Sword Art Online Vol. 15 – Alicization Invading Chapter 15 - In Northern Lands 29 | P a g e At a loss, Alice sat down. She did trust in Kirito’s words and fought against the absolute ruler, Administrator, in order to protect the people of the Human World and her little sister living in some remote region, but she honestly doubted she could survive. When the strange sword soldier the highest minister called «Sword Golem» pierced deep into her body. When she used her own body as a shield against that onslaught of lightning bolts. And when she threw all caution to the wind and leapt in just as Kirito’s life was about to be severed by that blade swung down— Alice braced herself for death countless times. However, the sacrifices of Cardinal the sage, Charlotte that mysterious spider, and Eugeo, along with Kirito’s gallant fighting had held on to her life. —You saved me, so take responsibility for it! She endlessly shouted that at Kirito who lay down at the side. But the black-haired youth’s eyelids remained shut. Think about the path you should take from now on and choose it yourself… it seemed to Alice as though he was saying that. After hugging her knees for tens of minutes, Alice finally stood up. Perhaps due to the annihilation of the master of that space, the elevating disk had ceased motion like the crystal plate, so she broke it with her sword and leapt down to the ninety-ninth floor with Kirito on her back. Going down the long staircase from there, she went past the elders who continued chanting arts, and reached the grand staircase from where she headed straight towards her master in swordsmanship who she had left in the large bath—towards where Integrity Knight Commander Bercouli Synthesis One was. The large quantity of hot water frozen by Eugeo’s armament full control art had mostly thawed and Bercouli’s sprawled body, floating in the bath, was fortunately freed from Chudelkin’s petrification art.