Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 23 I merely stared at Cardinal's face, confused, while she cried out with slight emotion. "Hold... Hold on a minute. Who exactly are you... the Cardinal that's speaking to me right now?" "—Do you still not understand?" At my question, Cardinal pushed her glasses up as she whispered. "Kirito, you know of my original version, do you not? Try stating the characteristics of the Cardinal System." "Er... erm..." Knitting my brows, I brought back memories from my Aincrad days. That automatic management program was first developed by Kayaba Akihiko to manage the death game, SAO. In other words— "...Making manual adjustments and maintenance unnecessary, and the ability to operate for long stretches of time...?" "Indeed. And in order to do that..." "In order to do that, it has two core programs... while the main process carries out balancing adjustments, the sub-process performs an error check on the main..." Getting to that point in my words, I left my mouth agape and stared at the young girl with swirly, curly hair. I should have been well aware that the Cardinal System had a powerful error correction function installed. After all, the AI, «Yui», who became the daughter of Asuna and myself while we were clearing SAO was originally a subordinate program of Cardinal, and I desperately struggled to save her from Cardinal