Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 18 "...And thus, a peaceful yet idle age continued on and on under the absolute Administrator's reign. Twenty years... thirty years later... the masses lost their disposition for progress; the nobles indulged in their idle lives; swordsmanship, polished by the swordsmen of ancient times, degenerated into a mere performance. As you ought to know. Forty years, fifty years later, Administrator felt a deep satisfaction looking down upon the daily life of the Human World, indolent, as though it was soaked in a languid, warm bath..." In short, it was like gazing at and relishing an aquarium after putting the finishing touches to its perfect ecosystem. Complicated emotions assailed me upon recalling how I stared at an ant observation kit without getting bored when I was young and Cardinal, sunk in rumination with her eyes cast down like myself, spoke in a clear voice. "However, it is impossible for any sort of system to remain in stasis for all eternity. Something was bound to occur sooner or later. ...Seventy years after Quinella became Administrator, she discerned an anomaly of sorts within herself. Incidents happened, that she certainly couldn't turn a blind eye to, such as her consciousness disappearing for short periods even outside of sleep, being unable to recall memories from a few days ago, and beyond all else, the inability to instantly remember those system commands that she should have perfectly committed to memory. Making free use of the supervisor commands, Administrator examined her own fluct light to the last detail... and shuddered at the results. After all, the capacity of the sector used for preserving her memories had reached its limit without her knowledge." "Li-Limit!?" I yelled her words back at the story's unexpected development. It was the first time I had heard of a maximum limit to the capacity of the memory space... or to use another word, the data capacity of the soul.