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Ahn Yu-min’s captivating voice echoed throughout the room.

“If only you and I were left in the world. Junwoo, you won’t look elsewhere and just look at me, right?”

An Yu-min was spouting out crazy, nonsensical words.

Somehow, it seemed like the current An Yumin could make that possible.

I got goosebumps all over my body.

As the same villain. The madness and obsessive eyes that An Yu-min was emitting right now were more frightening than any other madman.

At the same time, it was so attractive that it seemed like it would captivate me. It was a feeling that I couldn’t even imagine.

But it wasn’t the time for me to be distracted either.

‘The event of entering the Mirror Hotel doesn’t happen often. You must reach the 25th floor.’

To the extent that I have become accustomed to absolute composure.

It was quite dangerous for me to develop any feelings towards An Yu-min.

It was fortunate that all of An Yu-min’s attention was on Lee Jun-woo in that room.

I tried to stay as calm as possible.

‘for a moment. When I looked at it again, it was quite dark.’

I saw another me who was sitting with her a little while ago.

Familiar, but different from who I am now.

It was me in the form of a golden sun.

There was nothing surprising. In An Yu-min’s subconscious, he will miss me from the time of Geumtaeyang.

This is me from those days when I only had eyes for her.

‘And to the extent that it dominates An Yu-min’s unconsciousness…’

At the same time, it means that the memories of that time are very meaningful to An Yu-min.

At that moment, I felt like I knew why Letisane chose me and his will to remain in this hotel of mirrors.

There is only one stopping device against Ahn Yu-min becoming a villain.

Because that existence will only be me.

Shake it off-

An Yu-min opened the door of the guest room and went out.

I followed her carefully.

It was on the 20th floor a little while ago.

A new elevator hall. An Yu-min took the elevator there.

’24th floor.’

After checking the floor number, I quickly ran down the hallway.

In the original work, an emergency staircase was also created when the elevator was activated.

‘And at the same time, an emergency door.’

As expected, I entered the emergency door that existed and went up the stairs.

For that short period of time.

The 20th floor, I thought again about the meaning of this section.

A space where the weaknesses of the entering cadets are clearly encountered.

By directly dealing with their weaknesses, the cadets grow even further when they leave the Mirror Hotel.

‘Then my weakness is…’

Even though An Yu-min is a space where unconsciousness exists.

It means a lot to me that the person I met in person when I opened that room was An Yu-min.

“Ahn Yu-min… No, An Yu-min who has become a villain is a weakness itself to me.”

At those words, the sentence on the mask, Letisane’s handwritten sentence, shined again.

Again, a positive meaning.

Realizing what that affirmation conveyed, I felt like I knew Letisane’s thoughts to some extent.

‘Ahn Yu-min is a dangerous person even to me, an unknown person. Nevertheless, Letisane deliberately tried to tell me that fact…’

Of course, it would be because I am the one who can stop An Yu-min from becoming a villain.

It’s a ridiculous idea, though.

The current An Yu-min feels like a dangerous villain who can destroy the world.

Arrived at the 24th floor.

That place was not a guest room.

There was an open landscape everywhere.

And there was a fierce wind and heavy snow blowing there.

There were frozen corpses everywhere.

‘It’s ridiculously cold.’

Even for me, an awakened person, the cold was so cold that my bones chilled.

So, an ordinary person would freeze to death just from being touched by this cold and snowy wind.

At the center of that snowstorm was An Yu-min.

Her brown hair swayed violently in the strong wind.

“Stop that witch!”

“That villain… If we don’t stop An Yu-min, Seoul will collapse like this!”

People who appeared to be hunters rushed at An Yu-min.

However, An Yu-min did not feel the slightest nervousness and looked at the hunters with a smile.

“Do you want to play with me? I’m sorry. If you hang out with other guys, Junwoo might get angry.”

While saying that, he lightly swung the Hunter Sword.

Although the distance from An Yu-min was only a few tens of meters.

The hunters’ heads were all cut off before they could even approach.

Among them, the Named Hunter has a familiar face. There were also A-class awakened people called heroes.

Even they couldn’t do anything against An Yu-min.

What if this scene unfolding on the 24th floor was real?

An Yu-min is probably more dangerous than the transcendent level monsters that appeared during the dark ages when Letisane was active.

‘How is something like that possible?’

A level that cannot be reached by an ordinary cadet.

Enough to easily clean up even an A-level hunter.

This means that you have already reached the 3rd awakening possible at the Master Hero level.

