# E24 - Gilded Hero
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR5VJVPER/gilded-hero)
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**[00:02] K**
Yui, use this.
**[00:07] Y**
Transcribing code.
**[00:09] Y**
It's going to teleport us.
**[00:10] Y**
Daddy, your hand!
**[00:18] Y**
Daddy...
**[00:20] Y**
Daddy!
**[00:22] K**
Yui?
**[00:23] K**
Where are we?
**[00:24] Y**
I don't know.
**[00:26] Y**
There's no mapping data.
**[00:29] K**
Do you know where Asuna is?
**[00:30] ---**
Yes.
**[00:32] Y**
She's close...
**[00:33] Y**
Very close.
**[00:36] Y**
This way!
**[01:07] K**
This is the top of the World Tree?
**[01:13] K**
There's no Floating City up here...
**[01:17] K**
Some Grand Quest!
**[01:19] K**
Everything was a lie.
**[01:21] K**
I won't let him get away with this!
**[01:24] K**
Oh, right...
**[01:26] K**
Gotta save Asuna first.
***SIGN*** Gilded Hero
**[03:35] Y**
Mommy!
**[03:39] Y**
Mommy!
**[03:50] Y**
Mommy!
**[03:53] A**
Yui-chan!
**[03:55] Y**
Mommy...
**[03:57] A**
Yui-chan...
**[04:01] Y**
Mommy...
**[04:02] Y**
Mommy!
**[04:16] A**
Kirito-kun.
**[04:19] K**
Asuna.
**[04:25] K**
I'm sorry I'm late.
**[04:28] A**
No, I knew...
**[04:30] A**
I knew you'd come to save me.
**[04:38] K**
Now, let's go home.
**[04:42] A**
Yeah.
**[04:44] ---**
Yui, can you log out Asuna?
**[04:48] A**
Mommy's status is locked
down by complicated codes.
**[04:52] A**
We'll need a system console to dispel them.
**[04:55] A**
I think I saw one in the lab.
**[05:01] A**
What?
**[05:08] A**
Yui...
**[05:09] A**
What is this?
**[05:13] Y**
Daddy! Mommy!
**[05:15] Y**
Be careful...
**[05:17] Y**
Something bad is coming.
**[05:21] A**
Yui-chan!
**[05:21] K**
Yui!
**[05:28] K**
Asuna...
**[05:38] Su**
What a surprise...
**[05:40] Su**
I didn't expect to see
**[05:42] Su**
a cockroach in my little bird's cage.
**[05:45] K**
You're...
**[05:46] K**
Sugou?
**[05:50] Su**
I'd prefer you not use that
name in this world.
**[05:53] Su**
Call me His Highness, Fairy King Oberon!
**[05:59] A**
Kirito-kun!
**[06:01] A**
Well?
**[06:02] A**
You can't move, can you?
**[06:04] A**
This is gravity magic,
coming out in the next patch.
**[06:08] A**
Maybe it's a little overpowered?
**[06:10] A**
Stop it...
**[06:11] A**
You coward!
**[06:13] S**
That said, Kirigaya-kun...
**[06:15] S**
Or do you prefer Kirito-kun?
**[06:19] S**
How did you get up here?
**[06:22] S**
I saw a strange program running.
**[06:25] K**
I flew with these wings...
**[06:30] Su**
It doesn't matter.
**[06:32] Su**
I can just ask your mind directly.
**[06:36] K**
What?
**[06:37] Su**
You didn't really think
**[06:39] Su**
I set this entire thing up for fun, did you?
**[06:45] Su**
Three hundred former SAO players...
**[06:48] Su**
Thanks to their cooperation,
**[06:51] ---**
the fundamental technology for
emotion and thought control
**[06:54] ---**
is already eighty percent complete.
**[06:57] Su**
I'll achieve what no one ever has,
control of the human soul!
**[07:02] ---**
The power of a god!
**[07:03] Su**
And soon, that power will be mine!
**[07:06] Su**
Three cheers for virtual reality!
**[07:13] K**
Sugou!
**[07:15] A**
You'll never get away with this.
**[07:17] A**
Never!
**[07:19] Su**
Who's going to stop me?
**[07:22] Su**
Sadly, there's no god in this world.
**[07:25] Su**
Except for me!
**[07:28] Su**
Now, before I begin altering your souls,
**[07:32] ---**
let's have a fun party!
**[07:44] K**
You bastard, what are you...
**[08:05] Su**
Yes!
**[08:09] Su**
Great! I love it!
**[08:12] Su**
NPC women can't make that face...
**[08:21] Su**
I love this smell.
**[08:23] Su**
Replicating your scent from
the real world was hard.
**[08:28] Su**
I hope you appreciate how much work it took
**[08:31] ---**
to get an analyzer into your hospital room...
**[08:35] K**
Stop it.
**[08:37] K**
Sugou...
**[08:42] Su**
My, my...
**[08:44] Su**
You need to stay on the ground...
**[08:46] Su**
Writhing!
**[08:53] A**
Kirito-kun!
