# E18 - The Legendary Hero
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***SIGN*** The Legendary Hero
**[01:51] Bercouli**
Hey. Sorry to keep you waiting.
**[01:56] Bercouli**
All right, before we get started,
would you mind telling me one thing?
**[02:02] Eugeo**
What's that?
**[02:03] Bercouli**
Uh... you know...
**[02:06] Bercouli**
Is the vice commander... Is Fanatio dead?
**[02:10] Eugeo**
She's alive.
**[02:12] Eugeo**
She should be receiving treatment now.
**[02:16] Bercouli**
Is that so?
Then I won't go so far as to take your life.
**[02:23] Eugeo**
I don't like it.
**[02:27] Bercouli**
What's that, youngster?
**[02:29] Eugeo**
Since you're on a floor this high up,
**[02:31] Eugeo**
does that mean you're the leader
of the Integrity Knights?
**[02:35] Bercouli**
Yeah. That's right.
**[02:38] Eugeo**
Then Fanatio isn't your only subordinate, is she?
**[02:41] Eugeo**
Eldrie and the Four Whirling Blades,
not to mention...
**[02:46] Eugeo**
do you care at all
whether Alice is alive or dead?
**[02:49] Bercouli**
Oh, is that what this is about?
**[02:52] Bercouli**
How should I put this...
**[02:54] Bercouli**
Eldrie is young lady Alice's apprentice,
**[02:57] Bercouli**
while the Four Whirling Blades,
Dakira, Jayce, Hoveren and Geero,
**[03:01] Bercouli**
they're Fanatio's apprentices.
**[03:03] Bercouli**
And Fanatio happens to be my apprentice.
**[03:07] Bercouli**
I'm not one to carry my personal grudges
onto the battlefield,
**[03:11] Bercouli**
but if someone kills my apprentice,
**[03:14] Bercouli**
I do feel obliged to at least avenge her...
that's all there is to it.
**[03:20] Bercouli**
Well, it's possible that
little Alice looks up to me as her mentor,
**[03:26] Bercouli**
but frankly, if we were to fight seriously,
I don't know who'd be stronger at this point.
**[03:32] Bercouli**
If it were six years ago, when she first became a knight,
it would be a different story.
**[03:38] Bercouli**
Well, I have no intention of losing to you,
**[03:41] Bercouli**
nor do I think you defeated her,
since she's as powerful as me.
**[03:47] Bercouli**
According to the prime senator,
you have a partner, right?
**[03:53] Bercouli**
Since he's not here, that must mean
he's dueling the young lady somewhere right now.
**[03:59] Eugeo**
Well, something like that.
**[04:02] Eugeo**
By the way,
**[04:04] Eugeo**
after I've slashed you,
who will show up to avenge you?
**[04:10] Bercouli**
Don't worry. I don't have a mentor.
**[04:24] Eugeo**
*The Norkia style secret skill, Lightning Slash!
No, it's similar, but not quite it.*
**[04:29] Eugeo**
*Holding his sword straight up like that
would require extra motion before activating the skill.*
**[04:35] Eugeo**
*In that case, I'll strike first with the Aincrad style
secret skill, Sonic Leap.*
**[04:42] Bercouli**
I haven't seen that stance before, youngster.
**[04:44] Bercouli**
By any chance, are you a continuous attack wielder?
**[04:49] Eugeo**
What does it matter
if I can use continuous attacks or not?
**[04:53] Bercouli**
Oh, it's just that some of the dark knights
from the Dark Territory also used continuous attacks,
**[04:59] Bercouli**
and I fought them a couple of times,
but they're not really pleasant memories.
**[05:05] Bercouli**
After all, I couldn't pull off those spastic, dexterous skills
if my life depended on it.
**[05:10] Eugeo**
In other words, you're telling me to fight
using conventional moves, like an Integrity Knight?
**[05:16] Eugeo**
Oh, no. Continuous attack or whatever...
go ahead and use it as much as you want.
**[05:23] Bercouli**
And don't take this as retaliation,
but I'm going to use my trump card early on, all right?
**[05:32] Eugeo**
*If that sword is already
under Perfect Weapon Control,*
**[05:36] Eugeo**
*then my only chance will be to unleash Sonic Leap
while he's activating his skill.*
**[05:42] Bercouli**
Integrity Knight Commander
Bercouli Synthesis One...
**[05:48] Bercouli**
...is coming!
**[05:49] Eugeo**
*Bercouli!*
**[06:03] Eugeo**
*His swing slashed through that spot a moment ago.*
**[06:25] Bercouli**
That was a bit too close, wasn't it?
**[06:28] Bercouli**
I didn't expect you
to charge at me that ferociously.
**[06:32] Bercouli**
Sorry. I almost killed you.
