Sword Art Online ALICIZATION- Reversal

Chapter 68- Final Battle, Kirito versus Gabriel

Hai. Kore o yarou! 

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Kirito lay on the ground, groaning in pain. He couldn't sit up to use Sacred Arts to heal his legs, he was completely immobilized, and his wounds were too great for him to fight without his legs. "Kirito." He stirred at the sound of the voice and looked up to see... Administrator! "What the hell... how are you-" he started but she didn't let him finish. "That Dark God is going to get Alice, Kirito. Are you really willing to just sit there? Is that what an Integrity Knight should do?" She asked him. "I... I'm not an Integrity Knight... I never believed in the Church..." Kirito muttered and Administrator shook her head, smiling softly. "Foolish boy, it is not faith that makes an Integrity Knight, but the desire to save others. And I know you'd save others, above all else. Afterall, you defeated me, you're the strongest Swordsman of all. Now, on your feet, Synthesis Thirty." She said in a calm, almost motherly voice. 

"Pontifex, I can't stand anymore..." He whispered to her. "I once thought the same thing, but you proved me wrong,  Black Swordsman. Now, go on, stand up and fight. It's what Bercouli would want." Kirito's blood boiled. It had been him! Vector was the one who killed Bercouli! But... he, himself, was to blame... he wasn't there to help. "I... I should've been there..." Kirito said. "Kirito, it's not your fault. Your Uncle died defending Alice so you wouldn't have to suffer. Now, go and avenge your Uncle. You can do it, Black Swordsman, you're the only one who can." After saying that, Quinella's ghostly form and ethereal voice faded.

Kirito thought of Sachi, of his failures... he thought of everyone's hopes and dreams. He thought of the Pontifex, of who he once believed her to be... and who had spoken to him so motherly. He knew, deep down, he knew that hiding from his failings and mistakes wouldn't do any good. If was going to fight, it had to be as the Black Swordsman. Though his guilt and regret would weigh down his thoughts, they'd put more weight behind his strikes. Sachi would've told him to fight, Alice and Sugu too.

Kirito grit his teeth and severed his legs with the Blue Rose Sword, not wanting to find out if healing broken bones was painful like it was in some other VR worlds or fantasy settings. Kirito then uttered a single phrase. Kirito spoke once again, now using the same administrative powers he had against the Administrator. "System Command. Restore Lost Organs. System command. Rejuvenate lost life. System Command. Double Vitality. Target I.D. NND7-6355!" Kirito said, regrowing his legs and fully healing his body with double his maximum life. He stood up and sheathed his swords, a storm of blue roses surrounding him as his outfit changed to that of the Black Swordsman of Aincrad, although now his chest was a bit bulkier thanks to added armor and the star-chestpin, or whatever it was called, was gone. He then conjured Aerial Elements around himself and blasted off torwards the World's End Alter.

However, halfway to the Alter, he stopped as he heard a voice. It was Kikuoka. Kirito listened to the man and was shocked to find out that the FLA would be set to Five million and he'd be stuck in Underworld for 200 years if he failed. And Kirito decided to prioritize Alice and Asuna's escape over his own and was confident he could just stall Subtilizer until they left, and maybe be able to pull a last second escape.

Looking to the distance, Kirito saw the Alter and... "Amayori!" He cried out, he quickly processed through an entire list of hundreds, maybe thousands, of Commands until finding a way to teleport. It had only been a second since he arrived, by now, and he then teleported in front of the dragons and engulfed himself in a barrier; this barrier being the projection and manifestation of his hope, his guilt, regret, pain, love, anger, and ambition. His raging emotions stopping Subtilizer's malice dead in its tracks! It had worked, he'd saved Amayori and Takiguri.

"Kirito..." He heard Alice whisper. He turned to face her, smiling as he extended his hand torwards Amayori and Takiguri. He could tell that the damage was beyond what he could heal with Sacred Arts, thus leaving him with only one option; to use his GM powers and Incarnation to reduce the maximum life of the dragons to less than what they currently had. And that meant reversing their age to pre-adolescence . He cocooned them in a shell of light as he reverted them back into babies, however, he took it a step further and reverted them to eggs which he attached to Alice's Fluctlight, manipulating her mnemonic data the best he could to bind the data to her Fluctlight, so that they could live in another virtual world someday- this was due to VR's limited Incarnation capacity due to a slew of variables and quirks in the way VR and the mind worked.