"She reads minds."
As I dropped that bomb, both the girl and Alicia simultaneously turned to me with widened eyes.
"It's a passive radius," I explained, pointing a finger at the gloomy girl. "If you get within three steps, information from your surface consciousness is forcibly sucked into her brain. That's how a priestess with no combat skills has been able to travel safely inside a Tower teeming with monsters."
She simply avoided the thoughts of the beasts before they even saw her.
"…Wait a minute."
The girl, Darien, narrowed her eyes. The gloom in her expression sharpened into suspicion.
"I think I should say those words back to you."
She took a cautious half-step back, ensuring she stayed out of the range where her ability would trigger.
"Who are you? What kind of person knows about… this?"
I gave her a beatific smile.
'Found her.'
