39 – Shadow (5)
Standing in front of the author, he glared at the man who looked like Taeil while using body strengthening and hardening.
He may be a psychic who can change his appearance through body transformation.
However, there is a high possibility that the man in front of you who looks like Taeil is not that talented.
The psychic ability of body transformation is an ability that is limited to the body, just like Grid is playing with my body.
It means that you don’t have the ability to make clothes like that.
He is wearing the same clothes as Taeil.
What does that mean?
I recently had this experience.
ㅡ A mimicking monster.
Yeah, that’s it.
ㅡ But it’s strange.
What is it?
ㅡ Unlike before, I’m not sure I’m a monster.
Grid said he didn’t know if the person standing in front of him was a monster or not.
This is a residential area where people live.
There are monster detectors installed everywhere, but there were no detectors that sounded an alarm when a monster appeared.
“Taeil senior. Why were you tailing me?”
The author does not know that Tae-il splashed fried meat oil on her clothes during lunch.
So she started talking to the man who looked like Taeil, just in case.
“… Say, say, have, stand.”
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“….”
“….”
The author silently lowered her posture and stepped back from her.
I took out my smartphone and handed it to the author, and he called an emergency call on my smartphone.
A call from a hero to a nearby hero for help.
In about 5 minutes, a nearby hero will come running to help.
With this, preparations for unexpected situations are over.
As we were breathing a sigh of relief, a man who looked like Taeil was staring at us.
If you are Taeil, you will know what is happening right now.
The reason why I’m especially close to Taeil and Junghyeok in the volunteer club is that both of them like hero stuff.
It is impossible for Taeil to not understand the current situation.
No, not just Taeil, but modern people should figure out what kind of situation this is.
But there is no response.
I mimicked Taeil’s voice, but his vocalization was strangely awkward, his standard gait different from Taeil’s, and those infinitely expressionless eyes.
Enemies.
That was for sure.
“Why, that, rae. Senior?”
“Hey.”
“Huh?”
“Taeil doesn’t call me senior. He calls it Kosam.”
“….”
The man in front of me followed me and the author for a week.
However, it was a gaze that could only be felt at the university and its surroundings.
In preparation for her unexpected situation, after breaking up with Ji-eun, when night came, she went out through the window and hid near Ji-eun’s house.
Because my body has become stronger thanks to the grid, my condition did not worsen even if I stood up a little during the night.
A guy who had only been hanging around us at school for a week came after us.
Every time I reacted sensitively to my gaze, the guy who withdrew his gaze and hid himself confidently followed me this time.
And with Taeil’s face.
Perhaps it caught my guard?
Because I react quite sensitively, it is clear that he imitated the appearance of a being who often talked to me from a distance and followed me.
So that I can calm down even if my face is caught by me.
Because I hung around with the author, it is certain that the author called me by the title ‘senpai’ he always calls me.
“You… Are you a monster?”
As I spat those words out, the man standing in front of me… She laughed.
“Kh, heh, heh heh, heh heh.”
It was a more unpleasant laugh than Grid’s laugh.
The face, which until recently had not shown emotion like a mannequin, was strangely distorted.
Ah, that’s an expression I’ve seen before.
That expression is the expression of the monster that triggered the monster eradication game.
The weird smile that monster showed before being hunted by me.
Was this guy the main body?
I could feel that Ji-eun, who was behind me, stiffened her body with tension.
So that was the moment I was about to tell the author to be careful.
Thump!
With the sound of kicking the ground, the man in front of me lunged at me at a subtle speed.
“Kyaaah!”
Leaving behind the author’s screams, I ran towards him.
In-house… No, the monster is running towards me with both hands out.
It looked like a position to catch the opponent in judo.
Staying vigilant, I clung to the monster and swung its fist.
This guy looks normal, but he’s a monster.
Someone might argue later on why he used supernatural powers on ‘ordinary people’ who didn’t attack first.
But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t deal with it without straining.
I felt something unknown to the monster in front of me.
f*ck!
There was a dull noise like something breaking, but my attack didn’t do any damage to the monster.
ㅡ Wake up!
As I was about to leave the monster at Grid’s warning, the monster’s hands grabbed me.
“Ugh!”
It is a great power.
Even though I was using my body strengthening ability, I felt a weight that would crush me if I let go of my strength even a little.
It feels like you are hugging a huge rock and wrestling with it.
As I pondered what to do in this situation, the monster lifted me up and slammed me to the floor.
Thump!
A noise like a large rock falling to the floor spread out and the asphalt against my back shattered.
There were no external injuries due to the body hardening ability, but I felt sick inside because this ability did not protect even the internal organs.
I didn’t lose out in the power struggle.
However, both I and this monster have the strength to ignore each other’s weight and lift them.
I was unstable because my attack failed, and I wasn’t a guy.
The result was this.
Boom!
I heard the wind ripping and instinctively rolled to the side, and the beast’s foot landed where my head had just been.
Even though it was clearly less than 30 cm tall, I heard the sound of an artillery shell exploding, and I heard his leg slammed into the asphalt.
