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The Guardian was equal parts psychopath and geezer. This golden ratio made ninety-nine percent of his advice crazy or useless. In other words, the remaining one percent contained the essence of both a psychopath and a geezer.
—When you wield a sword, what matters isn’t just your skill. It’s faith and confidence! Faith in yourself is the most important! the Guardian declared with a solemn look. Lying works the same way! In order to fool someone, you have to deceive yourself first! Believe your lies! Have confidence! No matter how plausible the lie sounds, people won’t believe it if you lie without confidence. But if you have confidence, it doesn’t matter how implausible it is.
Is that so? I asked.
—I did it a lot, so I know!
He truly was speaking from experience. Maybe his ratio of psychopath to geezer was six to four.
—You and other people won’t believe a one hundred percent lie, of course. So mix ten percent truth with ninety percent lies!
Mix them?
—Yeah, that’s the beauty of lying. When you believe the ten percent truth, the ninety percent lie will come to you naturally! Remember, Zombie: lying is confidence!
I let his words sink in as I looked in front of me. The army assembled from around the world was here to capture the Demon King… The Aegim Empire’s troops, the vanguard of the army, were looking at me. I was going to be in danger if I couldn’t pull off my lie.
“The Great First Emperor’s herald…”
“But that sword is certainly…”
“Why is the herald here?”
Even though those from the Aegim Empire kept their heads down, some of the soldiers from the other factions were shooting skeptical glances at me. I assumed...
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