Did [Prophet in the Urn] know about his Path Card, about his Difference Engine?
Or was that prophetic ability truly so miraculous?
And...
Elliot unconsciously tightened his grip on the tabletop.
With things having progressed this far, who knew how many coincidences had occurred along the way?
Vanessa had shouted those words under his control, but what if Elliot hadn't controlled her and had decided to attend the Investiture Ritual himself?
Given Vanessa's own temperament, and with Victoria beside her pleading desperately, she definitely wouldn't have said it.
And before that, Vanessa and Victoria had quarreled over the Investiture, then made up afterward.
But with their stubborn personalities, they could also have drifted further and further apart, in which case there wouldn't even have been an Investiture Ritual.
Going back a little further, what if Elliot hadn't gone to that Blood Feast?
He hadn't really wanted to go in the first place. He had only gone to take a look because Victoria had mentioned the nobles' depravity; not going would have been perfectly reasonable too.
Countless coincidences had piled up to give him a single chance to choose. How had that become an inevitability?
At that thought, Elliot suddenly froze.
"Wait, that's not right!"
"Were they really only coincidences?"
When making his choice at the Difference Engine, he had intended to have Vanessa give up on shouting those words, yet the Card had ultimately still fallen into the [Yes] slot!
Had he really had a chance to choose another path?
True, he had been affected by [Secret History] at the time and experienced auditory and visual hallucinations. Those had been coincidences too.
Yet the twisted path formed by all those coincidences piled together seemed faintly strange.
"Thinking carefully, there really were plenty of complications along the way, all of which