[Time slipped like sand through your fingers, quietly crossing into 2017 amid everyday life that seemed peaceful yet seethed with undercurrents.]
[The new year's "draw" arrived as promised, accompanied by the system's cold, mechanical yet deeply reassuring notification echoing through the depths of your mind.]
[Draw complete.] [Talent Card obtained: Visual Center of Gravity Deception [R]] [Effect description: Use your gaze, slight turns of your head, and shoulder feints to guide an enemy's subconscious into focusing on your "non-attacking" body parts (for example, making them fixate on your right shoulder while your truly lethal strike comes from your left leg). The most efficient feint. Note that this is not a rule-based supernatural power, but a perfect exploitation of human visual attention and neural reflexes, making your true killing move extremely well concealed and difficult for enemies to detect.]
[You studied the card quietly and raised an eyebrow slightly. This was another card whose effect seemed rather subtle.]
[Out of habit, you began running through the card's practical combat applications. Since its core effect was to "guide another person's attention," the absolute prerequisite for activating it was that the opponent had to genuinely be "paying attention" to your actions.]
[Given your consistent approach in the current simulation of deliberately hiding your strength and playing the mediocre sorcerer, two entirely different situations were most likely to arise when you faced an enemy.]
[In the first, the opponent knew nothing of the terrifying strength hidden beneath your guise as a Grade 2 Jujutsu Sorcerer, so they looked down on you and barely raised their guard.]
[With their guard completely down like that, even the most exquisite guiding feints would lose much of their effectiveness, because an arrogant enemy would not deign to "observe" your microexpressions and muscle movements.]
[In the second