E25 - The World Seed

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[00:15] K
    Asuna...
[00:58] Su
    You're late, Kirito-kun.
[01:02] K
    You...
[01:03] Su
    What if I'd caught a cold?
[01:08] K
    S-Sugou?
[01:10] Su
    That was a horrible thing you did, Kirito-kun.
[01:14] Su
    I can still feel the pain.
[01:16] K
    Sugou, you're finished...
[01:19] K
    Turn yourself in, and stand trial.
[01:21] Su
    What's finished?
[01:23] Su
    There are plenty of companies
    that would want me.
[01:26] Su
    Yes, once my research is complete,
    I can become a true king.
[01:31] ---
    The god of this world.
[01:34] K
    You...
[01:35] Su
    But first,
[01:37] Su
    I'm going to kill you, Kirito-kun.
[01:44] Su
    Hey, stand up.
[01:47] Su
    Stand up!
[01:55] Su
    A piece of trash like you, slowing me...
[01:58] Su
    Slowing me down!
[02:02] Su
    Naturally, the punishment for that is death.
[02:05] Su
    Nothing but death will be acceptable!
[02:15] Su
    Huh?
[02:16] Su
    My right eye is all foggy...
[02:18] Su
    So I missed.
[02:26] Su
    You garbage...
[02:27] Su
    You...
[02:29] ---
    You don't
[02:30] ---
    have any real power!
[02:36] K
    Sugou,
[02:38] ---
    you aren't any different.
[02:41] Su
    Die, trash!
[02:54] K
    A weak weapon...
[02:56] K
    It's light, without any reach.
[03:00] K
    But it's more than enough to kill you!
[04:10] Yu
    Go on, she's waiting.
[04:39] K
    Asuna...
[04:43] A
    Kirito-kun.
[04:58] K
    Yeah.
[04:59] K
    The final...
[05:01] ---
    The true final battle
[05:03] K
    just finished.
[05:06] K
    It's over...
[05:10] A
    I'm sorry.
[05:12] A
    I still can't hear properly.
[05:15] A
    But I can tell what you're saying.
[05:20] A
    It's over, isn't it?
[05:23] A
    I finally...
[05:25] A
    I finally got to meet you.
[05:32] A
    Hello.
[05:34] A
    My name is Yuuki Asuna.
[05:37] A
    I'm back, Kirito-kun.
[05:42] K
    I'm Kirigaya Kazuto.
[05:45] K
    Welcome back, Asuna.
SIGN    The World Seed
SIGN    Friday, May 16, 2025
[06:30] Teacher
    So this sentence construction...
[06:34] Teacher
    That's all for today.
[06:36] Teacher
    I'll send out homework files 25 and 26.
[06:39] Teacher
    Be sure to upload them by next week.
[07:03] K
    Sorry to make you wait, Asuna.
[07:07] K
    I'm tired.
[07:08] K
    Tired and hungry...
[07:10] A
    You sound like an old man, Kirito-kun.
[07:13] K
    Over the past month, I feel
    like I've aged five years.
[07:18] K
    Also, it isn't Kirito. It's Kazuto.
[07:22] K
    Using your character's name
    here is bad manners.
[07:25] A
    That's right! I forgot...
[07:27] A
    What about me, then?
[07:29] A
    Everyone will know!
[07:31] K
    It's because you used your real
    name for your character.
[07:34] K
    Well,
[07:35] K
    everyone at this school was an SAO player.
[07:39] K
    I think they know me, too.
[07:44] K
    Asuna...
[07:46] K
    How are you doing?
[07:48] K
    You're still in rehab, right?
[07:50] A
    Yeah.
[07:51] A
    I can finally walk without a cane.
[07:54] A
    But they say I still shouldn't run.
[07:57] K
    Oh.
[07:59] A
    By the way, Kirito-kun...
[08:02] A
    Didn't you realize this place is
    totally visible from the cafeteria?
[08:10] A
    Seriously...
[08:13] A
    That screw-up just cost you lunch.
[08:15] K
    Ah! Sorry...
[08:21] A
    Ta-dah.
[08:28] K
    By the way, is your father doing well?
[08:30] A
    Yeah, but for a while, he was pretty down.
[08:34] A
    He resigned as CEO, and he's basically retired.
[08:37] A
    So he's not sure what to do with himself now.
[08:40] A
    He'll find a hobby soon and cheer up.
[08:44] K
    I see...
[08:48] K
    That snowy day,
[08:50] ---
    Sugou was arrested in the
    hospital parking lot.
[08:54] K
    Following his arrest, he denied everything,
[08:57] ---
    trying to pin all the blame on Kayaba Akihiko.
