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May 25, 380 (H.E.C.)

May 25, 380 (H.E.C.)

Enough! Let go of my hand!

I don't intend to live with the shame of being saved by a sinner like you!

You—

Stop wriggling, you idiot!

If you're an Integrity Knight, then you should realize that throwing your life away won't solve anything, idiot!

Y-You're mocking me yet again! Take that back, criminal!

Shut your trap, idiot! I called you an idiot because you're an idiot! Idiot!

Listen here!

If you fall to your death now,

Eugeo, who's still inside the tower, will head straight for the pontifex!

Isn't it your duty to stop that?

So your top priority as an Integrity Knight should be to survive, no matter what!

You're an idiot who's too dumb to understand that, so I'm calling you an idiot!

Th-That's eight times you spoke of me that way.

I see. What you're saying does make sense.

And yet, if that's true, then why won't you let go of my hand?

Can you convince me that your reason for saving me is not simply pity?

For I would prefer death, if it were!

I...

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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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to

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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

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MYSELF

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Eugeo and I didn't climb this high in the Cathedral to destroy the Axiom Church.

We have the same goal as you—to protect the Human Empire from the Dark Territory's invasion.

That's why we can't let you, one of the most powerful Integrity Knights, die now.

You're a valuable asset.

Then why did you wield your sword against another and cause bloodshed,

violating the gravest taboo of all?

I...

The reason Eugeo and I cut down Raios and Humbert at the Academy

was because the Axiom Church and the Taboo Index are both wrong.

Just because it isn't prohibited by the Taboo Index,

it's okay for the higher nobles to treat girls like Ronie and Tiese as their playthings?

Is that what you believe?

Well?

Answer me, Integrity Knight!

The law is the law.

A crime is a crime.

If the people are allowed to judge arbitrarily,

then how are we to maintain order?

Who decides whether the pontifex, Administrator, who created those laws, is right or wrong?

The gods in the heavens?

Then why don't they strike me down with lightning right here and now?

The will of the gods... of Stacia-sama, is revealed in due course through the actions of us, her servants.

It's exactly for that reason that Eugeo and I climbed all this way!

To defeat Administrator and show the world how mistaken her laws are!

And for that same reason...

I can't let you die right now!

Stick your sword in the seam of the wall! Mine won't last much longer. Please!

I didn't save you. I merely returned the favor.

Besides, our duel has yet to be decided.

I see. I guess this means we're even.

I have an idea.

Right now, we both need to get back inside the tower somehow.

So why don't we call a truce till that happens?

A truce?

Yeah.

Our odds of survival should go up if we work together instead of alone.

What exactly does "working together" entail?

To save each other if one of us starts to fall, that's all.

If we had a rope, it'd make the whole thing more effective, but I guess that's asking too much.

I suppose I have to admit...

It's a reasonable proposal, under the circumstances.

However, the instant we set foot inside the tower again, I will kill you.

Do not forget that, even for a moment.

I'll keep it in mind.

Now then, you needed a rope?

System Call.

Form Object. Change Shape.

A transmutation art?

Were you even listening?

All I did was change its shape.

No one can use the command to convert an object's properties but the pontifex herself.

My apologies.

All right.

U-Um, let me ask you, just to be sure...

What is it?

Are you able to summon that giant dragon that I was dangling from on my way here?

Dragons can approach no higher than the landing platform on the 30th floor.

Even Oji-sama's... I mean, the commander's dragon is forbidden to ascend any higher than that.

Not even the birds can reach the upper floors of the Cathedral.

I don't know the exact details, but I've heard that a special art wrought by the pontifex is in effect.

I see. So that leaves us with three options.

Descend, ascend, or break through the wall again.

The third option will be difficult.

The outer Cathedral wall is endowed with nearly infinite life and regenerative abilities.

Is that so?

If we were to head up from here, is there anywhere we could reenter the tower?

Yes, there is.

There's a place called the Morningstar Lookout, which has pillars on all four sides and is open to the air.

If we can make it there, we should be able to reenter easily.

That said, even if we do manage to reach the 95th floor,

I will have to slay you then and there.

Right, that was the promise.

So are you fine with climbing the wall?

I am.

But I'm not sure it will be as easy as you make it sound. How exactly do you plan to climb?

System Call. Generate Metallic Element. Wedge Shape.

I-Is that wise?

It's fine... at least I think it is.

System Call. Generate Metallic Element.

Okay. I think this will work!

Do the same thing I did and climb up to the first rod.

I can't.

What was that?

I said I can't!

Really? I mean, I'm pretty sure you can!

It would be easy for anyone with your power to hoist her own body up—

That's not what I mean!

This is the first time I've found myself in a situation like this,

and I-I may be embarrassing myself, but...

it's all I can do to hang like this.

I can't possibly climb to such a narrow foothold.

