another girl
Modern weapons can deal significant damage to monsters.
Nevertheless, there were various reasons for contractors to use cold weapons.
There were various reasons, such as the fact that the contractors had no choice because the beings who borrowed power were warriors, soldiers, and knights who used cold weapons, or that gunshots attracted excessive attention from monsters, but there was a decisive reason. It was the existence of monsters that did not work with firearms.
bang!
An evil spirit that returns to its original state and attacks even though it pierces the middle of the forehead.
As soon as he hit it with his fist loaded with magical power, Yooseong immediately fell out, but Yooseong’s expression was hardened.
‘I’ve already used half of my magic power.’
Firearms exerted a powerful effect against normal monsters, but the problem was that the physical power that appeared occasionally did not work.
Aris’ magical power is so small that the title of witch is colorless.
It’s not to the extent that there’s a problem with using skills, but the story changes when it comes to long-term battles.
‘The problem isn’t just magic.’
[Pay 1,000 karma points to pull out the 5.56mm magazine (D-)]
You need bullets to shoot, and additional karma points are required to take out bullets.
The problem is that neither karma points nor bullets are infinite resources.
Due to the immediately preceding quest, there was quite a bit of karma points, but the bullets were not enough to withstand such an ignorant battle.
Clap!
It seems like he hasn’t fired much, but Yooseong, who was tongue-tied at the bottom of the magazine, turned the gun around and sprinted toward the other side.
-for a moment! You haven’t forgotten what’s in the center of the mansion, have you?
‘Aren’t there monsters gathered?’
-I know, are you going there?
Despite trying dozens of times, they couldn’t find a way to attack them, so they made the extreme choice of jumping out of the window.
However, instead of slowing down or changing direction, Yoosung threw himself into the central hall with all his might.
‘You only get one chance.’
In the extreme concentration exerted by the Sura sense, the thorny vines extending from Yoosung’s fingertips wrapped around the chandelier hanging from the ceiling, and Aris’ light body succeeded in landing on the other side of the hall.
“It’s worth falling hundreds of times.”
-···It’s all right now, so please go to a safe place quickly. They’re already chasing you!
At Aris’s urging, Yoosung ran down the hallway.
It’s easy to break the doorknob and enter the room, but the monsters aren’t stupid.
If all the doorknobs are intact and only one doorknob is broken, of course you’d think there was something in the room.
“Now that this is the case, break down all the doors in the vicinity and enter the appropriate place…”
Squeak!
“What, what?!”
A door suddenly opened and an arm extended through it.
I heard an unexpected voice in Yuseong’s ears, thinking it was a monster attack.
“Come in quickly!”
‘Person?’
A human voice heard for the first time in this world.
I thought it might be a monster disguised as a human, but I had no choice but to enter the room at the sound of Yoosung getting closer.
thud! thud! thud!
The sound of footsteps, which had been getting closer, gradually began to recede, and soon became inaudible.
However, despite safely escaping from the monsters, Yoosung couldn’t relax.
“·······.”
“·······.”
Gray hair that reached her shoulders and clear skin.
A golden-eyed beautiful girl with mild-looking eyes and a petite body that barely exceeds 150 cm.
It wasn’t Aris.
It was a word to describe the girl in front of his eyes.
Yoosung, who was about to touch the girl who reached out his hand in this direction, barely came to his senses and stepped back.
“What are you?”
“Th-what are you? Why do you look the same as me? Sir, are you a doppelganger?”
“If either of you were a doppelganger, it would be you, not me.”
“I’m human! Your doppelganger must be you!”
Seeing the girl screaming, Yooseong spoke to Aris.
‘Are you twins?’
-I’ve said it several times…
‘I know, I know. But it’s not just about resemblance.’
Except for the fact that one was equipped with the same equipment as a military school girl, the two were completely identical in appearance and even the clothes they were wearing.
– What should I do in this case?
‘Based on my experiences trained in novels and games, it usually doesn’t go well if you go with this kind of development. It’s not that there aren’t any developments where we cooperate and work together to get out of a crisis, but there are more developments where we get caught or get stabbed in the back. I think it would be the most safe thing to do.’
-Are you? You mean kill? Someone who looks just like me?
‘Well. Is it like that?’
If this was a normal game and there were options, Yooseong would have swung his weapon at the girl in front of him without any hesitation due to his nature of not allowing unnecessary variables.
However, this was not a game, but a clear reality, and it is impossible to reverse the wrong choice by retrying as it has been so far.
“·······.”
From his point of view, it may be an act of cutting off any danger that may exist, but objectively, it is nothing more than an act of indiscriminate murder by an indiscriminate killer.
‘Quest standards are strict.’
Suppose you are on a quest to find the culprit of an incident.
If you find out the identity of the culprit by mobilizing all the extraordinary skills and tools of another dimension, or stabbing them at random in the manner of saying something, then, of course, the clear rank will hit the bottom.
However, in that situation, what would happen if you pointed out the identity of the culprit in a situation where everything returned to the starting point by re-challenging without clearing the quest?
Do you get a high clear rank because you achieved your goal without using any skills or artifacts?
not.
In that case, even if the skill and artifact usage rate does not go up, the fate change rate hits the bottom.
