Became a Mechromancer - Chapter 20

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Chapter 20.
Different (4)
A silver-haired woman stood at the entrance of the Alley.
Doo-ho gazed at the fork on the ground.
‘That had enough force to kill a person.’
And before entering the Moru Workshop.
I recalled the silver-haired woman humming a tune as she chased after a man.
Whoosh.
Sensing danger, Doo-ho fashioned a mask from nanobots to conceal his face.
Glance.
I looked back from the corner of my eye.
The man collapsed behind me was trembling.
-Doo-ho! That woman is no ordinary person!
Doo-ho shared the same assessment.
After all, I had barely managed to deflect a mere fork with nanobots.
Susan approached.
Click, click!
Her black boots struck the ground with deliberate force.
“Amusing, isn’t it?”
Her voice was low and cold.
The corners of her mouth twisted upward into a smile.
Doo-ho instinctively retreated backward, matching her stride for stride.
All the while dragging the man with me.
Susan tilted her head slightly.
“Do you know that man?”
“No.”
Doo-ho answered curtly.
“Then why are you blocking me while wearing a mask?”
“…You seem dangerous in multiple ways.”
Susan smiled with her eyes as she asked.
“Are you pretending?”
“What…?”
“Pretending to be good.”
She extended her hand.
Whoosh.
The fork that had fallen to the ground was drawn into her hand.
My eyes widened.
What is this?
‘Could it be… does that woman have nanobots too…?!’
—No! That woman is an awakener of the ‘Telekinesis’ lineage!
‘Telekinesis?’
In other words.
She can move any object at will.
Doo-ho deposited the items he carried into the Garage.
Susan found his unexpected response intriguing.
“That’s quite an unconventional response.”
Whisk, whisk—.
Susan twirled the fork between her fingers.
Then she extended her hand.
“You should have removed your mask too.”
The nanobots were drawn toward Susan’s hand, stretching like mozzarella cheese.
But.
The moment Doo-ho tilted his head slightly, the nanobots returned to his face.
My goodness!
“Are you also a telekinesis user?”
“….”
Doo-ho kept his mouth shut.
Letting her remain under that misconception wasn’t entirely unwelcome.
And….
Inside his mind, Isto and Hawkeye were in absolute chaos.
How dare she!
—Making advances on Master Doo-ho!
—This is precisely why humans require control!
—I shall handle this!
—Listen here, Hawkeye. I’ll put holes right through that human woman’s skull!
—Hold on, you hothead. The senior will finish this!
—Blockhead. Don’t cause trouble!
Ugh!
“…Quiet!”
Doo-ho’s sudden outburst came from nowhere.
Susan shrugged and gripped the fork tightly.
Aha~.
“So you prefer physical communication?”
“No, that’s not it!”
Just as Doo-ho was about to protest vehemently.
Tap tap tap tap.
The Drug Dealer behind them fled.
Huh?
Doo-ho turned around in surprise—.
Shwing—!
A fork hurtled through the air.
I reflexively batted it away with my nanobots.
Clang!
This time the fork embedded itself in the wall.
This is maddening.
‘I’ve inadvertently blocked another attack….’
A smile spread across Susan’s lips.
“Well then. Let’s have some fun.”
Click, click.
She approached me.
Swish, swish.
Simultaneously, I retreated backward.
I thought I was simply stepping back, but Susan’s expression shifted as she observed my gait.
“You… who are you?”
“I-I’m just an unrelated person!”
“No, you’re clearly quite involved.”
Susan withdrew a miniature drone from her coat.
She promptly launched several camera drones into the air.
Whoosh….
Using the holographic display on her smart glasses, she generated a mask.
Her face now resembled a beautiful cat.
‘What is she planning?’
Whirr… snap—.
The fork embedded in the wall returned to Susan’s hand.
The cat-faced Susan spoke to me.
“Get into position.”
“W-what kind of position!”
Whoosh!
Her figure vanished as she gripped the fork.
I enveloped my entire body with nanobots.
-An excellent decision!
Isto said as much.
-Mechromancer. Lower left!
Hawkeye pinpointed her location.
I retreated while concentrating my nanobots into my legs.
Susan’s fork drove toward my legs.
Clang!
Fortunately, my nanobots intercepted it.
Whoosh.
Doo-ho flowed into her embrace like water, reaching to grasp the hand holding the fork.
Susan quickly circled behind Doo-ho and whispered into his ear.
“Amusing, isn’t it? Mimicking our family’s assassination technique.”
What?!?
Her words startled me more than being caught from behind.
‘Our family’s assassination technique?’
Could it be…?
But.
There was no time to dwell on it.
Her assault came crashing down.
