Chapter 23: Encounter with my twin!

Thoughts in italics

Monologue in normal text

Bolded skills

System in bold normal text

sounds in bold italics

[] Karada-chan

{} Miho chan

Akira-chan

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MorningStarBroken:

R: all i can say... is D fault

Azure-Star-Dragon:

R: Maybe~ who knows

Appolyon:

R: well i put the flame resistance in there, i guest you didn't read it

About she eating rocks, i mean she can but one thing is eating for just the Sp and other thing is eating bcs she enjoy it. She doesn't enjoy eating rocks, she enjoys eating good food.

Since gaining those levels gave me 1400, I got a new Evil Eyes skill and a new skill.

This time, I will bet on Heavy Evil Eye and Ore Body.

The Evil Eye increases the effect of gravity on any target in my field of vision.

Now I can slow down my opponent's moves with Heavy Evil Eye, weaken them with Cursed Evil Eye and finally seal their moves completely with Paralyzing and Petrifying Evil Eye.

My Evil Eye quadruple-threat combo is complete!

As for Ore Body, it apparently turns my body into something similar in metal, only it doesn't slow me down when I have it active.

I find it very useful to increase my defense.

This whole mechanism is based on the objective of increasing my defense and stopping my enemies in their tracks.

I already have a lot of moves to attack.

If I have to, I can always take some magic skill or other for a few points.

Huh? Why don't I just do that in the first place, you ask?

I've become a little bit obsessed with this whole Evil Eye and defense thing, but judging by my stats, am I supposed to specialize in magic/speed?

Does that mean I should really focus only on magic and speed skills in the first place?

Come on, that's not true.

At least, let's say it isn't.

I'm definitely not obsessed with this is simply because I like the idea of having eight different Evil Eyes at once.

I'm not, okay?

Anyway, I'm going to save the rest of these points for a while.

I don't know how many more I will get as an evolution bonus.

I will adjust my strategy accordingly as I go along.

If I get a really large amount, I might even get skills that have been too expensive to have so far, like Sloth.

In short.

Its usefulness in any type of battle is not the only reason I chose Heavy Evil Eye.

Now, let's try this. Evil Eye, activate!

[Oof! What are you doing, Akira-chan!]

What do you mean? I am increasing my own gravity.

[It weighs a lot!]

Well, I was thinking, what am I missing, anyway? Muscle, of course!

[Great, here comes a speech.]

When the Z-warriors trained in super-high gravity, they became strong enough to defeat the ultra-powerful enemies that pursued them!

[Yeah, yeah. I get what you're saying and all that, but it's making the peeling kind of difficult, you know. ]

Well, the key is to get used to it by keeping it active all the time.

{Great idea! Good luck, Karada-chan!}

(Let's try gravity a thousand times the next time!)

[No, it would kill me!]

So, yes. I decided to try to apply extra gravity all the time.

If I use it constantly on myself, I bet it will increase my physical stats, not to mention give me more Proficiency points for my Evil Eye to boot.

I could even increase my skill level in Herculean Strenght or something like that.

Since the Evil Eye skill is only at level 1, at the moment it doesn't feel like much more than a little extra weight, but I'm sure it will be a big burden once I level up.

Then, if I deactivate it during the battle and return to normal gravity, I will get a "remove power limiter" type move!

Exquisite.

I'm definitely going to yell "RELEASE RESTRICTIONS!" or something like that when I do.

Well, I can't really talk, but you know what I mean.

Huh?! My spatial perception is reacting to something!

A distortion in the air?

I have not experienced this before, but somehow, I know exactly what is going on.

Teleportation.

Something is about to teleport here.

I have no way to stop it.

With my level of Dimensional Magic, I can't even teleport myself, forget about interfering with someone else's skill to do so.

Judging by the spatial distortion I'm feeling, I guess whoever is teleporting here must be really good at Dimensional Magic.

That means they are much stronger than me, at least when it comes to Dimensional Magic.

Most troubling of all is that they are using magic in the first place.

That means, without a doubt, that the user must be at a high level of intelligence.

So far, I haven't seen a single monster use magic.

Even the fire dragon I defeated earlier is no exception.

He had magic skills, but never used them.

This is a matter of course.

Magic involves a very complicated process of composing spells.

The user needs a certain amount of intellect to be able to achieve this.

