E12 - Yui's Heart

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SIGN    November 1, 2024 Floor 1: Town of Beginnings
[00:14] K
    This is...
[00:15] K
    ...amazing.
[00:16] A
    Yeah.
[00:18] Nun
    It's like this every day.
[00:21] Nun
    Is Yui-chan okay?
[00:24] K
    She got a good night's sleep,
    and you can see it's helped.
[00:29] Nun
    Has this ever happened before?
[00:31] A
    We don't know.
[00:33] A
    When we found her, she was wandering
    in the forest on the 22nd floor.
[00:37] A
    It seems that she's lost her memories.
[00:40] N
    Oh, my.
[00:41] A
    So we came to the Town of Beginnings.
[00:46] A
    We thought someone here
    might know about her.
[00:50] K
    Any ideas?
[00:53] N
    I'm sorry, but I don't think
[00:55] ---
    she's one of the kids from
    the Town of Beginnings.
[00:59] N
    When the game started,
[01:00] N
    most of the children suffered
    terrible psychological trauma.
[01:04] N
    I wanted to do something,
[01:07] ---
    so I took them in at this church.
[01:10] N
    Every day, I walk around the town
    to see if anyone needs my help.
[01:14] N
    But I've never seen anyone like her.
[01:18] A
    Oh...
[01:23] Y
    Hello.
[01:24] Y
    I am Yulier.
[01:27] A
    Aren't you with the Army?
[01:29] A
    Are you here to complain about yesterday?
[01:31] Y
    Not at all.
[01:33] Y
    It's the reverse.
[01:34] Y
    Honestly, I wanted to thank you.
[01:38] Y
    I've come with a request for you two today.
[01:42] A
    A request?
SIGN    Yui's Heart
[03:19] Y
    We...
[03:21] Y
    No, the guild leader, Thinker,
[03:24] ---
    never wanted it to be a dictatorial
    organization like it's become.
[03:29] Y
    We wanted to share information and food
[03:31] ---
    evenly among as many players as possible.
[03:35] K
    But the Army grew too large.
[03:38] K
    Yes, there were multiple internal power
    struggles, and a man named Kibaou
[03:41] K
    ended up with a great deal of power.
[03:44] K
    Kibaou and his faction have grown strong,
[03:47] ---
    monopolizing all the best
    monster spawn points,
[03:49] K
    and have even started
    extorting people for taxes.
[03:55] K
    But many people were upset with his
    lack of interest in clearing the game.
[04:00] K
    So he sent the highest level players
[04:05] ---
    available to the front lines.
[04:08] A
    Corvatz-san...
[04:12] Y
    After that massacre, he's taken a lot of heat
[04:15] Y
    and we're close to dismissing
    him from the guild.
[04:20] Y
    But he is scared and desperate,
    so he set a trap for Thinker.
[04:26] Y
    Thinker's been stranded, deep in a dungeon!
[04:31] K
    Does he have a teleport crystal?
[04:33] A
    Unarmed?
[04:36] Y
    He was too trusting.
[04:38] Y
    He believed Kibaou when he said
    he only wanted to talk unarmed.
[04:42] Y
    That was three days ago.
[04:44] A
    Three days?
[04:45] A
    What's happened to him?
[04:46] Y
    It's a very high-level dungeon.
[04:50] Y
    He's trapped there.
[04:52] Y
    As his second-in-command, this is my responsibility.
[04:56] Y
    But my level isn't high enough to reach him.
[05:00] Y
    And Kibaou is using his influence
[05:02] ---
    to prevent the rest of the Army from helping.
[05:05] Y
    And then I heard
[05:06] Y
    that two incredibly high-powered
    players had come here.
[05:10] Y
    And so, I'm asking for your help.
[05:13] Y
    Kirito-san, Asuna-san...
[05:15] Y
    Would you please come and
    save Thinker with me?
[05:22] A
    I'd like to help, if we're able.
[05:27] A
    But we have to verify that
    you're telling the truth.
[05:30] Y
    I understand that I'm asking a lot!
[05:33] Y
    But when I think about him trapped in there,
[05:37] Y
    I feel like I'm losing my mind...
[05:43] Yu
    It's okay, Mommy.
[05:46] Yu
    She's telling the truth.
[05:48] A
    Y-Yui-chan, you can tell?
[05:51] Yu
    Yeah.
[05:53] Yu
    I can't explain why...
[05:56] Yu
    But I know.
[06:03] K
    I'd rather trust and regret
    than doubt and regret.
[06:08] K
    Let's go.
[06:09] K
    It'll work out.
[06:10] K
    Right?
[06:14] A
    You're always so laid-back.
[06:17] A
    We'll do what we can.
[06:22] Y
    Thank you.
[06:24] A
    I know how it feels to want to
    save someone you care for.
[06:30] K
    Stay here.
[06:31] Yu
    No, I'm coming, too.
[06:33] Nun
    Yui-chan, stay here with me, okay?
[06:36] Yu
    No!
[06:38] K
    So she's in a rebellious stage, huh?
[06:40] A
    Don't be silly!
