The 31st Piece Turns the Tables

Chapter 429

Kuu Woo Woong …

The vibration from the outside warehouse affected the building far away.

The three investigators, whose eyes had been pulled out one by one, were tied to chairs and mumbling as they clutched their dazed minds.

“What… happened?”

“You couldn’t believe that you came to save us…”

“Haha… that would be great…”

A moment of silence.

They knew it too.

The chances of being rescued from here are really slim. It won’t be an easy fight even if a large number of investigators from the Bureau of Investigation come rushing in.

Moreover, it had been a while since he disappeared while on a mission here, so it was difficult to expect such large-scale support.

The man with bloody phlegm hanging down said.

“I don’t want to die… in a place like this… I don’t want to die.”

It was right then.

Knock…

the sound of a shy knock on a wooden door.

“excuse. I smell blood. Are you going in?”

A voice I’ve never heard before.

Clang… Clang…

The door is locked.

There would be no way to open it from the outside without a key.

Kuji profit-!

“Oh, it’s open.”

It would be correct to say that it was broken.

Clink…

Clang…

The smell of blood escaped through the door.

“Hmm… they don’t look like you.”

It took some time for the investigators, whose eyes had become accustomed to the darkness, to identify the person speaking to them.

Bukbuk…

Bukbuk…

And when the being who opened the door came closer, the other person’s information was able to be engraved.

female.

fairy.

Caught red handed.

Beauty.

And… the conquest of the Bureau of Investigation.

It was Karen who found the investigators who were being imprisoned and tortured.

“Investigation Bureau… Are you from the Investigation Bureau?”

“Well, for now. “Shut your mouth, I have a simple revitalizer.”

A medicine for snowfall that I brought with me just in case.

Click…

“I don’t like poetry… stop…”

However, contrary to the initial expectation that they would eat the flounder, the investigators found it painful to pass the medicine down their throats.

“ah! The esophagus was also tortured. “They are pretty vicious kids to go that far.”

“Cough… call… really… did the Bureau of Investigation come forward for us?”

“It’s a bit complicated…”

“If you came to save us… how much support did we get? “Here in this building…”

“I’m alone.”

When the three of them heard that, an expression appeared on their faces. An expression of concern, not contempt or betrayal.

“You came alone? This is crazy…”

“Do you know where this is… hurry back!”

“Run away too! If they notice, you’ll be here too. “Go back and let them know we’re here!”

Karen tilted her head.

“What are you talking about? “If I run away, you will surely die?”

“….”

“You don’t want to go home?”

“….”

one of the investigators muttered.

“I want to go back… I want to take a bath in warm water…”

“Hey… I told you to go quickly! “You made a loud noise, so they’ll be here soon!”

“Are there any guys walking around wearing masks? If it’s those guys…”

“No! Other than those guys… If you’re alone, it’s dangerous for anyone, but… compared to the guys up here…” “

… Did they make the snow like this?”

Without exception, one eye was pulled out.

When recalling that memory, the investigators shed tears from their only remaining eye.

“Go away… If you don’t want to end up like this…”

Only then did Karen stop laughing.

Sigh…

She got up and said as she walked out the door.

“I’ll let you go home.”

“… what?”

“Wait here for a moment. “I’ll be right back.”

Karen said that and was about to turn around and climb up the pillar when she found someone standing at the end of the hallway.

Across the hallway.

A man with a bushy beard.

It was Ben Hugh, the leader of the group.

He looked intently into Karen’s eyes.

* * *

On the 4th floor of the building at that time.

“Hmm… Hmm… Should I leave it here?”

“What are you doing?”

“what?”

“Should we not leave such a monstrous thing here? “I’m so disgusted that I feel like throwing up.”

“Hey… all people’s bodies are the same, why is that? “Be nice to me.”

What she lined up were eyes dipped in a strange liquid. All human eyes.

It was well over twenty in size.

She collected much more snow than this, but it was all at home base.

Silk, the eye-obsessed killer, said.

“But Durette, doesn’t it take longer than usual?”

“Didn’t you hear the roar earlier? “I heard it’s the last time so it’s a grand slam.”

“I heard if you break it up like that, it’ll be hard to clean it up later…”

“Because we’re leaving here today. “I guess everything will be resolved before then.”

