After telling everyone how to log into the virtual world's secondary administrator account, Delasion adjourned the meeting.
Everyone left one after another. Only Klein remained seated, and the others merely glanced at him before saying nothing.
In the end, only Klein and the other nine Adams remained in the room.
"..."
Looking at the nine people watching him with similar yet distinct expressions, Klein suddenly felt immense pressure. The words he had wanted to say caught in his throat and would not come out.
After all, if the people before him were all avatars of that head shopkeeper, then the person who had toyed with him behind everything that had happened throughout his past was a superpowered expert.
More precisely, this was a superpowered expert whose mere avatar could defeat a Sequence Zero.
Thus, he seemed to have no grounds to question why they had manipulated his life. The fact that they had not simply crushed him and taken Source Castle was already merciful enough.
"Actually, it probably couldn't be considered manipulation... right?"
There was a trace of subtle uncertainty at the end of Ampera's words.
They had not strictly controlled Klein, but they had influenced the direction of his future development through methods such as withholding funds... Still, these were all things Klein would have experienced anyway.
For example, when it came to going to sea, Klein wanted to advance using mermaids, and there had only ever been two choices: the Church of the Night or the sea itself.
Unless they had directly told Klein that the Goddess of the Night was friendly toward him and already knew his secret, there was no way he would have sought help from the Church of the Night. That left only the latter option.
Klein had made all such choices himself. All