E23 - Administrator

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[00:01] Administrator
    I thought you'd come.
[00:04] Administrator
    If I tormented those children long enough,
[00:06] Administrator
    I knew you'd emerge
    from your musty hole sooner or later.
SIGN    Since I last saw you, you've grown adept at imitating a human.
[00:16] Administrator
    Oh my. And what about you, pipsqueak?
[00:19] Administrator
    Why are you speaking to me
    in that bizarre manner?
[00:23] Administrator
    Two hundred years ago, when you were brought before me,
    you were trembling and alone!
[00:29] Administrator
    Right, Lyserith?
SIGN    Don't call me by that name, Quinella!
SIGN    My name is Cardinal.
SIGN    I am the program that only exists to delete you.
[00:41] Administrator
    Yes, that's right.
[00:43] Administrator
    And I am Administrator.
[00:46] Administrator
    The one who controls all programs.
[00:50] Administrator
    I apologize for not greeting you sooner, pipsqueak,
[00:53] Administrator
    but I was preparing the command to welcome you,
[00:56] Administrator
    and it took longer then expected.
SIGN    Administrator
SIGN    You disconnected the address, didn't you?
[01:17] Administrator
    Two hundred years ago,
    it was certainly a mistake to let you get away
[01:23] Administrator
    when I was so close to killing you, pipsqueak.
[01:27] Administrator
    And so,
[01:29] Administrator
    I decided to learn from that mistake.
[01:32] Administrator
    If I could someday lure you out,
    I'd trap you on this side.
[01:38] Administrator
    A mouse inside a cage
    with the cat that hunts it.
SIGN    But in this situation, it isn't clear which of us is the cat, and which is the mouse, is it?
SIGN    After all, there are four of us and only one of you.
[01:52] Administrator
    Four against one?
[01:54] Administrator
    No, your calculations are a bit off.
SIGN    What?
[02:07] Administrator
    To be precise, it's four against three hundred,
    not even including me.
SIGN    Three hundred?
SIGN    You... What...
SIGN    What depths have you sunk to?
SIGN    Are they not the very subjects you should be protecting?
[02:28] Eugeo
    Subjects? Subjects, as in humans?
[02:31] Alice
    Which means that monster is human?
[02:35] Administrator
    As if I would ever bother with petty matters
    like "the subjects I should be protecting."
[02:42] Administrator
    I am a ruler.
[02:44] Administrator
    As long as those under my rule
    exist in the lower world in the manner I desire,
[02:50] Administrator
    whether human or sword,
    then there's no need for concern.
SIGN    You...
[02:56] Administrator
    Oh my, you're not shocked by the matter conversion
    of a measly three hundred human units, are you?
SIGN    Did you say measly?
[03:07] Administrator
    And this is only a prototype.
[03:10] Administrator
    In order to mass-produce the finished version
    to handle the awful load test,
[03:15] Administrator
    I think I'll need at least half.
SIGN    Half of what?
[03:21] Administrator
    Half of the 80,000 or so human units
    residing in the Human Empire.
[03:27] Administrator
    That should be enough.
[03:29] Administrator
    To repel the Dark Territory's invasion
    and attack the other side.
[03:37] Administrator
    Well? Are you satisfied, Alice?
[03:41] Administrator
    Your precious Human Empire
    will be well protected.
[03:45] Alice
    Your Eminence, Pontifex.
[03:47] Alice
    It's clear that the words of a human
    can no longer reach you.
[03:51] Alice
    So I ask you as a user of the sacred arts.
[03:55] Alice
    Where are the owners
    of the thirty swords that make up that puppet?
[04:01] Alice
    Even if you've broken the rule
    that only allows you full control of a single sword,
[04:07] Alice
    you can't break the next rule.
[04:10] Alice
    To perform Memory Release,
[04:12] Alice
    there must be a powerful bond
    between the sword and its owner.
[04:16] Alice
    Your Eminence, if the source for the swords
    that make up that puppet is innocent humans,
[04:23] Alice
    then it's not possible
    for those swords to love you!
[04:27] Administrator
    The answer is right before your eyes.
[04:30] Administrator
    I'm sure Eugeo has already figured it out.
[04:35] Eugeo
    I see. So that's it.
[04:42] Kirito
    Eugeo?
[04:44] Eugeo
    Kirito, the crystals in the ceiling.
[04:47] Eugeo
    They aren't just ornaments.
[04:50] Eugeo
    They're probably the memory fragments
    stolen from the Integrity Knights.
[04:54] Kirito
    Wha—
SIGN    Curse you, Quinella! You've... You've gone too far in your manipulation of humans!
SIGN    By inserting the memory piece you extract during the Synthesis Ritual into a mental model,
SIGN    you can treat it as a simulated human unit.
