Ayanokouji Kiyotaka 169

Title: Heading to the Sanctuary, all the equipment is still available to me

Ayanokouji brought Beatrice back to the room. Beatrice lay down on the bed skillfully, and then turned to him impatiently: “Kyotaka, let’s start telling stories!”

“Okay.” Ayanokouji nodded, then began to tell a story.

The content of the first story he told was similar to the story told by his other self in the video, to further complete the lie that he hadn’t watched the video.

Initially, Ayanokouji thought Beatrice would ask him to change the story, but Beatrice acted as if she had never heard it before and seemed to be listening with great interest.

For him, even though he had seen it once in the video before, experiencing it firsthand was a real experience.

What he cared about was not the content of the story, but his own storytelling.

Ayanokouji quickly finished telling three stories, while Beatrice had already fallen asleep.

Looking at the sleeping face of the little girl beside him, Ayanokouji thought. Although he knew her true appearance, Beatrice could still be caught off guard by him.

“Just in case, let’s fulfill today’s agreement first.”

Although the content of the contract didn’t specify how many stories Ayanokouji had to tell each day, he had made an agreement with Beatrice today to tell five stories. He was also ready to fulfill the agreement first.

While telling stories, he also thought about future plans.

The scene changed, the next night, everyone was preparing to board the dragon carriage driven by Otto to the Sanctuary.

Considering that the mansion’s perimeter might have been under surveillance, everyone chose this time to leave.

It was already dark, and if there were any monitors, it would be difficult for them to clearly see the identities of the passengers inside the dragon carriage.

It wasn’t just Ayanokouji’s identity that needed to be hidden, but also Emilia’s. After all, Emilia and Roswaal had broken up in public.

After watching the video, Emilia didn’t approve of what Roswaal had done. His immoral behavior was no different from Ayanokouji’s, and even more excessive than Ayanokouji’s.

However, to save Ayanokouji, Emilia still needed Roswaal’s strength, and she also believed that Roswaal wasn’t completely hopeless, so she still chose to cooperate with Roswaal.

To achieve his goal, Roswaal also needed to let Emilia ascend to the throne. He knew that after the video was played, his true purpose had been revealed. Even if the people in the kingdom had signed soul contracts because he was still untouchable, but this had caused great damage to his reputation.

To ensure that Emilia’s reputation wasn’t affected, Roswaal took the initiative to let Emilia announce her separation from him in public, to minimize the impact on Emilia.

Through this operation, coupled with the previous video, Emilia’s reputation in the public eye had slightly improved compared to before.

Crusch’s wrong decision, Anastasia’s special identity, Priscilla’s sluggishness, and Felt’s conflict had made the current situation of the throne selection even more confusing.

Besides Emilia, Ayanokouji, and Otto, who was responsible for driving the dragon carriage, the people going to the Sanctuary this time included Roswaal and Ram.

Ayanokouji had explained that this action was to win Echidna’s favor, and Roswaal was eager to meet his teacher again.

Although the Omega in the video wasn’t the complete Echidna, it was indeed the real Echidna, so Roswaal was already looking forward to welcoming her soon, while Ram followed, she was responsible for Roswaal and responsible for everyone’s food, clothing, housing, and transportation in the Sanctuary.

In addition, Beatrice also went to the Sanctuary with them. Of course, she wouldn’t tell anyone about her worries about Ayanokouji, so she said that she had signed a contract with him and would teach him every day as a reason to act together.

As for Rem, Frederica, and Meili, they would stay at the mansion and create the scene where Roswaal and the others were still inside the mansion.

Although for Rem and Frederica, the fact that the young and cute Meili was actually a cruel killer made them a little afraid, but after getting along with them for a few days, they found that Meili was usually no different from an ordinary little girl, so the relationship between them gradually became familiar.

Elsa was sent back to the royal capital again by Ayanokouji to secretly investigate the movements of other candidates for the throne.

Everyone soon arrived at the Sanctuary. Driving at night might be dangerous, but if Otto was there, there was no need to worry.

They first came to the village in the Sanctuary to rest for a while.

After the villagers saw Ayanokouji and his group, their eyes were filled with fear and hatred.

The person who caused this emotion wasn’t Ayanokouji, but Roswaal.

In the video, Ayanokouji didn’t do anything extraordinary to the villagers in the Sanctuary, so they weren’t as afraid of his presence as the villagers of Arlam.

But Roswaal was different.

To achieve his goal, he created a blizzard in the Sanctuary in the video and attracted the arrival of the Great Rabbit, which indirectly led to the death of all the villagers in the Sanctuary.

So after seeing the arrival of Roswaal and the others, the villagers didn’t dare to approach them. Instead, they looked at them with very frightened eyes.

“Ah, it seems we are not very popular.” Roswaal was very aware of this, but he didn’t seem to care, and always had a very calm smile on his face.

