F-Rank Secretly Becomes Stronger - Chapter 72

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72

 

“Master?”

 

“That’s right, Master.”

 

The something resembling Garisto raises his finger and points.

 

Who could this guy be, calling himself Master?

 

There was no need to think deeply about it.

 

“The newly formed Ego of the Training Room, I suppose.”

 

“That sounds a bit strange when you put it that way.”

 

He points at himself with his finger this time.

 

Pointing at himself with his thumb while confidently straightening his shoulders.

 

“Well, you’re right. I’m the one who made you that strong.”

 

“….”

 

“I expected as much, but your reaction is really boring.”

 

He shakes his head with an expression of disappointment.

 

It was clear enough that the Ego had appeared directly before his eyes.

 

For Juhyeok, there was more important information than that.

 

“Why did you drag me here?”

 

The Training Room he was brought to without even being asked if he wanted to come.

 

Until now, he had always only entered when the Master wanted to come in.

 

But this time, he had pulled him in without any interaction whatsoever.

 

This was a situation that could be quite threatening.

 

Juhyeok began to find the Ego facing him quite irritating.

 

“I told you we had to meet again. Since you really went and met Garisto, I called you.”

 

“That’s not the important issue.”

 

“Right~ That’s all in the past anyway. I knew this would happen eventually.”

 

The Ego slowly walks over and sits in a chair.

 

When had there been a chair?

 

There had been nothing in the pure white space, but as he sat down, a chair came into existence.

 

A table too. Just the right size for two people to sit and have a meal.

 

The Ego casually gestured to the empty seat in front of him.

 

“How about we sit down and talk?”

 

“…Fine.”

 

There was nothing good to come from getting on his bad side.

 

Juhyeok decided to take a cooperative approach for now.

 

He sat in the newly appeared chair, facing the guy who looked more and more identical to Garisto.

 

“There’s a problem between us, isn’t there?”

 

“What is it.”

 

“The fact that Master is trying to remove me.”

 

The Ego spoke without a moment’s hesitation.

 

A conflict between the two.

 

The Master was trying to remove him.

 

The fact that he brought up this issue probably meant he viewed the attempt to remove him negatively.

 

He quietly listened to his words.

 

“Why on earth does Master want to remove me?”

 

“Because I’m afraid my body might burst.”

 

“Hahaha… Really?”

 

The Ego let out a hollow laugh.

 

He countered Juhyeok’s opinion with a calm voice.

 

“We’ve been together for a whole year already, and you’ve shown stable condition so far.”

 

“How can you guarantee it’ll stay fine forever?”

 

“What if I could guarantee it?”

 

“Hard to believe.”

 

Juhyeok looked up and spoke.

 

The face resembling Garisto was grinning.

 

He continued speaking to him with an expressionless face.

 

“I also don’t like how you brought me to this space without any discussion.”

 

“…That bothered you?”

 

The guy calmed down a bit, perhaps sensing that the other party was not in a good mood.

 

“I thought I appeared at a pretty good timing.”

 

“Being dragged to the Training Room without any notice can’t be good.”

 

“Hmm.”

 

After being lost in thought alone for a few seconds, he deeply bows his head.

 

He showed the back of his head briefly, then stood up and said.

 

“I’ll apologize.”

 

An apology.

 

Was that truly realizing he had done wrong from the heart?

 

Or was it just a means used to get past the situation?

 

I wasn’t sure, but it was difficult to lower my guard with just that one word of apology.

 

“I’ll decide whether to accept it based on the conversation that follows.”

 

“Then let’s get back to the main topic.”

 

He lifts his head to show a bright smile again.

 

I had always seen only expressions that approached me like a pervert, but seeing him smile so dazzlingly like this, I realize again that his face was quite that of a handsome boy.

 

“Master became strong through me. Right?”

 

“Right, thanks to you I became strong and came this far.”

 

“Then how do you plan to become stronger without me in the future?”

 

The Training Room asks.

 

Juhyeok, a dullard among dullards, how does he plan to become even stronger without the Training Room?

 

“Before you met me, your mana was so tiny like an ant’s that you wouldn’t even know it existed.”

 

You met me and became strong.

 

Therefore, you should continue to rely on me and become stronger in the future too.

 

The Training Room was saying such things in a roundabout way.

 

“Successfully separating me would be difficult, but even if that happened, it would be hard to become stronger in the future.”

 

“Is that so?”

 

“Of course. Don’t you know that Master’s life changed after meeting me? Rather, you should be extremely grateful to me and beg me to stay with you continuously.”

 

A confident attitude.

 

It wasn’t wrong.

 

Without the Training Room, there would have been no way to become this strong in such a short period.

 

In that regard, the Training Room was someone Juhyeok should be grateful to.

 

It said that Juhyeok’s behavior of trying to separate like this was rather wrong.

 

“My thoughts are a bit different.”

 

“Different?”

 

Juhyeok answers that.

 

“Could you meet another master other than me?”

 

Is it really only Juhyeok who needs the Training Room?

 

Without the Training Room, Juhyeok would naturally feel regretful too.

 

Let’s think about it from the opposite perspective.

 

If Juhyeok disappeared, what would happen to the Training Room?

