(Central Cathedral, 95th Floor Morning Star Lookout)

Alice and Edith who were now wearing a bandage around their right eye to wake up to see Yami, Kirito and Medina breathing hard.

Alice: Yami. You didn't carry me all this way did you?

Yami: I carried you while Kirito carried Edith since my transformation ran out so I did. It was a hassle. So a little appreciation-what are you doing!?

She had her hand on his head and felt sweet which shocked her.

Alice: oh no! You're drenched with sweat!!

She looked at her clothes which was covered in sweat.

Alice: and my clothes are stained!! Get away from me right now!!

Yami: how about you get off of me, Alice!! Or you're still scared of heights!?

Alice: why you!!

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Yami who was healed already thanks to his regeneration but still rubbed were his forehead was hit.

Yami: well that was something.

Edith: I want to know where is your comrade?

Kirito: Eugeo?

Yami: at this point he's been manipulated by Quinella because he wanted to be loved. He gotten loved from the fans back at Reality even me. He's a good boy and I want to hug him.

Medina: master?

Yami: he fought Alice's uncle Bercouli the commander who is the the legendary hero.

Kirito: Eugeo where are you?

Yami who had his head down as he was senses Eugeo's life force even his Blue Rose Sword

Yami: he's below us.

Alice: wait...did you healed us?

Yami: yes but due to my limited power I couldn't full healed you so the bandage is the only thing I could do. That means you two are now rebelling the Axiom Church. If we go to battle we'll be at your side no matter what.

So the five walk back down.

(90th floor)

So they went back to the 90th floor which was the bath house floor and Alice opened to reveal that it was completely frozen.

Edith: Eugeo did this?

Kirito: yeah, there's no doubt. This is his Blue Rose Sword under the Perfect Weapon Control Art. Still, who knew it would be this devastating?

Alice turns around as she shouts.

Alice: Uncle? Uncle!!

She ran towards her uncle as he was in stone.

Kirito: this isn't Eugeo's art.

Medina: because it's someone else's authority.

Alice: Uncle told me that Prime Senator Chudelkin was given the authority to turn anyone into stone. I believe the name of the command is Deep Freeze.

Kirito: Then it was his own ally, the prime senator, who cast the art on the knight commander?

Alice: uncle in secret was having doubts from the orders that the pontifex had issued. But he told himself the human empire could never know peace without the Axiom Church and spent countless battling.

She began to grip her hand as tears landed on her hand.

Alice: the senate may have all the authority in the world, but this....there's no reason for him to receive treatment like this!! Uncle!!

She began to cry for a bit until cracks were being heard as Alice backed offz

Alice: uncle. Stop it!! Please stop now!! Your body will break!! Uncle!!

Then Bercouli slowly opened his eyes and smiled.

Bercouli: hey, little ones. Don't cry so much. It'll ruin your good looks.

Edith: Bercouli please don't do it!!

Alice: Uncle..

Bercouli: I see. You both have overcome that wall at last. The Seal of the Right Eye I couldn't break, even after 300 years.

Alice and Edith: Uncle....we...

Bercouli: now don't cry you two. Now there's nothing left for me to teach you.

Edith: that's not true at all!!

Alice: there are things that we still want to learn from you-huh?

She sees Yami who had his hand on her shoulder.

Bercouli: hey, brat. Look after them okay?

Yami: yeah I'll look after them. I know Eugeo was taken by Prime Senator Chudelkin and I'm break that bastard.

Bercouli: heh you're a quick one.

As the two girls cried Kirito sees something glowing and sees Blue Rose Sword under it and he takes out his sword breaking and take out the sword with his left hand.

Edith: Usually, the only person mad enough to wield two swords is a pretentious high ranking noblemen, but for some reason it suits you.

Yami:*smirks*

Kirito: y-you think so?

Yami: you spoke to Quinella once did you?

Alice: yes, once and that was six years ago. Her mirror like eyes reflect the bright light.

Yami sigh as he summons out a M4 with a grenade launcher, a scoop, 45 mags and laser sight and two Glock 17 with an 24 mag, laser sight, a grip and a extended barrel and a shotgun.

(I'm tired as shit man)
Kirito: huh!?

Alice: what are those thing?

Edith: I don't feel safe.

Kirito: when did you even summon a shotgun and a M4 like a time like this!?

Yami: I'm getting tired as shit now Kirito!! I'll make sure that little shit clown and broken and can't move at all!!

Kirito:....

Yami: come on we gotta go.

So they walked back to Floor 95.

Kirito: so Alice, Edith, do you know anything about the floors above?

Edith: what we heard that they're on floor 96 and above but knights are prohibited from entering that area.

Kirito: what they do?

Alice: The Taboo Index. They confirm and monitor whether all resident of the Human Empire are obeying the Taboo Index.

Edith: that's the Senate's job. And whenever someone runs afoul of the Taboos, they send an Integrity Knight to deal with the situation.

Kirito: in other words the senate is like a proxy for the pontifex? How could someone as cautious as Administrator give them that much authority?

So they walked back the stairs to the next floor. For a while they arrived at the floor where the senate is located.

Kirito: this is the senate?

