E18.5 - Recollection

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[00:00] Kirito
    I'll tell you about it.
[00:03] Kirito
    I don't know if you'll accept it or not,
[00:07] Kirito
    but I'll tell you everything I believe to be true.
[00:13] Alice
    Speak. However,
    if there's any trace of deceit in your words,
[00:20] Alice
    I will slay you on the spot.
SIGN    Recollection
[02:04] Eugeo
    Ouch.
[02:06] Alice
    Hey! I caught you slacking off again,
    didn't I?
[02:10] Kirito
    Crap.
[02:12] Eugeo
    H-Hey, Alice.
[02:15] Kirito
    Y-You're done with your sacred arts class?
[02:18] Kirito (Narration)
    Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty,
[02:22] Kirito (Narration)
    your real name is Alice Zuberg.
[02:27] Kirito (Narration)
    You're the daughter of the elder of Rulid Village.
[02:30] Kirito (Narration)
    I heard that you were a girl
    who was skilled at cooking and the sacred arts.
[02:36] Kirito
    Your cooking skills are really improving, Alice!
[02:40] Alice
    Y-You really think so?
    I felt like it was still missing something.
[02:49] Kirito (Narration)
    Eight years ago,
    along with the boy you grew up with,
[02:53] Kirito (Narration)
    you went to the End Mountains
    in search of ice.
[02:56] Kirito (Narration)
    And on the way back, you got lost.
[03:03] Eugeo
    There's the exit!
[03:19] Kirito
    This is...
[03:21] Alice
    ...the Dark Territory.
[03:26] Kirito (Narration)
    It was the entrance to the realm of darkness
    the Taboo Index forbids anyone to enter,
[03:31] Kirito (Narration)
    the Dark Territory.
[03:55] Kirito
    No!
[04:09] Eugeo
    Alice!
[04:22] Kirito (Narration)
    Although it was only the tips of your fingers
    that entered the Dark Territory,
[04:26] Kirito (Narration)
    there were no exceptions to the Taboo Index,
    which all residents of the Human Empire must obey.
[04:32] Deusolbert
    For her crimes against the Taboo Index,
    the child of Gasfut Zuberg, Alice Zuberg,
[04:38] Deusolbert
    will now be apprehended, taken in,
    and, after questioning, executed.
[04:50] Kirito
    Eugeo, please! Go after her!
[05:12] Kirito
    Eugeo! At least get these guys off me! Then I'll...
[05:16] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[05:33] Kirito (Narration)
    You were taken away to the capital city
    by the Integrity Knight Deusolbert,
[05:39] Kirito (Narration)
    and no one knew
    what happened to you after that.
[05:45] Kirito
    Alice!
[05:48] Eugeo
    Well, years ago, somebody used to
    bring me lunch at noon every day.
SIGN    6 years later
[05:56] Kirito
    What happened?
[06:02] Eugeo
    She was my childhood friend.
[06:05] Eugeo
    A girl, the same age as me.
[06:07] Eugeo
    When we were little,
    we played together all the time.
[06:11] Eugeo
    Even after I received my Calling,
    she'd bring me lunch every day.
[06:17] Eugeo
    But...
[06:19] Eugeo
    Because of me...
[06:21] Kirito (Narration)
    It was Eugeo, your childhood friend
    and carver of the Gigas Cedar,
[06:27] Kirito (Narration)
    who made up his mind to find you
    and bring you home to Rulid Village.
[06:36] Eugeo
    I'm scared...
[06:39] Eugeo
    But I've got to go!
[06:43] Eugeo
    If I don't, it'll be just the same as when Alice...
[06:46] Kirito (Narration)
    He'd been full of regret ever since the day
    Deusolbert seized you and he froze, unable to help.
[06:55] Ugachi
    Die!
[06:56] Eugeo
    Kirito!
[07:01] Eugeo
    This time...
[07:07] Eugeo
    ...I'll be the one...
[07:11] Eugeo
    ...to protect you!
[07:14] Kirito
    Eugeo, run!
[07:27] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[07:34] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[07:41] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[07:44] Kirito
    Stay with me! Eugeo!
[07:48] Eugeo
    W-We promised each other as kids, remember?
[07:52] Eugeo
    Me, you and Alice.
[07:58] Eugeo
    We were born on the same day,
    so we're going to die on the same day.
[08:02] Eugeo
    This time...
[08:05] Eugeo
    ...I'm keeping it.
[08:12] Kirito (Narration)
    And so, in order to gain the power needed
    to bring you back, Eugeo became a swordsman.
[08:40] Villagers
    - H-Hey! Look!
    - What is that?
[09:00] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo was finally released from his Calling
    as carver of the Gigas Cedar after seven years.
[09:10] Eugeo
    All right, let's go.
[09:13] Kirito
    Okay.
[09:13] Kirito (Narration)
    And so we set off on our journey to the capital city.