 

“Could you find another human who could endure the same ridiculous number like a million times without their mind collapsing?”

 

Garisto called the Training Room a failure.

 

[If you enter there, you fight countless times until you go crazy and your mind is destroyed, and in the end, unable to overcome that mental damage, the artifact gets destroyed.]

 

Meeting the wrong master would damage even the artifact and end everything.

 

In other words.

 

“There wouldn’t be, right?”

 

The Training Room cannot serve any master other than me.

 

“….”

 

A properly hit vital point.

 

The Ego stares at Juhyeok silently.

 

The grinning expression disappeared somewhere, and a calm face took its place.

 

The laughter completely vanished after trying to take control but getting checkmated instead.

 

Juhyeok pulls his chair forward, closing the distance with the Ego.

 

“Think carefully. Who is your master.”

 

“…Hmph.”

 

A sulking expression.

 

Like a child whose tantrum didn’t work, she whips her head around.

 

Then she swings her legs that don’t reach the ground back and forth while adding a melody to her speech.

 

“I see~ So Master is this kind of person~”

 

The other party briefly moves her head this way and that.

 

Before long, she spoke in a voice that had given up completely.

 

“Fine. Master is totally~ right about everything.”

 

Saying that, she lifted her head back to face him and said.

 

“But since Master said it, Master knows too, right?”

 

“What.”

 

“The reason I don’t want to leave Master.”

 

Without him, it would be difficult to find another being to attach to.

 

Not just difficult, but nearly impossible in the current situation.

 

The Training Room desperately clung to Juhyeok.

 

“There’s no one else to be with besides Master.”

 

“Yeah, I know that too.”

 

Juhyeok, who had firmly grasped control.

 

Here, Juhyeok established their relationship even more clearly.

 

“Then here, we have a mutually beneficial relationship where our interests align.”

 

“A mutually beneficial relationship?”

 

“Think of it as a relationship where we help each other.”

 

“I see.”

 

She nods her head as if understanding.

 

The guy continued speaking quietly.

 

“Master gets stronger through me… and I follow Master around eating magic stones!”

 

“That’s right.”

 

Is the Training Room an artifact that has a desire to eat magic stones?

 

Having that desire wouldn’t be a big problem between them though.

 

Anyway, putting that issue aside, there was the most important problem.

 

“Hey.”

 

“Yes, Master.”

 

The guy looking at him with bright, sparkling eyes.

 

Juhyeok stared intently into those eyes and asked the Ego.

 

“Are you confident you won’t explode?”

 

One of the things he was most curious about when she said she had gained an ego.

 

Could the artifact control itself and adjust to prevent his body from exploding in the future?

 

That was the most important key point.

 

If not, Juhyeok had absolutely no intention of staying with the Training Room.

 

To Juhyeok’s question, the Ego answered without a moment’s hesitation.

 

“Of course! As long as Master doesn’t take mental damage, there’s no problem.”

 

“You’re saying it depends on my condition?”

 

“That’s right? I’m currently in a state of parasitizing Master’s body.”

 

The Ego shakes her head this way and that as she speaks.

 

“I invested everything into reducing physical damage, so I have absolutely no immunity in that area.”

 

“…So that’s why you said you’d break if there were mental problems.”

 

Stats that seemed to be biased toward only one side.

 

She was a perfect match with Juhyeok, who took no mental damage whatsoever.

 

“Anyway~ you don’t need to worry about exploding.”

 

The Ego dismissed it as if there were no problems at all.

 

He couldn’t find any reason to doubt that confident attitude and evidence.

 

‘If it was going to explode for other reasons anyway, it would have exploded within a year.’

 

Moreover, if it accidentally exploded, the artifact using his body as a host would also perish together.

 

If the guy thought there was a possibility of exploding, she would have left his body to safely continue her remaining life.

 

From that standpoint, there was no reason for pointless lies.

 

“Then I have no intention of removing you either.”

 

“Really?”

 

“You can keep hiding well as you have been, and even if we’re discovered, I’m not so weak that others can easily push me around anymore.”

 

Juhyeok said this while stroking the face that had eagerly pushed forward with an excited expression.

 

“It’s all thanks to you.”

 

“Mmm~ You acknowledge it.”

 

Ego seemed to be delighted as it was being stroked.

 

It felt like encountering a people-loving dog on the street.

 

“Then you won’t remove me, right?”

 

“Instead, promise me just one thing.”

 

The last remaining condition for not removing him.

 

Juhyeok emphasized to him while recalling what had just happened.

 

“Never bring me somewhere without asking for my opinion like today.”

 

“Yeah, I will.”

 

“Good, thanks for listening well.”

 

His hand kept moving as stroking felt somehow addictive.

 

Though his mood had improved, he didn’t have time to do this forever, so he had to return soon.

 

“Then send me back to my original location.”

 

“Yeah! Got it.”

 

Saying that, eyes that raised a hand to cover them.

 

Juhyeok’s vision became dark and gradually even the sensation of sitting on the chair slowly disappeared.

 

After that familiar yet unfamiliar sensation passed and he closed and opened his eyes, the world changed.

 

“Oh, you’re back?”

 

The same face as before welcomed him.

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