# E14 - The Crimson Knight
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR9VZWJJ6/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.