E11 - What It Means To Be Strong

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[00:06] S
    Then Death Gun was a member of that
    guild you fought, Laughing Coffin?
[00:16] S
    Kirito,
[00:18] S
    tell me one thing.
[00:20] S
    How did you overcome those memories?
[00:24] S
    How did you keep them from
    controlling your life?
[00:26] S
    How are you able to be so strong now?
[00:34] K
    I haven't overcome them.
[00:38] K
    Last night,
[00:39] ---
    I had a dream where I saw the three
    I killed over and over again.
[00:43] K
    I could barely sleep.
[00:46] K
    Their faces when their avatars disappeared...
[00:49] K
    Their voices, their words...
[00:52] K
    I'll never
[00:54] ---
    be able to forget them.
[00:56] S
    Th-Then...
[00:59] S
    Then, what do
[01:03] ---
    I do?
[01:05] K
    But, Sinon...
[01:08] K
    I think that's necessary.
[01:10] K
    I needed to accept what killing them meant,
[01:14] ---
    the weight, and to keep thinking.
[01:18] K
    Doing that is the bare minimum
    of atonement I can do.
[01:26] S
    Accept? Keep thinking?
SIGN    What It Means To Be Strong
[03:18] S
    Death Gun...
[03:20] S
    Whoever is wearing that cape is a real person,
[03:23] ---
    who actually exists, aren't they?
[03:26] K
    Yeah.
[03:28] K
    If I knew their name from SAO,
[03:30] K
    we could find their true name and address.
[03:35] K
    That's why I came here.
[03:39] S
    Oh...
[03:40] S
    Then he can't forget about SAO,
[03:44] ---
    and he came to GGO because
    he wants to PK again?
[03:48] K
    I think it's more than that.
[03:50] K
    When he killed Zexceed and
    Lightly Salted Tarako...
[03:54] K
    And when he killed Pale Rider
    in this tournament...
[03:57] K
    He chose times when a lot
    of people were watching.
[04:01] K
    That exaggerated cross sign...
[04:03] K
    He's probably trying to appeal
    to a large mass of people.
[04:07] K
    To show them that he really has
    the ability to kill people from a game.
[04:13] S
    But how is that possible?
[04:16] K
    From what I heard, Zexceed and Tarako
[04:19] ---
    didn't die of brain damage, but heart failure.
[04:24] S
    Heart failure?
[04:25] S
    That's...
[04:27] K
    To be honest, I can't even
    imagine how he's doing it.
[04:31] K
    I'd like to think that
[04:33] ---
    there's no way to stop a player's heart
    by shooting them in a game.
[04:39] K
    No, wait.
[04:41] K
    Come to think of it...
[04:44] K
    It's kind of strange.
[04:45] S
    What is?
[04:46] K
    Why did Death Gun use his rifle
    to shoot at me back there,
[04:51] ---
    rather than his handgun?
[04:55] K
    If he'd used his handgun, he could've killed me.
[04:59] S
    That's true.
[05:09] K
    Maybe it isn't that he didn't use it.
[05:13] K
    But that he couldn't use it.
[05:15] K
    That black handgun.
[05:17] K
    A reason he couldn't shoot it.
[05:19] K
    His rifle.
[05:20] K
    That cross sign he made.
[05:22] K
    A cape that hides you.
[05:23] K
    Conditions... Rules.
[05:26] Gu
    Well, I'm relieved to hear you say that aloud...
[05:31] K
    I knew it.
[05:32] K
    You can't really kill someone
    with a gun in a game.
[05:36] K
    Just shooting them with a gun in
    the game wouldn't be enough.
[05:40] S
    What do you mean?
[05:42] K
    What if you needed to make some
    preparations in the real world
[05:46] ---
    to kill someone by shooting with a gun here?
[05:49] S
    Preparations in the real world?
[05:52] S
    If that was the case,
[05:54] ---
    how would he find the player's
    real-world information?
[05:56] S
    He doesn't know who they are.
SIGN    User Information 
    
    Name 
    Address 
    Phone Number
[06:01] K
    No, even a regular player could
    find the target's address.
[06:07] K
    The governor general's office.
[06:08] K
    BoB players enter their true names
    and addresses into that terminal.
[06:13] K
    It's an open space with no privacy.
[06:17] S
    No way.
[06:19] S
    When we entered them, he was
    looking over our shoulders?
[06:22] S
    If someone was that close, we'd have noticed.
[06:26] K
    What if he was using a scope or binoculars?
[06:29] S
    That's impossible...
[06:31] S
    He'd get his butt kicked for bad manners.
