"The first person who made me unable to see anything."
Ada's voice still held the rasp of someone who had been immersed in nutrient fluid, but her movements had already regained their fluidity as she stood. Barefoot on the metal floor, she took two steps toward Shengu Xuan, her golden-pink pupils shifting under the cold white light.
The liquid metal in those eyes was flowing faster. This was not the Omniscient Eye's reading mode, but something else. Some kind of field was radiating outward from the core of her body.
"What are you doing?" Shengu Xuan did not turn around. He was crouched in front of Daemon's cultivation pod, studying the drainage system's control panel, his lazy voice drifting back from where he faced away from her.
"Checking something." Ada stepped closer again. The light in her golden-pink pupils brightened to a certain threshold, and an invisible ripple began emanating from her body. It carried no aggression, yet the instant it touched the air, even the temperature throughout the sealed space took on a different quality.
Charm Technique.
It was neither a Chakra-based illusion nor mental hypnosis, but a compulsory attraction that acted on the deepest layer of biological instinct. Any life-form capable of perception would develop an uncontrollable fondness and infatuation for Ada in its subconscious upon contact with those ripples.
When Code created her, he had written this ability into her genes as a passive field that remained continuously active without needing to be deliberately used.
The ripples spread to Shengu Xuan's back.
Then they vanished.
They were not repelled or canceled out. When those ripples touched the invisible barrier on the surface of his body, they could not even maintain their own structure. Like a cloud of water vapor drifting into a space at absolute zero, they