96 – Jaseungjabak
“Nice to meet you! mother!”
“See you for the first time! miss!”
Yes?
Hey, Lesha?
Calling a woman who appears out of nowhere and claims to be my mother without a shadow of a doubt ‘Mother’?
“Oh, ho-ho. Nice to meet you. The name… ?”
“Ah, the introduction is late. My name is Reina, who is living with Taejin!”
“Cohabiting?”
No, wait.
What if you cut the front and back and only talk about ‘living together’, Lusha.
It’s clear why you’re living together…
“Yes! I take care of the house, cook, and take care of Taejin’s close security!”
…Let’s not talk.
“Aha? You seem to have a pretty deep relationship with our Taejin?”
Lesha’s shoulders shrugged.
“Ho Ho! Yes. Taejin and I… .”
Lesha continues to speak while blushing.
However, it was cut off by Nayeon who came out of nowhere.
“hello. mother. It is not an exaggeration to say that I raised Taejin. I am Park Na-yeon, a professor at Seoul Academy and Taejin’s exclusive teacher.”
I had to be surprised at Nayeon bowing down politely.
It was because it was the first time I had ever seen Nayeon bend over to someone.
… no, everyone
Do you mean that you don’t even think about doubt?
“Ah- Park Nayeon Hunter. Although he is a retired veteran, he often hears about Hunter. The fact that he retired at an early age reminded me of him.”
“Thank you. uh… No, Hunter.”
Nayeon lowered her head again.
… Was he such a polite person?
“hello. I am Kim Hye-seo, a junior of Holder Han Chang-ho and the head of the Villain Investigation Team at the Monster Management Bureau.”
“You’re his junior. I apologize on behalf of you for having suffered under an ugly senior.”
“no. He was a great senior.”
“Ho-ho, that’s amazing.”
Hey, we’re in a confrontation with our mid-boss, the Blue Witch, right?
Haven’t you all forgotten?
“Nice to meet you. My name is Yoo Soo-ah, a student attending the same academy as Tae-jin.”
“Oh- are you Taejin’s friend?”
Baek Mi-hwa looked at us with curious eyes.
“A combination of an S-class hunter professor, a monster management bureau villain investigation team leader, and a bodyguard and cadet… .”
The gaze that encompassed the party stayed on me.
happy lips.
benevolent eyes.
However, since neither the purpose nor the story was revealed, we did not let down our guard.
Of course, it didn’t seem necessary to be vigilant.
Still, there was nothing wrong with being careful.
by the way.
‘Han Tae-jin had a mother.’
no
Isn’t it natural that there is a mother if there is a father?
I don’t know why I’ve never doubted my mother’s existence.
‘Besides, did you have a younger sister?’
To think that the cute woman who looked good with round glasses was my sister.
Is the reason why there is a somewhat ironic (?) feeling in the gaze looking at me because I instinctively realize that [brother = DNA-like human].
It seems that the sister-in-law is right.
anyway.
‘How should I react naturally?’
Dozens of reactions passed by in an instant, but none of them came to mind.
Should I be surprised?
Should I be thrilled?
Should I cry
Or should I be angry?
I don’t know.
I don’t know the range of memories that the original Han Tae-jin had, so the only reaction I can do is to be dumbfounded.
Fortunately.
“Wouldn’t it be better to finish the greeting first and then hurry up?”
Mother(?) put an end to the situation appropriately.
It won’t be too late to hear about the authenticity and past stories after the situation is over.
A hasty rush can be poisonous, but excessive hesitation is also poisonous.
If this is the case, it is urgent to deal with the immediate task.
Although the mana hadn’t fully filled up yet, it wasn’t in a state where it would be difficult to use the skill with the auxiliary effect of the Celestial Dragon’s Bow.
Indeed, a monster is a guy who is a monster.
Depending on the situation, effects such as attack power increase, one-time skill, mana support, etc. are cast at the right place.
“Let’s go.”
The lightly bubbly atmosphere subsided.
After regrouping, we started to enter the cave following Nayeon, who took up the tank position.
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“what?”
After entering the cave, it was the first word I spat out.
It was empty.
It was literally an empty space with nothing in it, and in the center of the cavity, an object could be seen floating surrounded by a mana barrier.
“runaway… Is it?”
It wasn’t something that was unlikely.
Our number of pages now is 7 people.
It is possible that they made a fuss by judging that each of them was not strong enough to defeat the top 7 players.
But something was off.
It would have been humiliating for him to hide his back so easily when he wasn’t even fatally wounded.
It’s a move that is so contrary to the way he raised his nose arrogantly.
It didn’t relieve the tension.
yet.
《Hohohoho! Did you finally step in? Uncivilized seeds.”
Lexa’s voice resounded in the empty cavity, accompanied by an angry laugh.
Immediately, each took a fighting stance, forming a circular battle formation with their backs to each other.
In a situation where you don’t know where an attack might come from, the best strategy is to be responsible for your teammates’ backs.
《Huhuhu, I hope you don’t dream that you will return well once you set foot in my area. Then, where shall we begin?”
soon
Blue waves sway in the cavity of an ordinary cave.
It feels like being submerged in the sea.
It wasn’t threatening, but a strange feeling of fear tickled my nerves.