In the case of the fire dragon, it was much more effective to use its own skills to create fireballs than to try to conjure magic spells.

There may be some monster species that can use magic, but they have simpler and more powerful skills to use instead.

However, whatever is about to teleport here is using some seriously complicated magic.

Which means you must have a specific reason for coming here.

But what could that be?

All that's here is... me.

In other words, that must be coming this way for me.

I can't imagine he's just teleporting here by coincidence.

All this reasoning goes through my mind in a second thanks to Thought Acceleration.

I remain on guard.

The air is torn, and a man appears.

A very dark man.

I don't know how else to explain it.

He wears black armor so close-fitting, it's as if it's part of his body.

The small section of his face that is visible is dark, too.

Like her hair.

Only his eyes are mysteriously red.

I know the moment I lay my eyes on this guy, strangely familiar, he is:

I can't win here.

He is on a different level.

And something else confirms my suspicions.

Appreciation cannot be used.

Those words.

But, for some reason, I don't feel like I'm in danger.

In fact, I feel a strange sense of kinship with this man.

And at the same time, I feel a little bit of irritation towards him.

Why is that?

I had definitely never encountered this man before.

I don't know why I should feel this way in the face of such a strange figure appearing out of nowhere.

What the hell are these feelings?

And why does it look so familiar?

"¿**********?"

The man speaks.

But I don't recognize the language.

Without thinking, I bow my head.

"¿+++++++++++?"

The man says something else.

Could you please speak Japanese?

Otherwise, I will not understand.

I don't speak... whatever language this world uses.

The man frowns.

Hmm.

Well, it doesn't seem hostile at the moment.

But what do I do?

I don't understand it, and even if I did, I can't talk.

I could probably communicate in writing, but all I know is Japanese.

Either way, we would not be able to understand each other.

This is a problem.

The man looks a bit puzzled as well.

As we stand in awkward silence, something suddenly falls to the ground between us.

It is a smartphone.

Huh?

Wait a second.

It is quite rare for a smartphone to exist here, but how did it appear to me like that?

I don't know why I feel this scene is so familiar to me.

"Well, your beloved administrator D is here!"

A voice suddenly comes out of the smartphone.

Two voices, in fact.

One speaks Japanese, and the other a language she had never heard before.

Wait, D has always been able to speak so many languages before?

"¡¿*****?!"

Ah, the man sounds truly surprised

Which means that the other language that D is speaking is the same language of this guy: the language of this world.

"Hey Rodrigo, we meet again. Now, please wait a moment."

Ah, okay.

I was asked to wait, so I will do so.

For once I can be polite to D, at least until we can talk,

The voice of D speaks to man in the language of this parallel world.

It is a woman's voice.

A very beautiful voice, but deeply disturbing for some reason.

Did you have that kind of voice when we talked a long time ago?

I don't really remember.

But according to my recollection, she shouldn't talk like that.

She should have a flat, emotionless voice that would be quite disturbing.

Not this kind of voice... so cheerful. Honestly, it sounds scarier with what I know of D.

What is going on here?

With each new statement D makes, the man's expression changes.

The changes are quite small, but I can see his eyebrows furrowing or his eyes getting bigger.

Finally, the conversation seems to come to an end. The man lets out a long sigh and turns away.

Then teleport away with Dimensional Magic, just like that.

Leaving me alone with D.

I don't know why I feel I condemn myself.

"Thank you for waiting. I've had a word with my dear friend Güli-Güli, so I shouldn't bother you anymore."

Güli-Güli? Since when did you call him that?

"Who knows~! Maybe you infected me."

Hey, what do you mean.

Wait, you can read my mind.

"wait a second, I have to get someone else in here."

Anyone else?

Suddenly, I don't know why, but I felt that the world was changing, that something was changing.

No, rather, my perception, my mind, felt that something had... unlocked? I guess you could put it that way

Suddenly another portal opens, only this time a spider comes out, much like me, only instead of black it has white.

From the same portal comes out a corpse of a fire dragon very similar to the one I killed.

What is going on?

I can't help but use Appraisal on it.

