80 – Hide and Seek (3)
The dust cleared and the monster came into view.
It was about 2m tall and had hard exoskeleton like gauntlets on both hands.
The face looks like a normal person, so the composition looks like I, a monster, is attacking a human.
I assumed a posture to run head-on at the monster, then lowered his waist and put my hands and feet on the floor.
The monster was sluggish, as if he didn’t know I would move like this.
I swung my fist at the monster’s half-exposed side with all my might.
Thump!
The monster’s body was pinned to the ceiling.
ㅡ Hmm? It’s lighter than I thought.
Contrary to his appearance, the monster he dealt with the other day was a being with a weight in the order of tons.
However, the monster now impaled on the ceiling was a weight suitable for its size.
The monster that had been pinned to the ceiling fell down.
The monster aimed at my face and swung his right arm.
I lowered my waist to avoid his right arm and at the same time grabbed his right arm and threw it against the wall.
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The monster’s head crashed into the wall, grinding the wall.
A solid line was drawn on the wall like a spider’s web, and the monster’s body began to convulse.
Something… The feeling was strange.
Is it because it is light in weight?
I reached for his neck, intending to kill the monster before it could strike back.
That moment.
“What?!”
The beast’s neck stretched like a snake, wrapping around my outstretched arm and thrusting its teeth into his head.
“Aagh!”
His legs staggered as his ears were instantly deafened by the monster’s screams.
ㅡ Heung!
In place of me, Grid controlled the suit, seized the monster’s neck, and began to squeeze it.
“Kege geek keek!”
The monster grabbed his neck as if he was out of breath and began to whimper.
ㅡ I feel like I’m getting weaker and weaker.
When I first attacked, there was a part where I couldn’t use my psychic powers, but the weight of the attack was different.
But I didn’t feel that kind of weight or intimidation from the monster who was about to die soon after being captured by me.
“Kkekekekekekekeuk!”
The monster let out an incomprehensible scream and stretched out his right arm.
I ignored his right arm and focused on strangling him and beating his white face.
ㅡ It was rubbish. Search!
That was the moment I thought I had captured all the monsters.
The body of the dying monster gradually began to feel heavy.
ㅡ Hmm?
The monster, who had been giggling like a dying guy until just now, stared at me with an expressionless face.
ㅡ Son of a b*tch!
Grid moved my body at will and slapped the monster in the face.
Puck!
If the body was as light as before, the attack was so heavy that the neck and head were separated from that blow.
But he was fine as if it was natural.
I decided that something was going wrong, so I let go of the monster’s neck and kicked the monster’s chest and ran backwards.
At that moment, where I was standing, I saw his right arm, which had changed to a bizarre size.
ㅡ Nuclear!
What? Why does the nucleus appear?
ㅡ yes… It was like that.
Grid seemed interested in noticing something.
What is it?
ㅡ It is an external battery.
Listening to the metaphor of the grid, I had no choice but to immediately notice what the situation was.
That’s why this monster usually takes out its core, and like the monster that mimicked in a suit, it usually waits in a dormant state.
Then, when I approached, they woke up and attacked.
ㅡ There is no such thing as a perfect monster.
If you think about it, there is not much difference between a mimicking monster, a suit-type monster, and the term in which this monster appeared.
It must have been difficult to create a monster that could perfectly imitate a human in such a short period of time.
It was only natural that something was wrong.
As the monster extracted energy from its core, an alarm sounded.
ㅡ A monster has been detected! Those around you, please leave your current location immediately!
The monster heard the sound of a siren echoing around him and turned around and started running away.
ㅡ Chase!
I ran towards the direction the monster had fled.
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I knew that each monster had its own characteristics, but the escape of this monster was also very bizarre.
Just like in a famous Japanese cartoon, he stretched his body like rubber and used that elasticity to run away.
It was a method of attaching your hands to the walls of a building, stretching your body, and then launching your body into the air.
But it was just bizarre, and the speed was beyond imagination.
ㅡ Acceleration ability… Umm….
If you prepare for the case that the monster stops running away and starts an all-out war, you will not be able to use the acceleration ability.
ㅡ sh*t!
You can’t stretch your arms like a monster.
Unlike before, it’s out of the building, so it’s better to refrain from actions that could make you suspicious of a monster.
My current appearance is that of a 2m tall, muscular human wrapped in a mysterious black suit.
There is no problem even if someone captures this figure, but we cannot take a different look to catch that monster here.
ㅡ Do something!
I will, you bastard.
I kicked off the floor and started climbing up the building.
The guy who had already climbed to the end of the building, as if he had confirmed my appearance, ran towards another building.
Now!
I kicked the building I was climbing, jumped back to the floor, and ran to where it flew.
This building was relatively tall among the buildings in the vicinity.
It was difficult to catch up with the monster because it was inconvenient to climb as it was a vertically stretched building.
But if you fled in the direction of a relatively low-story building, the story is different.
