What an interesting entity. It seemed able to distinguish between me and not-me on a conceptual level.
Fu Qian gazed up at the sky, making no attempt to hide his curiosity about the moonlight.
Beside him, Selena had gone stiff as a stone statue.
She had considered many possibilities, but never imagined it would be a trick of the eye.
In that bizarre second, this guy had already used an incomprehensible method to remove the restraints that had been accumulating on him.
And to make her believe he had lost the ability to fight back, he had used the simplest possible method to fake the shadows on his skin.
Simple, but certainly not easy!
After realizing the trap had been triggered, she had come over without wasting a moment.
That meant this guy had not only identified the nature of the restraint at once, but had also decisively abandoned the idea of escaping, turning instead to devising a trap and coming up with a series of strategies.
If he had been even a little slower, she would definitely have seen what he was doing.
Even if she couldn't do anything about him, she would never have ended up in such a passive position.
Unfortunately, knowing too much about the Ancient Recollection had made her take too much for granted, and so she had let down her guard.
"There's no point trying to stall for time. You should be able to tell that even if we keep this up, you'll be the first one unable to move."
As she pondered this, Fu Qian rubbed the moonlight in his hand and glanced over at her.
Selena didn't react much to having her thoughts exposed.
When escape had seemed impossible, she really had considered stalling for time, hoping the restraints on her opponent