Biscuit knew Moyu's shadow had been nearby all along, and that he needed it to disengage from combat.
But she could not be sure whether Moyu, who remained at the Snow Palace, had any strength to spare to control the shadow.
So when facing Feitan and the other two, she had never counted on the shadow's help. She had essentially excluded it from consideration from the start.
Still, the knowledge that the shadow was nearby lingered in her mind. When Feitan ambushed her, she immediately sensed that the shadow was about to act and forcibly suppressed her instinct to defend.
In that instant—
Biscuit abandoned her defense to make Feitan focus entirely on attacking, leaving him unprepared for an attack from elsewhere.
It was a display of absolute trust in a split-second decision.
She trusted Moyu's Shadow Clone to seize the opportunity she had created by putting herself in danger, at precisely the right moment.
And the result proved it.
Moyu had not betrayed her trust.
"Oh, I almost forgot."
Biscuit looked at the silent Shadow Clone, belatedly remembering that it could not speak.
Of course, whether there was any need to or not, she would never casually reveal that information.
Before Feitan and the others could regroup, Biscuit turned to glance at Shizuku.
She had noticed Shizuku's excellent performance during that brief, two-second exchange.
Both her timely intervention to block Feitan's earlier attack and her preemptive positioning to guard against Bonolenov had privately surprised Biscuit.
In her view, Shizuku's Nen techniques and physical abilities were not particularly outstanding.
But her robotically calm judgment and excellent tactical awareness were enough to show that she already possessed the basic qualities of a powerful Nen user.
As Machi was kicked away, the strength of her Nen threads weakened.
Shizuku broke free of