Doo-ho lowered his stance even further.
The fundamental assassination stance Isto had taught me.
Simultaneously, Susan assumed the same posture.
Ahahaha~.
“It’s like we’re playing mirror!”
Whoosh—!
Both moved in unison.
Thud! Smack! Clang!
Fists and kicks crossed.
Because they shared the same assassination technique, each anticipated the other’s next move.
When Doo-ho aimed for the ribs,
Susan had already vacated that space.
When she targeted the throat,
Doo-ho had already ducked his head.
The exchange continued.
Scaling walls, leaping between buildings, evading speeding cars—the combat persisted until
they returned to their original location.
One thing was fortunate.
‘If I hadn’t consumed the elixir, I would have died long ago.’
The nanobots had blocked most of her attacks.
But…
Doo-ho gradually began to lose ground.
An unavoidable gap in experience.
That was when.
“You’re surprisingly weak, aren’t you?”
With those words, Susan seized Doo-ho’s left leg with telekinetic force.
In that critical moment, Doo-ho wrapped his nanobots around her fork-wielding arm.
Ahahaha~.
Her face radiated bliss, as if she were savoring something delightful.
“Tell me—are you perhaps Father’s hidden child?”
“…”
The way you speak is completely different from how you treat our parents.
You’re breaking their hearts.
Thwack!
Susan, still tethered to the nanobot, drove her foot into Doo-ho’s ribs.
The nanobot absorbed some of the impact.
Thud!
Her back struck the wall, and she broke free from the nanobot’s grasp.
She attacked again.
A fork thrust toward Doo-ho’s eyes.
Whirrrr—.
The nanobot erupted in a violent torrent.
Countless silver particles transformed into needle-sharp spikes, hurtling toward Susan.
What—?!
Whoosh, whoosh whoosh.
Susan twisted her body and retreated with a graceful swallow dive.
But.
Shhk—.
A sharp spike grazed her shoulder.
Blood seeped from the wound.
“…Is this telekinesis?!”
Unpredictable trajectories and attacks that seemed to possess intent—bizarre and unsettling.
She stowed the fork and drew a short blade hidden at her thigh.
Her aggression now fully unleashed.
Doo-ho quickly increased the distance between them.
‘…So you were holding back this whole time.’
Susan gripped the dagger in reverse and began pressing Doo-ho relentlessly.
Clang! Thwack! Clang!
The dagger and nanobot clashed ferociously.
Doo-ho’s footwork was pushed steadily backward.
The air rippled as Isto’s voice resonated in Doo-ho’s mind.
-Doo-ho! I’ll handle this!
‘Don’t come out!’
-Pardon?
If you emerge….
That woman will almost certainly die.
But I have no intention of simply taking this beating.
I’ll respond with the most appropriate method.
‘Hawkeye! Can you provide suppressive fire?’
With Doo-ho’s question.
The cloaked Hawkeye emerged from the Garage.
* * *
Upon the rooftop railing.
Scrape—
Hawkeye scaled the wall and took position on the rooftop.
The scope flickered as it swept across the street below.
The Alley.
A silver-haired woman was pressing Doo-ho hard.
The woman’s voice rang out.
“Reveal yourself, or die!”
Clang! Thud! Clang!
The dagger and the nanobot shield spinning ferociously around Doo-ho’s body collided relentlessly.
Doo-ho’s stance was being driven backward.
Extreme pressure.
Hawkeye’s bow on the rooftop aimed downward.
Whisper whisper whisper.
Blue light coalesced along the bowstring.
The scope locked precisely onto Susan’s head.
-Mechromancer. I will eliminate the female.
Doo-ho flinched.
-Don’t shoot!
-But tactically, eliminating her would be….
-Just threaten her!
-….
Hawkeye fell silent at Doo-ho’s command.
And then.
-…Switching to warning fire.
Whoooosh────.
The blue light left the bowstring.
The blue arrow passed just beyond Susan’s feet.
Boom!
The ground erupted, scattering debris.
In an instant, smoke billowed up around them.
What?!
Susan stumbled backward in shock.
“A, a sniper?!”
She looked up toward the rooftop.
But she sensed nothing.
Whoooosh—!
Another shot came flying.
And it was an even brighter light than before.
Thwack! Boom!
Susan retreated further back.
Crash!
Light pierced the ground once more.
Remarkably, the impact location had shifted.
An intentional move to prevent me from pinpointing the position.
Susan stared intently at Doo-ho.
This man….
What exactly is his identity?
Did he bring a sniper with him?
More than anything.
The fact that she hadn’t known about the sniper’s existence sent a chill down her spine for the first time.
