The Masked Hero {SAO X Male Reader}

Minions

You and Alice were on the side of the building after you stabbed your sword into the wall. You were holding onto Alice so that she wouldn't fall.

Alice: Enough. Let go of my hand. I don't intend to live with the shame of being saved by a sinner like you.

Alice started moving.

Raijin: Stay still, idiot! If you're an Integrity Knight, then realize that despair's not going to get you anywhere! Idiot!

Alice: You insulted me yet again! Take that back, criminal!

Raijin: Shut up! I called you an idiot because you're an idiot, idiot! Idiot! Listen! If you fall to your death now, Eugeo, who's still inside the tower, will go to where the pontifex is! Isn't it your job to stop that?! So you'd think your top priority as an Integrity Knight would be to survive no matter what! You're an idiot who's too dumb to understand, so I'm calling you an idiot!

Alice: That's eight times you spoke of me that way. I see. What you're saying does make sense. And yet, if that's true, why won't you let go of my hand? Can you prove that I won't find the reason to be less tolerable than death?

Raijin: Eugeo and I didn't climb this hight in the Cathedral to destroy the Axiom Church. We also want to protect the Human Empire from the Dark Territory's invasion. That's why we can't let you, one of the most powerful Integrity Knights, die now. Because you're a valuable asset.

Alice: Then why did you wield your sword against another and cause bloodshed, violating the greatest taboo of all?

Raijin: I... The reason Eugeo and I slashed Raios and Humbert at the academy was because the Axiom Church and the Taboo Index are both wrong. Just because something's not prohibited by the Taboo Index, that gives high-ranking nobles the right to have their way with girls like Ronie and Tiese. Is that what you believe? Well? Answer me, Integrity Knight!

Alice: The law is the law. A crime is a crime. If the people are allowed to judge arbitrarily, then how are we to maintain order?

Raijin: Who decides whether the pontifex, Administrator, who created those laws, is right or wrong? The gods from the heavens? They why aren't they immediately striking me with lightning as divine punishment and burning me?

Alice: The will of the gods... of Lady Stacia, is revealed in due course through the actions of us, her servants.

Raijin: Eugeo and I climbed all this way to make that clear! To defeat Administrator and prove it's wrong! And for that exact same reason...

The sword started moving.

Raijin: I can't let you die right now!

You pulled Alice up next to you.

Raijin: Stab your sword into the seam of the wall! Mine won't hold much longer. Please!

Alice stabbed her sword into the wall and you fell but Alice catches you. She pulls you up and you stab into the wall.

Alice: It's not as if I saved you. I simply returned the favor. Besides, our duel has yet to be decided.

Raijin: I see. I guess that means we're even. I have an idea. Right now, we both need to get back into the tower somehow. So why don'twe call a truce until then?

Alice: A truce?

Raijin: Yeah. Our odds of surviving should go up if we work together, instead of alone.

Alice: What exactly do you mean by, "work together"?

Raijin: To save each other if one of us falls, that's all. It would be more certain if we had a rope, but I guess that's too much to ask.