Tian Bufan slowly cut Lin Yi off. "There are too many ingredients mixed into what you're saying..."
His expression remained perfectly natural. "Lao Lin, think carefully. How many days have you been at school?"
"Do you even need to ask? Five!" Lin Yi said.
"In those five days, when did you improve the most?"
"That would be... last night?"
"After your round trip to the Art Building. The strength of your 'adaptation' is constantly increasing as your cognition expands, and your 'strength' is rising too. At this rate, with just a little 'special strengthening training' tomorrow, you should theoretically be able to take on the Night Watchman that night..."
"Young Master Tian... are you serious?" Lin Yi asked earnestly.
Tian Bufan answered just as earnestly. "I am. We worked all this out before setting off."
Now it was Lin Yi's turn to fall briefly silent. He had never expected that an expert at backing up claims like himself would end up being used to back someone else's claims.
Because of his memory issues, Tian Bufan could even use the "him" from before he entered school to endorse their tactics-though, of course, perhaps that really was how things stood.
It was just that the current Lin Yi still had a few... doubts about Tian Bufan's tactics.
"Will I really be able to improve that much tomorrow?" he couldn't help asking.
"You always lack sufficient 'cognition' of yourself, Lao Lin," Kuai Hongji said coldly. "But that no longer matters..."
Tian Bufan glanced across the desk and spotted the black wooden box.
"The 'Ouroboros Ring'... with that, you'll have enough time to adapt gradually." Tian Bufan paused before adding, "I haven't watched that special-agent team thing you mentioned, and I can't be bothered to. But you know Monkey D. Luffy too. His real