Bernadette sat on the ground, sometimes lowering her head to leaf through her book, sometimes looking up at the sky, and sometimes watching the butterflies fluttering around her. Most often, of course, she looked back toward her father's study.
"Huh?"
She suddenly frowned and stared straight at where Edward stood. "Who's there?!" (Edward had learned Intisian.)
Chapter 451: Bernadette
"???"
Edward froze in shock.
Impossible. With the Invisibility Cloak's [Concealment] ability active, even ordinary demigods can't sense me when I'm standing still. How could this little girl, who isn't even a Beyonder, discover me?
Is she bluffing?
"I can see you!"
Bernadette shouted, "If you don't come out, I'll call someone!"
"..."
"Is that you, Dad?"
She scrambled to her feet, still looking at Edward's position. "Although I don't know how you turned invisible..."
Bernadette pointed at the ground beneath Edward's feet. "You've left footprints in the grass!"
Fuck you!
Edward was speechless. I thought little Bernadette really had some extraordinary gift. So that was all it was...
This really is a fatal flaw in the Invisibility Cloak. It can only make you invisible and conceal your sounds and presence, but you're still physically standing there. Naturally, you'll leave footprints in the grass.
A mistake.
"You're not Dad?"
Bernadette's expression changed, and she cautiously backed away.
"Mom..."
"Uncle Green? Uncle Edwards?"
"Grandpa Zaratul?"
After that last call, she took to her heels.
Edward did not stop her. By the time she brought someone back, he would have long since slipped away. No one would know who had been standing there.
Huh?
Just as that thought crossed his mind, he suddenly felt the digestion of his Secrets Sorcerer Potion stir slightly. It had not digested, but there had been a slight loosening.
Edward stared blankly. "Does this... count as Secrecy too?"