"Stealth? What a coincidence. This friend of mine can do that too." Satou Kazuma pointed at Chen Luo sitting across from him.
"Friend? There's no one sitting across from you..." Chris suspected that the boy in front of her was talking nonsense.
But when Chris glanced across from Satou Kazuma, cold sweat unknowingly trickled down her back.
There really was... someone there?
"Huh, what's going on? Chen Luo, can't they see you?" Satou Kazuma asked in confusion.
"It's not that they can't see me. They subconsciously ignore me. It's a rather practical little trick that keeps people from bothering me," Chen Luo said, shaking his head.
It was just Herrscher of Knowledge's passive skill.
Chen Luo normally did not use it. After all, his pursuit of wishes had made him accustomed to befriending all kinds of people.
But Chen Luo himself was rather socially anxious... He was not very good at dealing with others.
Still, Chen Luo was straightforward—did they have a wish they wanted fulfilled?
If they had a wish, he asked. If they did not, he left. Even if others mistook him for a weirdo, he could just modify their consciousness, making it as if nothing had happened. Very convenient.
"Doesn't that mean everyone just thought I was stupidly talking to myself earlier?" Satou Kazuma complained.
Satou Kazuma's reputation was already bad enough. He could not let Chen Luo ruin it any further.
"No, they won't think you're talking to yourself. Just like how they'd think you wanted to learn practical and cheap skills, but they wouldn't think about why they knew that."
"That does sound convenient. Let me see if I can learn that skill... Never mind, pretend I didn't say anything."
Satou Kazuma had initially thought that since Chen Luo had explained how the skill worked,