[06:36] K
    What if, just hypothetically,
    Death Gun's cape worked in town?
[06:44] S
    He turned invisible and looked
    over our shoulders?
[06:47] S
    But Death Gun's logged into the game.
[06:50] S
    He can't do anything in real life.
[06:59] K
    No.
[07:00] K
    No, he can!
[07:03] K
    There are two Death Guns...
[07:05] K
    Two of them!
[07:09] K
    The first of them is the avatar
    in the beat-up cape.
[07:12] K
    He shoots the target in the game.
[07:14] K
    The second enters the target's
    room in the real world
[07:18] ---
    and simultaneously kills the defenseless player.
[07:25] S
    Even if they knew the targets' true addresses,
[07:28] S
    they'd need a key to get in.
[07:30] S
    What about others in their houses?
[07:31] K
    Zexceed and Tarako both lived alone,
    in old apartment buildings.
[07:38] K
    The electronic locks on the doors were
    probably older ones with bad security.
[07:43] K
    And when their target is diving in GGO,
[07:47] ---
    their actual body is completely unconscious.
[07:49] K
    Even if they had trouble opening it,
    there's no way they'd be noticed.
[07:54] S
    Th-Then how do victims die?
[07:56] S
    You said it was heart failure, right?
[07:58] S
    Could you stop someone's heart in a way
     that's undetectable to police and doctors?
[08:03] K
    Some kind of drug...
[08:06] ---
    Maybe?
[08:07] S
    But wouldn't they find that?
[08:11] S
    Like a pin prick from the injection...
[08:13] K
    The bodies weren't found for a while,
    so they were badly decomposed.
[08:17] K
    And it isn't unheard of for
    hardcore VRMMO players
[08:22] ---
    to die of heart attacks after not eating or sleeping.
[08:26] S
    No way.
[08:30] S
    Why would Death Gun do all that?
[08:33] K
    Yeah.
[08:35] K
    But he must've wanted to
    keep being a red player.
[08:40] K
    For example, part of me still
    remembers being a swordsman.
[08:44] S
    I kind of understand that.
[08:48] S
    Sometimes, I think to myself that I'm a sniper.
[08:53] S
    Then the other Death Gun who's killing
    people in the real world is also...
[09:00] K
    Yeah.
[09:01] K
    He might be another Laughing Coffin member.
[09:04] K
    But he needs to check that the time closely
    aligns with his real world partner,
[09:09] K
    or he wouldn't be able to do it.
[09:12] K
    That's it.
[09:13] K
    Maybe that cross gesture
[09:17] ---
    is to camouflage checking his wristwatch.
[09:23] S
    I see...
[09:29] K
    Sinon,
[09:31] K
    do you live alone?
[09:33] S
    Y-Yeah.
[09:35] S
    The door's locked, though.
[09:38] S
    I have an old electronic lock, too.
[09:41] S
    The chain...
[09:44] S
    Might not be locked.
[09:47] K
    All right...
[09:50] K
    Listen.
[09:51] K
    Stay calm and listen.
[09:56] K
    When he was firing at us from his robot horse,
[09:59] K
    he was aiming at you.
[10:01] K
    That means the preparations are complete.
[10:05] S
    Preparations? For what?
[10:09] K
    Death Gun's partner is in your room right now,
[10:15] K
    watching a video of the tournament
    and waiting for you to be shot.
[10:20] K
    It's possible, anyway.
[10:59] S
    No... No!
[11:02] S
    No! I can't...
[11:20] K
    No, Sinon!
[11:21] K
    If you automatically log out now,
    you'll be in danger.
[11:24] K
    You can do it. Calm yourself.
[11:37] K
    Until Death Gun shoots you,
    the intruder can't do anything to you.
[11:42] K
    That's the rule they set for themselves.
[11:45] K
    But if you automatically log out and
    see his face, you'll be in danger.
[11:51] K
    So for now, calm down.
[11:53] S
    But... But...
[11:55] S
    I'm scared! I'm scared!
[12:08] L
    Chrysheight!
[12:10] L
    You're late!
[12:12] Gu
    I c-came here at top speed from the save point.
[12:17] Gu
    If ALO had speed limits,
    they would've taken my license.
[12:26] A
    What's going on?
[12:32] Gu
    It might take a while to explain
    the whole thing...
[12:37] Gu
    And I don't even know where to start—
[12:40] A
    Trying to talk your way out of it?
[12:42] Al
    Then I'll handle it.
[12:45] Al
    On November 9th, a player calling himself
[12:49] ---
    Death Gun fired a shot into a monitor in GGO.
