Ayanokouji Kiyotaka 185

Title: All Uncontrollable Factors Must Be Controlled

“Excuse me, Annerose-sama, I just thought of something. Please forgive me.” Clind immediately turned around and said respectfully.

“Really, Clind must be thinking of some strange things again. So perverted! You’re so disgusting!” Annerose didn’t wake up from her sleep, her voice was unclear, and she held a teddy bear in her arms.

“I’m flattered to be blamed by Annerose-sama.” A smile immediately appeared on Clind’s face, pretending as if nothing had happened.

“Really disgusting, forget it, I’m going back to sleep.” Annerose rubbed her eyes and went back to her room.

After Annerose left, Clind’s expression gradually became serious, and his eyes were once again filled with murderous intent.

“Threatening the balance of the world, that witch must be eliminated.”

Clind muttered to himself.

The scene changed to a few days later, at Roswaal’s mansion.

The Sanctuary had been released. The content was almost the same as the previous video. Ayanokouji gathered the villagers of the Sanctuary and the villagers of Arlam. He had already asked them to do so before he left the Sanctuary to expand and renovate Arlam Village.

Arlam Village had now been completely renovated and could fully accommodate the residents of the Sanctuary.

And because of Ayanokouji’s reputation had changed lately, after the residents of the Sanctuary and the villagers of Arlam met and communicated, they learned about the contributions he had made to the villagers of the Sanctuary. The villagers in Arlam Village expressed their deep respect. Resistance and hostility had decreased a lot.

What Ayanokouji did also changed their minds a lot, thinking that he might actually be different from the one in the video, and soon gained the support of many villagers.

All this was seen by Roswaal. Ayanokouji was able to change his reputation even though he was in a disadvantaged position.

Ayanokouji also asked Roswaal to summon everyone who could be utilized by him to the mansion.

Annerose Miload and her housekeeper Clind were one of them.

The Miload family was a branch of the Mathers family. They all served Roswaal. Everything in their family belonged to Roswaal.

Even including the head of the family, Annerose.

Annerose was at the right age and considered by Roswaal as the next suitable backup body.

Clind was Annerose’s housekeeper, responsible for helping Annerose manage the entire branch family, and also responsible for Annerose’s education. He and Frederica were old acquaintances. Rem and Ram also used to receive his education.

Ayanokouji now needed to expand his camp as much as possible and add manpower. Besides maintaining a suitable relationship with Anastasia and Crusch’s camp, he also had to be able to recruit everyone who could be used, which is why the Miload family was called back to the mansion.

Currently, he was checking the personnel list. When doing anything, he had to make sure there would be no internal problems.

Although Roswaal said that everyone under him could be trusted, he still decided to investigate everything himself to make sure no problems arose.

His eyes fell on Clind’s file, then he raised his head and looked at Roswaal, who was also sorting out information beside him.

“Roswaal, I want to know more information about Clind.” Ayanokouji pointed at Clind’s photo on the table and asked.

“Clind?” Roswaal put on a meaningful expression on his face, as if he was anticipating this question, “Clind and I are old acquaintances. We signed a certain agreement with him before.”

With a strange tone, Roswaal’s words seemed to describe an old acquaintance.

”What kind of contract?” Ayanokouji asked.

“The contract must be signed to defeat a certain enemy together. The enemy he wanted to face happened to be my old enemy, so coincidentally the content of the contract was realized years ago.” Roswaal said with a smile, “As for the other part, as long as it doesn’t violate Clind’s mission, he must protect all my property. As for the little girl Annerose, she is also included in my property. Although I didn’t mention the time limit, I didn’t expect Clind to abide by the contract until now.”

The idea of treating others as property was exactly the same as the idea of the founder of the White Room Project, but Ayanokouji didn’t think there was anything wrong with this idea. Weak people or followers would only be pushed around by others. With his destiny, he would treat others as his own tools.

“Mission? What is his mission?” Ayanokouji asked.

“Sorry, I don’t know this. After all, I have no way of knowing him. What he thinks and what he experienced in the past has nothing to do with me. As long as he can complete the contract, isn’t that enough?” Roswaal shrugged.

“Is he very strong?” Ayanokouji continued to ask. Since Roswaal had once fought alongside Clind, it meant that Clind had very strong combat power.

“Of course, even above me.” Roswaal said with a smile.

Ayanokouji knew that Roswaal wasn’t joking or being polite.

“What are his weaknesses?”

“As for his weaknesses... I really didn’t expect it. Maybe Annerose would be his weakness. After all, Clind seems to care for her very much.” Roswaal was somewhat anticipating his reaction.

