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I thought you'd show your face.

I knew you'd emerge from your musty hole sooner or later if I tormented those children long enough.

Seems like in the myriad years since I saw you last, you've learned to imitate a passable human being.

Oh my. You're one to talk, runt.

What's that funny way of speaking you seem to have picked up?

Two hundred years ago, when you were brought before me, you were trembling and alone!

Right, Lyserith-chan?

Don't call me by that name, Quinella!

My name is Cardinal.

I am the program whose sole purpose is your eradication.

Yes, that's right.

And I am Administrator.

The one who oversees all programs.

I apologize for not greeting you sooner, pipsqueak,

but I was preparing the command to welcome you, and it took longer then expected.

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You disconnected the address, didn't you?

Two hundred years ago, I let you get away when I was so close to killing you. An error, I must admit.

And so,

I decided to learn from that mistake.

I decided that if I could someday lure you out, I'd trap you on this side.

Like a rat trapped in a cage with a cat.

It seems difficult to say who the rat and who the cat is here.

After all, there are four of us and only one of you.

Four against one?

Look again. Your calculations are a bit off.

What?

To be precise, it's four people against three hundred, not even including me.

Three hundred... people?

You... What...

What depths have you sunk to?

Are these not the very subjects you should be protecting?

Subjects? Subjects, as in humans?

Which means that monster is human?

"The subjects I should be protecting?" As if I would ever bother with petty concerns like that.

I am a ruler.

As long as those under my rule exist down below in the way I decree,

then there's no need for concern, whether they be human or sword.

You... evil...

Oh my, you aren't alarmed by the matter conversion of a measly 300 human units, are you?

Did you say measly?

And this is only a prototype.

In order to mass-produce the finished version to handle that nasty stress test,

I think I'll need at least half.

Half of what?

Half of the 80,000 or so human units residing in the Human Empire.

That would probably suffice.

I could repel the Dark Territory's invasion and retaliate with one of my own.

Well? Are you satisfied, Alice-chan?

Your precious Human Empire will be well protected.

Your Holiness.

It's clear that human words can no longer reach you.

So I ask you as a user of the sacred arts.

Where are the owners of the 30 swords that make up that puppet?

Even if you've broken the rule that only allows you full control of a single sword,

you could not contravene the rule that follows it.

To perform Memory Release,

there must be a powerful bond between the sword and its owner.

Your Holiness, if the source for the swords that make up that puppet is innocent humans,

then it is impossible for those swords to love you!

The answer is right before your eyes.

I'm sure Eugeo has already figured it out.

That's it... That's what it is.

Eugeo?

Kirito, it's the crystals in the ceiling.

They aren't just ornaments.

They're probably the memory fragments stolen from the Integrity Knights.

Wha—

Curse you, Quinella! You've... You've gone too far in your manipulation of humans!

By inserting the memory piece you extract during the Synthesis Ritual into a mental model,

you can treat it as a simulated human unit.

But its intelligence would be severely limited.

It'd be unable to execute a complex command like the Perfect Weapon Control art.

But it'd be different if the memory piece and the data linked to the weapon are connected.

In other words,

you used the Integrity Knight's loved ones—those engraved in the memories you stole from them—to make those swords!

Isn't that right, Administrator?

The knights' simulated personas desire only one thing.

To touch the one they remember, hold them tight, and make them their own.

It's that ugly desire that moves this puppet of swords.

Right now, they sense that someone dear is nearby. But they can't touch them. They can't be one.

Driven by maddening starvation and thirst, the only thing they can see

is the enemy standing in their way.

If they annihilate that enemy, the person they desire will be theirs.

So they fight.

No matter how badly they're wounded, or how many times they fall,

they'll get back up and fight for eternity.

Well? It's the perfect setup, isn't it? The power of desire really is remarkable!

You're wrong!

Don't you dare taint that emotion by calling it desire!

This is...

This is pure love!

They're one and the same, you silly little imp.

Love is control.

Love is desire.

In actual form, it's nothing more than an output signal from the Fluctlight!

And most important of all...

Now that you know this, you can never destroy that puppet, no matter what.

Why, you ask?

Because though their shape has changed, this puppet is made of living human beings.

Yes... you're right.

I could never kill a human.

I've spent the last 200 years devising an art to destroy that soulless body of yours,

but it was all for nothing.

