"Please, wake up. Could you not use the lines you use to fool other people on me?"
"It's fine if you fool your buddies, but don't fool yourself too." Chen Luo rolled his eyes at Vill-V.
"But don't you think the idea of pulling someone else's consciousness into your own body sounds cool?" Vill-V said, her eyes sparkling.
"...Fine, it does sound a little cool."
"Actually, when I first became a Flame-Chaser, fabricating rumors about the true nature of my abilities was the job that took me the longest. But rather unexpectedly, Mobius showed no interest in my claim that I could pull other people's consciousness into my body. That's really strange. Don't tell me you let something slip, kid?" Vill-V's tone changed as she eyed Chen Luo suspiciously.
Vill-V was a little disappointed that her bait had failed.
Vill-V could guarantee that her story should have caught Mobius's attention, yet Mobius had shown no reaction at all.
Although the Magus had proposed this idea and planned to use herself as bait to give Mobius a surprise, the Conductor would still be disappointed if it failed.
"How could that be? It definitely wasn't me." Chen Luo shook his head in denial.
It was you, okay? Even if it was you from fifty thousand years later.
If Mobius knew nothing, then hearing Vill-V's claim would definitely make her extremely interested in Vill-V, because Mobius had always been very interested in consciousness transfer.
But while chatting with the Flame-Chasers from fifty thousand years later at the bar, one of them would always accidentally let something slip. So Mobius had never believed Vill-V's nonsense from beginning to end.
That left Vill-V quite disappointed.
And as for why Vill-V had made up so many different explanations for the nature of her abilities... of course,