“What about Ben Hugh?”

“well? “I haven’t seen you since a while ago?”

Knock knock…

Everyone’s heads turned towards the door.

“Was Ben Hugh originally such a meticulous person?”

“No.”

“… Then he will die soon.”

Silk grinned and asked a question beyond the door.

“who is this?”

“Who… crab?”

A playful retort came from behind the door.

“Are you planning on playing a prank? “I like that too.”

“… thank god. Tskcha.”

Kkujiiikik…

Karen breaks the door open again.

“It’s open.”

She appeared indoors with a smile and was wearing a hat.

“… fairy?”

“Hiya… It’s a superb product, isn’t it? “I think I can make some money if I sell it.”

Silk asked with a frown.

“Are you an investigator?”

“uh? that’s right.”

“What… that reaction. But why did you come here? Didn’t I go the wrong way? “You haven’t met Durette?”

“Isn’t this a place where bad guys gather? “I think I came to the right place.”

Those who looked at each other at Karen’s words.

“Puh…pff…pff…what?”

“This dangerous guy has arrived. Are you trying to capture us?”

Karen said, holding her shoulder and twirling her arm.

“It depends.”

“Depends? “What are the other options?”

“You could kill me, right? “What if I resist?”

“… what? Are you going to kill us? “Are you alone?”

“huh. “If you resist, I will kill you.”

Silk snorted, looked back, and asked.

“You want to kill us? Oh my gosh, I have to die. “I have a habit of being obsessed with beautiful women, so I could die.”

Everyone was jokingly accepting Karen’s words, but a man with a suspicious text tattoo on his face opened his mouth. He was the one who had never opened his mouth.

“Everyone be on guard.”

At those words, everyone corrected their awkward posture and skillfully took up a formation suitable for battle.

“… what? really?”

“He is strong.”

“A strong man? “That fairy?”

Karen smiled brightly and stayed still.

“

… let’s join forces.”

“What the fuck are you saying… Adol! What!”

“I do not know. But… it’s ominous.”

Silk looked at Karen with serious eyes. She bit her lip and took a stance ready to attack at any time.

“Our fortune teller says so, so we should follow it. “But you still have to have motivation.”

she said to Karen.

“Would you please take off your hat?”

“hat?”

Sigh…

When Karen took off her regular hat, her facial features were clearly revealed.

“Wow….”

“… Snow.”

Even more than the harmony of her features, Silk was obsessed with her eyes.

“Those eyes… they are the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. I want it. “No, I will have it!”

“… As long as you can defeat me, you can do anything.”

A man named Adol said.

“We go full force from the beginning.”

He activated his ability by tearing the paper material.

[Adol uses isiljiggo.]

“I am Adol. There is almost no hitting ability. Weaken the enemy and strengthen our allies.”

[A carefree mindset is activated.]

[The effectiveness of debilitating effects on enemies increases by 30%.]

[The duration of strengthening effects on allies increases by 20%.]

The man with the rapier said.

“It’s Starlet. Use a mirror… 1 out of 20 illusions is the real you.”

[The carefree mindset is activated.]

[The mirror becomes two owners.]

“It just became two.”

Ugh…

[Starlet’s season: Uses 20 truths.]

[20 mirror illusions surround the target.]

An extremely large mirror filled the entire area.

Everyone was reflecting on Starlett’s presence.

Sigh…

Silk said, scattering seeds around.

“silk. “Attack with plants.”

[The carefree mindset is activated.]

[The plant grows 30% faster and recognizes allies.]

Starlett said.

“Okay then…”

“One person?”

“… what?”

“There’s one more person here.”

“… I think Silk Adol is right. This guy…”

“He’s pretty good at it, isn’t he?”

Slurp…

A man appeared out of thin air.

“You found me. “Mahan sneak attacks are my specialty.”

[The carefree mindset is activated.]

[When hiding, the presence becomes fainter and the deadly force is not revealed until the attack begins.] [

When hiding, the sneak attack critical damage increases by 50%.]

Whoosh…

Karen roughly puts on her hat. He said, throwing it somewhere.

“Should I tell you too? “It’s Karen Knight.”

“… what?”

“I like fireworks, but I won’t be using them today.”

