All Actions Proceed According to the Script

Seeing Ayanokouji and Felt in front of her, Emilia was momentarily stunned, but she quickly regained her composure, raised her hand, and created an ice cone floating in the air.

"You just stole my belongings. Please return them to me immediately! I know you're a good person. As long as you return my things, I can forget about this!"

Faced with Emilia's threat, Ayanokouji extended his right hand and fumbled through Felt's pocket, finding the royal emblem. He then threw it directly to Emilia and said slowly, "This should be yours. There has been a misunderstanding. I am just an innocent passerby."

At the same time, he shifted his gaze to Felt.

"Damn it..."

Hearing Ayanokouji's voice, Felt grumbled reluctantly. Like a wary wildcat, she was constantly looking for a chance to escape.

"Ah?"

Emilia unconsciously caught the emblem and was momentarily stunned.

Facing a stranger who claimed to be a brave man, she instinctively remained wary of him. However, with the emblem back in her hand, she was momentarily confused.

"As you can see, I was just robbed by those people and had to fight back. Coincidentally, this woman also ran into me at that moment. I thought she was one of the gangsters' accomplices, so I subdued her too. Naturally, you will know what happened next."

Ayanokouji calmly described what had just happened with a composed face.

"I didn't realize until you appeared that she was the one who stole your belongings. Apart from the usual gold coins, the only item in her pocket was this emblem."

While speaking, his eyes focused on Emilia's crystal stone, where Puck resided. In the last regression, Ayanokouji had contacted Puck and Emilia. He later heard Puck say ahe had the ability to sense emotions, but he didn't know if this ability was just the tip of the iceberg for her.

Perhaps Puck could read his inner thoughts.

To verify Puck's abilities and more, Ayanokouji took a riskier approach. While talking to Emilia, he continuously planned in his heart how to kill her. Although he thought about ways to kill her, he didn't show any murderous intent.

Such a method of verification was risky but also necessary.

"From the scene, nothing seems wrong."

At this moment, Puck slowly emerged from the crystal stone on Emilia's chest, her small furry hands crossed, floating in the air, looking at the three unconscious robbers.

From a distance, she then locked her gaze on Ayanokouji and slowly approached, "But Lia, his mood is too stable. I'm not sure if he's hiding something. In all these years, I haven't seen someone with such a stable mood, but he doesn't have any malicious intent."

Puck's eyes were slightly more vigilant. In the four hundred years since her birth, she had seen all kinds of humans. Of course, there were also people who were very calm and emotionally stable, but she had never seen someone like Ayanokouji with no emotional fluctuations.

No matter how calm a human is, their emotions can't remain entirely unchanged. Instead of saying Ayanokouji's emotions didn't fluctuate, it would be more accurate to say there were no emotions in him at all.

"Is that so? I'm truly sorry. I misunderstood."

Emilia heard Puck's words, canceled her magic release, and sincerely apologized to Ayanokouji.

"Thank you for your help. May I know your name?"

"Ayanokouji Kiyotaka." Ayanokouji said slowly.

This was the second time he introduced himself in front of Emilia. However, judging from Puck's reaction, she could only feel one person's presence in someone's heart.

"Mhm... Since you've recovered your belongings, I should have nothing more to do with you here."

Felt, held by Ayanokouji, forced a smile on her face and hurriedly faced the two of them.

"Can this big brother put down the weapon and release me?"

"Really, do you know how much trouble the thing you stole will cause!"

Emilia looked at Felt. Although the other party had just stolen her emblem, she had now found it. She didn't want this matter to cause too much commotion, so she decided not to pursue it further with Felt and decided to let her go.

"You must never commit petty thefts like this again in the future!"

"I'll definitely correct myself!"

After hearing Emilia's words, Felt's eyes lit up, and she nodded obediently.

At this moment, Ayanokouji glanced at Felt from the corner of his eye.

The next goal was to kill Elsa. Besides Emilia and Puck, this also required Felt's help.

From the information obtained from the last regression, Ayanokouji knew that Elsa would come to Rom's residence at night and might even hide in the slums earlier. This was what he had when he would take the initiative.

Ayanokouji knew very well that with Elsa's methods, if he couldn't deal with his opponent in the slums now, there would be endless trouble. Elsa's target was Emilia, meaning if Emilia didn't go to the slums, she would still face Elsa's assassination.

A known attack beforehand is much easier to deal with than an unpredictable stealth attack.

So Ayanokouji decided to find a way to get Emilia and Puck to the slums and have Felt and Rom become his combat forces.

As long as he analyzed others' psychology and then used words to guide them, he could make others act according to his script.

This was how he silently controlled Class D at school in the original world.

"What happened?" Ayanokouji asked precisely, "Although it looks very smooth, it's just an emblem. Will it have a significant impact?"

