Foreseen

So a day passed.

Chris sent a text.

<Chris>

[Arrived.]

[Send me the location of the inn and I’ll head over.]

“….”

“…?”

My eyes met Caramel’s.

A blonde-haired, gold-eyed woman.

No matter how you looked at her, she was a human woman, and even if we met others, she probably wouldn’t be recognized as a Monster.

Cappuccino, too, had humanized into a green-haired girl, looking no different from a human.

“….”

“What are you staring at?”

“Just… because you’re pretty?”

I stroked Caramel’s hair.

Her golden eyes were as beautiful as honey.

While waiting for our breakfast order at the restaurant, I sent a text.

<I>

[Let’s meet at the plaza.]

[I’ll get ready and head over right away.]

I took the tray and returned to the room.

I gave the tray to Caramel, and,

Cappuccino…

“….”

She hadn’t woken up since fainting around lunchtime yesterday.

Cappuccino had fainted after receiving the shared memories from yesterday.

She was lying still on the bed, and when I poked her cheek with my finger, she didn’t respond.

She wasn’t dead, though.

‘Were the memories that shocking?’

The memories of the Duel Arena.

The memory of fighting Hongyeom in the Duel Arena was the clearest.

The pain, which I thought I couldn’t endure even with self-hypnosis, was the first of its kind and was etched into my memory.

I didn’t know how the memories and experiences were being shared, but it seemed different from reading a history book.

If it was a method of directly experiencing and internalizing?

It made sense that she could use the Skills right away.

Then…

Hmm…

‘Is it shocking enough to faint?’

Let’s look at it objectively.

It’s shocking enough to faint.

I nodded.

I took the money out of my Inventory and entrusted it to Caramel.

“Use it when you need it.”

“I will.”

Chris revised her opinion of Americano, famous as Anonymous.

When she first met her, she thought she was timid but bold when she held a sword.

When she met her this time, she was full of confidence, which was nice to see.

When she dodged Nuclear Fist flying at supersonic speed and landed a blow, she realized that people were paying attention for no reason.

After watching the Duel Arena videos of Hongyeom Hong Joo-ah and Espresso Americano…

‘She’s crazy.’

One of Hong Joo-ah’s ultimate Skills, “The Sun,” was impossible to evade.

A vicious technique that used light and heat to overheat, burn, and melt the target.

Normally, when used, it would just emit light to pinpoint a location or cause exhaustion from the heat.

So, it was often used for suppression rather than as an ultimate Skill, but the meeting of “The Sun” and the game elevated the technique to a genuine ultimate Skill.

Americano, who received that “The Sun” with her bare body, had her entire body burned and turned into charcoal, leaving almost nothing but bones.

It appeared as a Mannequin Skin,

But the essence inside was a goddess-like beauty.

She superimposed Americano’s appearance on the Mannequin Skin, and even in the state where only bones remained, she superimposed that beautiful woman, whose beauty was beyond words.

It was a terrible contrast, but the imagination flooded in.

In a state where it wouldn’t be strange to die immediately, she used Electrical Ability to move.

She charged in, looking like an Undead, and even managed to grab Hong Joo-ah.

She also used a Strength to push back the flames, was that an application of her Awakened Ability?

Thanks to that Strength, she was able to minimize the damage from the flames and break through to grab Hong Joo-ah.

Each and every moment of that scene was unforgettable in her mind.

It was too,

‘A monster.’

It was rude to say this to Dahyun’s sister, but she didn’t feel sorry at all, it was really like that.

Moreover,

‘There’s more.’

She couldn’t imagine that it would go any further from there.

The Duel was Hong Joo-ah’s victory, so she thought the victory or defeat would be decided by the battle of heat and Frost that unfolded after Hong Joo-ah was captured.

In reality, it almost went that far.

But there was more.

‘What on earth was that?’

The very end of the Duel Arena video.

Americano, who had stubbornly left only her skull, didn’t die even in that state and used a last resort.

Her head. Even with only her skull remaining, the fact that it wasn’t Undead but a living being was so surprising and terrifying that it felt like it would appear in her dreams, but anyway.

Americano recovered her entire body in that state.

She even created an angel’s ring and a small sun above her head, as if she had gained some enlightenment, and the sight of her wearing a dress of mist was so awe-inspiring that she was mesmerized.

As a result, she replayed it more than 20 times, but she still couldn’t grasp what she had done.

‘No, I think I know.’

She thought she knew, but the shock was even greater.

Before her thoughts could reach that point, she was captivated by the Magic of the video.

More than that, the question of “Is she human?” arose in her mind every time she saw that scene.

She was mesmerized.

Is that,

Possible?

She thought about showing it to her Clan members to analyze it, but she didn’t.

‘It would be rude to my sister.’

Even if it was just bones, she was naked…

‘…It seems like I’ve calmed down since I can make jokes like that.’

For now, she kept the Duel Arena video a secret from her Clan members.

She silenced the fact that the Duel between Hong Joo-ah and Americano even happened.

And,

Lastly.

Americano suddenly shattered her body and became a huge energy.

The energy in the form of a person had a will and reached out its hand.

Although it was clear that she had failed to control the Strength and it had scattered, she would have controlled it perfectly if the size had been just a little smaller.

