Original subtitles

Enhance Armament!

Kirito!

Kirito!

Are you all right? Kirito!

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I have pride that shines with an undying passion

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And I'll resist fate until the end

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In a place where your voice can't reach me

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I encounter an intolerable rule no one had taught me

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When you were young, you had dreams you wished for with all your heart

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The journey to find where they are has only just begun

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I don't need to waste any more time lamenting fate

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It's time to break though my limits right now

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I have pride that shines with an intense, undying passion

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No matter how much I grasp at this pain, my memories won't change

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I embrace the oath I found when I opened my mind

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Because the path I chose with unclouded vision leads to you

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Make your voice heard and resist fate until the end

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PROUD

OF

MYSELF

PROUD

OF

MYSELF

The Osmanthus Knight

The Osmanthus Knight

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Kirito!

Kirito!

System Call. Generate Luminous Element!

System Call. Transfer Human Unit Durability, Self to Left!

Kirito.

Thanks, Eugeo.

I'll be okay now.

Hey, don't overdo it.

After all that, you probably have internal wounds we can't see.

It's not as bad as what the goblins did.

Anyway, I'm more worried about her.

Her?

But she tried to kill you.

You just said that you can't defeat someone with hatred.

True, I don't think that Integrity Knight was fighting out of personal hatred or malice. But...

But I just can't bring myself to forgive the Church or the Integrity Knights!

If they have not only so much strength but so much resolve...

If they really have the desire to protect the Human Empire,

why wouldn't they use that power more wisely?

They're probably caught up in their own internal conflict as well.

I think we'll learn more about that if we meet up with the commander she mentioned.

Eugeo, your Perfect Weapon Control art was incredible.

You're the one who defeated those knights.

So let it go.

You have no reason to hate Fanatio or the Four Whirling Blades as humans anymore.

As humans. Yeah, I guess so.

That's the one thing I sensed during our battle.

She was human.

That's why she was so powerful.

Exactly. They might claim that they are absolute good,

and you might call them absolute evil,

but you, me and those Integrity Knights are simply human.

Handing down those kinds of judgments of good and evil isn't something a human can do.

Oh, I almost forgot.

Use that to counteract the poison in the kids.

Before you give it to them, break the poisoned swords

and make sure they don't have anything else suspicious.

Kirito.

When it comes time to face Administrator, will you be able to feel the way you do now?

System Call! Generate Luminous Element!

Kirito!

Help me! I can't stop the bleeding!

All right.

It's useless, Kirito. She's lost too much blood.

But... if she dies, she'll be erased.

She lived for a hundred years, feeling confusion, love, anguish...

I can't be the one who erased a soul like that!

Can you hear me? Anyone at all!

I know there are more of you Integrity Knights!

Come save your companion!

A monk or priest! Somebody come help!

I'm begging you, if you're watching, come help us!

That's right!

You can't, Kirito! You're supposed to use it on Administrator!

I know that!

But if I use it, she can be saved.

I can't hold a way to save her in my hands and then not use it!

Jeez, you really are something else.

Cardinal, is that you?

I'm sorry. I just...

There's no point in apologizing now. I understand your predicament.

I'll take care of restoring Fanatio Synthesis Two back to health.

However, since a full recovery will take some time, I'll go ahead and take her body.

As far as I can tell, it's highly likely that Administrator is still in her unawakened state.

If you can make it to the top floor before she awakens,

you can still eliminate her without using the dagger.

Hurry. There are only a few more Integrity Knights left.

Sorry I lost control, Eugeo.

Don't be. There's nothing to apologize for.

Now that I think about it, Cardinal said something strange.

Something about Administrator's unawakened state...

Did she mean she's asleep?

Cardinal told me Administrator and the Integrity Knights have to push their boundaries in various ways

in order to be able to live for centuries.

Administrator in particular spends most of the day sleeping, it seems.

Well, I guess we'll find out when we get up there.

What's this?

Hey, something's coming!

Thank you for your patience. Which floor would you like to visit?

Did you say which floor?

Does that mean you're going to take us to the higher floors?

Um, we're fugitives who broke into the Cathedral.

You sure that eleva— uh, I mean...

You sure it's okay to let us ride that floating platform?

My job is simply to operate this floating platform.

I've received no other orders.

Is that so? Then we'll accept your offer.

Wait!

Are you sure about this?

Hey, I don't see any other way up, do you?

That's... You have a point, but...

Okay then, can you please take us as high as you're able?

Understood.

System Call. Generate Aerial Element.

Burst Element.

How long have you been doing this?

This year marks the 107th year since I received this Calling.

O-One hundred and seven years?

And you've been operating this platform that entire time?

Not the entire time.

I am granted a lunch break at noon,

and I sleep at night, of course.

Um, that's not what I meant.

What's your name?

My name is...

