Since Hikaru paved a single path for Alice to go down, it made his strategy more obvious to someone who was a child prodigy.
Hikaru had a high IQ, but that meant nothing to a veritable genius.
There were many young people with a high IQ, but they didn’t necessarily lead “groundbreaking” lives like Albert Einstein or Marie Curie. Alice was a combination of the two geniuses in this generation.
In a parallel world where the aliens didn’t invade, she created a global pharmaceutical corporation that rivaled RedNA. The RainCoat corporation invented a virus that leaked and caused a zombie infection in Possum City…
Alice shape-shifted one of her claws into a tendril and grabbed a nearby utility pole, then pulled herself up before touching the ground.
“Too bad for you. That would have worked on anyone other than me,” Alice smirked.
Only someone who was fast thinking and great at multitasking would have thought that Hikaru’s strategy was “predictable”.