[06:42] A
    Yui-chan, the place we're going is dangerous.
[06:46] Yu
    I'm going, too!
SIGN    Floor 1: Town of Beginnings Black Iron Castle
[06:52] A
    I had no idea a dungeon like this was
    beneath the Town of Beginnings.
[06:55] K
    This wasn't here during the beta test.
[06:58] K
    This is unexpected.
[07:00] Y
    It probably opens further,
    as the floors above are cleared.
[07:04] Y
    Kibaou planned to keep it for himself.
[07:08] K
    Exclusive access to spawns
    can be quite profitable...
[07:10] Y
    But the monsters that spawn here
    have levels around the 60s.
[07:15] Y
    So he wasn't able to do much hunting.
[07:20] Y
    This is the entrance.
[07:24] Yu
    I'm not scared!
[07:27] A
    It's okay.
[07:28] A
    She's much tougher than she looks.
[07:30] K
    Yeah.
[07:31] K
    I'm sure she'll be a fine swordsman someday!
[07:37] Y
    Let's go, then.
[08:00] Y
    I'm sorry for not helping.
[08:03] A
    No, this is his kind of thing.
[08:05] A
    Just let him be.
[08:09] A
    We're pretty far down.
[08:10] A
    Are we almost there?
[08:13] Y
    Thinker hasn't moved from here.
[08:16] Y
    I think he's in a safe spot.
[08:20] Y
    If we can reach it, we can
    use a teleport crystal.
[08:24] K
    Good fight...
[08:25] Y
    Sorry about that.
[08:27] K
    No, I enjoyed it.
[08:29] K
    And they dropped stuff.
[08:31] A
    Anything good?
[08:37] ---
    Wh-What is this?
[08:38] K
    Scavenged toad meat.
[08:40] A
    Those frogs?
[08:41] K
    They say the stranger it is,
    the better it tastes.
[08:43] K
    Cook it up later.
[08:45] A
    No way!
[08:50] K
    Wh-What are you doing?
[08:52] K
    Damn it!
[08:53] K
    Fine, then...
[08:55] K
    How about these?
[08:57] K
    No! No, no, no, no!
[08:59] K
    Asuna, it's good meat!
[09:01] K
    Get rid of it!
[09:02] K
    But it's delicious!
[09:04] Yu
    You smiled.
[09:08] Yu
    It's the first time you've smiled!
[09:20] A
    Let's go.
[09:35] A
    There's the safe zone.
[09:38] K
    One player is inside.
[09:41] Y
    Thinker!
[09:43] K
    W-Wait...
[09:50] S
    Yulier!
[09:53] Y
    Thinker!
[09:56] S
    Stay back!
[09:57] S
    That corridor is...
[10:02] A
    Stop!
[10:03] A
    Yulier-san, come back!
[10:19] A
    Yulier-san,
[10:20] A
    retreat to the safe area with her.
[10:23] Y
    Right.
[10:25] Yu
    Mommy...
[10:26] Y
    Let's go.
[10:47] K
    Asuna,
[10:48] K
    use a teleport crystal to get Yui
    and the others out of here.
[10:53] K
    Even my identification skill isn't helping.
[10:56] K
    It's probably as strong as
    something from the 90th floor.
[10:58] K
    I'll buy time.
[10:59] K
    So run!
[11:01] A
    Y-You come with me.
[11:02] K
    I'll catch up. Hurry!
[11:06] Yu
    Mommy...
[11:10] A
    Take care of Yui!
[11:11] A
    You three should run!
[11:13] K
    Asuna!
[11:14] Y
    I can't...
[11:15] A
    Hurry!
[11:51] A
    Kirito-kun!
[11:53] Y
    Yui-chan, no!
[11:54] S
    It's dangerous...
[11:54] S
    Come back!
[12:06] K
    Don't be stupid!
[12:07] K
    Get out of there!
[12:08] A
    Yui-chan...
[12:12] Yu
    It's okay... Daddy, Mommy.
[12:17] A
    Yui-chan!
[12:25] A
    Immortal Object?
[13:33] A
    Yui-chan?
[13:35] K
    Yui...
[13:37] Yu
    Daddy... Mommy.
[13:40] Yu
    I remember everything.
[13:48] A
    Yui-chan,
[13:49] A
    you regained your memories?
[13:53] Yu
    Yes.
[13:56] Yu
    Kirito-san.
[13:57] Yu
    Asuna-san.
[13:59] Yu
    This world, Sword Art Online,
[14:02] ---
    is controlled by a single, immense system.
[14:06] Yu
    The system is called Cardinal.
[14:09] Yu
    This system was designed to operate
    without any human intervention.
[14:14] ---
    It regulates the balance of SAO,
    according to its own discretion.
[14:20] Yu
    From monster and NPC AI,
[14:23] Yu
    to drop rates for items and money.
[14:25] Yu
    Everything is controlled by the processes
    the Cardinal program executes.
[14:31] Yu
    Even player psychological care...
[14:35] Yu
    Mental Health Counseling
    Program, prototype 1.
[14:39] Yu
    Code name: Yui.
[14:41] Yu
    That's me.
