Mistaken for a Geniu Chapter 105 : Chapter 105

Chapter 105: Order

‘It's warm.’

Savoring the warmth of the cocoa in my hands, I exhaled deeply.

Thanks to Do Haru's snot mixed with tears, I woke up and was able to sit on a rock fragnt and take a rest.

I sat with a blanket over my shoulders, but my body was still trembling.

"There don't seem to be any external abnormalities, but there might be a problem with your nervous system. It would be better to get a detailed examination later."

The healer scratched her head as if finding it strange while examining my condition.

Of course it's strange, because the pain I'm feeling is not 'normal' pain.

Usually, one suffers pain from receiving a shock or getting injured.

Being hit by a fist, cut by a knife, or a bullet lodging in the body.

There is a clear cause, and as a result, pain naturally follows.

But the pain I feel is quite twisted in that regard.

A burning sensation as if the soles of my feet are being seared, pressure as if a press machine is crushing my shoulders, and even a bizarre stimulation as if a sharp net is pressing down on my whole body.

These pains I'm feeling right now were all close to phantom pain.

There is no external cause whatsoever.

[‘Settlent’ begins.]

It's just the price paid for using skills.

"I'll prescribe painkillers for now. Please wait while taking them."

Two pills were placed in my hand.

I swallowed them imdiately.

Unfortunately, they probably won't be very effective.

‘Settlent’ isn't called settlent for nothing. It was the act of paying a price.

Essentially repaying a debt, pain that follows persistently like a loan shark.

I think she said there was no external cause earlier, but thinking about it now, there is.

[Kihikihik! Good! Delicious!]

It's exactly this guy.

Mimic was trembling with excitent.

It seems the pain I feel is a Michelin 3-star feast for this guy.

‘Damn it.’

Would it hurt to do it for free without settlent sotis?

I'm starting to get worried about fainting every day.

In the unlikely event that I cannot return to reality, I have to continue living in this body.

If it goes on like this, my body won't hold up.

Letting out a sigh, I turned my gaze.

Wind blew over the debris.

Rescue personnel moved busily, and stretchers, bandages, and patients were tangled together.

The incident had already entered a lull, and the order phase.

Cleaning up the remnants was also entering the final stage, and an announcent that the villains had retreated had been made.

Now the remaining work was settlent and healing.

Seol Hayun lying on a makeshift bed a little distance away caught my eye.

They said it was magic power exhaustion.

Sweat drops were dried on her pale face.

Since she used strong spells like Fire Vulture and Fla Octopus for a long ti and consecutively, it was inevitable that she pushed herself.

Do Haru was squatting next to her.

She tucked Seol Hayun's disheveled hair behind her ear.

Her eyes were swollen, showing how much she had cried.

‘Everyone suffered.’

Large-scale terror, a huge disaster.

Soone must have lost a precious person, and soone must have grown through this incident.

After being imrsed in short thoughts, I raised my body.

It would be right to be by my friends' side now.

Just as I was about to move my steps, soone's footsteps approached.

"Good work."

Low baritone voice.

Turning my head, Kang Mooseong was standing there.

"Fortunately, I wasn't late."

Many anings were mixed in those words.

Relief that I was safe, evaluation of enduring until he arrived.

On one hand, I accepted those words differently.

‘……Actually, it was fortunate you were slightly late.’

I recalled the mont Kang Mooseong ca to rescue.

Rescue arrived while I was confronting Chief in a state mimicked as Balzac.

Sothing really big almost happened.

Because I almost showed Kang Mooseong a scene of peacefully conversing with Chief.

"Thank you for saving ."

"Protecting cadets and citizens is sothing I naturally have to do. There is nothing to thank

for."

Kang Mooseong took sothing out of his pocket.

What he took out was candy.

Throwing it to

as if flicking with his thumb, he continued speaking.

"Eat it, sothing sweet helps more than dicine after battle. It's my own tip."

"Ah, thank you."

Sweet scent spread in my mouth.

Certainly, this was better than painkillers that had little effect on settlent pain.

Even though my body was trembling, I could feel the sweetness.

"I heard from Spike Blue."

Kang Mooseong brought up the topic slyly.

"You faced a monster? Not that ox-head, but the one that transford into a monster."

At those words, I nodded.

