Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

"Ah! General Navel! What's wrong?"

The surrounding nobles rushed over, only to see that Navel's face was deathly pale, her breathing was rapid, and black blood was spilling from the corner of her slightly open mouth.

Upon further examination of the tourmaline, it had already lost its vitality.

"There are assassins!!"

"General Navel is dead! Someone poisoned her!"

"Quickly check the food! Everyone be careful, don't eat any of it!"

Chaos erupted at the banquet as dignitaries scrambled to spit out their food, but one burst of wild laughter stood out:

"Hahahahaha!!"

Cheng Cheng laughed maniacally and walked gleefully toward Navel's corpse.

"The most deadly move: A woman's heart is the most poisonous!"

This deadly move is constructed from seven sparks: heart disease, spider, poison, coma, and drugs. Its effect is to produce a single drop of extremely poisonous water, which, even when diluted in a barrel of liquor, is enough to paralyze the nerves within three seconds and poison gold!

To kill Navel, he used ten save files to gather the necessary tinder, all for...

Navel's Five-Finger Fist Heart Sword!

During the repeated rollbacks, Cheng Cheng has figured out the system's hidden mechanism—the spark is unique, and as a player, he has the highest priority!

If Cheng Cheng obtained a certain spark in the last save, then in the next save, that spark will appear in his hands out of thin air, while the original owner will inexplicably lose the spark!

To defeat Vilette, his current strength is not enough—therefore, Cheng Cheng needs the spark, the more the better!

Ten, twenty, thirty...

In those three hundred-plus rewinds, Cheng Cheng didn't know how many people he killed or how many Fire Seeds he seized—Navel was undoubtedly the most difficult to kill among them. Every approach filled with murderous intent would arouse the vigilance of this battle-hardened general.

To this end, Cheng Cheng used the time-lapse to find out the location of several fire seeds, killed people to seize treasures, and constantly tested them, finally combining them into this poisonous killing move that was enough to kill a gold-level opponent!

Amidst the astonished gazes of the guests, Cheng Cheng smiled as he drew the Sword of Righteousness, skillfully dissecting the corpse and scooping out the flame from Navel's chest.

Then, she raised her glass with a beautiful smile and, in front of everyone, drank the poisoned wine, which had been steeped in the most venomous woman's heart, in one gulp!

The necessary sparks have been gathered; the next cycle—

They will definitely kill Vilette!

…………

The 542th match.

Exterior. Silverglow City outskirts—night. Death. Destruction.

Vilette stared at the boy before her, her eyes wide with shock.

This unknown young man, whose origins and identity are unknown, abducted the princess and caused chaos throughout the country; and this mere late-stage Golden Age youth actually held out for a full ten minutes in my hands!

Vilette's every attack was perfectly dodged, and every probing was cleverly neutralized—this gave Vilette a strange feeling that the boy in front of her seemed to know her fighting style better than she did.

Then we can no longer hold back.

Villette extended his right hand, and the judge's phantom behind him raised his gavel high—this time, he was not going to create a rule, nor was he going to give a painless punishment, but to inflict the most direct death penalty on the boy!

"No!" Freya cried out in panic, pleading, "Lord Vilette, I'm willing to ascend the throne, please don't—"

"Shut up!"

Freya's eyes widened.

Because the one who rudely silenced her was not Vilette, but Cheng Cheng, the person she trusted and was closest to, who was also the gentlest to her!

"The real show has only just begun!"

Cheng Cheng stared at the judge's phantom image behind Vilette, a smirk playing on his lips, his eyes gleaming with a competitive light: "Five hundred times... Aside from the first forty-two, I've fought you a full five hundred times. It's time to decide the winner—"

"death penalty!"

As Villette's verdict was pronounced, an invisible guillotine appeared behind Cheng Cheng, and a massive blade fell to the ground with a thud.

It's now!

"Killer Move: Ace Attorney!"

This move was created by Cheng Cheng during his hundreds of battles with Vilette, as he gradually explored her authority and tried to combine his own fire to counter her... Finally, in the 537th cycle, he created the most targeted and powerful killing move!

This move is based on the "Unfair Flame," supplemented by thirty-seven different flames with different effects, such as Puppet, Marriage, Spider, Counter, Reversal, and Minotaur. It borrows a trace of intention from each flame and combines them into a complex killing move.

However, it has only one effect—to reverse the outcome of the trial, completely turning the judgment Villette made against himself back into his own!

