The pink barrier around the group was disabled, a signal for everyone to converge around the Masked Hero.
Tia’s hastened steps were quicker than the others as she swiftly sped to the front of their savior and flashed him an excited smile.
“You won again! Congratulations!” Her voice contained enthusiasm and joy.
This flustered the Masked Man a little, or so it appeared to.
‘If only I could see his face…’ Tia thought to herself, imagining what kind of warm expression he could be making underneath the mask.
“Thank you. I’m happy to see you’re safe.”
Of course, he referred to everyone—not just Tia. But, it seed the aning of collectivity was lost to the young lady.
“Hehehe” Her laugh contained contentnt.
“We’ll be moving on to the next Floor.” The Masked Man retorted.
No one could refuse his calm voice. In fact, they were all pumped up to see the rewards of clearing the next area..
As he tapped [Yes] to advance to the next Floor, the usual portal appeared in front of the group. It shone on their faces, and they braced themselves for another warp.
“Let’s go.”
Tia watched the Masked Man enter the portal—taking a good look at his broad back once again. A smile ford on her face, and her heart settled.
Once again, everything would be fine.
‘I believe in you… Masked Hero.”
With those thoughts, Tia entered the portal along with her comrades.
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‘What’s with this woman?’
My eyes slightly turned in the direction of a particular girl among the group I’m using to advance. Her expression showed excitent, almost to the point of being bloodshot.
To be frank, she frightened a little.
Initially, I thought for sure she had so sort of detective Skill that could bypass my layers of defenses. I thought she noticed my Neutral Evil Alignnt. That would an she had realized I was only pretending around them.
Anyti I faced the Demons, I would feel a burning gaze planted on my back. Was she looking for a window of opportunity to attack? Did she really think she could take on even with the Stats I had?
Of course, it could be that she was simply a fool who didn’t know how to gauge the abilities of others, or perhaps she had a trump card? No, if that was the case, her group wouldn’t have been in the predicant I found them in.
I initially ignored her imnse concentration on , but when I couldn’t take it anymore, I decided to use a little ‘sothing’ to clear my doubts.
‘I’m going to read her thoughts!’
Using Charles’ previous Gift, now my skill, , I could see a lot of info about people. However, that was only limited to Stats and their information dictated by the System. I could also detect when anyone lied to .
Still, I didn’t think this would be enough.
That’s why I got another Skill—. As the na sounded, it allowed to read the thoughts of others, and even sense their emotions. It was very useful since it also worked against Demons, and I could predict what their next move would be thanks to this ability.
The hassle was that I needed to have physical contact with whoever’s mind I wanted to read for a total of five seconds before gaining access to their thoughts.
I didn’t want to do sothing so botherso. Plus, what excuse would I give to hold on to soone for so long? That was why I put it off… until I couldn’t take it anymore!
‘I’ll just get this over with…’
After concluding matters on the 70th Floor and defeating the Boss—who was quite a difficult opponent since it could turn incorporeal and was immune to all physical attacks—I was once again congratulated by the enthusiastic girl.
The expressions on the faces of her teammates told she wasn’t usually like this, but after so ti, even they ignored her actions. They were too srized by their rewards, after all.
‘Well, here goes nothing…’ I gulped, looking at the girl’s shoulder.
She was shorter than —they all were. Well, that was because I hit my growth spurt lately.
… Sort of…
“Tia, there’s sothing on your outfit.” I went with the usual lie and kept my arm on her shoulder.
A bead of sweat ford on my face.
“O-oh, where…?”
Two beads appeared, but I quickly kept things under control. Using [Subspace], I brought so chaff on her, making so especially linger around her sowhat coiled hair.
“Here. And here. Here too…”
I removed the chaffs, ensuring I maintained physical contact with her for at least that long. Fortunately, the girl was immobile, making my job easier.
‘Hehehe. She doesn’t know I’ll soon figure out what she’s planning. What a fool.’ My grin widened.
After I was done, the requirent had been t. I gazed at her face, seeing that it was flushed with pink. For a mont, I didn’t quite understand. However, the mont I realized what was up with Tia… it was too late!
Her thoughts ca flooding in.
~Ahhh, he’s touching !!! Did he really see so stuff on my body? But look how he’s so intently doing it. How did he even notice sothing I didn’t sense? Was he observing my body? Does he really…?!~
‘Oh, shit!’
I was mistaken.
I should have realized this earlier!
Tia seed to have a crush on —or rather, the Masked Hero persona I donned.
‘Ah, why does this keep happening? I just want to use you guys in peace…’
mories of all the mishaps I had begun surfacing.
When training outside the tower, as well as trying to change my Evil Alignnt, I killed two birds with one stone by saving several people from Demons. So among them were won, and they slowly started falling for .
Sure, it raised my reputation among the dregs, but it also gave so botherso admirers. I suppose it was one of the perks of this body I now possessed.
It was so bad that even the System gave the Title ‘Admired By Won’. I had a feeling it was simply ssing with , but it was the real deal.
And the Title effects were troubleso, so I turned it off.
Still… what the heck was this?!
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