"Master Ruben! P-Please, make a pact with !"
...Okay, let’s rewind a bit. So you’ll understand how we got to this madness.
*
The sun had almost fully set, the orange light dimming by the minute.
Wait a second—this place doesn’t even have a sun! And yet, there’s a sunset?!
How fishy...
Anyway, back to the real story:
This new character who popped up out of nowhere a few Chapters ago, she turned out to be a full-scale psychopath.
I’m starting to wonder if I just attract weirdos or sothing.
She would deliberately drop her defenses just so my attacks would land.
And the craziest part?
Whenever she got hit, her face would flush, and she’d start biting her lips.
It was... kinda cute, I won’t lie. Until you realized why she was making that face.
A bit creeped out, I decided to just dodge her attacks from then on.
No way was I letting her get close enough to hug —I’d die from sheer disgust.
But just when I thought I had her figured out...
She pulled out another broken trump card. A really dangerous one.
It wasn’t ti-stopping or reality-freeze manipulation.
It wasn’t world-class warping either.
But whatever it was, it was definitely a cheat ability straight from the pit of hell.
Suddenly, , everyone else—and basically all of Coastelle—turned grey and froze.
Well... I wasn’t grey, and neither was she. But everything else was.
No—wait—things were still moving, just ridiculously slow.
So slow it looked frozen. Wait, I’m confused.
It was like living inside a single frozen instant...
(Platform!)
{You called, Master.}
(Good. You’re not frozen like the others.)
{No, I am not. I simply choose to ignore so of your aningless requests at tis.}
(...We’ll talk about that later. First—where... are we? Coastelle lost all its color!)
{This is the effect of the Supre Gift possessed by the individual nad Jobina.}
(Ah, so it is a Supre Gift. No wonder it even froze folks like Levi, Tamayō, and even Shizuka, who wielded a freezing Supre Gift.)
{Correct. It is a Supre Gift. However, it is not "freezing" ti.}
(Yeah, I figured.)
{No, you did not.}
(I did too! Things are moving... just stupidly slow.)
{This is a Conscious Zone, Master. Nothing is moving. It’s your imagination.}
(Huh? Conscious Zone? What’s that cool na? First I’ve heard of it.)
{It’s not surprising. Master is still fairly young, and abilities like this are extrely rare.}
...Platform just called a baby.
{This Conscious Zone isn’t tied to reality. It exists inside a single instant. When the effect ends, it’ll look to normal people like nothing ever happened—except any changes made here will still be permanent.
However, because it’s a Supre Gift, I cannot alter it.}
(I get it. Supre Gifts aren’t exactly supposed to be mainstream anyway.
But wait—if she kills here, it’ll just look to everyone else like I suddenly dropped dead for no reason?)
{That is the logic.}
(Wonderful.)
...Wait, wait, wait!
Wasn’t I supposed to have cool cheat techniques like that?!
Aren’t I the main character here?!
Or perhaps, Jobina have been the main character all along, and a huge plot twist is coming?!
That’s absurd and unacceptable!
No, maybe this is a novel featuring stories about various main characters?
Also unacceptable!!
ONLY I LEVEL UP!!
Well, I guess most people don’t even have sothing like Platform on their side.
So maybe I’m cheating too...
Still—if even Platform can’t shut this thing down—
That ans I’m stuck!
And just then—Jobina suddenly sprouted golden wings and ca dashing straight for !
While I’m frozen!
This is bad! This is very bad!
A literal Angel of Death coming my way!!
(Platform! Help !!)
{How disgraceful, Master. Have you even tried to move?}
...Huh?
{Just because everyone else is frozen, you assud you were too.}
Wait a second—
I tried wiggling my fingers—and they moved.
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They moved!
(Hehehe... I panicked for nothing. Sorry.)
But there was still this weird force pressing against , trying to keep stuck in place...
{It’s about as strong as an afternoon breeze. Overpower it.}
And just like that, my brain clicked into place.
Platform wasn’t underestimating the ability.
She was right—
It really wasn’t that strong after all.
But still.
(Platform, would it kill you to be a little nicer to ? Sothing like, "Ah, Great Master, simply move your body. This pitiful force cannot withstand your authority!" would’ve been perfect!)
{No. Don’t ask the impossible.
You saw everyone frozen, and you instinctively froze up too. I fail to comprehend that level of folly... Master.}
.....Alright, I’m fine! I’m not hurt at all!
(Great Sage was much kinder to Rim—)
{What?}
(N-Nothing.)
(Little Ruben note: Whenever Platform and I converse, it usually happens faster than an instant. So no, Jobina wasn’t just standing around waiting for us to finish chatting.)
Before Jobina’s fist could reach , I imdiately stepped aside.
That thing she was swinging? It wasn’t normal—it was unorthodox.
