# E19 - Awakening
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR243D286/awakening)
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**[00:07] Sortieliena**
Kirito.
**[00:09] Ronie**
Kirito-senpai.
**[00:13] Asuna**
Welcome back, Kirito.
**[00:19] Vassago**
So you're finally awake, huh?
**[00:22] Vassago**
Seriously, you're the best, Kirito.
**[00:38] Vassago**
All right, let's pick up where we left off.
**[00:41] Vassago**
What got put on hold back in Aincrad.
**[00:46] Vassago**
The continuation of "showtime!"
***SIGN*** Awakening
**[02:39] Vassago**
Come on. Don't let me down, all right?
**[02:48] Vassago**
I've been waiting almost two years
for this day.
**[03:03] Vassago**
Just throw away that crappy sword
and use your left hand.
**[03:07] Vassago**
Those guys you froze
killed a ton of your comrades.
**[03:12] Kirito**
I know how you do things.
**[03:15] Kirito**
Turning people on each other,
sowing the seeds of hatred,
**[03:18] Kirito**
and inciting the next battle.
**[03:20] Kirito**
You really messed with us in SAO,
**[03:23] Kirito**
but you won't get away with that
in this world!
**[03:26] Kirito**
No way!
**[03:28] Vassago**
Yeah? Then what will you do?
**[03:31] Vassago**
Once the ice melts, those guys are going
to massacre all of your precious friends.
**[03:36] Vassago**
The only way you can stop that
is to kill those guys first.
**[03:39] Vassago**
Go on, give the order.
**[03:42] Vassago**
To slaughter them all!
**[03:48] Vassago**
Well, if you want to be stubborn and die,
that's fine.
**[03:53] Vassago**
Don't worry. After I kill you,
I'll put Lightning Flash and the others,
**[03:59] Vassago**
every last one of them, into the ground!
**[04:08] Asuna**
Kirito!
**[04:13] Tiese**
Please. Kirito-senpai....
**[04:33] Vassago**
How are you...?
**[04:44] Eugeo**
Let's do this, Kirito!
**[04:46] Kirito**
Eugeo.
**[05:15] Kirito/Eugeo**
- Release Recollection!
- Release Recollection!
**[05:30] Asuna**
What was that?
**[05:43] Asuna**
Are those the players' life resources?
**[05:47] Asuna**
Kirito is logging them out
so they won't suffer, right?
**[05:52] Vassago**
You bastard, you've got to be kidding me!
**[05:55] Asuna**
No! Not again!
**[05:57] Yuuki**
It's all right.
**[06:00] Yuuki**
Look.
**[06:03] Vassago**
What? Why aren't the resources coming to me?
**[06:08] Yuuki**
You said so, didn't you, Asuna?
**[06:10] Yuuki**
That "life is for transporting
and imparting souls."
**[06:13] Yuuki**
And all the people from these different countries
who came to this world
**[06:16] Yuuki**
don't really want to kill each other.
**[06:19] Yuuki**
Everyone wants the same thing.
An exciting and thrilling world.
**[06:24] Yuuki**
Like the land of fairies where you and I met.
**[06:27] Yuuki**
They want to go to a beautiful, fun,
and joyous world.
**[06:31] Yuuki**
That's all there is to it.
**[06:33] Asuna**
Yes.
**[06:36] Asuna**
You're right, Yuuki.
**[06:48] Kirito**
Release Recollection.
**[06:58] Vassago**
Damn it!
**[07:02] Tiese**
Eugeo-senpai once told me.
**[07:04] Tiese**
Kirito-senpai's black sword
used to be a huge black cedar tree
**[07:09] Tiese**
in the far north of the Human Empire.
**[07:11] Sortiliena**
I see. That's why
that sword can absorb sacred resources.
**[07:43] Asuna**
Kirito.
**[07:49] Vassago**
You really are the best, Kirito.
**[07:53] Vassago**
You're the only one who's made me want to kill
of my own free will this much.
**[07:59] Vassago**
It's a shame to end this now,
but no venue could ever top this one.
**[08:06] Vassago**
Now, let's have some fun, Black Swordsman!
**[08:09] Kirito**
Yeah. Let's end this.
**[08:36] Kirito**
Burst Element!
**[10:00] Vassago**
Impressive. That's more like it.
**[10:04] Vassago**
But it's not over yet.
**[10:07] Vassago**
Even if I log out of this world,
I'll never stop coming after you guys.
**[10:14] Vassago**
Until I've slit your and Lightning Flash's throats
and ripped out your hearts,
**[10:21] Vassago**
I'll just keep coming!
**[10:23] Kirito**
No. It's over now.
**[10:31] Kirito**
You'll never log out of the Underworld.
**[10:45] Kirito**
This sword was originally
the Demon Tree in Rulid Village.
**[10:49] Kirito**
A giant tree the villagers couldn't chop down
**[10:52] Kirito**
even after swinging their axes
for two hundred years.
**[10:54] Kirito**
I just sent the memory of this sword
into your body.
