,
[14:40] Kirito
    so use that dagger immediately. Got that?
[14:43] Eugeo
    Sorry.
[14:44] Kirito
    No need to apologize.
[14:45] Kirito
    You're paying me back double
    as soon as I can make you!
[14:49] Kirito
    She doesn't seem to have her sword.
[14:52] Kirito
    If we attack now, she won't have time
    to recite the Perfect Weapon Control command.
[14:57] Kirito
    To be honest,
    it'd be best if we didn't have to use it.
[15:01] Eugeo
    I guess you're right.
[15:03] Eugeo
    Even though I think I can use
    my Perfect Weapon Control art two more times
[15:07] Eugeo
    without restoring its life
    using the scabbard.
[15:09] Kirito
    That will help. I can only use mine once more.
[15:13] Kirito
    And after Alice, we'll still have to deal
    with the knights' commander.
[15:17] Kirito
    All right, let's go.
[15:21] Alice
    I see you've climbed all the way to these heights.
[15:26] Alice
    Even if you did manage
    to escape the underground prison,
[15:29] Alice
    I expected Eldrie to be able
    to deal with you on his own.
[15:33] Alice
    Yet you two overcame him, Sir Deusolbert,
    and even cut down Sir Fanatio,
[15:41] Alice
    before setting foot in the Cloudtop Garden.
[15:43] Alice
    What is imbuing you with such power?
[15:48] Alice
    Why are you disrupting the order
    of the Human Empire?
[15:54] Alice
    As I thought,
    I can only ask you with my sword.
[16:01] Kirito
    Don't tell me...
[16:09] Kirito
    Don't tell me that sword...
[16:11] Kirito
    is already under Perfect Weapon Control?
[16:45] Alice
    Could it be you're mocking me?
[16:48] Alice
    To run towards me
    without drawing your swords...
[16:50] Alice
    I held back on that attack as a warning.
[16:54] Alice
    But with my next attack,
    I shall erase all of your life.
[16:58] Alice
    Show me the full extent of your power,
[17:01] Alice
    for the sake of the knights you've defeated, as well.
[17:07] Eugeo
    System Call.
[17:09] Kirito
    We apologize for showing such disrespect
    to an honorable Integrity Knight.
[17:16] Kirito
    I, Disciple Kirito, formally challenge you,
    Knight Alice, to a fair duel.
[17:24] Alice
    Very well.
[17:26] Alice
    I shall test the limits of your evil designs
    through your swordsmanship.
[17:41] Kirito
    Tell me one thing.
[17:43] Kirito
    I assume the tree we saw on top of the hill earlier
    was your Divine Object's ancient form.
[17:50] Kirito
    How can such a small tree wield so much power?
[17:54] Alice
    In ancient times,
    the spot where the Central Cathedral now stands
[18:00] Alice
    was the Place of Beginning bestowed upon humans
    by Stacia, the Goddess of Creation.
[18:05] Alice
    A beautiful spring gushed
    in the center of a tiny village,
[18:10] Alice
    and on its banks grew a single Osmanthus tree.
[18:14] Alice
    That tree was the original form of my Divine Object,
    the Osmanthus Blade.
[18:19] Alice
    The reincarnated form of a tree
    created by God.
[18:23] Alice
    It is the oldest existence in creation.
[18:27] Alice
    Its attribute is "everlasting eternity."
[18:30] Alice
    Even a single fluttering petal can split rock
    or pierce the ground it touches.
[18:36] Kirito
    I see. So it's the first indestructible object
    installed by God.
[18:42] Kirito
    Not that I can afford to be amazed.
[18:46] Kirito
    Now then, Integrity Knight Alice.
    Once again, I challenge you!
[19:23] Alice
    You're the second person
    to have withstood my attacks this long.
[19:27] Alice
    You must've climbed this tower
    with such resolve and conviction.
[19:31] Alice
    But it's not nearly enough to sway the Church.
[19:35] Alice
    I cannot allow you two to disturb the peace
    of the Human Empire.
[19:41] Alice
    Now then... prepare yourself.
[19:57] Eugeo
    Enhance Armament!
[20:42] Alice
    That was rather entertaining,
[20:44] Alice
    but you have no hope of stopping my flowers
    with mere ice.
[20:48] Alice
    I'll fight you next,
    so stay there and wait your turn.
[20:54] Kirito
    Enhance Armament!
[21:04] Alice
    He aimed for the sword?
[21:06] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[21:35] Eugeo
    Kirito?
[21:38] Eugeo
    Alice?
[21:59] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[22:02] Eugeo
    Alice!
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: Truce.

E17 - Truce

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SIGN    May 25, 380 HE
[00:11] Alice
    Enough! Let go of my hand!
[00:14] Alice
    I don't intend to live with the shame
    of being saved by a sinner like you!
[00:20] Kirito
    Id—
[00:22] Kirito
    Stay still, you idiot!
[00:24] Kirito
    If you're an Integrity Knight, then realize that
    despair's not going to get you anywhere! Idiot!
[00:31] Alice
    Y-You insulted me yet again!
    Take that back, criminal!
[00:35] Kirito
    Shut up! I called you an idiot
    because you're an idiot, idiot! Idiot!
[00:39] Kirito
    Listen!
[00:40] Kirito
    If you fall to your death now,
[00:43] Kirito
    Eugeo, who's still inside the tower,
    will go to where the pontifex is!
[00:47] Kirito
    Isn't it your job to stop that?
[00:51] Kirito
    So you'd think your top priority as an Integrity Knight
    would be to survive no matter what!
[00:56] Kirito
    You're an idiot who's too dumb to understand,
    so I'm calling you an idiot!
[01:01] Alice
    Th-That's eight times you spoke of me that way.
[01:07] Alice
    I see. What you're saying does make sense.
[01:11] Alice
    And yet, if that's true,
    then why won't you let go of my hand?
[01:16] Alice
    Can you prove that I won't find the reason
    to be less tolerable than death?
[01:23] Kirito
    I...
SIGN    Truce
[02:59] Kirito
    Eugeo and I didn't climb this high in the Cathedral
    to destroy the Axiom Church.
[03:06] Kirito
    We also want to protect the Human Empire
    from the Dark Territory's invasion.
[03:17] Kirito
    That's why we can't let you,
    one of the most powerful Integrity Knights, die now.
[03:23] Kirito
    Because you're a valuable asset.
[03:25] Alice
    Then why did you wield your sword against another
    and cause bloodshed,
[03:29] Alice
    violating the gravest taboo of all?
[03:33] Kirito
    I...
[03:35] Kirito
    The reason Eugeo and I slashed Raios and Humbert
    at the Academy
[03:39] Kirito
    was because the Axiom Church
    and the Taboo Index are both wrong.
[03:43] Kirito
    Just because something's not prohibited
    by the Taboo Index,
[03:46] Kirito
    that gives high-ranking nobles the right
    to have their way with girls like Ronie and Tiese.
[03:53] Kirito
    Is that what you believe?
[03:55] Kirito
    Well?
[03:57] Kirito
    Answer me, Integrity Knight!
[04:02] Alice
    The law is the law.
[04:04] Alice
    A crime is a crime.
[04:06] Alice
    If the people are allowed
    to judge arbitrarily,
[04:12] Alice
    then how are we to maintain order?
[04:15] Kirito
    Who decides whether the pontifex, Administrator,
    who created those laws, is right or wrong?
[04:22] Kirito
    The gods from the heavens?
[04:23] Kirito
    Then why aren't they immediately striking me
    with lightning as divine punishment and burning me?
[04:28] Alice
    The will of the gods... of Stacia, is revealed in due course
    through the actions of us, her servants.
[04:35] Kirito
    Eugeo and I climbed all this way
    to make that clear!
[04:40] Kirito
    To defeat Administrator, and prove it's wrong!
[04:45] Kirito
    And for that exact same reason...
[04:53] Kirito
    ...I can't let you die right now!
[05:02] Kirito
    Stick your sword in the seam of the wall!
    Mine won't last much longer. Please!
[05:29] Alice
    It's not as if I saved you.
    I simply returned the favor.
[05:34] Alice
    Besides, our duel has yet to be decided.
[05:38] Kirito
    I see. I guess this means we're even.
[05:44] Kirito
    I have an idea.
[05:47] Kirito
    Right now, we both need
    to somehow get back inside the tower.
[05:54] Kirito
    So why don't we call a truce till that happens?
[05:57] Alice
    A truce?
[05:58] Kirito
    Yeah.
[05:59] Kirito
    Our odds of survival should go up if we work together,
    rather than alone.
[06:04] Alice
    What exactly do you mean by "work together"?
[06:08] Kirito
    To save each other
    if one of us starts to fall, that's all.
[06:11] Kirito
    It would be more certain if we had a rope,
    but I guess that's asking too much.
[06:16] Alice
    That is a logical proposal. I have to admit that.
    It can't be helped.
[06:24] Alice
    However, the instant we set foot inside the tower again,
    I shall slay you.
[06:30] Alice
    Do not forget that, even for a moment.
[06:33] Kirito
    I'll keep that in mind.
[06:35] Alice
    Now then, you needed a rope?
[06:38] Alice
    System Call.
[06:40] Alice
    Form Object. Change Shape.
[06:47] Kirito
    A matter-transformation art?
[06:49] Alice
    What were you listening to?
[06:51] Alice
    All I did was change its shape.
[06:54] Alice
    No one can use the command to convert
    an object's properties but the pontifex herself.
[07:00] Kirito
    Sorry about that.
[07:10] Kirito
    All right.
[07:26] Kirito
    U-Um, let me ask you, just to be sure...
[07:29] Alice
    What is it?
[07:31] Kirito
    Are you able to summon that giant dragon
    you dangled me from on the way here?
[07:36] Alice
    Dragons can approach no closer
    than the landing platform on the thirtieth floor.
[07:40] Alice
    Not even Uncle... no, the commander himself
    can get any higher on a dragon.
[07:48] Alice
    Even the birds can't reach the upper floors
    of the Cathedral.
[07:52] Alice
    I don't know the details, but I've heard that
    a special command cast by the pontifex is in effect.
[07:59] Kirito
    I see. So that leaves us with three options.
[08:04] Kirito
    Descend, ascend, or break through the wall again.
[08:08] Alice
    The third option will be difficult.
[08:10] Alice
    Because the outer Cathedral wall is endowed
    with nearly infinite life and regenerative abilities.
[08:17] Kirito
    Is that so?
[08:19] Kirito
    If we did head up from here,
    is there anywhere we could reenter the tower?
[08:26] Alice
    Yes, there is.
[08:28] Alice
    There's a place called the Morning Star Lookout,
    which has pillars on all four sides and is open to the air.
[08:34] Alice
    If we can make it there,
    we should be able to reenter easily.
[08:37] Alice
    That said, even if we do manage
    to reach the ninety-fifth floor,
[08:42] Alice
    I shall have to slay you there.
[08:45] Kirito
    Right, that was the promise.
[08:49] Kirito
    So it's fine to climb the wall?
[08:51] Alice
    It's fine.
[08:53] Alice
    Still, you make it sound so easy,
    but how are you going to climb up this wall?
[08:59] Kirito
    System Call. Generate Metallic Element.
    Wedge Shape.
[09:18] Alice
    A-Are you all right?
[09:20] Kirito
    I'm fine... at least I think so.
[09:24] Kirito
    System Call. Generate Metallic Element.
[09:32] Kirito
    Okay. I think this will work!
[09:34] Kirito
    Do the same thing I did
    and climb up to the first rod.
[09:39] Alice
    That's impossible.
[09:41] Kirito
    What was that?
[09:43] Alice
    I said that's impossible!
[09:45] Kirito
    B-But hey, I wouldn't say it's impossible.
[09:49] Kirito
    It would be easy for anyone with your power
    to hoist her own body up—
[09:54] Alice
    That's not what I mean!
[09:56] Alice
    This is the first time
    I've found myself in a situation like this,
[09:59] Alice
    and I-I may be embarrassing myself, but...
[10:03] Alice
    it's all I can do to hang like this.
[10:06] Alice
    I can't possibly climb to such a narrow foothold.
[10:09] Kirito
    All right! Then I'll pull on this chain
    and hoist you up!
[10:14] Alice
    I would appreciate that.
[10:16] Kirito
    Okay, I'm going to pull you up slowly.
[10:19] Kirito
    Here goes!
[10:28] Kirito
    Okay, you can pull your sword out now!
[10:52] Kirito
    Place both hands against the wall!
[10:56] Kirito
    All right, I'm going to climb higher.
[10:59] Kirito
    I'll give you the signal again, so be ready.
[11:02] Alice
    Please be careful.
[11:03] Kirito
    Roger.
SIGN    Monday, July 6, 2026
[11:27] Rinko
    Ms. Asuna?
[11:29] Rinko
    Do you think they caught this fish
    from the Ocean Turtle?
[11:34] Asuna
    I-I'm not sure.
[11:37] Asuna
    I see something over there.
[11:43] Rinko
    It doesn't look like a fishing boat.
[11:47] Rinko
    It has a huge array of antennas.
[11:49] Asuna
    A warship?
[11:51] Nakanishi
    That's a Japanese ship.
[11:53] Nakanishi
    There are no warships in Japan.
[11:56] Nakanishi
    Good morning, Dr. Kojiro, Ms. Yuuki.
[11:58] Asuna
    Good morning!
[12:00] Rinko
    Good morning, Mr. Nakanishi.
[12:03] Rinko
    If it's not a warship, then is it an SDF vessel?
[12:05] Nakanishi
    Close.
[12:07] Nakanishi
    The MSDF vessels are called escort ships.
[12:10] Nakanishi
    And that vessel is a five-ton,
    general-purpose escort ship, the DD119 Asahi.
[12:16] Nakanishi
    It's the lead ship of the second-generation Asahi-type
    escort ships, the second vessel being the Shiranui.
[12:21] Asuna/Nakanishi
    - Huh? Isn't the ship moving away?
    - These two are the only ships in the Asahi line.
[12:28] Nakanishi
    Excuse me.
[12:33] Nakanishi
    Lt. Colonel Kikuoka. Nakanishi here.
[12:35] Nakanishi
    I just observed the Asahi
    changing course to the west.
[12:38] Nakanishi
    If I'm not mistaken, wasn't it supposed to escort us
    until 1200 hours the day after tomorrow?
[12:44] Nakanishi
    Yes sir, I'll be right there.
[12:48] Nakanishi
    I apologize, but please excuse me.
[12:55] Rinko
    I wonder what's going on?
[12:57] Asuna
    I don't know.
[13:20] Kirito
    System Call. Generate Metallic Element.
[13:24] Alice
    The sun...
[13:30] Alice
    Generating containers does significantly
    deplete spatial resources.
[13:35] Alice
    Once Solus sets,
    we might be lucky to create one every hour.
[13:42] Alice
    How high have we climbed so far?
[13:44] Kirito
    Let's see.
    I think we've passed the eighty-fifth floor by now.
[13:49] Alice
    The ninety-fifth floor is still quite a long way off.
[13:52] Kirito
    Yeah.
[13:54] Kirito
    Either way, it will be too dangerous to climb
    once it's completely dark.
[14:01] Kirito
    Hey, do you see something up there?
[14:06] Alice
    Could they be statues or something?
    But why in such a high place?
[14:11] Kirito
    Does it matter?
    As long as we can sit on them and rest.
[14:14] Kirito
    But they're at least six meters... six mels away.
[14:18] Kirito
    I'm going to need two more rods, at least.
[14:21] Alice
    Two rods, huh?
[14:24] Alice
    Understood.
[14:26] Alice
    I was saving this for an emergency,
[14:29] Alice
    but apparently, now is the time.
[14:33] Alice
    Form Object. Wedge Shape.
[14:38] Alice
    Please use these.
[14:40] Kirito
    Thanks! That helps.
[14:54] Kirito
    Ready? I'm going to pull you up.
[14:55] Alice
    Okay.
[14:58] Kirito
    Are you okay?
[15:00] Alice
    I'm fine.
[15:07] Alice
    That's...
[15:11] Kirito
    That is one creepy design, huh?
[15:18] Alice
    It's from the Dark Territory!
[15:25] Kirito
    Alice!
[15:29] Kirito
    Alice!
[15:52] Kirito
    Alice! Draw your sword!
[15:54] Kirito
    Those monsters are coming for you!
[15:59] Kirito
    Alice!
[16:05] Kirito
    It'll be bad if they attack us all at once.
[16:09] Kirito
    For me, anyway, but Alice...
[16:14] Kirito
    Alice!
[16:17] Kirito
    Alice!
[16:18] Kirito
    Hold onto the chain as tight as you can!
[16:21] Alice
    You're not going to...
[16:22] Kirito
    If we both survive,
    I'll apologize as much as you want later!
[16:25] Kirito
    Here goes!
[16:27] Kirito
    One!
[16:28] Kirito
    Two!
[16:30] Kirito
    Three!
[16:45] Alice
    Why, you!
[16:52] Alice
    Wh-What were you thinking, you complete idiot!
[16:56] Kirito
    It couldn't be helped, what else could I have...
[17:00] Kirito
    We'll talk later! Here they come!
[17:13] Alice
    There's no doubt.
[17:17] Alice
    What are they doing here?
[17:19] Kirito
    What's been bothering you?
[17:22] Kirito
    Do you know what those monsters are?
[17:24] Alice
    Yes. I know.
[17:27] Alice
    They're soulless, evil familiars controlled
    by dark art users from the Dark Territory,
[17:33] Alice
    who created them out of lumps of soil.
[17:36] Alice
    Following their lead, we call them minions.
[17:41] Kirito
    Minions?
[17:43] Kirito
    Why would we find a horde of those things lined up
    on the wall of the most sacred place in the Human Empire?
[17:48] Alice
    I want to know that as well!
[17:50] Alice
    Without you having to tell me,
    I know this is something that shouldn't be.
[17:55] Alice
    I simply cannot believe that minions
[17:58] Alice
    could slip past the Integrity Knights' watch
    and infiltrate all the way to the Central Cathedral.
[18:04] Alice
    Not to mention...
[18:06] Kirito
    Not to mention that someone
    of high authority within the Church
[18:10] Kirito
    might have deliberately placed them there.
[18:13] Kirito
    Such a thing could never be.
[18:15] Kirito
    Here they come!
[18:16] Kirito
    Watch out! Two are heading your way!
[18:19] Alice
    Who do you think I am?
[18:37] Alice
    Do you need my assistance?
[18:40] Kirito
    No thanks!
[19:03] Kirito
    What is it?
[19:04] Alice
    Nothing. I was just thinking
    how strange your moves are.
[19:08] Alice
    If you were to perform them on a stage
    during the summer solstice festival,
[19:11] Alice
    you'd gather quite an audience, no?
[19:13] Kirito
    Thanks for that.
[19:15] Kirito
    Wait, have you been to
    the Centoria summer solstice festival, then?
[19:19] Kirito
    I mean, that's a festival for the commoners,
    and even at the Academy,
[19:22] Kirito
    almost all of the students
    from high-ranking noble families didn't go.
[19:27] Alice
    Please don't think that I'm the same
    as those arrogant nobles!
[19:31] Alice
    Of course I've seen—
[19:34] Alice
    ...it before.
[19:35] Kirito
    Alice?
[19:37] Alice
    No. I heard there was such a festival
    from one of the monks.
[19:44] Alice
    We Integrity Knights
[19:46] Alice
    are prohibited from mingling with the townsfolk
    except in the line of duty.
[19:54] Alice
    Minion blood will bring about illness.
[19:57] Alice
    Make sure you wipe it off.
[20:01] Alice
    Hey!
[20:04] Alice
    Really, why are men all so...
[20:08] Alice
    Do you not have even a single handkerchief?
[20:12] Kirito
    N-No, I don't.
[20:13] Alice
    It's fine. Just use this.
[20:18] Kirito
    Thank you very much.
[20:23] Alice
    Return it to me washed, before I slay you.
[20:35] Eugeo
    Come to think of it,
    since we met two years ago,
[20:38] Eugeo
    Kirito's always been by my side.
[20:42] Eugeo
    This might be the first time
    I've ever been on my own.
[20:47] Eugeo
    Kirito...
[20:49] Eugeo
    No, Kirito should already be...
[20:52] Eugeo
    I'm sure he's started climbing the tower
    on the outside.
[20:55] Eugeo
    And Alice, too.
[21:05] Eugeo
    The nintieth floor, huh?
[21:10] Eugeo
    There has to be an Integrity Knight inside.
[21:15] Eugeo
    Here goes.
[21:34] Eugeo
    Is this a bath?
[21:43] Bercouli
    Sorry, but would you wait a little longer?
[21:49] Bercouli
    I only just arrived in the capital,
[21:52] Bercouli
    and my whole body is stiff from riding
    on that dragon for so long.
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The Legendary Hero.

