With a momentary trance in his consciousness, Ansu suddenly opened his eyes.
The world before him was bright, and he had finally returned to that quiet shaded path.
【Reality】
【Radiant Calendar, Year 625, May 12, 16:18】
【Commentary: Wow! There is even a yandere.】
【Congratulations, Master of the Rinse Cycle Ansu. This round of simulation was a total failure. Bro, you turned this into a yandere dating sim~】
【Rating: D】
【Reward: 8 points】
【Remaining Points: 76】
Ansu stood still on the spot, the scenes that occurred in the simulation making cold sweat pour down his face.
The cave, the chains, the imprisonment, and the evil memory cleansing plan...
He felt such a lingering fear. He had almost turned her into a yandere.
Although the simulation had ended, that sickly and crazed Celia had truly left an indelible impression on his heart, and he could not snap out of it for a long time.
No, he had to do something quickly!
Ansu immediately looked toward the fork in the road. Celia had not gone too far yet.
In just a little while... she would secretly follow Freya, tail her back to her solitary off campus room, and then hypnotize her to learn information that would be extremely detrimental to him.
Ansu forced himself to calm down. He had to nip this crisis in the bud.
"I need to plan this carefully... in a moment, I absolutely cannot let the two of them meet!"
"Then... I need to take a risk..."
A plan had already begun to form in Ansu's mind.
However, this plan definitely involved a degree of gambling, so... he needed to test it out first.
Ansu opened the simulation once again.
【10 minutes later (May 12, 16:29), consumes 10 points】
【Starting simulation...】
【Remaining Points: 66】
Blackness rapidly invaded his vision. When the shimmering countdown disappeared, the scene before Ansu's eyes changed instantly.
A dim and cluttered basement appeared before him.
Wait, what!
Ansu was startled by the scene before him, thinking he had been captured and imprisoned by Celia again.
But it was only a momentary fright.
After observing carefully, he found that he was not restrained, and Celia's expression in front of him was not that abnormal.
Ansu cautiously watched the witch, who was constantly muttering to herself. She looked worried, and the expression she wore when she looked at him was full of anxiety.
"What should I do? What should I do?"
"How did it come to this... why would such a thing happen..."
"Ansu..."
Ansu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. It seemed everything was within a controllable range.
Then, he gently began to comfort her.
"It is fine..."
It really was fine. It seemed this plan was feasible.
Ansu felt like he had been scaring himself. It seemed that as long as she was not in her yandere witch state, Celia could still be communicated with normally.
Confirming that the plan was indeed workable, Ansu returned to the shaded path once the simulation time ended.
【Reality】
【Radiant Calendar, Year 625, May 12, 16:19】
【Commentary: It is not that big of a deal. Look at how scared you were.】
【Rating: E】
【Reward: 5 points】
【Remaining Points: 71】
Ansu had received his lowest rating and fewest rewards ever.
But there was nothing he could do about it. Ansu really had some psychological trauma now.
After calming his heart, Ansu quickly caught up to the witch's figure as she walked away in a hurry.
"Your Excellency, please wait..."
"I have something I want to tell you!"
Celia turned her head, her deep purple eyes watching Ansu as he suddenly chased after her.
"What is it?"
Her original expression was very impatient because she still had very important things to do.
But seeing Ansu's unprecedentedly serious expression, she stopped in her tracks.
"It is... a very, very important matter..."
Ansu stopped. "I have hesitated for a long time about this... at first, I did not quite dare to tell you, but I feel..."
"I should still tell you."
Celia looked Ansu up and down suspiciously. His expression was truly strange.
He looked conflicted and nervous, but his eyes were exceptionally firm, as if he had made a great resolution in the depths of his heart.
The atmosphere went quiet for a moment.
Celia snorted and crossed her arms. "Go ahead. Say it quickly, I am in a hurry!"
Thus, Ansu began his maneuver.
"Your Excellency... I seem to be the Chosen One."
Celia thought she had misheard, and she was stunned for a moment.
Then her pupils shook, and her expression changed instantly.
"What did you say!?"
"I guessed you would definitely be shocked, but do not worry. Listen to me carefully..." Ansu watched her astonished state, took a deep breath, and slowly continued.
"A few days ago... Freya told me that I am her Lord Chosen One..."
Ansu gave a bitter smile. Although his tone was very nervous, his gaze remained resolute, as if he were holding onto some important promise.
"If what she said is true... then I should be the Chosen One that we have been searching for so desperately."
Celia opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something.
But she remained silent for a long time.
Finally, she forced a smile as if she were putting on a brave face. "How... how is that possible? Ansu, you are talking nonsense again... this kind of joke... is not funny at all."
She looked around warily, stepped forward, and glared at Ansu fiercely.
"Do not make this kind of joke in the future!"
"If you talk nonsense again, I will sew your mouth shut!"
"It is true, Your Excellency! That is really what she told me!" Ansu's tone was urgent. He also looked around cautiously and leaned close to her ear to whisper.
"Although I do not know what is going on either... how could a common student of the Benalu Royal Academy like me become the Chosen One from the divine decree? Besides, I am a mage!"
Ansu did not explicitly confirm his own view. He was merely recounting Freya's view.
"She said... from the first moment she saw me, she believed I was her Lord Chosen One..."
"She even asked me this time... why I was unwilling to admit it? Admit it my foot... this is simply too absurd. How could a righteous god have chosen me?"
"My heart has always been toward magic... if I were truly a Chosen One, I should be a Chosen One for the evil god faction..."
After saying all this, Ansu appeared to fall into a state of internal conflict.
He was trying to lead her toward an ambiguous and suspicious conjecture.
This was also the most effective of his signature moves. If you want to cover up one conflict, trigger another major conflict!
Once successful, this would be the optimal solution!
The core of this maneuver lay in the fact that Celia did not actually care much about whether he was the Chosen One.
The ones who cared about the Chosen One were Samantha and the Echoes of Truth.
Celia only cared about whether he betrayed her or lied to her... So if Ansu used this combination of shifting the conflict and proactively confessing, Celia might even proactively help him cover it up.
After all... even the yandere witch in the simulation had been like that, unable to bring herself to kill him in the end.
Therefore, Ansu was very confident in triggering this landmine in advance.
As for the even bigger landmine of lying to her... he would worry about that in the future.
Ansu did not even dare to think about that kind of thing.
"Ansu... this... how is this possible?" Celia's expression was complex to the extreme.
She looked at the person standing right in front of her. No matter how she thought about it, she never would have imagined that he was the Chosen One the cult had been looking for.
This gave her a very absurd feeling.
If it were indeed true, then wouldn't it mean... that her teacher had handed over the heavy responsibility of finding the Chosen One to the Chosen One himself?
Was there anything more ridiculous in this world?
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