Because it is right to claim credit clearly.

At my response, Kang Mooseong's eyes narrowed thinly.

"Then, was it also you who smashed the Viking?"

"Ah, that was……."

I trailed off.

Can I say it honestly?

Utilizing the Viking was a certain way to catch the berserk Gonta.

But a reason I couldn't admit it obediently ca to mind.

‘Repair costs.’

If told to pay for it since I broke it on purpose, my life would be ruined at that mont.

At least hundreds of millions, I would be sitting on a pile of debt.

Seeing

speechless like that, Kang Mooseong opened his mouth first.

"You can speak honestly. Repairs due to disasters are handled by the disaster recovery team, you know? They won't hold you responsible."

"Ah, that was ."

Then I should admit it.

"As expected, it was so."

Kang Mooseong grinned and continued speaking.

"I always say to maintain composure on the battlefield."

He stroked his chin and narrowed his brows.

"But most cannot keep it. They lose their presence of mind and stick to simple judgnts. Do you know what happens then?"

"What happens?"

"They miss countless possibilities. The battlefield is not a simple contest of strength. Montary judgnt creates dozens of results. If you are not composed, you lose all of that."

As he paused for a mont, wind laden with smoke swept the surroundings.

Amidst that, Kang Mooseong's gaze turned to .

"You were composed."

It was a short remark but heavy.

"You lured the monster to a place without people, and finished it using the terrain."

He nodded satisfactorily.

"Thanks to that, damage was minimized. Just surviving in front of a berserk monster is extrely rare, but you even controlled the situation. Well done."

Was it because the words ca from the mouth of the Monster Instructor Kang Mooseong?

It had been a long ti since I felt burdened by praise.

"Thank you."

Sohow feeling embarrassed, I scratched my cheek.

Brief silence fell.

While catching breath slowly, the sound of rescue workers' radios was heard faintly.

"I will ask one thing."

Kang Mooseong's voice resonated low.

His gaze was directed at

but seed to be looking at sothing else.

"That ox-headed guy. Is it true that he arrived after the berserk monster fell?"

"Yes."

I answered lightly.

Because it was actually so.

Short silence.

Suddenly, Kang Mooseong's gaze lifted toward the sky.

His eyes narrowed again.

[Kang Mooseong]

[Suspicion, Doubt]

And at that mont, the emotion window reflected in the Eye of Deception conveyed new information.

‘……What is it?’

What kind of suspicion did the conversation just now create?

The mont I had doubts about the sudden change.

"Ryu Jinwoo, is it okay if I ask one more thing?"

"Yes? Ah, yes."

"That ox-headed guy, what did he say to you?"

As expected, it's this way.

But inwardly I was prepared.

I just have to tell it as it is frankly.

Except for facts disadvantageous to .

"He said he liked the way I disposed of the monster. Then he said he wanted to take

and do so experint……."

I didn't miss appealing that I had no idea what was going on at all.

Suddenly an unidentified villain grabbed

and threatened . This was the stance I had to take.

"Is that so?"

Kang Mooseong shrugged his shoulders.

"Why do you ask?"

"Well, I wondered if he had other ulterior motives."

"Other ulterior motives?"

"Yeah."

Kang Mooseong's words were these.

If he intended to kidnap

with determination, he could have run away long before he arrived.

And that even after he arrived, he ran away with an strangely obedient attitude.

‘It is strange.’

Certainly, it was enough for Kang Mooseong to feel uncomfortable.

Actions and judgnts Chief made because he mistook

for Balzac were enough to feel strange from a third party's perspective.

I silently observed Kang Mooseong's movents.

Because what was important was what Kang Mooseong was thinking inwardly.

"What I am curious about is this. There were a total of three people at that place, you, that ox-headed monster, and Seol Hayun, right? Aside from the giant monster you caught."

And it was the mont Kang Mooseong asked .

‘As expected.’

Actually, there was one thing I was concerned about too.

In the situation mimicked as Balzac, I got scratched by Chief's provocation-like provocation and raised my montum.

While doing so, as Kang Mooseong ca closer, mimicry was released in an instant.

Probably [Mimicry Instinct] was released automatically to hide my identity.

The problem was the montum itself.

If it was Kang Mooseong, he would have already felt that montum while approaching.