“Understood.” However, Ayanokouji didn’t say much. He just nodded and walked out of the room without saying much.

Although Roswaal said that the people under him could be trusted, this was only for him. Ayanokouji couldn’t trust such assurances.

What’s more, after everyone saw the illusion, they might do things beyond prediction.

Annerose herself didn’t have any information that could be obtained, and this person wasn’t a threat.

But Clind was different. Although his loyalty to Annerose could be guaranteed, there were too many unknown secrets in him that had not been revealed.

For Ayanokouji, someone with too many secrets meant he was an uncontrollable factor.

Unless there was a use for him, he would choose to make all uncontrollable things controllable.

So he planned to investigate Clind more carefully after he arrived.

But before that, he needed to further confirm information about Clind.

He came to the courtyard, where Frederica and Ram were trimming flowers and plants.

“Ayanokouji-sama, good afternoon!” Frederica smiled and showed a warm smile. After all, Ayanokouji helped release the Sanctuary and brought Garfiel to the outside world.

“Ayanokouji-sama actually wakes up in the afternoon, you’re so diligent.” Ram said in a strange tone. Now the relationship between the two had eased, and sometimes she would make venomous statements directly.

“Good afternoon.” Ayanokouji nodded slightly. Both of them had interacted with Clind in the past and should be able to know something about each other.

“Do you remember Clind?” Ayanokouji got straight to the point and asked directly.

“Clind, I remember that lecherous guy!” Frederica said with a smile. Although she seemed to be complaining about Clind, Ayanokouji could feel that Frederica mentioned his name, the subtle change in her expression as if she was mentioning someone she valued.

“How much do you know about him?” Ayanokouji asked.

“I know he’s been serving his master for a long time, and most of the maids have received his education. I have to admit that as a housekeeper, I can’t imagine anyone who could surpass him.” Frederica stretched out her hand and gently stroked her chin, “But on the surface, he’s an educator, but his nature is a pedophile. He’s no longer interested in the target when they’re adults, and his standards are not based on actual appearance or age, but on the soul, so we have to be careful so that Emilia-sama and Beatrice-sama are not harmed. After all, both of them are still relatively young mentally. If both of them are targeted by a pervert like Clind, he might do something!

Although Beatrice is over four hundred years old, her mental age is only that of a child.

“I see.” Ayanokouji nodded.

Her words had a certain reference value, but the most important thing was that he believed that there might be a relationship between Frederica and Clind.

This could be exploited.

“What about you Ram? Do you still have any impression of him?” Ayanokouji turned and asked.

“I remember that guy seemed quite strong. He could finish almost all the housework alone, and I’ve never seen him wipe his sweat.” Ram answered indifferently, “But I don’t really want to work with him. It’s not a matter of strength, but this guy’s origins are unknown. Although he’s someone trusted by Roswaal-sama, but...”

After Ram finished speaking, her expression slowly became serious.

At this point, Ayanokouji agreed with Ram’s statement.

He already had a plan in mind.

As soon as Clind arrived, he had to make sure that the other party could be trusted.

And whether his strength could be used.

No matter who it was, even if they were from the same camp, if Ayanokouji couldn’t fully determine whether it could be used by him, he had to consider giving them special treatment.

In the current camp, Beatrice and Emilia could be placed in positions where they could be trusted in most situations for now. The same applied to Elsa. The value they could provide at this time was the highest, they were also the core people connecting the entire camp. When facing special circumstances, they had the qualifications so that Ayanokouji was willing to spend all his energy to preserve them as much as possible.

The other self in the video used Meili to threaten Elsa and make her follow his orders, but now it was the opposite. Meili followed him because of Elsa. Controlling the power of the Demon Beast was Meili’s greatest value.

Although Roswaal hid many secrets, he was a controllable creature at this stage. Initially, he might cause more trouble for Ayanokouji, but his desire to revive Echidna made his actions predictable, and after Echidna was reborn, Ayanokouji could also use her as a hostage to extort resources, and Roswaal’s abilities.

Ram and Rem were not existences worth paying attention to at this time. The threat they posed to Ayanokouji was not great, and they could also provide some value, which could easily consolidate military morale in the ranks.

This was also what he learned from the video.

As for Otto, he came to join on his own initiative. Judging from his current performance, he could be trusted.

Garfiel could give his camp intuitive combat power, and Echidna could give him information. Based on the contract, he could be used by Ayanokouji at will.

As for the yet-to-arrive Clind, if he could be utilized for his own purposes, he should be able to provide a lot of help to Emilia’s camp.

But if this was not possible, it had to be completely eliminated.

Uncontrollable risk factors, there is no need.