E20 - Synthesis

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SIGN    Central Cathedral, Ninety-Fifth Floor  Morning Star Lookout
[00:12] Alice
    Kirito.
[00:15] Alice
    You didn't carry me all this way, did you?
[00:18] Kirito
    I did.
[00:19] Kirito
    It was a hassle.
[00:21] Kirito
    So a little appreciation—
[00:24] Kirito
    What're you doing?
[00:26] Alice
    Oh no! You're drenched with sweat!
[00:30] Alice
    And my clothes are stained!
[00:32] Alice
    Get away from me right now!
[00:34] Kirito
    What did you say?
[00:37] Kirito
    Ouch!
SIGN    Synthesis
[02:22] Alice
    Where's your comrade?
[02:24] Kirito
    You mean Eugeo?
[02:26] Alice
    Where do you think this Eugeo is right now?
[02:30] Alice
    If he took the stairs from the Cloudtop Garden,
[02:34] Alice
    he must've run into the most powerful opponent
    before reaching this floor.
[02:39] Kirito
    Most powerful opponent?
[02:40] Alice
    Uncle...
[02:42] Alice
    His Eminence, the Knight Commander Bercouli.
[02:46] Kirito
    Eugeo, where are you?
[02:52] Kirito
    I know!
[02:54] Kirito
    System Call.
[02:56] Kirito
    Generate Umbra Element.
[02:58] Kirito
    Adhere Possession.
[03:00] Kirito
    Object ID, WLSS703.
[03:04] Kirito
    Discharge.
[03:06] Alice
    What are you doing?
[03:08] Kirito
    I'm trying to locate the Blue Rose Sword.
[03:11] Kirito
    Since Eugeo would never let it go.
[03:16] Kirito
    Below us.
[03:19] Alice
    Wait.
[03:23] Alice
    Did you treat my wound?
[03:24] Kirito
    Yeah.
[03:26] Kirito
    I managed to stop the bleeding,
    but my sacred art skills can only do so much.
[03:32] Kirito
    Can your right eye be healed?
[03:39] Alice
    At this time,
    there aren't sufficient spatial resources.
[03:44] Alice
    It won't be possible to treat it
    until Solus has risen.
[03:47] Alice
    I still feel some pain,
    and the vision in my right eye is somewhat limited,
[03:52] Alice
    but neither will prevent me from fighting.
[03:54] Kirito
    B-But...
[03:56] Alice
    Besides...
[03:59] Alice
    I'd like to feel it a bit longer.
[04:01] Alice
    This pain, which is the proof
    that I've decided to fight the Axiom Church.
[04:07] Kirito
    Alice.
[04:15] Kirito
    All right.
[04:16] Kirito
    If we go into battle,
    I'll protect your right side.
[04:37] Alice
    Did Eugeo cause this?
[04:40] Kirito
    Yeah. There's no doubt.
[04:42] Kirito
    This is his Blue Rose Sword
    under the Perfect Weapon Control art.
[04:47] Kirito
    Still, who knew it would be this devastating?
[04:51] Alice
    Uncle? Uncle!
[04:56] Kirito
    Is that...
[05:01] Alice
    Uncle?
[05:05] Kirito
    This isn't Eugeo's art.
[05:09] Alice
    Long ago, Uncle told me...
[05:13] Alice
    that Prime Senator Chudelkin was given
    the authority to turn anyone to stone.
[05:19] Alice
    I believe the name of the command is Deep Freeze.
[05:23] Kirito
    Then it was his own ally, the prime senator,
    who cast the art on the knight commander?
[05:30] Kirito
    But why?
[05:31] Alice
    Uncle seemed to have secret doubts
    about the orders issued by the senate.
[05:38] Alice
    But he told himself the Human Empire
    could never know peace
[05:43] Alice
    without the Axiom Church's rule,
    and spent countless days battling.
[05:51] Alice
    The senate may have all the authority in the world,
[05:54] Alice
    but this... there's no reason
    for him to receive treatment like this!
[06:00] Alice
    Uncle!
[06:09] Alice
    Uncle...
[06:11] Alice
    Stop it! Please stop now!
    Your body will break! Uncle!
[06:19] Bercouli
    Hey, little one.
[06:22] Bercouli
    Don't cry so much.
[06:24] Bercouli
    It'll ruin your good looks.
[06:27] Alice
    Uncle...
[06:29] Bercouli
    I see.
[06:30] Bercouli
    You've overcome that wall at last.
