Sword Art Online 13 - Alicization Dividing Chapter 10 - Integrity Knight Alice 23 Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty, but his childhood friend who got kidnapped form Rulid Village eight years ago, Alice Schuberg. I tried my hardest to rack my brain, almost overheating from the excess load, searching for any excuse at all that could satisfy Alice. But there was no way I could come up with such a thing on the spot. With things at this point, I had no choice but to state a part of the truth. “I… Eugeo and I didn’t climb the cathedral all this way because we wanted to destroy the Axiom Church.” Looking straight down at Alice’s blue eyes, exuding an intense light, I frantically forced my words out. “We’re the same too, in how we want to protect the Human World from the Dark Territory’s invasion. We even fought with a group of goblins in the mountain range at the edge two years ago… even if I say so, I guess you wouldn’t believe me. That’s why we can’t have you, known as one of the strongest even among the integrity knights, die here. Your strength’s essential.” It must have been outside of her expectations as Alice knitted her brows in silence, but immediately gave a barbed reply. “Then for what reason have you swung that sword at another human and broke the worst taboo of making another shed blood?!”