Birthdays needed a certain sense of ceremony.
In any case, Little Fear did not need to worry about it. The "maid," Willow, went out to the room's enormous balcony and set everything up on the low table and chairs there.
Well, really, she had just moved the wine and pastries from the serving cart onto the low table.
Then Willow stood to one side and watched Little Fear and Lady Fire sit down and chat about nothing in particular beneath the night sky.
This manor-style building was still too remote, and the surrounding lighting was sparse. Only the distant city lights could barely count as scenery.
The wind blowing over them was a cold breeze that felt almost like it came from the wilderness.
The balcony lights were off. At this moment, Little Fear's automatically following virtual workspace shone even more brightly.
Right, he had been so busy drinking that he had forgotten to turn it off.
Lady Fire glanced over and laughed. "You really do love reading. You clones really are different."
Little Fear gave a grunt. "Knowledge uploading and natural absorption feel different."
"But your uploads seem to have fairly effective filtering."
After all, every clone had to go through the brainwashing stage before proceeding to connections such as Perception Sharing.
For someone like Little Fear to casually run away, something must have gone wrong during the brainwashing stage.
Little Fear casually replied, "Maybe I should thank my trainer?"
These days, it was actually difficult for Gideon to keep getting by under Young Master Fei Yu for long.
Resources had been limited before, so they used whoever was available. Now that they had entered the second phase, it would be easy enough to investigate the background of his so-called trainer.
Fei Yu did not even need to give