[06:34] Bercouli
    The Seal of the Right Eye I couldn't break,
    even after 300 years.
[06:40] Alice
    Uncle... I... I'm...
[06:44] Bercouli
    Don't make that face. I'm happy.
[06:49] Bercouli
    Now there's nothing left for me to teach you.
[06:55] Alice
    That's... that's not true at all!
[06:57] Alice
    There's so many things
    I want to learn from you!
[07:00] Bercouli
    I know you can do it.
[07:03] Bercouli
    Guide this twisted world to its proper state.
[07:10] Bercouli
    Hey, brat.
[07:12] Bercouli
    Look after her for me.
[07:16] Kirito
    I will.
[07:20] Bercouli
    Your partner was taken away
    by Prime Senator Chudelkin.
[07:28] Bercouli
    Most likely to the pontifex's chambers.
[07:32] Bercouli
    Hurry, before that boy is deceived
    by the labyrinth of his memories.
[07:43] Alice
    Uncle...
[07:53] Kirito
    This is...
[08:11] Alice
    Usually, the only person mad enough to wield two swords
    is a pretentious high-ranking noblemen,
[08:19] Alice
    but for some reason, it suits you.
[08:22] Kirito
    You think so?
[08:23] Kirito
    Still, there's no way
    I can swing two swords at the same time.
[08:30] Alice
    Anyway.
[08:32] Alice
    It seems that Eugeo has already been captured
    by the pontifex.
[08:37] Alice
    We'd better hurry,
    because her actions aren't bound by human logic.
[08:42] Kirito
    Have you spoken to Administrator before?
[08:47] Alice
    Only once.
[08:49] Alice
    It was six years ago.
[08:51] Alice
    I awoke, having lost all of my memories,
[08:55] Alice
    and faced my summoner, the pontifex said to be
    ruling the Human Empire on behalf of the gods.
[09:02] Alice
    Those mirror-like silver eyes
    that reflected all light...
[09:06] Alice
    Yes. I understand now.
    I was deeply afraid of the pontifex at that time.
[09:12] Alice
    "I can never defy her.
[09:14] Alice
    I'm to accept her every word without question,
    and offer her my everything."
[09:19] Alice
    I know now it was that overwhelming terror
    that compelled me to feel that way.
[09:26] Kirito
    Alice.
[09:31] Alice
    I'll be fine.
[09:33] Alice
    I've already made up my mind.
[09:35] Alice
    For the sake of my younger sister
    residing far away in the north...
[09:38] Alice
    For the family I've never seen yet,
    and for all of the people,
[09:41] Alice
    I'll do what I believe is right.
[09:44] Alice
    Now then, let's hurry.
[09:46] Alice
    For all we know,
    before we confront the pontifex,
[09:50] Alice
    we may have to battle the prime senator.
[09:53] Kirito
    H-H-Hey! Is it okay
    to leave the knight commander like this?
[09:58] Alice
    We can either force Chudelkin to reverse the art,
[10:02] Alice
    or else slay him. That's all there is to it.
[10:09] Kirito
    Hey.
[10:10] Alice
    What is it?
[10:11] Kirito
    I keep hearing the name "Prime Senator Chudelkin,"
[10:15] Kirito
    but who are these senators, anyway?
[10:18] Alice
    To be honest, that's never been clearly explained,
    even to the Integrity Knights.
[10:24] Alice
    I heard that they're on floors ninety-six and above,
    but knights are prohibited from entering that area.
[10:30] Kirito
    What's their job?
[10:32] Alice
    The Taboo Index.
[10:34] Alice
    They confirm and monitor whether all residents
    of the Human Empire are obeying the Taboo Index.
[10:40] Alice
    That's the senate's job.
[10:43] Alice
    And whenever someone runs afoul of the Taboos,
[10:46] Alice
    they send an Integrity Knight
    to deal with the situation.
[10:50] Kirito
    In other words,
    the senate is like a proxy for the pontifex?
[10:55] Kirito
    But how could someone as cautious as Administrator
    give them that much authority?
[11:04] Kirito
    This is the senate?
[11:06] Alice
    Yes. It should be.
[11:18] Alice
    Sacred arts?
[11:20] Kirito
    It doesn't seem to be an attack spell.
[11:24] Alice
    Let's go in.
[11:40] Kirito
    S-Severed heads?
[11:42] Alice
    No. They seem to have their bodies attached.
[11:54] Kirito
    They're like the one from that time!
[11:56] Alice
    Do you know them?
[11:58] Kirito
    Yeah.
