# E22 - The End of the Journey
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRX0M0EM6/the-end-of-the-journey)
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***SIGN*** Please answer me, Yuuki.
**[00:30] Gi**
Asuna-san...
**[00:33] A**
Siune!
**[00:34] A**
What's Yuuki doing?
**[00:37] A**
She hasn't logged in for three days!
**[00:40] Gi**
Since then, we've been unable to reach her, either.
**[00:45] Gi**
Asuna-san,
**[00:46] Gi**
I believe Yuuki doesn't want to see you again.
**[00:50] Gi**
For your sake, and no one else's.
**[00:53] A**
Wh-Why?
**[00:58] A**
No, I understood, actually.
**[01:03] A**
You were all trying to keep
your distance from me.
**[01:08] A**
If I'm a bother to you, I'll leave you alone.
**[01:13] A**
But if you say it's for my sake, I can't accept it!
**[01:16] Gi**
A bother?
**[01:19] Gi**
We're really happy to have met you.
**[01:24] Gi**
It's thanks to you
**[01:26] ---**
that we were able to have that last
wonderful memory in this world.
**[01:31] Gi**
I'm sure Yuuki feels the same way.
**[01:34] Gi**
But... Please...
**[01:37] Gi**
Just forget about us.
**[01:42] A**
Is this really goodbye?
**[01:45] A**
Even if the guild disbanded, I thought
we could stay friends forever.
**[01:50] A**
But was I the only one who thought that?
**[01:56] Gi**
I'm sorry.
**[01:59] A**
Wait!
***SIGN*** Journey's End
**[04:03] L**
Asuna!
**[04:06] L**
Good morning...
**[04:07] Gi**
Good morning!
**[04:09] A**
Morning.
**[04:10] L**
We finally caught you!
**[04:12] L**
Tell us about that message you sent!
**[04:16] Gi**
I heard from Liz that you entered a guild?
**[04:20] L**
Hey, hey, what's it like?
**[04:22] A**
Well...
**[04:25] A**
Ah, sorry...
***SIGN*** Kirigaya Kazuto
**[04:31] K**
Yui, how's it look?
**[04:33] K**
Can you see me?
**[04:35] Y**
My vision's a little blurry, Daddy.
**[04:39] K**
Maybe the autofocus isn't working right.
**[04:42] K**
Wait a second.
**[04:43] Y**
Okay, Daddy.
**[04:55] K**
Hey.
**[05:05] K**
Do you really want to see Zekken,
no matter what?
**[05:09] A**
Yeah.
**[05:11] K**
They said it was better that you don't, right?
**[05:13] K**
Even so?
**[05:14] A**
Yeah.
**[05:15] A**
Even so, I want to see Yuuki and talk
to her again, no matter what.
**[05:19] A**
I have to!
**[05:21] K**
Okay.
**[05:25] K**
If you go here, you may be able to see her.
**[05:28] K**
It's just a possibility.
**[05:30] A**
How do you know this?
**[05:33] K**
It's the only place in Japan that's doing
clinical trials for the Medicuboid.
***SIGN*** —hama Port, Northern General Hospital
**[05:38] A**
The Medicuboid?
**[05:51] A**
Um...
**[05:53] Gi**
You're here to see someone?
**[05:54] A**
Yes.
**[05:55] A**
But I don't know her name.
**[05:58] Gi**
I'm sorry?
**[05:59] A**
I think it's a girl around fifteen.
**[06:02] A**
Her name might be "Yuuki."
**[06:05] Gi**
That isn't enough...
**[06:06] A**
Um, I think they're using the
Medicuboid you're testing here!
**[06:12] Gi**
I'm sorry, but what's your name?
**[06:15] A**
Ah, I'm Yuuki Asuna.
**[06:19] Gi**
Sit on that bench, and wait for a minute.
**[06:22] A**
O-Okay.
**[06:30] Gu**
Hello, I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
**[06:34] A**
N-Not at all.
**[06:36] Gu**
So you're Yuuki Asuna-san, yes?
**[06:39] A**
Yes.
**[06:40] Gu**
My name is Kurahashi.
**[06:42] Gu**
I'm Konno Yuuki-san's doctor.
**[06:44] A**
Konno-san?
**[06:48] Gu**
I'm amazed you found this place.
**[06:51] Gu**
Yuuki-kun said that someone
**[06:53] ---**
named Asuna-san might come to see her.
**[06:58] A**
Yuuki did?
**[06:59] Gu**
But she said she didn't tell you about the hospital.
