Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 32 "—How is it going, have you understood everything so far?" Those mentor-like words were thrown at me, as I pondered over everything with my head overheating, from the opposite side of the table. Raising my head, I blinked countless times before nodding in a vague manner. "Ah... well, somewhat..." "I'm going to finally reach the main point of my tale, so it would be troubling if you were already going to whine from this much." "The main point... I see, that's right. I still haven't heard exactly what you wanted out of me." "Yes. I did continue waiting ever since that day through these two hundred years to tell you this, after all... Now then, I believe I was at the part where I split off from Administrator?" Cardinal spoke as she fiddled with the now-empty tea cup, spinning it with both hands. "—On that day, I finally acquired a physical body of my own. To be accurate though, it belonged to that pitiful apprentice nun, but... her individuality had been utterly annihilated the moment her light cube was overwritten with data. Born from that ruthless ceremony and the result of that unforeseen incident, I stared at Administrator before my eyes for 0.3 seconds before finally taking the logical course of action. In other words, I tried to eliminate her with sacred arts of the highest level. I was a perfect copy of Administrator, which meant I had a system access authority at an equal level, you see. I predicted that I could slice away her Life before the resources in the surrounding space were exhausted if I could gain the initiative, even if it became an exchange of arts of the same class. My first attack landed magnificently and what ensued after went according to my expectations. A death match of immense lightning and whirlwinds clashing, infernos and ice