[11:59] Kirito
    One appeared after we fought Raios and Humbert
    at the Swordcraft Academy.
[12:03] Kirito
    There's no doubt it was these guys.
[12:35] Senator
    System Call.
[12:37] Senator
    Display Rebelling Index.
[12:41] Alice
    So these are the senators of the Axiom Church,
    which rules the Human Empire.
[12:44] Alice
    Was it the pontifex who created such a spectacle?
[12:48] Kirito
    Yeah, probably.
[12:50] Kirito
    She must've abducted people skilled in the sacred arts
    from all over the Human Empire,
[12:54] Kirito
    and turned them
    into surveillance devices called senators.
[12:59] Alice
    Unforgivable!
[13:04] Chudelkin
    Oh no! Oh no, this won't do!
[13:07] Chudelkin
    This won't do!
[13:08] Kirito
    Whose voice is that?
[13:13] Alice
    The Prime Senator... Chudelkin.
[13:18] Chudelkin
    This won't do!
[13:25] Chudelkin
    This won't do! It won't! It simply won't do!
[13:45] Alice
    If you try to initiate a sacred art,
    I will cut out your tongue at the root.
[13:50] Chudelkin
    You...
[13:52] Chudelkin
    Number Thirty! What are you doing here?
[13:55] Chudelkin
    By rights you should've perished
    along with one of those rebels!
[13:58] Alice
    Don't you dare call me by a number!
[14:01] Alice
    My name is Alice.
[14:03] Alice
    And I am no longer Thirty.
[14:08] Chudelkin
    You! Why are you...
[14:10] Chudelkin
    Thirty— Knight Alice,
    why aren't you slashing this guy?
[14:15] Chudelkin
    He's a rebel against the Church.
    A pawn of the Dark Territory, don't you remember?
[14:20] Alice
    It's true that he's a rebel.
[14:22] Alice
    But he's not a member of the realm of darkness.
[14:25] Alice
    He's just like I am now.
[14:29] Chudelkin
    You're planning to betray us,
    you miserable knight?
[14:32] Chudelkin
    You damned Integrity Knights are nothing but puppets!
[14:36] Chudelkin
    Mere dolls who do exactly what I order you to do!
[14:39] Alice
    It was the Axiom Church
    that turned us into puppets.
[14:43] Alice
    You sealed away our memories
    through the Synthesis Ritual
[14:47] Alice
    and instilled fealty into us by force,
[14:50] Alice
    after which you made us believe the myth
    that we were knights summoned from the heavens.
[14:56] Chudelkin
    Yes. That's exactly right.
[15:00] Chudelkin
    I still remember it clearly.
[15:03] Chudelkin
    The sight of you, so young, innocent and sweet,
    with tears streaming down your face as you begged!
[15:10] Chudelkin
    "Please! Don't let me forget!
    Don't let me forget the people I love!"
[15:19] Chudelkin
    Even now, I can enjoy
    just thinking about it all night long!
[15:24] Chudelkin
    You were brought here from some rural area,
    and for the first two years,
[15:28] Chudelkin
    you were raised as a sister-in-training.
[15:31] Chudelkin
    You were such a tomboy, you'd find ways around the rules
    to sneak off to the Centoria summer solstice festival!
[15:37] Chudelkin
    Still, you did your best, believing that if you studied hard,
    you'd get to go home one day, right?
[15:44] Chudelkin
    But that was never going to happen.
[15:46] Chudelkin
    Once you'd raised your sacred art authority level
    high enough, it was time for forced synthesis!
[15:53] Chudelkin
    That tear-stained face of yours
    when you realized you'd never go home again...
[15:57] Chudelkin
    Really, I wanted to turn it to stone right then,
    so I could display it in my room for all eternity!
[16:06] Alice
    You just said something odd.
[16:09] Alice
    Forced synthesis?
[16:11] Alice
    If I didn't know better, I'd suspect
    there was a Synthesis Ritual that wasn't forced.
[16:15] Chudelkin
    Your ears are sharper than I thought.
    That's exactly right.
[16:20] Chudelkin
    Six years ago, you stubbornly refused
[16:24] Chudelkin
    to recite the secret commands
    required for a normal Synthesis Ritual.
[16:29] Chudelkin
    Really, you were the most insolent brat imaginable!
[16:33] Chudelkin
    So we had no choice
    but to pause the automated senators,
[16:38] Chudelkin
    and have them conduct a ritual to pry open the door
    protecting what you held so dear!
[16:43] Chudelkin
    Well, I did get to see the rarest of shows...
    what a feast for the eyes!
