Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 544: It's Not Easy to Be a Fence-Sitter
I see……

Looking at Atefy 00 who had taken over the Queen's body, Leon couldn't help but understand.

No wonder I was so lucky. I had just entered the fresh-keeping room when I happened to come across a small theater about the truth of that year. It turned out that it was specially performed for me.

"It is ok."

After nodding without comment, Leon stared at the Queen with a gentle smile and asked:

"Does Andre know about these things you just showed me?"

"Of course I don't know."

The Queen...or Atef00 smiled and answered:

"Although Felia's computing power is much stronger than mine, things like souls and memories cannot be handled by computing power alone. As a developer of soul coding technology, I think it's not difficult to hide a little bit of my 'work'."

"I see...it seems that the relationship between you and Prince Andre is even worse than I thought."

After narrowing his eyes slightly, Leon said:

"You hid this past so that you can use it against him at this moment?"

"Don't say it so harshly."

Atifi00 replied with a smile:
"I am still Andre's aunt after all. Maybe I am just worried that the child will collapse, so I can't bear to tell him the truth?"

"..."

I believe you as a ghost...

After glancing at her speechlessly, Leon did not continue the conversation, but instead pondered the things behind this past.

After all, if what No. 0 Atifi showed him was true, and Prince Andre was unaware of it, then the bloody incident that happened to the Korok royal family was a tragedy caused by a misunderstanding.

Unable to bear the thought of seeing his two children die in despair and pain, the old king decided to sacrifice one to save the other. And because he did not want Andre to bear the guilt of "surviving by sacrificing his sister", he chose to hide the truth from him.

But in Andre's eyes, the entire Korok royal family had fallen into madness. In order to resolve the crisis facing the kingdom, they actually put pressure on the old king to sacrifice his twelve-year-old sister.

Not only did her parents fail to protect Filia, but one of them gave the order and the other chose to acquiesce. On her sister's birthday, her brain was taken out alive and made into a cold machine.

To be honest, if it were me, I would probably go crazy if I encountered such a thing.

As a person who also has a sister complex, after thinking about Andre's experience from his perspective, Leon couldn't help but shake his head slightly, and he began to understand the reasons behind all his behaviors.

King and wife Finn did not want Andre to live with a sense of guilt, but in the end, doing so took even more away from him.

From Andre's perspective, if his father could sacrifice his sister for the kingdom, he could naturally sacrifice him as well, so everything in the past became a false lie, and the happier and more fulfilling his life was, the deeper the pain.

To be honest, if Prince Andre's last name was Uchiha, he would have been very surprised after this wave, and he would have gotten at least three magatama. If he didn't go crazy after encountering such a terrible misfortune, who would?

However, although I understand it, given the current situation, if I can use this information to deal with Andre, I will use it without any hesitation.

Understanding and sympathy are things that will happen after the fight. Once we pull him out of Research Area No. 1 and eliminate all his ability to resist, we will have plenty of time to sympathize with him slowly.

As for whether this information can be used against Prince Andrei...

If possible.

If Prince Andre really doesn't know all this, then revealing this "truth of the past" would indeed cause him considerable psychological harm, but the result might not necessarily be in my favor.

Considering that the ancestors of the Korok royal family were originally very powerful cleaners, after Prince Andre suffered a "severe blow" to his spirit, the possibility of him creating abnormal things like Joshua in the future was extremely high.

What if he didn't collapse mentally and give up resistance, but instead became more and more crazy and exploded directly, then he would be shooting himself in the head. It might not be a good thing to hastily reveal the truth of that year to Prince Andre. The significance of this information is not as great as it seems... However, this news may not be completely worthless.

When he thought of this, Leon glanced at the "Queen" in front of him, and then took the initiative to ask:

"Atifei... I'll just call you Atifei. There's something I'm curious about. Can you answer it for me?"

"Go ahead, but whether I can answer depends on what you ask. If you ask Andre about his trump card, I definitely can't tell you."

"Don't worry, I won't ask about his trump card. What I want to ask is what happened that year."

Staring into the Queen's eyes, which were as green as Feliya's, Leon asked word by word:

"Were Andre and Filia really 'sick' back then?"

"..."

"What do you mean?"

After a moment of silence, the Queen's smile faded slightly, and then she frowned and said:
"I have just shown you everything that happened back then. Except for Finn's actions that were simulated by me because his brain was taken away, all the memories of these events are in their own minds. I don't have the ability to fake this."

"I don't suspect you of cheating."

Leon shook his head upon hearing this, and pressed on:
“What I doubt is whether the news King Finn received is true.

Could you please tell me, were Andre and Filia really sick and would die if one of them was not sacrificed, or was there someone who secretly did something in order to create an intelligent machine that was ten times more powerful than themselves?"

"Do you suspect that I made up their illness?"

After hearing what Leon said, the Queen's face turned cold, and then she said unkindly:

"Stop imagining things. Our Kingdom of Korok has done in-depth research on the brain, and there are more than 300 scholars who have made achievements in this area. If I did something, wouldn't Finn go to others to verify it?"

"There are many scholars who understand the brain, but you were the only Omnic at the time. Moreover, the brains of your royal family are very different from those of ordinary people. Those scholars might not have been deceived."

Looking at the “Queen” who was staring at him with anger on her face, Leon concluded:
"So the possibility that you tampered with this matter is not zero, am I right?"

"..."

"Of course, or I could put it more bluntly."

Leon slowed down his speech, stared at it and continued:

"What matters is not what the truth is, but what Prince Andrei prefers to believe.

On one hand, he slaughtered his family and relatives with his own hands due to a misunderstanding, and he himself was the biggest mistake. He didn't know who to seek revenge on if he wanted to;
On the other hand, someone is plotting and deliberately using him to create this tragedy. At least there is a mastermind who can take revenge... Which one do you think he is willing to believe?"

"..."

That must be the second one...and if Andre knew this "truth", he would probably destroy himself immediately!

Looking at the aggressive Leon in front of her, the Queen's face no longer had the previous playfulness and ease. She had begun to regret taking the initiative to contact Leon, and could not help but frown and questioned:
"What on earth do you want to do!"

"Of course, to have a deeper cooperation with you."

Lyon said with an unchanged expression:

"What I want is not a fence-sitter, but your more thorough and unreserved support... Atifi, you don't want your good nephew to know the truth of what happened back then, right?"

(End of this chapter)