Maple Sugar's gaze suddenly froze. Within that enormous "2" that nearly ran through the entire library, a number formed from countless fluorescent lights, there was something different?
But the next second, she could no longer see anything. It was as though her eyes had played tricks on her.
No, how could her eyes possibly deceive her? She trusted her eyes!
Time continued ticking forward. Eight seconds... seven seconds...
Because she had defeated the Anglers' Alliance, she had been allowed to retain the Kiefer Angelfish's traits. Zai Jiu Xunge should have retained the Blue-Spotted Grouper's traits as well!
And she had once seen how Zai Jiu Xunge, as a Blue-Spotted Grouper, could blend into the water...
The Thunder Cup rapidly formed and shot toward a point of light. Before any liquor could even condense inside the golden beer mug, it exploded!
That point of light instantly teleported away. Yet it was precisely because of that split second of movement from stillness that everyone clearly saw what the point of light was—the Orchid Mantis!
Under the Eye of the Library's effect, the Orchid Mantis glowed with a faint white radiance, like a firefly.
She had been hiding within the number all along!
In the most conspicuous place, the place everyone could see.
And time and again, she had relied on the Blue-Spotted Grouper's ability to blend into its surroundings to evade crucial searches.
But it was too late...
The moment she was discovered, Yu Xunge had directly slipped into the Shadow World while evading the beer mug. She had also avoided the Protagonist Time triggered by the motorcycle.
Time slowed, leaving Maple Sugar trapped in the world outside the shadows, unable to enter.
Those five seconds felt endlessly long to everyone.
The same was true for the audience.
From the moment Xunge