**[07:03] Gu**
So I told her there was no way
you'd find this place, but...
**[07:08] Gu**
When the front desk called me, I was surprised.
**[07:12] A**
Um... Did Yuuki-san tell you about me?
**[07:17] Gu**
Sure.
**[07:18] Gu**
All she does is talk about you.
**[07:21] Gu**
But whenever she was done talking
about you, she would cry.
**[07:28] Gu**
She never complains about her own situation.
**[07:32] Gu**
She said she wanted to see you, but she couldn't.
**[07:38] A**
After we said goodbye in the virtual world,
**[07:41] ---**
Yuuki-san and her friends
told me the same thing.
**[07:45] A**
Why? Why can't I see her?
**[07:55] Gu**
I suppose I should begin by telling
you about the Medicuboid.
**[07:59] A**
Okay.
**[08:01] Gu**
The Medicuboid is something
**[08:03] ---**
that's currently being developed
by the national government.
**[08:05] Gu**
It's the code name for the world's
first medical full-dive system.
**[08:09] A**
Medical full-dive system?
**[08:11] Gu**
That's right.
**[08:13] Gu**
For people with vision or hearing problems,
**[08:17] ---**
that machine is truly a blessing.
**[08:20] Gu**
Because the Amusphere transmits sound
and images directly to the brain.
**[08:26] Gu**
It isn't only signal transmission, either.
**[08:29] Gu**
The Amusphere also has sensation-cancelers.
**[08:33] Gu**
By sending an electromagnetic pulse here,
**[08:35] Gu**
it can temporarily paralyze the nerves.
**[08:39] Gu**
In other words, it functions just
like general anesthesia.
**[08:42] A**
But isn't that impossible?
**[08:45] A**
The sensory levels you can
interact with via Amusphere
**[08:48] ---**
are limited to very low levels.
**[08:51] Gu**
That's right!
**[08:52] Gu**
That's exactly right.
**[08:54] Gu**
The Amusphere... No, even the NerveGear
**[08:57] ---**
can't cancel the pain from
surgery or serious illnesses.
**[08:59] Gu**
So the Medicuboid enhances the
electromagnetic pulse's output,
**[09:03] Gu**
and by fitting it on a specialized bed,
we can cover everything
**[09:06] ---**
from the brain to the entire spinal column.
**[09:08] Gu**
If this is put into use, it will
change medicine forever.
**[09:12] Gu**
And with the Medicuboid's specs,
**[09:15] ---**
you could combine it with a camera to allow
**[09:18] ---**
AR-image processing in real time.
**[09:21] A**
That sounds like a true dream machine.
**[09:27] Gu**
Yes.
**[09:28] Gu**
It truly is a dream machine.
**[09:32] Gu**
But it doesn't treat the underlying illness.
**[09:37] Gu**
The place where it's hoped it will have
**[09:40] ---**
the most impact is terminal care.
**[09:43] A**
Terminal care?
**[09:45] Gu**
Treatment for terminal illnesses.
**[09:49] A**
Terminal...
**[09:53] Gu**
Yuuki-kun told me that if you wanted it,
I was to tell you everything about her.
**[10:00] Gu**
But you may wish later that I hadn't.
**[10:11] A**
No.
**[10:14] A**
Continue.
**[10:15] A**
Please.
**[10:16] A**
That's why I came here!
**[10:23] Gu**
Yuuki-kun was born in May 2011.
**[10:28] Gu**
It was a difficult birth, and her
mother was given a C-section.
**[10:31] Gu**
At the time, she was given blood.
**[10:35] Gu**
But unfortunately, that blood
was infected with a virus.
**[10:40] Gu**
The virus was detected in September,
**[10:43] Gu**
during a post-transfusion test her mother took.
**[10:47] Gu**
But at that point, her entire family had already...
***SIGN*** Special Measurement Devices Lab 1
**[11:00] Gu**
This is it.
**[11:05] Gu**
The room beyond this glass is an
air-controlled clean room,
**[11:09] ---**
so you can't go in.
**[11:11] Gu**
Please understand.
**[11:23] A**
Yuuki...
**[11:26] A**
Doctor, what is she ill with?
**[11:29] Gu**
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
**[11:33] Gu**
AIDS.
**[11:35] Gu**
AIDS isn't as terrifying an illness as people think.
**[11:41] Gu**
With early detection, you can delay
**[11:43] ---**
the onset of symptoms for a long time.
**[11:48] Gu**
But the virus she was infected with
was a drug-resistant variant.