E18 - The Legendary Hero

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SIGN    The Legendary Hero
[01:51] Bercouli
    Hey. Sorry to keep you waiting.
[01:56] Bercouli
    All right, before we get started,
    would you mind telling me one thing?
[02:02] Eugeo
    What's that?
[02:03] Bercouli
    Uh... you know...
[02:06] Bercouli
    Is the vice commander... Is Fanatio dead?
[02:10] Eugeo
    She's alive.
[02:12] Eugeo
    She should be receiving treatment now.
[02:16] Bercouli
    Is that so?
    Then I won't go so far as to take your life.
[02:23] Eugeo
    I don't like it.
[02:27] Bercouli
    What's that, youngster?
[02:29] Eugeo
    Since you're on a floor this high up,
[02:31] Eugeo
    does that mean you're the leader
    of the Integrity Knights?
[02:35] Bercouli
    Yeah. That's right.
[02:38] Eugeo
    Then Fanatio isn't your only subordinate, is she?
[02:41] Eugeo
    Eldrie and the Four Whirling Blades,
    not to mention...
[02:46] Eugeo
    do you care at all
    whether Alice is alive or dead?
[02:49] Bercouli
    Oh, is that what this is about?
[02:52] Bercouli
    How should I put this...
[02:54] Bercouli
    Eldrie is young lady Alice's apprentice,
[02:57] Bercouli
    while the Four Whirling Blades,
    Dakira, Jayce, Hoveren and Geero,
[03:01] Bercouli
    they're Fanatio's apprentices.
[03:03] Bercouli
    And Fanatio happens to be my apprentice.
[03:07] Bercouli
    I'm not one to carry my personal grudges
    onto the battlefield,
[03:11] Bercouli
    but if someone kills my apprentice,
[03:14] Bercouli
    I do feel obliged to at least avenge her...
    that's all there is to it.
[03:20] Bercouli
    Well, it's possible that
    little Alice looks up to me as her mentor,
[03:26] Bercouli
    but frankly, if we were to fight seriously,
    I don't know who'd be stronger at this point.
[03:32] Bercouli
    If it were six years ago, when she first became a knight,
    it would be a different story.
[03:38] Bercouli
    Well, I have no intention of losing to you,
[03:41] Bercouli
    nor do I think you defeated her,
    since she's as powerful as me.
[03:47] Bercouli
    According to the prime senator,
    you have a partner, right?
[03:53] Bercouli
    Since he's not here, that must mean
    he's dueling the young lady somewhere right now.
[03:59] Eugeo
    Well, something like that.
[04:02] Eugeo
    By the way,
[04:04] Eugeo
    after I've slashed you,
    who will show up to avenge you?
[04:10] Bercouli
    Don't worry. I don't have a mentor.
[04:24] Eugeo
    The Norkia style secret skill, Lightning Slash!
    No, it's similar, but not quite it.
[04:29] Eugeo
    Holding his sword straight up like that
    would require extra motion before activating the skill.
[04:35] Eugeo
    In that case, I'll strike first with the Aincrad style
    secret skill, Sonic Leap.
[04:42] Bercouli
    I haven't seen that stance before, youngster.
[04:44] Bercouli
    By any chance, are you a continuous attack wielder?
[04:49] Eugeo
    What does it matter
    if I can use continuous attacks or not?
[04:53] Bercouli
    Oh, it's just that some of the dark knights
    from the Dark Territory also used continuous attacks,
[04:59] Bercouli
    and I fought them a couple of times,
    but they're not really pleasant memories.
[05:05] Bercouli
    After all, I couldn't pull off those spastic, dexterous skills
    if my life depended on it.
[05:10] Eugeo
    In other words, you're telling me to fight
    using conventional moves, like an Integrity Knight?
[05:16] Eugeo
    Oh, no. Continuous attack or whatever...
    go ahead and use it as much as you want.
[05:23] Bercouli
    And don't take this as retaliation,
    but I'm going to use my trump card early on, all right?
[05:32] Eugeo
    If that sword is already
    under Perfect Weapon Control,
[05:36] Eugeo
    then my only chance will be to unleash Sonic Leap
    while he's activating his skill.
[05:42] Bercouli
    Integrity Knight Commander
    Bercouli Synthesis One...
[05:48] Bercouli
    ...is coming!
[05:49] Eugeo
    Bercouli!
[06:03] Eugeo
    His swing slashed through that spot a moment ago.
[06:25] Bercouli
    That was a bit too close, wasn't it?
[06:28] Bercouli
    I didn't expect you
    to charge at me that ferociously.
[06:32] Bercouli
    Sorry. I almost killed you.
[06:37] Eugeo
    What was that move just now?
[06:40] Bercouli
    Didn't I just tell you that I'd use my trump card?
[06:44] Bercouli
    It's not like I simply sliced the air
    with that swing.
[06:48] Bercouli
    What I did, so to speak,
    was to slice the future a bit.
[06:52] Eugeo
    Slice... the future?
[06:55] Bercouli
    The first time I saw those dark knights'
    continuous attacks,
[06:59] Bercouli
    I'd only just started as an Integrity Knight.
[07:02] Bercouli
    The sword techniques ingrained in my body
    were all about unleashing the force of a single strike,
[07:09] Bercouli
    while the continuous attacks focused on
    how to handle incoming strikes and land your own.
[07:17] Bercouli
    It's obvious which is more practical.
[07:21] Bercouli
    You can bet I was beaten senseless at first.
[07:25] Bercouli
    Then I thought about
    how my sword could hit my opponent.
[07:31] Bercouli
    And the answer was this here.
[07:34] Bercouli
    Originally, this sword was part
    of a Divine Object called a "clock"
[07:39] Bercouli
    that was installed on a wall
    of the Central Cathedral.
[07:42] Bercouli
    I'm told this clock had existed
    since the world was first created.
[07:48] Bercouli
    The pontifex called it the "System Clock,"
    or something strange like that.
[07:54] Bercouli
    Little Alice's Osmanthus Blade
    slices through the horizontal axis of space,
[08:00] Bercouli
    while this one pierces the vertical axis of time.
[08:05] Bercouli
    It's called the Time-Splitting Sword,
    the blade that pierces time.
[08:10] Eugeo
    The force from that sword's strike
    stays in the spot it passed through.
[08:14] Eugeo
    Which means I don't stand a chance
    in close combat,
[08:18] Eugeo
    so long-range combat is my only option!
[08:20] Eugeo
    System Call. Connect Armament.
    Search Archived Memory. Extra Core. Image convert.
[08:23] Bercouli
    "In that case, I'd better attack from a distance..."
    that's what you're thinking, right?
[08:28] Bercouli
    Everyone who's seen my move does.
[08:31] Bercouli
    Including Fanatio and Alice,
    the Integrity Knights summoned after me
[08:36] Bercouli
    tend to pick a long-range
    Perfect Weapon Control art
[08:40] Bercouli
    because they saw my move...
    or maybe I'm mistaken.
[08:45] Bercouli
    Those guys may not look it,
    but they're a pretty competitive bunch.
[08:49] Bercouli
    However, let me warn you,
    I've never lost to any of them in a match.
[08:57] Bercouli
    Well, I can see myself being beaten
    by little Alice one of these days.
[09:03] Bercouli
    Anyway, I'm looking forward to this.
[09:05] Bercouli
    The chance to see the skills you used
    to repulse one knight after another.
[09:11] Eugeo
    You're so confident.
[09:16] Bercouli
    Are you going to approach me, youngster?
[09:18] Bercouli
    Let me say, I won't hold back this time.
[09:27] Eugeo
    Enhance Armament!
[10:16] Eugeo
    That's when...
[10:21] Eugeo
    Lend me your strength,
[10:23] Eugeo
    Blue Rose Sword!
[10:25] Eugeo
    Release Recollection!
SIGN    Listen. There are two phases to the Perfect Weapon Control art.
SIGN    Enhancing and Release.
[10:41] Kirito
    Enhancing and...
[10:42] Eugeo
    Release?
SIGN    Enhancing awakens your weapon's memory by sections,
SIGN    causing it to manifest as a new offensive skill.
SIGN    And Release, as the name implies, awakens all of your weapon's memories,
SIGN    unleashing its savage power.
[11:00] Kirito
    Ah, I get it.
[11:07] Kirito
    Eldrie was able to extend the range of his Frostscale Whip
    and cause it to split by enhancing it.
[11:18] Eugeo
    And the whip transforming into a snake,
    that was the Release, huh?
SIGN    That's correct. However, it's still too soon for you two to use the Release art.
[11:28] Eugeo
    Wh-Why is that?
SIGN    You heard me say "savage power," didn't you?
SIGN    The offensive power generated by the release of memories
SIGN    cannot possibly be controlled by a swordsman who's only just learned the art.
SIGN    All the more so when it's a high-level Divine Object.
SIGN    You could get dragged in along with your opponent, so one wrong move,
SIGN    and you could lose your life.
[12:00] Bercouli
    I never thought I'd see a swordsman
    throw away his sword while facing an opponent.
[12:04] Bercouli
    Did you come up with
    that way of fighting yourself?
[12:07] Eugeo
    No, my partner taught it to me.
[12:10] Eugeo
    He told me everything on a battlefield
    can be used as a weapon or a trap.
[12:16] Bercouli
    I see. Taking advantage
    of your surroundings, huh?
[12:20] Bercouli
    Well, I admit that you won this round,
[12:23] Bercouli
    but I won't concede defeat like this!
[12:40] Eugeo
    The Blue Rose Sword contains two sleeping memories,
    eternal ice and the rose.
[12:46] Eugeo
    Eternal ice has the ability to freeze everything.
[12:50] Eugeo
    And the rose's ability is...
[12:55] Eugeo
    Bloom! Blue Roses!
[13:02] Bercouki
    Wh-What did you do?
[13:03] Eugeo
    These roses are blooming
    because they're absorbing our life.
[13:09] Bercouli
    You brat. You...
[13:12] Bercouli
    Don't tell me you intended
    to take us both out from the start?
[13:15] Eugeo
    Please don't get the wrong idea.
[13:18] Eugeo
    I might be superior to you in just one area,
[13:22] Eugeo
    and that's in my total amount of life.
[13:25] Eugeo
    Based on your appearance, you must've been over forty
    when you became an Integrity Knight.
[13:30] Eugeo
    Needless to say,
    your maximum life has decreased.
[13:34] Eugeo
    My life, however, is nearing its maximum.
[13:38] Eugeo
    Even though I received a blow from your sword,
    my total amount should still be higher.
[13:43] Eugeo
    That's what I bet on.
[13:45] Bercouli
    What did you just say?
[13:48] Bercouli
    I became an Integrity Knight?
[13:52] Bercouli
    You talk as if you know all about our past lives.
[13:56] Eugeo
    That's exactly what I can't forgive about you people.
[13:59] Eugeo
    You've forgotten who you were.
[14:02] Eugeo
    You've dedicated your swords to the Axiom Church,
    without knowing what it really is,
[14:06] Eugeo
    and act like you're the sole guardians
    of justice and the law!
[14:11] Eugeo
    You're not a divine knight
    summoned from the heavens by the pontifex.
[14:16] Eugeo
    Your mother gave birth to you,
    and you were given the name Bercouli...
[14:20] Eugeo
    you're a human like me!
[14:24] Eugeo
    Bercouli, you're the protagonist
    of a fairy tale in my village.
[14:31] Bercouli
    What are you saying?
[14:34] Eugeo
    You should recognize my sword.
[14:40] Bercouli
    That's true... from somewhere...
[14:43] Bercouli
    Right, that day...
[14:46] Bercouli
    when I killed the guardian dragon of the north,
    there was a sword like that in its lair.
[14:51] Eugeo
    Did you say you killed it?
[14:54] Eugeo
    Those dragon bones...
[14:57] Eugeo
    ...that was your doing?
[15:01] Eugeo
    Did you kill the dragon
    that appears in your own story?
[15:08] Eugeo
    Have you really forgotten all of it, Bercouli?
[15:14] Eugeo
    In Rulid, the village where I was born,
[15:18] Eugeo
    you're a hero known by everyone,
    young and old.
[15:22] Eugeo
    The pontifex abducted you,
    sealed away your memories,
[15:25] Eugeo
    and turned you into the first Integrity Knight.
[15:29] Eugeo
    And it wasn't just you.
[15:31] Eugeo
    Fanatio, Eldrie, even Alice,
[15:36] Eugeo
    it happened to all of them.
[15:38] Eugeo
    Before they were turned into Integrity Knights,
    they were humans just like us.
[15:45] Bercouli
    Sealed away my memories, you say?
[15:49] Bercouli
    I can't bring myself to believe your story
    just like that.
[15:54] Bercouli
    But the story about me being a divine knight
    summoned from the heavens...
[16:01] Bercouli
    For some reason,
    I couldn't accept it for a long time.
[16:24] Chudelkin
    Now this is a beautiful sight!
[16:34] Chudelkin
    This won't do. This won't do at all,
    Knight Commander.
[16:39] Chudelkin
    Surely you don't intend to drop dead now, do you?
[16:44] Chudelkin
    That would clearly be treason
    against Her Eminence, the lovely pontifex.
[16:49] Chudelkin
    When she awakens, she's sure to be livid!
[16:54] Bercouli
    Prime Senator Chudelkin,
[16:56] Bercouli
    a snob like you has no business
    meddling in a battle between swordsmen.
[17:05] Chudelkin
    How could you say such a thing,
    after going so easy on this vile traitor!
[17:11] Chudelkin
    Knight Commander, you neglected to use the other side
    of that Time-Splitting Sword, did you not?
[17:17] Chudelkin
    You could've slaughtered that loathsome brat
    before he even said a word, if you'd had a mind to!
[17:22] Chudelkin
    That's what I mean
    by treason against the pontifex!
[17:27] Bercouli
    Shut up.
[17:29] Bercouli
    I fought with everything I had.
[17:34] Bercouli
    Besides, I know you deceived me.
[17:40] Bercouli
    This kid isn't an assassin
    from the Dark Territory.
[17:46] Bercouli
    Compared to an ugly lump of meat like you,
    he's way—
[17:49] Chudelkin
    You shut up!
[17:51] Chudelkin
    Or I'll tear your head off!
[17:55] Chudelkin
    We wouldn't have this hassle in the first place
    if you damned knights weren't so utterly useless!
[18:02] Chudelkin
    Seriously, when Her Eminence awakens,
    every one of you knights...
[18:07] Chudelkin
    well, at the least, you and the vice commander
    will be reprocessed.
[18:12] Bercouli
    What did you say, you bastard?
[18:17] Chudelkin
    System Call! Deep Freeze!
[18:21] Chudelkin
    Integrator Unit, ID 001!
[18:40] Chudelkin
    The fact is, we don't need
    a geezer like you anymore, Number One.
[18:45] Chudelkin
    I've discovered a pawn
    who could be much more useful, haven't I?
[18:50] Eugeo
    Kirito.
[18:51] Eugeo
    Alice.
[18:55] Kirito
    Eugeo?
[18:56] Alice
    What's the matter?
[18:58] Kirito
    U-Uh, no, it's nothing.
[19:01] Kirito
    I think we can continue climbing the wall
    once the moon rises.
[19:05] Kirito
    If we can just create wedges,
    it shouldn't be too tough.
[19:09] Kirito
    And it doesn't seem like
    there are any more minions stationed above us.
[19:13] Kirito
    It's just that,
    aside from the matter of resources,
[19:17] Kirito
    I'm so hungry, just thinking about how many more mels
    we need to climb makes me dizzy.
[19:25] Alice
    That's why I find you to be so unserious.
[19:29] Alice
    What's so devastating about missing a meal or two?
    It's not like you're a child.
[19:33] Kirito
    Yeah, yeah. I'm just a child.
[19:36] Kirito
    I mean, I'm still barely a growing teen.
[19:41] Kirito
    Unlike you Integrity Knights,
    I have to eat or my life will plummet.
[19:45] Alice
    I'll have you know
    that even Integrity Knights get hungry too,
[19:48] Alice
    and unless we eat, our life is depleted.
[19:56] Kirito
    Hey, hold on! Sorry! Of course you're right!
[19:59] Kirito
    Sure, if they're alive,
    even Integrity Knights get hungry.
[20:02] Kirito
    Um, come to think of it, back at Cardinal's...
[20:09] Kirito
    Hey, a gift from the heavens!
[20:10] Kirito
    See, I found something good.
[20:14] Alice
    Why would you keep something like that
    in your pocket?
[20:18] Kirito
    Tap my pocket and find two steamed buns.
[20:21] Kirito
    But these won't taste good as-is, right?
[20:27] Kirito
    System Call. Generate Thermal Element.
[20:31] Kirito / Alice
    - Burs—
    - Are you an idiot?
[20:34] Alice
    If you do that,
    they'll be burned to a crisp in an instant!
[20:37] Kirito
    Right...
[20:39] Kirito
    Wha—
[20:43] Alice
    Generate Thermal Element.
[20:45] Alice
    Aqueous Element.
[20:47] Alice
    Aerial Element.
[20:51] Alice
    Vortex Shape.
[20:52] Alice
    Burst.
[20:58] Kirito
    H-Hurry, give me one!
[21:03] Alice
    I'm joking.
[21:11] Kirito
    I see.
[21:13] Kirito
    I didn't think you could steam buns
    without any tools, just elements.
[21:18] Kirito
    As expected of Selka's older sister,
    since she's such a great cook.
[21:23] Alice
    What did you just say?
[21:28] Kirito
    I said you have a younger sister.
[21:32] Alice
    Younger sister?
[21:40] Kirito
    I'll tell you about it.
[21:42] Kirito
    I don't know if you'll accept it or not,
[21:46] Kirito
    but I'll tell you everything I believe to be true.
[21:52] Alice
    Speak. However,
    if there's any trace of deceit in your words,
[22:00] Alice
    I will slay you on the spot.
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: Recollection.