I've forgotten it.

Everyone calls me the Operator.

Um... So, we're on our way to defeat an important person in the Axiom Church.

The one who assigned you this Calling.

Is that so?

If the Church ceased to exist and you were released from this Calling, what would you do?

Released?

I have no knowledge of the world other than this shaft.

Therefore, I cannot say what new Calling I would choose.

But if you mean what I wish to try, then...

I would like to fly freely through the sky on this floating platform.

Thank you for your patience.

This is the 80th floor, the Cloudtop Garden.

I used to think that nothing could be more endless than my previous Calling.

But at least they would have let me retire when I got old.

That girl's Calling, on the other hand...

Cardinal said that even if you freeze the natural degradation of life with a spell,

you can't stop the soul from aging.

Your memories are degraded bit by bit until the soul collapses in the end.

What the Axiom Church is doing is wrong.

That's why you and I came all this way to defeat Administrator.

But...

But that doesn't mean things will end there, Eugeo.

The real challenge is still ahead.

As long as we defeat Administrator, can't we let Cardinal handle the rest?

Well, I'll explain after we get Alice back.

Kirito?

What on earth...

Alice.

Please wait just a moment longer.

Since the weather's so nice,

I want to let her soak in the sun a bit more.

Don't fight, Eugeo.

Just focus on piercing Alice with Cardinal's dagger, no matter what.

I'll block her attacks, even if it means risking my life.

But...

There's no other way.

I'll take Alice's first strike intentionally and then restrain her.

Use the dagger, and don't hesitate. Got that?

Sorry.

No apologies.

You're paying me back double first chance we get!

She doesn't seem to have her sword.

If we attack now, she won't have time to recite the Perfect Weapon Control command.

To be honest, it'd be best if we didn't have to use it ourselves.

Agreed.

I think I can use my Perfect Weapon Control art two more times without restoring its life using the scabbard.

That'll help. I can only use mine once more.

Plus, after Alice, we still have to deal with the knight commander.

All right, let's go.

You've climbed quite a ways, haven't you?

On the off chance that you managed to escape the underground prison,

I expected Eldrie to be able to deal with you on his own.

Yet you two overcame him, beat Deusolbert-dono, and even cut down Fanatio-dono,

before setting foot in the Cloudtop Garden.

What in heaven is imbuing you with such power?

Why in heaven are you disrupting the order of the Human Empire?

I see that I must allow my sword to ask the questions here.

Don't tell me...

Don't tell me that sword...

is already under Perfect Weapon Control?

Are you mocking me, perhaps?

You charged without even drawing your swords.

I held back on that attack as a warning.

But with my next strike, I shall erase all of your life.

Show me the full extent of your power,

for the sake of the knights you've defeated, as well.

System Call.

We apologize for showing such disrespect to an honorable Integrity Knight.

I, Disciple Kirito, formally challenge you, Lady Alice, to a fair contest of swordsmanship.

Very well.

I shall test the nature of your wickedness through your sword.

Tell me one thing.

I assume the tree we saw on top of the hill earlier was your Divine Object's ancient form.

How can such a small tree possess so much power?

In ancient times, the spot where the Central Cathedral now stands

was the Place of Beginning bestowed upon humans by Stacia, the Goddess of Creation.

A beautiful spring gushed in the center of a tiny village,

and on its banks grew a single Osmanthus tree.

That tree was the original form of my Divine Object, the Osmanthus Blade.

This is the reincarnated form of a tree created by the goddess.

It is the oldest existence in all creation.

Its attribute is "everlasting eternity."

Even a single fluttering petal can split rock or pierce the very earth.

I see. So it's the first indestructible object ever to have been created by the goddess.

Not that I can afford to be intimidated.

Now then, Integrity Knight Alice. Once again, I challenge you!

You are the second person to have withstood my attacks this long.

I suppose it was that resolve which carried you this far up the tower.

But it is not nearly enough to sway the Church.

I cannot allow you two to disturb the peace of the Human Empire.

Now then... prepare yourself.

Enhance Armament!

That was rather entertaining,

but you have no hope of stopping my flowers with mere ice.

I'll fight you next, so stay there and wait your turn.

Enhance Armament!

He aimed for the sword?

Eugeo!

Kirito?

Alice?

Kirito!

Alice!

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So this is me, a man whose armor has dragged him to the dirt

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A cowardly hero so encumbered that he can't even walk

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The sword that I swung because I wanted to protect and be loved

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Stabbed the hand that reached out to me and won't come out

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And without saying what needs to be said, life goes on

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And my life makes its way past the horizon

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Dragging the sins and the pain that hurt me with it

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When I'm returned to the earth,

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All I pray is that a small flower

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Blooms from me

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forget-me-not

Next time

Next time

Next time

Next time

Truce

Truce

Truce

Truce

Next time: Truce.