SIGN    But its intelligence would be severely limited.
SIGN    It'd be unable to execute a complex command like the Perfect Weapon Control art.
SIGN    But it'd be different if the memory piece and the data linked to weapon are almost the same.
SIGN    In other words,
SIGN    the beloved people in the memory pieces
    you stole from the Integrity Knights
SIGN    were your resources for creating those swords.
SIGN    Isn't that right, Administrator?
[05:41] Administrator
    The knights' simulated personas
    desire only one thing.
[05:45] Administrator
    To touch the one they recall,
    hold them tight, and make them their own.
[05:51] Administrator
    It's that unseemly desire
    that moves this swordsman puppet.
[05:56] Administrator
    Right now, they sense that person is near.
    But they can't touch them. They can't be one.
[06:03] Administrator
    Driven by maddening starvation and thirst,
    the only thing they can see
[06:07] Administrator
    is the enemy standing in their way.
[06:10] Administrator
    If they annihilate that enemy,
    the person they desire will be theirs.
[06:15] Administrator
    So they fight.
[06:16] Administrator
    No matter how badly they're wounded,
    or how many times they fall,
[06:20] Administrator
    they'll get back up and fight for eternity.
[06:22] Administrator
    Well? Isn't it a wonderful mechanism?
    The power of desire really is remarkable!
SIGN    You're wrong!
SIGN    Don't you dare taint that emotion by calling it desire!
SIGN    This is...
SIGN    This is pure love!
[06:42] Administrator
    They're the same thing, my foolish pipesqueak.
[06:46] Administrator
    Love is control.
[06:49] Administrator
    Love is desire.
[06:51] Administrator
    In actual form, it's nothing more than a signal
    output from the Fluctlight!
[06:57] Administrator
    And most important of all...
[07:01] Administrator
    now that you know that,
    you can never destroy that puppet, no matter what.
[07:08] Administrator
    And why?
[07:10] Administrator
    Because that puppet's swords
    are living human beings who've been transformed!
SIGN    Yes... you're right.
SIGN    I can't kill people.
SIGN    I've spent the last two hundred years devising an art to kill you, a nonhuman,
SIGN    but it was all for nothing.
[07:37] Administrator
    How foolish of you!
    How completely comical!
[07:41] Administrator
    All life in this world is nothing more
    than aggregated data that can be overwritten.
SIGN    No, they're still human, Quinella.
SIGN    The people who live in the Underworld possess the true emotions we lost.
SIGN    Hearts that laugh, grieve, rejoice, and love.
SIGN    What more do they need?
SIGN    I will give you my life!
SIGN    But in return,
    I want you to spare the lives of these youngsters!
[08:19] Kirito
    What are you—
[08:24] Administrator
    What would I gain from accepting such terms?
SIGN    If you wish to fight, then I assure you
    I'll keep your pathetic doll's actions contained,
SIGN    and shear off at least half of your life.
SIGN    That much of a load will further strain your dwindling memory capacity, wouldn't it?
[08:48] Administrator
    Well, all right.
[08:52] Administrator
    I can always save the fun for later, right?
[08:57] Administrator
    All right. I swear on the goddess Stacia.
    That after I—
SIGN    No, not on any god, swear on the one thing you value most of all, your own Fluctlight.
[09:08] Administrator
    Fine, fine.
[09:09] Administrator
    Then I swear on my Fluctlight
    and all the precious data accumulated there.
[09:16] Administrator
    After I've killed you,
    I'll let the three behind you go unharmed.
SIGN    Very well.
SIGN    I'm sorry.
SIGN    Is that it?
SIGN    No matter how many times you strike me, I'll—
[10:09] Administrator
    Of course I'm holding back, pipsqueak!
[10:12] Administrator
    What fun would it be
    to finish you right away?
[10:15] Administrator
    I've been waiting two hundred years
    for this moment, after all!
SIGN    Stay back!
[10:48] Eugeo
    I'm powerless.
[10:49] Eugeo
    I can't believe how powerless I am.
[10:54] Eugeo
    No, there has to be something I can do.
[10:59] Eugeo
    Instead of berating myself for being powerless,
    I need to find a way to fight!
[11:03] Administrator
    Now, shall I finish this?
[11:07] Administrator
    Farewell, Lyserith.
[11:09] Administrator
    Farewell, my daughter.
[11:11] Administrator
    And...
[11:13] Administrator
    my other self!
[11:35] Kirito
    I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
SIGN    Why would you apologize?
SIGN    You still have a mission you need to complete, don't you?
SIGN    The three of you...
SIGN    This fleeting, beautiful world...
[11:53] Alice
    No matter what...
[11:55] Alice
    No matter what...