E18.5 - Recollection

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[00:00] Kirito
    I'll tell you about it.
[00:03] Kirito
    I don't know if you'll accept it or not,
[00:07] Kirito
    but I'll tell you everything I believe to be true.
[00:13] Alice
    Speak. However,
    if there's any trace of deceit in your words,
[00:20] Alice
    I will slay you on the spot.
SIGN    Recollection
[02:04] Eugeo
    Ouch.
[02:06] Alice
    Hey! I caught you slacking off again,
    didn't I?
[02:10] Kirito
    Crap.
[02:12] Eugeo
    H-Hey, Alice.
[02:15] Kirito
    Y-You're done with your sacred arts class?
[02:18] Kirito (Narration)
    Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty,
[02:22] Kirito (Narration)
    your real name is Alice Zuberg.
[02:27] Kirito (Narration)
    You're the daughter of the elder of Rulid Village.
[02:30] Kirito (Narration)
    I heard that you were a girl
    who was skilled at cooking and the sacred arts.
[02:36] Kirito
    Your cooking skills are really improving, Alice!
[02:40] Alice
    Y-You really think so?
    I felt like it was still missing something.
[02:49] Kirito (Narration)
    Eight years ago,
    along with the boy you grew up with,
[02:53] Kirito (Narration)
    you went to the End Mountains
    in search of ice.
[02:56] Kirito (Narration)
    And on the way back, you got lost.
[03:03] Eugeo
    There's the exit!
[03:19] Kirito
    This is...
[03:21] Alice
    ...the Dark Territory.
[03:26] Kirito (Narration)
    It was the entrance to the realm of darkness
    the Taboo Index forbids anyone to enter,
[03:31] Kirito (Narration)
    the Dark Territory.
[03:55] Kirito
    No!
[04:09] Eugeo
    Alice!
[04:22] Kirito (Narration)
    Although it was only the tips of your fingers
    that entered the Dark Territory,
[04:26] Kirito (Narration)
    there were no exceptions to the Taboo Index,
    which all residents of the Human Empire must obey.
[04:32] Deusolbert
    For her crimes against the Taboo Index,
    the child of Gasfut Zuberg, Alice Zuberg,
[04:38] Deusolbert
    will now be apprehended, taken in,
    and, after questioning, executed.
[04:50] Kirito
    Eugeo, please! Go after her!
[05:12] Kirito
    Eugeo! At least get these guys off me! Then I'll...
[05:16] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[05:33] Kirito (Narration)
    You were taken away to the capital city
    by the Integrity Knight Deusolbert,
[05:39] Kirito (Narration)
    and no one knew
    what happened to you after that.
[05:45] Kirito
    Alice!
[05:48] Eugeo
    Well, years ago, somebody used to
    bring me lunch at noon every day.
SIGN    6 years later
[05:56] Kirito
    What happened?
[06:02] Eugeo
    She was my childhood friend.
[06:05] Eugeo
    A girl, the same age as me.
[06:07] Eugeo
    When we were little,
    we played together all the time.
[06:11] Eugeo
    Even after I received my Calling,
    she'd bring me lunch every day.
[06:17] Eugeo
    But...
[06:19] Eugeo
    Because of me...
[06:21] Kirito (Narration)
    It was Eugeo, your childhood friend
    and carver of the Gigas Cedar,
[06:27] Kirito (Narration)
    who made up his mind to find you
    and bring you home to Rulid Village.
[06:36] Eugeo
    I'm scared...
[06:39] Eugeo
    But I've got to go!
[06:43] Eugeo
    If I don't, it'll be just the same as when Alice...
[06:46] Kirito (Narration)
    He'd been full of regret ever since the day
    Deusolbert seized you and he froze, unable to help.
[06:55] Ugachi
    Die!
[06:56] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[07:01] Eugeo
    This time...
[07:07] Eugeo
    ...I'll be the one...
[07:11] Eugeo
    ...to protect you!
[07:14] Kirito
    Eugeo, run!
[07:27] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[07:34] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[07:41] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[07:44] Kirito
    Stay with me! Eugeo!
[07:48] Eugeo
    W-We promised each other as kids, remember?
[07:52] Eugeo
    Me, you and Alice.
[07:58] Eugeo
    We were born on the same day,
    so we're going to die on the same day.
[08:02] Eugeo
    This time...
[08:05] Eugeo
    ...I'm keeping it.
[08:12] Kirito (Narration)
    And so, in order to gain the power needed
    to bring you back, Eugeo became a swordsman.
[08:40] Villagers
    - H-Hey! Look!
    - What is that?
[09:00] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo was finally released from his Calling
    as carver of the Gigas Cedar after seven years.
[09:10] Eugeo
    All right, let's go.
[09:13] Kirito
    Okay.
[09:13] Kirito (Narration)
    And so we set off on our journey to the capital city.
[09:21] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo and I both enrolled in the Swordcraft Academy
    in the capital city,
[09:24] Kirito (Narration)
    where we met all kinds of people
    and learned a lot.
[09:30] Kirito (Narration)
    We swore that we'd become Integrity Knights one day,
    and climb the Central Cathedral and bring you home.
[09:39] Eugeo
    And to do that, first we have to place in the top 12
    on the Advancement Exam, huh?
[09:46] Kirito (Narration)
    But after we'd become elite disciples,
    an incident occurred.
[09:52] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo's page, Tiese, and my own page, Ronie
[09:57] Kirito (Narration)
    were taken against their will into the room
    of Raios and Humbert, the sons of high-ranking nobles.
[10:03] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo entered the room to try and save the girls.
[10:10] Raios
    ...as is my right!
[10:15] Raios
    Hold still. I'm going to discipline you now.
[10:19] Eugeo
    Stop it!
[10:20] Raios
    Don't move, commoner!
[10:23] Kirito (Narration)
    But unable to defy
    Raios's order not to move,
[10:28] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo could only watch
    as he humiliated the girls.
[10:34] Kirito (Narration)
    Why? Because under the Taboo Index,
    commoners must follow a nobleman's orders.
[10:43] Kirito (Narration)
    Serving as a seal, this doctrine is embedded in the souls
    of those who reside in the Human Empire,
[10:49] Kirito (Narration)
    and under no circumstances can anyone defy it.
[10:51] Eugeo
    If upholding such a law is the "right" thing to do...
[10:56] Eugeo
    I...
[10:58] Eugeo
    I...
[11:14] Eugeo
    What's... this?
[11:16] Eugeo
    No, this is the same as that time.
[11:23] Eugeo
    Unforgivable. It's absolutely...
[11:29] Eugeo
    ...unforgivable!
[11:31] Tiese
    No! No! Senpai!
[11:44] Kirito (Narration)
    In violation of the Taboo Index,
[11:47] Kirito (Narration)
    the law that would prevent him
    from saving those dear to him,
[11:53] Kirito (Narration)
    he chose instead to uphold his sense of justice.
[12:14] Raios
    My secret skill will demolish that piece of junk!
[12:18] Kirito
    Come on then, Raios!
[12:40] Raios
    How's that? How's that?
[12:43] Raios
    As if I, Raios Antinous, would fail to keep up
    with a mere commoner like you!
[12:56] Eugeo
    Kirito.
[13:15] Kirito (Narration)
    In order to protect the injured Eugeo,
    I took on Raios.
[13:20] Kirito (Narration)
    But for the crime of running afoul of the Taboo Index,
    which forbids taking the life of another,
[13:26] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo and I were arrested.
[13:30] Alice
    I am the overseer of the capital city of Centoria,
    an Integrity Knight of the Axiom Church...
[13:45] Alice
    Alice Synthesis Thirty.
[13:51] Eugeo
    Alice, is that you?
[13:57] Kirito (Narration)
    The Integrity Knight who came
    to take us into custody was you, Alice.
[14:03] Kirito (Narration)
    Though it was jarring to find that
    you weren't the Alice I'd heard about from Eugeo...
[14:08] Alice
    For running afoul of the Taboo Index,
[14:11] Alice
    I shall apprehend you, take you into custody
    and, after questioning,
[14:15] Alice
    I shall execute you.
[14:19] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo and I were imprisoned
    in the Central Cathedral dungeon.
[14:24] Kirito (Narration)
    After breaking out of our cell,
[14:26] Kirito (Narration)
    we found ourselves
    fighting the Integrity Knight Eldrie.
[14:30] Eldrie
    System Call! Enhance Armament!
[14:35] Kirito
    Don't worry.
[14:36] Kirito
    If it's a whip, as long as
    we keep an eye on the distance...
[14:40] Kirito
    ...it can't possib—
[14:43] Kirito
    It extended?
[14:55] Eldrie
    Release Recollection.
[15:02] Kirito (Narration)
    There, we saw with our own eyes
[15:05] Kirito (Narration)
    the Integrity Knights' secret skills,
    the Perfect Weapon Control and Memory Release arts.
[15:11] Eldrie
    No wonder Lady Alice was cautious of you.
[15:13] Eldire
    That attack has no form or anything,
    but that's why it exceeded my expectations.
[15:19] Kirito (Narration)
    We were only able to escape from Eldrie because
    we happened to discover the Integrity Knights' secret.
[15:32] Eugeo
    Wh-What just...
[15:36] Kirito
    Did Alice lose her memories
    and change personalities because of that?
[15:42] Kirito (Narration)
    But then Deusolbert arrived to help,
    and we were driven away.
[15:46] Deusolbert
    You won't be forgiven for the sin of tempting
    a brilliant Integrity Knight to fall from grace.
[15:51] Deusolbert
    After piercing all four of your limbs,
    I shall throw you back into your cell!
[15:57] Kirito
    Run!
[16:01] Eugeo
    Kirito! Up ahead!
[16:02] Eugeo
    It's a dead end!
SIGN    Hey!
SIGN    This way!
[16:08] Voice
    Dive!
[16:18] Kirito
    Where are we?
SIGN    We've been detected. Can't use this back door anymore.
[16:28] Kirito (Narration)
    It was Cardinal, the sage of the Great Library
    who saved us from that crisis.
[16:34] Kirito (Narration)
    She revealed the secrets of this world to me.
[16:37] Kirito
    Um...
SIGN    Come with me.
SIGN    Let me be as succinct as possible.
[16:47] Quinella
    System Call. Generate Luminous Element.
[16:51] Quinella
    Form Element, Liquid Shape.
[17:01] Kirito (Narration)
    The story of how a simple young girl named Quinella
    became Administrator, the pontifex of the Axiom Church.
[17:08] Administrator
    Through the Synthesis Ritual,
    this man will be reborn.
[17:13] Administrator
    As the ultimate warrior,
    a Integrity Knight swearing absolute fealty!
[17:20] Kirito (Narration)
    The method of how the Integrity Knights are created,
    in which memories are stolen and fake ones implanted.
[17:26] Eugeo
    How do we do that?
SIGN    Simply remove the Piety Module embedded in their foreheads.
[17:33] Kirito (Narration)
    We also asked Cardinal
    how we could restore your memories.
[17:39] Kirito (Narration)
    And then, Alice, in order to reach you,
    we battled numerous Integrity Knights.
[17:46] Linel
    How?
[17:48] Fizel
    I can't mo—
[17:57] Kirito
    I won't kill you.
[18:00] Kirito
    Instead, watch closely.
[18:03] Kirito
    At how strong the Integrity Knights
    you're mocking actually are!
[18:15] Kirito
    You didn't come all this way
    because you hated the Integrity Knights, right?
[18:20] Kirito
    Aren't you're here because you want to get Alice back...
    because you love her?
[18:26] Kirito
    And those feelings aren't in any way
    inferior to her justice.
[18:30] Kirito
    It's the same for me.
[18:32] Kirito
    I want to protect everyone in this world.
[18:35] Kirito
    You... Alice...
[18:38] Kirito
    I even want to protect her.
[18:40] Kirito
    So right now, we can't lose to her no matter what.
[18:45] Kirito
    Isn't that right, Eugeo?
[18:53] Kirito (Narration)
    And we finally encountered you
    on the eightieth floor.
[18:59] Alice
    I shall erase all of your life.
[19:04] Kirito
    Enhance Armament!
[19:15] Alice
    He aimed for the sword?
[19:16] Kirito (Narration)
    Unfortunately, even the two of us together
    couldn't defeat you.
[19:22] Kirito (Narration)
    That's how we ended up
    on the outer wall of the Central Cathedral.
[19:34] Bercouli
    Are you going to approach me, youngster?
[19:37] Kirito (Narration)
    I'm sure that Eugeo is fighting fiercely right now,
    in order to get to you.
[19:52] Eugeo
    Lend me your strength,
[19:55] Eugeo
    Blue Rose Sword!
[19:56] Eugeo
    Release Recollection!
[20:05] Kirito (Narration)
    And there's one final thing I need to tell you.
[20:09] Kirito (Narration)
    This world is coming to an end.
[20:15] Kirito (Narration)
    According to Cardinal,
    this world will soon enter its final phase,
[20:21] Kirito (Narration)
    when the Dark Territory forces will mount
    a concerted invasion into the Human Empire.
[20:26] Kirito (Narration)
    But as the entity charged with
    maintaining this world,
[20:30] Kirito (Narration)
    Cardinal tells me that she can't accept its demise.
[20:35] Kirito (Narration)
    And believing it to be the only way
    to normalize the Underworld,
[20:41] Kirito (Narration)
    Cardinal intends to return it to nothingness.
SIGN    I see. So this is...
SIGN    This is what it means to be human, huh?
SIGN    So warm.
SIGN    At last, I feel rewarded.
SIGN    Those 200 years I spent weren't in vain.
SIGN    Just discovering this warmth
    is enough to satisfy me.
SIGN    I feel rewarded... more than enough.
[21:23] Kirito (Narration)
    But I also realized that
    Cardinal wasn't just a coldhearted supervisor.
[21:33] Kirito (Narration)
    And so I swore that even after the battle
    against the Integrity Knights and Administrator began,
[21:39] Kirito (Narration)
    I'd keep trying to find a way to avoid tragedy
    and allow this world to survive peacefully.
[21:45] Kirito (Narration)
    This is everything I believe to be true,
    and my goal.
[21:52] Kirito (Narration)
    It's up to you whether to believe me or not.
[21:55] Kirito (Narration)
    But if possible,
    to save everyone living in this world,
[21:59] Kirito (Narration)
    it'd be great if you could help me...
[22:02] Kirito (Narration)
    Alice.
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The Seal of the Right Eye.

