Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 37 Cardinal reached out with the index finger on her left hand, then lightly tapped the cup's edge. Liquid immediately flowed up from the bottom of the cup like earlier and a stream of white vapor rose. However, the aroma differed this time. My nose instinctively twitched. This smell, fragrant with its richness, was definitely not any sort of black tea—it couldn't be anything but cream of corn soup. Cardinal tilted the cup slightly as though showing it to me as I stretched out my neck. It was a pale-yellow, gooey fluid as I expected, filling the cup to its brim. There were even croutons, carefully baked brown, floating in there. "Co-Corn soup! Thank you, I just started feeling peckish and..." "You dolt, I'm not asking about its contents. What is this vessel?" "Eeh...? Well... that's-" Not a single change had occurred to the cup itself from earlier. But now that she mentioned it, it might have been a little too simple, too large, and too thick for a typical tea cup. "Aah... A soup cup?" When I timidly answered, Cardinal broadly grinned as she nodded. "Yes. This is now a soup cup. After all, there certainly is soup within it now." And, as if she was showing off, she placed the cup, as it was, onto the table cloth without any hesitation, ringing out a thud. "Wha...!?"