Alice: yes it should be.

So Kirito pushes the door opens as they ready up their weapons but stopped as they heard chanting.

Edith: sacred arts?

Yami: it's not an attack spell.

Alice: let's go in.

They walked slowly until they were surprised on what they saw.

Kirito: severed heads!?

Alice: No it's that that. They seem to have their bodies attached.

Yami: those are same heads that I saw before.

Edith: wait, when?

Yami: when I killed Raios and Humbert back at the academy. Ugh just say those names made me vomit.

Then the alarm went off as they were ready to attack but the heads didn't attack as tubes were lowered and they ate some sort of materials.

Heads: System Call: Display Rebelling Index.

Alice: so these are the senators of the Axiom Church, which rules the Human Empire-wait Yami?

They saw Yami walking down the hallway as they followed him and heard a voice that was complaining about something.

????: no, no!! No, no, this won't do!!

Kirito: who's that?

Alice: the prime senator.... Chudelkin.

Chudelkin who was in his room that is pretty much a child's with many toys that a child would use as he was complaining on a orb he was using.

Chudelkin: this won't do!!

He was screaming like mad as he saw something in his orb.

Chudelkin: this won't do!! It won't!! It simply won't do!!

He was moving like wild as he grabbed the orb with Quinella on it as he widen his eyes to see Yami looking down on him. He grabs the fat small clown as he takes out his glock 17.

Yami: if you even try to use a sacred art, I'll shot your tongue out at the rip and rip your throat out.

Chudelkin: you're on of the prisoners who broken the Taboo Index-

He shot a bullet out of his pistol as his eyes turned pink.

Yami: like a give a crap about the Index!! I'll make any noble suffer like Raios and Humbert. Quinella is a foolish woman!!

Alice: Yami, easy...

Edith: don't get your anger cloud your judgement.

Chudelkin: Alice-Thirty!? Edyis-Ten!? What are you doing here!? By the rights you should've perished along with those rebels!!

Alice: we're no to be named by those numbers!! I'm Alice.

Edith: and I'm Edith.

Then he sees Kirito and shout out.

Chudelkin: why haven't you slashed him!? He's a rebel against the Church. A pawn of the Dark Territory, don't you remember!?

He was hit by Yami's pistol as his gripped was more tighter.

Yami: true he and I are rebels but nobody...

Yami: and I mean NOBODY calls my boyfriend a pawn of the Dark Territory!! He's my black rose!! And I'll make sure nobody hurts him!!

Kirito:*blush*

Medina:*giggles*

Yami: oh yes I remember that Alice and Edith cried!!

Both girls widen their eyes as they remembered that.

Yami: they were sweet, innocent and pure until you and that whore of a ruler Quinella ruined them with that bullshit sacred arts. They begged not to forgot their memories of their loved ones!! They tried their hardest to raise their sacred arts authority levels so they can go home but they'll never come back!!

Both girls were clenching their teeth as they remembered that they tried their hardest to come back to their families.

Yami: you wanted to turn their tears into stone!? I remember that you want to keep it forever and I even saw your tongue licking your lips like some sort of creep!! Maybe, maybe you're the pawn of the Dark Territory!!

Chudelkin: don't you dare call me-

He quickly switches to his shotgun and blasted him but he laughs as he used a sacred arts and a door opened. Everyone was coughing until Yami grabbed them and they were on the stairs. His weapons were vanished as his energy was getting out of control so he had to calm down until he energy was stable.

Yami: come on!! We got to go!!

They run up the stairs as Chudelkin was chanting.

Chudelkin: Scared Art Calling: Lum...

But they arrived at the next floor.

Yami:...

Kirito: did he used it to escape?

Alice: I guess so.

Yami: guys, he's here.

Kirito: who's here?

Yami: him, he's here.

They looked up to see Eugeo in a Integrity Knight armor.

Kirito: Eugeo!!

Yami: Kirito, the synthesis is complete.

Alice: it's too soon.

Kirito: what!?

Edith: your partner...

Medina: Eugeo has already been synthesized.

Kirito: Eugeo....it can't be...

But Yami stopped him.

Yami: don't be all mopey Kirito. You and us all can save him.

Kirito: save him?

Edith: yes if we can restore his actual memories then he can come back. To achieve that we have to overcome this dilemma, no matter what?

Yami: Kirito, this is your time to show us what you got.

He takes the Blue Rose sword and throws it to Eugeo.

Yami: it's his sword, Kirito. Even though I taught him of my moves but I thought you more before. Raise your swords and be careful.
Kirito can you hear me?

Kirito: yeah I can hear you.

Yami: try to hold him off until we switch and I'll hold me and we switch okay?

Kirito: yeah, I'll try my best.

So they taken out their swords as Eugeo spoke.

Eugeo: I have nothing more to say to you.

Kirito: Eugeo, you probably don't remember, you learned your sword skills from me.

Yami: you even learned your hand to hand combat skills from me back then.

Kirito: as one of the masters, I'm not ready to lose to my student yet!!

Both were in their stance as their looked at each other. Alice and Edith were worried but Medina and Yami know the results.

Then the two boys charged at each other with their swords glowing.

End of Volume