E19 - The Seal of the Right Eye

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[00:05] Alice
    Speak. However,
    if there's any trace of deceit in your words,
[00:12] Alice
    I will slay you on the spot.
[00:15] Kirito
    That's fine.
[00:17] Kirito
    If your decision to slay me is your own.
[00:24] Kirito
    The reason I say that is because
[00:27] Kirito
    there's an order inside you that you're not aware
    was put there by someone else.
[00:34] Kirito
    You Integrity Knights were summoned
    from the heavens to maintain order and justice
[00:39] Kirito
    by the surrogate of the gods, Administrator,
    the pontifex of the Axiom Church,
[00:45] Kirito
    or so you believe.
[00:48] Kirito
    But...
[00:49] Kirito
    Alice, you don't remember who gave birth to you,
    or where you were raised.
[00:56] Alice
    I was told it's because the moment
    Integrity Knights are called here,
[01:01] Alice
    the goddess Stacia seals our memories
    of the heavens.
[01:05] Kirito
    It's true that your memories have been sealed.
[01:08] Kirito
    It wasn't the goddess Stacia who did that,
    but the pontifex herself.
[01:13] Kirito
    And it's not your memories of the heavens
    that were sealed,
[01:16] Kirito
    but of having been born and raised
    as a human child in this world.
[01:21] Kirito
    Your real name is Alice Zuberg.
[01:24] Kirito
    You were born and raised in a small village
    in the northern hinterlands called Rulid.
[01:29] Kirito
    And when you were eleven,
[01:31] Kirito
    you went to explore the cave
    through the End Mountains
[01:35] Kirito
    and ended up barely crossing the boundary
    between the Human Empire and the Dark Territory.
[01:40] Kirito
    In other words, the taboo you violated
    was "trespassing into the Dark Territory."
[01:49] Alice
    Alice Zuberg.
[01:52] Alice
    That's my name?
[01:55] Alice
    Rulid... The End Mountains...
[01:58] Alice
    I can't remember any of it.
[02:01] Kirito
    Don't force yourself to remember.
    You'll end up like Eldrie.
[02:04] Alice
    Why would you say that now?
[02:06] Alice
    I... want to know everything.
SIGN    The Seal of the Right Eye
[03:50] Kirito
    Your father is Rulid's village elder,
    and his name is Gasuft Zuberg.
[03:56] Kirito
    Unfortunately, I don't know your mother's name,
[03:59] Kirito
    but like I said before,
    you have a younger sister. Her name is Selka.
[04:04] Alice
    Selka.
[04:05] Kirito
    She's been worried about you
    ever since you were taken away by the Church.
[04:10] Kirito
    When you were living in Rulid,
    I'm told you were called a prodigy of the sacred arts.
[04:15] Kirito
    And she's working hard to become a good Sister,
    to follow in her older sister's footsteps.
[04:22] Alice
    You told me something.
[04:25] Alice
    That you planned this rebellion
[04:27] Alice
    in order to correct the pontifex's wrongs
    and to protect the human world.
[04:32] Kirito
    Yeah. That's right.
[04:35] Alice
    Yet it's a fact that the pontifex's primary order
    to us Integrity Knights
[04:40] Alice
    is to defend against an invasion
    from the Dark Territory.
[04:46] Alice
    Even if you managed
    to defeat every Integrity Knight,
[04:49] Alice
    as well as slay the pontifex herself,
[04:52] Alice
    then who would be left
    to protect the Human Empire?
[04:56] Kirito
    Then let me ask you this.
[04:58] Kirito
    If you Integrity Knights counter
    at full strength,
[05:02] Kirito
    do you really believe that you can definitely repulse
    the entire Dark Territory forces?
[05:11] Bercouli
    Prime Senator. Can you have a serious talk
    with the pontifex soon?
[05:16] Bercouli
    The Dark Territory is steadily building up its forces.
[05:21] Bercouli
    There’s a limit to how much we can fight back
    if we're the only—
[05:25] Chudelkin
    Like I said!
[05:26] Chudelkin
    It's your job as Integrity Knights
    to do something about it!
[05:31] Chudelkin
    Geez, you never shut up!
[05:33] Chudelkin
    You just need to do as you're told! Seriously!
[05:40] Alice
    It's true that Uncle...
[05:44] Alice
    that His Eminence, Knight Commander Bercouli,
    seemed to have the same doubts.
[05:50] Alice
    But even so, it's also a fact that aside from ourselves,
    no other battle-ready force exists in the Human Empire.
[05:57] Kirito
    But that's a situation of Administrator's own making.
[06:02] Kirito
    The pontifex feared the emergence
    of a force in the Human Empire
[06:07] Kirito
    greater than her own absolute power.
[06:09] Kirito
    So she allowed the high-ranking nobles,
    who should reach for their swords first if war breaks out,
[06:13] Kirito
    to lead indolent, lavish lives,
    and as a result, their souls were corrupted.
[06:20] Kirito
    But that doesn't mean it's too late.
[06:23] Kirito
    Before the Dark Forces close in,
[06:26] Kirito
    if we can raise the largest possible army
    within the Human Empire—
[06:30] Alice
    There's no way we can do such a thing!
[06:33] Alice
    You just said it yourself.
[06:36] Alice
    How corrupt the nobles of this world have become!
[06:39] Kirito
    Yeah, that's true. But not everyone is like that.
[06:43] Kirito
    Among the lower-ranking nobles
    and commoners,
[06:46] Kirito
    there are a lot of people
    who want to protect this world.
[06:50] Alice
    Commoners?
[06:52] Kirito
    That's right.
[06:53] Kirito
    If we distribute the huge stash of weapons
    stored inside this tower,
[06:58] Kirito
    and then teach them the same real sword skills
    and sacred arts you all have been refining,
[07:02] Kirito
    it wouldn't be impossible
    to raise a solid army within a year.
[07:06] Kirito
    But the way things are,
    that can't be made a reality.
[07:11] Kirito
    Because an army
    whose loyalty to her can't be forced
[07:14] Kirito
    is just as terrifying to Administrator
    as the forces of darkness.
[07:20] Kirito
    In other words, there's only one conclusion.
[07:22] Kirito
    Our only option is to crush the pontifex's absolute rule,
    maximize what little time we have left,
[07:30] Kirito
    and then build up a defensive force
    that can counter the imminent invasion.
[07:37] Alice
    That there are minions of darkness here...
[07:40] Alice
    That fact alone is irrefutable proof
    that the pontifex is deceiving us, her loyal servants.
[08:04] Alice
    Will I get to see her?
[08:07] Alice
    If I agree to help you,
    and regain my sealed memories,
[08:12] Alice
    will I get to see Selka...
    my younger sister again?
[08:21] Kirito
    You will.
[08:22] Kirito
    But listen. I want you to hear me out.
[08:26] Kirito
    It'll be someone who's both you and not you
    that will see Selka.
[08:30] Kirito
    The moment you get your memory back,
[08:32] Kirito
    you'll go back to being Alice Zuberg
    from before the Synthesis Ritual.
[08:37] Kirito
    At the same time, the Integrity Knight
    Alice Synthesis Thirty will cease to exist.
[08:45] Alice
    Selka. Selka.
[08:50] Alice
    I can't remember. Her face or voice.
[08:54] Alice
    But this isn't the first time
    I've called that name.
[08:58] Alice
    My mouth, my throat,
[09:02] Alice
    my heart all remember.
[09:04] Kirito
    Alice.
[09:05] Alice
    I called it over and over.
    Every day, every night. Selka. Selka.
[09:18] Alice
    It's true. I have a family.
[09:24] Alice
    A father and a mother.
[09:26] Alice
    And a sister who's my own flesh and blood.
[09:31] Alice
    Somewhere underneath this night sky.
[09:56] Alice
    Once you told me that we Integrity Knights
    were created by the pontifex,
[10:03] Alice
    I suspected that this might be the case.
[10:06] Alice
    That I'd stolen this body
    from a girl named Alice Zuberg,
[10:11] Alice
    wrongfully occupying it for the last six years.
    Isn't that right?
[10:17] Alice
    I must return what I've stolen, right?
[10:21] Alice
    I'm sure that's what Selka, her parents, your friend
[10:25] Alice
    and you yourself wish for.
[10:28] Kirito
    Alice.
[10:30] Alice
    But there's just one...
    one favor I'd like to ask of you.
[10:35] Alice
    Before the original Alice's personality
    is restored to this body,
[10:40] Alice
    will you take me to Rulid Village?
[10:43] Alice
    And just one look while hidden is all I ask.
[10:47] Alice
    I want you to show me Selka,
    my younger sister, as well as my family.
[10:53] Alice
    If you could just grant me that, I'll be satisfied.
[10:58] Kirito
    Okay, I promise. I swear to you.
[11:02] Kirito
    Before we restore your memories,
    I'll definitely take you to Rulid Village.
[11:07] Alice
    No matter what, all right?
[11:25] Alice
    I've made up my mind.
[11:28] Alice
    In order to protect the Human Empire,
    and those who reside in it,
[11:32] Alice
    I, Alice Synthesis Thirty, hereby forsake my mission
    as an Integrity Knight and—
[11:40] Kirito
    Alice?
[11:45] Kirito
    Alice!
[11:48] Alice
    Kirito.
[11:53] Kirito
    Alice.
[12:00] Kirito
    A bar code?
    No, nothing like that exists in this world.
[12:08] Alice
    It's like my right eye is on fire.
[12:11] Alice
    And I can see some words.
[12:14] Kirito
    Don't think!
[12:16] Kirito
    Empty your mind!
[12:18] Kirito
    What's happening to you
[12:19] Kirito
    is probably some kind of psychological barrier
    that activates when you try to defy the Church.
[12:24] Kirito
    If you keep thinking about it,
    your eye's going to burst!
[12:29] Alice
    How cruel.
[12:30] Alice
    What a cruel thing to do.
[12:33] Alice
    For not only my memories, but even my mind
    to be controlled by someone else.
[12:42] Alice
    The one who burned this red sacred script
    onto my eye...
[12:48] Alice
    was it the pontifex?
[12:52] Kirito
    No, I don't think it was her.
[12:55] Kirito
    It's one of the entities who created this world
    and observes it from the outside.
[12:59] Kirito
    One of the gods
    that don't appear in the creation story.
[13:03] Alice
    Gods...
[13:06] Alice
    We Integrity Knights have fought endlessly
    to protect the world that the gods created,
[13:14] Alice
    and yet they refuse to trust us?
[13:17] Alice
    Robbing me of my memories
    of my family and my sister,
[13:22] Alice
    and on top of that,
    placing such a seal on me
[13:25] Alice
    to force me to obey... how dare they.
[13:29] Alice
    I'm not a puppet!
[13:32] Alice
    Even if I am an entity created by another,
[13:36] Alice
    I still have a mind of my own!
[13:39] Alice
    I want to protect this world
    and the people who live in it!
[13:43] Alice
    That's the one and only mission I must carry out!
[13:47] Kirito
    Alice!
[13:53] Alice
    Kirito.
[13:55] Alice
    Hold me down firmly.
[13:58] Kirito
    Right.
[14:02] Alice
    Pontifex Administrator,
    as well as you nameless gods...
[14:08] Alice
    in order to accomplish what I must do,
[14:11] Alice
    I will fight you!
[14:25] Administrator
    Eugeo.
[14:27] Administrator
    Eugeo!
[14:35] Administrator
    You must be cold over there.
[14:37] Administrator
    Now then, come here, Eugeo.
[14:50] Eugeo
    Mom? Is that you, Mom?
[14:53] Administrator
    That's right. I'm your mother, Eugeo.
[15:04] Eugeo
    But where's Dad?
[15:06] Eugeo
    Where did my brothers go?
[15:09] Administrator
    You silly child.
[15:11] Administrator
    You killed them all, remember?
[15:25] Eugeo
    What happened to me?
[15:28] Eugeo
    What am I doing here?
[15:32] Eugeo
    Bercouli, the knight commander...
[15:35] Eugeo
    I fought the hero of the old legend.
[15:38] Eugeo
    And afterward, a little man named Chudelkin
    or something showed up.
[15:42] Eugeo
    I can't remember what happened after that.
[15:46] Eugeo
    Is this...
[15:50] Eugeo
    Is this the top floor of the Central Cathedral?
[16:05] Eugeo
    If I'm on the top floor of the Cathedral,
    then that's...
[16:29] Alice's voice
    No, Eugeo! Run!
[16:37] Eugeo
    This person is the pontifex, Administrator.
[16:42] Eugeo
    If I do it now...
[16:44] Eugeo
    But this is for Alice, I can't use it now.
[16:49] Alice's voice
    Eugeo, run!
[17:11] Administrator
    You poor child.
[17:12] Eugeo
    Huh? Poor?
[17:15] Administrator
    That's right. So very pitiful.
[17:18] Administrator
    You're just like a withered potted flower.
[17:21] Eugeo
    A potted... flower?
[17:24] Administrator
    And you know very well yourself.
    How you thirst... how you starve.
[17:30] Eugeo
    For what?
[17:31] Administrator
    For love.
[17:33] Eugeo
    Did you say love?
[17:35] Eugeo
    You make it sound like I don't know what love is.
[17:39] Administrator
    That's right. You're a pitiful child
    who doesn't known what it's like to be loved.
[17:45] Eugeo
    That's not true! My mom loved me.
[17:50] Eugeo
    Whenever I had a nightmare and couldn't sleep,
[17:53] Eugeo
    she'd hold me and sing me lullabies!
[17:56] Administrator
    But was that love really meant only for you?
[18:00] Administrator
    You know it wasn't.
[18:01] Administrator
    It was what was left over
    from what she'd divided among your brothers.
[18:06] Eugeo
    That's a lie! Mom loved only me.
[18:12] Administrator
    You wanted her to love only you.
    But she wouldn't do that.
[18:17] Administrator
    That's why you hated them.
[18:19] Administrator
    Your father and your older brothers
    who stole your mother's love.
[18:22] Eugeo
    That's a lie! I... I don't hate my father
    or my brothers at all!
[18:28] Administrator
    Is that true?
[18:30] Administrator
    After all, you did slash him.
[18:33] Eugeo
    Who?
[18:34] Administrator
    That red-haired girl might've been
    the first person who loved you and no one else.
[18:40] Administrator
    When that man tried to take her away by force
    and defile her, you tried to slash him.
[18:45] Administrator
    Because you hated him.
[18:47] Administrator
    Because he'd taken something
    that was only yours.
[18:51] Eugeo
    You're wrong.
    That's not why I raised my sword against Raios!
[18:57] Administrator
    But your thirst remains unquenched.
[19:00] Administrator
    No one will ever love you.
    They've all forgotten about you.
[19:05] Administrator
    "We don't need you anymore," they said,
    and discarded you.
[19:08] Eugeo
    That's not true. That's not true.
[19:11] Eugeo
    I... I haven't been discarded.
[19:16] Eugeo
    That's right. It's not true. I have Alice.
[19:19] Administrator
    Is that really true?
[19:21] Administrator
    Does that girl really love only you, I wonder?
[19:27] Administrator
    You've forgotten.
[19:29] Administrator
    I'll help you to remember.
[19:32] Administrator
    The real memories you've buried
    deep inside your heart!
[19:43] Eugeo
    I haven't seen Kirito or Alice all morning.
    Where could they be?
[19:52] Eugeo
    A—
[19:54] Young Kirito
    Hey, let's head back now. Or they'll find out.
[19:58] Young Alice
    We still have time.
    A little longer... just a little bit, okay?
[20:05] Eugeo
    That's a lie.
[20:09] Eugeo
    This is all lies!
[20:12] Administrator
    See? I told you.
[20:18] Administrator
    Do you understand now?
[20:19] Administrator
    Even that girl's love doesn't belong to you alone.
[20:23] Administrator
    No. Actually, did she even have any for you
    from the start?
[20:31] Administrator
    But I'm different, Eugeo.
[20:34] Administrator
    I'm willing to love you.
[20:36] Administrator
    I'll give all of my love to you. Only you.
[20:45] Eugeo
    Only me?
[20:58] Administrator
    Now, come here, Eugeo.
[21:04] Administrator
    Now you can experience the joy
    of being loved to your heart's content.
[21:10] Administrator
    And if you love me,
    I'll return that same amount of love.
[21:16] Administrator
    The deeper your love for me,
    the more I'll bring you to the ultimate pleasure,
[21:22] Administrator
    one beyond your imagination!
[21:26] Eugeo
    Is that really what love is?
[21:31] Eugeo
    Is it like money,
    that you use to buy things of value?
[21:34] Eugeo
    Is that all there is to it?
[21:37] Tiese
    Eugeo-senpai.
[21:41] Tiese
    That's not what it is, Eugeo-senpai!
[21:53] Young Alice
    You're wrong, Eugeo!
[21:57] Young Alice
    Love isn't something you can get as a reward!
[22:08] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[22:34] Administrator
    Don't you want it, Eugeo?
[22:36] Administrator
    To forget everything that causes you sorrow,
    and consume all of my love?
[22:42] Administrator
    But not yet.
[22:45] Administrator
    Didn't I tell you? First, you have to love me.
[22:49] Administrator
    Now, chant exactly what I say.
[22:53] Administrator
    Be thinking that you trust only me,
    and you're offering yourself to me fully.
[22:57] Administrator
    Now... First, the initial line of the sacred art.
[23:01] Eugeo
    System Call.
[23:04] Administrator
    That's right. Now keep going.
[23:07] Administrator
    Remove Core Protection.
[23:10] Eugeo
    Remove...
[23:12] Eugeo
    Was this the best thing to do?
[23:15] Eugeo
    Core...
[23:16] Eugeo
    But I don't want to be sad
    or in pain anymore.
[23:22] Administrator
    That's right.
    Now, come to me, Eugeo. Into me.
[23:27] Administrator
    Into eternal stasis.
[23:30] Eugeo
    ...Protection.
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: Synthesis.

