E14 - One Little Step

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[00:08] Gu
    A-Asada-san...
[00:18] Gu
    Asada-san...
[00:19] Gu
    Asada-san!
[00:20] Gu
    Asada-san! Asada-san!
[00:22] Gu
    Asada-san! Asada-san! Asada-san!
[00:29] K
    Run, Sinon!
[00:35] S
    Kirito...
[00:40] Gu
    What the hell are you doing?
[00:44] Gu
    What... What are you doing?!
[00:48] Gu
    Stay away...
[00:49] Gu
    Stay away from my Asada-san!
[00:57] S
    Kirito!
[01:18] S
    Kirito!
[01:20] K
    He got me.
[01:22] K
    I had no idea that was a syringe...
[01:25] S
    Where?
[01:26] S
    Where did he inject you?
[01:31] S
    Don't die...
[01:33] S
    Don't die like this!
[02:01] S
    Hey, um...
[02:04] S
    What is this thing that's stuck to you?
[02:11] K
    Did he inject me here?
[02:15] S
    It looks that way.
[02:17] S
    What is this?
[02:19] K
    Um...
[02:20] K
    I think it's an electrode for a heart monitor.
[02:26] K
    Jeez, that scared me...
[02:29] S
    That's my line!
[02:32] S
    I thought you were going to die.
[02:35] K
    I... I am going to die.
[02:47] K
    Is he okay?
[02:56] S
    It looks like he is.
[03:08] S
    Anyway, thanks for coming.
[03:12] K
    No, in the end, I wasn't able to do anything.
[03:15] K
    And I'm sorry I'm late.
[03:21] ---
    Are you hurt?
SIGN    One Little Step
[04:03] S
    Don't call me here and keep me waiting.
[04:08] Gi
    Asada-san, you've been a little
    cocky lately, haven't you?
[04:12] Gi
    Yeah, it's a bit much, isn't it?
[04:22] Gi
    It's fine.
[04:23] Gi
    We're friends.
[04:25] Gi
    But of course, if we're in trouble,
    you'll help us, right?
[04:32] Gi
    For now, 20,000 yen will be enough.
[04:34] Gi
    Lend it to me.
[04:44] S
    I told you before.
[04:46] S
    I'm not lending you any money.
[04:49] Gi
    I seriously did get it from my brother today.
[04:53] S
    Do what you want.
[05:02] Gi
    He told me to make sure I never
    pointed it at anyone...
[05:06] Gi
    But you're fine, aren't you?
[05:08] Gi
    You're used to it.
[05:11] Gi
    Now cry.
[05:14] Gi
    Kneel and apologize!
[05:30] Gi
    What's with this thing?
[05:38] Gi
    Ow!
[05:43] S
    A Government 1911, huh?
[05:46] S
    Your brother has good taste.
[05:48] S
    Not my preference.
[05:51] S
    Most guns require you
    to take the safety off first.
[06:10] Gi
    C-Crap...
[06:12] S
    It's dangerous to point it at anyone.
[06:17] S
    Here you go.
[06:21] Gi
    Are you okay?
[06:22] Gi
    Endou?
[06:27] S
    Bye.
[06:40] S
    This is my first step...
[06:58] Gi
    Asada-san!
[07:00] Gi
    Who's that?
[07:02] Gi
    Is that your boyfriend?
[07:10] S
    Hey!
[07:11] S
    I told you we could meet,
[07:13] ---
    but what are you doing somewhere so obvious?
[07:16] K
    Yo.
[07:18] K
    Hey there, Sinon.
[07:25] K
    After what happened, Shinkawa Kyouji and
    his brother, Shouichi, were arrested.
[07:30] K
    Shouichi's testimony made the existence
    of another conspirator clear.
[07:34] K
    The third Death Gun, Kanamoto Atsushi,
    is still on the run,
[07:38] K
    but Kikuoka says it's only a matter
    of time until he's caught.
[07:43] K
    Death Gun began when Shouichi purchased a cape,
[07:46] ---
    which could make you invisible,
    in a real-money trade.
