The Maverick(Sword Art Online X Male Reader)

Ch.80 Azure Wings

Admin: I knew you'd come running once I demonstrated my power to these children.

Cardinal: Yeah and you seemed to have been practicing human behavior. 

Admin: Oh my? When did you get so confident? I remember when you were brought before me, you were trembling all over. Isn't that right, Lyserith?

Cardinal: Unfortunately, Lyserith doesn't exist anymore after what you've done to her. Now I exist to stop the madness that you have created!

Admin: Is that so? Then let us make ourselves comfortable, pipsqueak.

Admin blasted a darkened shockwave destroying all the thin windows as the group found themselves in some sort of weird space.

Cardinal: You disconnected the address?

Admin: It was a mistake to let you get away. I was so close to killing you too.

Admin snapped her fingers destroying the elevator behind them.

Admin: I hoped for the day that I'd lure you out and trap you. Like a predator stalking it's prey.

Cardinal: I think you need to reconsider who's the prey here. There's five of us and one of you.

Admin: Five against one? I believe your mistaken.

Out of the corner, the Sword Golem got back up and approached the group.

Cardinal: What?!

Admin: It seems to me that it's five against three-hundred not even counting myself.

Cardinal: Three hundred?

Alice: Wait, you mean....

Eugeo: That thing is human?!

Cardinal: How inhumane can you be?! Aren't these the subjects you should be protecting?!

Admin: As if I'd be concerning myself with petty matters as "subjects I should be protecting." I am a ruler. As a ruler, those who live beneath me are mine to manipulate as I see fit. Whether their human or weapon, their futures are mine to take.

Cardinal: You bastard.....

Kirito: I get it now....

Kirito stepped forward facing Admin.

Kirito: I have a decent idea of what a Perfect Weapon Control is. Essentially it's something of a bond between the weapon and the person. If that's the case then can I safely assume that all those people are within that crystal?

Admin: You are correct outsider.

Kirito looked towards the group and then directly at Eugeo who was looking towards the roof.

Kirito: You've noticed it too haven't you, Eugeo?

Eugeo: Y-yeah...the ornaments in the roof, it's the stolen memories of the Integrity Knights!

Cardinal:  I see....so that's what powers this abomination. The desires of those memories are what drives this thing. Am I correct?

Admin: Indeed. The desire to recall the one they desire. To touch, to hold them. In their eyes they sense a person is near. However, they can't see them, nor touch them, they can't be one with them. It's that desperate starvation, that insatiable thirst that motivates it to which all it sees is an enemy standing in it's way. If they defeat that enemy, that person will be theirs. No matter how many times it's wounded, or how many times it'll fall, it will keep getting back up. Ah it's wonderful what the emotion of desire can bring, am I right? To make it all better, you could never bring yourself to kill it! Because all those blades are living humans!