Terrible Metaphors

"What the hell," Voloha quietly muttered.

Hehe, that's what you get for being so predictable, Princess.

I knew that sooner or later, she would resort to peeking into my fate to confirm my claim of there being a Secret Organisation behind me.

That's why before coming here, I had masked my fate with that of a normal person's. That's why when Voloha saw my fate, all she saw was that I too am affected by the machinations of fate.

And just now, I removed that masking, reverting to my original state of standing above fate.

"Is something the problem?" I asked. "Your face is pale. Did you see a ghost or something?"

"…" She quietly looked at me. "W-what… what was that?"

"Are you talking about this?" I turned on the fate masking feature again. "It's a simple yet effective trick."

"W-who," her voice trembled, but she calmed herself down after a deep breath. "Who are you?"

"Me? I'm Samur. Who else?" I smiled.