**[08:58] Su**
System command!
**[09:00] Su**
Change pain absorber
**[09:01] ---**
from level 10 to level 8.
**[09:08] Su**
Hurts, doesn't it?
**[09:09] Su**
I'll gradually let the pain increase,
**[09:11] ---**
so you have something to look forward to.
**[09:13] Su**
Of course, below level 3,
**[09:16] ---**
it will start to affect your physical body.
**[09:20] Su**
Now, then...
**[09:26] K**
Stop it, Sugou...
**[09:29] A**
I'm okay, Kirito-kun.
**[09:31] A**
This won't hurt me.
**[09:36] Su**
That's what I hoped you'd say...
**[09:38] Su**
How long will you maintain your pride?
**[09:40] Su**
Thirty minutes? An hour?
**[09:42] Su**
Try to hold on to it as long as you can!
**[10:03] Su**
Shall I tell you what I'm thinking?
**[10:08] Su**
Once I've had my fun here,
**[10:11] ---**
I'll go to your hospital room.
**[10:13] Su**
I'll play a recording of today on a big monitor,
**[10:17] ---**
and we can enjoy ourselves.
**[10:22] Su**
With your real body.
**[10:37] Su**
S-Sweet...
**[10:39] Su**
So sweet!
**[10:41] K**
Sugou, you bastard!
**[10:44] K**
You bastard!
**[10:54] K**
You bastard, I'll kill you!
**[10:56] K**
I'm going to kill you!
**[11:12] K**
*Is this my punishment?*
**[11:16] K**
* For thinking that I was the*
* game's strongest hero?*
**[11:20] ---**
*That I could save Asuna alone?*
**[11:24] K**
*Even though*
**[11:26] K**
*I have no power at all...*
**[11:34] ?**
Are you going to run away?
**[11:38] ?**
Are you going to run away?
**[11:40] K**
*No...*
**[11:42] K**
*I'm going to accept reality.*
**[11:44] ?**
Then you give in to it.
**[11:45] ?**
To the power of a system you once denied.
**[11:49] K**
*I don't have a choice.*
**[11:51] K**
*I'm a player, and he's a GM.*
**[11:55] ?**
Those words make a mockery of our battle.
**[11:59] ?**
Our fight showed me the
power of the human will.
**[12:03] ---**
And the possibilities held by the future.
**[12:07] K**
*You're...*
**[12:11] ?**
Stand up, Kirito-kun!
**[12:27] K**
Your attacks have no soul...
**[12:30] K**
The blades in that world hit harder...
**[12:35] K**
They hurt far more!
**[12:44] Su**
I guess some odd bugs are still left.
**[12:51] K**
System login...
**[12:53] ---**
ID Heathcliff.
**[12:55] Su**
Wh-What?
**[12:57] Su**
What is that ID?!
**[12:59] K**
System command.
**[13:00] K**
Enable administrator privileges.
**[13:02] K**
Set ID Oberon to level 1.
**[13:07] Su**
Your ID outranks mine?
**[13:09] Su**
That's impossible!
**[13:11] Su**
I am the ruler!
**[13:12] Su**
The creator!
**[13:13] Su**
King of this world!
**[13:15] Su**
Its God!
**[13:16] K**
No, you're not.
**[13:18] K**
You stole this world...
**[13:21] K**
And its people.
**[13:22] K**
You're a king of thieves,
**[13:24] K**
alone upon a stolen throne!
**[13:27] Su**
Y-You stupid kid...
**[13:29] Su**
How dare you
**[13:30] Su**
talk to me like that?!
**[13:33] K**
System command!
**[13:35] K**
Generate object ID Excalibur.
**[13:40] K**
Listen to me,
**[13:42] K**
you piece of crap!
**[13:43] K**
These...
**[13:44] K**
These are God's orders!
**[13:46] A**
Just wait a little more, okay?
**[13:49] A**
This won't take long.
**[13:54] A**
System command!
**[13:56] A**
Generate object ID Excalibur!
**[14:01] A**
So, a single command is all it takes
to summon a legendary weapon?
**[14:14] A**
It's time to finish this fight.
**[14:16] A**
Between the king of thieves
**[14:18] A**
and a gilded hero!
**[14:21] ---**
System command.
**[14:22] ---**
Set pain absorber to level 0.
**[14:26] Su**
Wh-What?
**[14:27] K**
Don't run away.
**[14:29] K**
He never did, no matter what happened!
**[14:33] K**
Not Kayaba Akihiko!
**[14:35] Su**
K-Kaya...
**[14:37] Su**
Kayaba!
**[14:39] Su**
I see...
**[14:40] Su**
That ID was...
**[14:42] Su**
Why?
**[14:43] Su**
Why do you interfere with me,
even after death?!
**[14:47] Su**
You're always this way!
**[14:48] Su**
Thinking you know everything!
**[14:51] Su**
Taking everything I want!
**[14:53] K**
Sugou...
**[14:54] K**
I understand how you feel a little bit.
