The Meeting

'That was close…'

I had originally thought that the scar-faced guy had maybe noticed that something was wrong with my acting, but it seemed like he was simply stating that he 'understood' everything.

Being under the delusion that Crane has killed 'me' to take revenge for the problems I caused for him, he was just delivering a warning that he would report me for that even if I tried to hide it by burning the corpse, but that was…

'Perfect!'

Thanks to him being too quick-witted and familiar with Crane, he caught up on most of the things I only implied subtly and took the bait just as desired.

...

"Alright Long, you can take it off now."

After waiting for another ten minutes to make sure that the pair of black-robed demon seeds had left, I immediately canceled the 'Illusion' that was on me and called out for Long to remove the effect of 'Elemental Manipulation'.

'This should give us some time…'