‘He could have killed me whenever he wanted, couldn’t he?’
Susan retracted her drone.
And looked at Doo-ho again.
Doo-ho breathing heavily.
A smile spread across Susan’s lips.
Hmm~.
“What’s your name?”
….
When Doo-ho remained silent, Susan shrugged.
“Finding out gradually might be fun too.”
She sheathed the dagger at her thigh.
“I’ll head back for today. Oh, and get stronger, will you? It’d be a shame to kill you too easily next time we meet.”
With those words, she vanished.
Silence fell over the Alley.
Doo-ho stood rigid.
His muscles, pushed to their absolute limit, screamed in pain.
Thump.
My legs gave out and I collapsed.
Ugh….
“That was close.”
Hawkeye descended the wall and stood before Doo-ho.
The scope blinked once.
“…I survived because of you. Thank you.”
-It was merely the fulfillment of my duty.
I thought it was a reliable response, but….
-I am only regretful that the human was allowed to escape.
Yeah….
The Robot Liberation Group, how fitting.
Doo-ho exhaled sharply.
Then.
Isto emerged from the Garage.
-Doo-ho! Why did you block my sword!
Hawkeye swiveled the scope toward Isto.
-Ironhead, now that you’ve shown up, you’ll only add chaos to the battlefield. You’re a troublesome variable.
-What?! What’s this lanky bastard saying!
Watching the two bicker, Doo-ho found his composure returning.
I’d been genuinely shocked.
‘…What was that about Blood Count?’
-That’s what I’m saying. Who came here to assassinate?
“I don’t know. And I don’t want to know.”
The fortunate part was that I’d survived.
And….
‘That man must have escaped well, right?’
As Doo-ho stood up, Isto approached.
Isto silently grasped Doo-ho’s right arm.
“What are you doing?”
-It hurts a little.
“…?”
Mana flowed through Isto’s hand like electricity, surging through Doo-ho’s arm.
Crackle!
A tiny spark erupted as something minuscule was forced out from the forearm and burned away.
Ouch, that stings.
Doo-ho’s eyes widened as he stared at his forearm.
“What is this?”
How dare she!
-A micro tracker embedded in Doo-ho!
Sigh….
That woman.
‘When did she plant this?’
In other words, she could have easily killed me.
So why did she back off so readily?
“…She planted the tracker.”
She could have found me anytime.
Wait….
Then what about that man from before?
* * *
Susan examined the map on her smart glasses.
One of the two markers—the red one—is moving.
‘Didn’t get as far as I thought.’
Somewhere in a back alley.
Huff, huff.
The Drug Dealer gasped for breath.
‘I’m alive… I’m alive!’
Just as he was about to release a sigh of relief.
Susan, fork in hand, walked toward him.
“Hide, hide away, or your hair will show~.”
Eek, eeeek!
The Drug Dealer’s jaw trembled violently.
.
.
.
Moments later.
Susan slipped away to a secluded spot and pressed her wounded shoulder.
Nanobot fragments had grazed her, and blood seeped through her coat where they’d passed.
“…It’s been a while since I’ve been cut.”
She initiated a call through her smart glasses.
-Hey, Susan. You didn’t cause trouble already, did you?
“There was an incident. The Drug Dealer approached me.”
-Oh my, I suppose he’s deceased now.
Susan changed the subject.
“…I met an interesting man. He uses the same assassination technique as me.
-What? What do you mean….
Jacob’s startled voice came through the communication line.
She spoke.
“But when we clashed, it felt like a variation of our family’s assassination art, you know?”
-Not the same thing?
“It’s different. He’s developed it further.”
-How is that possible?
“It doesn’t make sense, but I experienced it firsthand.
-The opponent? What happened to him?
“The power difference is still clear, so I was trying to capture him and ask how he did it….”
Susan, her words trailing off, swept back her disheveled bangs as she spoke.
“But I had to retreat because of a sniper.”
A brief silence fell.
Wait, hold on!
-A sniper? What are you talking about?
“A professional sniper was protecting the man. Don’t worry. I planted a tracker on him, so I can find him later….”
As I spoke, I glanced at the map beyond my smart glasses.
The blue marker had gone dark.
“…!”
Susan, momentarily stunned, let out a hollow laugh.
‘How did he figure that out?’
Sigh….
A ghost of the Abyss.
A madman who blocks personal information.
And just now, even Copycat.
“Jacob.”
-Y-yes, that’s right.
“Yeouido is quite an interesting city, isn’t it?”
Anticipation gleamed in Susan’s amber eyes.
Became a Macromanser
Author |
Gungang E
Publication Date |
February 25, 2026
Publisher |
Talesyx
Website |
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