Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 28 parents when she was young. Therefore, in order to render those inhabitants with a high transgression quotient harmless without resorting to murder, Administrator instead carried out a dreadful procedure upon them..." "That's... the thing that you spoke of earlier, that penalty more cruel than death?" "Absolutely. She had those humans with a high transgression quotient serve as experimental subjects for art rituals to manipulate their fluct light directly. Which part of the light cube stored which information, which part should be tampered with to make them lose their memories, lose their emotions, lose their thought processes, and so on... even the observers from the outside world hesitated to carry out such atrocious human experiments." I felt goosebumps creep up my arms the moment I heard that last phrase, spoken in a whisper. Cardinal, too, made a dismal expression and continued on in a deathly-stifled voice. "...The humans offered up for the initial experiments mostly forfeited their individualities, reduced to beings that existed purely to breathe. Administrator froze their flesh and Life, and preserved them in the cathedral. Her fluct light manipulation art advanced through the repetition of such injustice. She performed the suspension of her emotions in a bid to hold me in, too, only after attempting time after time on the humans brought to the tower. She was around a hundred years old then." "...Did she, succeed?" "You could say she did. She failed in abandoning all emotions but succeeded in purging those that acted as the source of that abrupt unrest: fear, fright, and anger. From then, Administrator's heart