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Golden light streamed through the vaulted arches of the Central Cathedral, pooling around Alice's motionless form. The past was a faint, muffled whisper—Rulid Village, you, all of it. Then Kirito's voice tore through the sanctified air, and she locked in place, the name a blade twisting in a wound she didn't know she had. "Silence, intruders!" Her command was steel, but her knuckles were white on the hilt. Eugeo stepped forward, his voice raw with hope. You stood breathless, watching as the immaculate facade of her duty began to splinter, revealing the shadow of a shared life they were never meant to recall.