[12:53] Al
    On the same day, in a Nakano Ward apartment,
[12:55] ---
    a player in full-dive died of unnatural causes.
[13:03] Gu
    Well, that's a surprise.
[13:06] Gu
    You gathered all that information
    in this short a time,
[13:09] ---
    and reached that conclusion?
[13:11] Gu
    Any interest in a part-time job
    with the Virtual Division?
[13:15] Gu
    No, I'm sorry...
[13:17] Gu
    At this point, I'm not going to try and lie to you.
[13:19] Gu
    The little one's explanation is right.
[13:22] Gu
    All of it.
[13:24] Gu
    Hey, Mister Chrys...
[13:26] Gu
    I heard you're the one who hired Kirito.
[13:29] Gu
    So you knew
[13:31] ---
    about those murders and had Kirito
    convert his avatar anyway?
[13:35] Gu
    Wait a second, Klein.
[13:37] Gu
    They aren't murders.
[13:39] Gu
    What?
[13:40] Gu
    An Amusphere couldn't hurt a hair on your head,
[13:44] ---
    no matter what you did with it.
[13:46] Gu
    And it certainly can't stop a heart
    that it isn't even connected to.
[13:50] Gu
    Last week, Kirito-kun and
    I had a long debate about it,
[13:53] Gu
    and ultimately reached that conclusion.
[13:56] Gu
    A bullet in a video game can't
    kill a body in the real world.
[14:03] Gi
    Then why did you ask my brother to go to GGO?
[14:10] Gi
    You felt something...
[14:11] Gi
    No,
[14:13] ---
    you still do.
[14:14] Gi
    That player named Death Gun has some
    kind of terrifying secret, right?
[14:20] A
    Chrys-san...
[14:22] A
    Death Gun is an SAO survivor like us.
[14:27] A
    And a former member of Laughing Coffin,
    the worst of the red guilds.
[14:33] Gu
    Is that true?
[14:34] A
    Yeah.
[14:35] A
    I can't remember his name.
[14:38] A
    But Klein and I were part of the fight against LC.
[14:42] L
    H-Hey, Asuna...
[14:44] L
    Does Chrysheight know about SAO?
[14:47] L
    You said in the real world,
[14:49] ---
    he's some government employee who
    does some kind of network stuff.
[14:52] L
    And as part of his research into
    VRMMOs, he's playing ALO...
[14:58] Gu
    That's right, but I used to have another job.
[15:02] Gu
    I was
[15:04] ---
    part of the SAO Incident Task Force.
[15:08] Gu
    Not that we were actually able
    to respond in any real way.
[15:14] A
    Chrysheight,
[15:16] ---
    wouldn't you be able to find Death Gun's
     real life name and address?
[15:22] A
    If you have a list of the surviving
    Laughing Coffin members,
[15:27] ---
    and you check with their service providers
    to see if they're playing GGO right now?
[15:32] Gu
    No, that's impossible.
[15:34] Gu
    Just knowing that they're a former
    Laughing Coffin member
[15:37] ---
    wouldn't tell us their true name or address.
[15:39] Si
    Then why don't we ask the game's owners?
[15:42] Gu
    GGO is run by an overseas company.
[15:45] Gu
    So it'd be hard to do it now.
[15:49] Gi
    I'm sure my brother is on that battlefield
    to learn their name right now.
[15:57] Gi
    When he came back yesterday,
    my brother looked really scared.
[16:02] Gi
    I think he realized during yesterday's qualifiers
[16:06] Gi
    that someone from Laughing Coffin was playing GGO.
[16:10] Gi
    And that they might be trying to kill again.
[16:15] Gi
    So he went to finish things with them.
[16:19] Gi
    To find their old name and
    to make them stop PKing.
[16:23] A
    Kirito-kun...
[16:25] A
    You...
[16:26] A
    You always...
[16:27] A
    You always are...
[16:31] Gu
    You idiot!
[16:33] Gu
    Why didn't you tell me?!
[16:34] Gu
    If you had, I would've converted, too.
[16:39] Gi
    That's right.
[16:41] Gi
    But Kirito-san wouldn't do that.
[16:44] Gi
    If he thought there was any danger at all,
[16:46] Gi
    he wouldn't try to involve us.
[16:49] Gi
    That's the kind of person he is.
[16:51] L
    Yeah...
[16:53] L
    He's always been like that.
[16:55] L
    In fact, he's probably protecting someone
[16:58] ---
    who's supposed to be his enemy right now.
[17:06] A
    Chrysheight, you must know where
    Kirito-kun is diving from.
[17:12] Gu
    Y-Yes, I suppose.
