EP.116 Self-introduction in the bottomless pit
“Ha ha.”
Take a deep sigh. With that alone, everyone in the training room pays attention to me.
It’s different from Tyr’s innate charisma.
Opponent’s gaze and gesture interests and interests. Even what I’m thinking right now.
A technique that captures the attention of the audience by reading and calculating all of them one by one. A kind of misdirection.
“I can’t help it. For your sake, I will reveal my true identity.”
He grabbed the weight and covered his face with his hands. The sunken eyes are revealed between the fingers.
don’t reveal everything only the necessary parts. Make up for the rest yourself.
Where would you like to read your thoughts?
‘Have you thought about revealing it now? Yes, confess quickly! Because I want to graduate from the bottomless pit!’
Regressors expect.
‘Identity? Well, it must be a body that was dragged similarly to me! What are you going to do with the identity of the trapped body anyway? Compared to the boy’s strength, he’s not bold enough!’
Undead are indifferent.
‘…It’s a big deal. I still don’t know what is what. Even if I want to know more about Hugh, I wonder if I can understand what he said…!’
Tyr is… what is this? what should i call it generation gap?
“Mung…”
How long have you been here?
Anyway, everyone who will listen to this has gathered, so let’s talk soon.
“Now I am.”
fault.
He spoke and pulled his hand out of his pocket.
In his outstretched hand, he held a deck of cards. I split it into five in an instant, stretched it out like a spring for a while, and put it back together in an instant.
Then, with both hands together, he spoke with sincerity and sorrow.
“He’s a petty criminal who was caught gambling on cards… Really.”
“Hey you! to the end!”
“I swear to myself, the Goddess of Heaven and Earth. If it’s not enough, I’ll bet even my mother, whom I’ve never seen before. How can this be evidence?”
“It can’t be! Are you a card gambler?”
“Look no. Isn’t this hand movement unusual?”
I held out the diamonds in the order of 1 2 3 4 5 in front of the regressor. After that, I stirred and shook my hand, and it turned into a spade with the same number before I knew it.
‘what? Did you change the card pattern?’
Even the regressor momentarily missed my movements. The suspicion toward me changed direction in an instant and headed for the card.
‘Juan who looks down on the uniqueness of the seven colors!’
The regressor’s eyes briefly turned orange. Stupid, I stopped the magic.
No, it’s against the law to use seven colors to see through tricks.
I showed magic to divert attention, but I will not use magic in front of him from now on. I’m going to lose all the bottom line.
‘It hasn’t changed. From the beginning, the two sheets were stuck back to back! It’s enough to fool my eyes even for a moment!’
I’m proud to admit it, but I won’t do magic anyway. To a magician, tricks are life.
I continued my explanation as I gently pushed and unfolded the two overlapping cards.
“But it’s not an ordinary petty criminal.”
When the card was turned over again, spades turned into clubs this time. I just flipped over and changed the cards hidden in my hand one by one, but this trick surprised everyone sitting down to correct their posture.
‘Wait, what a trick? A green eye that sees through four colors out of seven colors!’
I will not!
Before the trick was uncovered, I overturned the table and scattered the cards everywhere. A lectern rolling back and forth with a clattering sound. While Aji, startled, looked around, I picked up the stack of cards I had gathered and threw them all over the place.
“A famous match that is passed down as a legend in the back alleys of the country. A gambler who has never lost, even if he has lost. A one-way street for stakes. The magician on the deck of cards. That is my true identity.”
I wrapped myself in a grandiose way, but in the end it meant only one thing.
“…player?”
“Simply summarizing it like that is a bit painful. It’s part of me too! A back alley magician who reads psychology, surprises enemies, and dazzles enemies with graceful hand techniques. This is Hughes!”
With one foot back, I pretended to grab the missing hat with one hand and gently opened the other hand to say hello. If that was the case, it would have been an ordinary greeting.
If the stack of white cards from my left hand to my right hand had spread out like a slide and hadn’t stopped there.
In my hand, the card is one, a 52-card object, an orchestra where each card flies like a dove while achieving group harmony.
There were only three spectators, but I showed off my dexterity and mesmerized everyone.
After the brief performance, I snapped my fingers and said.
“how is it? Can you believe me now?”
Even after watching the performance with all my might, the regressor was still dubious.
“Are you a gambler? Aren’t you an assassin or something?”
“Because it is.”
“lie! The way he handled the colonel was neat enough to be considered an assassin. But you’ve never killed anyone?”
“Uh…”
Uh, I need to correct that a bit.
I replied, scratching my chin vaguely.
“excuse me. You are misunderstanding something. I was arrested for gambling fraud. That’s why I was arrested for a petty crime.”
“I heard that.”
“And do you know what this means? Isn’t it a sin if you don’t get caught?”
