Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 22 A chill crept up my back yet again. Overwriting the soul—the act of speaking those words out alone was repulsive enough. While rubbing together my palms that had gotten damp with cold and sweat without my notice, I forced my numbed mouth to move. "St... still, if she could manipulate fluct lights to such detail, couldn't she just delete the memories she didn't need?" "Would you edit an important file without prior preparation?" Her immediate retort had me at a momentary loss for words and I shook my head. "N... no, I would make a backup." "Of course you would. Administrator had not forgotten about the full day she lost consciousness when she once took in the Cardinal System's behavioral principles. That's how dangerous direct fluct light manipulation is. What if I ended up damaging important data while putting my own memories in order... fearing so, she planned to first take over the girl's soul that had plenty of remaining memory capacity, affirm the copy turned out well, then dispose of the soul she had used thus far, worn out to its limit. She was truly meticulous, truly prudent... however, that turned out to be Administrator's... no, Quinella's second blunder." "Blunder...?" "Indeed. After all, it was only in that single moment when she possessed that little lass and also governed the existence she had used until then... that the gods carrying that same level of authority numbered two. A fiendish ceremony, thoroughly planned and prepared by Administrator... meant she finally succeeded in hijacking a fluct light through the «Synthesis Ritual»; its name signifying the unification between soul and memory. I... I was waiting for just such a moment... over that long seventy years!!"