E20 - Synthesis

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SIGN    Central Cathedral, Ninety-Fifth Floor Morning Star Lookout
[00:12] Alice
    Kirito.
[00:15] Alice
    You didn't carry me all this way, did you?
[00:18] Kirito
    I did.
[00:19] Kirito
    It was a hassle.
[00:21] Kirito
    So a little appreciation—
[00:24] Kirito
    What're you doing?
[00:26] Alice
    Oh no! You're drenched with sweat!
[00:30] Alice
    And my clothes are stained!
[00:32] Alice
    Get away from me right now!
[00:34] Kirito
    What did you say?
[00:37] Kirito
    Ouch!
SIGN    Synthesis
[02:22] Alice
    Where's your comrade?
[02:24] Kirito
    You mean Eugeo?
[02:26] Alice
    Where do you think this Eugeo is right now?
[02:30] Alice
    If he took the stairs from the Cloudtop Garden,
[02:34] Alice
    he must've run into the most powerful opponent
    before reaching this floor.
[02:39] Kirito
    Most powerful opponent?
[02:40] Alice
    Uncle...
[02:42] Alice
    His Eminence, the Knight Commander Bercouli.
[02:46] Kirito
    Eugeo, where are you?
[02:52] Kirito
    I know!
[02:54] Kirito
    System Call.
[02:56] Kirito
    Generate Umbra Element.
[02:58] Kirito
    Adhere Possession.
[03:00] Kirito
    Object ID, WLSS703.
[03:04] Kirito
    Discharge.
[03:06] Alice
    What are you doing?
[03:08] Kirito
    I'm trying to locate the Blue Rose Sword.
[03:11] Kirito
    Since Eugeo would never let it go.
[03:16] Kirito
    Below us.
[03:19] Alice
    Wait.
[03:23] Alice
    Did you treat my wound?
[03:24] Kirito
    Yeah.
[03:26] Kirito
    I managed to stop the bleeding,
    but my sacred art skills can only do so much.
[03:32] Kirito
    Can your right eye be healed?
[03:39] Alice
    At this time,
    there aren't sufficient spatial resources.
[03:44] Alice
    It won't be possible to treat it
    until Solus has risen.
[03:47] Alice
    I still feel some pain,
    and the vision in my right eye is somewhat limited,
[03:52] Alice
    but neither will prevent me from fighting.
[03:54] Kirito
    B-But...
[03:56] Alice
    Besides...
[03:59] Alice
    I'd like to feel it a bit longer.
[04:01] Alice
    This pain, which is the proof
    that I've decided to fight the Axiom Church.
[04:07] Kirito
    Alice.
[04:15] Kirito
    All right.
[04:16] Kirito
    If we go into battle,
    I'll protect your right side.
[04:37] Alice
    Did Eugeo cause this?
[04:40] Kirito
    Yeah. There's no doubt.
[04:42] Kirito
    This is his Blue Rose Sword
    under the Perfect Weapon Control art.
[04:47] Kirito
    Still, who knew it would be this devastating?
[04:51] Alice
    Uncle? Uncle!
[04:56] Kirito
    Is that...
[05:01] Alice
    Uncle?
[05:05] Kirito
    This isn't Eugeo's art.
[05:09] Alice
    Long ago, Uncle told me...
[05:13] Alice
    that Prime Senator Chudelkin was given
    the authority to turn anyone to stone.
[05:19] Alice
    I believe the name of the command is Deep Freeze.
[05:23] Kirito
    Then it was his own ally, the prime senator,
    who cast the art on the knight commander?
[05:30] Kirito
    But why?
[05:31] Alice
    Uncle seemed to have secret doubts
    about the orders issued by the senate.
[05:38] Alice
    But he told himself the Human Empire
    could never know peace
[05:43] Alice
    without the Axiom Church's rule,
    and spent countless days battling.
[05:51] Alice
    The senate may have all the authority in the world,
[05:54] Alice
    but this... there's no reason
    for him to receive treatment like this!
[06:00] Alice
    Uncle!
[06:09] Alice
    Uncle...
[06:11] Alice
    Stop it! Please stop now!
    Your body will break! Uncle!
[06:19] Bercouli
    Hey, little one.
[06:22] Bercouli
    Don't cry so much.
[06:24] Bercouli
    It'll ruin your good looks.
[06:27] Alice
    Uncle...
[06:29] Bercouli
    I see.
[06:30] Bercouli
    You've overcome that wall at last.
[06:34] Bercouli
    The Seal of the Right Eye I couldn't break,
    even after 300 years.
[06:40] Alice
    Uncle... I... I'm...
[06:44] Bercouli
    Don't make that face. I'm happy.
[06:49] Bercouli
    Now there's nothing left for me to teach you.
[06:55] Alice
    That's... that's not true at all!
[06:57] Alice
    There's so many things
    I want to learn from you!
[07:00] Bercouli
    I know you can do it.
[07:03] Bercouli
    Guide this twisted world to its proper state.
[07:10] Bercouli
    Hey, brat.
[07:12] Bercouli
    Look after her for me.
[07:16] Kirito
    I will.
[07:20] Bercouli
    Your partner was taken away
    by Prime Senator Chudelkin.
[07:28] Bercouli
    Most likely to the pontifex's chambers.
[07:32] Bercouli
    Hurry, before that boy is deceived
    by the labyrinth of his memories.
[07:43] Alice
    Uncle...
[07:53] Kirito
    This is...
[08:11] Alice
    Usually, the only person mad enough to wield two swords
    is a pretentious high-ranking noblemen,
[08:19] Alice
    but for some reason, it suits you.
[08:22] Kirito
    You think so?
[08:23] Kirito
    Still, there's no way
    I can swing two swords at the same time.
[08:30] Alice
    Anyway.
[08:32] Alice
    It seems that Eugeo has already been captured
    by the pontifex.
[08:37] Alice
    We'd better hurry,
    because her actions aren't bound by human logic.
[08:42] Kirito
    Have you spoken to Administrator before?
[08:47] Alice
    Only once.
[08:49] Alice
    It was six years ago.
[08:51] Alice
    I awoke, having lost all of my memories,
[08:55] Alice
    and faced my summoner, the pontifex said to be
    ruling the Human Empire on behalf of the gods.
[09:02] Alice
    Those mirror-like silver eyes
    that reflected all light...
[09:06] Alice
    Yes. I understand now.
    I was deeply afraid of the pontifex at that time.
[09:12] Alice
    "I can never defy her.
[09:14] Alice
    I'm to accept her every word without question,
    and offer her my everything."
[09:19] Alice
    I know now it was that overwhelming terror
    that compelled me to feel that way.
[09:26] Kirito
    Alice.
[09:31] Alice
    I'll be fine.
[09:33] Alice
    I've already made up my mind.
[09:35] Alice
    For the sake of my younger sister
    residing far away in the north...
[09:38] Alice
    For the family I've never seen yet,
    and for all of the people,
[09:41] Alice
    I'll do what I believe is right.
[09:44] Alice
    Now then, let's hurry.
[09:46] Alice
    For all we know,
    before we confront the pontifex,
[09:50] Alice
    we may have to battle the prime senator.
[09:53] Kirito
    H-H-Hey! Is it okay
    to leave the knight commander like this?
[09:58] Alice
    We can either force Chudelkin to reverse the art,
[10:02] Alice
    or else slay him. That's all there is to it.
[10:09] Kirito
    Hey.
[10:10] Alice
    What is it?
[10:11] Kirito
    I keep hearing the name "Prime Senator Chudelkin,"
[10:15] Kirito
    but who are these senators, anyway?
[10:18] Alice
    To be honest, that's never been clearly explained,
    even to the Integrity Knights.
[10:24] Alice
    I heard that they're on floors ninety-six and above,
    but knights are prohibited from entering that area.
[10:30] Kirito
    What's their job?
[10:32] Alice
    The Taboo Index.
[10:34] Alice
    They confirm and monitor whether all residents
    of the Human Empire are obeying the Taboo Index.
[10:40] Alice
    That's the senate's job.
[10:43] Alice
    And whenever someone runs afoul of the Taboos,
[10:46] Alice
    they send an Integrity Knight
    to deal with the situation.
[10:50] Kirito
    In other words,
    the senate is like a proxy for the pontifex?
[10:55] Kirito
    But how could someone as cautious as Administrator
    give them that much authority?
[11:04] Kirito
    This is the senate?
[11:06] Alice
    Yes. It should be.
[11:18] Alice
    Sacred arts?
[11:20] Kirito
    It doesn't seem to be an attack spell.
[11:24] Alice
    Let's go in.
[11:40] Kirito
    S-Severed heads?
[11:42] Alice
    No. They seem to have their bodies attached.
[11:54] Kirito
    They're like the one from that time!
[11:56] Alice
    Do you know them?
[11:58] Kirito
    Yeah.
[11:59] Kirito
    One appeared after we fought Raios and Humbert
    at the Swordcraft Academy.
[12:03] Kirito
    There's no doubt it was these guys.
[12:35] Senator
    System Call.
[12:37] Senator
    Display Rebelling Index.
[12:41] Alice
    So these are the senators of the Axiom Church,
    which rules the Human Empire.
[12:44] Alice
    Was it the pontifex who created such a spectacle?
[12:48] Kirito
    Yeah, probably.
[12:50] Kirito
    She must've abducted people skilled in the sacred arts
    from all over the Human Empire,
[12:54] Kirito
    and turned them
    into surveillance devices called senators.
[12:59] Alice
    Unforgivable!
[13:04] Chudelkin
    Oh no! Oh no, this won't do!
[13:07] Chudelkin
    This won't do!
[13:08] Kirito
    Whose voice is that?
[13:13] Alice
    The Prime Senator... Chudelkin.
[13:18] Chudelkin
    This won't do!
[13:25] Chudelkin
    This won't do! It won't! It simply won't do!
[13:45] Alice
    If you try to initiate a sacred art,
    I will cut out your tongue at the root.
[13:50] Chudelkin
    You...
[13:52] Chudelkin
    Number Thirty! What are you doing here?
[13:55] Chudelkin
    By rights you should've perished
    along with one of those rebels!
[13:58] Alice
    Don't you dare call me by a number!
[14:01] Alice
    My name is Alice.
[14:03] Alice
    And I am no longer Thirty.
[14:08] Chudelkin
    You! Why are you...
[14:10] Chudelkin
    Thirty— Knight Alice,
    why aren't you slashing this guy?
[14:15] Chudelkin
    He's a rebel against the Church.
    A pawn of the Dark Territory, don't you remember?
[14:20] Alice
    It's true that he's a rebel.
[14:22] Alice
    But he's not a member of the realm of darkness.
[14:25] Alice
    He's just like I am now.
[14:29] Chudelkin
    You're planning to betray us,
    you miserable knight?
[14:32] Chudelkin
    You damned Integrity Knights are nothing but puppets!
[14:36] Chudelkin
    Mere dolls who do exactly what I order you to do!
[14:39] Alice
    It was the Axiom Church
    that turned us into puppets.
[14:43] Alice
    You sealed away our memories
    through the Synthesis Ritual
[14:47] Alice
    and instilled fealty into us by force,
[14:50] Alice
    after which you made us believe the myth
    that we were knights summoned from the heavens.
[14:56] Chudelkin
    Yes. That's exactly right.
[15:00] Chudelkin
    I still remember it clearly.
[15:03] Chudelkin
    The sight of you, so young, innocent and sweet,
    with tears streaming down your face as you begged!
[15:10] Chudelkin
    "Please! Don't let me forget!
    Don't let me forget the people I love!"
[15:19] Chudelkin
    Even now, I can enjoy
    just thinking about it all night long!
[15:24] Chudelkin
    You were brought here from some rural area,
    and for the first two years,
[15:28] Chudelkin
    you were raised as a sister-in-training.
[15:31] Chudelkin
    You were such a tomboy, you'd find ways around the rules
    to sneak off to the Centoria summer solstice festival!
[15:37] Chudelkin
    Still, you did your best, believing that if you studied hard,
    you'd get to go home one day, right?
[15:44] Chudelkin
    But that was never going to happen.
[15:46] Chudelkin
    Once you'd raised your sacred art authority level
    high enough, it was time for forced synthesis!
[15:53] Chudelkin
    That tear-stained face of yours
    when you realized you'd never go home again...
[15:57] Chudelkin
    Really, I wanted to turn it to stone right then,
    so I could display it in my room for all eternity!
[16:06] Alice
    You just said something odd.
[16:09] Alice
    Forced synthesis?
[16:11] Alice
    If I didn't know better, I'd suspect
    there was a Synthesis Ritual that wasn't forced.
[16:15] Chudelkin
    Your ears are sharper than I thought.
    That's exactly right.
[16:20] Chudelkin
    Six years ago, you stubbornly refused
[16:24] Chudelkin
    to recite the secret commands
    required for a normal Synthesis Ritual.
[16:29] Chudelkin
    Really, you were the most insolent brat imaginable!
[16:33] Chudelkin
    So we had no choice
    but to pause the automated senators,
[16:38] Chudelkin
    and have them conduct a ritual to pry open the door
    protecting what you held so dear!
[16:43] Chudelkin
    Well, I did get to see the rarest of shows...
    what a feast for the eyes!
[16:51] Kirito
    He's waiting for something.
[16:53] Kirito
    Is this rambling story of his
    a ploy to keep us in this room?
[16:59] Alice
    Prime Senator Chudelkin...
[17:02] Alice
    I can see that you've enjoyed your circumstances.
[17:06] Alice
    In that case, you should have no regrets.
[17:13] Alice
    I'm tired of hearing your stories.
[17:31] Chudelkin
    It's not all about commands! Idiot! Idiot!
[17:36] Alice
    Chudelkin!
[17:38] Kirito
    Hey!
[17:42] Chudelkin
    System Call! Generate Lu...
[17:45] Alice
    Watch out for a sacred art surprise attack!
[17:47] Kirito
    Roger that!
[17:51] Kirito
    I thought I heard him chanting.
[17:54] Alice
    Could it be that Chudelkin escaped
    to the hundredth floor?
[17:57] Kirito
    But then where are the stairs leading up there?
[18:11] Kirito
    So there were still Integrity Knights remaining?
[18:13] Alice
    No, that can't be.
[18:30] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[18:32] Kirito
    You...
[18:34] Alice
    It can't be.
[18:35] Alice
    It's too soon.
[18:36] Kirito
    Too soon for what?
[18:38] Alice
    For the ritual to be completed.
[18:42] Alice
    Your partner...
[18:44] Alice
    Eugeo has already been synthesized.
[18:48] Kirito
    No way.
[18:49] Kirito
    It can't be. Because...
[18:51] Alice
    Yes. Even though it hasn't been even an hour
    since Eugeo fought Bercouli.
[18:57] Kirito
    That's right. It's not possible.
[19:00] Kirito
    Eugeo can't...
[19:02] Alice
    Pull yourself together!
[19:04] Alice
    If you waver now,
    you'll lose any chance to save him!
[19:08] Kirito
    Save?
[19:09] Alice
    That's right.
[19:11] Alice
    You told me so yourself.
[19:13] Alice
    That there's a way
    to restore an Integrity Knight's true memories.
[19:17] Alice
    So we should be able
    to restore Eugeo back to who he was.
[19:20] Alice
    To achieve that, we must overcome this dilemma,
    no matter what.
[19:29] Kirito
    Leave this to me.
[19:32] Alice
    Don't let your guard down.
[19:33] Alice
    That knight is no longer the Eugeo you knew.
[19:37] Kirito
    Right.
[19:40] Kirito
    Eugeo, do you know who I am?
[19:43] Kirito
    I'm Kirito. Your partner.
[19:47] Kirito
    Since we left Rulid two years ago,
    we've been together the whole time, remember?
[19:52] Eugeo
    Sorry. I don't know who you are.
[19:56] Eugeo
    But thank you.
[19:58] Kirito
    For what?
[20:00] Eugeo
    For bringing me my sword.
[20:11] Alice
    Incarnate Arms?
[20:12] Kirito
    What's that?
[20:14] Alice
    A secret art used by Integrity Knights
    since ancient times.
[20:17] Alice
    It's neither a sacred art
    nor Perfect Weapon Control art,
[20:20] Alice
    and you can move objects
    solely with your own willpower.
[20:23] Alice
    I've heard that only a handful of knights,
    including Uncle, can use it.
[20:28] Alice
    It's not a ritual that a newly-created knight like Eugeo
    could have mastered.
[20:35] Kirito
    What do you plan to do with that sword?
[20:38] Eugeo
    I'm going to fight you.
[20:40] Eugeo
    Because that's what she wishes.
[20:43] Kirito
    Eugeo, just because you've been ordered to,
[20:46] Kirito
    you're going to fight
    without even understanding why?
[20:49] Eugeo
    I don't need a reason to fight.
[20:52] Eugeo
    She gives me what I want.
[20:55] Eugeo
    That's enough for me.
[20:57] Kirito
    What you want?
[21:00] Kirito
    Is it more important than Alice?
[21:05] Eugeo
    I don't know. I don't want to know.
[21:08] Eugeo
    About you, or who you are.
[21:11] Eugeo
    I've had enough.
[21:12] Kirito
    Eugeo...
[21:24] Eugeo
    I have nothing more to say to you.
[21:34] Kirito
    Eugeo, you probably don't remember,
    but you learned your sword skills from me.
[21:41] Kirito
    As the master,
    I'm not ready to lose to my student just yet!
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The 32nd Knight.

