And that Alice became an integration knight for some reason, tying Eugeo to the Wyvern like she had tied up eight years ago. Giugeo couldn't give himself any idea of this unhesitating method. The knight Alice in front of him is both Alice Bass and another person. Something powerful made her change.

As Yi Yan said, as long as you go to the Central Cathedral, you will probably be able to find out this secret. However - the question is whether or not Alice can be restored. No, before that, if the same thing happened to you. Forgot everything and became another version of myself. Whether it's living in Lulide Village, or the long journey to Yangdu...... Even in this Sword Cultivation Academy, everything is forgotten......

Once again, Eugeo was attacked by terror and agitation. At this time—

Two small footsteps from behind made Yugeo and Yi Yan turn their heads at the same time. Stumbling but struggling to walk over were two junior practitioners in gray uniforms. Tije Tetrarini, who has long red hair, and Ronier Yarlabelle, who has short brown hair.

The reason why they stumbled so much was because both of them were holding things in their hands. In Tijie's hand was a long sword tucked away in a white leather scabbard. Ronier, on the other hand, held a long sword with a black leather scabbard. It's impossible to be mistaken, it's Yugeo's Green Rose Sword and Yi Yan's Black Sword that were placed in Reyos's room last night.

Tijie held the scabbard, and their palms had been sliced, oozing blood. And rightfully so. These two swords have the weight that even the masters, Yugeo, can't wield without shouting.

"Tijie ......"

"Ronier!"

Yugeo and Yi Yan shouted at the same time. The two girls smiled a little as they endured the pain. Then, Alice, the integration knight, looked away from the wyvern and looked at the Tizzies. The pain that still lingered on the right side of her face reminded Alice of the hard blow, and Yugeo cried out desperately, "No, Tizzie, don't come here!" ”

However, the two junior practitioners did not stop. Drops of blood fell on the stone slabs of the square, and they finally stopped at a distance and fell to their knees before Alice. Even though her breath was still short, Tijie immediately raised her head and said, "Ride, Lord Knight...... Please! ”

Then Ronier said in a trembling voice, "Please allow us to return the sword to the seniors, ......!" ”

Alice wordlessly looked down at the two girls and nodded slightly, "Okay." However, sinners cannot carry a sword. These two swords are in my custody. If there's anything you want to say, just say it, and give you a minute. ”

Alice first grabbed the Sword of the Green Rose with her right hand, then the Black Sword with her left hand, and gently picked it up from Ronier's hand. She barely felt the weight of the wyvern, returning to the wyvern, tucking the two swords away in the shelf where the restraints had been placed.

Tige and Ronier gripped their wounded hands to their chests and smiled as if they didn't feel any pain at all. After staggering to her feet, Tizzie ran to Yugeo, while Ronier ran to Yi Yan's side.

"Eugeo senior......" Tijie stopped in front of Eugeo's eyes, looking at him with red eyes that were still red and swollen from crying. Even though Yugeo reflexively tried to look away, he desperately endured Tigeon's gaze.

Last night, Yugeo chopped Wimbell's arm off in front of the Tizzies. Like him, Lyos, whose arm was cut off, let out a strange scream and died. Although Tijie and Ronier were not physically injured, they undoubtedly withstood the severe impact of the tragedy.

For Tizzie, Giugeo is no longer a trustworthy mentor, but a sinner who has broken taboo catalogs. A felony who has been robbed of his freedom by a strong restraint and entangled in chains.

Then. Large tears overflowed from Tijie's red-leaf eyes, streaming down her cheeks.

"Eugeo senior...... I'm sorry...... It's all ...... It's all my fault......" She clenched her hands hard, the thin voice she squeezed continued, "...... I'm sorry...... Because I...... Done...... Silly ......"

"That's not right...... Not so. Surprised, Yugeo shook his head and said, "There's nothing wrong with Tigeon...... You did the right thing for your friend. …… It's all my responsibility to be like this. Tizzie didn't have anything to apologize for. ”

Hearing this, Tizzie focused her gaze as if she wanted to see into the depths of Yugeo's soul, desperately squeezing out a smile.

"This time, ......," said the young swordsman with a trembling but resolute tone, "this time, it will be up to me to save Eugeo-senpai." I will...... Work hard, and you will definitely become an integrated knight to save your predecessors...... So, wait a minute. Certain...... ...... by all means."

Because of the whimper, the latter words are stuck. Giorgio only kept nodding his head. On the other side of the flying dragon, Ronier, who had ended a short conversation, handed the small package in his hand to Yi Yan's tied hand, and said with a crying voice, "That... This is a bento. If you're hungry, please eat this......"

After that, Yi Yan's reply was muffled by the sound of the flying dragon flapping its wings again.

"It's time. Please leave. "Knight Alice has been sitting in the saddle of the wyvern at some point. The reins snapped, and the wyvern lifted itself. The chains moved, causing Eugeo's body to float slightly in the air.

