"I..." Lin Yi opened his mouth, unable to argue for a moment. He could only shrug. "You might not believe me, but I seemed to have found a few tricks. Once I reached that step, I just naturally knew how to do it..."
"So you're saying... you picked the best components out of that pile of 'materials' by feel, removed the useless parts, and finally assembled them into the basic framework of a 'Puppet'?"
"Mm-hmm." Lin Yi nodded.
"...Then you covered it with flesh and blood, completing the 'Puppet's' body?"
"Mm-hmm." Lin Yi kept nodding.
"And then you used supernatural substance as an adhesive and smoothed over the whole thing?"
"Mm-hmm... ah, no, no. The adhesive was actually needed at every step, just like you need glue to build a Gundam model." At the final step, Lin Yi shook his head, rejecting Head Teacher 040's guess.
"..." Head Teacher 040 paused, then pursed her red lips. "Do you think I'm more likely to believe you're so gifted you can handcraft a 'Puppet' after hearing my rough explanation of the principles just once, or that you're Qin Shi Huang?"
I must actually have found some sort of memory fragment... That was what Lin Yi said inwardly, but aloud, he kept deflecting with "I just did it by instinct." "I only followed the same method as building a Gundam model... really. If you don't believe me, I can build one for you-if you can get me some materials."
Head Teacher 040 folded her arms across her chest and sneered. "The beads of your abacus are practically rolling into my face, and you still expect me to get you materials? In your dreams!"
"I'm just trying to prove myself," Lin Yi argued. "If you don't believe me, I can swear a terrible oath