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.