The Experiment. I'm guessing this has something to do with demonstrating the link between Uryom projections, base forms, hair that continues to grow despite being enchanted, and so on.

Holy crap, positive acknowledgement of the continued existence of Lord Tedd in a recent comic! I think it's been, what, a decade?, since the last time anyone brought up Lord Tedd.

Makes me think of John Titor.

That's a very seventeen year old thing to do: Scour an unsettled area of knowledge utterly convinced you're going to solve it in just a few minutes.

lmao, I LOVE those last three panels. And yeah, illusion stretching well beyond the audiovisual realm is one of those things that can drive someone bonkers.

This is interesting. I'm guessing it was Tedd's success with the project that ended up with him allowed to keep his access. I really doubt that "technically I brought the tech back, the second unit is his" would fly. Either that or the reason we've never seen Conan Sr. (let's see if I can make that stick) before is that Edward's connections proved more potent than this guy expected... and he was never heard from again.

Anybody know who that is spying on Edward and clearly not happy about what he's doing? Is this a new plot point, or am I forgetting something?

Basically glamour.

I think the cat's out of the bag already.

Edward is discovering the limits of secret keeping. Lavender is right: Tedd will find out eventually, and if there are concerns about his learning certain things, better he learn it in a controlled environment from people he trusts, rather than at random out in the wild. Tedd's reputation in the Uryom community, his mother, all that stuff is out there to jump at him from behind a bush (as his mother's situation did when he was playing with the magic mirror, and as it nearly did when Nanase came face-to-face with one of Noriko's old adversaries).