‘What to do? What to do? Um… is there another way to find answers faster?’
I kept contemplating on Athyst’s back, searching for an answer. Zana was tuckered out, but said she would try again. I wondered if I could perform such a spell myself, but the Agent told not as of yet. I actually wanted to use [Remorse] to copy that magic spell, but the agent advised against it. I didn’t know anyone that could help in a situation like this.
I was at a complete loss as to what to do. Ti seed to have slowed to a halt, making this feeling of confusion and desperation even more miserable.
“Oi, lunch.”
I heard Yokino’s voice. Quickly, I sat up and saw her standing on one of the trees, looking at . She jumped down onto Athyst’s back lightly, then took out a parasol she made out of webs. Her hair was currently with streaks of hot pink and had been tied at the back into a ponytail with a bun pinned with a golden stick, with her bangs falling to her side with a clip keeping them in place. For so reason, she suddenly looked like one of those Chinese won I'd see in so cultivation manhua.
‘Y-Yokino…?’
I sounded unsure. I didn’t know why I did. Maybe since I wasn’t expecting her to reach out to .
“You see any other beauties allergic to the sun here?”
‘I don’t see any.’
“Yeah, yeah, tell yourself that. You know, I’m hot.”
I tried looking away, but having a 360 view of my surroundings didn’t help out.
‘What do you want?’
I straight up asked her. Her loyalty points on the system were, non-existent. Not even a zero or dash, she had question marks across her na.
“Relax, Birdbrain. I just thought you’d need company at a ti like this.”
‘The master’s got .’
Athyst cried out, making pat her on the head for being adorable.
“Ugh, so now you have a thing for lizards?”
‘Eh?’
“You have a beautiful cool babe at your side, and all you can do is pay attention to this overgrown lizard? You’re pathetic.”
‘I’m not so overgrown lizard, ya shit!’
Athyst wagged her tail at Yokino, but the spider grabbed the tail and flicked it away with ease, like it were barely worth her ti.
“Overgrown lizards seem to be unable to tell who is better than them.”
‘C-Calm dow-‘
‘I will incinerate this spider this instant. You like kebabs, right?’
Athyst posed a question to .
“Oh? Then I’m sure he’d love so overgrown lizard kebab.”
Yokino replied. The tension growing between both of them was starting to burn hotter than the sun.
‘Both of you, stop with this trifle argunt.’
I ordered and together, they “humphed” leaving us to be in silence.
‘I really appreciate you trying to be here for , Yokino. But, I’m not really in the best state of min-‘
“I ca here to offer help.”
‘How so?’
“I may know soone who could help you.”
She just dropped a bombshell and stood up. With a wink, she said,
“Catch if you can.”
Then she jumped off of Athyst, into the trees. For a mont, I was left sitting on Athyst’s back, confused. But after processing what she said, I finally realized.
‘Oi! Athyst! Speed it up! Catch that spider!’
‘Yes, Master!’
Upon receiving my orders, Athyst quickly turned around and ran after Yokino who was jumping about the trees and laughing wildly. Her voice echoed in the forest that seed empty. The creatures were still probably hiding, even though the incident was over.
Athyst whizzed past the trees, their leaves rustled and the wind whistled. Although to , this speed was nothing much. I jumped off and flew after Yokino in the forest. It wasn’t easy avoiding the tree branches given how large I had beco, so I only had to use [Size Manipulation] to shrink myself.
To my left, I heard Yokino’s voice co again.
“Too slow! Too slow!”
I flapped my wings faster and activated [Hyper Mobility].
[Your speed stat has gone up by 30%]
Feeling the bit of energy in my body, I went in faster. Up ahead, standing in one of the trees, I could make out Yokino’s figure.
‘Gotcha.’
I increased my size and readied my claws for her back. Quietly, with my [Stealth] on, I swooped in from behind and grabbed her… it? It wasn’t Yokino. It was a pile of threads.
“Pfft! You like my [Thread Clone Jutsu]?”
She asked. Then I noticed her on one of the branches with the parasol in hands. It was the actual Yokino, because I threw a fireball and she used a water spear to cancel out my attack and attempt to decapitate . I managed to dodge it though, but now my vision was clouded with steam. A bit of wind magic and it was cleared. However, Yokino was nowhere to be found.
“You’re going to have to try harder than that, little bird.”
Her mocking voice echoed throughout the entire forest. I couldn’t pinpoint on the exact place it was coming from, so I tested out the other functions of my unique skill [God’s Wisdom] to scour a wide area in the forest for Yokino. I managed to get a 500-ter radius with this function. All around , there was basically no life, but I identified 50 illusion clones moving about the forest, 30 decoy thread clones just standing there and waiting for , 1 actual clone made to be just like Yokino in the sense that it could fight as well, and Yokino. But she quickly ran out of my range, as if she knew I was searching for her.
‘Gotcha!’
I flew in the direction in which Yokino ran.