Comparable to Levi’s evil nebulae...maybe even worse.
I quickly analyzed it:
Her attack transmitted an insanely dense holy energy straight into the body.
But it wasn’t just raw energy—
It carried a magic order: "Disintegrate."
aning, once it entered your body, it would spread like wildfire—scorching everything from flesh to bones to even the tiniest cells, reducing it all to light and a flicker of history.
Complete incineration.
And the worst part?
It wasn’t just dangerous to dark-attribute beings—it was just as fatal to holy and light-attribute beings too.
So yeah—of course I got out of the way.
Well, not to brag or anything, but...
While it would hurt , a lot—like being slow-roasted alive by so gluttonous energy monster—I wouldn’t die.
I’m damn hard to kill, you know.
If I went all out with Platform’s support, my regeneration would eventually outpace the disintegration.
I’d heal faster than it could destroy .
Eventually, Platform would strip the "disintegrate" order clean from my system, and I’d be back to normal...
Just very angry.
And very, very baked.
But honestly, all that would be way too much effort.
I’d rather just dodge and keep my respectability intact.
Then—more good news!
{Master, I have successfully analyzed the conscious zone.}
Sweet.
A flood of information stread into my mind like honey spilling on bread. Weird analogy, I know.
Now I really understood how this place worked—and it was way beyond the laws of ti, space, and magic.
Jobina didn’t own this zone.
She just had access to it. The key.
I doubt she even knows that.
I an, Levi, Trigger, Tamayō, and Shizuka...
They’re almost catching on.
Their eyes twitch every now and then.
I bet they can observe what’s happening, even while frozen...
But they haven’t yet grasped the essence of this silence—this pause between existence.
Here’s my theory:
This place can’t fully hold beings who can naturally move faster than an instant.
You know, like that ta-human speedster in a red suit.
Though, I cannot casually move in an instant without magical support and a lot of calculations.
So I’m basically freeloading off of Jobina’s connection—I don’t have direct access to this realm myself.
Levi and the others, too—they could probably force themselves to move past an instant...
But they’d still mostly stay frozen until they fully analyze it.
As for , I’ve got Platform.
Which ans I can slither through most of this zone’s effects like a hot knife through brains. Graphic imagery, I know.
And no, I’ve never sliced brains with a hot knife before...in real life.
*
Oh, how the tables have turned on this little girl!
Now I could move here way more freely than Jobina could.
My power even felt boundless here.
But...
I won’t kill her.
Even though this would’ve been the perfect chance to do it.
No—
I decided I’d just scare her a little.
Jump at her with pure killing intent.
Give her that "you are beneath " look, while I pretended to tear her skull off with my claws.
She’d cry. Beg for rcy.
Ah, I can even get her to owe through this!
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa! (New variation of Ruben’s evil laugh. Enjoy.)
And maybe...just maybe...
I could use her to get connected to a Mortal Power.
Oh, Ruben, you rascal!
What did you eat to beco so smart?
Ehehe.
Ah—
My plans were already sinking before they even set sail!
That damn masochist!!
Instead of trembling and tearing up like any normal person should, when a sharp claw was drawing near, she just got all flustered again—grinning like a fool.
Even closed her eyes!!
Just casually stealing the fun out of everything!
Arghhh!!
I knew we were like oil and water!
She gave off this unnerving vibe, too—
Like she’d just pop right back to life even if killed.
But I couldn’t exactly bet on that.
Shortly, the frozen world finally faded, and ti and color seeped back into existence.
Trust , I gave her one hell of a serious scolding.
Serious enough that she started sulking.
Ah, but wait!
She won’t hate for being too harsh...right?
I only called her a pervert and a freak of nature.
I even held back, too.
Told her only the things she clearly was.
Jeez, I was still a bit scared though—
I wanted her to like .
How else was I supposed to enjoy future benefits and assistance from her big-shot father?
I’m expecting—
"Oh, Great Dark Fenrir!" her father would say, bowing low.
"So you spared this naughty daughter of mine? Surely, I shall aid you whenever you call!
Take this bag of gold coins! And so deer blood too!"
—kind of response.
So, It’s essential I stay on her good side.
For my future easygoing life.
(Platform!)
{You called, Master.}
(Yep. I did. Help dig through all those manipulation and dark psychology books I seized from the humans in Gihon. I need a line to fool this dumb little girl. ASAP.)
{Understood.}
Maybe there’s a line that’ll soften the blow for this kind of situation...
{I found one.}
(Great! Now that I’ve gone and completely abused the hell out of Jobina, I’ll need a sweetener line.)
{Understood. Tell her, "You idiot! Don’t you know my heart aches at every blood spil—}
(Wait, wait, wait!! Platform, are you testing your master?! Th-that’s not the right book! Find another one!!)
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