E21 - The 32nd Knight

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[00:12] Kirito
    Why?
[00:13] Kirito
    Why did you lose to the Synthesis Ritual?
[00:17] Kirito
    Wasn't the reason
    you trained to be a swordsman
[00:19] Kirito
    and left Rulid Village
    to head for the capital city, Centoria,
[00:23] Kirito
    to bring back your cherished childhood friend, Alice?
SIGN    The 32nd Knight
[02:28] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[02:29] Kirito
    You and I have never fought seriously before,
    have we?
[02:34] Kirito
    I've thought about it a lot.
[02:37] Kirito
    Which one of us would win
    if we seriously crossed swords?
[02:41] Kirito
    To be honest,
    I always thought you'd surpass me one day.
[02:48] Kirito
    I've never shown you this skill before!
[03:05] Eugeo
    Burst Element.
[03:18] Alice
    Is that person really your partner, Eugeo?
[03:22] Kirito
    What do you mean?
[03:24] Kirito
    You're the one who said
    that Eugeo had already been synthesized!
[03:28] Alice
    That's true, but...
[03:30] Alice
    I'm not sure how to say this.
[03:32] Alice
    For someone who just
    became an Integrity Knight,
[03:35] Alice
    he seems too accustomed to battle.
[03:38] Alice
    For instance,
    the Incarnate Arms skill he used earlier,
[03:40] Alice
    as well as that Aerial Element skill just now,
[03:43] Alice
    makes it hard to believe he's a novice.
[03:47] Alice
    Should I fight him next?
[03:51] Kirito
    I'll do it.
[04:01] Kirito
    I'm counting on you, partner.
[04:03] Kirito
    I promise to give you a name
    when this fight is over.
[04:06] Kirito
    So lend me your strength!
[04:09] Kirito
    Let's go, Eugeo!
[04:51] Kirito
    Does the skill you just used have a name?
[04:54] Eugeo
    Baltio style. Storm Wave.
[04:57] Kirito
    Baltio style? Golgorosso-senpai's sword style.
[05:01] Kirito
    Eugeo, do you...
[05:03] Kirito
    do you remember who taught you that sword skill?
[05:06] Eugeo
    I don't know or care.
[05:09] Eugeo
    She's the only one I need to know.
[05:11] Eugeo
    It's for her sake that I take up my sword,
    and I live in order to eliminate her enemies.
[05:19] Kirito
    There's no doubt.
[05:20] Kirito
    Just like Eldrie and Alice, now Eugeo has...
SIGN    The Piety Module is inserted in a way that blocks links to memories.
SIGN    This seals away the past of the person becoming an Integrity Knight,
SIGN    while simultaneously forcing absolute fealty to the Axiom Church and the pontifex.
[05:38] Kirito
    What kind of memories originally existed
    where the module's embedded?
[05:43] Kirito
    If I can figure that out...
[05:45] Kirito
    No, words won't be enough
    to break Administrator's art!
[05:51] Kirito
    What I infuse my sword with
    will reach his soul.
[05:54] Kirito
    That's what I'm going to believe!
[05:57] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[06:04] Kirito
    Remember!
    There are people who are precious to you!
[06:08] Kirito
    Selka, who's waiting back in Rulid Village
    for our return!
[06:12] Kirito
    Golgorosso-senpai and Liena-senpai,
    who instructed us at Swordcraft Academy!
[06:16] Kirito
    Tiese and Ronie, who worried about us
    right up till the moment we said goodbye!
[06:20] Kirito
    And above all...
[06:21] Kirito
    wasn't your wish
    to go back to Rulid with Alice?
[06:32] Kirito
    You have to remember, Eugeo!
[07:10] Eugeo
    Eugeo.
[07:26] Eugeo
    Alice.
[07:28] Kirito
    Did you remember, Eugeo?
[07:34] Kirito
    Eu... geo...
[07:40] Alice
    Kirito!
[07:43] Eugeo
    Enhance Armament.
[07:57] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[07:59] Kirito
    Why?
[08:32] Chudelkin
    Have you dealt with those rebels,
    Number Thirty-two?
[08:38] Eugeo
    I've sealed the two rebels in ice,
    Your Eminence, Prime Senator.
[08:44] Chudelkin
    That's fine, but...
[08:46] Chudelkin
    you did finish them off properly, didn't you?
[08:50] Eugeo
    No, I did not finish them off, Prime Senator.
[08:54] Eugeo
    Since the pontifex's order was to stop the rebels.
[08:58] Chudelkin
    That won't do! That just won't do!
[09:01] Chudelkin
    When you speak to me, remember to call me,
    "Your Eminence, Prime Senator."
[09:04] Chudelkin
    "Your Eminence," got that? "Your Eminence"!
[09:06] Chudelkin
    The next time you forget the "Your Eminence,"
    you'll be turned into a horse as punishment!
[09:11] Chudelkin
    You'll carry me on your back,
    and while you're on all fours, I'll go "hi-yo"!
[09:19] Chudelkin
    Now then, I think I'll go
    carry out Her Eminence's orders.
[09:36] Eugeo
    Lady Pontifex.
[09:38] Administrator
    Welcome back, Eugeo.
[09:41] Administrator
    You've taken care of your errand.
[09:44] Eugeo
    Yes.
[09:45] Administrator
    Well done! In that case,
    I should give you a reward.
[09:49] Administrator
    Please climb onto the bed.
[09:58] Administrator
    All right, Eugeo, as promised,
    let me give you what you desire.
[10:05] Administrator
    Love that's meant only for you.
[10:09] Eugeo
    Yes.
[10:11] Administrator
    But first, let me heal that wound for you.
[10:19] Administrator
    Also,
[10:20] Administrator
    let me have another good look at your face.
[10:24] Administrator
    Since there was a convenient hole
    in your memory,
[10:27] Administrator
    I inserted the module there,
[10:30] Administrator
    but perhaps I shouldn't have been lazy.
[10:33] Administrator
    Let's redo your synthesis.
[10:36] Administrator
    You can have your reward after that,
    all right, Eugeo?
[11:11] Administrator
    Just lie still.
[11:18] Administrator
    This is an improved module
    I had just completed.
[11:22] Administrator
    Synthesizing you with it allows you
    to use the power of "Meaning" immediately.
[11:31] Administrator
    Will you show me your memories again?
[11:34] Administrator
    This time, I'll insert it into the location
    of what you hold most dear.
[11:39] Administrator
    I've made it so you can move your mouth.
[11:42] Administrator
    Now, chant the command I taught you earlier.
[11:46] Administrator
    Did you forget it?
    What am I going to do with you?
[11:50] Administrator
    It's "Remove Core Protection."
[11:54] Eugeo
    M...
[11:58] Eugeo
    M...
[12:02] Eugeo
    Mo...
[12:05] Eugeo
    Mo... ve!
[12:08] Administrator
    You...
[12:44] Administrator
    For you to have regained your senses...
[12:46] Administrator
    You certainly fooled me.
[12:51] Administrator
    Not to mention, that prop is the handiwork
    of that little brat from the Library, no?
[12:56] Administrator
    But that's too bad.
[12:58] Administrator
    No metal object of any kind
    can damage my skin now.
[13:04] Administrator
    You poor child.
[13:05] Administrator
    Just when I'd promised you
[13:08] Administrator
    that if you gave all of yourself to me,
    I'd love you back the same amount.
[13:12] Administrator
    That eternal love you've been seeking all your life,
    that eternal control...
[13:17] Administrator
    you were so close to obtaining it!
[13:22] Eugeo
    Eternal... love?
[13:25] Eugeo
    Eternal... control.
[13:28] Administrator
    That's right, Eugeo.
[13:30] Administrator
    If you entrust everything to me,
[13:32] Administrator
    the thirst that's been making you suffer
    will be quenched instantly.
[13:36] Administrator
    All the fears and worries you've been carrying
    will be erased.
[13:41] Administrator
    This is your last chance, Eugeo.
[13:44] Administrator
    Use the sword at your waist
    to shatter that toy.
[13:47] Administrator
    Do that, and I shall forgive your heinous crime
    with my tremendous amount of love.
[13:54] Eugeo
    To love is to control, and to be controlled.
[14:01] Eugeo
    You're the pitiful one,
    for having no other way to say it!
[14:06] Eugeo
    I'm sure you were once the same way.
[14:08] Eugeo
    Starved for love and sought it out,
[14:11] Eugeo
    but you were never given any.
[14:13] Eugeo
    Love isn't about control.
[14:16] Eugeo
    Nor is it something you can gain as a reward
    or in a transaction.
[14:19] Eugeo
    The same way you water flowers,
[14:21] Eugeo
    you give it continuously.
[14:23] Eugeo
    I'm sure that that's what love is!
[14:28] Administrator
    How disappointing.
[14:29] Administrator
    I was going to forgive a sinful young boy
    for rebelling against the Axiom Church
[14:33] Administrator
    and try to save his soul,
[14:36] Administrator
    but this is how you speak to me?
[14:43] Administrator
    Maybe it would be a waste
    to kill you and turned you into a jewel.
[14:47] Administrator
    It will take some time, but perhaps
    I'll use force synthesis on you, just like her.
[14:53] Eugeo
    Like her?
[14:53] Administrator
    That's right.
[14:55] Administrator
    Thirty, whom you're so infatuated with.
[14:57] Administrator
    Because she also refused to chant the command,
[15:00] Administrator
    the automated senators worked on her for days
    to forcefully disable her protection.
[15:05] Eugeo
    Alice?
[15:06] Administrator
    Well, I was asleep,
    so I wasn't actually watching,
[15:10] Administrator
    but it must have been so agonizing for her.
[15:14] Administrator
    Well? How do you feel about
    getting to at least share that experience?
[15:29] Eugeo
    Shatter.
[16:04] Administrator
    That sword...
[16:07] Administrator
    Now I see.
[16:14] Chudelkin
    Please save me!
[16:17] Chudelkin
    Please save me, Your Eminence, Pontifex!
[16:23] Chudelkin
    You!
[16:23] Chudelkin
    H-He's a traitor, Your Eminence!
[16:26] Chudelkin
    He claimed that he sealed away Thirty
    and the other one, but he went easy—
[16:32] Chudelkin
    Let go!
[16:45] Eugeo
    Kirito.
[16:55] Kirito
    Yo, Eugeo!
[17:05] Eugeo
    Sorry.
[17:07] Eugeo
    I gave in to Administrator's temptation,
    and ended up hurting you both.
[17:12] Eugeo
    I thought I should at least atone for it
    by my own hand.
[17:15] Kirito
    You're being so cold, Eugeo.
[17:17] Kirito
    I knew that's what you were thinking right away.
[17:22] Eugeo
    You're the same as always.
[17:27] Eugeo
    Alice.
[17:42] Kirito
    Is that the pontifex, Administrator?
[17:46] Alice
    That's right.
[17:48] Alice
    She hasn't changed at all after six years.
[17:51] Administrator
    It was almost time
    to reset Bercouli and Fanatio,
[17:55] Administrator
    but I've only used you for six years, right?
[17:59] Administrator
    Your logic circuits don't seem to be malfunctioning.
[18:03] Administrator
    Could it be the influence of that irregular unit?
[18:06] Administrator
    How amusing.
[18:09] Administrator
    Hey, Alice, there must be something
    you want to say to me.
[18:14] Administrator
    I won't get mad. So say it now.
[18:30] Alice
    Lady Pontifex,
[18:32] Alice
    our glorious order of Integrity Knights
    has been destroyed as of today.
[18:38] Alice
    All because of the swords
    of the two rebels beside me,
[18:42] Alice
    as well as the endless obsession and deception
    you built along with this tower.
[18:48] Alice
    My ultimate mission is to safeguard a tranquil lifestyle
    and peaceful sleep for those without swords.
[18:54] Alice
    Therefore, Lady Pontifex, your actions
[18:57] Alice
    are unquestionably detrimental to the well-being
    of those who reside in the Human Empire.
[19:03] Chudelkin
    Shut... Shut your mouth!
[19:06] Chudelkin
    Y-You lowly, defective puppet knight!
[19:10] Chudelkin
    You wretched knights are merely puppets
    that can only do as I order you to.
[19:16] Administrator
    It doesn't seem to be a logic circuit error, after all.
[19:19] Administrator
    And her Piety Module is still functioning.
[19:22] Administrator
    Meaning that she disabled the Code 871
    imposed by that person of her own volition?
[19:29] Administrator
    Rather than by a sudden emotional burst?
[19:32] Kirito
    Code 871?
    Is she talking about the Seal of the Right Eye?
[19:36] Administrator
    Well, I won't know anything more
    unless I run an analysis.
[19:41] Administrator
    Now then. Chudelkin?
[19:43] Administrator
    Since I'm so generous, I'm giving you the chance
    to restore your ruined reputation.
[19:49] Administrator
    Let's see you render those three powerless
    with your arts.
[19:55] Chudelkin
    Y-Y-Your Eminence, Pontifex!
[19:58] Administrator
    What, Chudelkin?
[20:02] Chudelkin
    I, Prime Senator Chudelkin,
[20:04] Chudelkin
    for the first time in my many years of service,
    beg to present to you a most insolent request!
[20:10] Chudelkin
    I shall gladly risk my life annihilating these rebels.
    Therefore!
[20:14] Chudelkin
    Once I've carried out my mission,
    if Your Eminence... Y-Your Eminence...
[20:18] Chudelkin
    If you would allow me touch your exalted body
    with my own hands and kiss you,
[20:22] Chudelkin
    A-A-A-And then spend the night of my dreams with you...
[20:26] Chudelkin
    Please... please... please grant me that wish!
[20:35] Administrator
    Very well, Chudelkin.
[20:38] Administrator
    I swear on the goddess of creation, Stacia.
[20:40] Administrator
    When you've fulfilled your mission,
[20:42] Administrator
    every inch of my body
    will be yours for the taking, for one night.
[20:51] Chudelkin
    I am overcome with supreme joy at this moment.
[20:56] Chudelkin
    And now... and now, I...
[21:01] Chudelkin
    My fighting spirit's been amplified!
    I'm overflowing with energy!
[21:03] Chudelkin
    To be more specific...
[21:05] Chudelkin
    I am invincible!
[21:09] Chudelkin
    System... Call!
[21:13] Chudelkin
    Generate...Thermal... Element!
[21:28] Chudelkin
    Let me show you.
[21:30] Chudelkin
    My greatest, ultimate sacred art...
[21:33] Chudelkin
    Come forth, genie!
[21:35] Chudelkin
    Burn these rebels to ash!
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: Titan of the Sword.

