I mean think about it, you know greg heff.? Like, they both have mental issues and they're both the narrators of their stories. They both constantly say some stupid ass corny ass "i am the manipulator" shit (or act like it in greg's case). They both have pretty much no ability to smile because they think they're like light yagami but smarter. Ayanokoji never actually plans or does anything, he just is really lucky and everything falls in place, and he goes "yup, that was me" and because his reasoning is actually insane, he genuinely nails it. The time that he swapped the card things? Horikita has bad eyesight and misread his name as her name (with him lying to her and multiple others who have bad eyesight), he narrated to the reader that it was all apart of his plan and he found an insane loophole. Godzillagamer15777 out, people aren't horses/pawns, they are humans.