Tizzie and Ronier took a few steps back, tears welling up in their eyes. The gusts of wind whipped by the fluttering silver dragon wings ruffled the girls' hair. As the ground shook as the wyvern began to run, the two of them continued to chase after each other, only to tripped over the stumble of stone slabs. The dragon then kicked the ground hard, spread its wings, and flew into the sky.

The wyvern hovered and soared through the sky with astonishing lift, and the eyes of Tizzie and Ronier grew smaller, and their figures eventually disappeared into the gray of the slate. After the overall scene of the Northern Santoria Sword Academy gradually faded away-

With the Knights of Integration on their backs and the dragons of sinners hanging from their feet, they began to fly straight towards the huge tower in the center of the central capital, the Central Cathedral of the Congregational Church.

………

In this underground, where not even a ray of sunlight could touch, Lin Yiyan raised his upper body, and the iron lock that restrained his right hand made a sonorous and heavy sound. In the darkness around him, a faint voice came from the voice, "...... Are you awake, Yi Yan? ”

"Ah...... Just woke up. Excuse me, did you wake you up? In response to a whisper that would not be heard by the jailer, the other party responded with a soft wry smile, "How can you sleep?" It's not surprising that Yi Yan, who can sleep soundly on his first night in this cell, is strange. ”

"This is also one of the mysteries of the Ayn Grant stream, sleep when it's time to sleep." Lin Yiyan said the appropriate lines while looking around.

The surroundings were covered in dense darkness, and the faint light that came from the jailer's room at the end of the road on the other side of the iron window had just allowed Lin Yiyan to barely make out the silhouette of Yugeo lying on the bed next to him. Although the rudimentary divine technique of making the stick emit the appropriate light has already been mastered, in this cell, it seems that with this in mind, all kinds of spells will be canceled.

Although he couldn't see the other party's expression, Lin Yiyan still fixed his gaze around Yugeo's face, and said with some hesitation, "How about it...... Have you calmed down? ”

Judging by the body's biological clock, it should be around three o'clock in the morning. He was locked up in this underground cell yesterday during the day, and it had only been thirty-five hours since the incident that had taken place the night before. And Yugeo, who violated the taboo catalogue and used the sword of the green rose to cut down Wembel Gizek, and then witnessed the appearance of Lyos Antinos having a mental breakdown and dying, the mental impact should be so severe that it is difficult to describe.

There was a moment of silence, and then, staccato words were heard, "How to say that...... It's as if everything that happens is a dream...... I drew my sword against Wembell...... And, Leos, it's ...... like that."

“…… Stop thinking about it, just think about it from now on. Lin Yiyan was finally relieved to say this to Yugeo, who had fallen into silence. I wanted to pat him on the back gently, but I couldn't get to the bed next to him because of the chains. Lin Yiyan could only stare at the figure of his best friend, and heard him say weakly, "Understood, I'm fine." Only then did he exhale a sigh of relief.

It was not Yugeo who severed Ryos Antinos's hands from his wrists, but himself. Originally, the wound would never have become a fatal injury if it was treated immediately, but he was probably caught in a situation where he had a priority in dealing with his destiny and forbidden catalog, and his thoughts fell into a state like an infinite loop, which caused the collapse of Fluct Light.

Judging from the results, he took the life of an underorld person, and Lin Yiyan was certainly aware of the sin he had committed. However, two years ago, in the cave north of Loulid's village, two goblins were killed in order to save the trainee nun Serka, no, two of them. Because Leos and the two goblins are both artificial Fluct Light, if he can't stand up because of his sin here, he will be too sorry for the goblin captain who is far more powerful than Leos.

But even that wasn't reassuring at all. In Lin Yiyan's knowledge, the Russ who makes this world work, or the purpose of Lin Yiyan's coming to this world, is to produce perfect artificial intelligence, and then give birth to his own angel.

The artificial Fluct Lights who live in this world already possess almost the same level of emotion and intellect as humans in the real world. If their only flaw is their absolute obedience to the law, Eugeo, who drew the Sword of the Green Rose and slashed Wymbell in order to save Tizzie and Ronier, should have crossed this barrier. In other words, the final breakthrough has been completed, and it should have evolved into a real artificial intelligence by now.

It's a pity that this world is blocked by the internal administrator, causing Lin Yiyan to enter it and not be able to get out, so it seems that only by defeating this world administrator can he leave this world, right?

"From now on...... Things, ......" Suddenly Yugeo's self-talk from the bed next to him made Lin Yiyan put his doubts aside and withdrew his gaze that had been staring at the ceiling. The figure, who was used to seeing in the dark, nodded, and continued, "Just like Yi Yan said." First of all, you have to get out of here, and then find out what happened to Alice......