[09:01] K
    But once an employee was
    brought in for questioning,
[09:05] K
    he confessed to everything.
[09:08] K
    Fortunately, the three hundred
    players who hadn't escaped SAO
[09:11] ---
    had no memory of the
    experiments performed on them.
[09:14] K
    And no one developed
    any neurological problems.
[09:18] K
    They say everyone will be
    able to return to society.
SIGN    Another Terrifying VRMMO Incident
[09:21] K
    However, the Virtual MMO genre
SIGN    Horrifying Human Experiments
[09:25] K
    was dealt a fatal blow.
SIGN    Fatal Flaw in the Game System!? After SAO, another horrible crime occurs in ALO
[09:30] K
    In the end, RCT progress was disbanded.
[09:34] K
    And RCT itself received a serious setback.
SIGN    Apology Regarding the ALO Incident
[09:37] K
    Of course, ALO was shut down.
[09:41] ---
    And five or six other VRMMOs
[09:46] ---
    weren't expected to survive, either.
[09:51] A
    Hey, come to think of it,
[09:52] ---
    what happened to the Commander?
[09:57] K
    Kayaba died.
[10:00] K
    They say it was suicide.
[10:01] A
    Suicide?
[10:02] K
    When SAO collapsed,
[10:05] ---
    he performed a high-output scan on himself.
[10:08] A
    Does that mean he copied
    his consciousness onto the internet?
[10:13] K
    I heard his chances of success were
    fewer than one in a thousand.
[10:17] K
    But back then,
[10:20] K
    I spoke with his consciousness.
[10:24] K
    What's this?
[10:26] Ka
    The beginning of a world.
[10:28] Ka
    It's called The Seed.
[10:30] Ka
    Once it buds, you'll understand what it is.
[10:33] Ka
    I'll leave what to do then up to you.
[10:36] Ka
    You can delete and completely forget it.
[10:38] Ka
    However,
[10:39] Ka
    if you have any feelings left for
    that world besides hatred...
[10:45] A
    Kirito-kun?
[10:47] A
    Hey, Kirito-kun.
[10:48] A
    About today's meeting with the others...
[10:50] K
    Oh... Sorry.
[10:52] K
    I spaced out.
[10:53] A
    Ah, seriously...
[10:55] A
    When you relax, you really do space out.
[10:58] ---
    Whether in the game or here.
[11:09] Girl
    Aw, Liz...
[11:10] Girl
    I mean, Rika-san.
[11:12] Girl
    Don't slurp so much.
[11:14] Liz
    But...
[11:16] Liz
    Look at how Kirito's all over her.
[11:19] Liz
    They shouldn't act like that at school!
[11:23] Girl
    You shouldn't be watching.
[11:27] Liz
    If I'd known that would happen,
[11:29] ---
    I wouldn't have agreed to
    that one-month ceasefire.
[11:32] Girl
    It was your idea!
[11:35] Girl
    Letting those two enjoy their
    romance for a month...
[11:39] Girl
    You should have known better.
[11:45] Liz
    Are you going to the meeting today?
[11:51] Girl
    Of course!
[12:03] K
    Hey,
[12:04] K
    did you ever meet Agil, Sugu?
[12:07] Su
    Yeah, we went hunting twice in ALO.
[12:10] Su
    He's really big!
[12:12] K
    Just a heads-up...
    He's that size in real life, too.
[12:15] K
    Prepare yourself.
SIGN    Reserved Today
[12:29] K
    Hey, now... We aren't late.
[12:33] Liz
    The stars of the show always turn up last.
[12:36] Liz
    So we told you a slightly later time.
[12:40] Liz
    Come on in.
[12:43] Liz
    Let's have a cheer, everyone.
[12:46] Liz
    Ready!
[12:48] All
    Kirito, congratulations on beating SAO!
[12:55] Liz
    Here.
[12:57] Liz
    Cheers!
[12:58] All
    Cheers!
[13:06] K
    Bartender, bourbon on the rocks.
[13:15] K
    What? This is oolong tea.
[13:17] ---
    Agil, give me a real one.
[13:19] K
    Sure about that, Klein?
[13:21] K
    Aren't you going back to work after this?
[13:26] Kl
    Can't pull overtime without alcohol.
[13:28] Kl
    And...
[13:32] Si
    Hello.
[13:33] K
    Thinker-san...
[13:35] K
    I heard you married Yulier-san.
[13:39] K
    I know it's late, but congratulations.
[13:42] Si
    Getting used to the real world is
    still taking everything I have.
