Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 29 did not waver regardless of the kind of event she encountered. She was truly a god... no, she was truly a machine. A consciousness that existed only to preserve, stabilize, and stagnate the world... I was held within a nook of that being's soul, losing all chance to appear on the surface. Until that being was at the age of a hundred and fifty, reached the capacity limit of a fluct light, and tried to take over the soul of a pitiful lass, that is." "But... according to how the story went, the soul from Administrator that took over the daughter of the furniture shop owner was a perfect copy of the original, right? In other words, that soul would have its emotions purged too... so, why were you able to appear at that particular time?" Cardinal's gaze wandered elsewhere for a while at my question. She must be peering into the other end of these extraordinarily long two hundred years. Before long, an extremely, extremely soft voice streamed out from those petite lips. "My vocabulary does not contain the words needed to accurately express what happened in that instant... in that experience, wonderful, despite how it should have made one tremble... Calling the daughter of the furniture shop owner to the top floor of the cathedral, Administrator attempted to copy and overwrite via the Synthesis Ritual. And that succeeded without a hitch. What resided within the lass had its useless memories erased, what could be said to be a compressed version of Administrator's, no, Quinella's individuality. The initial arrangement should have been for the original Quinella, who expended her life span, to erase her own soul after confirming the success... however..." Cardinal's cheeks, adorned by a healthy blush as befitting a young girl, had already lost their color like a sheet of paper when I finally noticed. She asserted that she possessed no emotions, but I