"Name."
"Jellal Fernandes."
"Age."
"Nineteen."
"Gender."
"Are you serious, Noah?"
"Watch your attitude, Officer Warren. Call me Detective Noah." Noah tapped the table, his expression stern.
Warren stopped reading Jellal's mind and turned to Noah with a speechless look. He really must have had nothing better to do than come help Noah interrogate Jellal.
And why did Noah get to play the police chief while he could only be an officer? That wasn't fair.
"Give it a rest, Warren. Natsu and I can only play nameless guards, you know."
Gray stood to Jellal's left, his face full of displeasure. But Natsu, the "dumb one," found it pretty exciting. He was always the one being interrogated when he got hauled in, so seeing things from the other side was a lot of fun.
These bastards... What did they think an interrogation was?
Playing house?!
Jellal listened to the four of them bickering around him, grinding his teeth in fury but unable to do anything about it.
Warren's "Telepathy" magic let him communicate by transmitting thoughts. It had no combat applications and was only useful for sending information, making it a strategic support magic.
But through Warren's tireless efforts, he had finally developed an absurd new application for Telepathy: mind reading.
As long as a target was around his level or had less magic power than him, Warren could read the thoughts currently running through their mind.
Normally, mind reading shouldn't have worked on someone as powerful as Jellal.
But Jellal's weakened body and mental exhaustion, combined with the magic power he'd spent in a major battle, gave Warren an opening. He'd managed to use mind reading on him.
Jellal desperately tried to calm himself and clear his mind, but the constant distractions around him made it impossible.
"Let's get back to