"What are you two doing?"
When Kahina found Lux, she saw her sprawled against the back of a chair, staring blankly at the ceiling like her soul had left her body.
And Luke wasn't doing much better either, slumped in his chair, looking like he was contemplating the meaning of life.
The only thing that looked truly "alive" was the battlefield on the dessert table—its traces loudly proclaiming just how brutal the carnage here had been.
After some deduction, Kahina concluded these two had simply eaten themselves stupid.
"I suggest a ceasefire," Lux weakly raised a hand.
She really couldn't take another bite.
"So this whole time you were having a competition?" Luke sat up and glared at the little blonde across from him.
He knew it—no wonder she kept snatching the ones he liked.
"Hmph. And whose fault is it you kept stealing the desserts I like?" Lux huffed, loudly expressing her dissatisfaction.
Luke actually laughed in disbelief. "Nice try—playing the victim first. You're the one who kept stealing!"
The two looked ready to start bickering for real.
Kahina, who'd been watching for ages, quietly added, "Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you both like the same kind?"
Both of them fell silent at the same time.
…That did seem possible.
"So that's what it was. Then it must be my fault, Miss Crownguard. Since you like this dessert, please—go ahead?" Luke had a sudden "realization," then warmly picked up a plate, took a portion of the dessert he liked, and personally set it in front of Lux.
After eating that much already, one more bite would surely finish off this little blondie, right?
"No, no, no. I misunderstood Your Highness at the start. You're the star today—you should eat first." Lux pasted on a fake smile and pushed the plate back toward Luke.
She was thinking the exact same thing!
Watching them "politely" shove the plate back and forth again, Kahina sat down speechlessly and cut in with her hand, stopping their little performance. "Forget it. I'll eat it!"
Spell interrupted. The two of them finally settled down.
"Did you two argue? Why does it feel like you're at each other's throats?" Kahina picked up on it immediately and said it out loud.
The moment she heard that, Lux got fired up. "Who's at whose throat?! He's the one who's been targeting me! You're here—judge for yourself!"
Then Miss Crownguard, righteous indignation and all, recounted what happened last time.
Kahina ate dessert while nodding along, occasionally cooperating with a perfectly-timed "That's outrageous," fully embodying what it meant to be a "bestie."
"Tell me—wasn't that too much? I'm even starting to suspect that so-called 'sixth sense' was just something he made up to fool me!" Lux slammed her small hand on the table as she vented her anger.
After listening, Kahina thought for two seconds and replied, "I don't think His Highness was lying to you. In the military, this kind of thing is usually called 'spiritual awareness'—it means that in certain moments, you instinctively become extremely sensitive to danger and may even react in advance."
"So that's how it is." Lux nodded in sudden understanding, lifting her pale chin and looking at Luke with a proud little attitude. "Fine, then. I'll forgive you… reluctantly."
In truth, she hadn't been all that angry. How could the open-minded Miss Crownguard be that petty?
She was just quietly planning how to get revenge later, that's all!
"Wow. I'm deeply grateful for Miss Crownguard's boundless mercy," Luke replied, taking a sip of a drink he'd casually grabbed off a tray as a servant passed by—his tone not exactly enthusiastic.
"By the way, how do you know that?" Lux turned to Kahina again, curious.
"I read it in a book. And thinking about it, calling it a 'sixth sense' does fit pretty well."
Kahina remembered how Lux had explained the sixth sense—as the "sixth" human sense, something everyone had.
So last time, His Highness used that sixth sense to catch the thief?
She lifted her eyes and glanced at Luke as he drank. Compared to last time, he seemed more refined somehow, and his skin looked unbelievably good.
The change was bigger than she'd expected.
But that wasn't the point right now.
From what Kahina understood, the requirements to develop spiritual awareness were extremely harsh. This wasn't a skill just anyone could pick up.
Let alone using it to detect a thief who was merely tailing them from behind.
That could only mean one thing—His Highness's "sixth sense" had grown so strong it had reached a level ordinary people could never touch.
"Then why couldn't I do it again afterward, no matter how I tried?" Lux asked in confusion.
That was the question she'd been obsessing over these past few days.
For days, she'd had her family's servants cooperate: she'd turn her back, and they'd throw pillows at random to test her sixth sense.
But no matter how many times she tried, she never succeeded.
Luke glanced at her. "You think it's that easy to train?"
"Then… is there really no other way?" Lux asked unwillingly.
Miss Crownguard seemed oddly determined about this.
Luke couldn't help asking why. "Why are you so obsessed with this?"
"Obviously because my—" Lux looked toward Augatha in the distance, who was chatting and smiling with other noblewomen, and sighed faintly. "She walks like she makes no sound at all. She always just suddenly appears—especially when I'm slacking off in my room. I always get caught.
But if I master the sixth sense, that won't happen anymore!"
As she spoke, Lux clenched her fist.
Seeing how serious she was, Luke thought for a moment, then said, "Actually… there is a method."
Instantly, both Lux and Kahina looked at him. Lux's eyes glittered as she urged, "Tell me, tell me!"
Luke cleared his throat and began. "The so-called sixth sense refers to a psychological feeling of predictive inference—formed when stimuli from the five senses are processed and reflected through some unknown cell or organ in the brain…"
The two girls nodded as they listened.
So many technical-sounding terms. They didn't understand any of it, but it sounded incredibly impressive!
Even Kahina—who knew a little—couldn't help listening more seriously when Luke started talking so professionally.
"So, there's a commonly used training method: walk while blindfolded."
After he said that, he saw their puzzled expressions and explained, "As everyone knows, the sixth sense is also called mind sense, and the eyes are the window to the soul. The connection between them goes without saying. Even in daily life, vision is extremely important.
When you shut off visual perception, the world becomes pure darkness. That's the closest state to mind sense. If you can cover your eyes and freely walk a full lap around the main hall at home without relying on anything external, that means you're close to mastering the sixth sense."
Honestly, he felt like being able to make up nonsense this smoothly was an achievement in itself.
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