And Awakened are sensitive to the flow of Magical Power.

Even though it was beyond the video, Chris, who was among the top Awakened, could intuitively feel that the energy body was a ‘technique.’

‘That’s a technique?’

It was absurd.

She couldn’t believe that Americano was from the same reality as her,

Because if she had done it, it meant that everything could be reproduced in reality.

The Strength of Full Dive was that you could operate Magical Power and implement techniques in the same way as in reality.

What’s possible in Full Dive is also possible in reality.

That’s why she had a question.

‘What on earth did she do in reality?’

There are Awakened who don’t engage in combat.

She was probably in that category.

Looking at the 1st floor walkthrough video, it didn’t seem like she had been trained in combat techniques.

But looking at Americano’s movements so far, it seemed like she didn’t dislike combat and was actually immersed in it.

She thought she knew.

‘Because she only has one life.’

Looking at Americano’s Tower climbing videos, she rushed at Monsters on the premise of throwing away her life.

All Players have that tendency, but in Americano’s case, there was something a little… very different. There was something contradictory about trying her best to die and trying her best not to die.

Two or three lives wouldn’t be enough to do that kind of effort in reality.

So, she must be enjoying wasting her life and pouring out her whole heart in a game that is implemented in the same way as reality.

That’s what Chris concluded.

“Ugh.”

She covered her face.

She realized.

She had come to realize.

The fact that she hadn’t recognized due to the shock belatedly came crashing down on her.

No, think about it. When you watched the Tower 1st floor video, there were no combat techniques or anything?

But after only reaching the 33rd floor, the speed of her technical development was terrifying.

If she logged out into reality as it is, that combat ability would be reflected in reality, right?

Is it the appearance of a new S-class?

More than that thought, her head was filled with questions.

‘Is that going to be reproduced?’

In reality?

A terrible hell came to her mind, and her face turned white.

She recalled the Duel Arena video.

The appearance she showed in the second half.

Her sister who wouldn’t die even if she was killed.

‘What on earth did she do?’

She imagined herself following that and imagined being burned and bent until only her bones remained.

Her body trembled.

It’s scary just imagining it.

There was someone who actually did it, so the imagination felt a little more realistic.

How on earth?

How is that possible?

She tends to do almost anything to get stronger, but,

‘That’s impossible.’

Just being alive is a miracle.

Still,

For now,

She’ll try.

‘My sister said. If you have the Nine Yin Severed Meridians, your Magical Power is almost infinite.’

It must have been a game production that was possible because she used Geass.

She dismissed the idea that such a thing could be implemented in reality and looked at the walls of Dwarfneer, the meeting place.

Chris led her Clan members to Dwarfneer.

But on the way, people from other Clans came and argued.

She said she had an appointment with a scary sister who wouldn’t die even if she was killed.

Dwarfneer was a neutral and disputed area between Clans. They didn’t like the First Home Clan entering as a group.

Anyway,

She didn’t want to cause a commotion.

She took only some members with her.

As the plaza approached,

“W-we’re meeting, right?”

“It’s okay.”

Hong Joo-ah trembled.

Her legs seemed stiff, her gait was strange, and her arms and legs moved together.

Hong Joo-ah was also a member of the First Home Clan. In reality, they were in different guilds, but in the game, they formed a Clan with close friends.

“Is she that scary?”

A Clan member next to her asked.

She, who was from the same guild as Chris in reality, was also a Hunter who was unofficially on par with the S-class, like Chris and Hong Joo-ah.

Unlike the two, she wasn’t a combatant.

The Seer, Jang Yu-ha.

She sees the future.

Of course, that function was weakened in the game and appeared in an ambiguous form, but she clearly had the Strength to sense the future.

An ambiguous form.

What should she call it?

It was closer to the feeling of receiving the feelings of her future self.

Since it was a precognitive ability.

She should call it a premonition.

That premonition gave her an impression of Americano.

‘It doesn’t seem like a bad meeting.’

If something scary was going to happen in front of her, she would have caught it in her premonition, but the emotions conveyed by the premonition were similar to admiration.

Americano.

‘Who is she?’

She was looking forward to it.

Even when she only heard about her, it was clear that she was a person who had a great influence on her future self, enough to stimulate her premonition.

If she saw her with her own eyes, she would be able to feel the emotions her future self felt more strongly.

Her premonition was good.

Dwarfneer Plaza.

Among the people coming and going.

She found someone standing alone by the fountain as if waiting for someone.

“Isn’t that her?”

“That’s right.”

She was wearing a robe and hiding her face in the shadows with a Magic hood… a woman. She knew it was a woman because her chest was swollen.

Even wearing a robe, her chest was so prominent.

She was tall for a woman, but even though she covered her body with a robe, she couldn’t hide her slender figure.

Chris approached, and the woman in the robe waved her hand happily.

The Magic of the robe hid Americano’s face, so she couldn’t see it, but,

Thump.

Thump.

Her heart was beating.

Her precognitive ability was weakened and only conveyed premonitions.

Something ominous was about to explode in that premonition.

Something.

It’s coming.

Something strongly constricting her chest was pushing in more and more strongly.

Chris brought Americano over and briefly introduced her, and for the introduction, she took off her hood to show her face.

Then, her face became a window, and a scene from the future was etched into her mind.