Eating Grapes Without Spitting Out the Skins

Out of habit, he pulled Selene close and gave her a casual hug before introducing Sheryl and Hermione to her.

Selene had seen Hermione before, but they had never really spoken. Besides, Selene had concealed her true appearance at the time, so this was their first real meeting.

"I'm Selene."

When Hermione saw Yinsen's gesture, her smile stiffened slightly. After studying Selene, her entire mood sank.

She suddenly realized that even if she ignored the obvious relationship between Yinsen and Selene, as well as whatever relationship he had with Scáthach, every woman around Yinsen was prettier than the last. Meanwhile, she was just a very ordinary-looking girl...

Yinsen noticed Hermione's mood had worsened somewhat, but he said nothing. As if he had noticed nothing at all, he continued listening to Tony introduce the various things he had been tinkering with.

They had already seen the design for the new ship. Tony had spent all this time doing far more than just that—he had also made adjustments, integrations, and optimizations to the VF fighters.

For instance, the VF-27 used a special control system similar to a Mental Link. It allowed enhanced Warriors who had undergone modifications to connect directly to the fighter's control system, letting the pilot control the aircraft more naturally and even start and remotely operate it from a certain distance away.

The VF-27's various technologies could be said to be extremely advanced. However, ordinary pilots had no way to use those advanced designs, which was why only a few of the fighters had been built rather than mass-produced.

For Yinsen and the others, all those troublesome issues with the VF-27 simply did not exist. Even if there were not many true Mages among the ship's crew, their Mental Power was still beyond what ordinary people—or even modified Warriors—could