F-Rank Secretly Becomes Stronger - Chapter 66
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“Thanks for everything up until now.”
“You should be thankful, considering who caused all that trouble in the first place.”
The long week-long journey had finally come to an end.
[Congratulations on your success~ Come pick up the items through our kid~]
The two were finally able to distance themselves from each other, freed from their invisible bonds.
“Are you going to meet Mephisto right away?”
“I have to meet her. I was planning to drop you off at home and leave immediately.”
“There’s no need for that.”
Jia snapped her fingers in the empty air.
Then, inside the small hotel room, a gate small enough for one person to pass through opened.
“There, a gate.”
“….”
His thoughts momentarily stopped at the sight he was seeing for the first time.
Jung Juhyeok looked back and forth between the gate and her before asking.
“You can create gates too?”
“Of course, I made a contract with a demon.”
So making a contract with a demon allows you to easily create gates as well?
He had heard that not all contractors possessed the same abilities, but he never imagined the ability to create gates.
“Do you only create gates leading to Mephisto?”
“Of course not.”
She shook her head and continued speaking.
“I can create all the ordinary gates that monsters come out of too. Everything from F-rank to S-rank.”
“….”
“What, are you just now realizing I’m one of the bad guys?”
In society, gates are considered evil.
A common enemy of humanity that could cause great chaos in the world if monsters were to burst out carelessly.
It was natural for someone with the ability to create such gates to be classified as a dangerous element.
“Have you used it to harm people?”
“I have. There’s nothing better than gates for taking down bad guys without leaving evidence.”
She didn’t particularly show any emotion like guilt.
“Throw them into a gate and erase it immediately… instant evidence destruction, simple right?”
Perhaps because she judged that her actions were fitting punishment for their crimes.
Jia showed a small smile.
It was the most distant expression he had seen from her during the entire week.
“Why are you making that face?”
At such an unfamiliar appearance, my expression also hardened in the same way.
“Hearing about crimes isn’t exactly pleasant.”
“…It’s not like we’re throwing innocent people in there.”
Jia spoke casually while taking out water from the refrigerator, seemingly thirsty.
“We only put in guys who wouldn’t be pitied even if monsters tore their limbs apart in the gate. That’s not a problem, is it?”
“If you really only put in guys like that, I won’t worry about it much either.”
Criminals who cannot be punished by law.
The world was overflowing with such people, and I wasn’t such a model citizen that I would oppose throwing such people into gates.
“As long as you don’t touch the people around me, I’m not interested.”
“….”
Jia stared intently at his face for a moment.
After staring piercingly for a while, she turned her head and gestured toward the gate.
“Just hurry up and go in.”
“I’m not going in right now.”
It wasn’t a place he needed to enter right now.
There was still quite a bit of time left until the inspection date.
“Tell Mephisto I’ll visit her on that date.”
“She’s already listening to everything.”
“Then that’s settled.”
Jung Juhyeok stood up from his seat.
Now that all his business was finished, he needed to gradually head out for training.
He finished preparing to leave and grabbed the door handle.
As I grabbed the handle, someone called out from behind.
“Hey.”
I turned around.
There I saw Jia with a somewhat complicated expression.
“That, about the people around you.”
“Yeah.”
“….”
She pauses for a moment.
She hesitated for a while, then got irritated for no reason and plopped down on the chair.
“Never mind, it’s nothing!”
She asks by herself then gets annoyed and brushes it off by herself.
I’d seen such emotional ups and downs frequently over the past week, so it didn’t bother me much.
I figured if she really wanted to say something, she’d eventually tell me next time.
“I’m going.”
“Whatever.”
I left the room with her indifferent response.
Driving home in the car, I feel the air becoming quiet.
After being together for a week and then separating, I definitely feel the emptiness.
‘This must be what Mephisto was aiming for.’
I’d grown quite attached over the week.
She was selfish and sometimes got annoyed for incomprehensible reasons, but she wasn’t a bad person as a human being.
Even if she could open Gates, she wasn’t evil enough to use them on innocent people.
I ended up learning that about her.
‘It would have been easier if I hadn’t known.’
Still, it was fortunate that I didn’t develop deeper feelings beyond that.
Taking comfort in that thought, I gripped the steering wheel tightly.
*
“Here, the promised items.”
January 12th
The promised day had finally arrived.
I woke up early in the morning and went to the usual place, where a small Gate was open.
When I entered as usual, Mephisto welcomed me as if she’d been waiting and handed me something.
“Herb?”
What she handed me was a bundle of grass that looked like about two bundles worth.
As I looked at it questioningly, Mephisto answered.
“It’s a guy with good anesthetic effects, an herb that’s never enough no matter how much that guy who’s always doing Human Modification Experiments has.”
For Garisto, who produces Modified Demons every day, this would be an herb he’d want to get his hands on no matter how expensive.
“With this amount, he’ll grant pretty much any favor.”
“I really hope so.”
I endured a whole week stuck close to that woman for this herb.
If it’s not helpful to that degree, the cost-benefit doesn’t add up.
“Well, that aside… you’ve changed a lot.”
