[Paimon: Speaking of which, if I hadn't watched this video today, I almost forgot Cyno had this side to him. I thought he was just someone who told bad jokes and played cards.]
[Lumine: I never expected him to be so gentle with his own people.]
[Dehya: He's still got that cold face though—can that really be called gentle?]
[Ningguang: Cold on the outside, warm on the inside.]
The scene continued.
Paimon breathed a sigh of relief. "You two still have the mood to chat? I was terrified just now!"
"Wasn't it scary? What if those guards knew Cyno had already stepped down as General Mahamatra and defected from their side..."
"Even if that guard didn't know, could his superiors have been informed?"
Cyno said, "Remember? We discussed this in the meeting."
The scene flashed back to their earlier planning meeting.
Alhaitham: "The preparation at Caravan Ribat is very important. But there's no need to worry—the guards there probably don't know Cyno is no longer the General Mahamatra."
Dehya: "How can you be sure? What if?"
Alhaitham: "First, the other Mahamatra still don't know why Cyno left. That means the Akademiya has kept this matter tightly under wraps."
"Second, we're now in a critical phase of the Akademiya's god-making plan. Any irregularity in the position of General Mahamatra would certainly arouse suspicion."
"For both practical and logical reasons, they wouldn't publicize Cyno's situation."
[Yae Miko: He's got people's minds figured out to a T.]
[Paimon: Isn't that what you're best at, Miko?]
[Yae Miko: How could I possibly be good at such a thing?]
[Lumine: Back in Inazuma, you were the one strategizing everything, Miko. Very impressive.]
Cyno: "...Makes sense. I agree."
Alhaitham continued: "Next question—I'm sure some of you have wondered whether the Akasha's predictive function will affect our operations."
Cyno: "The Akasha is still running. I have to stay alert."
"...No, actually, I should say—given the Akasha's capabilities, the fact that it hasn't tried to stop my actions so far is already somewhat unusual."
Alhaitham thought for a moment and said, "I've considered this carefully. You don't need to worry for now."
"Remember? When you first came to Aaru Village, your route and actions were all calculated by the Akasha and relayed to those who kidnapped the Village Guardians."
"But after you met up with Lumine, nothing like that happened again."
Cyno fell silent briefly, then asked in confusion, "That's true. But why?"
Alhaitham replied, "We should think about it the other way around—why do you think the Akasha could predict you?"
Cyno answered, "Because my data had been entered into the Akasha."
Alhaitham: "Exactly. The core question is—how far can the Akasha predict a person?"
[Ningguang: As long as you understand a person's logic, it's not difficult to predict what they'll do next. That's basic business sense. However, such predictions also require continuous information gathering, since the situations a person encounters are largely coincidental. You can guess how they'll react to something, but what they'll actually encounter—that's not something you can know through guesswork alone.]
[Alhaitham: But the Akasha has all of Sumeru's data. Even what a person might encounter can be roughly predicted.]
[Lumine: And that's how Cyno was predicted.]
[Paimon: The Akasha is terrifying.]
"Have you never doubted it? How could it do all that?"
Cyno: "...Because the Akasha holds sway over all of Sumeru."