[11:57] Alice
    we'll use these lives you gave us
    to complete this mission.
[12:13] Alice (young)
    Eugeo.
[12:21] Eugeo
    I... I just finally realized what my mission is.
[12:28] Eugeo
    I won't run.
[12:30] Eugeo
    I have a duty I must carry out.
[12:35] Eugeo
    Cardinal.
[12:37] Eugeo
    Please use your remaining power to transform me...
    transform my body into a sword.
[12:44] Eugeo
    Just like that puppet.
SIGN    Eugeo, are you...
[12:57] Eugeo
    If the three of us escape from here,
[13:00] Eugeo
    Administrator will transform half of the humans
    in the world into terrifying monsters.
[13:07] Eugeo
    If there's one last chance remaining
    to prevent that tragedy,
[13:11] Eugeo
    then... it must lie in this command.
[13:16] Eugeo
    System Call.
[13:18] Eugeo
    Remove Core Protection.
[13:29] Eugeo
    Please, Cardinal.
[13:32] Eugeo
    Our bond has to be far stronger
    than the power driving that monster!
[13:37] Kirito
    Don't! Stop it, Eugeo!
[13:39] Eugeo
    It's okay, Kirito. This is what I'm meant to do.
SIGN    Very well, Eugeo.
SIGN    I offer the final command of my life... to your decision.
[14:04] Eugeo
    That's right. I need to tell you one last thing.
[14:08] Eugeo
    The pontifex is impervious to metal weapons.
    That's why I couldn't stab her with my dagger.
[14:44] Administrator
    What?
[14:54] Administrator
    What are you doing, you half-dead runt?
[14:57] Alice
    No you don't!
[15:05] Alice
    Your lightning won't work on me!
[15:07] Administrator
    You lowly puppet knight!
[15:09] Administrator
    You say such impertinent things!
[15:13] Administrator
    Then all of you can burn!
[15:19] Alice
    I said, no you don't!
SIGN    Release... Recollection.
[16:02] Administrator
    Even if you mimic my command,
[16:04] Administrator
    a meager sword like that can't compete
    with my weapon of utter destruction!
[16:10] Administrator
    I'll snap it in two with a single blow!
SIGN    Beautiful.
SIGN    Human love, and the light released by one's will...
SIGN    It's so beautiful.
[16:40] Kirito
    Yeah. It is.
SIGN    Kirito, I'm leaving the rest to you.
SIGN    Please protect this world and its people.
[17:33] Kirito
    Eugeo.
[17:37] Administrator
    Oh my!
[17:39] Administrator
    You want to fight me, boy?
[17:41] Administrator
    A little arrogant, when all you did was poke a gap
    and destroy my puppet, wouldn't you say?
[17:50] Kirito
    Stop.
[17:52] Kirito
    Don't go.
[17:54] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[18:04] Kirito
    Eugeo!
[18:09] Administrator
    You wretched brat!
[19:17] Administrator
    The sword that was converted with Eugeo's body,
[19:21] Administrator
    in terms of priority, it was no match
    for my Silvery Eternity, so this is a surprise.
[19:29] Administrator
    And not recognizing that the sword
    wasn't metallic was also mistake.
[19:41] Administrator
    Now then.
[19:43] Administrator
    That you'd be the last one standing
[19:46] Administrator
    is something of a surprise as well,
    boy from the other side.
[19:50] Administrator
    Why you came all this way
    without administrator privileges...
[19:55] Administrator
    I admit I'm a little interested.
[20:03] Administrator
    But I'm tired of all that now, and I'm sleepy.
[20:06] Administrator
    I'll have that person give me
    a full account later,
[20:08] Administrator
    and bring this battle to an end
    with your blood and screams.
[20:16] Administrator
    Farewell, boy.
[20:20] Administrator
    Let's meet again someday on the other side.
[20:32] Kirito
    How many times...
[20:37] Kirito
    am I going to make the same mistake?
SIGN    There's no need to win every time.
SIGN    Even if you fall, if you're defeated one day,
SIGN    it's enough if your heart, your will is connected to another.
SIGN    I'm sure everyone who's spent time with you but left felt that way.
SIGN    As do I, of course.
SIGN    Therefore, you can stand again.
SIGN    To protect someone you love.
[21:27] Alice
    What?
[21:29] Alice
    You can still move after all?
[21:32] Kirito
    Yeah. Leave the rest to me.
[21:36] Alice
    I think I will.
[21:45] Kirito
    Thanks, Alice. You can rest.
[21:49] Kirito
    This life that Charlotte, Cardinal, and Eugeo
    entrusted me with,
[21:55] Kirito
    I'll connect it to you.
[23:36] Eugeo
    Next time: My Hero.