Chapter 786 – Do You Enjoy Competition? [Part 2]
It wasn't the polite noble laugh she had been using all afternoon.
It was real.
Short.
Bright.
And that alone made three of the surrounding nobles visibly tense.
Lux watched her carefully.
A real reaction meant she had momentarily dropped the script.
Which meant she was recalculating.
Which meant he had disrupted the game.
Vira leaned forward slightly, chin resting against her fingers, eyes glinting with interest.
"You're amusing."
Lux smiled faintly.
"I try not to be boring."
Internally, Lux was running two separate threads of thought.
Thread one: maintain her focus.
Thread two: keep the nobles engaged enough to amplify distraction.
Vira, meanwhile, was thinking something very different.
'He's not chasing.'
That was the problem.
Every other demon here was subtly leaning in.
Adjusting posture.
Offering compliments disguised as commentary.
Trying to signal value.
Lux?
