# E23 - Administrator
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6W4J4E8R/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.