After Yuto listened to Navia and Lumine's account, he nodded gently, then fell into a long silence.
After a while, Yuto raised his head, a dark expression flashed in his sea-blue eyes, then he sighed and said,
"Navia, I think you should prepare yourself mentally. This truth... I'm afraid it will be hard for you to accept."
Navia's expression became even more serious upon hearing this, and she responded in a deep voice,
"Please speak, I'm listening."
"Alas..."
Yuto sighed slightly, paused for a moment, then spoke,
"I believe... the mastermind is Marcel, the president of the Kabrie Commercial Guild."
"What—"
Navia's grey-blue pupils were filled with shock, and then she murmured,
"But... Uncle Marcel, he has been providing funds and manpower to help deal with the lesse matter, how could he..."
"Navia, I know it might be difficult for you to accept this fact, but... this is the result of my analysis."
"I don't know if you've noticed Marcel's biggest problem—he hasn't said any information."
"Not only that, he kept urging you to stay in Bai Song Town, trying to make you stop the investigation with the posture of an elder who Cares for your well-being."
After saying this, Yuto paused slightly, then said,
"Let's look at the reactions of your other elders."
"Father's advisor, Florent, expressed full support for your investigation and did not believe Cares would be such a person."
"And Miles, as your bodyguard and butler, also told you all the key information after confirming your wishes."
"Furthermore... me, although this might seem a bit strange, in a sense, I am indeed your elder, and my attitude is to support you in continuing the investigation."
"Logically speaking, the president of a commercial guild that your Father personally helped establish... should not react so defensively."
"To use his own words, he keeps expressing his loyalty to you, but he hasn't provided any useful information."
"What's more... as one of the top commercial guild presidents in Fontaine, perhaps only he has the financial resources to acquire so many security mechs."
With that, Yuto gently shook his head, no longer speaking, just quietly waiting for Navia's reaction.
Listening to the Assistant Administrator's words, Navia fell into a long silence.
"No, then why would Marcel... why would he pay to suppress his own business? Isn't this..."
"'Isn't this him losing money himself,' is that what you wanted to say, Navia."
Yuto gently interrupted her, then continued,
"Navia, lesse is addictive, which means this substance has a fixed consumer base; once you drink it... you'll never forget it for the rest of your life."
"Coupled with its hallucinogenic properties, it can make those whose lives have fallen into a slump immerse themselves in beautiful environments and find it hard to extricate themselves. How much do you think this stuff... would sell? Will the sales make him lose money?"
Upon hearing this, Navia's body trembled violently, and then she fell silent.
In fact, after she heard Yuto's theory... she had already believed seventy to eighty percent of it, otherwise, she wouldn't have replaced the affectionate term "Uncle" with something else.
Yuto naturally noticed this. He looked at Navia, who had fallen silent in front of him, gently shook his head, and then spoke,
"They found another Fatui Executive this time, wanting to once again pin the blame on the Fatui."
"If you've made up your mind, Navia, just go directly to the Opera House and make the accusation, Neuvillette will agree."
"If you don't plan to accuse... then I will take leave this afternoon, personally investigate this den of thieves, and personally drag this fellow to Meropide."
As Yuto said this, he slowly stood up, then softly said,
"Alright, my private time is almost over. Next... I have to go to work. See you at the Opera House."
And as Yuto was about to leave the room, he suddenly stopped and then softly said,
"Navia, if you plan to accuse Marcel, I hope to be one of your Licensed Agents."
"Cares is my friend, and this time... I hope to participate in the Judgment to clear his name."
With that, Yuto left the room, leaving all the space to Navia for her to weigh everything.
...
Nonomi stared blankly at the screen in front of her, momentarily speechless.
Although she had now accepted the fact that she had to pay money and was precisely hit by her own boomerangs and statements, the correlation between Yuto and the plot surprised her a bit.
Of course, correlation was not the main point.
After she finished listening to Yuto's analysis, a script instantly formed in Nonomi's little head.
A script about sacrificing a pawn to save the King.
Even if Marcel was indeed selling lesse, Fontaine's main storyline actually has nothing to do with lesse, at most it's related to Primordial Sea Water.
And those who know about such things are either old people who have lived a long time, or people in high positions of power.
Yuto happens to fit both of these characteristics.
One could even say that Marcel's main reason for discovering Primordial Sea Water was because of Yuto, and Yuto's goal was to throw Fontaine into chaos.
Once Fontaine is in chaos, people's hearts will be in chaos; once people's hearts are in chaos, according to the extremism of socialized thinking... they are very likely to trust those illusory prophecies.
Once they believe The Prophecy, Yuto can, as they predicted, release large amounts of Primordial Sea Water, and finally stage a drama of forcing the ruler to abdicate.
Using the people of Fontaine to threaten Furina, making her hand over the god's heart, and finally naturally becoming the supreme leader of Fontaine and ascending the throne of the Archons.
"Don't tell me... it's really not impossible..."
Nonomi murmured, then suddenly became excited and began to share her conjectures with the audience in the live stream.
Although most of the audience in the live stream were not very interested in Nonomi's somewhat unhinged predictions, it must be said that there was logic behind it.
At this moment, Nonomi's room moderator couldn't stand it anymore. He sent a paid bullet comment for fifty Dollar and said,
"Kizuto, stop acting crazy. I can understand that you like handsome, dark adult men, but your wallet can't handle you being so reckless. Think about that fifteen thousand Dollar, I hope you're okay."
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