The Ballet Resident was probably Mai Mingle and company's most loyal cheerleader.
As long as it wasn't asked to go downstairs and face Kai Luonan itself, its services were impeccable in every other regard. For example, it quickly summarized and explained all the recent developments that Mai Mingle's group had either missed or misunderstood:
"You can't just assume that having an Illusion means you can take on Kai Luonan. Illusions are useless against him. Just now, when Fu Tailan tried to use Perception on him, Kai Luonan also activated... something? I don't know the principle behind it, but Perception's effect was 'wrapped up' before it could even activate. Like a fire deprived of air, it just sputtered out. So when you use an Illusion, you have to—"
"We don't have any Illusions," Jin Xueli said. "At least, no offensive ones."