**[06:37] Eugeo**
What was that move just now?
**[06:40] Bercouli**
Didn't I just tell you that I'd use my trump card?
**[06:44] Bercouli**
It's not like I simply sliced the air
with that swing.
**[06:48] Bercouli**
What I did, so to speak,
was to slice the future a bit.
**[06:52] Eugeo**
Slice... the future?
**[06:55] Bercouli**
The first time I saw those dark knights'
continuous attacks,
**[06:59] Bercouli**
I'd only just started as an Integrity Knight.
**[07:02] Bercouli**
The sword techniques ingrained in my body
were all about unleashing the force of a single strike,
**[07:09] Bercouli**
while the continuous attacks focused on
how to handle incoming strikes and land your own.
**[07:17] Bercouli**
It's obvious which is more practical.
**[07:21] Bercouli**
You can bet I was beaten senseless at first.
**[07:25] Bercouli**
Then I thought about
how my sword could hit my opponent.
**[07:31] Bercouli**
And the answer was this here.
**[07:34] Bercouli**
Originally, this sword was part
of a Divine Object called a "clock"
**[07:39] Bercouli**
that was installed on a wall
of the Central Cathedral.
**[07:42] Bercouli**
I'm told this clock had existed
since the world was first created.
**[07:48] Bercouli**
The pontifex called it the "System Clock,"
or something strange like that.
**[07:54] Bercouli**
Little Alice's Osmanthus Blade
slices through the horizontal axis of space,
**[08:00] Bercouli**
while this one pierces the vertical axis of time.
**[08:05] Bercouli**
It's called the Time-Splitting Sword,
the blade that pierces time.
**[08:10] Eugeo**
*The force from that sword's strike
stays in the spot it passed through.*
**[08:14] Eugeo**
*Which means I don't stand a chance
in close combat,*
**[08:18] Eugeo**
*so long-range combat is my only option!*
**[08:20] Eugeo**
System Call. Connect Armament.
Search Archived Memory. Extra Core. Image convert.
**[08:23] Bercouli**
"In that case, I'd better attack from a distance..."
that's what you're thinking, right?
**[08:28] Bercouli**
Everyone who's seen my move does.
**[08:31] Bercouli**
Including Fanatio and Alice,
the Integrity Knights summoned after me
**[08:36] Bercouli**
tend to pick a long-range
Perfect Weapon Control art
**[08:40] Bercouli**
because they saw my move...
or maybe I'm mistaken.
**[08:45] Bercouli**
Those guys may not look it,
but they're a pretty competitive bunch.
**[08:49] Bercouli**
However, let me warn you,
I've never lost to any of them in a match.
**[08:57] Bercouli**
Well, I can see myself being beaten
by little Alice one of these days.
**[09:03] Bercouli**
Anyway, I'm looking forward to this.
**[09:05] Bercouli**
The chance to see the skills you used
to repulse one knight after another.
**[09:11] Eugeo**
You're so confident.
**[09:16] Bercouli**
Are you going to approach me, youngster?
**[09:18] Bercouli**
Let me say, I won't hold back this time.
**[09:27] Eugeo**
Enhance Armament!
**[10:16] Eugeo**
*That's when...*
**[10:21] Eugeo**
*Lend me your strength,*
**[10:23] Eugeo**
*Blue Rose Sword!*
**[10:25] Eugeo**
Release Recollection!
***SIGN*** Listen. There are two phases to the Perfect Weapon Control art.
***SIGN*** Enhancing and Release.
**[10:41] Kirito**
Enhancing and...
**[10:42] Eugeo**
Release?
***SIGN*** Enhancing awakens your weapon's memory by sections,
***SIGN*** causing it to manifest as a new offensive skill.
***SIGN*** And Release, as the name implies, awakens all of your weapon's memories,
***SIGN*** unleashing its savage power.
**[11:00] Kirito**
Ah, I get it.
**[11:07] Kirito**
Eldrie was able to extend the range of his Frostscale Whip
and cause it to split by enhancing it.
**[11:18] Eugeo**
And the whip transforming into a snake,
that was the Release, huh?
***SIGN*** That's correct. However, it's still too soon for you two to use the Release art.
**[11:28] Eugeo**
Wh-Why is that?
***SIGN*** You heard me say "savage power," didn't you?
***SIGN*** The offensive power generated by the release of memories
***SIGN*** cannot possibly be controlled by a swordsman who's only just learned the art.
***SIGN*** All the more so when it's a high-level Divine Object.
***SIGN*** You could get dragged in along with your opponent, so one wrong move,
***SIGN*** and you could lose your life.
**[12:00] Bercouli**
I never thought I'd see a swordsman
throw away his sword while facing an opponent.