**[10:58] Kirito**
I don't know how many years or decades it will take
before you're let out of the STL,
**[11:03] Kirito**
but you'd better pray it's not too long.
**[11:07] Kirito**
Someday, when pioneers
build a village around here,
**[11:10] Kirito**
maybe some kids
will chop you down with an ax.
**[11:22] Kirito**
System Call.
**[11:23] Kirito**
Transfer Durability, Right to Area.
**[11:51] Klein**
Kirito.
**[11:53] Klein**
Kirito, bro.
**[11:56] Klein**
You're always stealing the spotlight,
way too much!
**[12:06] Ronie**
Senpai!
**[12:09] Agil**
Seriously, he's something else.
**[12:12] Lisbeth**
Thank goodness! Thank goodness!
**[12:15] Silica**
Yes! I'm so glad he's okay!
**[12:34] Renly**
I knew from the moment I first met him.
**[12:38] Renly**
That he and those two swords would save us all.
**[12:42] Asuna**
Yes.
**[12:45] Kirito**
Everyone, thank you.
**[12:48] Kirito**
I definitely won't let your feelings,
or all the blood and tears you shed, go to waste.
**[12:53] Kirito**
Truly, thank you.
**[13:04] Asuna**
Kirito, Emperor Vecta and Alice are...
**[13:08] Kirito**
Right. It's hazy,
but I remember the situation.
**[13:12] Kirito**
Let's go rescue her.
I'll need your help, Asuna.
**[13:34] Kirito**
Excuse me.
**[13:36] Asuna**
What? Wait. Kirito?
**[13:38] Kirito**
Okay, we're off.
**[13:54] Critter**
Damn! What's that moron Vassago doing?
**[14:02] Critter**
The JSDF commando unit will storm in
in eight hours and twenty minutes.
**[14:07] Critter**
Per Captain Miller's orders,
once eight hours are left,
**[14:10] Critter**
I'm supposed to resume
time acceleration inside the Underworld.
**[14:14] Critter**
It can't be helped.
Vassago, hang on a little longer.
**[14:25] Critter**
I need a key.
**[14:28] Brigg**
Let me handle this.
**[14:30] Rinko**
Hey, Higa! Hey, I'm talking to you!
**[14:34] Rinko**
Open your eyes! Come on!
**[14:41] Higa**
H-How's Kirito?
**[14:43] Rinko**
Kirigaya's Fluctlight activity
has been completely restored.
**[14:47] Rinko**
It's almost too active now, to be honest.
**[14:50] Higa**
I-Is that right?
**[14:53] Kikuoka**
Really, now. After I told you not to overdo it.
**[14:56] Kikuoka**
Although I'm to blame for not realizing
we had a mole among the tech staff.
**[15:02] Higa**
What's going on with the Underworld
and with Alice?
**[15:05] Kikuoka**
The players connected from America, China,
and South Korea have logged out.
**[15:12] Higa**
They came from China and South Korea, too?
**[15:14] Higa**
Not as reinforcements, but as enemies?
**[15:17] Rinko**
Apparently someone played on
their mutual animosity as online gamers
**[15:21] Rinko**
to lure them into the Underworld.
**[15:24] Higa**
Is that right?
**[15:27] Kikuoka**
The 2,000 players from Japan
who came as reinforcements were mostly wiped out.
**[15:32] Kikuoka**
At that point, there were still more than 20,000 Chinese
and South Korean players left,
**[15:37] Kikuoka**
but luckily, that was when Kirito woke up,
and in a flash he—
**[15:42] Kikuoka**
Wh-What?
**[15:46] Critter**
N-No way.
**[15:49] Machine**
*Fluctlight Acceleration rate safety limiter disengaged.*
**[15:52] Machine**
*Fifteen minutes
until maximum-acceleration phase.*
**[15:56] Machine**
*For any personnel in the Soul Translators,
please initiate disengagement protocol immediately.*
**[16:01] Rinko**
What does maximum acceleration mean?
**[16:04] Rinko**
Isn't the FLA rate limit 1,200?
**[16:07] Higa**
1,200 is the safety limit factoring in the lifespan
of a real-world human's soul.
**[16:13] Higa**
5,000 is the limit at which
we can observe the Underworld.
**[16:18] Higa**
Neither are the hardware limit
imposed by physical constraints.
**[16:21] Rinko**
Th-Then what is the hardware-based limit?
**[16:25] Higa**
During the maximum-acceleration phase,
the FLA rate will be just over 5 million.
**[16:30] Higa**
The two STLs in Roppongi connected by satellite
will disconnect automatically
**[16:34] Higa**
once they can't keep up with the speed,
**[16:37] Higa**
but in the case of Kirito and Asuna,
here on the Ocean Turtle...
**[16:40] Rinko**
Are you serious? Then hurry!
**[16:42] Higa**
- Hurry, we have to get them out of those STLs!
- But the initial acceleration phase has already begun!
**[16:47] Higa**
If we pull them out of the machines now,
it will damage their Fluctlights!
