She Professed Herself The Pupil Of The Wiseman

Chapter 177 - 111: Stillness (2)

Her explanation over, Mira sat down on a nearby chair and took out a piece of black cloth rolled into a ball from her coat. As she unrolled it, it became a pair of leggings.

「Ah, those are mine!」

Saying with a shocked voice, Sasori's eyes snapped to a corner of the room. There were two beds there, and a large opened bag was placed on top of one.

「Huhh… I'd swear I left that closed and on the floor.」

With a light trot Sasori went to the bed and looked at the bag. It was the one she used to store the bare minimum of clothes when traveling, and when she checked the contents she verified one of the leggings she had put there was gone. It was clearly the one Mira held while smiling suspiciously.

「This is also part of the demonstration. You didn't notice I was looking through your bag, yes?」

Mira rolled it up into a ball again and threw it to Sasori, smiling satisfied with herself. The powers of a spirit of stillness extended to more than just a person, they could also conceal someone's actions. But since Mira's contract was still recent, it could only hide simple things like

「Get away from me you freak!」

Sasori shrieked and ran away as fast as she could. She even used the acrobatic skills she had shown in the Libra Fortress, using everything she had to escape as fast as possible.

But the man would not give up so easily, and thinking faster than his appearance would suggest he plunged into the crowd of people in the most efficient route, slowly getting closer to Sasori.

「What are they even doing? Such a bunch of idiots…」

Mira muttered to herself as she saw the two vanish inside the red-light district.

More than ten minutes later Sasori jumped down from a nearby roof, looking thoroughly exhausted, but still watchful of her surroundings. Once she was protected by the veil of Perfect Suppression, the first thing she did was scream 「Why?!」 with teary eyes to Mira.

「You see…」

Mira explained what happened in simple terms.

Sasori's attack had broken the barrier around them. Walking, talking, and hurling loud insults to random people were no issue for Perfect Suppression to handle, but any deliberate act done against a target outside the area hidden, or essentially interacting with someone who wasn't hidden, just like Sasori had done, would reveal their presence and nullify the barrier.

「And that's about it. If you do something stupid and needless that'll happen.」

「Tell me that… sooner…」

Hearing Mira's explanation of the situation, Sasori hung her head in grief.

「I was planning on telling you before we reached the building, I wasn't expecting you to do something like that on the way there.」

Their mission would only start in earnest once they reached the mysterious building. The trip there was simply for Sasori to experience a bit of what it felt to be concealed. She had gotten carried away, and thus paid for it.

They waited for a while until Sasori recovered her strength after running with all her might, and they resumed their night trip to the building.