**[12:04] Bercouli**
Did you come up with
that way of fighting yourself?
**[12:07] Eugeo**
No, my partner taught it to me.
**[12:10] Eugeo**
He told me everything on a battlefield
can be used as a weapon or a trap.
**[12:16] Bercouli**
I see. Taking advantage
of your surroundings, huh?
**[12:20] Bercouli**
Well, I admit that you won this round,
**[12:23] Bercouli**
but I won't concede defeat like this!
**[12:40] Eugeo**
The Blue Rose Sword contains two sleeping memories,
eternal ice and the rose.
**[12:46] Eugeo**
Eternal ice has the ability to freeze everything.
**[12:50] Eugeo**
And the rose's ability is...
**[12:55] Eugeo**
Bloom! Blue Roses!
**[13:02] Bercouki**
Wh-What did you do?
**[13:03] Eugeo**
These roses are blooming
because they're absorbing our life.
**[13:09] Bercouli**
You brat. You...
**[13:12] Bercouli**
Don't tell me you intended
to take us both out from the start?
**[13:15] Eugeo**
Please don't get the wrong idea.
**[13:18] Eugeo**
I might be superior to you in just one area,
**[13:22] Eugeo**
and that's in my total amount of life.
**[13:25] Eugeo**
Based on your appearance, you must've been over forty
when you became an Integrity Knight.
**[13:30] Eugeo**
Needless to say,
your maximum life has decreased.
**[13:34] Eugeo**
My life, however, is nearing its maximum.
**[13:38] Eugeo**
Even though I received a blow from your sword,
my total amount should still be higher.
**[13:43] Eugeo**
That's what I bet on.
**[13:45] Bercouli**
What did you just say?
**[13:48] Bercouli**
I became an Integrity Knight?
**[13:52] Bercouli**
You talk as if you know all about our past lives.
**[13:56] Eugeo**
That's exactly what I can't forgive about you people.
**[13:59] Eugeo**
You've forgotten who you were.
**[14:02] Eugeo**
You've dedicated your swords to the Axiom Church,
without knowing what it really is,
**[14:06] Eugeo**
and act like you're the sole guardians
of justice and the law!
**[14:11] Eugeo**
You're not a divine knight
summoned from the heavens by the pontifex.
**[14:16] Eugeo**
Your mother gave birth to you,
and you were given the name Bercouli...
**[14:20] Eugeo**
you're a human like me!
**[14:24] Eugeo**
Bercouli, you're the protagonist
of a fairy tale in my village.
**[14:31] Bercouli**
What are you saying?
**[14:34] Eugeo**
You should recognize my sword.
**[14:40] Bercouli**
That's true... from somewhere...
**[14:43] Bercouli**
Right, that day...
**[14:46] Bercouli**
when I killed the guardian dragon of the north,
there was a sword like that in its lair.
**[14:51] Eugeo**
Did you say you killed it?
**[14:54] Eugeo**
Those dragon bones...
**[14:57] Eugeo**
...that was your doing?
**[15:01] Eugeo**
Did you kill the dragon
that appears in your own story?
**[15:08] Eugeo**
Have you really forgotten all of it, Bercouli?
**[15:14] Eugeo**
In Rulid, the village where I was born,
**[15:18] Eugeo**
you're a hero known by everyone,
young and old.
**[15:22] Eugeo**
The pontifex abducted you,
sealed away your memories,
**[15:25] Eugeo**
and turned you into the first Integrity Knight.
**[15:29] Eugeo**
And it wasn't just you.
**[15:31] Eugeo**
Fanatio, Eldrie, even Alice,
**[15:36] Eugeo**
it happened to all of them.
**[15:38] Eugeo**
Before they were turned into Integrity Knights,
they were humans just like us.
**[15:45] Bercouli**
Sealed away my memories, you say?
**[15:49] Bercouli**
I can't bring myself to believe your story
just like that.
**[15:54] Bercouli**
But the story about me being a divine knight
summoned from the heavens...
**[16:01] Bercouli**
For some reason,
I couldn't accept it for a long time.
**[16:24] Chudelkin**
Now this is a beautiful sight!
**[16:34] Chudelkin**
This won't do. This won't do at all,
Knight Commander.
**[16:39] Chudelkin**
Surely you don't intend to drop dead now, do you?
**[16:44] Chudelkin**
That would clearly be treason
against Her Eminence, the lovely pontifex.
**[16:49] Chudelkin**
When she awakens, she's sure to be livid!
**[16:54] Bercouli**
Prime Senator Chudelkin,
**[16:56] Bercouli**
a snob like you has no business
meddling in a battle between swordsmen.
**[17:05] Chudelkin**
How could you say such a thing,
after going so easy on this vile traitor!
