"Your Excellency the Speaker, did something happen?" Liwita spoke. She was positioned directly opposite Speaker Chasing Light, so she had been the first to notice him glance aside.
Liwita's words drew everyone else's gaze toward Speaker Chasing Light as well.
Speaker Chasing Light smiled. "Nothing. I merely had a vague feeling just now, as if someone were watching me."
"Black Duke." Adelia followed Speaker Chasing Light's line of sight. "Over there?"
Speaker Chasing Light said, "My intuition tells me there should be no one over there."
As for why he had looked in that direction, even he could not explain it. He had merely turned his head that way on instinct. As for where that so-called "gaze" was coming from, he could not say either.
After a pause, Speaker Chasing Light waved his hand. "Forget it. Perhaps it was just my imagination. Don't pay it too much mind. Besides, I didn't sense any malice."
Imagination? Adelia and Di Xie'er narrowed their eyes at the same time. They raised no objection to that explanation, but inwardly, neither believed it. Given Speaker Chasing Light's standing, the chance of him experiencing an illusion was extremely low.
So there was no need to heed the first half of Speaker Chasing Light's words at all. The important part was the latter half: I didn't sense any malice either.
Those words seemed to be meant to ease the tense atmosphere, but in truth, they were a warning from Speaker Chasing Light to the others.
—What mattered was not whether the other party bore malice, but that they themselves must not bear malice.
For someone to watch Speaker Chasing Light without him even being able to determine their location, and to leave no trace whatsoever, that person might not necessarily be stronger than Speaker Chasing Light, but