Chapter 251: Discussing It with Setsuna

Chapter 251: Chapter 251: Discussing It with Setsuna

"Cringe??? How is that possible? This looks so damn cool!"

The boy immediately took offense, his voice growing agitated.

"If you don’t believe me, go ask someone else. See if they laugh at you, then you’ll have your answer," the mouth said with an odd chuckle.

"Looks like the two of you have completely merged. So are you the one in charge, or do both of you have control over this body?"

Kotone Asaba ignored the boy and Devil bickering and pressed further.

"I wouldn’t say I’m in charge. It feels like control of the body is split fifty-fifty between us," the boy replied.

"Okay, I understand."

Kotone didn’t ask anything else.

At this point, he could confirm that their situation was more or less the same as Asa Mitaka and the War Devil’s.

There were advantages and disadvantages, but there was only so much he could do about it. Setsuna had already compromised as far as she possibly could.

"All right. Start sending them back to the human world one at a time. Having this many successful cases should also help move the vote along," Kotone said.

"Okay~"

Setsuna answered lazily before bringing Kotone back to the real world.

The others were still inside the Domain of Death and had not returned with them.

She intended to follow Kotone’s suggestion and gradually release everyone back into the human world.

...

Soon afterward, news also came from Yuki Kirisu.

Just as she had expected, although her father had proposed holding the vote, the Prime Minister didn’t consider the matter particularly important.

If they treated it as something insignificant and delayed it for more than a month, the entire plan would become useless.

Naturally, Kotone wasn’t going to stand by and let that happen. He simply resorted to the same method as before, controlling the entire Cabinet.

Without the slightest hesitation, he took action and placed every Cabinet minister except Yuki Kirisu’s father under genjutsu, including the Prime Minister himself.

He altered their minds without them ever realizing it, making them willingly approve the implementation of the proposal.

With that, everything moved at incredible speed.

In just three days, a nationwide vote requiring verified identities was held throughout Japan. Anyone who chose not to vote would automatically be considered to have accepted coexistence with Devils.

The "automatic acceptance" clause was one of Setsuna’s conditions. Otherwise, the vote would have meant very little, since plenty of people would inevitably be too lazy to participate.

"One month still feels way too short. At this rate, things aren’t going to work..."

Kotone felt the situation was far from promising.

Getting everyone in the world to participate in this kind of vote would be extremely troublesome. He would need to bring the leadership of country after country under his control.

He had no idea how many people that would involve. His ocular power couldn’t support controlling that many people simultaneously, and the control ability he had obtained from Makima was only a weakened version, so it wasn’t enough either.

That left him with two options. The first was to bring Makima along and have her help control those people. The second was to find a far more efficient approach.

...

After thinking it over for a long time, Kotone finally came up with an idea that might actually work.

"Setsuna, once today’s voting results are announced, let’s appear on television together. You need to make an example and show everyone what they’re dealing with. Otherwise, nobody is going to take this seriously," Kotone suggested.

"That’s actually a pretty good idea, but do you really think I’ll obediently do whatever you tell me?" Setsuna teased.

"That’s why I’m discussing it with you."

Kotone’s expression didn’t change.

"Fine~ As long as you agree to one condition."

"What condition?"

"I’m keeping it secret for now~"