Zoa Ele | Lv 19 | no name

Stats:

Hp: 687/687(Green) (Details)

Mp: 5,012/5,012 (Blue) (Details)

Sp: 636/636 (Yellow) (Details)

636/636 (Red) (Details)

Attack: 590 (Details)

Defense: 685 (Details)

Magic: 4757 (Details)

Resistance: 4871 (Details)

Speed: 3152 (Details)

Skills:

Deadly poison attack Lv 3

Evasion Lv 10

Hit Lv 10

Rot Attack Lv 2

Heretic Attack Lv 1

Poison Synthesis Lv8

Utility Thread Lv 2

Thread Manipulation Lv 8

Silence Lv 5

Threadsmanship Lv 4

Throw Lv 7

Dimensional Maneuvering Lv 1

Concentration Lv 10

Destruction Enhancement Lv 3

Cutting Enhancement Lv 3

Poison Enhancement Lv 7

Mental Warfare Lv 4

Magic Warfare Lv 2

Energy Conferment Lv 2

Thought Acceleration Lv 7

Probability Correction Lv 1

Divinity Expansion Lv 4

Dragon Power Lv 1

Wyrm Barrier Lv 4

Stealth Lv 9

Gluttony Lv 1

Parallel Minds Lv 3

High-Speed Proccesing Lv 2

Vision Expansion Lv 3

Deadly Poison resistance at Lv 3

Paralysis resistance Lv 5

Petrification resistance Lv 3

Acid resistance lv 4

Rot petrification Lv 3

Faintness Resistance Lv 3

Fear resistance Lv 8

Heresy Nullification Lv 1

Pain Nullification

Pain Super-Mitigation Lv 2

Destruction Resistance Lv 4

Impact Resistance Lv 3

Cutting Resistance Lv 3

Fire Resistance Lv 4

Dark Resistance Lv 2

Ice Resistance Lv 9

Light Resistance Lv 1

Water Resistance Lv 1

Ultimate Life Lv 1

Celestial Power

Instant Body Lv 1

Endurance Lv 1

Fortune Lv 4

Taboo Lv 8

Mental Magic Lv 2

HP Auto-Recovery Lv 7

Height Of Occultism

SP Recovery Speed Lv 6

Sp Lessened Consumption Lv 7

Auditory Enhancement Lv 9

Vision Enhancement Lv 10

Telescopic Sight Lv 8

Olfactory Enhancement Lv 7

Tactile Enhancement Lv 7

Taste Enhancement Lv 7

Cursed Evil Eye Lv 7

Heavy Evil Eye Lv 1

Paralyzing Evil Eye Lv 7

Heretic Magic lv 6

Shadow Magic Lv 7

Poison Magic Lv 7

Abyss Magic Lv 10

Dimensional Magic Lv 1

Solidity Lv 4

Sturdy Lv 4

Herculean Strength Lv 4

Skanda Lv 4

Hades

Conviction

Perseverance

Wisdom

Demon Lord Lv 1

Foresight Lv 7

n=W

Skill Points: 0

Titles:

| Foul Feeder | Kin Eater | Assassin | Monster Slayer | Monster Slaughterer | Poison Technique User | Thread User | Merciless | Ruler of pride | Ruler of Perseverance | Ruler of Wisdom | Ruler of Wisdom | Fear Bringer | Dragon Slayer | Dragon Slayer

It's... very similar to mine.

What is going on?

Gah, I suddenly feel a strange sensation.

So, this is what it feels like to be a victim of Appraisal, huh? What a weird feeling.

Hmm, oh wait, I have Telepathy, I've never been more grateful to have it before in my life.

"Hello, someone there."

"Wah?! Huh?! Who is this?"

A female voice answers me.

It looks like mine in fact.

D, whom you brought.

At least I know she doesn't know what's going on either.

"Who are you? In this world my name is Kuroko, but in my previous life I was called Wakaba Hiro."

"Huh? You're a reincarnate too... wait a second! I'm Wakaba Hiro!"

What?! But I am Wakaba Hiro.

What is going on?

D, what did you do?!

"Hahahahahaha, okay, this was funny enough, let me fix this."

Hmm? Fix this to what you re-

Ack, I suddenly got a headache.

Wait... now everything is clearer.

This little spider is...

"Gah?! Wait what?! Was I a spider in my previous life?!"

This confirms it.

This spider is the original kumoko.

...

I don't know how to feel about it

D... What the hell did you do?

"Well, since you ask so politely, I guess I can answer you. First I'd like to introduce myself to your spider friend, I'm D."