E22 - Titan of the Sword

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[00:00] ---
    And now... and now, I...
[00:05] ---
    My fighting spirit's been amplified!
    I'm overflowing with energy!
[00:08] ---
    To be more specific...
[00:09] ---
    I am invincible!
[00:13] ---
    System... Call!
[00:18] ---
    Generate...Thermal... Element!
[02:20] ---
    Titan of the Sword
[02:39] ---
    I had no idea he was capable of such an art.
[02:44] ---
    Unfortunately, I can't destroy
    that intangible flame giant with my flowers.
[02:50] ---
    If I were to focus on defense,
    I couldn't hold it off for long.
[02:53] ---
    Meaning we'll have to attack the real Chudelkin
    in that time, huh?
[02:58] ---
    Exactly.
    I'll find a way to avert him for ten seconds.
[03:02] ---
    Kirito, Eugeo, please take that opportunity
    to attack Chudelkin.
[03:07] ---
    But remember not to get too close.
    Or else the pontifex will target you.
[03:12] ---
    - Ten...
    - ...seconds.
[03:30] ---
    Spin, my flowers!
[04:09] ---
    His eyes.
[04:11] ---
    Got it.
[04:12] ---
    System Call.
[04:14] ---
    Discharge!
[04:18] ---
    Your Eminence!
[04:19] ---
    Please watch out!
[04:26] ---
    This is...
[04:56] ---
    M-My... My...
[05:02] ---
    Eminence...
[05:18] ---
    Kirito.
[05:25] ---
    Well, that was a boring show,
[05:29] ---
    but at least I was able
    to gather some useful data.
[05:34] ---
    What an eyesore.
[05:39] ---
    How could you?
[05:41] ---
    Irregular boy.
[05:43] ---
    At first,
    I thought I couldn't view your properties
[05:46] ---
    because you're an unregistered unit
    from an unofficial marriage,
[05:53] ---
    but that's not why, is it?
[05:55] ---
    You came from over there, didn't you?
    A human from the other side...
[06:01] ---
    Isn't that right?
[06:03] ---
    That's right.
[06:07] ---
    Even so, I've been granted the same
    Authority Level as the people of this world,
[06:14] ---
    so I'm nowhere near your level in that respect,
    Administrator... or rather, Ms. Quinella.
[06:23] ---
    So the little brat filled your head
    with all her silly stories!
[06:27] ---
    Well, then?
[06:28] ---
    Tell me, boy, what was your reason
    for stumbling into my world?
[06:33] ---
    Ms. Quinella, in the near future,
    you're going to destroy your own world.
[06:40] ---
    I will? I'm going to destroy it?
[06:44] ---
    That's right.
[06:45] ---
    Your mistake was creating
    the order of Integrity Knights
[06:50] ---
    to counter a massive invasion
    from the Dark Territory.
[06:53] ---
    That's the reason.
[06:55] ---
    That definitely sounds like
    something that little brat would say.
[06:59] ---
    So pitiful...
[07:00] ---
    Both her, for being so desperate to expel me,
    and you for taking the bait!
[07:06] ---
    If I may, Lady Pontifex.
[07:09] ---
    Those who were concerned
    with the current order of Integrity Knights
[07:12] ---
    having no hope of fending off
    the coming invasion of the forces of darkness
[07:16] ---
    were Knight Commander Bercouli
    and Vice Commander Fanatio.
[07:21] ---
    I share those concerns, too.
[07:24] ---
    Lady Pontifex, do you have means to protect
    the people if the order of the knights fall?
[07:30] ---
    That is not all I want to ask you.
[07:33] ---
    You've forcefully taken us from our parents,
[07:35] ---
    from our wives and husbands,
    from our brothers and sisters,
[07:40] ---
    and sealed away our memories
[07:42] ---
    to plant false memories of being summoned
    from a non-existent heavenly realm!
[07:48] ---
    Why couldn't you at least trust
    in our loyalty and respect for you?
[07:54] ---
    Why would you subject our souls to such a tainted ritual
    to force us to submit to your control?
[08:06] ---
    I'm offended. I trusted you very much.
[08:10] ---
    The Piety Modules I gifted you
    are the proof of my love.
[08:16] ---
    They freed you from any trifling worries or pain,
[08:21] ---
    so you could remain beautiful dolls for all time.
[08:26] ---
    You think that Uncle...
    His Excellency Knight Commander Bercouli,
[08:30] ---
    throughout his long 300-year tenure
    as an Integrity Knight,
[08:34] ---
    never had any worries or suffered at all?
[08:37] ---
    Is that what you think, Lady Pontifex?
[08:41] ---
    This man,
    who's shown you the deepest loyalty of us all,
[08:44] ---
    and you knew nothing
    of the pain he's been carrying in his heart.
[08:47] ---
    Is that what you're saying?
[08:52] ---
    Of course I knew.
[08:55] ---
    This isn't the first time
    Bercouli brooded over such worthless issues.
[09:01] ---
    You see, he brought up the same things
    about a century ago.
[09:08] ---
    So I fixed him.
[09:13] ---
    And it wasn't just him...
[09:15] ---
    it's all of the knights
    who've been around for over a hundred years.
[09:18] ---
    I made them forget every one
    of their painful memories.
[09:23] ---
    Don't worry, Alice,
[09:25] ---
    I'm going to erase the memories
    causing you such grief.
[09:31] ---
    I'm going to turn you back into a doll
    that has no need to think.
[09:39] ---
    I admit that, right now, I'm feeling enough pain
    and sorrow to rip my heart to shreds.
[09:45] ---
    But this pain...
[09:49] ---
    I don't wish to erase these feelings
    I've never felt before.
[09:53] ---
    Because this pain is precisely what tells me
    I'm not a puppet knight, but a human being.
[10:02] ---
    Lady Pontifex, I don't want your love.
    I don't need you to fix me.
[10:09] ---
    Sadly, it doesn't matter how you feel about it.
[10:14] ---
    Once I synthesize you again,
    every one of your emotions will be erased.
[10:21] ---
    Like how you did to yourself, Ms. Quinella?
[10:27] ---
    Hey, boy, didn't I tell you not to bring up the past?
[10:32] ---
    If I stop, will that erase the truth?
[10:35] ---
    Even for you,
    you can't alter the past as you please.
[10:39] ---
    The fact that you were born and grew up
    as a human being can't ever be erased.
[10:46] ---
    Am I wrong?
[10:47] ---
    And what if it can't, boy from the other side?
[10:52] ---
    As long as you're a human,
    you can't possibly be a perfect entity, that's what.
[10:58] ---
    Humans are creatures that make mistakes.
[11:01] ---
    And the mistake you've committed
    is beyond repair by now.
[11:06] ---
    With the partial collapse
    of the order of Integrity Knights,
[11:09] ---
    if the Dark Territory's invasion starts now,
    it'll wipe out the Human Empire.
[11:14] ---
    But it was you who annihilated my knights.
    Quite awful.
[11:19] ---
    If you're the sole survivor,
    then you can start over with a clean slate.
[11:24] ---
    That might be your intention.
[11:26] ---
    But, unfortunately,
    that's not what's going to happen.
[11:30] ---
    Because on the other side, there are people
    who truly hold absolute authority over this world.
[11:36] ---
    They'll probably think,
    "Well, that was a complete failure. Let's start over."
[11:42] ---
    And then a button will be pressed,
    and everything will vanish.
[11:47] ---
    The mountains. The rivers.
[11:51] ---
    The towns.
[11:55] ---
    And all of the people here, including you,
    will be erased in the blink of an eye.
[12:04] ---
    Then what about you people
    on the other side?
[12:09] ---
    Are you constantly aware
    that your world was created by a higher power,
[12:16] ---
    and strive to do only what would please those
    higher authorities, so they won't reset your world?
[12:25] ---
    Of course you don't.
[12:28] ---
    After all, they would create a world,
    and life, for fun,
[12:32] ---
    and then erase it all
    when they have no more use for them.
[12:36] ---
    What gives a boy from a world like that
    the right to criticize my choices?
[12:43] ---
    Well, I refuse.
[12:45] ---
    I won't pander to those
    who fancy themselves gods of creation,
[12:48] ---
    or reduce myself to groveling
    so they'll allow me to continue to exist.
[12:53] ---
    The only proof of my existence
    is the control I exert.
[12:58] ---
    That desire is the one thing that motivates me
    and gives me life!
[13:03] ---
    These legs of mine
    are meant only to trample over others.
[13:06] ---
    They are not for bending at the knees!
[13:11] ---
    Then...
[13:13] ---
    Then does that mean
    you're going to let the Human Empire be overrun,
[13:17] ---
    and wait for annihilation, alone, on a nominal throne
    as the ruler of a nation with no civilians?
[13:23] ---
    I have no intention
    of allowing them to reset the Underworld,
[13:29] ---
    or of accepting the final load test.
[13:33] ---
    I've already perfected a command
    to counter that.
[13:37] ---
    You should be happy.
    I'm going to show it to you all before anyone else.
[13:43] ---
    Command?
[13:45] ---
    To be honest, the knights were just a stopgap.
[13:50] ---
    The military might I truly seek
    has no need for the ability to think,
[13:55] ---
    much less memories or emotions.
[13:58] ---
    They just need
    to relentlessly massacre the enemies before them.
[14:04] ---
    In other words, it doesn't need to be human.
[14:09] ---
    Now, awaken, my faithful servant!
    My soulless slaughterer!
[14:17] ---
    Release Recollection!
[14:21] ---
    I-Is this...
[14:23] ---
    It can't be!
[14:40] ---
    Discharge!
[15:15] ---
    Impossible. Multiple weapons at the same time?
[15:20] ---
    Not only that, but using Perfect Weapon Control art
    of this magnitude on thirty weapons...
[15:26] ---
    It violates the fundamental rules of the arts!
[15:32] ---
    This is the power I've sought.
[15:35] ---
    Pure offense that will continue to fight forever.
[15:40] ---
    Its name is... let's see...
[15:43] ---
    Why don't I call it Sword Golem?
[15:49] ---
    A sword automaton!
[15:59] ---
    Each of its swords has the Priority Level
    of a Divine Object.
[16:03] ---
    Do you think you can defeat this Sword Golem,
[16:05] ---
    the ultimate weapon I've created by stretching
    my precious memory capacity to the limit?
[16:17] ---
    Now then, fight, Golem.
[16:21] ---
    Annihilate your enemies!
[17:37] ---
    Eu-Eugeo...
[17:40] ---
    Use your dagger, Eugeo!
[17:44] ---
    Stab the floating platform in the floor!
[17:47] ---
    I'll buy you some time! Hurry!
[18:36] ---
    Thank goodness. He made it in time.
[18:43] ---
    I'm happy...
    that I got to fight with you at the... end...
[19:55] ---
    Kirito.
[19:57] ---
    Who is she?
[19:59] ---
    Cardinal.
[20:01] ---
    She fought Administrator 200 hundred years ago
    and was banished. She's another pontifex.
[20:07] ---
    Don't worry, she's on our side.
[20:09] ---
    She's the one who rescued Eugeo and me
    and guided us here.
[20:13] ---
    She loves this world with all her heart,
    and also mourns for it.
[20:17] ---
    Very well. Since she healed my wounds,
    I shall trust in the warmth of her power.
[20:37] ---
    You're so stubborn!
[20:39] ---
    Didn't I release you from duty,
    thank you for your hard work,
[20:44] ---
    and order you to live as you pleased
    in the corner of your favorite bookshelf?
[20:48] ---
    Did Charlotte have a Fluctlight, too?
[20:51] ---
    No. To use a phrase from your world,
    she was the same as an NPC.
[20:57] ---
    B-But... But then...
[21:01] ---
    She saved me. She sacrificed herself for me.
[21:06] ---
    How... how can that be?
[21:09] ---
    This child had already lived for 200 years.
[21:13] ---
    During that time, she spoke to me constantly
    and watched over numerous people.
[21:20] ---
    It's already been two years
    since she attached herself to you.
[21:23] ---
    Even if you have no Fluctlight
    if you've spent that much time with another...
[21:30] ---
    Even if her intelligence was nothing more
    than accumulated input and output data,
[21:36] ---
    it's possible for a true heart to reside there.
[21:39] ---
    Yes, even love, in some cases.
[21:44] ---
    Not that you'll ever understand that
    as long as you live...
[21:48] ---
    Administrator, you hollow fool!
[23:36] ---
    Next time: Administrator.

E23 - Administrator

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[00:01] Administrator
    I thought you'd come.
[00:04] Administrator
    If I tormented those children long enough,
[00:06] Administrator
    I knew you'd emerge
    from your musty hole sooner or later.
SIGN    Since I last saw you, you've grown adept at imitating a human.
[00:16] Administrator
    Oh my. And what about you, pipsqueak?
[00:19] Administrator
    Why are you speaking to me
    in that bizarre manner?
[00:23] Administrator
    Two hundred years ago, when you were brought before me,
    you were trembling and alone!
[00:29] Administrator
    Right, Lyserith?
SIGN    Don't call me by that name, Quinella!
SIGN    My name is Cardinal.
SIGN    I am the program that only exists to delete you.
[00:41] Administrator
    Yes, that's right.
[00:43] Administrator
    And I am Administrator.
[00:46] Administrator
    The one who controls all programs.
[00:50] Administrator
    I apologize for not greeting you sooner, pipsqueak,
[00:53] Administrator
    but I was preparing the command to welcome you,
[00:56] Administrator
    and it took longer then expected.
SIGN    Administrator
SIGN    You disconnected the address, didn't you?
[01:17] Administrator
    Two hundred years ago,
    it was certainly a mistake to let you get away
[01:23] Administrator
    when I was so close to killing you, pipsqueak.
[01:27] Administrator
    And so,
[01:29] Administrator
    I decided to learn from that mistake.
[01:32] Administrator
    If I could someday lure you out,
    I'd trap you on this side.
[01:38] Administrator
    A mouse inside a cage
    with the cat that hunts it.
SIGN    But in this situation, it isn't clear which of us is the cat, and which is the mouse, is it?
SIGN    After all, there are four of us and only one of you.
[01:52] Administrator
    Four against one?
[01:54] Administrator
    No, your calculations are a bit off.
SIGN    What?
[02:07] 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?
[02:28] Eugeo
    Subjects? Subjects, as in humans?
[02:31] Alice
    Which means that monster is human?
[02:35] Administrator
    As if I would ever bother with petty matters
    like "the subjects I should be protecting."
[02:42] Administrator
    I am a ruler.
[02:44] Administrator
    As long as those under my rule
    exist in the lower world in the manner I desire,
[02:50] Administrator
    whether human or sword,
    then there's no need for concern.
SIGN    You...
[02:56] 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?
[03:07] Administrator
    And this is only a prototype.
[03:10] Administrator
    In order to mass-produce the finished version
    to handle the awful load test,
[03:15] Administrator
    I think I'll need at least half.
SIGN    Half of what?
[03:21] Administrator
    Half of the 80,000 or so human units
    residing in the Human Empire.
[03:27] Administrator
    That should be enough.
[03:29] Administrator
    To repel the Dark Territory's invasion
    and attack the other side.
[03:37] Administrator
    Well? Are you satisfied, Alice?
[03:41] Administrator
    Your precious Human Empire
    will be well protected.
[03:45] Alice
    Your Eminence, Pontifex.
[03:47] Alice
    It's clear that the words of a human
    can no longer reach you.
[03:51] Alice
    So I ask you as a user of the sacred arts.
[03:55] Alice
    Where are the owners
    of the thirty swords that make up that puppet?
[04:01] Alice
    Even if you've broken the rule
    that only allows you full control of a single sword,
[04:07] Alice
    you can't break the next rule.
[04:10] Alice
    To perform Memory Release,
[04:12] Alice
    there must be a powerful bond
    between the sword and its owner.
[04:16] Alice
    Your Eminence, if the source for the swords
    that make up that puppet is innocent humans,
[04:23] Alice
    then it's not possible
    for those swords to love you!
[04:27] Administrator
    The answer is right before your eyes.
[04:30] Administrator
    I'm sure Eugeo has already figured it out.
[04:35] Eugeo
    I see. So that's it.
[04:42] Kirito
    Eugeo?
[04:44] Eugeo
    Kirito, the crystals in the ceiling.
[04:47] Eugeo
    They aren't just ornaments.
[04:50] Eugeo
    They're probably the memory fragments
    stolen from the Integrity Knights.
[04:54] Kirito
    Wha—
SIGN    Curse you, Quinella! You've... You've gone too far in your manipulation of humans!
SIGN    By inserting the memory piece you extract during the Synthesis Ritual into a mental model,
SIGN    you can treat it as a simulated human unit.
SIGN    But its intelligence would be severely limited.
SIGN    It'd be unable to execute a complex command like the Perfect Weapon Control art.
SIGN    But it'd be different if the memory piece and the data linked to weapon are almost the same.
SIGN    In other words,
SIGN    the beloved people in the memory pieces
    you stole from the Integrity Knights
SIGN    were your resources for creating those swords.
SIGN    Isn't that right, Administrator?
[05:41] Administrator
    The knights' simulated personas
    desire only one thing.
[05:45] Administrator
    To touch the one they recall,
    hold them tight, and make them their own.
[05:51] Administrator
    It's that unseemly desire
    that moves this swordsman puppet.
[05:56] Administrator
    Right now, they sense that person is near.
    But they can't touch them. They can't be one.
[06:03] Administrator
    Driven by maddening starvation and thirst,
    the only thing they can see
[06:07] Administrator
    is the enemy standing in their way.
[06:10] Administrator
    If they annihilate that enemy,
    the person they desire will be theirs.
[06:15] Administrator
    So they fight.
[06:16] Administrator
    No matter how badly they're wounded,
    or how many times they fall,
[06:20] Administrator
    they'll get back up and fight for eternity.
[06:22] Administrator
    Well? Isn't it a wonderful mechanism?
    The power of desire really is remarkable!
SIGN    You're wrong!
SIGN    Don't you dare taint that emotion by calling it desire!
SIGN    This is...
SIGN    This is pure love!
[06:42] Administrator
    They're the same thing, my foolish pipesqueak.
[06:46] Administrator
    Love is control.
[06:49] Administrator
    Love is desire.
[06:51] Administrator
    In actual form, it's nothing more than a signal
    output from the Fluctlight!
[06:57] Administrator
    And most important of all...
[07:01] Administrator
    now that you know that,
    you can never destroy that puppet, no matter what.
[07:08] Administrator
    And why?
[07:10] Administrator
    Because that puppet's swords
    are living human beings who've been transformed!
SIGN    Yes... you're right.
SIGN    I can't kill people.
SIGN    I've spent the last two hundred years devising an art to kill you, a nonhuman,
SIGN    but it was all for nothing.
[07:37] Administrator
    How foolish of you!
    How completely comical!
[07:41] Administrator
    All life in this world is nothing more
    than aggregated data that can be overwritten.
SIGN    No, they're still human, Quinella.
SIGN    The people who live in the Underworld possess the true emotions we lost.
SIGN    Hearts that laugh, grieve, rejoice, and love.
SIGN    What more do they need?
SIGN    I will give you my life!
SIGN    But in return,
    I want you to spare the lives of these youngsters!
[08:19] Kirito
    What are you—
[08:24] Administrator
    What would I gain from accepting such terms?
SIGN    If you wish to fight, then I assure you
    I'll keep your pathetic doll's actions contained,
SIGN    and shear off at least half of your life.
SIGN    That much of a load will further strain your dwindling memory capacity, wouldn't it?
[08:48] Administrator
    Well, all right.
[08:52] Administrator
    I can always save the fun for later, right?
[08:57] Administrator
    All right. I swear on the goddess Stacia.
    That after I—
SIGN    No, not on any god, swear on the one thing you value most of all, your own Fluctlight.
[09:08] Administrator
    Fine, fine.
[09:09] Administrator
    Then I swear on my Fluctlight
    and all the precious data accumulated there.
[09:16] Administrator
    After I've killed you,
    I'll let the three behind you go unharmed.
SIGN    Very well.
SIGN    I'm sorry.
SIGN    Is that it?
SIGN    No matter how many times you strike me, I'll—
[10:09] Administrator
    Of course I'm holding back, pipsqueak!
[10:12] Administrator
    What fun would it be
    to finish you right away?
[10:15] Administrator
    I've been waiting two hundred years
    for this moment, after all!
SIGN    Stay back!
[10:48] Eugeo
    I'm powerless.
[10:49] Eugeo
    I can't believe how powerless I am.
[10:54] Eugeo
    No, there has to be something I can do.
[10:59] Eugeo
    Instead of berating myself for being powerless,
    I need to find a way to fight!
[11:03] Administrator
    Now, shall I finish this?
[11:07] Administrator
    Farewell, Lyserith.
[11:09] Administrator
    Farewell, my daughter.
[11:11] Administrator
    And...
[11:13] Administrator
    my other self!
[11:35] 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...
[11:53] Alice
    No matter what...
[11:55] Alice
    No matter what...
[11:57] Alice
    we'll use these lives you gave us
    to complete this mission.
[12:13] Alice (young)
    Eugeo.
[12:21] Eugeo
    I... I just finally realized what my mission is.
[12:28] Eugeo
    I won't run.
[12:30] Eugeo
    I have a duty I must carry out.
[12:35] Eugeo
    Cardinal.
[12:37] Eugeo
    Please use your remaining power to transform me...
    transform my body into a sword.
[12:44] Eugeo
    Just like that puppet.
SIGN    Eugeo, are you...
[12:57] Eugeo
    If the three of us escape from here,
[13:00] Eugeo
    Administrator will transform half of the humans
    in the world into terrifying monsters.
[13:07] Eugeo
    If there's one last chance remaining
    to prevent that tragedy,
[13:11] Eugeo
    then... it must lie in this command.
[13:16] Eugeo
    System Call.
[13:18] Eugeo
    Remove Core Protection.
[13:29] Eugeo
    Please, Cardinal.
[13:32] Eugeo
    Our bond has to be far stronger
    than the power driving that monster!
[13:37] Kirito
    Don't! Stop it, Eugeo!
[13:39] Eugeo
    It's okay, Kirito. This is what I'm meant to do.
SIGN    Very well, Eugeo.
SIGN    I offer the final command of my life... to your decision.
[14:04] Eugeo
    That's right. I need to tell you one last thing.
[14:08] Eugeo
    The pontifex is impervious to metal weapons.
    That's why I couldn't stab her with my dagger.
[14:44] Administrator
    What?
[14:54] Administrator
    What are you doing, you half-dead runt?
[14:57] Alice
    No you don't!
[15:05] Alice
    Your lightning won't work on me!
[15:07] Administrator
    You lowly puppet knight!
[15:09] Administrator
    You say such impertinent things!
[15:13] Administrator
    Then all of you can burn!
[15:19] Alice
    I said, no you don't!
SIGN    Release... Recollection.
[16:02] Administrator
    Even if you mimic my command,
[16:04] Administrator
    a meager sword like that can't compete
    with my weapon of utter destruction!
[16:10] Administrator
    I'll snap it in two with a single blow!
SIGN    Beautiful.
SIGN    Human love, and the light released by one's will...
SIGN    It's so beautiful.
[16:40] Kirito
    Yeah. It is.
SIGN    Kirito, I'm leaving the rest to you.
SIGN    Please protect this world and its people.
[17:33] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[17:37] Administrator
    Oh my!
[17:39] Administrator
    You want to fight me, boy?
[17:41] Administrator
    A little arrogant, when all you did was poke a gap
    and destroy my puppet, wouldn't you say?
[17:50] Kirito
    Stop.
[17:52] Kirito
    Don't go.
[17:54] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[18:04] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[18:09] Administrator
    You wretched brat!
[19:17] Administrator
    The sword that was converted with Eugeo's body,
[19:21] Administrator
    in terms of priority, it was no match
    for my Silvery Eternity, so this is a surprise.
[19:29] Administrator
    And not recognizing that the sword
    wasn't metallic was also mistake.
[19:41] Administrator
    Now then.
[19:43] Administrator
    That you'd be the last one standing
[19:46] Administrator
    is something of a surprise as well,
    boy from the other side.
[19:50] Administrator
    Why you came all this way
    without administrator privileges...
[19:55] Administrator
    I admit I'm a little interested.
[20:03] Administrator
    But I'm tired of all that now, and I'm sleepy.
[20:06] Administrator
    I'll have that person give me
    a full account later,
[20:08] Administrator
    and bring this battle to an end
    with your blood and screams.
[20:16] Administrator
    Farewell, boy.
[20:20] Administrator
    Let's meet again someday on the other side.
[20:32] Kirito
    How many times...
[20:37] Kirito
    am I going to make the same mistake?
SIGN    There's no need to win every time.
SIGN    Even if you fall, if you're defeated one day,
SIGN    it's enough if your heart, your will is connected to another.
SIGN    I'm sure everyone who's spent time with you but left felt that way.
SIGN    As do I, of course.
SIGN    Therefore, you can stand again.
SIGN    To protect someone you love.
[21:27] Alice
    What?
[21:29] Alice
    You can still move after all?
[21:32] Kirito
    Yeah. Leave the rest to me.
[21:36] Alice
    I think I will.
[21:45] Kirito
    Thanks, Alice. You can rest.
[21:49] Kirito
    This life that Charlotte, Cardinal, and Eugeo
    entrusted me with,
[21:55] Kirito
    I'll connect it to you.
[23:36] Eugeo
    Next time: My Hero.