There are plenty of protrusions you can step on and jump on.
As I started running towards the monster with all my might, the distance between the monster and me gradually got closer.
The monster once again absorbed energy from the core, perhaps feeling a sense of danger.
At that moment, the siren sounded again.
ㅡ A monster has been detected! Those around you, please leave your current location immediately!
The crude monster’s movements became more agile.
The distance that had been getting closer began to widen slightly.
ㅡ How far are you planning to run away, you son of a b*tch!
The guy just ran away day and night in one direction, as if he had a destination.
When the monster felt weak, he replenished energy from the core and ran again.
It was a strange pattern that was completely different from the monsters I had seen so far.
After running for a while, the monster seemed to have given up running away, but this time he entered the building.
ㅡ This is your limb, trash!
Greed was in a state where he lost half of his reason because of the monster.
After entering the building, the monster did not move from the spot as if this was its destination.
ㅡ Kill the monster. That was the only thought!
Grid moved my body on its own and tried to attack the monster.
I strengthened my body and stopped the sudden action of the grid.
ㅡ Quickly catch and kill!
Wait, man.
Every time he used a nuclear weapon, his movements became sharper.
Perhaps it should be judged that intelligence increases as well.
The gap between me and the monster seemed to be narrowed, but it was not.
If I kept running away, I might have been able to get away with it.
No, I would have missed it if I had climbed to the top of the building in the first place and then hid inside the building and imitated it with another object.
Any entity with some level of intelligence can do such an act, but to come here… Doesn’t that mean it was necessary to bring me here?
The monster shifted both of his hands into the shape of sharp blades and lowered his stance, slightly spreading his legs.
ㅡ Coming!
I immediately used my psychic powers on the core I had brought.
ㅡ There is no CCTV anyway! Kill!
Me and the monster rushed at each other.
The monster’s right blade slashed at my neck, and at the same time his left blade slashed at my waist.
Unlike before, the speed was at a level where you could see and avoid the attack.
ㅡ Ends in one shot!
I waited for an opportunity as I stepped back from the monster’s attack.
An attack that is swung horizontally, an attack that is swung vertically, an attack that is swung diagonally.
There was no pattern to the monster’s attack.
I just recklessly wielded it to cut through my body at the fastest speed.
So there are bound to be loopholes.
ㅡ Now!
The monster’s right blade was raised above my head and the moment his left blade swung horizontally, I lowered my stance and took a half step towards the monster.
As the exoskeleton on the right arm was sharply deformed like a monster and set up at an angle, the monster’s left blade soared upward along the suit’s exoskeleton.
The monster’s movement, which was about to slash the right blade straight away, was bound by his left arm that soared upward.
I stuck the blade of Grid into that bastard’s stomach and used the lightning ability.
ㅡ Search!
With Grid’s cry, the electricity that surged from my whole body began to destroy the inside of it along with Grid’s blade.
“Kkaaagh!”
The monster screamed and hugged me tightly.
Either way, in this position, this suit clad in Grid’s exoskeleton couldn’t be penetrated.
Remove the power as it is, then extract the core!
That was the moment I thought about it.
ㅡ What?!
Grid controlled my body, kicked the monster, and threw myself through the window.
As I was about to ask what was going on, I heard a huge explosion behind me, and piles of rocks flew in all directions.
I took a position in the air and landed safely on the floor, looking at where I had just been.
What is this….
ㅡ The nuclear weapon was forcibly detonated.
Self-destruct?
ㅡ Yes, it is self-destruct.
I stared blankly at the destroyed building.
Fortunately, it was late, so there seemed to be no casualties.
ㅡ The monster’s core is powerful enough to replace a nuclear power plant. There’s nothing you can’t do.
I heard and saw it….
Just because something like this hasn’t happened before doesn’t guarantee it won’t happen in the future.
I moved back to the place where it self-destructed.
Because there might be a reason why he brought me here.
ㅡ Since the building was blown up, there might not be much inside the building.
Then why did he run away as if to lure me to this place?
ㅡ Thoughts are later. Run away!
We’ll have to hide before the other heroes get here.
I rushed out of the scene.
There are 14 remaining monsters.
The monster self-destructed, so there seems to be no clear clue.
ㅡ Tsk tsk.
Grid clicked his tongue in a pitiful way.
What is it?
ㅡ I am the great monster hunter, Mr. Grid.
After saying that, Grid started to laugh with a loud ‘Khehehe’ sound.
What is it?
ㅡ Yes!
Grid pushed something in front of me with a confident feeling.
Some unknown object… No way?
ㅡ The flesh of a monster.
It seems Grid grabbed some of the monster’s flesh and ripped it off at the same time he kicked the monster.
ㅡ There should be some progress with this.
The most important part of the monster’s core has disappeared, but this alone makes sense.
I hope this helps you find the monsters….
ㅡ Monster Hunter, Grid-sama’s performance. Heh heh.
Yes, well done.
This time for real.