[07:51] K
    Using that cape and binoculars,
[07:53] ---
    Shouichi began to fanatically collect
    other players' information.
[07:58] K
    Meanwhile, his brother, Kyouji, was having
    trouble leveling his character.
[08:04] Gu
    The idea that agility is the only stat
    that matters is only an illusion.
[08:10] K
    Spiegel was an AGI type,
[08:11] ---
    and he hated Zexceed for previously saying
[08:14] ---
    that AGI was the most important stat,
    while he shifted to a STR/VIT-based build.
[08:19] K
    When Shouichi heard this, he told Kyouji
    Zexceed's real name and address,
[08:25] K
    and the two of them discussed
    how best to kill him.
[08:28] K
    Even so, they say that at first they weren't serious.
[08:32] K
    But as they debated for days and days,
    the plan began to seem increasingly realistic.
SIGN    No Entry
    
    Door Must Remain Closed
    At All Times
[08:38] K
    At last, they settled on stealing a dangerous drug
[08:41] ---
    and a master electronic key,
    used for opening doors in emergencies,
[08:44] ---
    from their dad's hospital.
[08:48] K
    They carefully researched their targets,
[08:51] ---
    focusing on people who lived alone,
    in places with weak security.
[08:55] K
    Shouichi used this master code to enter
    the house of Zexceed, AKA Shigemura.
[09:02] K
    They settled on a time to kill Shigemura's character.
[09:06] K
    Kyouji logged in, using his brother's
    character, "Sterben."
[09:09] K
    He called himself "Death Gun,"
    and attacked Zexceed with a gun.
[09:13] K
    The second victim, Lightly Salted Tarako,
    was killed in a near-identical manner.
[09:18] K
    But GGO players didn't get scared of Death Gun.
[09:22] K
    They treated it as a joke.
[09:25] K
    The perpetrators became infuriated,
[09:27] ---
    and decided to kill three different
    players in the BoB tournament.
[09:32] K
    Their targets were players who met the
    same conditions as the other murders,
[09:35] K
    Pale Rider, Garrett, and Sinon.
[09:47] K
    But there was a big problem
    with killing multiple people.
[09:51] Ki
    That's right.
[09:52] Ki
    A partner needed to be at the target's house
[09:56] ---
    when the killing took place.
[09:58] K
    And that's when a third partner,
    Kanamoto, was brought in.
[10:04] Ki
    You could say Kanamoto was
    an old friend of Shouichi's.
[10:08] Ki
    In SAO, they were members of the same guild.
[10:11] Ki
    His character name was Johnny Black.
[10:14] Ki
    Do you remember him?
[10:16] K
    A poison knife user who paired with Zaza.
[10:22] Ki
    Kanamoto's house was near Pale Rider's
    and Garrett's, so he took them.
[10:27] Ki
    Kyouji took Sinon.
[10:30] Ki
    Until now, Shouichi had been doing the killings,
[10:33] Ki
    but this time, Kyouji insisted.
[10:37] S
    Um...
[10:38] S
    Did you hear that from Shinkawa-kun...
    I mean, from Kyouji-kun?
[10:44] Ki
    No, this is based on his brother's testimony.
[10:48] Ki
    Kyouji is keeping silent.
[10:50] S
    Oh...
[10:53] Ki
    By the way, about Shinkawa Shouichi.
[10:56] Ki
    Since he was little, he's had a weak constitution.
[10:59] Ki
    His father gave up on him early,
[11:01] Ki
    and decided that his younger brother, Kyouji,
    would take over the hospital.
[11:05] Gu
    There's no problem, instructor!
[11:09] S
    Even so, it seems like the
    two of them got along well.
[11:13] S
    But Shouichi got into MMORPGs.
[11:16] S
    And in 2022, he became a prisoner
    of Sword Art Online.
[11:22] S
    When Shouichi came back,
    Kyouji was the one person he told...
[11:25] S
    About how he'd been feared as
    a real murderer in that world.
[11:31] S
    To Kyouji, his brother seemed like a hero.
[11:35] S
    Shouichi says that everything
    about the Death Gun plan,
[11:40] ---
    including the murders, was a game.