However, he opened his eyes straight and spread his mana to maximize his senses.
“Ho-ho-ho, the frightened faces, like beaten mutts, are quite worth seeing. Don’t be too afraid. An interesting show will unfold from now on.”
“… .”
Lexa’s voice echoed as if mocking us.
Isn’t there an old saying from our ancestors that even if you are caught in a tiger’s den, you can survive if you stay alert.
No matter how talented he is among high-ranking executives, he will not be able to easily crush us, who are united in the strongest combination.
Armed with such confidence.
I was waiting for an attack to come in.
“Aww! What are you-!”
“what! What are you?!”
Suddenly Lesha’s voice resounded throughout the cavity.
Everyone widens the gap with Lesha.
And.
“… uh?”
We couldn’t help but doubt our eyes when we saw Lesha, who had become two people before we knew it.
Was the fun show a doppelganger show?
… Well, that’s a bit of a headache.
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It is truly a blue witch-like idea and strategy.
A tactic that causes mental disturbance by dyeing the entire cavity with blue waves, and at the same time creates division or confusion within the team with a doppelganger.
He used an effective strategy to deal with one-to-many while minimizing his own damage.
It’s a pretty awkward tactic from the point of view of the victim.
In a situation where you have to choose between the two, if you kill your colleagues with the wrong choice, the team will easily collapse, and if you wait for that, you will see one by one die before you know it.
True to her nickname, the blue witch is quite cunning.
And if it was Lexa, she would have copied not only her appearance, but all of her memories.
In other words, it is impossible to detect the doppelganger with simple questions.
“Don’t follow me!”
“You!”
“Hey! I’m real!”
“Do not lie! I’m real?!”
Looking at the real Lesha and the fake Lesha who are arguing, my head is already pounding.
After taking people’s minds off like that, they’ll try to eliminate them one by one, taking advantage of their carelessness.
“Taejin! you recognize me?! That I am real!”
“What are you talking about! Don’t call Taejin by name! You bad b*tch!”
“what? Who said it was a bad b*tch! You crazy b*tch!”
“There’s nothing I can’t say in front of my mother! Look at this! Because he’s fake?!”
On the surface, they were indistinguishable.
Because the gestures, facial expressions, and tone of voice made out of frustration were all the same.
Although the eyes looking at me were subtly different, it was unreasonable to use that subtle difference as a criterion in a confusing situation.
However, I tugged at the bowstring and aimed at the center between the two Reshas.
At a point where time permitting is not long, I must be the only one who can find our Lesha.
And.
‘It’s a prepared situation.’
In fact, there was a brief description of why Lexa was called the Blue Witch in the original work.
《The bewitching eyes, the small dot on the side of the bright red lips, the enchanting smile, and the alluring figure were very suitable for the nickname witch, but the blue witch attached to her was not just because of the silky appearance.》
《He is good at vicious tricks and enjoys indirectly approaching his opponent rather than seeing them directly and causing them to collapse on his own, and his representative ability is his doppelganger ability to pretend to be his colleague.》
Of course, I didn’t inform my friends.
The moment you announce it, it will remain in your memory and Lexa will know about it too. That I was aware of my abilities.
so that.
I had to.
“Raina.”
“yes!”
“yes!”
Two identical answers to one call.
The accent, breathing, and words are all the same, but I didn’t care. From now on, the way I will judge Lesha is the way that is not restricted by those things.
Lexa wouldn’t know.
That I have a [special skill] that people in this world do not have, and that there is a skill with a fraudulent ability called [Mind Reading] in the special skill tab.
“Lexa.”
An answer that is obviously not heard.
“I’m sorry, but I picked the wrong opponent.”
Among the two Reshas, I immediately cast [Mind Reading] while looking at the Resha on the left.
I mean Lesha on the left, who is looking at me with a frightened look.
It was a first look.
It seems that my bold assertion is quite unsettling.
[Mind Reading is cast.]
[Reads the thoughts of the target currently making eye contact.]
..
..
..
After a while, the typeface appears above the head of Lesha on the left with anxious eyes.
“There are a lot of things I haven’t done with Taejin yet! I don’t want to die like this! I haven’t even had sex yet!”
All of Lexa’s doppelganger abilities must have been modeled after him like a decalcomani.
Unlike instinct, the level of thinking based on memory should be controllable.
It wasn’t that that mattered.
“Cheongoongshi (天弓矢).”
After aiming the arrowhead that was aiming at the center of Du Lesha directly at the right Lesha, he fired a powerful shot by burning all of Danjeon’s magical power.
– Whoa!
-grasp!
“Kyaaak-!!”
Because [Mind Reading] is a skill that can’t read the thoughts of those with higher magical power than mine.
Immediately after the scream, the blue wave that makes the mind dreamy disappears.
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Jaseungjabak (自繩自縛).
It was a lion idiom that I really wanted to tell to Lexa, who fell for my trick.
“Kya-! Taejin!! I knew you would recognize me!”
Lesha smiles and runs to me and hugs me.
He patted her on the back.
“Are you afraid I won’t recognize you?”
“Hey, I believed you!”
…Reading my thoughts, I don’t think I believed it.
Didn’t you say you didn’t want to die?
By the way, Lesha.
You… that’s what you really want to do before you die…?
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