Chapter 82 (1/2)

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Adam (3)

I contemplated. ‘It’s not my business if he kills all of those punks.’

But what he said after that bothered me. If those punks rushed on him, he would wrestle with them and let some go on purpose? And as an excuse to find them and finish them, he said that he would kill those innocent humans in the refugee camp. It was a threat brewed from an adequate misunderstanding.

‘I did not know what kind of organization that union was, but they generally seem to ban slaughtering innocent humans.’

He must have thought that I was a member of that union and was here to interfere with a possible slaughter.’ Although I was a human completely irrelevant to it.’ But the problem was, I couldn’t let that alien massacre those in the refugee camp because of me. I observed his core once again.

‘The active Mana was 200,000.’

I asked myself, could I hold him down without killing him? An answer that it was least likely came back. Then. ‘Could I kill him by ambushing him?’ Considering my item, skill, and the fact that he didn’t know me right now. ‘That might be possible.’ But was it necessary to fight here? In the first place, I had intended to stalk him and identify who he was and what his motives were, but things had taken a wrong turn.

‘The critical move was in stalking the opponent without having any idea of his abilities.’

I didn’t know what combinations allowed him to, but he had noticed that he had a tail on him. After contemplating, I decided to reveal myself.

Swwash!

As I appeared out of thin air, the punks panicked, “W-what was that bastard!”

Abrams smiled and moved his finger, signaling me to come closer, “Yeah! I knew it! Of course, the ‘eye’ hired by the union was following…” He tilted his head, discontinuing his sentence, “Huh? Are you a real watcher? You don’t have the unique thing that those guys have.”

Before I replied to the alien, I decided to get rid of those roaches. To the Awakened that surrounded him, I sent out a murderous aura as if I were trying to intimidate him. Then, they trembled as if they realized that something was wrong.

‘Idiots that didn’t know that their lives were like the candle in the wind.’ A few of them grabbed their sword handle instinctively. “If you draw that, that could be the end of you. Fortunately, you can still turn this thing around, so bug off.”

They exchanged nervous glances. There were two opponents, but they were unable to easily give up because of the crowds. It was clear how many Awakened had run away to here after committing crimes. Excluding the few that could be counted with my fingers, most of them were E-Rank, D-Rank, at most. If those assumptions were right, they were second-guessing if they could take care of us. I decided to end their contemplation. Weeing! I pulled up the sword at the speed of lightning. Even before they could react to it, fragments of floating sword energy, the size of a palm, surrounded them, aiming sharply.

“Gasp!”

They did not know what to did at all. They must have genuinely realized that I was not an opponent that could be touched. I once again said aggressively, “Get out!”

Only then did they waver their steps. One by one, they started to flee the scene. It took a few seconds for them to run away. After dealing with them, Adams and I locked our eyes again. He still tilted his head, “Your method of handling the natives was weird as well. What are you?”

I observed him closely. Along his left and right clavicles, as he was unclothed at the top, four holes the size of fingers were present. And from those holes, a flesh-colored finger-sized tube came out.

‘Still, there was no movement of Mana!’

And that moment, each tube opened their mouths and aimed for my head. I had come prepared to respond to any situations such as retaliation, defense, or fleeing. But still, in my eyes, nothing could be seen, and he didn’t attack.

He suddenly murmured, “Mask Slime? This is as weird as it gets. It’s not the method of how they work.” It was the item that I placed upon to hide my face as protection. “I see. You aren’t a watcher! Are you just a native from here? A native from a novice dimension, where the tutorial had just begun, stalked me?!” The eight tubes changed their angles and aimed at my shoulder. Then, he exclaimed, “Ah, it’s [Hermit’s Gray Cape]! You must have been lucky. You got yourself a quite useful item, didn’t you?” The tubes gradually aimed as if they were scanning my lower body. Adam’s facial expressions changed, “What? Why does an Awakened of a novice dimension have such grand items? Your whole body is surrounded with SS-Rank items!”

Then, at that exact moment, the tube aimed at my hands. Adam Abrams’ body stiffened like a stone. He babbled, “T-t-that!” In a panicked and baffled voice, he shouted, pointing at the ring on my finger, “Where did you get that from!”

Of course, he was pointing to the ‘[Door of Hope]’ the only SSS-Class among the items I owned. The artifact, that if coordinates were given, one could travel to any other dimensions.

‘He’s reacting like his mouth was about to foam.’ I did not reply and silently observed him.

Adam shouted with a look that suggested he would rush in on me at any given moment, “What was the coordinate of the middle dimension that you got that from? No, they wouldn’t know what dimension coordinates were!”

I did know. On the map that I saw when I met the ministry spirit, the normal dimension that connected Earth, and the middle dimension functioning as a bridge, was also listed. But I deliberately kept silent and watched his reactions.

“Even if you did not know the coordinates, you must have gone through a gate that’s connected to this world. Where was this gate? Did you happen to have closed the gate?”

I knew that this item had excellent and outstanding performance. To react like that suggested that it meant a lot to the alien. Only then did I open my mouth, “Are you curious about the information on this item?”

Only when Adam heard those words did he seem to analyze the situation and calmed himself down. “Damn, I got too agitated,” he soon fixed his expression and snorted, “Your kind don’t know the true value of that ring.”

It did not seem like he would rush in on me to steal it. He must have known that most of the human Awakened were weaker than him. But not attempting, even if he knew, meant…

‘Ethics of an alien? Or, because it violated the treaty that was mentioned a while ago?’

I spoke to him, “If you need information that you want from me,” I continued calmly, “Perhaps we could make a deal?”

*

Abrams, on hearing the offer, seemed to contemplate something for a while. After telling me to hold on, he made a wavering Mana pattern in a unique way. I realized that it was some sort of communication type skill.

‘Was he doing some interdimensional communication?’

I did not have to wait long, and as if he heard of the answer from the other side, he nodded and said, “Before I accept the trade, there is something that I need to confirm.” He asked as if I was dubious, “How did you know my location to stalk me? No matter how hard I think about it, I did not leave a trace that a human could follow.”