[11:42] S
    That there was no difference
    between it and how, in SAO,
[11:46] ---
    they'd research their targets,
    ready their equipment, and carry out attacks.
[11:49] K
    The dark side of virtual MMOs, maybe.
[11:54] K
    Reality starts to seem less real.
[11:57] K
    As for you...
[11:59] K
    What about your reality?
[12:02] K
    It's true that there are things I left in that world.
[12:05] K
    And that, because of it,
    there's less of me here now...
[12:10] ---
    I think.
[12:11] Ki
    Do you ever think you want to go back?
[12:13] K
    Don't ask that. It's in bad taste.
[12:16] S
    But Kirito...
[12:18] S
    What you just said is different
    than what you said earlier.
[12:22] S
    You said there was no such
    thing as a virtual world.
[12:25] S
    That wherever you are is reality.
[12:28] S
    Right now, the world I'm in...
[12:31] S
    This world is my only reality.
[12:35] S
    Even if this were a virtual world,
     I think it would still be reality to me.
[12:42] K
    I see...
[12:44] K
    You're right.
[12:46] K
    What Sinon just said
[12:48] ---
    may be the one truth of any
    worth in this whole thing.
[12:51] S
    Don't tease me!
[12:55] Ki
    You're quite right.
[12:58] Ki
    At the moment, that's all I know.
[13:01] Ki
    Any questions?
[13:03] S
    Well...
[13:05] ---
    What's going to happen to Kyouji-kun?
[13:10] Ki
    From the way they act and what they say,
[13:12] Ki
    they're likely to be sent to a medical reformatory.
[13:16] Ki
    Those two don't actually have a "reality."
[13:20] S
    No, I don't think that's true.
[13:23] S
    I don't know anything about his brother,
[13:27] S
    but to Kyouji-kun,
    reality was inside Gun Gale Online.
[13:32] S
    He abandoned everything
[13:36] ---
    in this world, and decided
    that GGO was his reality.
[13:41] S
    He did hours of painful and boring
    grinding for experience every day,
[13:44] ---
    trying to be the best.
[13:47] S
    I'm sure he was under a ton of stress.
[13:50] Ki
    Stress in a game?
[13:52] Ki
    But isn't that confusion of reality
     what a game is supposed to accomplish?
[13:55] S
    Yes, I think Kyouji-kun got this
    world and that one mixed up.
[14:02] Ki
    But why?
[14:04] S
    I don't know that.
[14:08] S
    Kirito, do you?
[14:12] K
    Because he wanted to be stronger.
[14:14] S
    Yes, I was that way.
[14:18] S
    Maybe every virtual MMO
    player is the same way.
[14:22] S
    They just want to be stronger.
[14:26] S
    Kikuoka-san, I'm going to see him.
[14:30] S
    I'd like to see him and tell him
    what I've thought so far,
[14:34] S
    and what I think now.
[14:37] Ki
    You're a strong person.
[14:40] Ki
    Please do.
[14:43] Ki
    When he's allowed to have visitors,
    I'll send you an e-mail message.
[14:47] Ki
    I'm sorry, but I have to go.
[14:50] K
    Yeah, sorry to take up your time.
[14:53] S
    Um, thank you.
[14:55] Ki
    No, it was my fault that you two were in danger.
[15:00] Ki
    I need to do at least this much.
[15:03] Ki
    Oh, right, Kirito-kun...
[15:05] Ki
    Death Gun...
[15:06] ---
    No, Red-eyed Zaza, AKA Shinkawa Shouichi,
    gave me a message for you.
[15:12] Ki
    Of course, you have no responsibility to hear it.
[15:14] Ki
    What will you do?
[15:18] K
    I'll hear it.
[15:20] Ki
    Okay, then.
[15:23] Ki
    "This isn't the end.
[15:25] Ki
    You don't have the power to end it.
[15:28] Ki
    You will be made to realize this soon.
[15:30] Ki
    It's show time."
[15:33] Ki
    That is all.
[15:47] K
    Um, Sinon?
[15:50] S
    What?
[15:52] K
    Are you free after this?
