Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 24 who recognized her as a foreign body and mercilessly tried to eliminate her. To be specific, I simply accessed the SAO's program space from a system console, searched for the files that made up Yui, compressed them, and set that as an object; carrying it out in the few tens of seconds before Cardinal detected my system intervention and quarantining it, however, was probably a true miracle in itself. That enormous presence I confronted, with a single holo-keyboard between us, was truly Cardinal's error correction process... which would also perhaps be this lovely girl sitting before my own eyes right now. Aware or not of my complex, deep emotions, Cardinal spoke with a light sigh as though she was dealing with an unperceptive child. "So it seems you have finally noticed. —The principles of behavior Quinella carved into her own fluct light did not merely include one. The instruction given to the main process, «to preserve the world». And the instruction given to the sub-process, «to correct the errors made by the main process»." "Correct... the errors?" "When I was still a program yet to gain awareness, I existed purely to continuously examine the data expelled by the main process. However... when I gained individuality as a «shadow consciousness» of Quinella, so to speak, I had to judge my own conduct without assistance from redundant code or anything of that sort. You see... it would be somewhat like what you lot call a «split personality»." "I believe there are some with the opinion that split personalities exist only in fiction, though." "Oh, really now. However, it is truly a tale I could consent to, you see. Only in that instant Quinella's consciousness slightly relaxed,