Ayanokouji wasn't ready to share what he knew.

He was a traveler from a foreign land. If he revealed that he knew too much information, others would be suspicious. Therefore, he didn't show that he knew the true function of the emblem but guided the topic deeply so that Emilia and Felt had to realize the seriousness of the problem themselves.

In this regression, Ayanokouji met Emilia and Felt for the first time. Of course, he couldn't directly reveal that he knew Felt was hired by Elsa and had the ability to act in this world after death and that he wouldn't reveal his trump card to anyone.

There were only two types of people around Ayanokouji, those who could be used and those who couldn't. If necessary, he would abandon even Emilia without hesitation.

And as a tool, someone like Emilia was too easy to control, and the plan didn't need to be as deep as someone like Horikita Suzune.

❀❀❀

In the classroom, after seeing the text on the screen, Horikita bit her lip and clenched her fists tightly.

She was clearly worried about Ayanokouji's safety in the video not long ago, but the other party once again considered her a tool.

She stared at Ayanokouji sitting next to her.

Ayanokouji always had an indifferent expression. Although he had denied that the person in the video was him, Horikita couldn't help but connect the two.

At this moment, Ayanokouji clearly understood that the person in the video was his true self, and his inner thoughts were fully aligned with his own. However, to avoid trouble in the real world, he repeatedly denied it. But he knew his explanation was ineffective, and more eyes were on him.

❰❱SKY SCREEN❰❱

"This is no ordinary emblem!" Emilia immediately explained, "This is an emblem representing a throne candidate!"

"What? This is the king selection emblem?!"

Hearing Emilia's words, Felt's pupils shrank, like a frightened kitten, "Because you have that emblem... Doesn't that mean you're a throne candidate?"

As Ayanokouji predicted, Felt was greatly shocked. Although she lived in the slums and didn't care about the kingdom's selection, feeling that whoever waited for the throne wouldn't change her living conditions, she had heard of this but never expected the girl in front of her to be one of the throne candidates.

"Yes." Emilia bit her lip and hesitated for a moment but still said slowly, "I am Emilia, one of the throne candidates, but please don't announce it to the outside world..."

"So you are Emilia-sama?"

At this moment, Ayanokouji performed an old Western noble etiquette, "I have long admired your name. I am from the Empire where the sun never sets, the third prince. Because I don't like that kind of life, I also want to give myself enough trials and experiences."

Ayanokouji's face never changed, remaining very ordinary.

He fabricated a noble identity just so he could have the same position as Emilia and make it easier to contact her. He had studied various subjects since childhood, including classic etiquette.

"The Empire where the Sun Never Sets?"

Emilia was slightly surprised. She had never heard of this country, but Ayanokouji didn't show hostility or disgust even though he knew her identity, which made her a little confused.

"The world is vast, Emilia-sama." Ayanokouji said slowly. This simple and general answer was very effective.

Hearing the other party's words, Emilia truly believed there was an empire where the sun never set in this world, but she didn't know it due to her limited knowledge.

Moreover, although Ayanokouji's respectful attitude seemed like something she had never seen before, he indeed appeared very polite. The style of clothing he wore seemed out of place, but the fabric used did not seem cheap. Thus, Emilia somewhat believed in Ayanokouji's fake identity.

"I, I, I..."

Felt panicked for a moment. She had thought Emilia was just an ordinary rich person but didn't expect her to have such an identity.

With the identity of a royal candidate comes different kinds of power behind it. It would be easy to crush a small person like her. Furthermore, she didn't expect Ayanokouji to have another identity.

Although Felt usually appeared fearless, she was not willing to lose her life in vain just because she provoked someone powerful.

"Instructed by someone?!" Hearing Felt's words, Emilia's expression immediately became serious. "Who is it?!"

"I don't know. I only met her once. She has black hair, wears black clothes, and has a mole on her face..."

Felt explained quickly, with sweat dripping down her forehead.

"This is all I know. I don't even know her name! I promise everything I'm saying is true!"

Ayanokouji's eyes swept over Emilia and Felt.

Emilia's seriousness and Felt's panic were going according to plan. They were beginning to realize the seriousness of the situation, and now he had to continue stoking the fire.

Everything was going according to the script.

❀❀❀

"Can he make others act according to his ideas with just a little guidance through words?"

In a very luxurious house, Priscilla sat on a large, soft sofa in the palace.

She raised her head and looked at the sky, her beautiful red dress lifted by the maids without touching the ground.

"What an interesting man. He really managed to get such assistance to Emilia... If his wisdom could be used as assistance for me, I would surely have the throne, right?"

She squinted her eyes slightly, and a smile appeared on her face. She could sense a faint "arrogance" emanating from Ayanokouji, acting aloof and looking down on everyone.