[16:51] Kirito
    He's waiting for something.
[16:53] Kirito
    Is this rambling story of his
    a ploy to keep us in this room?
[16:59] Alice
    Prime Senator Chudelkin...
[17:02] Alice
    I can see that you've enjoyed your circumstances.
[17:06] Alice
    In that case, you should have no regrets.
[17:13] Alice
    I'm tired of hearing your stories.
[17:31] Chudelkin
    It's not all about commands! Idiot! Idiot!
[17:36] Alice
    Chudelkin!
[17:38] Kirito
    Hey!
[17:42] Chudelkin
    System Call! Generate Lu...
[17:45] Alice
    Watch out for a sacred art surprise attack!
[17:47] Kirito
    Roger that!
[17:51] Kirito
    I thought I heard him chanting.
[17:54] Alice
    Could it be that Chudelkin escaped
    to the hundredth floor?
[17:57] Kirito
    But then where are the stairs leading up there?
[18:11] Kirito
    So there were still Integrity Knights remaining?
[18:13] Alice
    No, that can't be.
[18:30] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[18:32] Kirito
    You...
[18:34] Alice
    It can't be.
[18:35] Alice
    It's too soon.
[18:36] Kirito
    Too soon for what?
[18:38] Alice
    For the ritual to be completed.
[18:42] Alice
    Your partner...
[18:44] Alice
    Eugeo has already been synthesized.
[18:48] Kirito
    No way.
[18:49] Kirito
    It can't be. Because...
[18:51] Alice
    Yes. Even though it hasn't been even an hour
    since Eugeo fought Bercouli.
[18:57] Kirito
    That's right. It's not possible.
[19:00] Kirito
    Eugeo can't...
[19:02] Alice
    Pull yourself together!
[19:04] Alice
    If you waver now,
    you'll lose any chance to save him!
[19:08] Kirito
    Save?
[19:09] Alice
    That's right.
[19:11] Alice
    You told me so yourself.
[19:13] Alice
    That there's a way
    to restore an Integrity Knight's true memories.
[19:17] Alice
    So we should be able
    to restore Eugeo back to who he was.
[19:20] Alice
    To achieve that, we must overcome this dilemma,
    no matter what.
[19:29] Kirito
    Leave this to me.
[19:32] Alice
    Don't let your guard down.
[19:33] Alice
    That knight is no longer the Eugeo you knew.
[19:37] Kirito
    Right.
[19:40] Kirito
    Eugeo, do you know who I am?
[19:43] Kirito
    I'm Kirito. Your partner.
[19:47] Kirito
    Since we left Rulid two years ago,
    we've been together the whole time, remember?
[19:52] Eugeo
    Sorry. I don't know who you are.
[19:56] Eugeo
    But thank you.
[19:58] Kirito
    For what?
[20:00] Eugeo
    For bringing me my sword.
[20:11] Alice
    Incarnate Arms?
[20:12] Kirito
    What's that?
[20:14] Alice
    A secret art used by Integrity Knights
    since ancient times.
[20:17] Alice
    It's neither a sacred art
    nor Perfect Weapon Control art,
[20:20] Alice
    and you can move objects
    solely with your own willpower.
[20:23] Alice
    I've heard that only a handful of knights,
    including Uncle, can use it.
[20:28] Alice
    It's not a ritual that a newly-created knight like Eugeo
    could have mastered.
[20:35] Kirito
    What do you plan to do with that sword?
[20:38] Eugeo
    I'm going to fight you.
[20:40] Eugeo
    Because that's what she wishes.
[20:43] Kirito
    Eugeo, just because you've been ordered to,
[20:46] Kirito
    you're going to fight
    without even understanding why?
[20:49] Eugeo
    I don't need a reason to fight.
[20:52] Eugeo
    She gives me what I want.
[20:55] Eugeo
    That's enough for me.
[20:57] Kirito
    What you want?
[21:00] Kirito
    Is it more important than Alice?
[21:05] Eugeo
    I don't know. I don't want to know.
[21:08] Eugeo
    About you, or who you are.
[21:11] Eugeo
    I've had enough.
[21:12] Kirito
    Eugeo...
[21:24] Eugeo
    I have nothing more to say to you.
[21:34] Kirito
    Eugeo, you probably don't remember,
    but you learned your sword skills from me.
[21:41] Kirito
    As the master,
    I'm not ready to lose to my student just yet!
[23:36] Kirito
    Next time: The 32nd Knight.