Kirito and Eugeo are now second years at the Master Sword Art Academy and are placed fifth and sixth in the top twelve. One day they are requested by their valets to help another valet who is being made to do embarrassing tasks. They break the Taboo Index and are arrested by Alice who is now an Integrity Knight and are sent to the Axiom Church prison. In prison they realize that they can break out but are intercepted by the Integrity Knight Eldrie Woolsburg