**[11:53] Gu**
Yuuki-kun's mother despaired
for her children's future,
**[11:57] Gu**
and was prepared to kill herself at one point.
**[12:03] Gu**
But she decided to continue
to fight the illness instead.
**[12:08] A**
To keep fighting...
**[12:11] Gu**
Yes. Soon after birth, Yuuki-kun
was given multi-drug therapy.
**[12:17] Gu**
It's hard for a young child to take lots of drugs
**[12:20] ---**
at regular intervals.
**[12:23] Gu**
There are side effects, as well.
**[12:25] Gu**
And she also suffered due to prejudice, I'm told.
**[12:29] Gu**
But Yuuki-kun and her family
believed she'd get better,
**[12:33] ---**
and she did her best.
**[12:36] Gu**
But in fourth grade, her immune
system suddenly collapsed.
**[12:41] Gu**
In other words, the AIDS symptoms began,
and she was hospitalized here.
**[12:49] Gu**
Still, she was always smiling.
**[12:54] A**
Doctor,
**[12:56] ---**
why did she decide to use the Medicuboid?
**[12:59] Gu**
Just as the public was panicking
about the NerveGear incident,
**[13:04] Gu**
the first Medicuboid prototype was completed.
**[13:08] Gu**
But even if we'd wanted to do trials,
**[13:10] Gu**
no one knew what the long-term effects
of electromagnetic pulses,
**[13:13] ---**
several times stronger than those
of the NerveGear, would be.
**[13:18] Gu**
They couldn't find a patient who
was willing to take the risk.
**[13:24] Gu**
When I heard about it,
**[13:26] Gu**
I made Yuuki-kun and her parents a proposal.
**[13:29] Gu**
If she agreed to try the device,
**[13:31] ---**
I could have her put in a clean room
**[13:34] ---**
that would greatly reduce her risk of infection.
**[13:39] Gu**
Sometimes, I still don't know if it was for the best.
**[13:46] Gu**
Both Yuuki-kun and her parents spent
a lot of time worrying about it.
**[13:51] Gu**
But her longing for the unknown of a virtual world
**[13:55] ---**
was probably the deciding factor.
**[13:57] Gu**
She agreed to be a test subject,
**[14:00] Gu**
and entered this room.
**[14:02] Gu**
Ever since then, she's lived in the Medicuboid.
**[14:06] A**
You mean...
**[14:08] Gu**
I mean exactly that.
**[14:10] Gu**
She almost never returns to the real world.
**[14:14] Gu**
Right now, she's using
**[14:16] ---**
the Medicuboid's sensation-canceler
to alleviate the pain.
**[14:20] A**
In other words, she's diving
twenty-four hours a day?
**[14:24] A**
And she's been doing that...
**[14:26] Gu**
For three years.
**[14:28] A**
*A year longer than we did?*
**[14:31] K**
A product of the full-dive environment.
**[14:34] K**
That's what it felt like.
**[14:53] A**
Thank you.
**[14:56] A**
For letting me see Yuuki.
**[15:00] A**
Yuuki's safe in here, right?
**[15:04] Gu**
Even in a clean room,
**[15:06] Gu**
we can't remove the bacteria
and viruses from her body.
**[15:10] A**
Then...
**[15:12] Gu**
Yuuki-kun's condition is terminal.
**[15:15] Gu**
You can probably understand
why she tried to disappear.
**[15:22] A**
No...
**[15:24] A**
That can't...
**[15:25] Z**
Asuna, I...
**[15:31] Z**
Leave it to me, Sis!
**[15:34] A**
Um, doctor... Does Yuuki have a sister?
**[15:40] Z**
Yes, that's right.
**[15:41] Z**
She was a twin.
**[15:45] Z**
Her sister's name was Aiko-san.
**[15:48] Z**
Yuuki-kun was a bright and cheerful child,
**[15:50] ---**
and she would always smile and watch her.
**[15:55] Z**
Come to think of it,
**[15:56] ---**
she might have been a bit like you, somehow.
**[15:59] A**
Might have been?
**[16:01] Gu**
Two years ago, her parents passed away.
**[16:04] Gu**
And her sister one year ago.
**[16:13] A**
Yuuki...
**[16:16] A**
Yuuki...
**[16:24] Z**
Don't cry, Asuna!
**[16:31] A**
Yuuki! Yuuki!
**[16:33] A**
Are you there?
**[16:34] Z**
Yeah.
**[16:35] Z**
It's through a lens, but I can see you, Asuna.
