Chapter 364: Reid VS Mateus
After shaking off the knights’ pursuit, I returned to the Capital Raum.
Using the forest terrain and Stealth Gift to my advantage, losing people who were amateurs at investigation was a trivial task.
For the ti being, I decided to head to Maxwell’s mansion. I had to convey what I confird today.
Nicole was to be guarded in his mansion tonight. Cortina was aware of that already. Since the situation affected Michelle’s parents, there was nothing suspicious about being protected by Maxwell, who was the biggest firepower of this city.
“Oh, welco Nico-… Who’re you?”
“Thanks for the welco. Mateus, was it?”
This was technically the first ti I was eting him as Reid, so I pretended that this was our first eting.
However, Mateus was tasked with protecting the house, so it was natural that he would stay vigilant towards an unfamiliar man.
Seeing him reach for his sword, I felt like teasing him for a bit.
In the end, I didn’t get to move my body much when dealing with Lichtenberg. Even with Kufar, it was my overwhelming victory in terms of affinity.
In other words, I still haven’t had an opportunity to fully display my current power. With a tough guy like Mateus before , I could do that just fine.
“I’m the old man’s acquaintance.”
“That’s quite a sneaky way of putting it. Even enemies are acquaintances, right?”
Instead of answering his question, I just revealed a aningful smile. It was an attitude to get him to misunderstand it. And he easily took that bait.
He forcefully pulled out his swords and attacked right away. The speed he put into it showed that he was not holding back at all.
However, for the current , those slashes were awfully slow.
I dodged his left slash by shifting sideways, and hit his right slash at the blade’s base, turning it away.
In response, I sent a low kick towards his shifted leg, but he avoided it as expected.
That was within my calculations, however. Instead of killing my montum, I swung my arm on top, did a half-rotation, and added a backward roundhouse kick.
Switching from low to high attack while his posture was broken proved to be too much for him to react to and he took the attack on.
That said, he wasn’t so bad to take that hit directly. Thus, he stopped my kick with his shoulder, and decided to charge at . But his feet suddenly stopped.
“You really have no openings, huh, mister?”
“You did well to notice it yourself.”
“…Alright, it’s my loss. Co on, I lost again? Why is Raum so filled with monsters lately?”
Mateus, who shrugged his shoulders with those words, had a thread coiled around his neck. The thread was going over the doorknob, so if he had charged earlier, it would have strangled him.
“Still, I was charged with protection. Couldn’t you tell your na at least?”
“Yeah, sorry for provoking you earlier. I’m Reid.”
It was just a montary exchange, but I managed to easily ward Mateus’ heavy attack away with one hand and capture all his movents, so I was satisfied.
As expected, soone on Mateus’ level was no opponent for in this body. Confirming that fact alone was a good enough result.
After a short while, Maxwell returned ho, and after being guided by Mateus, I reported the situation about Kufar to him.
Maxwell looked a little surprised to see return so soon, but quickly collected himself, thinking that it was possible knowing the forr , and we moved to a different room for discussion.
“So yeah, Kufar turned out to be the reincarnation of the priest from my previous life, and a Sli.”
“Wait, I am not following you, so explain it from the start.”
“Well…”
Hearing my clear and concise explanation, Maxwell criticized . It was botherso, but his judgnt was usually correct, so I had no choice but to explain until he was satisfied.
After he heard that he had sprouted an ego under the influence of so Ley Line in the north, and rembered his previous life, Maxwell couldn’t help but be astonished.
“What, how can that be… If it was not you, I would have laughed it off as nonsense.”
“We both reincarnated similarly, but we are fundantally different. I was reincarnated by Maria’s spell, after all.”
“In that case, he is a natural reincarnator huh. Quite a valuable existence.”
“Well, I leave how to convey this to Cortina to you old man. Also, I used the Polymorph scroll today, so tell her I can’t see her this month.”
“Oh dear… The first half aside, please do not make say the second half. A maiden’s hysteria is beyond my hands.”
“Still, if I don’t disguise, she’ll realize what I’ve been doing as Nicole.”
If it was so unfamiliar uncle, I would have attacked in my original form. But this ti it was different as the people concerned were Michelle’s parents. They both knew my face, so if I displayed strength that clearly exceeded an adult’s they would start suspecting things.
Maybe I could have deceived them with the Illusion Ring, but rescuing them was connected to the risk of physical contact, thus I chose to go with Polymorph instead.
“This happens because you use Polymorph without considering the situation…”
“Co on. Though I did think I wasted it at the end.”
As I was holding my head in regret, pain ran through my body. It was the sa pain I have experienced several tis over the past few months. In other words, the pain of reverting to my original body.
“Kh, I’m out of ti huh… Maxwell, please…”
“Clothes? Give a mont.”
I left the rest as I grit my teeth in pain. Hearing it, Maxwell rushed out of the reception room.
After experiencing it over and over, I could endure it without fainting, but I still couldn’t move. I asked him to get my clothes for .
The underling solder clothes I was currently wearing were too big for my original body, so I needed to get changes. Well, it was just Maxwell, so I didn’t really mind staying buck naked either.
Just as I finished my transformation, Maxwell returned with my uniform. I languidly accepted them and started changing. Seeing how I didn’t care about being seen, Maxwell retorted in exasperation.
“Goodness, it seems your road as a lady is still long.”
“I’m not even walking that road. Leaving that aside…”
Our conversation got interrupted due to Polymorph’s ti limit, but Kufar’s case was the focus now.
“There is certainly Den’s case, but I had not considered that a Sli would undergo abnormal evolution.”
“Yeah. You said there was a disguised culprit in the Adventurer’s Guild despite magic being sealed there. That was probably also Kufar.”
“So you are saying that he used the Sli’s characteristic mimicry skill to disguise himself? That is one troubleso monster when it possesses an intellect.”
“Also, the poison that Cloud found the other day…”
“Disease Sli fragnt? There were no cases of it being subjugated recorded in the north.”
The rare species of Sli that appeared in the north. It had disappeared without being ever subjugated.
And then, the poison of that sa monster had spread in Raum, and at the sa ti, Kufar, who was also a Sli, had appeared. He seed to be trying to improve the Half-Demon’s standing in the society by summoning Devils, and there was also an organization with similar goals and thods.
It would be weirder to not make a connection among them.
In that case, Kufar’s claim that he was the sa priest that beca the reason of my death was quite convincing.
“So the sa person that drove you to death beca your enemy again? That is… Quite a strange coincidence.”
“To the point that I’m starting to think that it was part of Whitey’s sche.”
“Incidentally, Reid, how is your equipnt? A Sli should have been corrosive. It would be very sad for equipnt of that quality to get ruined.”
“Everything’s fine on that end. It’s made with the Evil Dragon’s materials, and the threads are Mythril too. Corrosion can’t do anything to it. Materials play the part too, but Aste’s skill has to be praised as well. As for my katana, I’ll take care of it later.”
“So you hold the advantage over Kufar alone? Physical attacks are hardly effective against slis as you know.”
“I have Enchant for that. The current can deal with him easily.”
He wasn’t soone I needed to be afraid of as long as I knew his true form. As long as I didn’t get dragged into his trap, I could deal with him.
I declared fully convinced in my words.
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