Hmm, wait, haven't you introduced yourself before?

"Wait... D? I remember hearing that name when I got Wisdom."

"No, I hadn't introduced myself to her before and yes, I was the one who gave you Wisdom."

Hmm, makes sense.

"Wait... you're reading my mind? And how come I can hear you another me?"

Another me?

I guess it makes sense... I think

What memories did D give him? no, rather, what things did D give him?

"Yes, I did."

"That's an invasion of my privacy! And just answer the question, me!"

What a screamer.

Anyway, I'm using Telepathy to talk to you.

"Hmm, I guess that makes sense."

Connection established.

Eh.

"Huh?"

You heard that too... eh Shiro-chan?

"Yes, I just heard the divine voice (temporary) say something about an established connection and... Shiro-chan?"

Well, you're me but white, so I thought it would suit you as a name.

"Well, I guess it's okay, nice to meet you Kuro-chan."

Likewise, Shiro-chan

The proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Naming Lv 1] has become [Naming Lv 2].

This is not the time System-chan.

"Naming? What is that?

Oh well it's-

"Yeah, yeah, very nice and all that. Now let's get back to our original topic, normally I wouldn't go this far doing something like this."

"Normally? So, does that mean you've been monitoring us?"

Monitoring us is too small

"'Monitoring' is not a nice way to put it. I think 'bystander' would be more appropriate."

No surprise here.

"So, you're a stalker, are you?

"I guess. I just never get tired of watching them, they're so entertaining."

I hate how it makes that sound.

"Why did you give us Wisdom?"

"That was a reward for how hard they had worked. And also, for entertaining me so much, their lives were so similar but yet so different."

Similar? So Shiro-chan and I had similar experiences?

"They practically did the same thing, fought the same enemies, ate almost the same things, almost as if they were twins."

...

How did I miss it?

I mean, I remember suspecting it when I was in the ant area and fighting the wolves.

"You were the other person I saw?"

So, you saw me too, huh?

But here in the Middle Layer it is practically impossible that we would not have seen each other, as this place is just a straight line.

What did you do D?

"heh, you got me."

I knew it.

"Wait, she was responsible for us not noticing each other."

It is obvious.

"Heh, I knew you would notice. All I did was seal off a part of your mind so you wouldn't notice certain things."

...I'm afraid to ask, but... What things?

"hmm, let's see. When you were fighting the fire wyrm, you didn't realize that there were the two fire wyrm and twice as many eels and catfish around."

What-?

"Oh, when did the army of the fire dragon duo come to fight your mother?"

Oka-sama...? Wait, dragon duo, so there were two fire dragons this whole time?!

"of course, one fought with you and the other with kumo-chan here."

So, that thing I felt in my head.

"It's so that you would no longer ignore kumo-chan's presence, the same thing happened to you kumo-chan."

"Huh? Me too?"

"Of course, after all, you might have tried to fight her if you had seen her."

D... Why?

"It should be obvious to you, Rodrigo-"

"Rodrigo?"

"I did it for fun."

"Huh?"

Fun?

"Hmm, I guess you don't remember all the things after all. Yeah, fun, nothing more. I have no deeper motives or purposes than that."

"Really?"

You did all that... just for fun?

"Yes. After all, I am the most evil goddess in this world."

I don't want to believe him but at the same time it makes sense.

She is probably responsible for my scattered memories, my attitude, etc.

Hmm, Shiro-chan's body is shaking on its own, I guess she believes D when he told her that she's an evil goddess.

"And don't you doubt it! As an evil goddess, nothing pleases me more than to see people struggle and suffer."

"So, this whole world was created for your entertainment?"

As far as I know, yes.

"Ja, I'm glad you think so highly of me, Rodrigo, but unfortunately not. From this world's point of view, I am an outsider."

What do you mean?

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Those are all the questions I'll answer. If they knew everything, it would be pretty boring."

Ugh, why am I not surprised?

"So, you'll just keep playing with us."

"Indeed. I've now activated the cooperative mode, so be sure to get along, will you~."

D, don't fuck with me.

"Why, you...!"

"Well, see you next time, kisses."

The smartphone disappears.

Without at least a hint of distortion in space.

I look at Shiro-chan and she looks at me.

Well, that could have gone better, couldn't it?

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Nai wa, what a fast chapter.

I hope you liked it; I know I did~.