[13:48] Si
    I'm finally getting back into
    the groove at work.
[13:50] Kl
    Congratulations, man!
[13:53] Kl
    Hey, I've been reading the new MMO Today.
[13:56] Si
    Oh, how embarrassing.
[13:58] Si
    There isn't much content yet.
[14:00] Si
    And the way things are for MMOs now,
[14:03] ---
    walkthrough info doesn't mean so much.
[14:07] K
    It's like the chaos when the universe was born.
[14:11] K
    Agil, how has the seed been?
[14:15] Eg
    Amazing.
[14:17] Eg
    There are around fifty mirror servers.
[14:19] Eg
    A hundred thousand downloads.
[14:22] Eg
    And three hundred major
    servers that actually run it.
[14:27] K
    After I saved Asuna,
[14:29] ---
    I took the World Seed Kayaba
    had given me to Agil,
[14:33] ---
    and I asked him to analyze it.
[14:36] K
    I learned that the World Seed
    was a program package
[14:40] ---
    that ran a full-dive MMO called The Seed,
[14:44] ---
    made by Kayaba.
[14:47] K
    In essence, anyone with access
    to a good enough server
[14:51] ---
    could download The Seed and
    create their own online world.
[14:57] K
    I asked Agil to upload it to
    servers across the world
[15:01] ---
    for anyone to use.
[15:06] K
    This revived the dying Virtual MMO genre.
[15:12] K
    ALfheim Online's data was all transferred
[15:16] ---
    to a new company, which still runs it.
[15:19] K
    But ALfheim wasn't the only world born.
[15:24] K
    Smaller companies, and even
    private individuals, began to
[15:29] ---
    run their own virtual game servers.
[15:33] K
    They began to be compatible with one another.
[15:36] ---
    And it's reaching the point where a character
[15:39] ---
    created in one game can
    be transferred to another.
[15:45] K
    Hey, we're still going to the same
    place for the after-party, right?
[15:48] Eg
    Yeah, at eleven tonight.
[15:51] Eg
    We meet in Yggdrasil City.
SIGN    ALfheim, Cait Sith Territory
    Above the Capital City, Freelia
SIGN    Altitude Limit
[16:50] K
    I was worried you'd go too high up.
[16:54] K
    It's almost time, so I came to get you.
[16:57] Su
    Oh, thanks.
[17:02] Su
    Hey, Bro... Kirito-kun.
[17:05] Su
    ALO has a new company running it,
[17:08] ---
    and you can use your SAO avatars now.
[17:12] Su
    Why didn't you go back to your
    old avatar like the others did?
[17:19] K
    The job of that world's Kirito has ended.
[17:25] Su
    I see.
[17:28] Su
    Then I'm the first to meet
    the Spriggan Kirito-kun
[17:31] ---
    and to take him to the World Tree.
[17:38] Su
    Hey, Kirito-kun...
[17:40] Su
    Let's dance.
[17:41] Su
    It's an advanced technique
    they just developed.
[17:45] Su
    You hover, then move slowly horizontally.
[17:48] K
    Huh...
[17:51] Su
    Like that, yeah!
[18:53] K
    Leafa...
[18:58] Su
    I'll be going now.
[19:00] K
    Wh-Why?
[19:04] Su
    Because...
[19:07] Su
    You're too far away.
[19:09] Su
    Like everyone else.
[19:12] Su
    I can't go that far...
[19:15] K
    Sugu...
[19:18] K
    That's not true.
[19:19] K
    You can go anywhere you want!
[19:44] K
    It's coming.
[19:52] Su
    What's happening to the moon?
[20:15] Su
    It can't be... It can't be.
[20:24] K
    That's right.
[20:25] K
    That is the floating castle Aincrad.
[20:29] Su
    But why?
[20:31] Su
    What's it doing here?
[20:34] K
    I'm going to finish this.
[20:37] K
    This time, I'm going to beat
    all one hundred floors,
[20:40] K
    and conquer that castle.
[20:43] K
    Leafa...
[20:45] ---
    My stats were reset, so I'm a lot weaker now.
[20:50] K
    You'll help me, right?
[20:56] Su
    Yeah, I will.
[20:58] Su
    I'll go anywhere with you.
[21:09] Kl
    Hey! You're late, Kirito!
[21:24] Kl
    We'll leave you behind!
[21:26] Ag
    See you there!
[21:27] Girls
    Come on.
[21:28] Girls
    Hurry.
[21:30] A
    Let's go, Kirito-kun...
[21:33] A
    Leafa-chan.
[21:40] Y
    Come on, Papa, hurry.
[21:55] K
    Okay, let's go!