An illusion Yokino ca up in front of and giggled, trying to distract . I flew past it, but what I saw in its eyes made stop. There was a cunning light in it. Sothing that made feel like chasing the actual Yokino would be bad for . I went to the illusion clone and it spread its hand out to .
“Why are you stopping? Aren’t you chasing after the real Yokino?”
It asked .
‘How’d you know?’
“An assassin knows when they’ve been found out.”
I rested on the branch it stood on. The shadow clone crouched and looked at with a different light in its eyes. It was smiling as well as blushing.
‘W-What’s with your expression?’
“You can find in Blossoming Fields.”
‘Blossoming Fields?’
“Well, yes. To the northwest. A portion where anything planted grows at an absurd rate. It’s said any plant life can grow there. But it’s currently a flower field. Only Dox Flowers grow there now.”
‘Dox Flowers?’
“Yep. A bunch of beautiful red flowers. Nothing really special about them.”
She was slowly fading away, as were the other illusions in the forest.
“You can follow my clone to get there.”
Were her final words, before completely disappearing and leaving alone. I sighed then flew off towards the clone. When I got there, I saw the clone standing there. It was looking towards the distance, not moving even a single inch.
‘Yo. Clone.’
When I called out to it, it glared at from the corner of its eye. I flinched and settled down on a branch, confused by the cold gaze.
‘W-Why are you looking at like that?’
“I may be a clone, but I possess emotions similar to the original, you know?”
It growled at then continued jumping away. I kept following it, but then it got angry after I did that.
“Stop following !”
‘Eh? But I’m supposed to follow you to find Yokino, no?’
“Only if I feel like allowing you to find her.”
It told .
‘Eh? Then what’s the point of telling that the only way to find her is by following you.’
“Don’t know, don’t care. I just don’t feel like helping you out.”
‘Seriously? Fine. I’ll find her myself. I even forgot I could find any of my servants with the system.’
The clone clicked its tongue and jumped off into the forest.
When I checked the map, Yokino was no where to be found on it.
‘Ah… that’s right. She sotis doesn’t exist in the system. Whatever. Agent, take to The Blossoming Fields.’
‘Eh? W-What do you an?’
‘Ah… fuck. Can you at least get close to sowhere with the description that the illusion gave ?’
‘E-Eh?!’
I thought about it all over again. That Yokino, she must have observed to the point of knowing that I had other ans of finding whatever I wanted. She had used false terms for things so my "other ans" wouldn’t work here. Were her observation skills so good that she now had an inkling of the fact that I had the agent with ?
I looked around and saw the clone running off into the distance.
Quickly, I charged at it with [Hyper Mobility] and [Flash Boost]. I noticed Athyst was running towards , but from the direction in which the clone was moving.
‘A pincer attack! Athyst, Yokino’s clone is coming your way. Try to stop it!’
‘Yes, Master!’
I summoned two shadow demon generals to help go after Yokino as well. They understood their purpose for being here and charged imdiately.
I shot off so light rays at the clone to make it stop. The clone noticed what I was doing, but it was too late. She couldn’t avoid sothing coming at her at the speed of the light. My attacks hit her leg and hand, causing her to fall off the tree she was jumping to.
‘She’s down! Pin her.’
“YES!”
We all went down on the clone. Even if it wasn’t as strong as Yokino, this thing was still B- in rank. I failed to see how that was weaker than Yokino.
Both demons hit the ground, but she wasn’t there. She had already gotten up and was facing us with her legs arched up.
‘You really want to do this?’
I asked her with my wings raised for her to look at the shadows again. It hissed at us, slowly backing away. However, from the forest, Athyst ca with her fangs ready to tear apart Yokino. The clone flipped over Athyst, then used her body as a surface to get higher. It shot webs at my legs and wings, pinning to the ground. The shadow to my right went right after her, but she was ready for that. In the air, she twisted her body to avoid it’s black blade.
Her legs glowed red then stabbed the shadow’s head, causing it dissipate. Upon landing on the ground, the clone shot of myriad of lightning and water magic attacks at . I desperately tried to free myself, but the threads made by the King was completely different from normal threads.
The shadow to my side jumped in front of and defended against the attacks, swinging and swiping his sword like a jedi. However, so of the attacks landed and he eventually dissipated into nothing but shadows.
'Holy sh-'
The spider slamd down on the ground and a massive wall appeared before us. This wall then fell down over .
I tried using [Shadow Travel] to get out, but then.
‘How convenient.’
I tried burning the threads with my fire breath, but the thread wasn’t being cut and I couldn’t summon soldiers to help here this ti. The massive wall lood over . There was an impending sense of doom as it slowly descended.
I considered lacing my body with poisons to lt the thread, but upon thinking about the pain and possibility of it not working, I threw away that idea.
‘This… this is going to hurt like a bitch.’
I closed my eyes and winced, preparing for the impact.
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