Chapter 28 Part2 (2/2)
Jin, rather than Kratia, was shocked and yelled. It made sense that he would point his staff at them since he had thought they were undead, but for Lee s.h.i.+n Woo to understand him, when he had attacked another hero with a s.h.i.+tty reason like a.s.sessing her abilities!?
When did Lee s.h.i.+n Woo become such a saint!? However, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo shrugged his shoulders and explained.
”We were given all the clues. Like the magician that Lloyd said was stronger. In other words, Prince was p.i.s.sed that Lloyd thought of Kratia so highly.”
”Why would he get p.i.s.sed over that...?”
”Because Lloyd would want Kratia more supposedly.”
”??”
Kratia and Jin both looked confused. He was positive that they still didn't understand how what he was saying was related to the situation at all.
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo thought about how he could explain the pride of a person with a large ego, or Prince and Lloyd's strange relations.h.i.+p that he'd observed a few times in the chatting channel, but he quickly gave up and went with the easiest way of explaining it.
”Prince likes Lloyd. He's jealous of Kratia since Lloyd thinks so highly of her. They're both magicians, so it must've been even worse for him.”
”He's a guy, though!? But I suppose a man can like another man!”
”Yeah, I agree, but that's not the case here. Prince is a girl.”
”!?”
”!?”
The effect was tremendous! Jin and Kratia were confused!
But this time, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was speechless seeing their faces.
”How can you not know? That beautiful outer appearance, the way she puts up a strong front, yet the delicate gestures... And the deciding factor was the fact that there're traces of mana around her body that indicate that she's using a disguise type magic.”
”...Now that you mention it, it all makes sense.”
”Plus, the name Prince is clearly being used to show her 'masculinity'. In cases like this, there's a high chance that she's actually the opposite gender.”
They ruminated over Prince's appearance. It was exactly as Lee s.h.i.+n Woo said. When they thought about it like that, they felt like it was weird that they had actually thought of her as a guy.
”It's hard to hide your gender. Prince is the type who thinks that as long as she hides what she looks like on the outside and changes her voice, then she'll be ok. That's why she gets caught so easily.”
”That's true, but it really p.i.s.ses me off to hear it from you...!”
”Agreed...!”
”Huh?”
Why? He thought he'd explained it quite amicably, yet Jin and Kratia gazed at Lee s.h.i.+n Woo as if they were letdown! Lee s.h.i.+n Woo couldn't bear their anger, especially since he didn't know why they were mad at him in the first place and turned his gaze. Then, Kratia suddenly grabbed him.
”By the way, what's with that face from before?”
”Ah, that's my face from when I was still on Earth. Though my Disguise skill has leveled up, I can only disguise myself this much for now.”
”Disguise? That's a disguise? How's that even possible?”
”Even I'm not sure how it works, so why don't you ask G.o.d later?”
Kratia grabbed onto Lee s.h.i.+n Woo even tighter. Her eyes were filled with excitement.
”Show me one more time.”
”We came here to go through the training facility, not research my Disguise skill, right?”
”Just once.”
”Hoo.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo sighed and took off his helmet. Kratia exclaimed with a 'ooh', approached him, and rubbed his cheek. That fresh feeling and the heat that was unmistakably human caused her to blush slightly. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo looked down at her and spoke to her with a bit of a chilled voice.
”That's not what I look like right now. It's just a disguise.”
”Then is your true appearance that of a bony skeleton?”
”...”
”Who determines what's fake and what's real?”
He could easily say that his disguised appearance was fake. However, his Joker karma stopped him. Since there was no one who recognized him as a fake. Kratia nodded her head as though she understood how he felt and continued.
”One day the boundary between what's fake and what's real will come cras.h.i.+ng down. You'll have to think hard when that time comes, s.h.i.+n Woo.”
Kratia's words left a deep impression on Lee s.h.i.+n Woo. If Lee s.h.i.+n Woo were able to make a perfect fake, fool everyone, fool himself, and even fool the entire world... could he really call that a fake?
He believed that when he could answer that question clearly, he would become a true Joker.
”You really are a magician.”
”That's the ultimate goal of a magician. Deceiving the world and creating what's real.”
”I told you, I'm not a magician.”
”Kratia, you're getting way too close.”
Jin gently pushed Kratia away, who had been continuously rubbing Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's cheek. At the same time, the barrier opened and someone entered the training facility. It was obviously the Prince.
”Y-Yooooooooou!”
Prince aimed her staff at Kratia while water melted and dripped from the ends of her trembling hair. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo thought she'd be frozen for a few hours, but it seems like she didn't completely lack in the talent department. He was secretly impressed.
”...I won't go easy on you this time.”
”Kuuuuuuu....!”
The orb floated into the air and violently rotated, drawing in the surrounding mana and creating ice crystals. Seeing that, Prince recoiled, but soon grit her teeth and spoke.
”Joint operation!”
”Huh?”
”I... I've seen what you can do, so we should clear it together!”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo saw Prince's cheeks get so red that he thought they would explode and erupted in laughter.
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