Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 52 "But she's the one at the top of the Axiom Church, right? Wouldn't she have duties to perform, speeches to give, or anything else that she has no choice but to do on account of her position?" "Certainly, there are such responsibilities. She has to have an audience with the four emperors during the religious festival at the start of the year and she needs to descend to the middle and lower floors of the cathedral to check on the management system for the world at scheduled times. And each time with her guard up against any possible surprise attacks from me too. There, Administrator took up new measures. She delegated most of her duties and at the same time, gathered loyal yet powerful followers to serve as her escorts..." "And so there's the advantage that you, alone by yourself, don't have and that she, as the ruler of an enormous organization, does, huh? ...On the contrary though, doesn't that increase the level of uncertainty? If she gathers several escorts capable of facing off against you, with the same level of combat potential as her, and those people decided to rebel against her, Administrator wouldn't be able to prevail either, right?" Cardinal lightly shrugged her shoulders and repeated that same word as a reply to my question. "Didn't I say they were absolutely loyal?" "Sure, the inhabitants of this world don't disobey orders from their superiors, but you did say that wasn't an absolute either. If those escorts were to think that the highest minister was a pawn of the land of darkness by some influence..." "Naturally, that woman understands that the possibility is not zero also. After all, she did turn a multitude of humans with high transgression quotients into research subjects. Blind obedience is not always loyalty... no, that woman would not trust an escort