Sword Art Online Vol. 15 – Alicization Invading Chapter 15 - In Northern Lands 34 | P a g e Roughly ten seconds passed before he let out a deep yet resonant voice. —Are you Alice? Alice answered the question with no more than a “yes”. Yet the village chief neither walked closer nor reached out with his hands, questioning further in a voice more stern than before. —Why are you here? Has your crime been pardoned? She had no immediate reply this time. She herself knew neither what crime she committed nor whether it was pardoned. Kirito mentioned the explicit reason why Integrity Knight Deusolbert took the young Alice Schuberg to the capital was «Trespassing into the Dark Territory». That was certainly a transgression of the Taboo Index. However, as an integrity knight, Alice was no longer bound by taboos. The highest minister’s orders were the one and only law to a knight. But that highest minister was no more. She had no choice but to determine what were crimes and how to be pardoned from them, what was evil and what was good on her own… Alice stared straight back into the village chief’s eyes as she replied with those thoughts in her mind. —I have lost all of the memories from when I lived in this village as punishment for my crime. I do not know if I was pardoned through that. However, I can now go nowhere but this village. Those were Alice’s unfeigned, true feelings. Gasupht’s eyelids shut as deep wrinkles formed themselves at his mouth and brow. However, the village chief raised his face before long and what he announced with a keen light in his eyes were grim words indeed. —Leave. This village has no place for one who committed a taboo.