# 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.