Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 50 "...So that's it. It does sound worth it if you can guarantee a preemptive attack, but... still, it's quite a gamble, right? It wouldn't have been odd if Administrator had something up her sleeves..." A surprise attack rarely succeeds with the other party conscious of the possbility. There were several times I set up and was set up for an ambush in my SAO times too, but most of the time it didn't work out with the target on his or her guard, thinking 'a surprise attack looks likely to happen over there'. Cardinal nodded, seemingly annoyed, when I pointed it out. "Before Quinella even became the highest minister, she had the gift for finding out others' weaknesses. Like how she noticed my weakness; my stature, in the midst of that battle after we separated, she deduced the advantage she had that I didn't in the new state of affairs and made haste to utilize it." "Advantage... But you and Administrator basically possess the exact same level of capability in offense and defense, right? And well, how do I say this, also your intellects." "I do have qualms with how you put it, evidently." She snorted, then continued. "There is almost no difference in combat potential between her and I by ourselves. Of course, that applies only while it stays as a one-on-one match, of course." "One-on-one... —Aah, so that's it." "That's indeed how it is. I am a recluse with no one to turn to, while in comparison to her, she is the ruler of an enormous organization, the Axiom Church... Administrator became strongly aware of the perils of copying her own fluct light through giving birth to a hindrance, me, and being driven to the brink of death. That said, the circumstances of her synaptic pathways failing due to her memory overload had not changed. She had to resort to