**[17:11] Chudelkin**
Knight Commander, you neglected to use the other side
of that Time-Splitting Sword, did you not?
**[17:17] Chudelkin**
You could've slaughtered that loathsome brat
before he even said a word, if you'd had a mind to!
**[17:22] Chudelkin**
That's what I mean
by treason against the pontifex!
**[17:27] Bercouli**
Shut up.
**[17:29] Bercouli**
I fought with everything I had.
**[17:34] Bercouli**
Besides, I know you deceived me.
**[17:40] Bercouli**
This kid isn't an assassin
from the Dark Territory.
**[17:46] Bercouli**
Compared to an ugly lump of meat like you,
he's way—
**[17:49] Chudelkin**
You shut up!
**[17:51] Chudelkin**
Or I'll tear your head off!
**[17:55] Chudelkin**
We wouldn't have this hassle in the first place
if you damned knights weren't so utterly useless!
**[18:02] Chudelkin**
Seriously, when Her Eminence awakens,
every one of you knights...
**[18:07] Chudelkin**
well, at the least, you and the vice commander
will be reprocessed.
**[18:12] Bercouli**
What did you say, you bastard?
**[18:17] Chudelkin**
System Call! Deep Freeze!
**[18:21] Chudelkin**
Integrator Unit, ID 001!
**[18:40] Chudelkin**
The fact is, we don't need
a geezer like you anymore, Number One.
**[18:45] Chudelkin**
I've discovered a pawn
who could be much more useful, haven't I?
**[18:50] Eugeo**
Kirito.
**[18:51] Eugeo**
Alice.
**[18:55] Kirito**
Eugeo?
**[18:56] Alice**
What's the matter?
**[18:58] Kirito**
U-Uh, no, it's nothing.
**[19:01] Kirito**
I think we can continue climbing the wall
once the moon rises.
**[19:05] Kirito**
If we can just create wedges,
it shouldn't be too tough.
**[19:09] Kirito**
And it doesn't seem like
there are any more minions stationed above us.
**[19:13] Kirito**
It's just that,
aside from the matter of resources,
**[19:17] Kirito**
I'm so hungry, just thinking about how many more mels
we need to climb makes me dizzy.
**[19:25] Alice**
That's why I find you to be so unserious.
**[19:29] Alice**
What's so devastating about missing a meal or two?
It's not like you're a child.
**[19:33] Kirito**
Yeah, yeah. I'm just a child.
**[19:36] Kirito**
I mean, I'm still barely a growing teen.
**[19:41] Kirito**
Unlike you Integrity Knights,
I have to eat or my life will plummet.
**[19:45] Alice**
I'll have you know
that even Integrity Knights get hungry too,
**[19:48] Alice**
and unless we eat, our life is depleted.
**[19:56] Kirito**
Hey, hold on! Sorry! Of course you're right!
**[19:59] Kirito**
Sure, if they're alive,
even Integrity Knights get hungry.
**[20:02] Kirito**
Um, come to think of it, back at Cardinal's...
**[20:09] Kirito**
Hey, a gift from the heavens!
**[20:10] Kirito**
See, I found something good.
**[20:14] Alice**
Why would you keep something like that
in your pocket?
**[20:18] Kirito**
Tap my pocket and find two steamed buns.
**[20:21] Kirito**
But these won't taste good as-is, right?
**[20:27] Kirito**
System Call. Generate Thermal Element.
**[20:31] Kirito / Alice**
- Burs—
- Are you an idiot?
**[20:34] Alice**
If you do that,
they'll be burned to a crisp in an instant!
**[20:37] Kirito**
Right...
**[20:39] Kirito**
Wha—
**[20:43] Alice**
Generate Thermal Element.
**[20:45] Alice**
Aqueous Element.
**[20:47] Alice**
Aerial Element.
**[20:51] Alice**
Vortex Shape.
**[20:52] Alice**
Burst.
**[20:58] Kirito**
H-Hurry, give me one!
**[21:03] Alice**
I'm joking.
**[21:11] Kirito**
I see.
**[21:13] Kirito**
I didn't think you could steam buns
without any tools, just elements.
**[21:18] Kirito**
As expected of Selka's older sister,
since she's such a great cook.
**[21:23] Alice**
What did you just say?
**[21:28] Kirito**
I said you have a younger sister.
**[21:32] Alice**
Younger sister?
**[21:40] Kirito**
I'll tell you about it.
**[21:42] Kirito**
I don't know if you'll accept it or not,
**[21:46] Kirito**
but I'll tell you everything I believe to be true.
**[21:52] Alice**
Speak. However,
if there's any trace of deceit in your words,
**[22:00] Alice**
I will slay you on the spot.
**[23:36] Kirito**
Next time: Recollection.