"Wasn't time stopped? Why can you still..."
Seeing Ye Yunchuan looking at her with a sly grin, Morishita Ran clearly realized that she might have been played by him.
"I didn't lie to you. Time really was stopped—it's just that I used an ability similar to yours."
Every suit of armor came with Zen meditation, an ability akin to stopping time. Ye Yunchuan possessed the ultimate armor formed from five Fire Shadow Stones.
If he wanted to, he could naturally activate the Zen Seal at any time.
However, armor summoners often overlooked the absurdly powerful ability known as the Zen Seal.
Ye Yunchuan was the same. If Morishita Ran had not awakened a time-related ability, he might not even have brought out this skill.
Even in ordinary battles, Ye Yunchuan rarely used the Zen Seal unless it was the very end.
The reason was simple: this skill was too overpowered. Once activated, a battle could be resolved very quickly.
Over time, if he developed a dependency on it, his own combat ability would plummet.
Therefore, in order to gain enough combat experience, Ye Yunchuan had always treated this move as a trump card.
"So you could move from the very beginning, and you deliberately pretended to be a wooden dummy just to make me say those things?"
Morishita Ran's expression darkened somewhat.
"That's right. I just wanted to see how you'd react. I didn't expect to hear such a huge secret."
After saying that, Ye Yunchuan kept staring at Morishita Ran. In an uncharacteristic turn, she blushed furiously under his gaze.
Perhaps knowing she could no longer play dead, Morishita Ran simply walked over and glared at him fiercely.
"What are you going to do, Ye Yunchuan? Are you going to accept my confession?"
"Accept it?"
To be honest, Ye