"Besides, haha! Do you think I'm afraid?" Ronglin said with a cheeky grin. "Since I dared to say it right in front of you, I naturally have a foolproof plan to deal with it!"
Shiryu had just begun to feel touched by Ronglin's trust when those words hit him the next moment, and his face instantly darkened. "Do you trust me or not?"
Ronglin smiled. "Of course I trust you! If I didn't, why would I let you know so many of my plans?"
Shiryu said, "I'm starting not to believe that."
Ronglin turned toward the window and said, "If you were like Burgess, I really wouldn't dare trust you. But it's precisely because of your indifferent attitude that I can trust you."
Shiryu froze. "What's wrong with Burgess?"
Ronglin pointed straight ahead through the window, toward a street outside the distant palace. "There's someone at the corner over there who's been watching this place for a long time. The palace is one of our key strongholds, yet the security around it is so lax. How am I supposed to believe Burgess is sincerely working for me?"
Ronglin had ordered Burgess to lead the Phantom Group in covert operations, overseeing and maintaining Ashil Kingdom's security during the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit.
Shiryu walked over to the window and looked in the direction Ronglin pointed. After a long while, he said, "Damn it, it's so far away I can't even make out the outline of a house. How could you tell there was someone there?"
Rebecca's Visit!
"Observation Haki!" Ronglin said. "A quick sense with Observation Haki tells you what the other party is doing. Isn't that normal? Don't tell me you don't have Observation Haki!"
Shiryu's face darkened even further. "Do you think everyone's Observation Haki is as freakish