However, the gap between the status of Gold and Legendary is simply too great. Although the "Spark of Injustice" and "Justice" are similar in some respects, they cannot shake true justice in the slightest—Cheng Cheng failed more than fifty times because of this before finally finding a solution:

With the Puppet Flame as the core and the Pride card as the auxiliary, along with several other Flames such as Theft and Telegraphic Deception, the "Killer Move: Underdog" is created, cleverly bypassing the restriction of the Death Flame and stealing a sliver of legendary status without completing the ritual!

Then, fill all the slots into "Ace Attorney"!

"what?!"

Caught completely off guard, Vilette was caught off guard by this attack. The intended fatal blow was aimed at her and then came crashing down!

In his haste to escape, he found his body momentarily stiffened—Cheng Cheng had been entangled with him for more than ten minutes in order to secretly plant the seed of a puppet and control him for a moment at the crucial moment!

"Snapped!"

As the guillotine blade fell to the ground, Violet let out a sigh.

His melancholy gaze drifted toward the palace, his lips trembled slightly, and finally he closed his eyes.

Supreme Judge Villette was killed in action.

"Yay! I won!"

Cheng Cheng jumped up excitedly—after five hundred battles, he had finally achieved the result he wanted most: Vilette was dead, and he had finally won!

The legendary Golden Slash, the greatest of all time!

This honor and sense of accomplishment intoxicated Cheng Cheng. The joy in his heart was a thousand times, ten thousand times greater than when he spent an afternoon defeating Tiger Vanguard!

"Cheng Cheng... what did you do..."

Freya stood frozen in place, watching the legend's fall, her body stiff, and she couldn't help but roar, "He was Sylvia's father! What have you done!"

"Sylvia?"

Cheng Cheng was slightly taken aback, only then remembering the white-haired figure that was about to fade from his mind.

"How could you, how could you..."

“I killed him to save you…” Cheng Cheng scratched his head in confusion. “I tried, and no matter where I hid, Vilette would definitely come looking for me… In order not to let all my efforts go to waste, and to make these 542 rewinds meaningful, I had to kill him—only in this way could I save you from the throne.”

"I went through so much trouble to save you, why are you angry!"

"Who asked you to save me like this?!"

Freya roared, watching Cheng Cheng approach, and for the first time felt that he was such a stranger, a feeling of boundless fear rising in her heart:

"You, you stay away!!!"

"Freya's intimacy level: 70→50 (100%→80%)"

The system notification sounded, and Cheng Cheng frowned slightly.

This is really troublesome; my intimacy level has dropped.

As a result, his cultivation level, which was gained through shared attributes, also declined from the late Gold stage to the mid-Gold stage...

How could I let my hard-earned cultivation level be lost here?

This save file is also unusable—it seems that while killing Vilette, I also have to consider Freya's feelings—this girl is such a hassle, can't she just obediently watch and continue to like me?

"Tsk."

Cheng Cheng sighed and slowly pulled the Dragon Roar from the box.

The save file I finally managed to complete was ruined because of this ridiculous reason... I have to teach this girl a lesson, otherwise I won't be able to vent my anger!

Hmm, let's not give her a quick death this time.

I'll be more careful in the next save file... Anyway, she doesn't remember anything, and her affection level will recover eventually.

Thinking this, Cheng Cheng severed the girl's outstretched hand with his sword.

…………

The 999th match.

Interior. Konoma Palace—Night. Death. Destruction.

Cheng Cheng dropped his sword.

Prince Konoma—also known as the Upside-Down Demon—is bizarre and difficult to kill, but not invincible.

Possessing hundreds of different flames and having rewound more than a hundred times, he finally killed him in the palace and extracted the "Hanged Man" flame!

Cheng Cheng held the "Hanged Man" in his hand, with Vilette, who was controlled by the "Killer Move: Abyss Locking Spirit," standing behind him, and sighed softly.

After 999 rollbacks, he finally achieved the result he had always dreamed of!

The throne, the essence, the fire, and the loyalty of the entire kingdom will all now be in his hands!

Vilette didn't die; she was just defeated and then controlled, so neither Sylvia nor Freya's favorability rating dropped. Similarly, after gaining control of Vilette, killing the prince became much easier, requiring only a little over a hundred saves.

Most of the time was used for preparation, information gathering, and comforting Freya and Sylvia.

But it was all worth it.

The next step is to reverse the properties of the source material... How to do this will require further research.

The time limit for using the soul body is almost up, so I'll just die for now during this save file—anyway, I've already got the "Hanged Man," and the Prince might just die on the spot in the next save file.

Haha, just thinking about the prince's astonished expression when he exploded on the spot makes me want to laugh!

Cheng Cheng smiled and beckoned to Freya, who was standing behind him like a puppet, signaling her to come over.

…………

The 99999th match.

Interior. Konoma Palace—Daytime. Death. Destruction.

Cheng Cheng woke up in the luxurious bed.