บท 528: The one to whom all nations bow - III

"... I see, so you must have favored it before, making it mistakenly believe 'I will definitely be the pact head,' which gave it the confidence to be so arrogant."

Ravenna mused, "What about the others? In that future, did you recruit all your original pact heads in advance?"

"No need for that."

Ansel said casually, "For me, their greatest advantage is that… I have a complete understanding of them and can easily control them. In that future, due to my mother's influence, my choices for pact heads were not reasonable. Some of those pact heads were not suitable for me."

Annelisa's death dealt a devastating blow to Ansel's previously envisioned future. After awakening the spirit essence known as [Pursuit], he gathered pact heads solely to track down the murderer, caring little for their personalities or morals, as long as their powers aligned with his own.