[14:44] A
    A program?
[14:46] A
    An AI?
[14:48] Yu
    I was given the ability to emulate emotion,
[14:51] ---
    to put players at ease with me.
[14:56] Yu
    I'm a fake...
[14:57] Yu
    All of me.
[14:59] Yu
    Even these tears.
[15:01] Yu
    I'm sorry, Asuna-san...
[15:04] A
    Yui-chan.
[15:10] A
    But you had amnesia.
[15:12] A
    Can that happen to an AI?
[15:16] Y
    Two years ago,
[15:17] Y
    on the day of the launch...
[15:20] Y
    For reasons I never understood,
[15:22] ---
    Cardinal forbade me from interacting
    with any of the players.
[15:27] Y
    I was forced to do nothing
[15:29] Y
    but continue to monitor the
    players' mental states.
[15:34] Y
    It was utterly horrible.
[15:39] Yu
    No!
[15:45] Yu
    Terror, despair, rage.
    People were overcome by negative feelings.
[15:52] Yu
    Some of them went completely insane.
[15:58] Yu
    Normally,
[16:00] Yu
    I would have gone to them immediately.
[16:04] Yu
    But I wasn't permitted
    any contact with them.
[16:09] Yu
    Gradually, errors accrued within me,
[16:12] Yu
    and I fell apart.
[16:18] Yu
    But one day,
[16:20] ---
    I saw two players whose
    mental parameters were
[16:24] ---
    very different than the rest.
[16:28] Yu
    Joy,
[16:30] ---
    peace...
[16:33] Yu
    But it was more than that.
[16:38] Yu
    I wandered through the field,
[16:40] Yu
    hoping to get as close to you as I could.
[16:45] A
    And that's why you were
    in the 22nd-floor forest?
[16:47] Yu
    Yes.
[16:48] Yu
    Kirito-san, Asuna-san...
[16:51] ---
    I've always wanted to meet you.
[16:55] Yu
    It's strange, isn't it?
[16:56] Yu
    It should be impossible for me to think that.
[17:00] Yu
    I'm only a program...
[17:05] A
    Yui-chan,
[17:07] A
    you have true intelligence, don't you?
[17:11] Yu
    I don't know.
[17:14] Yu
    I don't know what's happened to me.
[17:21] K
    You aren't just a program that
    the system controls anymore.
[17:25] K
    So you should be able
    to say what you want.
[17:30] K
    What do you want?
[17:34] Yu
    I...
[17:38] Yu
    I...
[17:43] Yu
    I want to stay with you forever...
[17:47] ---
    Daddy, Mommy!
[17:55] A
    Together...
[17:57] A
    We'll be together forever, Yui-chan.
[18:01] K
    Yeah, you are our child.
[18:10] Yu
    It's too late...
[18:13] K
    Too late?
[18:15] K
    This console grants the
    GMs emergency access
[18:20] K
    to the system.
[18:23] K
    I used it to delete that monster.
[18:28] K
    But now it's running a
    check on my program.
[18:32] K
    Since I've disobeyed Cardinal's orders,
[18:35] ---
    it considers me a foreign object.
[18:38] K
    I'll be deleted soon.
[18:41] A
    No...
[18:42] K
    Can't we do something?
[18:46] Yu
    Daddy, Mommy, thank you.
[18:49] Yu
    This is goodbye.
[18:54] A
    No!
[18:55] A
    I don't want that!
[18:57] A
    We've just started...
[18:59] A
    We've just started living together...
[19:04] K
    Yui, don't go!
[19:07] Yu
    Everyone smiles when they're with you.
[19:13] Yu
    Please...
[19:14] Yu
    From now on, go and help
    people in my place.
[19:20] Yu
    Share your happiness with them.
[19:22] A
    No... No!
[19:24] A
    I can't smile without you...
[19:32] Yu
    Smile, Mommy.
[20:01] K
    Cardinal!
[20:03] K
    No, Kayaba!
[20:06] K
    Don't think things will always go
    the way you want them to!
[20:12] A
    Kirito-kun, what are you...
[20:13] K
    I can probably still use this GM
    account to access the system.
[20:29] A
    Kirito-kun!
[20:31] ---
    Are you okay?
[20:39] A
    What's this?
[20:40] K
    Before Yui's admin credentials were denied,
[20:44] K
    I split off her main program and
    turned it into a game object.
[20:49] A
    Then, this is...
[20:51] K
    Yui's heart.
[21:07] A
    Hey, Kirito-kun...
[21:10] A
    If the game is cleared
    and this world ends,
[21:13] ---
    what will happen to her?
[21:16] K
    Yui's data is set
SIGN    Floor 22: Coral
[21:18] K
    to save to my NerveGear's local memory.
[21:22] K
    When we get back,
    recreating her as Yui won't be easy.
[21:27] ---
    But I'm sure it'll work.
[21:36] A
    Okay.
[21:38] A
    Then we'll see her there.
[21:41] A
    Our first child.
[21:45] K
    Yeah, I'm certain.
[21:48] K
    Hey, Asuna...
[22:01] Yu
    Mommy, good luck.
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