“… why?”

“Conquest is risky. “It was a gift from the owner, so I think it would be sad to burn it.”

“What are you saying….”

“Then can we begin?”

“No, it’s my responsibility to go first.”

Starlett’s apparitions moved in the mirror. Sting posture.

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[Starlet uses Illusion Dance.]

[The reality is mixed with illusions to attack.]

[The illusions do not cause any damage.]

Sooooooooo!

Phantoms holding out swords.

Each person passed through Karen. It felt like I was in a world of ghosts.

[Starlett uses a light mirror.]

[20 Truths starts spinning.]

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss…

The mirror begins to spin.

“… My eyes hurt a little.”

“Don’t worry, your whole body will start to hurt soon.”

Churrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

A man-eating flower that grows in an instant.

Twaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Silk is an cannibal flower: a vine whip.]

[The cannibal flower attacks the target using the vine whip until another order.

]

Sssssssssssssssss-!

The vines stretched out like a whip and struck down Karen. However, the hit rate did not seem to be very high.

“Try to avoid everyone!”

Fuwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah…

My vision was dizzy as the ghosts in the mirror came out of the mirror and pretended to attack me.

A vine took advantage of that opportunity and grabbed Karen’s ankle.

“Gotcha!”

Karen turned over and spun around with her arms raised.

“Wow… It’s flying…”

Karen reacts with a forced facial expression as if she was on a boring ride.

“Oof… but I think I’ll get motion sick.”

Starlett made a real attack on her as she was left defenseless.

Paaaaaaat-!

Phantoms jumping out of the mirror all at once. And among them, the reality was mixed up.

Pot-!

“Ahh!”

Karen, with bright eyes, cut the vine as if she had been waiting for this moment and stabbed the sword towards Starlet’s body.

Clink…

But that wasn’t his body.

“How did know?”

“Presence. “But it’s fake?”

“Yes, it’s fake.”

“It was real, wasn’t it? It was definitely real…”

“It’s real, but it’s fake, and the main body is here. I told you. I became two. As long as mirrors exist, you can never chase me. On the other hand, I could target you forever.”

“… What, that’s unfair.”

The 20 starlets trapped inside the mirror spoke.

“The world is inherently unfair.”

“The world is inherently unfair.”

“The world is inherently unfair.”

Paaaaat-!

Once again, all the starlets in the mirror jumped out, and the vines that had multiplied took advantage of that opportunity to target her.

Karen spun violently this time.

Kaaaaaaaaaa!

“Tch…”

The attack she struck was an unexpected blow hidden in the darkness.

Drop… drop…

chieeeee…

A foul-smelling poison fell to the ground from the dagger of the assassin who introduced himself as Mahan.

Where the poison fell, a much larger area was corroded.

“Did you wield something so dangerous?”

“… It’s still relaxed. “How long can we do that?”

“Leave me alone, I’m destined to die soon. “My lovely flowers will disintegrate, leaving only the eyes?”

Sigh…

[Silk uses Overgrowth.]

[The man-eating flower grows to 150% of its growth limit.] I

suddenly came to my senses and looked around to see huge flowers being crushed by the ceiling, unable to fully grow and taking up space. there was.

Silk said.

“They may be unlucky, but they are okay when they are colleagues. how is it? “If you just quietly show your eyes, I might save your life.”

Karen blurted out.

“… Like the captured investigators?”

“Did you see it? Yeah, what do you think? “It’s my work.”

Karen withdrew her grinning expression.

And for the first time, I showed them an expressionless face.

“it was fun. “Now I’m going to count 10 seconds.”

“what?”

“What is he saying now?”

Karen had nothing left to say.

“For 10 seconds, spit out everything you want to say or leave behind. “Sometimes, if it comes to mind, I can tell it to others in front of the campfire.”

“…10 seconds? Why….”

“They will all be killed in 10 seconds.”

That moment.

Whioooooooooo…

The suppressed… or rather, hidden, deadly force in Karen’s body came out all at once.

If you could materialize your life, it would be as shocking as a bomb exploding.

“This… this….”

“What is this….”

Karen folded her fingers.

“Nine… nine…”

Those standing in front of Karen felt pain as if all their senses were being torn apart.

