Who's the Undercover? Conflicting Testimony

"Wait, that's not right!" Feng Wang suddenly realized there was a problem.

"Didn't you say before that you had Wake-up Rage, and that you'd get furious if someone woke you?"

"But if you were about to be killed, you'd naturally still wake up, right?"

The two eyeholes on Sloth's mask had turned into spirals like mosquito coils, spinning round and round.

"Ah, really? I said something like that? I'm too sleepy."

"Mm, I probably did say it, but that was to fool them."

"There were so many people, it was dangerous. If I got killed while asleep, then I'd really be dead."

Feng Wang stared blankly at him, even forgetting about the time. This game had been sending her emotions soaring and plummeting day after day.

After a few seconds of processing it, she finally asked hesitantly:

"In other words, your overwhelming strength comes at the cost of a very obvious side effect."

"Your drowsiness, the way you fall asleep at any moment—that's the price."

Snap.

Sloth snapped his fingers and said approvingly:

"Mm, you've got it pretty right. That's exactly it."

"So when I'm asleep, I'm very vulnerable."

Feng Wang felt dizzy again, but this time, it somehow seemed perfectly reasonable.

Someone with power on this level having an equally severe side effect was only natural.

After all, she knew that those gods suppressed any powerful figures who rose too far above the rest.

"Would this count as... a curse on you?"

"You're really just telling me something like this?"

Even now, she found it hard to believe that he could speak to her so frankly.

"Because you're a companion. Of course I trust you."

"When they were around earlier, I had to put on an act. I'm actually very weak—I already want to go back to sleep."

"Thanks