Actually, there were a total of 3 people at the place where we were, Chief, , and Seol Hayun.

I was in a state mimicked as Balzac.

But from Kang Mooseong's perspective, there were Chief, , Seol Hayun, and another person.

However, when he actually arrived, that one person had disappeared.

‘Probably even now, it remains as the biggest mystery to Kang Mooseong.’

I decided to utilize that to the maximum.

To Kang Mooseong asking if it was correct that there were 3 people, I frowned and answered as if pondering.

"Yes, there were 3 people."

An answer affirming it.

But mixing an attitude of not being sure.

"Is there sothing bothering you?"

Kang Mooseong asked.

"I don't know. At that ti, my condition wasn't good and I was barely breathing because my neck was grabbed. But sothing……."

I continued speaking, directing my gaze upward as if recalling.

"It was brief, but I think the ox-head who grabbed

was surprised. While looking at sothing behind ."

"Behind?"

"Since my neck was grabbed, I was in a situation where I couldn't see behind. But it's clear there was sothing."

I don't know what that is either.

But there was definitely sothing.

It's a lie but a plausible setting.

This should be enough.

Kang Mooseong would fill in the rest on his own.

Kang Mooseong's gaze ca down slowly.

There were no words.

Instead, his gaze deepened.

Will he let it pass like this, or dig further?

I quietly caught my breath waiting for his reaction.

***

‘As expected, soone was there.’

Kang Mooseong felt clearly.

That montum bursting out ominously before reaching the scene of the incident.

His body reacted first.

The energy of a 'Top Predator' that a hunter senses instinctively.

It was an eerie sensation as if dozens of snakes were crawling along the skin.

However, it was strange.

‘Gone.’

The existence that was suppressing the vicinity until just before disappeared without leaving a trace the mont Kang Mooseong reached there.

Even while fighting the ox-headed monster after that, that existence still occupied Kang Mooseong's mind.

Overwhelming montum not hiding the desire for domination at all.

Yet the eeriness of disappearing in an instant.

Furthermore, the ox-headed monster ran away completely erasing the will to fight for so reason.

A series of bizarre events.

There existed a missing puzzle in the middle of it.

When asked Ryu Jinwoo, he answered.

That soone was there.

That he didn't know the identity but there definitely was.

Kang Mooseong intuitively felt that 'soone' was the last puzzle piece.

That person must be a strong individual impossible to gauge.

Perhaps the true mastermind controlling everything.

‘I must rember clearly.’

The eerie sensation seeping into the skin at that mont.

The energy climbing up the body like a thrill.

Kang Mooseong decided not to forget.

Intuitively sensing that there will be a day he faces it again soday.

***

Kang Mooseong's expression settled seriously.

At the sa ti, a small sigh of relief flowed inside .

For now, it was flowing in the desired direction.

Kang Mooseong was imrsed in thought alone, forgetting .

It was certain that Kang Mooseong felt Balzac's energy.

It is also clear that he is conscious of that existence.

But at least he wasn't suspecting the connection between

and Balzac.

Creating a non-existent third party was a success.

‘This mimicry is also a really headache-inducing ability.’

Especially mimicking Balzac.

Cheat-key level performance in front of villains, but a ti bomb in hero society.

What if I use it wrong and get caught by hero society?

No, what if I get caught by Kang Mooseong?

My peaceful academy life would be goodbye as is.

I would be imprisoned imdiately and a full course of hell experience would await .

‘How did it co to this.’

I looked at Mimic.

[Kihit! More! Moooore!]

This guy still giggling and spinning round and round.

Everything went twisted the mont this guy swallowed Balzac.

Of course, I cannot deny the fact that I survived thanks to that.

Life seems to be getting more complicated and miserable.

‘To think I would miss the life of repeating training every day.’

There is no other way.

Because surviving sohow is important.

Looking at Kang Mooseong who was deep in thought, I opened my mouth.

"Instructor."

"Hmm? What is it."

"Do you happen to have one more candy?"

Kang Mooseong stared at , then smirked and took out a candy from his pocket and threw it.

"Next ti, pack it yourself."

"I should do that."

Still amidst the pain wrapping around my whole body, I savored the sweet taste.

Sweet candy.

This was enough for now.

Because tomorrow will have tomorrow's comfort.