**[16:38] Z**
Wow.
**[16:39] Z**
You really do look just the
same as on the other side.
**[16:42] Z**
Thanks for coming.
**[16:44] A**
Yuuki, I...
**[16:47] A**
I...
**[16:48] Z**
Doctor, please let her use the room next door.
**[16:53] Gu**
That's fine.
**[16:55] Gu**
The Amusphere I always use to talk
to her is in the next room.
**[16:59] A**
Right!
**[17:01] Z**
ALO is on the apps start up list.
**[17:04] Z**
When you log in, go to the first place we met.
**[17:19] A**
*One more time...*
**[17:21] A**
*I want to see you, just one more time!*
**[17:25] A**
* I want to see you, and talk*
* to you for real this time!*
**[17:43] A**
Yuuki!
**[17:49] A**
Yuuki!
**[18:04] A**
Yuuki...
**[18:08] Z**
I don't know why...
**[18:09] Z**
But I had a feeling you'd
find me in the real world.
**[18:15] Z**
But since I hadn't told you anything,
**[18:18] ---**
I knew it was impossible.
**[18:20] Z**
But you came.
**[18:23] Z**
It's pretty rare for my feelings to come true.
**[18:27] Z**
I was happy... Really.
**[18:47] Z**
You smell just like my sister when she held me.
**[18:51] Z**
You smell like the sun.
**[18:53] A**
Aiko-san?
**[18:55] A**
Your sister played VRMMOs, too?
**[18:57] Z**
Yeah.
**[18:59] Z**
She was the first leader of the Sleeping Knights.
**[19:03] Z**
She was way stronger than me.
**[19:08] Z**
She met Siune and the others in a virtual
hospice called Selene Garden.
**[19:13] Z**
At first, there were nine of us.
**[19:16] Z**
But my sister, Clovis, and Merida...
**[19:19] Z**
Three of them are gone now.
**[19:23] Z**
So we decided that when it was
the next person's time,
**[19:28] Z**
we'd disband the guild.
**[19:31] Z**
Asuna, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you the truth.
**[19:35] Z**
The reason the Sleeping Knights
are disbanding in the spring
**[19:39] ---**
isn't because we'll be too busy to play the game.
**[19:42] Z**
It's because two of our members
have been told they have,
**[19:46] ---**
at most, three months to live.
**[19:52] Z**
So we wanted to have one last memory
from this wonderful world.
**[19:59] Z**
We wanted to leave proof that we
were here on that huge monument.
**[20:05] Z**
We wanted to have an incredible adventure
to brag about to my sister and the rest.
**[20:11] Z**
But it wasn't going well.
**[20:14] Z**
We decided to find one person
who could help us.
**[20:19] Z**
But we caused you trouble,
**[20:21] Z**
and I'm sure this is unpleasant for you.
**[20:24] Z**
I'm sorry.
**[20:25] Z**
I'm sorry, Asuna.
**[20:26] Z**
There's still time for you to forget us.
**[20:32] A**
I can't do that.
**[20:35] A**
I'm really happy I met you all,
**[20:39] A**
and I was able to help you.
**[20:41] A**
I still wish I could be part
of the Sleeping Knights.
**[20:45] Z**
Yeah.
**[20:46] Z**
I'm really happy I was able to come
to this world and meet you...
**[20:52] Z**
What you just said is enough.
It's enough for me.
**[20:57] Z**
I'm satisfied with everything.
**[21:01] A**
There are still...
**[21:02] ---**
There are still a lot of things
you haven't done, right?
**[21:04] A**
I'm sure there are all kinds of places
in ALfheim you haven't visited yet.
**[21:08] A**
And if you include the other
virtual worlds, it's infinite.
**[21:13] A**
So don't tell me you're satisfied.
**[21:18] Z**
Over the past three years,
**[21:19] ---**
we had a lot of different adventures,
in a lot of different worlds.
**[21:23] Z**
I want the last page to be the
adventure I had with you.
**[21:28] A**
But there are things you want to do,
**[21:31] ---**
places you want to see, right?
**[21:37] Z**
That's right.
**[21:39] Z**
I want to go to school.
**[21:41] A**
S-School?
**[21:43] Z**
I'm sorry, I know it's impossible!
**[21:46] Z**
I'm really glad you feel that way.
**[21:49] Z**
But I really am satisfied.
**[21:58] A**
You might be able to go...
**[22:01] A**
You might be able to go to school!
***SIGN*** Next Time Beginning of a Dream