“Maybe it’s not ‘we’, but just because of you.” Beatrice crossed her arms in front of her chest and said in a dismissive tone.

“So straightforward, Betty, it’s really pathetic.”

“You have the courage to come back? Just like Peromio, who will start to rot from the other end of the ear!” A rough and wild voice came from afar, bringing with it its strange quotation, no doubt that the speaker was Garfiel.

“You have done such a thing to the Sanctuary but you dare to come back. How dare you!” Garfiel said cruelly. He stared at Roswaal first, then shifted his gaze to Ayanokouji, “Also, you actually took grandma hostage!”

“Sorry, this is my first time here. I might not have done anything.” Facing Garfiel’s anger, Ayanokouji said lightly.

“Are you still pretending to be stupid here!” For Garfiel, the illusion in the sky seemed to have actually happened.

“Move your stupid head, it’s just an illusion, it didn’t happen at all.” Beatrice defended Ayanokouji.

Garfiel originally wanted to argue a few words, but when he remembered that he was being tossed around like a toy in front of Beatrice in the illusion, he immediately fell silent. He didn’t want to let himself suffer in vain: “So, what exactly do you want to do?”

“We want to liberate the Sanctuary!” Emilia said immediately.

“Liberation? Stop joking!”

“I’m not joking, I’m serious. I also hope you can be freed from the shackles of the barrier!” Emilia’s eyes were very serious and her tone was very firm.

“Up to you!” Garfiel and Emilia looked at each other for a moment, knowing that Emilia wasn’t joking, so he could only reply, using a fierce tone to regain as much initiative as possible, “But I warn you first, if you do anything strange to the residents of the Sanctuary, I will never let you go!”

“I’m not very capable, but my words are quite cruel.” Beatrice said mercilessly.

Although in Beatrice’s eyes, Garfiel wasn’t a creature worthy of her attention, Ayanokouji knew that Garfiel’s actual strength was pretty good, and could even reach Wilhelm’s level.

“Then let’s prepare for the trial now.” Roswaal turned to Ayanokouji and said.

“Before that, there’s something else that needs to be settled.” Ayanokouji said slowly, “We need to stabilize the hearts and minds of the villagers in the Sanctuary.”

The camp now needed more supporters and assistance, and the people in the Sanctuary were one of the few options he had at this time.

He currently had no way to extend his hand to the royal capital, and his own business chain couldn’t develop as smoothly as in the video, so he decided to slowly develop his own strength first.

If the number of laborers in his camp increased, he could more easily make his own workshop, and then gradually build his own trade chain. Although his progress wasn’t as good as in the video, it was better than nothing.

Furthermore, he had to be active in the Sanctuary in the near future, and he didn’t want these people to turn into a mob and cause trouble for him.

Then Ayanokouji asked Garfiel to help him summon the residents. Although Garfiel didn’t trust him now, he also wanted to know what the other party was going to do.

Ayanokouji gathered the people in the church. He could feel the panic, fear, and anger in the eyes of the people below. He could even hear waves of curses coming from below.

Ayanokouji wasn’t angry or had any other emotions. He knew that such emotions were easily aroused among people. As long as one person panicked, this emotion would spread among the crowd like a plague.

In the White Room, he learned how to deal with this situation.

Using emotions to pretend that he was on the same side as others was a simple way.

Ayanokouji quickly delivered his speech. Although his tone was very calm, the content was very passionate and captivated the hearts and minds of these people little by little.

In just ten minutes, he immediately aroused the resonance of the community and shifted the point of conflict of the incident to Roswaal.

Soon, he basically convinced these people and gained their support. Even the stubborn Garfiel was somewhat affected by what he said.

“You really poured all the dirty water on me mercilessly.” Roswaal, who was observing all this from a distance, saw everything in front of him with a smile. Although Ayanokouji suppressed the hatred of the people and transferred it to himself, and it strengthened Ayanokouji, using emotions to win the hearts of the people. However, Roswaal also admired Ayanokouji’s method in his heart.

Being able to achieve this with just words. If Ayanokouji really became the ruler of a certain power, he might be able to make his people go through fire and water for him.

In the past four hundred years, Roswaal had studied magic and power, and didn’t manage internal affairs in the territory much. Often, he let the people in the village take care of themselves, while the people in the Sanctuary, he didn’t even take care of the villagers.

If he had Ayanokouji’s ability, it might be easier to realize his plan.

Soon, Ayanokouji finished his speech and returned to the crowd.

“Everything here has been settled. Let’s go. It’s still time for the trial.” Ayanokouji said to Emilia.

“Yes!” Emilia nodded, and reached out to hold the pendant on her chest tightly.

Now she hadn’t decided on her contract with Puck, and her previous memories hadn’t been unlocked, but after watching the video, she also knew what happened to her in the trial.

And Ayanokouji would also accompany Emilia, preparing to enter the ruins with her to obtain another tool.

He would meet the woman known as the Witch of Greed—Echidna.