E24 - My Hero

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[00:01] Administrator
    I'm starting to get annoyed.
[00:04] Administrator
    Why do you flail about
    in this unseemly manner?
[00:08] Administrator
    The outcome of this battle is already clear.
[00:12] Administrator
    What meaning can there be
    in the process of reaching a set outcome?
[00:17] Kirito
    It's the process that matters.
[00:19] Kirito
    Whether you die on your hands and knees,
    or die gripping your sword.
[00:24] Kirito
    It's what makes us human.
[00:34] Administrator
    The way you're dressed all in black
    makes you look like a dark knight.
[00:38] Administrator
    Fine. If you wish to suffer, then I'll make sure
    your fate is drawn out and cruel.
[00:47] Administrator
    You'll beg me to put you out of your misery.
[00:50] Kirito
    That won't be enough...
[00:54] Kirito
    ...to make up for my stupidity.
SIGN    My Hero
[02:33] Kirito
    The High-Norkian style stance.
[02:36] Kirito
    Which means she'll try for a killing blow.
[03:02] Administrator
    That was the one-handed four-hit strike sword skill,
    Vertical Square, wasn't it?
[03:07] Kirito
    Sword skill? Did she really just say that?
[03:11] Kirito
    Did she pull that from Eugeo's memories?
[03:14] Kirito
    If that's the case,
[03:16] Kirito
    then if I unleash a skill I never showed Eugeo
    with more than four hits...
[03:35] Administrator
    That was the six-hit rapier skill Crucifixion.
[03:41] Kirito
    No way.
[03:55] Administrator
    Single-hit katana skill Zekkuu.
[04:02] Administrator
    There's nothing I don't know
    about the system driving this world.
[04:07] Kirito
    That's...
[04:08] Eugeo
    This isn't like you.
[04:12] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[04:14] Eugeo
    Kirito.
[04:25] Eugeo
    It wasn't just the Integrity Knights
    who lost their memories.
[04:29] Eugeo
    You and I have both
    forgotten something important.
[04:33] Eugeo
    You, me and Alice were born in Rulid Village
    and grew up together.
[04:39] Kirito
    Yeah, I just remembered that, too.
[04:42] Kirito
    I was also there
    when Alice was taken away by that knight.
[04:46] Eugeo
    I couldn't do anything that day.
[04:50] Eugeo
    You were just a kid, but you gathered your courage
    and tried to stand up to that Integrity Knight.
[04:56] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[05:03] Eugeo
    So this time, I'm going to give you a push.
[05:07] Eugeo
    This time, let's definitely save Alice together.
    Now, Kirito...
[05:10] Eugeo
    Now, Kirito...
[05:15] Eugeo
    Kirito.
[05:17] Eugeo
    I know you can stand again.
[05:21] Eugeo
    You can stand as many times as it takes.
[05:42] Eugeo
    Now stand, Kirito.
[05:45] Eugeo
    My best friend.
[05:48] Eugeo
    My...
[05:51] Eugeo
    hero.
[05:59] Kirito
    Yeah, I'll stand.
    For your sake, as many times as it takes.
[06:14] Administrator
    Why?
[06:16] Administrator
    Why do you resist fate like a fool?
[06:22] Kirito
    That's why.
[06:24] Kirito
    Resisiting is the only reason I'm here right now!
[06:29] Administrator
    This world is mine!
[06:31] Administrator
    I will never allow such behavior
    from an uninvited intruder!
[06:35] Administrator
    On your knees!
[06:37] Administrator
    Offer me your head!
[06:39] Administrator
    Submit to me!
[06:47] Kirito
    Wrong.
[06:48] Kirito
    You're just a usurper.
[06:51] Kirito
    Someone who doesn't love this world
    or the people who live in it,
[06:55] Kirito
    has no right to be its ruler!
[07:01] Administrator
    To love is to control.
[07:03] Administrator
    I love everything.
[07:06] Administrator
    I rule everything!
[07:40] Administrator
    Such insolence!
[07:46] Administrator
    Such insolence!
[08:19] Administrator
    Curse you!
[08:32] Kirito
    Not yet.
[08:36] Kirito
    Not yet!
[09:04] Administrator
    To think that
    neither of your swords were metal...
[09:12] Administrator
    How unexpected.
    What an unexpected outcome.
[09:19] Administrator
    I've suffered too many injuries to heal,
    even if I gather the remaining resources here.
[09:28] Administrator
    Now that it's come to this,
    I have no choice.
[09:33] Kirito
    Wh-What are you...
[09:44] Kirito
    Wha—
[09:45] Administrator
    This is earlier than planned, but...
[09:48] Administrator
    I'll be going now.
[10:02] Administrator
    Goodbye, boy.
[10:04] Administrator
    Until we meet again.
[10:07] Administrator
    Next time...
[10:09] Administrator
    ...in your world.
[10:12] Kirito
    Wait!
[10:18] Chudelkin
    Your Eminence!
[10:21] Chudelkin
    Please take me with you!
[10:31] Administrator
    Let go! Let go of me! You ill-bred swine!
[10:35] Chudelkin
    At last... at last I can be one with Your Eminence!
[10:41] Administrator
    Not by a revolting clown like you!
[10:45] Chudelkin
    Oh, Your Eminence!
[10:47] Chudelkin
    My Lady Administrator!
[11:14] Administrator
    I... this world of mine...
[11:31] Kirito
    Is it over now?
[11:40] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[11:51] Kirito
    Stop! Stop already!
[11:54] Kirito
    Why won't it work? Eugeo.
[11:57] Kirito
    Come back! Eugeo!
[12:06] Eugeo
    Stay cool... Kirito.
[12:10] Kirito
    Eugeo! Hold on, I'll heal you now, okay?
[12:15] Eugeo
    It’s fine. It's fine this way, Kirito.
[12:21] Kirito
    What are you talking about?
    How is it fine?
[12:24] Eugeo
    If it didn't end up like this,
[12:27] Eugeo
    you and I would've had to fight
    on behalf of our own Alice.
[12:34] Eugeo
    Me to get Alice's memories back, and you...
[12:42] Eugeo
    to save Integrity Knight Alice's soul.
[12:47] Kirito
    Then fight!
    After I've healed all your wounds, fight me!
[12:52] Kirito
    You're stronger than I am now! So...
[12:55] Kirito
    on behalf of your Alice, fight me!
[13:00] Eugeo
    My sword is already broken.
[13:04] Eugeo
    Not to mention, because I was weak,
    I turned my sword against you.
[13:12] Eugeo
    I have to atone for that sin.
[13:17] Kirito
    What sin? You didn't commit any sin!
[13:21] Kirito
    You fought bravely the entire way!
[13:24] Kirito
    Without you,
    we never could've defeated Administrator!
[13:28] Kirito
    So there's no need to blame yourself, Eugeo!
[13:32] Eugeo
    You think so? I hope that's true.
[13:37] Eugeo
    Kirito, I've always been envious of you.
[13:44] Eugeo
    You were stronger than anyone,
    and loved by everyone.
[13:50] Eugeo
    Who knows, maybe even Alice... loves you...
[13:54] Eugeo
    But I finally understand.
    Love isn't something you seek.
[14:00] Eugeo
    It's something you give.
[14:03] Eugeo
    Alice taught me that.
[14:11] Alice
    Your hands are idle, Kirito.
[14:13] Alice
    See, I'm almost done with mine.
[14:16] Alice
    How far along are you?
[14:18] Kirito
    I'm faster than you.
[14:21] Kirito
    Just this much left.
[14:23] Alice
    Then let's keep going a little longer and finish!
[14:27] Kirito
    Hey, let's head back now. Or he'll find out.
[14:31] Alice
    We still have time.
    A little longer... just a little bit, okay?
[14:36] Kirito
    Guess it can't be helped.
[14:38] Kirito
    All right, just a little longer, then.
[14:40] Alice
    Okay!
[14:44] Alice
    Done!
[14:45] Kirito
    I'm done!
[14:47] Kirito
    So this is where you've been.
[14:52] Eugeo
    What are you doing?
[14:54] Kirito
    E-Eugeo.
[15:01] Alice
    It's three days early, but Eugeo...
[15:04] Alice
    Happy Birthday!
[15:10] Eugeo
    This is for me?
[15:12] Kirito
    It's not like the real one your big brother has,
[15:17] Kirito
    but this one's better than any wooden sword
    you'll find in the shop!
[15:32] Eugeo
    It's amazing.
[15:34] Eugeo
    I’ll treasure this!
[15:36] Eugeo
    Thanks, you two!
[15:38] Eugeo
    I'm so happy.
[15:40] Eugeo
    I've never gotten a birthday present
    that made me this happy.
[15:43] Kirito
    H-Hey, don't cry!
[15:46] Eugeo
    I'm not!
[16:00] Kirito
    Wai—
[16:03] Eugeo
    The three of us
    definitely lived through the same time.
[16:06] Alice
    Our paths are about to separate,
    but our memories will remain forever.
[16:11] Eugeo/Alice
    - They'll go on living inside you.
    - They'll go on living inside you.
[16:14] Eugeo/Alice
    - So, look...
    - So, look...
[16:20] Eugeo
    So, look...
[16:23] Eugeo
    don't cry, Kirito.
[16:25] Kirito
    Yeah, my memories are right here.
[16:29] Kirito
    They'll be right here forever.
[16:32] Eugeo
    That's right.
    So you and I will be best friends forever.
[16:39] Eugeo
    Where are you, Kirito? I can't see you.
[16:45] Kirito
    I'm here. I'm right here.
[16:48] Eugeo
    Yeah. I see it...
[16:51] Eugeo
    Sparkling in the darkness, just like the stars.
[16:56] Eugeo
    The stars in the sky I looked up at every night
    from the foot of the Gigas Cedar.
[17:03] Eugeo
    They look just like your sword when it shines.
[17:08] Eugeo
    That's it. Your black sword...
[17:12] Eugeo
    should be named the Night-Sky Blade.
[17:14] Kirito
    Yeah, that's a great name.
[17:17] Kirito
    Thanks, Eugeo.
[17:20] Eugeo
    This sorrowful world...
[17:24] Eugeo
    envelop it as gently as the night sky.
[17:47] Eugeo
    This is how it should be, right?
[17:50] Alice (young)
    Yes. Let's leave the rest to those two.
[17:53] Alice (young)
    I'm sure they'll guide the world
    in the right direction.
[17:57] Eugeo
    You're right. Okay, then let's go.
[18:00] Alice (young)
    Okay!
SIGN    Performing this operation will set the
    Fluctlight Acceleration rate to 1.0. Are you sure?
[19:03] Kirito
    Kikuoka.
[19:05] Kirito
    Can you hear me, Kikuoka?
[19:09] Kirito
    Kikuoka!
[19:17] Nakanishi
    Lt. Colonel Kikuoka, the door has been breached.
    We won't last much longer.
[19:20] Nakanishi
    We're abandoning Maincon
    and closing the pressure-resistant bulkhead.
[19:24] Kikuoka
    Sorry, hold out for two more minutes.
    We can't let them seize this place now.
[19:30] Kirito
    What's going on?
[19:32] Kikuoka
    Higa, isn't the lockdown done yet?
[19:35] Higa
    Another eight... no, seventy seconds!
[19:40] Higa
    Mr. Kiku! We're getting a call from inside!
[19:43] Higa
    It's...
[19:46] Higa
    It's him! It's Kirigaya!
[19:48] Kikuoka
    Wh-What?
[19:50] Kikuoka
    Kirito, is that you?
[20:02] Kikuoka
    Are you there, Kirito?
[20:05] Kirito
    Th-That's right!
[20:06] Kirito
    Listen, Kikuoka! Do you...
    Do you know what you've done?
[20:09] Kikukoka
    You can scold me all you want later!
[20:12] Kikukoka
    But right now, you need to listen to me!
[20:14] Kirito
    What?
[20:16] Kirito
    Hey! What's going on over there?
[20:30] Kikukoka
    Sorry, there's no time.
[20:32] Kikukoka
    Listen, Kirito.
[20:34] Kikukoka
    You have to look for a girl named Alice.
    Then take her—
[20:37] Kirito
    I don't have to look for her.
    She's right here!
[20:39] Kikukoka
    What did you say?
[20:40] Higa
    Son of a gun! It's a miracle!
[20:43] Kikuoka
    All right. As soon as this transmission ends,
    I'm going to return the FLA rate to 1,000.
[20:48] Kikukoka
    So take Alice and head to the World’s End Altar!
[20:51] Kikukoka
    What do you mean, head to—
[20:52] Kikukoka
    Listen! Once you exit the Eastern Gate,
    the Altar's due south—
[20:56] Nakanishi
    Oh no!
[21:00] Nakanishi
    They're about to infiltrate the electrical room!
[21:03] Kikukoka
    What?
[21:07] Gabriel
    You only need to sever the power line.
[21:10] Gabriel
    Make sure you don't
    harm the Lightcube Cluster control lines.
[21:13] Vassago
    Leave it to me, Bro.
    I wouldn't mess up like that.
[21:17] Higa
    This is bad, Mr. Kiku!
[21:19] Higa
    If they sever the main power line,
    it'll cause a surge!
[21:22] Higa
    The Lightcube Cluster is protected, but...
[21:25] Higa
    the surge will hit Kirigaya's STL in Subcon!
[21:29] Higa
    His Fluctlight will get fried!
[21:32] Kikukoka
    I'll handle the lockdown procedure!
[21:35] Kikukoka
    Higa, you take Dr. Kojiro and Asuna
    and evacuate to the Upper Shaft.
[21:39] Kikukoka
    Keep Kirito safe.
[21:40] Kirito
    Asuna?
[21:42] Kirito
    Asuna's there? At Rath? But why?
[21:46] Officer
    It's no good, they're cutting the power!
    The screw propellers are going to stop!
[22:01] Asuna
    Kirito. Kirito!
[22:05] Kirito
    Asuna...