“Ugh, pretending like that is exhausting.”  

“Haha, for someone who hates acting, you pulled it off spectacularly.”  

“Seriously. Sergeant Shin, you were so intense that even watching from the back made me break out in a cold sweat.”  

After leaving the temple, my soldiers and I were stationed in a small hermitage on another mountain peak, overlooking the temple.  

The monks had directed us here.  

From this vantage point, we could use my “Enhanced Hearing” ability to listen in on the conversations happening in the temple.  

“Couldn’t you guys have handled this instead?”