**[16:52] Rinko**
Then start the disengagement protocol right now!
**[16:55] Higa**
Mr. Kiku, I'm going down there again.
**[16:59] Kikuoka**
All right. I'll go with you this time.
**[17:01] Kikuoka**
I should have enough stamina
to carry you down that ladder on my back.
**[17:04] Nakanishi**
It's too risky, Lieutenant Colonel!
Allow me to undertake that mission—
**[17:07] Kikuoka**
No, I need you all to defend the stairs.
**[17:11] Kikuoka**
Since we'll be opening the bulkhead again.
**[17:14] Kikuoka**
And you'll be engaging the enemy directly,
so the danger will be greater for you.
**[17:18] Kikuoka**
Even so, I must ask you to go.
**[17:22] Nakanishi**
Understood!
**[17:27] Higa**
Mr. Kiku!
**[17:29] Higa**
When I was operating the STL earlier,
I secured a communication channel with Kirito!
**[17:34] Higa**
You can reach him on line C-12!
**[17:37] ---**
Why do I need to?
**[17:38] Higa**
Have him escape from inside!
**[17:43] Asuna**
Is Alice... safe?
**[17:45] Kirito**
She hasn't been captured yet.
**[17:47] Kirito**
But there's a massive presence chasing her.
**[17:50] Asuna**
I see.
**[17:51] Asuna**
Then we'll protect her.
**[17:55] Kikuoka**
*Kirito!*
**[17:56] Kikuoka**
*Kirigaya! Can you hear me? Kirito!*
**[18:00] Kirito**
Mr. Kikuoka?
**[18:01] Kirito**
There's no system console, so how—
**[18:04] Kikuoka**
*I don't have time to explain.*
**[18:06] Kikuoka**
*The situation is dire.
The time acceleration rate...*
**[18:10] Kikuoka**
*They've disengaged the FLA limiter!*
**[18:12] Kirito**
Limiter?
**[18:13] Kikuoka**
*According to Higa's calculations,
no matter how fast we disconnect the STLs,*
**[18:18] Kikuoka**
*two hundred years will have passed in there.*
**[18:21] Kirito**
Two hundred?
**[18:23] Kikuoka**
*Listen, Kirito. You have ten minutes.*
**[18:26] Kikuoka**
*You have to reach the console by then,
and log out manually.*
**[18:30] Kikuoka**
*You can't log out by depleting your HP.*
**[18:32] Kikuoka**
*If you die after
the maximum-acceleration phase starts,*
**[18:35] Kikuoka**
*you'll spend two hundred years there
in a state of total sensory deprivation!*
**[18:38] Kirito**
Got it. I'll find a way
to get out through the console.
**[18:42] Kirito**
Of course, I'll bring Alice with me,
so be ready for that.
**[18:47] Kikuoka**
*Thanks.*
**[18:48] Kikuoka**
*But I want you two to prioritize your escape
over securing Alice now.*
**[18:53] Kikuoka**
*Listen. Even if we can delete your memories
after you log out,*
**[18:56] Kikuoka**
*two hundred years is far longer
than the life span of the human soul.*
**[19:01] Kikuoka**
*The odds of you regaining normal consciousness...
are almost zero!*
**[19:07] Kirito**
Don't worry. We'll definitely get back.
**[19:10] Kirito**
And Mr. Kikuoka,
**[19:12] Kirito**
*six months ago... no, last night,
sorry for the harsh things I said to you.*
**[19:16] Kikuoka**
No, we certainly deserved to be criticized.
**[19:21] Kikuoka**
*It looks like Higa's ready.
I have to go now.*
**[19:25] Kirito**
Okay.
**[19:26] Kirito**
I'll see you in ten minutes, Mr. Kikuoka.
**[19:30] Asuna**
Kirito, did Mr. Kikuoka contact you?
**[19:33] Asuna**
Is something wrong?
**[19:35] Kirito**
No. Time acceleration's resuming in ten minutes,
so he wants us to hurry up.
**[19:42] Asuna**
Right, we can't stay like this,
or it wouldn't be fair to Alice.
**[19:47] Asuna**
Come on, let's go rescue her!
**[19:49] Kirito**
Yeah. I'm going to fly again.
**[20:14] Alice**
Amayori and Takiguri.
**[20:16] Alice**
This is farewell.
**[20:18] Alice**
This is my final order.
**[20:20] Alice**
Fly back to the Human Empire and return
to the dragon nests in the Western Empire.
**[20:23] Alice**
Amayori, find a husband,
and Takiguri, find a wife.
**[20:27] Alice**
Have many babies
and raise them to be strong.
**[20:31] Alice**
Strong, strong children who will someday
be able to carry knights as they fly.
**[20:44] Alice**
Now, go!
**[20:50] Alice**
Ama... yori?
**[20:55] Alice**
No! Don't!
**[21:35] Alice**
Amayori!
**[22:00] Alice**
Kirito.
**[23:36] Kirito**
Next time: The Night-Sky Blade.