[09:21] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo and I both enrolled in the Swordcraft Academy
    in the capital city,
[09:24] Kirito (Narration)
    where we met all kinds of people
    and learned a lot.
[09:30] Kirito (Narration)
    We swore that we'd become Integrity Knights one day,
    and climb the Central Cathedral and bring you home.
[09:39] Eugeo
    And to do that, first we have to place in the top 12
    on the Advancement Exam, huh?
[09:46] Kirito (Narration)
    But after we'd become elite disciples,
    an incident occurred.
[09:52] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo's page, Tiese, and my own page, Ronie
[09:57] Kirito (Narration)
    were taken against their will into the room
    of Raios and Humbert, the sons of high-ranking nobles.
[10:03] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo entered the room to try and save the girls.
[10:10] Raios
    ...as is my right!
[10:15] Raios
    Hold still. I'm going to discipline you now.
[10:19] Eugeo
    Stop it!
[10:20] Raios
    Don't move, commoner!
[10:23] Kirito (Narration)
    But unable to defy
    Raios's order not to move,
[10:28] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo could only watch
    as he humiliated the girls.
[10:34] Kirito (Narration)
    Why? Because under the Taboo Index,
    commoners must follow a nobleman's orders.
[10:43] Kirito (Narration)
    Serving as a seal, this doctrine is embedded in the souls
    of those who reside in the Human Empire,
[10:49] Kirito (Narration)
    and under no circumstances can anyone defy it.
[10:51] Eugeo
    If upholding such a law is the "right" thing to do...
[10:56] Eugeo
    I...
[10:58] Eugeo
    I...
[11:14] Eugeo
    What's... this?
[11:16] Eugeo
    No, this is the same as that time.
[11:23] Eugeo
    Unforgivable. It's absolutely...
[11:29] Eugeo
    ...unforgivable!
[11:31] Tiese
    No! No! Senpai!
[11:44] Kirito (Narration)
    In violation of the Taboo Index,
[11:47] Kirito (Narration)
    the law that would prevent him
    from saving those dear to him,
[11:53] Kirito (Narration)
    he chose instead to uphold his sense of justice.
[12:14] Raios
    My secret skill will demolish that piece of junk!
[12:18] Kirito
    Come on then, Raios!
[12:40] Raios
    How's that? How's that?
[12:43] Raios
    As if I, Raios Antinous, would fail to keep up
    with a mere commoner like you!
[12:56] Eugeo
    Kirito.
[13:15] Kirito (Narration)
    In order to protect the injured Eugeo,
    I took on Raios.
[13:20] Kirito (Narration)
    But for the crime of running afoul of the Taboo Index,
    which forbids taking the life of another,
[13:26] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo and I were arrested.
[13:30] Alice
    I am the overseer of the capital city of Centoria,
    an Integrity Knight of the Axiom Church...
[13:45] Alice
    Alice Synthesis Thirty.
[13:51] Eugeo
    Alice, is that you?
[13:57] Kirito (Narration)
    The Integrity Knight who came
    to take us into custody was you, Alice.
[14:03] Kirito (Narration)
    Though it was jarring to find that
    you weren't the Alice I'd heard about from Eugeo...
[14:08] Alice
    For running afoul of the Taboo Index,
[14:11] Alice
    I shall apprehend you, take you into custody
    and, after questioning,
[14:15] Alice
    I shall execute you.
[14:19] Kirito (Narration)
    Eugeo and I were imprisoned
    in the Central Cathedral dungeon.
[14:24] Kirito (Narration)
    After breaking out of our cell,
[14:26] Kirito (Narration)
    we found ourselves
    fighting the Integrity Knight Eldrie.
[14:30] Eldrie
    System Call! Enhance Armament!
[14:35] Kirito
    Don't worry.
[14:36] Kirito
    If it's a whip, as long as
    we keep an eye on the distance...
[14:40] Kirito
    ...it can't possib—
[14:43] Kirito
    It extended?
[14:55] Eldrie
    Release Recollection.
[15:02] Kirito (Narration)
    There, we saw with our own eyes
[15:05] Kirito (Narration)
    the Integrity Knights' secret skills,
    the Perfect Weapon Control and Memory Release arts.
[15:11] Eldrie
    No wonder Lady Alice was cautious of you.
[15:13] Eldire
    That attack has no form or anything,
    but that's why it exceeded my expectations.
[15:19] Kirito (Narration)
    We were only able to escape from Eldrie because
    we happened to discover the Integrity Knights' secret.
[15:32] Eugeo
    Wh-What just...
[15:36] Kirito
    Did Alice lose her memories
    and change personalities because of that?
[15:42] Kirito (Narration)
    But then Deusolbert arrived to help,
    and we were driven away.
[15:46] Deusolbert
    You won't be forgiven for the sin of tempting
    a brilliant Integrity Knight to fall from grace.
[15:51] Deusolbert
    After piercing all four of your limbs,
    I shall throw you back into your cell!
[15:57] Kirito
    Run!
[16:01] Eugeo
    Kirito! Up ahead!