[17:17] Gu
    I do.
[17:19] Gu
    Actually, I had the place set up for him.
[17:21] Gu
    The security's perfect, and so is the monitoring.
[17:24] Gu
    There's someone right next to him,
[17:27] Gu
    and I can say for sure that his
    real body is in no danger—
[17:30] A
    Where is he?
[17:32] Gu
    It's an Ochanomizu hospital, in Chiyoda Ward.
[17:36] A
    A hospital in Chiyoda?
[17:38] A
    The one he went to for rehab?
[17:41] Gu
    Yes, that's right.
[17:43] A
    I'm going to the place he is in the real world.
[17:54] S
    Tell me what to do.
[17:57] K
    Defeat Death Gun.
[17:59] K
    Then his partner will disappear,
    unable to do anything.
[18:05] S
    But even without his Black Star, he's pretty good.
[18:11] S
    Didn't you see him dodge a shot from
    the Hecate at a hundred meters?
[18:16] S
    And I don't think we can hide like this forever.
[18:20] S
    The other players will realize
    that we're hiding in this desert cave.
[18:26] S
    At any second, we could be
    attacked with a grenade.
[18:30] K
    I see.
[18:31] S
    We've been a pair this far.
[18:34] S
    Let's fight together to the end.
[18:37] K
    But if he shoots you with that handgun...
[18:41] S
    That thing's just an obsolete single-action.
[18:45] S
    Even if he shoots at me, you can use
    your sword to deflect it easily, right?
[18:50] K
    Yeah, I won't let him hit you.
[18:53] K
    But I still think it's better if he didn't see you.
[19:00] S
    But...
[19:01] K
    No, I'll gladly accept your offer of help.
[19:06] K
    But, Sinon, you're a sniper.
[19:09] K
    You're best firing from long range.
[19:12] S
    That's true.
[19:14] K
    Let's do this.
[19:15] K
    During the next satellite scan,
[19:17] ---
    I'll show up on the map alone
    and draw out Death Gun.
[19:22] K
    He'll probably hide far away and
    try to shoot me with the rifle.
[19:27] K
    We'll use his shot to find his location,
    and you shoot him.
[19:30] K
    How about it?
[19:31] S
    You're going to be a decoy?
[19:35] S
    Fine...
[19:36] S
    We'll do that.
[19:38] S
    But just be sure you don't
    get killed by the first shot.
[19:43] K
    I-I'll try.
[19:45] K
    But his rifle doesn't make any sound,
[19:48] K
    and you can't see a prediction line on the first shot.
[19:51] S
    Who was it that said you should
    anticipate the prediction lines?
[19:56] K
    Um, that aside, Sinon...
[20:04] S
    Crap.
[20:06] S
    I should have paid more attention.
[20:08] K
    Uh, what is that?
[20:11] S
    The live broadcast camera.
[20:13] S
    Normally, it only focuses on battles,
[20:16] S
    but there aren't many players left,
    so it came here.
[20:21] K
    That's bad.
[20:22] K
    Our conversation...
[20:23] S
    It's okay.
[20:25] S
    It won't pick up voices unless you yell.
[20:28] S
    Why not wave?
[20:30] S
    Or is there someone you don't want seeing this?
[20:35] K
    N-No, well...
[20:38] K
    Wh-What about you?
[20:40] K
    I think most people seeing this will
    assume we're both women.
[20:46] S
    I-It's fine. I don't care.
[20:49] S
    If a rumor goes around that I'm into that,
[20:52] S
    it means fewer people will go after me.
[20:53] K
    Then I have to keep pretending to be a girl?
[20:57] S
    Don't tell me you forgot...
[20:59] S
    The first thing you did was pretend
    to be a girl to make me—
[21:04] S
    It's gone.
[21:08] S
    It's nearly time.
[21:10] S
    There are two minutes until
    the next satellite scan.
[21:13] S
    I'll stay here,
[21:15] S
    and you'll go outside and check
    your terminal, right?
[21:23] K
    Oh, come to think of it...
[21:25] S
    What now?
[21:27] S
    There's no time to change the plan.
[21:29] K
    No, the plan stays as is.
[21:32] K
    Not that...
[21:34] K
    I was just thinking that, in the end,
     Death Gun's true name...
[21:36] K
    Or I guess his actual character name is "Sterben."
[21:40] S
    Oh, I see.
[21:41] S
    I guess so.
[21:44] S
    What does it mean, I wonder.
[21:47] K
    If I get close to him, I'll ask.
[21:52] K
    Okay, I'll be outside.
[21:57] S
    Be careful.
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