[15:55] S
    I don't really have any plans...
[16:05] S
    Is this where you wanted to take me?
[16:08] K
    Yeah.
[16:09] K
    I wanted to introduce you to someone.
[16:12] L
    You're late.
[16:14] L
    While I was waiting, I ate two pieces of apple pie.
[16:18] L
    If I get fat, it's your fault.
[16:20] K
    Why?
[16:24] A
    Introduce me, Kirito-kun.
[16:27] K
    O-Oh, right...
[16:29] K
    This is the third champion of Gun Gale Online,
    Sinon, AKA Asada Shino-san.
[16:34] S
    S-Stop it.
[16:39] K
    And these are my friends from SAO.
[16:42] K
    Lisbeth, AKA Shinozaki Rika, the rip-off blacksmith.
[16:46] L
    What did you say?
[16:49] K
    And that's the berserk healer,
    Asuna, AKA Yuuki Asuna.
[16:53] A
    Th-That's mean...
[16:56] L
    Ow...
[16:57] S
    Anyway, take a seat.
[17:01] S
    Sterben... It wasn't "Steven," was it?
[17:05] S
    A word used by hospitals for "death."
[17:08] S
    I wonder what he was thinking
    when he named himself that.
[17:11] A
    It's better not to look for more meaning
    than there is in a name.
[17:16] A
    You'll lose sight of a lot more than you notice.
[17:19] L
    Ooh, pretty smart.
[17:21] L
    Coming from someone who uses their
    real name for their character,
[17:23] ---
    it sounds persuasive...
[17:25] ---
    Jeez!
[17:26] A
    Don't say that!
[17:28] L
    Sorry, sorry!
[17:35] L
    Anyway, I'm happy to meet a female
    VRMMO player in real life.
[17:41] A
    Yeah.
[17:42] A
    Please be our friend, Asada-san.
[17:54] A
    Listen, Asada-san...
[17:56] A
    Sinon-san.
[17:57] A
    There's a reason we asked you here today.
[18:01] S
    A reason?
[18:02] K
    Sinon, I need to apologize to you first.
[18:08] K
    I told Asuna and Liz about what
    happened to you long ago.
[18:14] K
    I needed their help.
[18:18] A
    Sinon-san, we actually went to the town
     where you used to live.
[18:25] S
    Why did you...
[18:31] K
    Because I thought you hadn't met
    the person you needed to meet,
[18:35] K
    or heard the words you needed to hear.
[18:38] K
    It may hurt you,
[18:41] K
    but I couldn't just ignore you.
[18:44] S
    The person I needed to meet?
[18:47] S
    The words I needed to hear?
[19:09] K
    Um, who are you?
[19:13] Gi
    Hello.
[19:15] Gi
    You're Asada Shino-san, right?
[19:18] Gi
    My name is Oosawa Sachie.
[19:21] Gi
    This is Mizue. She's four.
[19:25] Gi
    Before she was born, I worked at the post office.
[19:39] Gi
    I'm sorry.
[19:41] Gi
    I'm sorry,
[19:43] ---
    Shino-san.
[19:44] Gi
    I should have come to see you earlier.
[19:50] Gi
    I never apologized. Or thanked you.
[19:59] Gi
    When it happened, I was pregnant with her.
[20:04] Gi
    So, Shino-san, you not only saved my life,
[20:08] Gi
    but hers, as well.
[20:11] Gi
    Thank you...
[20:13] ---
    Thank you so much. Thank you.
[20:17] S
    Saved your life?
[20:20] K
    Sinon,
[20:22] ---
    you've always blamed yourself.
[20:26] K
    You've tried to punish yourself.
[20:29] K
    I won't say that that's wrong.
[20:34] K
    But at the same time,
[20:37] ---
    you have the right to think
    about the lives you saved.
[20:41] K
    You have the right to think about
    them and forgive yourself.
[20:46] K
    I want you...
[20:48] K
    I want...
SIGN    To Shino-oneesan
[21:11] Gu
    Shino-oneesan, thanks for saving Mom and me!
SIGN    Next Time Debriefing