Yui, use this!
Transmitting the code!
We'll be teleported in!
Papa, give me your hand!
Papa.
Papa?
Yui?
Where are we?
I don't know.
There doesn't seem to be any mapping data.
Do you know where Asuna is?
Yes.
She's...
She's very close.
This way!
So this is... the top of Yggdrasil?
The floating city doesn't even exist.
What "grand quest"?
It's all a lie!
They'll pay for this!
Oh, right.
We need to save Asuna first.
Gilded Hero
Mama!
Yui-chan!
Mama!
Yui-chan!
Mama! Mama!
Kirito-kun.
Asuna.
Sorry I took so long.
No, I knew.
I knew you'd eventually come and save me.
Now, let's go home.
Okay.
Yui, can you log Asuna out?
Mama's status is being restricted by some complex code.
We need a system console to remove it.
I saw something that looked like one in the laboratory—
Wh-What?
Yui, what's going on?
Papa, Mama, be careful!
Something...
Something bad is...
Yui!
Yui-chan!
Asuna...
What a surprise.
A cockroach actually found its way into my bird's cage.
Are you Sugou?
I'd rather you not address me in that fashion while we're here.
Call me "Your Majesty, Fairy King Oberon"!
Kirito-kun!
Well?
Can't move, can you?
This is the gravity magic that will be introduced with the next update.
Maybe it's a little too strong.
Stop it, you coward!
Still, Kirigaya-kun.
Or should I call you "Kirito-kun"?
How did you manage to get all the way up here?
That was a strange program running just now.
I flew up here with my wings.
Well, it doesn't matter.
I can just get the answer from inside your head.
What?
Do you really think I set all of this up on a whim?
I have around 300 former SAO players here.
Thanks to their dedication and cooperation,
my foundational research in manipulating thoughts and memories is about 80 percent complete.
I will soon attain what nobody has before, the godlike power to directly control the human soul!
And it's all thanks to this virtual world!
Sugou!
You're never going to get away with this!
Never!
Who's going to stop me?
Unfortunately for you, there aren't any gods in this world.
Apart from me, of course!
Now, let's have a little party before I start altering your souls!
Bastard, what are you...
Whoa...
Yes!
Great! This is perfect!
You'd never get that kind of look from an NPC woman!
You smell so good.
I worked so hard to replicate your real-world scent.
I even went so far as to sneak an analyzer into your hospital room.
You should appreciate my efforts.
Stop.
Sugou...
Oh, boy.
Spectators should just shut up and stay on the ground!
Kirito-kun!
System Command!
Pain Absorber!
Change from level ten to level eight.
Hurts, doesn't it?
I'll be increasing the pain slowly, so look forward to it.
By the way, if you go below level three, it will start affecting your real body.
Now then...
Stop, Sugou!
It's all right, Kirito-kun.
This sort of thing won't hurt me.
Now that's what I'm talking about!
How long can you keep your pride?
Thirty minutes? One hour?
Go on, hold on to it as long as you can!
Should I tell you what I'm thinking of doing?
Once I've had my fill here,
I'll go to your hospital room,
play a recording of today's act on a big monitor,
and then have my fun with you all over again.
With your real body.
Sweet! So sweet!
Sugou!
Bastard!
You bastard!
Bastard, I'll kill you!
You're a dead man!
Is this retribution?
I thought I was the game's most powerful hero.
I believed I could save Asuna with my own strength.
But the truth is...
I'm completely powerless.
Are you going to run away?
That's not it.
I'm just owning up to reality.
Are you going to yield to the power of the system you once spurned?
What else can I do?
I'm just a player, and he's the gamemaster.
Those words do dishonor to our battle.
The battle where you showed me how human will can transcend a system
and opened my eyes to future possibilities.
Are you...
Get up, Kirito-kun.
Your attack had no soul.
The swords in that world hit much harder!
And they hurt much more!
My, my.
Looks like there are some bugs left.
System log-in.
ID "Heathcliff."
Wh-What?
