Chapter 185: Press X For Doubt
After saying that to him, the bronze-armored man stared at me, frowning. But after cycling through several expressions, he finally settled on a nonchalant, expressionless mask.
“How did you notice me?” asked the bronze-armored guard.
“To me, it was stranger that people didn’t notice you guys running around,” I answered.
There was no need to lie, but it was better if a potential opponent had no idea about even the simplest things about me.
The armored guy’s muscles twitched beneath his armor, his limbs shifting and fingers subtly moving. He wasn’t bad at hiding his emotions, but I had dealt with better actors. That comment about a red cloak had clearly thrown him off.
His thigh muscles twitched as if he was preparing to run. But before he could even attempt any movement technique, I interlocked my fingers to form a strange hand seal, instantly erecting a bluish barrier around us with just a thought.
The bronze-armored man clenched his hand into a fist—the only part of his body, aside from his head, that was visible past the bronze armor.
He eyed the barrier cautiously and asked, “Are you an outsider?”
An outsider? I felt he didn’t mean it the way many might interpret it. He knew I had come from outside the city—that was why he had been following me around like a baby duck.