The instinct to survive tried to move their bodies away from Karen, but it failed.

You have to run away.

You can’t run away.

Because my legs won’t fall off.

Then you have to fight.

There is no other way than to fight.

You have to kill her.

That way you can live.

The collapse of the senses soon led to the collapse of reason.

“This… work… is over.”

“I’m dying!”

Starlett’s attack was aimed at Karen.

Paaaaat-!

Clang-graaaang-!

Karen finds the real thing among countless illusions. But the truth immediately became a lie.

“Khaat! You made me…”

Then Karen’s eyes turned to a specific mirror. It was a mirror with a real starlet on it.

“what…?”

Whoa!

Squeaky!

“Kwaaagh! “How…”

Karen said, pulling Starlett out of the mirror.

“Your friends are glancing around here.”

“Kick… Still wrong. I…”

[Starlett uses ego splitting.]

[The owner of the mirror scatters into all the mirrors.]

“They are all fake and real.”

“I knew it.”

“what?”

Huaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Karen’s sword drew a circle once.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

All the mirrors exploded at the same time.

“Kuhuheook….” As

the world of mirrors collapsed, Starlet, whose upper and lower bodies were cut in half along with the mirror, rolled on the floor.

Whirling-!

Twaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Silk uses Man-Eating Flower: Absorb Vitality.]

[The Man-Eating Flower binds the target and absorbs vitality until it receives another command.]

Whirring!

Vines flew from every flower.

There was no place for Karen to escape.

Churrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Karen is instantly wrapped up like a cocoon.

“It’s time! Mahan!”

“saw.”

Mahan trying to stab a dagger into the cocoon.

Puhwaaaaaaaaa!

“… uh?”

The sword came out of the cocoon and pierced Mahan’s heart.

I can’t see it, I can’t hear it.

He accurately pinpointed Mahan’s position and struck first.

“Ouch…”

Crackling…

The cocoon was torn and Karen rushed in.

“Now wait a minute! “I’m like this…”

Suddenly!

Adol’s head floating in the air.

When I actually counted 10 seconds, all three collapsed in an instant. Now it’s Silk’s turn.

[Adol’s Isiljiggo loses its effect.]

“Ugh… Wow!”

Silk lost his senses out of fear that he too would lose his life.

[Silk uses Man-Eating Flower: Asexual.]

[The Man-Eating Flower proliferates and attacks the surrounding area until it receives another command.]

Silk attacked the surrounding area while surrounded by flowers.

Kwaaang-!

“where are you!”

Quaaaaang-!

“Where are you?”

Kwaaaaaaaaaaaa!

“Come out here! “You monster!”

Karen was nowhere to be seen.

All you can see at a glance is Starlett crawling on the floor.

“Huh… Huh… Where….”

At that time.

Quaaaaang-!

The floor she stepped on broke and an arm stretched out from there.

“Aww…”

Kwow…

Silk’s new form fell backwards as if grabbed by a vine, causing a concussion.

“Ugh… Why… Why is it so strong…”

Karen looked indifferently at the fallen Silk.

“I use myself. “If I were to be as strong as you, I would give my all.”

“no. “The owner will hate you.”

“Master…?”

“okay.”

“You serve someone…? That’s ridiculous, you…”

Karen made eye contact with her.

“How come you still want my eyes?”

“Beautiful… eyes…”

“… you can’t do this. I’m going to use fire. “No one is watching…”

Sigh…

Someone grabbed Karen’s ankle.

It was Starlet, who was crawling on the floor with her upper and lower body separated.

“It’s not fair…”

Karen said, taking her ankle out of his hand.

“The world is inherently unfair. “Like you said.”

Tap…

Starlett’s breath stopped and Silk, who was about to die, muttered.

“The eyes… are beautiful.”

Rumbling…

Her body was on fire.

It was not a hot fire that burned up in an instant without leaving even a trace of bone, but a fire that slowly melted away.

“Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!?

“Slowly…turning to ashes and dying with the evil within.”

Karen went back the way she came up.

She appeared again in a space where the smell of blood had disappeared.

Tap…

tap…

She shook off the dust that had stuck to her hat and put it on just like she did the first time.

The three investigators looked up.

Karen grinned.

“Let’s go home.”