Mephisto slowly approached while saying that.
Though she always smokes cigarettes, a sweet fragrance enveloped my sense of smell.
“It’s still little, but your mana has increased tremendously.”
Her tone was filled with curiosity.
She came even closer with an interested expression and asked.
“What on earth happened?”
“Just an ordinary Reawakening.”
“Hmm~ I see, Reawakening…”
She nodded while muttering to herself.
Then she slightly raised the corners of her mouth and said.
“Though you showed absolutely no signs of Reawakening before.”
“You can tell that kind of thing?”
“Of course~ The title of Great Demon isn’t given for nothing.”
She walks around Juhyeok in a circle while taking out a cigarette from her bosom.
“When I look at humans carefully, I can see exactly how much a guy can grow.”
As Mephisto takes a puff of her cigarette, the tip ignites even though she didn’t light it.
She exhales a puff of smoke in the opposite direction and says.
“But with you, I can’t see anything.”
She can’t see it.
There’s no sign at all that Juhyeok will grow beyond this point.
It was the same when they first met, and even though he continued to grow each time they met, she couldn’t see any hope of him advancing further.
It’s not that she can’t see any signs of growth at all, of course.
However, the pace is so slow that it wouldn’t be strange to compare it to a snail.
That’s what made it even more intriguing.
“How does a human with talent worse than a slug become strong so quickly?”
She looks Juhyeok up and down with truly captivating eyes.
A unique gaze that no human could withstand.
Deep pupils that one could be sucked into at any moment.
“What are you hiding from me?”
She asked the question.
A temptation that one couldn’t resist without answering.
To this, Juhyeok rather frowned and answered.
“Did we agree that I’d tell you that in exchange for the herb?”
“…How boring.”
Once again, schemes that don’t work.
She tried it just in case, but it doesn’t work on his solid mental strength.
It only left behind displeasure at her attempt to seduce him.
“You really don’t want to tell me, do you? You know that only makes my curiosity grow stronger, right?”
“Not all curiosity can uncover secrets.”
“Honey, there are no eternal secrets in this world.”
Even artifacts hidden away are eventually discovered by descendants.
Secrets kept hidden from others will be revealed when the future comes.
“No matter how much you hide it now, it will eventually be uncovered.”
His secret will also be discovered someday when time passes.
“Wouldn’t selling it while it still has value be one good option?”
“….”
When temptation doesn’t work, she moves on to light persuasion.
Juhyeok didn’t even listen to her words with half an ear.
“You can’t buy it.”
The value of Juhyeok’s secret is so great that she couldn’t afford it.
Having an artifact dwelling in one’s body could be applied as a major weakness above all else.
There probably isn’t anyone in the world stupid enough to sell such a secret to someone else.
“If you understand, stop with the useless schemes and just take me to Garisto.”
All a waste of time.
He has no intention of being enchanted by Mephisto and babbling about the artifact, so it would be better for both of them if she woke up from her dream.
“Right, it has to be difficult like this for the pleasure to rush in more when I find out.”
Mephisto gives up more easily than expected.
Perhaps realizing that she doesn’t yet have the weapon to make him come over to her side, she didn’t ask any more questions.
“Actually, I never promised to take you to Garisto’s mansion…”
“Then I’ll just grab a passing demon and beat them up while asking.”
“How violent.”
Chuckling as she stubs out her cigarette in the ashtray.
She snapped her fingers with a languid voice and created a gate.
“This time it’s service~ Actually, their house isn’t in a location that’s too hard to find anyway.”
“I’ll use it gratefully.”
“Don’t mention it.”
Footsteps moving toward the gate.
Mephisto waved her hand with a smile.
Suddenly, for some unknown reason, he felt a presence behind him.
“Well then, have a safe trip?”
“…Yeah.”
He entered the gate with her seeing him off.
As he went inside, the scenery before his eyes changed with a familiar feeling.
From the library to in front of a magnificent mansion gate.
Based on the circumstances, this was Garisto’s mansion that had been mentioned so many times his ears were sick of it.
Jung Juhyeok pushed against the gate that clearly wouldn’t open easily.
“…It won’t open.”
As expected, it was tightly shut.
Jung Juhyeok lifted his foot and delivered a fierce kick.
Thud―!
Thud―!
The ground echoed from his full-force kicks.
One side of the tightly closed door gradually pushed inward, and before long, a space large enough for a person to pass through opened up.
‘It opened more easily than I thought.’
He had expected it would never open since it was called a demon’s mansion.
But seeing how it opened with just a few kicks, the security didn’t seem that tight.
With that thought, he stepped inside the mansion.
Whirr― Whirr―
Instantly, a loud alarm sounded.
“As expected, this would happen.”
An alarm that immediately went off due to trespassing.
Then he heard the sound of flapping wings from far away.
Turning his head, he saw demons descending from the sky.
Guys with abnormally enlarged wings and soulless faces.
‘Those are the modified demons.’
Guys flying toward him with somehow vacant expressions.
Jung Juhyeok gripped his sword tightly and entered combat stance.
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