『Argh! This doesn’t make sense! How is this possible?』 Victoria grabbed her hair and screamed out of annoyance, rage, curiosity, frustration, and anxiety. She was practically hysterical because twenty days had gone by, and she hadn’t even gotten started on interpreting Yeon-woo’s thought pattern. She had promised Yeon-woo it would only take one month, and time had already flown by.

『You didn’t set up any mental shields, right?』 Victoria glared at Yeon-woo with suspicion. 

『You would’ve noticed by now if I had. You even told me to take my clothes off and tested defense magic circles. You didn’t sense anything, right?』

Victoria bit her nails—a bad habit of hers that came out whenever she was feeling anxious. What Yeon-woo said was true. He’d been a willing participant the entire time, and she’d been the one who’d pushed him just a little too far. She really had tried everything—from making him drink potions to using magic circles and artifacts to analyze his mind—and each time, the result that came back was “error”. She felt like she was going to go crazy.

At first, she thought it might be because of the complexity of his mind, since martial artists’ minds grew more profound as they trained. She’d experimented on martial artists with their permission,...