If the other party was not a fraud, then according to his previous guess, he should have been an inspector with the Master of Deception Card. Only that could explain why his attitude toward Destiny had differed before and after, while everything he said had still been true.
But aside from that, there was another possibility—a possibility Cheng Shi had previously not dared to imagine at all. That was that a temporal "Cencha" had also occurred to Li Wufang, a "Cencha" like the ones that had happened to Gels or Yadelik, causing him to become two entirely different people in the first and latter halves of today, and these two...
No, wait. Not two. Three!
Cheng Shi's eyes widened again as he went over every reaction Li Wufang had shown today.
The First Li Wufang believed in fate but was not close to him; the Li Wufang who had appeared in the middle claimed that he did not believe in fate, and that Destiny could only protect his teammates; while the Li Wufang before him now... not only believed in fate, but was also "his" subordinate—a subordinate from an unknown organization, perhaps even one from another timeline!!!
The other party's "time" had changed!
At that thought, a chill shot from Cheng Shi's tailbone straight to the crown of his head. Fear suddenly spread from the depths of his heart like a giant hand tightly clutching it.
I should have known the Trial of Time wouldn't be this simple. But... could it really be this difficult?
It had deliberately muddled the dimensions of time. Surely it had not done so merely to screw him over!?
Or was it trying to prove that the Eternal Prisoner of Time it had bestowed was flawless, intending to turn him into a prisoner like Afros,