Elliot checked the Cards on the Difference Engine once more, only breathing a sigh of relief after confirming that nothing was wrong.
Dawn was almost here.
The next day, the entire city would start running again, the irritating Night Watch Bureau would appear, and the nobles who had attended the Festival would return. Everything Elliot had done tonight would come back under the nobles' scrutiny.
He had to eliminate as many potential problems as possible.
"All the workers in the Factory have been converted into Believers. Vanessa is speaking with them separately to get their stories straight and make sure they don't say anything they shouldn't."
"Maeve's situation is quite a problem. She's still a monster, but she devoured plenty of monsters through [Song of Flesh]. Perhaps she's already accumulated enough to advance."
"Everything that happened tonight has been erased from history. That was probably the Royal Family's doing, but-not necessarily a bad thing."
[The Thinker] could only calculate the current history. It could do nothing about history that had been altered.
That also meant that everything that had happened in the Hearthfire District tonight was outside its gaze.
"As long as [The Thinker] didn't notice, no [Evil Name] will appear, and the Night Watch Bureau won't be able to learn about any of this through its reports!
"In other words, as long as we keep things secret, we can get away with it!"
Elliot swallowed.
Normally, keeping something secret among several thousand people was all but impossible.
But-he had the Difference Engine's help.
Elliot had immediately cleared out every traitor and informer among the workers. Everyone still in the Factory was a true Believer of the Canteen.
Aside from that, Vanessa's conversations with these workers were all conducted through the [Conversation] Card slot. As long as the character and