What is that ID?
System Command.
Change system administrator privileges.
Set ID "Oberon" to Level 1.
Wha—
Y-Your ID is higher than mine?
Impossible!
I'm the ruler! The creator!
I am the king of this world!
I am God!
No, you're not.
You stole this world and its inhabitants.
You're nothing but the king of thieves, dancing on top of a stolen throne!
Y-You brat!
How dare you talk to me like that!
System Command!
Generate Object ID "Excalibur"!
Listen to me, you piece of trash!
Your God is giving you orders!
Wait just a little longer.
It'll be over soon.
System Command!
Generate Object ID "Excalibur"!
A single command is all you need to summon a legendary blade?
It's time to settle this.
The king of thieves versus the gilded hero.
System Command.
Set Pain Absorber at level zero.
Wh-What?
Don't you dare run.
That man feared no one and nothing.
The man named Kayaba Akihiko!
K-Kaya...
Kayaba!
I see now.
That ID was...
Why?
Why must you get in my way even after you've died?!
You were always like this!
You acted as if you knew everything!
Taking everything I wanted!
Sugou.
I understand how you feel.
I also lost to that man and had to work for him.
But I never wanted to become him.
Unlike you.
You damn brat!
Damn it!
Ow!
It hurts?
It's nowhere near the pain you caused Asuna!
My arm!
My arm's gone!
I believed in you.
No, I still do.
I always have and always will.
You're my hero, and I know you'll always come to my rescue.
That's not true.
I...
I have no power at all.
But I'll try and live up to your expectations.
Yeah.
Okay, let's go home.
It's probably nighttime in the real world.
But I'll go to your hospital room right away.
I'll be waiting.
You're the first person I want to see.
So it's finally over?
I can finally go home to the real world?
Move Within Virtual Lab
Log Out
Move Within Virtual Lab
Move Between Floors
Move Within Area
Leave Virtual Lab
Move Between Floors
Move Within Area
Leave Virtual Lab
Log Out
Move Within Area
Leave Virtual Lab
That's right.
You'll be surprised at how much has changed.
Let's go to all sorts of places and do all sorts of things.
Yeah, definitely.
Now it's all over.
Or is it?
I know you're there, Heathcliff.
It's been a while, Kirito-kun.
So you're alive?
In a sense I am, and in another sense I'm not.
I'm an echo of Kayaba Akihiko's consciousness.
A residual image.
I never understand what you're saying.
But I'll thank you anyway.
No need for that.
Why?
The relationship we have is not one where a good deed goes unrewarded.
I expect to be compensated. Always.
What do you want me to do?
What's this?
Something that can give rise to whole new worlds.
It's called "The Seed."
You'll know what it is once it starts budding.
Then you can decide what you'll do with it.
You can even delete it and forget about it.
But if you still feel anything other than hatred for that world...
I'll be going now.
We'll meet again, Kirito-kun.
Yui?
Are you all right, Yui?
Papa!
I'm so glad you're okay.
Yes!
I took refuge in the local memory of your NerveGear.
Where's Mama?
Oh, she went back.
To the real world.
Really?
I'm so glad!
I'm so glad.
Really.
We'll come see you again soon.
I wonder what'll happen to this world, though.
My core program is stored in your NerveGear.
We'll always be together.
Well, I'm going to go see Mama.
Okay, Papa!
I love you!
Are you sure you want to log out?
S-Sorry!
You didn't come back after such a long time, so I became worried.
Sorry I took so long.
Is it all over?
Yes, it is.
Everything's finished.
That's great!
Thanks...
Thanks a lot, Sugu.
I wouldn't have gotten anywhere without you.
Nah.
I'm happy that I was able to help you out in your world.
So you were able to get Asuna-san back?
Yeah, finally.
She's finally back.
Sugu, I...
Get going!
I'm sure she's waiting for you.
I-It's freezing!
Oh, it's snowing.
Be careful.
Say hi to Asuna-san for me.
Sure.
I'll properly introduce you two next time.