The Royal Selection began as usual. Fujino, who was enjoying cultivating her relationship with Emilia and the other girls, couldn't help but show a surprised expression upon hearing this.
Fujino knew that this Royal Selection wasn't a Royal Selection in the true sense. To put it bluntly, it was just to let the various candidates meet and state their reasons for participating.
However, the Royal Capital had become such a mess, yet those people still wanted to start the Royal Selection at the originally scheduled time, which made Fujino curious.
But then Ram told Fujino about a recent event in the Royal Capital that she found increasingly interesting. Felt had still been found, and she had passed the recognition of the witchs stone. Although the person who found Felt was no longer Reinhard, it was someone closely related to him—Subaru Natsuki!
After thinking for a bit, Fujino understood the cause of everything. It was the world will in her hands. Fujino had now extracted the swallowed half-world from Satella's body and merged it with the world will to restore it to completion.
The current world will had no consciousness; it had been erased by Fujino before. Even though it was now complete, it would take a long time for a consciousness to be born. The two Little Lolis alaya and Gaia from the Type-Moon World, as the counter force, having complete consciousness could be said to be a miracle. In other worlds, it was almost impossible for the counter force to possess consciousness; although they existed, they were pitifully few.
Now, the world will of the Re:Zero World only had power based on instinct. Simply put, the current world will was just an unconscious processor, letting fate proceed according to its original development.
Felt's original plot had been intended to be destroyed by Fujino, but now it had actually returned to its original development. Although the process of this development had changed, the final result remained the same. Felt still became the last Dragon Carrier to be found. This was likely one of the reasons why those Sages still started the Royal Selection at the scheduled time.
Although Felt's development still hadn't completely escaped her original fate, it was quite normal. After all, what Fujino did back then wasn't thorough enough.
There is a big difference between a conscious world will and an unconscious one. Even if a conscious world will finds that the original fate has been changed, it will decide whether to return things to the right track based on its own thoughts. In this case, there are two possibilities: first, if the changed fate doesn't have a large impact on the overall development, then a conscious world will won't bother with it; second, an unconscious world will will perform a correction on the changed fate according to the original destiny to restore it. This is the reason why Felt still became a Dragon Carrier; because the world will at this moment is unconscious, and since Fujino didn't care about this matter and didn't pay much attention, the world will unconsciously corrected Felt's fate out of instinct, making her a Dragon Carrier anyway.
However, an unexpected event occurred during the correction—Old Man Rom died! He died in the earthquake, but it couldn't be said to be entirely due to the earthquake. After the earthquake, Old Man Rom was trapped under the ruins of a collapsed house. He wasn't dead and still had a few breaths left, but because he was a commoner, Old Man Rom was not a priority for the knights' rescue efforts. The people in the Slums only looked out for themselves, let alone extending a helping hand to Old Man Rom. So, Old Man Rom endured for a few days under the ruins alone. By the time Felt found Old Man Rom, he only had one breath left, and he completely passed away amidst Felt's cries.
It was also at this time that Subaru Natsuki discovered the distraught Felt. Out of kindness, he took her back to Reinhard's home to look after her. Then, under the guidance of the unconscious world will, Felt touched the last witchs stone in Reinhard's home. When Felt touched the witchs stone, it recognized her qualification as a Dragon Carrier and emitted a red light. This scene happened to be seen by Reinhard. Under Reinhard's questioning, he learned that Felt was a member of the former royal family left behind. Reinhard immediately reported this and informed them that Felt was a member of the former royal family. Therefore, after learning of this, the Sages decided to start the Royal Selection at the scheduled time after discussion.
Because of the earthquake, Lugnica was now severely damaged, and the treasury was almost empty, all of it having been used to repair Lugnica after the earthquake. Therefore, the Sages were also in urgent need of some people to step up and share this mess, and the current five Dragon Carriers were the best choice.
"Fujino, do I still need to participate?" Emilia was a bit conflicted at the moment about whether she should participate in the Royal Selection. Although she had no interest in the Royal Selection now, there was still a contract between her and Fujino—to become Queen Emilia. To fulfill the contract, she needed to participate in the Royal Selection, hence the conflict.
Emilia Felt that her current life was very good. For her now, the Royal Selection had no attraction at all.
"Lia, of course you have to go. Don't forget you promised me you would become Queen!" Seeing that Emilia had no interest in the Royal Selection, Fujino made the matter of the contract clear. After all, she was looking forward to Emilia becoming Queen.
"Alright~" Seeing that Fujino wanted her to become Queen, Emilia also found some motivation. However, she soon realized one thing: it was too difficult for her to win the Royal Selection now. After all, after Roswaal was killed by Fujino, Emilia had no one behind her to support her. Without any support, it was almost impossible for Emilia to stand out in the Royal Selection and become Queen.
"Don't worry, I've already thought it out for you. Don't forget there's me!" Fujino laughed. She had already considered this problem before she killed Roswaal.
"That's right! There's you, Fujino!" Emilia also reacted. Because of her great strength, Fujino had immense power in the Royal Capital. Although not many knew about it because she was very mysterious, after living by Fujino's side for so many days, Emilia was very clear about the strength Fujino possessed. As long as Fujino stood up to support her, the other candidates would find it difficult to be her match.
"I won't be the one taking action; it's someone else." Fujino shook her head with a smile.
"Eh?" Emilia didn't react. If Fujino wasn't taking action, then who was it?
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