It was as if an object in ton units was concentrated on one foot.
… It was dangerous.
If you hit the head with that attack, it’s a dizzying attack that seems like your head would have exploded like a watermelon, whether it’s hardening ability or whatever.
I ran towards the guy whose leg hadn’t been pulled out yet.
The body is incredibly hard and strong.
Then there is no choice but to hunt by shaking the inside of the monster’s body.
I pulled out my leg and dug into the guy’s awkward posture, grabbed his hand and knocked it face down toward the floor.
Thump!
With a sound like a rock falling, the monster slammed to the ground and cracked the surrounding road.
ㅡ Kyaaagh!
Citizens nearby heard the roar of our fight and started screaming and running away.
The author… Fortunately, I couldn’t see that he had fled to a safe place.
I slammed his foot down with all my might towards his head as he lay on the floor.
Kang!
There was a sound like a lump of metal colliding, and the monster’s head slammed into the floor.
The monster’s whole body trembled once as if it were going through electricity.
I was about to smash his head with my foot again, but he grabbed my ankle tightly.
“Ugh!”
I felt the pressure as if my ankle would have been pulled out by the grip force if it had not been for the ability to harden the body.
The monster grabbed my legs and threw me away.
My body flew through the air and broke the window of a nearby store, crashing into the wall.
The building I was imprisoned in must have been a gold and silver room, and glittering things were rolling nearby, and the shopkeeper who had not been able to escape was trembling.
“Do, run away!”
I jumped up from my seat and grabbed the body of the guy who was approaching me.
“Go, thank you!”
The shop owner rushed out in that moment.
Whoop!
A situation was created in which each other was competing with each other with their hands interlaced.
I felt like we were similar to each other, but even though our strength was equal, I felt like I was being pushed behind in terms of weight class.
After the grid came into my body, I weighed just over 100kg.
According to Grid’s words, it became a much harder, more flexible, and more efficient body than humans.
Even though I was over 180 tall and weighed 100kg, I was being pushed by the monster in front of me.
This monster is a monster that weighs in tons even though it has a human appearance.
“Keuk!”
My feet slowly began digging into the smashed asphalt.
I will be pushed at this rate.
At that thought, I twisted my wrists and put my forehead into the monster’s nose.
Kang!
An unbelievable sound resounded that the head and nose had collided, and the hands that gripped the monster relaxed.
I burrowed into the monster and knocked him back to the floor.
Then he started to trample his head with all his might.
Bang bang bang bang bang!
I put my full weight on it and teased my stretched feet while begging my head to explode.
The monster’s head began to slam into the ground slowly, smashing through the asphalt, and I lifted my foot higher and slammed it down at the monster’s head, thinking I would finish it off.
At that moment, the monster’s hand grabbed my leg.
“Huh?”
Until now, the witch clearly had a head, so why are the hands?
The monster grabbed my ankle and slashed it sideways.
Boom!
My body was slammed into the asphalt floor, and there was a tremendous roar.
As if the monster had no intention of letting me go, he grabbed his stretched feet and started hitting me left and right on his asphalt.
ㅡ Wake up!
Ugh!
I grabbed the monster’s wrists and twisted them.
Then the monster’s hand gave out strength, and I escaped by rolling on the floor.
My legs trembled as if I had a concussion, and I felt pain as if my internal organs were being twisted and twisted.
My knees started to lose strength even though there were no visible wounds.
The monster saw me like that and started laughing, raising the corner of his mouth.
It felt like they were laughing at me as if I had no clue.
“Kh, heh, heh heh.”
Ah, you are laughing.
ㅡ That son of a b*tch!
Grid gritted his teeth and began growling.
As Grid was enraged, it felt as if his whole body was energized for some reason.
We have to catch him here.
It is a powerful enemy that is on a different level from the monsters that have imitated humans so far.
If we miss this guy here, we don’t know how many casualties it will cause.
Kung kung kung kung kung kung!
The guy who was running with an unstable posture that looked like he was going to fall just a little while ago started running with a good form before he knew it.
ㅡ You’re learning while fighting.
Yeah, I guess.
The monster was getting stronger in real time as he fought very annoyingly.
It’s not that fast, but it’s probably getting used to the shape of the human body.
I took a slow breath and got into position.
“Suck!”
The moment the monster approached me with both hands outstretched, it posed as if to go left, then turned to the right.
The monster lost sight of me for a very short time.
Now!
I was in the middle of getting stronger while fighting, but I kicked the monster’s leg with all my strength, which was still strangely sluggish.
Kang!
A sound that sounded like a steel plate had been struck erupted and the guy knelt down on one knee.
I grabbed the monster by the back of its head with my hands and slammed it to the floor.
Boom!
The monster’s head sank to the floor and its movements stopped for a moment.
I lifted the monster and slammed it to the floor before it could counterattack.
Then I got on the guy’s body and took a mount position.
Even a monster can work if it has a human appearance!
I just started swinging my fist at the monster’s face.