All right! Then I'll pull on this chain and hoist you up!

I would appreciate that.

Okay, I'm going to pull you up slowly.

Here goes!

Okay, you can pull your sword out now!

Place both hands against the wall!

All right, I'm going to climb higher.

I'll give you the signal again, so be ready.

Be careful.

Will do.

Monday, July 6, 2026

Asuna-san?

Do you suppose they caught this fish here on the Ocean Turtle?

Y-Yeah, maybe...

I see something over there.

It doesn't look like a fishing boat.

It's covered in antennas.

A warship?

That's a Japanese ship.

There are no warships in Japan.

Good morning, Dr. Kojiro, Yuuki-san.

Good morning!

Good morning, Nakanishi-san.

If it's not a warship, then is it an SDF vessel?

Close.

The MSDF vessels are called escort ships.

And that vessel is a 5000-ton, general-purpose escort ship, the DD119 Asahi.

It's the lead ship of the second-generation Asahi-type escort ships, the second vessel being the Shiranui.

Huh? Isn't the ship moving away?

These two are the only ships in the Asahi line.

Excuse me.

Lt. Colonel Kikuoka. Nakanishi here.

I just observed the Asahi changing course to the west.

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't it supposed to escort us until 1200 hours the day after tomorrow?

Yes sir, I'll be right there.

I'm sorry, but please excuse me.

I wonder what that was about.

I don't know.

System Call. Generate Metallic Element.

The sun...

Generating tools does significantly deplete the sacred resources in the air.

Once Solus sets, we might be lucky to create one every hour.

How high have we climbed so far?

Let's see. I think we've passed the 85th floor by now.

The 95th floor is still quite a long way off.

Yeah.

Whichever way you look at it, soon it'll be too dark to climb safely.

Hey, can you see something up there?

Could they be statues, perhaps? But why would they be all the way up here?

If we can sit on them and rest, what does it matter?

But they're a good six meters... six mels away.

I'm going to need two more rods, at least.

Two rods, you say?

Understood.

I was saving this for an emergency,

but apparently, now is the time.

Form Object. Wedge Shape.

You may use these.

Thanks! That helps.

Ready? I'm going to pull you up.

Ready.

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

That's...

That is one creepy design, huh?

It's from the Dark Territory!

Alice!

Alice!

Alice! Draw your sword!

Those monsters are coming for you!

Alice!

It's not gonna end well if they attack all at once.

I might have a chance, but Alice...

Alice!

Alice!

Hold on to the chain as tight as you can!

You'd better not be about to...

If we both survive, I'll apologize as much as you want later!

Here goes!

One!

Two!

Three!

Why, you!

What were you thinking, you complete idiot!

Well, what else did you expect me to—

We'll talk later! Here they come!

There's no mistaking it.

What are they doing here?

What's been bothering you?

Do you know what those monsters are?

Yes. All too well.

They're soulless, evil familiars controlled by dark art users from the Dark Territory,

who created them out of lumps of soil.

We've adopted their name for them: minions.

Minions?

Why would we find a horde of those things lined up on the wall of the most sacred place in the Human Empire?

That's what I want to know!

I don't need you to tell me that this is something that should not be.

That minions could have slipped past the Knights and made it as far as the Central Cathedral

is utterly inconceivable.

Not to mention...

Not to mention that someone of high authority within the Church

might have deliberately placed them there.

Such a thing could never be.

Here they come!

Watch out! Two are heading your way!

Who do you think I am?

Do you require my assistance?

No thanks!

What is it?

Nothing. I was just thinking how strange your techniques are.

If you were to perform them on a stage during the summer solstice festival, you'd gather quite an audience, no?

Thanks, I guess.

Wait, have you been to the Centoria summer solstice festival, then?

I mean, that's a festival for the commoners, and even at the Academy,

almost all of the students from high-ranking noble families didn't go.

Please don't associate me with those arrogant nobles!

Of course I've seen—

it before.

Alice?

No. I heard there was such a festival from one of the monks.

We Integrity Knights are prohibited from mingling with the townsfolk except in the line of duty.

Minion blood will bring about illness.

Make sure you wipe it off.

Hey!

Really, why are men all so...

Do you not even have a handkerchief?

N-No, I don't.

It's fine. Just use this.

Thank you very much.

Return it to me before I kill you. And wash it first.

Come to think of it, since we met two years ago,

Kirito's always been by my side.

This might be the first time I've been on my own since then.

Kirito...

No, Kirito should already be...

I'm sure he's started climbing the tower on the outside.

And Alice, too.

The 90th floor, huh?

I'm sure there's an Integrity Knight inside.

Here goes.

Is this a bath?

Sorry, but would you wait a little longer?

I only just arrived in the capital,

and my whole body is stiff from riding the dragon for so long.

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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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Next time

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