Sword Art Online Volume 16 – Alicization Exploding Chapter 18 – War of the Underworld 18 He frankly knew from the start, ever since he first fought them. Their straight sword strokes possessed not even a trace of falsehood or deception. That then meant the owner of that small hand in his dreams, too, was not from the Celestial World but a human born on the surface. Deusolbert did something for the first time since he became a knight the moment he realized that truth. He embraced the ring on his left hand to his chest as tears flowed from his two eyes. After all, unlike the integrity knights, the lives of the people in the Human Empire were extinguished within seventy years at most. In other words, Deusolbert understood he would never meet again the one who called him, “dear”. Yet still, he responded to Knight Commander Bercouli’s plea and advanced onto where the decisive battle would take place. To protect the world where he lived with the owner of that small hand, regardless of how far in the past it was. That was to say, what gave Integrity Knight Deusolbert Synthesis Seven the strength to stand his ground without budging before the great force from the land of darkness was the strength from that one emotion he should have gotten rid of—«love». And unknown to him, Knight Fanatio and Knight Eldrie, too, stood there to fight alongside him for their respective loved ones. Deusolbert separated his right hand from the ring and grasped four steel arrows at once from the gigantic quiver set on the ground by his side. He arranged them carefully onto his divine instrument, the Conflagrant Flame Bow, that he wielded horizontally. He was nearly done with the incantation for his armament full control art. Fanatio and Eldrie would still restrain from doing so, but Deusolbert’s secret technique could not display its might when it became a ruckus.