[16:02] Eugeo
    It's a dead end!
SIGN    Hey!
SIGN    This way!
[16:08] Voice
    Dive!
[16:18] Kirito
    Where are we?
SIGN    We've been detected. Can't use this back door anymore.
[16:28] Kirito (Narration)
    It was Cardinal, the sage of the Great Library
    who saved us from that crisis.
[16:34] Kirito (Narration)
    She revealed the secrets of this world to me.
[16:37] Kirito
    Um...
SIGN    Come with me.
SIGN    Let me be as succinct as possible.
[16:47] Quinella
    System Call. Generate Luminous Element.
[16:51] Quinella
    Form Element, Liquid Shape.
[17:01] Kirito (Narration)
    The story of how a simple young girl named Quinella
    became Administrator, the pontifex of the Axiom Church.
[17:08] Administrator
    Through the Synthesis Ritual,
    this man will be reborn.
[17:13] Administrator
    As the ultimate warrior,
    a Integrity Knight swearing absolute fealty!
[17:20] Kirito (Narration)
    The method of how the Integrity Knights are created,
    in which memories are stolen and fake ones implanted.
[17:26] Eugeo
    How do we do that?
SIGN    Simply remove the Piety Module embedded in their foreheads.
[17:33] Kirito (Narration)
    We also asked Cardinal
    how we could restore your memories.
[17:39] Kirito (Narration)
    And then, Alice, in order to reach you,
    we battled numerous Integrity Knights.
[17:46] Linel
    How?
[17:48] Fizel
    I can't mo—
[17:57] Kirito
    I won't kill you.
[18:00] Kirito
    Instead, watch closely.
[18:03] Kirito
    At how strong the Integrity Knights
    you're mocking actually are!
[18:15] Kirito
    You didn't come all this way
    because you hated the Integrity Knights, right?
[18:20] Kirito
    Aren't you're here because you want to get Alice back...
    because you love her?
[18:26] Kirito
    And those feelings aren't in any way
    inferior to her justice.
[18:30] Kirito
    It's the same for me.
[18:32] Kirito
    I want to protect everyone in this world.
[18:35] Kirito
    You... Alice...
[18:38] Kirito
    I even want to protect her.
[18:40] Kirito
    So right now, we can't lose to her no matter what.
[18:45] Kirito
    Isn't that right, Eugeo?
[18:53] Kirito (Narration)
    And we finally encountered you
    on the eightieth floor.
[18:59] Alice
    I shall erase all of your life.
[19:04] Kirito
    Enhance Armament!
[19:15] Alice
    He aimed for the sword?
[19:16] Kirito (Narration)
    Unfortunately, even the two of us together
    couldn't defeat you.
[19:22] Kirito (Narration)
    That's how we ended up
    on the outer wall of the Central Cathedral.
[19:34] Bercouli
    Are you going to approach me, youngster?
[19:37] Kirito (Narration)
    I'm sure that Eugeo is fighting fiercely right now,
    in order to get to you.
[19:52] Eugeo
    Lend me your strength,
[19:55] Eugeo
    Blue Rose Sword!
[19:56] Eugeo
    Release Recollection!
[20:05] Kirito (Narration)
    And there's one final thing I need to tell you.
[20:09] Kirito (Narration)
    This world is coming to an end.
[20:15] Kirito (Narration)
    According to Cardinal,
    this world will soon enter its final phase,
[20:21] Kirito (Narration)
    when the Dark Territory forces will mount
    a concerted invasion into the Human Empire.
[20:26] Kirito (Narration)
    But as the entity charged with
    maintaining this world,
[20:30] Kirito (Narration)
    Cardinal tells me that she can't accept its demise.
[20:35] Kirito (Narration)
    And believing it to be the only way
    to normalize the Underworld,
[20:41] Kirito (Narration)
    Cardinal intends to return it to nothingness.
SIGN    I see. So this is...
SIGN    This is what it means to be human, huh?
SIGN    So warm.
SIGN    At last, I feel rewarded.
SIGN    Those 200 years I spent weren't in vain.
SIGN    Just discovering this warmth
    is enough to satisfy me.
SIGN    I feel rewarded... more than enough.
[21:23] Kirito (Narration)
    But I also realized that
    Cardinal wasn't just a coldhearted supervisor.
[21:33] Kirito (Narration)
    And so I swore that even after the battle
    against the Integrity Knights and Administrator began,
[21:39] Kirito (Narration)
    I'd keep trying to find a way to avoid tragedy
    and allow this world to survive peacefully.
[21:45] Kirito (Narration)
    This is everything I believe to be true,
    and my goal.
[21:52] Kirito (Narration)
    It's up to you whether to believe me or not.
[21:55] Kirito (Narration)
    But if possible,
    to save everyone living in this world,
[21:59] Kirito (Narration)
    it'd be great if you could help me...
[22:02] Kirito (Narration)
    Alice.
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The Seal of the Right Eye.