Anomalies Resolved, Anomalies Rise – Part 02

“I have to ask, Silver Face. What exactly are you thinking?”

“What?”

“You were invited by Her Majesty, yet you came here instead. You must have your reasons, correct?”

Sharp instincts.

“When I found your name among the guests, the blood drained from my face. Then I learned you weren’t even at the venue. I had to run all over the castle searching for you before finally finding you here. I never expected you’d be at our training grounds.”

“Ah… yeah. Now that you mention it, why did I come here?”

“Perhaps you seek an opponent.”

“No way!”

I’m not some musclehead, Hikaru thought.

“It happens more often than you think. Especially when a person struggles to understand their own power.”

Hikaru’s breath caught.

“You don’t know how to use that power of yours, do you?”

Hikaru couldn’t tell how much Lawrence actually knew, or whether he was simply