Grayson looked at Neville with a serious gaze, as if he were asking about more than this one match.
You remember what I taught you, right?
Neville's neck instantly heats up.
"I remember," he said, almost too fast.
Inside his head, Neville was frantically running through the times he had ever booted up Mecha Warfare Online.
The neural link was a pleasant option to choose because he could never be bothered to pilot the manual way.
That was his guilty secret.
He had climbed the ranks in the game by using only the neural link. He never once bothered training with anything other than that.
Not even when Grayson already taught him how.
If Grayson knew, he wasn't going to admit it. And clearly, he did not know, because the warning was real.
He really thinks I only played manuals, Neville realized, embarrassed in a small, flattering way.
Lilianna, who had deliberately lingered close enough to overhear, smirked.
"Can you even handle the manual controls?"