As a result, even if it is correct, it is because there is no minimum intermediate process that does not feel awkward to make such a choice, that is, there is no plausible probability.
If you write down the answer without a proper solution process, it’s similar to being deducted.
The situation now is the same.
It was not known what effect the rate of change in fate would have if the girl’s life was suddenly taken because of an unknown possibility.
Yuseong, who remembered that his purpose was to find out the secret of this mansion and Aris, not just survival, eventually took the axe.
“Say it.”
“What, what?”
“Don’t you need to know something to tell if you’re a human or a monster impersonating a human? What’s your name?”
“Ah, Aris! My name is Aris!”
-Yes? Did he just say his name is Aris?
Yoosung’s eyes narrowed at the name he heard a lot.
“No surname, just a first name?”
“Huh? Eh.”
“What skills or magic can I use?”
“You can’t tell other people about the witch’s magic…”
Aris, who was hesitant, spoke in a small voice, unable to overcome Yoosung’s gaze.
“Magic Control, Thorns, Curse of Decay.”
“Why do you remove the demonic eye of truth?”
“Well, how did you know that? It’s a fact you’ve never told anyone before?”
“Okay, do you remember what happened before you came here?”
“Well, I can’t be sure because my memory is fuzzy, but I think I lived alone in the woods, out of sight. When I woke up, I was here.”
“·······.”
“Believe me, it’s real! To be honest, I have no idea what it is! I have no idea where I am. There are strange monsters roaming around outside. I was scared and hid inside, but suddenly I heard a human voice and just told me to come in!”
‘Where have you heard the story?’
-Yes, will you?
After hesitating for a moment, Yooseong saw through the girl with the demonic eye of truth and drew the axe.
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Judging from the fact that she didn’t feel any abnormality, it was definitely real, not hallucination magic or a doppelganger.
“Aris.”
“why?”
-Yes?
“No, stay with me. No, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about someone else…”
Yuseong, who was talking nonsense between the two Aris, cleared his throat when he saw the girl looking at him with strange eyes.
“From now on, I’ll call you number two.”
“Did you hear the name just now? Why are you calling it by the strange name No. 2, leaving the normal name alone?”
“There’s another person who uses the name Aris. If the names overlap, it’s confusing, right?”
“Wait, is your name also Aris?”
“It’s like that. But don’t call me Aris, call me Meteor.”
“If you don’t want to use the name Aris, I can use it.”
The girl whose name was suddenly stolen puffed up her cheeks, but she shook her head as if she had given up and muttered in a limp voice.
“At least call me by a person’s name.”
“Then how about Alice?”
“…It’s better. But do you know anything about this situation? Where is this place, why are monsters roaming around the mansion? And why you and I have the same name and look the same? Things like that.”
“I don’t know. So I was going around the mansion and investigating.”
Two girls with the same appearance, personality, and memories.
Strictly speaking, it is not that there is no point at all.
Dozens of plausible clichés came to mind even if I closed my eyes right away, such as a huge laboratory, virtual simulation, and cloned human beings created by magic or other methods.
It’s just that I can’t say it because it’s just my imagination.
“You said you were investigating a mansion full of monsters? Why? Can’t we just go outside?”
“I’m the type who can’t stand being curious. You’re waiting here. I’ll come pick you up later when I escape.”
Alice, who was silent for a while, cautiously approached and grabbed Meteor’s sleeve and said.
“Take me too.”
“Mmm, wouldn’t it be better to just stay here? You know what’s on the other side of the door, right?”
“I know! I know! But being alone is so scary!”
Although she felt sorry for the tearful Alice, it was difficult to even take care of herself armed with modern weapons in this mansion.
However, the moment Alice held out the object she had taken out of her pocket, she had no choice but to change her mind.
“The key? Where did you get that?”
“It was in my pocket. I’m not sure, but I was able to open all the doors nearby with this key. If you take me, I’ll lend you this. How about it?”
It would take a great deal of time and energy to break all the doorknobs in the mansion.
After weighing for a long time between the risk of taking Alice and the risk of not taking Alice, Yoosung finally made up his mind.
“You may follow me. Instead, you must strictly follow my words. Can you do it?”
“Of course! But do you really want to investigate this mansion? Wouldn’t it be dangerous just the two of us…”
“If it were just the two of us, it would have been.”
“two?”
Yoosung let out a small sigh and approached the door.
There was a clear rank and there was a word I heard from Kang Chang-seok, so I wanted to use the minimum amount of items from another world as much as possible, but the difficulty of this mansion was too extreme for that.
A situation where even exploration, let alone investigation, is impossible with only Aris’ pure ability.
For a proper investigation, I had no choice but to use skills and objects from another dimension.
‘Even if I give up and escape now, the points I’ve spent so far will go away and my rank will drop as per my rank. I just prepared it in case I didn’t know, but I didn’t intend to actually use it… but now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to go to the end.’
I feel like I’ve fallen into a typical sunk cost trap.
Yuseong, who looked at his hesitant hand whenever he thought of clear rank, finally made up his mind and took out a new item from his inventory.
“What is that? It’s the first time I’ve seen it, and it looks strange.”
– I’m curious too. What is this?
“Well, it’s like a familiar. I can see what this guy sees.”
It was the moment when a drone made in the 21st century Earth flew over a cursed mansion in an unknown world.
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