How stupid of you! How completely comical!

All life in this world is nothing more than a mass of data that can be overwritten.

No, they're still human, Quinella.

The people who live in the Underworld possess the true emotions we lost.

Hearts that laugh, grieve, rejoice, and love.

What more is required?

I offer you my own life!

But in return, I want you to spare the lives of these youngsters!

What are you—

And why would I agree to a deal like that?

If you wish to fight, then I assure you I'll keep that wretched doll in check

and shear off at least half of your life.

That much damage would strain your already-dwindling memory capacity to the limit, wouldn't it?

All right. Fine.

I can always save the fun for later, right?

All right. I swear on the goddess Stacia. That after I—

No, not on any god. Swear on the one thing you value most of all—your own Fluctlight.

Fine, fine.

Then I swear on my Fluctlight and all the precious data accumulated there.

After I've killed you, I'll let the three behind you go unharmed.

Very well.

I'm sorry.

Is that it?

You'll have to do better than—

Shouldn't you be able to tell? I'm holding back, pipsqueak!

What fun would it be to finish you right away?

I've been waiting 200 years for this moment, after all!

Stay back!

I'm powerless.

I've never felt so utterly powerless.

No, there has to be something I can do.

Instead of wasting time berating myself for being powerless, I need to find a way to fight!

I think that's enough fun.

Farewell, Lyserith.

Farewell, my daughter.

And farewell...

to my other self!

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Why would you apologize?

You still have a mission you need to complete, don't you?

The three of you...

This fleeting, beautiful world...

No matter what...

No matter what...

we'll use these lives you gave us to complete this mission.

Eugeo.

I... I just realized what my mission is at last.

I won't run.

I have a duty I must carry out.

Cardinal-san.

Please use your remaining power to transform me... transform my body into a sword.

Just like that puppet.

Eugeo, are you...

If the three of us make our escape,

Administrator will transform half of the humans in the world into terrifying monsters.

If there's one last chance remaining to prevent that tragedy,

then... it must lie in this command.

System Call.

Remove Core Protection.

Please, Cardinal-san.

Our bond has to be far stronger than the power driving that monster!

Don't! Stop it, Eugeo!

It's okay, Kirito. This is what I was meant to do.

Very well, Eugeo.

I offer the final command of my life... to your resolve.

That's right. I need to tell you one last thing.

The pontifex is impervious to metal weapons. That's why I couldn't stab her with my dagger.

What?

What are you doing, you half-dead runt?

No you don't!

Your lightning won't work on me!

You lowly puppet knight!

Such impudence!

You can all burn!

I said, no you don't!

Release... Recollection.

You can try to imitate my art,

but one flimsy sword stands no chance against my harbinger of death!

I'll snap it in two with a single blow!

Beautiful.

Human love, and the light released by one's will...

It's so beautiful.

Yeah. It is.

Kirito, it's up to you now.

This world and its people...

Protect them, won't you?

Eugeo.

Oh my!

Are you coming for me next, boy?

A little arrogant, when all you did was find a fatal chink in my puppet's armor, wouldn't you say?

Stop.

Don't go.

Eugeo!

Eugeo!

You wretched brat!

The sword that Eugeo transmuted into...

In terms of priority, it was no match for my Silvery Eternity, so that was quite a surprise.

And what a silly mistake it was to simply assume that the sword was metallic.

Now then.

That you'd be the last one standing is something of a surprise as well, boy from the other side.

Why you came all this way without even holding administrator privileges...

I admit I'm a little interested.

But I'm growing weary of all this, and I'm sleepy to boot.

I'll have my contact give me a full account later,

and bring this battle to an end with your blood and screams.

Farewell, boy.

Let's meet again someday on the other side.

How many times...

am I going to make the same mistake?

There's no need to win every time.

Even if you fall—if you're defeated one day—

it's enough if your heart and will are bound to another.

I'm sure everyone who spent time with you and passed on felt that way.

As do I, of course.

So let that give you the strength to stand.

To protect someone you love.

What?

You can still move after all?

Yeah. I've got it from here.

Much... obliged.

Thanks, Alice. You can rest.

This life that Charlotte, Cardinal, and Eugeo entrusted me with...

I'll bind it to yours.

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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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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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Next time

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My Hero

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Next time: My Hero.