In the garden, alive with birdsong and blooming flowers, Shien and Lasha simply stared at each other. One radiated aggression from head to toe, while the other's expression was unnaturally calm, making the atmosphere increasingly oppressive.
Shien tried to determine whether what Lasha had just said was true from her behavior.
After all, Shien was not naïve enough to blindly accept the words of a stranger.
Yet Lasha was far too calm. Not only did she reveal no emotional fluctuations whatsoever, she remained completely unmoved beneath the pressurization of Shien's aura.
She clearly possessed no sense of power at all and seemed like an utterly ordinary maid. Compared to Laisha, whose entire body gave off an unfathomable impression, she appeared exceedingly plain. Yet even that Laisha probably could not have remained so calm when Shien's emotions erupted. For a maid with no trace of power to achieve this was simply too unusual.
Was she really Laisha's twin sister?
If so, why did the twin sister of that willful young lady consider herself her maid?
(I can't figure it out.)
Shien continued observing Lasha until he confirmed that he could not see through her thoughts no matter what. Only then did he give up.
After considering it for a while, Shien slowly withdrew his magic power.
"Skill acquired—pressurization. Learn it?"
A new skill had actually been acquired by Shien at a time like this.
Shien gave it a glance and found that it was an active skill that could use magic power or one's own aura to exert mental and physical pressure on all targets within a certain range.
Perhaps he had directly acquired this skill because he had taken similar actions?
Thinking so, Shien learned it for the time being.
"Don't let me find out you were just