**[14:57] K**
I also lost to him,
**[14:58] K**
and then I had to work for him.
**[15:01] K**
However, I never wanted to be him.
**[15:06] K**
Unlike you...
**[15:08] Su**
You stupid kid!
**[15:19] Su**
Damn it all!
**[15:24] Su**
That hurt!
**[15:27] K**
Painful, isn't it?
**[15:30] K**
But you've hurt Asuna
**[15:32] K**
far more!
**[15:40] Su**
My hand!
**[15:42] Su**
My hand!
**[16:35] K**
I believed in you.
**[16:38] K**
No, I still do.
**[16:40] K**
I always have and always will.
**[16:42] K**
That you're my hero.
**[16:44] K**
That you'll always save me.
**[16:48] K**
That isn't true.
**[16:49] K**
I...
**[16:51] K**
I don't have any power at all.
**[16:57] K**
But I'll do my best to be that way.
**[17:01] A**
Yeah.
**[17:04] K**
Now, let's go home.
**[17:09] K**
It's probably night at home.
**[17:12] K**
But I'll go to your room soon.
**[17:15] A**
I'll be waiting.
**[17:17] A**
You're the first person I want to see.
**[17:23] A**
It's finally over, isn't it?
**[17:25] A**
We can return to the real world.
***SIGN*** Logging out will terminate all services.
**[17:29] K**
That's right.
**[17:31] K**
You'll be surprised how much has changed.
**[17:35] A**
Let's go to all kinds of places,
**[17:37] A**
and do all kinds of things.
**[17:39] K**
Yeah, we will.
**[18:09] K**
Everything is over now.
**[18:13] K**
Isn't it?
**[18:16] K**
You're there, aren't you, Heathcliff?
**[18:20] H**
It's been a long time, Kirito-kun.
**[18:23] K**
You're alive?
**[18:25] H**
You could say that,
**[18:26] H**
or you could say I'm not.
**[18:28] H**
I am an echo of the mind
that was Kayaba Akihiko.
**[18:33] H**
An afterimage.
**[18:34] K**
You never did make much sense.
**[18:38] K**
Well, I guess I'll thank you.
**[18:41] H**
No need for thanks.
**[18:42] K**
Why?
**[18:43] H**
We aren't so close that we'd
do anything for free.
**[18:48] H**
There is a price.
**[18:50] H**
Always.
**[18:50] K**
What do you want me to do?
**[19:02] K**
What's this?
**[19:03] K**
The beginning of a world.
**[19:05] K**
It's called The Seed.
**[19:08] K**
Once it buds, you'll understand what it is.
**[19:11] K**
I'll leave what to do then up to you.
**[19:13] K**
You can delete and completely forget it.
**[19:16] K**
However,
**[19:17] K**
if you have any feelings left for
that world besides hatred...
**[19:25] K**
I'll be going, then.
**[19:27] K**
I hope we meet again, Kirito-kun.
**[19:37] K**
Yui!
**[19:38] K**
Are you okay, Yui?
**[19:40] Y**
Daddy!
**[19:42] K**
You're safe!
**[19:43] K**
I'm so glad...
**[19:44] Y**
Yes.
**[19:45] Y**
I took shelter in your NerveGear's local memory.
**[19:49] Y**
Where's Mommy?
**[19:50] K**
She's back in the real world.
**[19:54] Y**
Really?
**[19:56] Y**
That's great!
**[19:57] Y**
I'm so glad...
**[19:58] Y**
I really am!
**[20:00] K**
We'll be back to visit soon.
**[20:03] K**
But what will happen to this world?
**[20:07] Y**
My core program is inside your NerveGear.
**[20:11] Y**
We're always together.
**[20:13] K**
Then I'll be going to see Mommy.
**[20:17] Y**
Okay, Daddy!
**[20:19] Y**
I love you!
***SIGN*** Are you sure you want to log out?
**[20:46] S**
I-I'm sorry...
**[20:48] S**
You didn't come back, so I got worried.
**[20:52] K**
Sorry it took so long.
**[20:55] S**
Is it all over?
**[20:57] K**
Yeah, it is.
**[20:59] K**
Everything.
**[21:02] S**
That's great!
**[21:07] K**
Thank you...
**[21:08] K**
Thank you so much, Sugu.
**[21:11] K**
If it hadn't been for you,
I couldn't have done anything.
**[21:15] S**
No...
**[21:20] S**
I was happy
**[21:22] S**
that I was able to help you in your world.
**[21:34] S**
You got Asuna-san back, didn't you?
**[21:37] K**
Yeah, finally.
**[21:40] K**
She's finally back.
**[21:42] K**
Sugu, I...
**[21:45] S**
Go.
**[21:47] S**
I'm sure she's waiting for you.
**[21:56] K**
I-It's cold...
**[22:00] S**
Snow.
**[22:04] S**
Be careful.
**[22:05] S**
Say hi to Asuna-san for me.
**[22:07] K**
Yeah, I'll introduce you for real soon.
***SIGN*** Next Time: The World Seed