While breathing a sigh of relief to his best friend who seemed to have finally regained his feet from the impact, Lin Yiyan also chewed on the great meaning contained in the sentence just now. Without hesitation, Yugeo said "escape from the cell." That is to say, Alice has become more important to him than the prison cell that symbolizes the authority of the Congregational Church, that is, the place where he must remain before he can be forgiven by God. Sure enough, after the events of the day before yesterday, the mental structure of Ugeo has changed dramatically.

However, there is no room for this to be pursued these days. When the sun rises, it is not surprising that an inquisitor appears at any time to take us away. As Yugeo said, he had to find a way to get out of here.

"Ahhh......h There must be some way to escape from here. ”

- Although it must be premised on the premise that this is the "Prison Incident" in the RPG. With this useless line added to the back in his heart, Lin Yiyan touched the chains that bound him again. Cold, desperately hard, one end of the chain is fused to an iron ring made of the same material that cuffs his right wrist, and the other end is connected to an iron ring buried in the wall. Whether it's the handcuffs, the rings on the walls, or the chains themselves, it's been confirmed that the degree of straightening alone won't make a difference.

Yesterday morning, Lin Yiyan and Ugeo finally crossed the walls of the Central Cathedral of the Congregational Church, which had finally crossed their final destination since their departure, although they were bound all over and hung at the feet of the dragon. Without even a moment to admire the towering white marble tower, he was escorted down the spiral staircase leading from the back door to the underground, and finally reached the underground cell, where he was handed over to a frightening-looking jailer.

Named Alice M. Synthesis· Thirty's integrated knight turned away without looking back at the end of the mission, and the burly jailer wearing a metal mask like a water bottle stumbled slowly...... But with a real action, Lin Yiyan and Ugeo were chained to this cell.

The only way to eat and drink was once in the evening, when dry and unpalatable bread and leather bags filled with half-lukewarm water were put in through the fence. Lin Yiyan felt that compared to his current treatment, the treatment of the orange players in the SAO who were imprisoned in the Black Iron Palace Prison in Ayn Grant was like living in the presidential suite of a high-end hotel.

A series of methods, such as pulling the chains, biting them, or using sacred magic to cut them, have all been tried yesterday, and it has been confirmed that no method can cause any trace on the chains. If Yougeo's Sword of the Green Rose or his own black sword were still in hand, such chains could be severed with a single blow. However, at the cost of wounding their hands, the two swords that they had managed to transport disappeared with Alice. The bento that Ronier brought was spared confiscation, but it had disappeared into the stomach pockets of Eugeo and me.

In other words, even if there is any means, it is now infinitely close to the situation where all roads are blocked.

“…… Eight years ago...... Alice, too, was chained here......" Lying on a "bed" that was just a rag on the iron fence, Yugeo said weakly, "Who knows how......"

If you don't need to answer in the first place, it is logical that there is no follow-up. If Yugeo's childhood sweethearts, Serka's sisters Alice Green Belk and Lin Yiyan, had been treated the same, the eleven-year-old child was left alone like this and chained here by the iron-masked jailer. Such a scene made Lin Yiyan shudder.

In the end, she was brought to the interrogation table and sentenced to some kind of punishment - and after that?

"Huh, Yogeo. Just in case, check it out...... The one called Alice M. Synthesis· Thirty's integrated knight is indeed the Alice you're looking for, you can't be wrong, right? Some hesitation asked, and after a moment of silence, the voice of patience was heard.

"That voice...... Blonde hair and azure eyes. How could you forget, she was Alice. It's just that...... It feels like a different person altogether......"

"Yes, even if it's your childhood sweetheart, he beat you quite hard at that time. Other words...... Because of some means, her memory and thinking are controlled by others, right? ”

"However, that kind of divine art is not written in the textbook."

"Didn't the great priests of the church manipulate people's destiny? In that case, it's not surprising that you can do anything with your memories. While thinking so, Lin Yiyan continued his previous words, "But...... If that knight is Alice herself, what is that......? Two years ago, in the cave north of Loulid......"

"Ah...... You told me that. While treating me with Serka, I heard something like Alice's voice...... "Although Lin Yiyan didn't explain it to Yugeo in detail, in order to save him who was seriously injured in the battle with the goblin, Lin Yiyan used Selka's power to directly share his destiny with him. Because of this rather dangerous behavior, the destiny of heaven has decreased with a momentum greater than expected, and when he is ready to realize that he will not be able to live if he continues like this, Lin Yiyan heard that voice.

'Yi Yan, Ugeo...... I'm waiting for you, I'm going to keep waiting...... At the top of the central cathedral, you have been waiting for you...... 'Appeared at the same time as this voice, with an incredibly warm light that filled his body, restoring the destiny of Lin Yiyan and Yugeo. So it's not just a memorization. It must have been Alice, who was brought to the Congregational Church in the distant past, who saved Lin Yiyan and Ugio through unknown powers.