This coaching is not right.

"Then, changing from ten wheels to sixteen wheels should be enough, right?"

Although she trusted Arisu completely, she still had to pretend to be frustrated to put their guard down.

Seeing his unpleasant expression, Sakayanagi Toshiaki patted his shoulder reassuringly: "Naromaru, don't be nervous. We just want to investigate Ito Sawa. You don't need to be so wary." His withered fingertips hovered over Sakayanagi Narumomaru's spiritual form, circling around and around. "After all, you are our head of the family. How could we dare to make things difficult for you? Sixteen rounds are enough, that's enough."

However, these words did not have the desired effect of calming him down; instead, they made Sakayanagi Narimori's expression even more unpleasant.

But nobody really cares.

Sakayanagi Toshiaki looked at him with amusement, waiting for him to begin.

Sakayanagi Shigemori took a deep breath to calm himself down and began to ask for benefits.

"I need to access the dissipated energy collected by Fujiwara."

Sakayanagi Toshiaki smiled, quite pleased with his "submission".

As for haggling, he didn't find it strange.

On the contrary, if Sakayanagi Shigemori were so selfless, he would suspect that there might be some conspiracy brewing behind his back.

"Of course, there's no reason for you to make sacrifices for what we want you to do."

He turned his head to one side, looking at Fujiwara Tetsuji in the seat below him, gesturing to him with his eyes, "Fujiwara."

As a small family dependent on the Sakayanagi family, even as the patriarch, he dared not disobey Sakayanagi Toshiaki in the slightest.

Upon hearing Sakayanagi Toshiaki's order, he dared not delay and unhesitatingly stretched out his hand, waiting for Sakayanagi Narimori to touch it so that he could take it as he pleased.

There are energy collectors throughout the school, all centered around his energy, so that they can be used to manage and control it in a unified manner.

Sakayanagi Shigemori smiled at the opportune moment: "Thank you, Uncle Toshiaki."

The Fujiwara family is nominally subordinate to the Sakayanagi family, but in reality, they are subordinate to the lineage of Sakayanagi Toshiaki. Without Sakayanagi Toshiaki's approval, he cannot use his power at all.

He reached out and grasped Fujiwara Tetsuji's hand, closed his eyes, and began to concentrate.

Energy collectors throughout the school were activated, and energy slowly gathered on Fujiwara Tetsuji before flowing back to him.

A bright yet profound light gradually emanated from him.

The light initially flickered faintly, but quickly grew stronger, illuminating the entire room.

Sakayanagi Chizuko and the others were not surprised. They had all seen him use his powers many times before. If it weren't for his ability to make his words come true, they wouldn't have put him in this position.

A moment later, the light gradually dimmed, and he suddenly spoke, his voice deep and solemn, like an ancient divine decree: "Hereby I announce that the ten rounds of the assessment will be changed to sixteen rounds."

After saying this, Sakayanagi Narimori maintained a solemn expression until a moment later when he returned to normal: "Alright, it's done."

Sakayanagi Toshiaki nodded: "Alright, Narimori, you should go and announce the original supplementary rules with Haneda-sensei. Otherwise, if it drags on for too long, they will become suspicious."

Sakayanagi Narumi gave a noncommittal snort, turned and left, secretly relieved.

His special ability is a spacetime-related "overwriting," which allows him to change a small part of the present "facts" by modifying previous "facts."

It sounds wonderful, but the price is incredibly high.

Not to mention that modifying the "facts" themselves must be reasonable and cannot be subject to such stringent conditions as the "grandmother paradox".

Even if he manages to make the changes successfully, each modification will bring him a huge backlash.

In other words, his special ability is actually to find an "unchosen path" in the past and then use his own energy to fill the void in that path.

To modify something that happened just an hour or two ago, he needed to use the energy that Fujiwara had collected from the entire school's teachers and students over the course of a month.

Moreover, this is only a "rewrite" of one gymnasium. If the "rewrite" is expanded to the entire school, then one of them, Fujiwara, will have to give an explanation.

Fortunately, his ability to make his words come true allowed him to continue his charade.

If it weren't for this concern, they probably would have seized power long ago.

As for what to do next, it's to remind Ayumi to be careful.

As for how to remind them?

He only needed to casually mention, "In other words, only those guessed correctly in the sixteenth round or earlier count," to make sure she didn't "forget" it.

As both possessing time-space-related superpowers, if they were to be so determined, Sakayanagi would surely be able to discover the trickery in the timeline.

Sure enough, after hearing the word "sixteen rounds," she quickly realized something was wrong.

However, she also has her immature aspects; she spends too much time thinking and remaining silent, which is practically telling others that she has a problem.

This forced him to interrupt her train of thought and pretend that they were discussing the rules.

Moreover, after being told what had happened, he became anxious and hesitant to speak up, which forced him to be more explicit in his statements.

Tell her he is still "free" now, tell her his position is "not secure," tell her not to overthink it, the council's intervention is ostensibly for "Ito Sawa," but actually for "her," that Ito Sawa kid doesn't have that kind of influence.

This made her realize their current situation and she regained her composure.

However, the price is...

"Cheng Shou, hasn't it been a long time since we had a chat?"

As he returned to the mezzanine to see what tricks they were up to, he was stopped by Toshiaki Sakayanagi and Chizuko Sakayanagi.

"Uncle Shouming, Sister Chizuko, do you have any instructions?"

Sakayanagi Toshiaki smiled enigmatically: "Narimori, you've just expended so much energy. It seems even reading the rules is a heavy burden for you."

Sakayanagi Chizuko chimed in with a smile, "Yes, Master, I'm tired of listening to you and Arisu chatting in such roundabout ways."

Sakayanagi Shigemori was helpless. They weren't stupid; they could understand the implication. But no matter what, he certainly wouldn't admit it: "No, it's just that Arisu had more questions about the rules, so I said a few more words."

Sakayanagi Chizuko smiled slightly and said softly, "Master, there's no point in playing dumb. Bringing up the Sixteenth Ring for no reason, saying your position is secure, do you really think your position is too secure?" By the end, her tone had turned completely cold, and she stared straight at him.

Sakayanagi Narimori was surprised, not expecting them to value this test so much.

Their cryptic speech was merely out of caution; otherwise, given the numerous mental protective devices left on Sakayanagi, they wouldn't have been able to eavesdrop on their conversation without paying a price.

Unexpectedly, they were actually willing to go to such lengths for this test.