‘It’s not at human level.’

And at that moment, I remembered Letisane’s nickname.

The devil’s archmage.

There were rumors going around that he had gone beyond being an ordinary wizard and had even made a contract with demon kings.

There were many rumors that the bloodline was also not human.

Although he is known to be from an unnamed noble family in a region of Europe close to the World Tree.

No one knew exactly what it was.

However, I had some idea of its identity through the original work.

Clues obtained from the Mirror Hotel.

If we gather that prior information, Letisane is definitely related to its existence.

‘Primitive Jinhyeol.’

A primordial being who was the origin of all sub-races.

Letisane must have something to do with that blood.

And Yumin An, who I see before my eyes, must have inherited Letisane’s blood in some way.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the scene of the apocalypse that An Yu-min is creating.

But then an explosion was heard again.

***

Papa Papa Papa-

At that time, someone nearby froze again.

It exploded into shards of ice.

‘It’s so incredibly strong.’

As it was a dungeon, I also began to be affected by the harsh cold.

Physical stats are only around 40. Even if I wasn’t directly hit by An Yu-min’s skill like a moment ago, my whole body was shaking to the point of freezing.

[Demonization has been activated.]

In this place, there is no need to worry about anyone.

The physical specifications were strengthened through special effects and demonization obtained through Song Xia.

My strength immediately rose to 60. Although the cold has gone to some extent. Still, if things continue like this, you will get frostbite all over your body.

[Passive skill firepower training (lv.4) is in effect.]

So he quickly activated his power.

‘Fire burning from Mana Heart’. My whole body became hot due to the power of the flame.

I got away from An Yu-min as quickly as possible.

And as a result, the cold temporarily went away a little.

My head started moving again.

‘I feel quite bad.’

What was An Yu-min’s unconsciousness and reality like?

I didn’t like it if her purpose was to tie me up.

And even when an opponent stronger than me shakes the world like this.

‘I don’t know if it’s the other way around.’

Only then did I realize why An Yu-min was my weakness.

Villains are the freest beings.

If you have that power, you can do anything you want.

An Yu-min here was using that power to realize the future she wanted most.

A future in which I, Lee Jun-woo, are completely bound by my own.

‘It’s an obsession that leaves only her and me in the world…’

If that really comes true.

No one will take me away from her.

That obsession is so crazy that it goes beyond yandere.

Naturally, I didn’t like that.

Because I didn’t want to be influenced in the slightest by An Yu-min, who wasn’t anyone else.

‘That requires strength.’

To have freedom as a villain, you need absolute strength.

Now I think I understand why Letisane conveyed her will to me.

‘You know that if it were me, I would stop that An Yu-min.’

With Letisane, we have found the perfect answer.

Whether An Yu-min destroys the world or not. The matter itself has nothing to do with me.

If it is to imprison me.

I have no intention of agreeing at all.

‘I don’t know if it means I can completely restrain An Yu-min.’

Only then will the future ahead of us not unfold.

Primitive Jinhyeol. I must completely arrest An Yu-min, who possesses that dangerous primordial power.

I grinned and muttered as if I was speaking to Letisane.

“Retisane. I plan to control your daughter as I please. Are you okay?”

The sentence inside the mask was silent.

But soon the door opened in midair.

‘Is this tacit permission?’

Letisane is also trying to entrust her daughter to a villain like me.

As expected, it didn’t seem normal.

When I went out through that door, it was again an emergency door.

There was a staircase that went even higher.

It was the stairs leading to the 25th floor, which was the goal of this quest.

‘You can strengthen orbs here.’

As we were used to, the crazy white space of mirrors unfolded.

The first part of the lake number had been changed to 25.

A space where you can specially strengthen items using the goods you have collected.

If An Yu-min really has the potential to become an uncontrollably dangerous villain like we saw in the dungeon a moment ago.

I had to become stronger.

So, it was lucky that I got to the 25th floor faster than anyone else.

‘no. ‘Is it necessity rather than luck?’

The two beings that rule this mirror hotel.

An Yu-min’s unconsciousness and Letisane’s will to remain were calling to me.

And when I opened the door of one of the rooms and entered the reinforced space.

I was shocked.

[You can strengthen the orbs you own.]

[Transcendence enhancement is possible.]

[Hidden grade ‘Orb of Letisane’ can be created.]

The name of an item written in the message that emerged from that space.

Orb of Letisane.

It was undoubtedly Letisane’s legacy that Song Yu-hwan was frantically searching for.