I! Cleaner!

"It's almost done."

Atifie00 replied:

"His soul is troublesome. I've been using all my computational power until now, and I can only perform very basic encoding. Sometimes he even breaks free from control, but his brain is quite easy to handle.

Even though his brain can quickly heal itself after being damaged, its structure is not much different from a normal human's. With the highest quality gel and some special components added, it's enough to trick his brain."

"So is it a success or not?"

Prince Andre frowned slightly and turned his body with a displeased expression, saying:

"I don't want to hear those things. Now I just want to know, if even the cleaners who went after him failed, can I send the director of the Scorpio Branch to deal with him!"

"Almost, almost~"

Atifie00 smiled and said:

"There's no problem with the physical aspect, the main issue is the soul.

If a normal person's soul is fog, then a low-level cleaner's soul is cotton, and the soul of the Zodiac Branch Office director is the hardest diamond. Trying to control him to do your bidding is like carving flowers on a diamond, it's hard to ensure there won't be slip-ups."

"So it can be used, but the possibility of losing control is also high?"

"That's right."

"..."

"How about this, why don't you go find the Slaughter King Association again and see if they can help?"

Atifie00 suggested:

"When you dealt with the Scorpio Branch director before, didn't they give you a hand? This time, find them again and have them help you solve that Leon, wouldn't that work?"

"It's not that easy."

Prince Andre shook his head and said:

"The Clean-up Bureau's Watcher's Palace is very troublesome. They paid a huge price to barely send a small force through it and help me seal off the Scorpio Branch director's soul.

And repeatedly impacting the Watcher's Palace in a short time is very likely to attract the Clean-up Bureau's attention. By then, both our situations will just become more difficult."

"Then there's no way."

"Why is there no way?"

"No way with my limited ability."

Atifie00 spread her hands and said:

"With my technical skills, I can't fully control the Scorpio Branch director's soul. I can only forcibly add some basic instructions while keeping his consciousness clear. If his emotions become too intense, the possibility of breaking free is very high."

"Then don't let his emotions get too intense."

After glancing at Atifie00, Prince Andre said:

"Your research in the field of brain and soul is at least a hundred years ahead of all the scholars in the Crolock Kingdom. Using what the Slaughter King Association provided, target and destroy part of the Scorpio director's brain to keep his emotions always indifferent. That shouldn't be too difficult for you, right?"

"Alas...fine then!"

Hearing this, Atifie00 nodded and then said with a somewhat regretful expression:

"What a pity, this is a brain of a cleaner on par with our ancestors. It's my first time getting such excellent material. But before I could study it, I have to destroy his brain first. Such a waste."

"Wasting it is better than being killed by an out-of-control puppet. Besides..."

After another glance at Atifie00's face, Prince Andre stared intently and said:

"Atifie, are you doing something behind my back?"

"Hmm?"

Atifie00 was startled and said:

"My dear nephew, how could you think such a thing?"

If a direct answer isn't given, then it means yes...

Prince Andre nodded after observing Atifie00's unchanged expression, then squinted his eyes and said:

"If I remember correctly, you should have equipped the 'Secret Nail' with a device for detecting souls, and 'Secret Nail' lost contact close to the target. The detecting device should have collected the soul data of the target. Have you found anything?"

"Yes, and it's highly valuable."

Atifie00 said with a smile:

"His soul is full of an evil scent, radical and stubborn, arrogant and greedy, with ambitions to dominate everything and madness to destroy everything. It feels even more dangerous than you."

"I see..."

Upon hearing this, Prince Andre raised an eyebrow.

"So...you admire him?"

"A little bit~"

Pinching two fingers and making a tiny gesture, Atifie00 said with a smile:

"Since you figured it out, I won't hide it from you. In these years of being locked up by you, life has been pretty dull for me. If you bring back Feiliya, I suppose I'll continue being locked up, so naturally, I don't really want you to win.

Plus, you didn't really gain much in your two encounters with him. To avoid being in trouble if you fail, it makes sense for me to hedge my bets just a little, right?"

"Fair enough."

After listening to Atifie00, Prince Andre nodded slightly and then said calmly:

"If I win, you'll be locked up until the day I die, and then I'll directly destroy you before I die. It's normal for you to want to find a way out for yourself. I won't get angry over such matters."

"As long as you understand~"

After glancing at Prince Andre's expression, Atifie00 said with a smile:

"So aren't you curious about what I'm doing behind your back?"

"It's not hard to guess. You cannot disobey the Scepter of Time Division's commands and can't truly betray me. So it's likely something insignificant to me but significant to them..."

After pondering for a moment, Prince Andre said calmly:

"You're informing him through those cleaners about the whereabouts of the woman captured with the Scorpio director, right?"

"Absolutely correct~"

Atifie00 blinked and said with a smile:

"And if they chose to rescue first instead of confronting you, then I've actually bought you some time to prepare your measures against them. In that sense, I've been helping you... well, how's that, I've been good to you, right?"

"It's decent."

Glancing at Atifie, Prince Andre urged:

"Go get to work, quickly deal with the Scorpio Branch director's brain. There aren't many cleaners left."

"I'm on it, I'm on it, really on it!"

...

"Ah!!! Don't come any closer!"

Just as the aunt and nephew plotted against each other, the battle on the other side was reaching its end.

In the terrified expression of a plump female cleaner, Leon, with a wine-red face, hiccupped, grabbed a bunch of transparent fishing line, and pulled her in front of him, decisively beheading her in one swift move!

And seeing the last companion being taken down, the scattered heads of twenty Gemini Branch cleaners piled nearby couldn't help but emit a collective sigh of despair.

"We're finished..."

"Why can't this guy die!"

"Weren't we told his most powerful abnormal object was sealed? Why is he still so strong!"