“I know, but… wait. No way…”
The regressor who understood belatedly pointed at me with a shocked face.
“I did murder, but I didn’t get caught, so I’m not a murderer…?”
“answer! Ahaha. It’s embarrassing to put it together so easily.”
The regressor jumped up and shouted at me who smiled clumsily.
“No, nothing to be ashamed of! You did murder! How can that be a petty criminal!”
“Since he wasn’t caught for a felony, he’s a petty criminal. Oh and don’t get me wrong. I usually kill them, but I don’t kill them with my own hands.”
“It’s even worse!”
The regressor groaned and shook his head, but muttered a little more unanswered than before.
“In short, the military government accidentally caught a big player like you while trying to catch a fraudulent gambler?”
“Not a giant. I’m just a gambler. It’s just that sometimes when the amount gets bigger, there are a lot of people who want to compete with blades rather than cards… I just learned a little bit of self-defense.”
“The art of self-defense must be some kind of assassination art.”
“You describe me as a villain, but I am a good person! They usually walk through the back alleys and bring smiles to the faces of depressed children!”
“It would be fortunate if the children did not cry…”
Looking at the regressor muttering blankly, I let out a sigh of relief while maintaining a smile.
done. You have crossed a huge mountain with this.
“Then, impersonating an instructor in the first place?”
“Where is the person who reveals his identity from the beginning? Still, I didn’t expect the blade to fly.”
“How did you beat the cherry blossoms?”
“I am used to this type of surprise. Even so, it was half a coincidence that I cut off the side. His skill at bouncing cards shone.”
“The one who figured out my stealth technique.”
“Honestly, I haven’t figured out stealth. I figured out Shay’s personality. Mr. Shay. Because you can see clearly inside?”
“Kuk!”
Taking advantage of the gap that the regressor was stabbed in the middle for a moment, I sighed and muttered with melancholy eyes.
“after. Still, I was hiding it because I wasn’t proud of being immersed in people. I can’t help it. I try to forget the past, but I can’t erase it.”
On the outside, he plays a criminal who wants to deny his past. At the same time, it gave probability to the work that had been hiding its identity until now.
As I lamented, Tyr carefully comforted me.
“Don’t beat yourself up, phew. All survivors stand over the corpse. I don’t care how many you killed.”
I’m grateful, but it feels strange to hear from someone who has killed more than five digits. The feeling of being recognized by a greater criminal.
“What do you have that much! I’m not bragging either, but I have a track record of tearing two people to death! Let’s not mumble and be comfortable!”
In the case of immortals, it’s just scary. How can you tear people apart like paper? If I touch it wrong, won’t it tear?
The regressor, who had been largely convinced, asked as if he had just remembered.
“Then how did you know the information about the bottomless pit?”
“I just figured it out by adding the information I found here to what I picked up here and there. Us petty criminals imagine things like that when we’re bored. What is the structure of Tantalus and how can I escape?”
“…means he knew he was a big enough man to be taken by Tantalus.”
“Ugh! Because it is not! If you keep playing big game, you get cheated!”
A more comfortable atmosphere than before. The regressor was fully satisfied with my answer.
‘Unfortunately, it’s a mogul who has been caught. That’s enough of an explanation.’
Vigilance is a feeling of poor fuel economy. You can maintain a sharp tension only when you pour your energy to the fullest.
That’s why the regressors who have been paying close attention until now. After this raid, he wanted to put his guard down. So he asked me for an explanation, and I was compelled to be content with an imperfect explanation.
‘However, what I don’t understand yet is Tyrkanjaka…’
I changed the topic here to prevent further strange stories.
“Anyway, I’m more curious about Mr. Shay.”
“uh? me?”
“is it so. I really got caught, but Mr. Shay sneaked in on purpose, right? With all kinds of treasures, someone will come to save you later.”
I sat down on the fallen podium and said quietly.
“Isn’t Mr. Shay the real mogul? I still haven’t heard of a swordsman as young and strong as Mr. Shay.”
“leading figure? cook.”
The regressor smiled and replied indifferently.
“Big guy yes. You could call me a giant.”
“Even the priestess of the Earth Mother is coming to the rescue.”
“Not really a colleague. just an acquaintance But how did you know that she was the priestess of Earth Mother?”
Now, there are no doubts about the question.
At least for the rest of the time, I’ll be safe.
good good good
I responded with a more comfortable mind.
“You said you were the one who could get rid of the bottomless pit? When it comes to the origins of the bottomless pit, it is even more strange not to know.”
“The Origin of the Bottomless Pit…? Isn’t that the land cursed by the Earth Mother?”
“That’s it, everyone knows. Why did the Earth Mother curse it?”
A regressor with a puzzled expression still on his face.
Could it be that you didn’t know that when you came here? Looking at the regressor, I touched my forehead.
