Four Split Personalities

"I guess I was a bit too cautious..."

As the first spark burst from Cordova’s body, Motan, who had activated [Escape] to dart out more than ten meters, whistled and then casually sat down on the ground, watching the Rune Body that was dissolving rapidly with a teasing look, "Should I say he’s really a good person with principles? To avoid harming the people around him, he actually gave up the idea of taking me with him in a large-scale Self-Destruct. Heh, makes me feel quite embarrassed."

No sooner had he spoken than the Rune Body, now deprived of its ’artificial spirit,’ crumbled to dust in a twisted burst of flame and was scattered into the air by a breeze, leaving not even a trace behind.

At the same time, a petite figure appeared in front of Motan, bright eyes staring intently at him, "What’s making you feel so embarrassed?"

"Yo~"

Motan looked up at Double Leaf with a grin, smiling warmly, "All clean?"

"One got away, but the rest are done for."

Double Leaf waved off the two Claw warriors behind her, who had sustained lighter injuries, then sat down opposite Motan with her hands on her knees, languidly saying, "If you hadn’t driven Cordova into a Frenzy, that androgynous person who caused us so much trouble before probably couldn’t have escaped either."

Motan leaned in with interest and asked, "So you’re saying that pink-haired girl from just now and the leopard guy who screwed me over before using Mercury Core Fernan are one and the same?"

"Yep, another player, name, gender, purpose, all unknown. It seems they had nothing to do with the Marshall Family before, at least not until after I captured Buffet Marshall and took him to Violet," Double Leaf pursed her lips, twirling her hair on her knee without enthusiasm, "Also, I estimate this person definitely ranks in the top hundred in combat power, and definitely isn’t from one of the three camps on the Good Side. Beyond that, I know nothing."

While relieving the negative effects of the [Escape] skill, Motan stretched lazily and waved dismissively, "Don’t need to go into that much detail, I’m not particularly interested in that person. Even if we’ve had some friction before, if they’re a player, they probably won’t bother us anymore after the Marshall Family is finished."

"Oh? What if that person was helping the Marshalls not because of any mission but simply out of interest or something like that?"

Double Leaf, who was trying to fog up her glasses with her breath, wrinkled her nose and shrugged, "Isn’t it a bit premature to conclude they won’t give us trouble anymore?"

Laying on the ground with his cheek in his hand, Motan observed the warriors cleaning up the battlefield nearby, speaking distractedly, "I’m too lazy to continue the investigation. It’s just because the difficulty of identifying that person isn’t proportional to the likelihood that they’ll continue to bother us out of boredom. You really don’t need to find problems just for the sake of it."

"Alright, back to the original topic, is there something between you and Cordova?"

Going with the flow, Double Leaf nodded her head and batted her sparkling eyes at Motan, "I’m super curious~"

"Knock your ’ma’ in the head."

Motan flicked her forehead dismissively, "Still acting cute? You think that fuss suits you?"

This comment was a bit harsh since, visually speaking, both Mu You in reality and Double Leaf in the game matched the cute type perfectly, with their quirky demeanor, delicate doll faces, and the perfectly petite height of a legal loli at just six teen, which gave her an unrivaled advantage in the ’acting cute’ domain. If this girl could overcome her social anxiety and shamelessly play cute at conventions or similar events, she might actually charm to death a gentleman or two.

But...

As mentioned before, both Double Leaf and Motan had long since demonized each other. So, to Motan at this moment, whether Double Leaf tried to act cute in the form of a lovely girl or in the form of a Two-headed Ogre, there was fundamentally no difference.

"So are you going to talk or not?"

Double Leaf pouted, rubbing her forehead and then, in the next second, swiftly pounced in front of Motan, grabbing a few tufts of his hair, threateningly saying, "Don’t think I’m not aware that you’re in a terrible state right now! Regardless of the skill’s side effects, if you don’t satisfy my curiosity, I’ll tear your hairline back two centimeters!"

Although they were just fooling around, Motan did not doubt Double Leaf’s determination, so he candidly told the truth, "To put it simply, not long after I just created my character, I arrived at a place called Pato City, where I killed someone who might very well have been the esteemed Cordova."

"Pato City..."

With half a second’s contemplation, Double Leaf curiously asked, "The place where you picked up Little Ai and her boyfriend?"

Having visited the Glass Pavilion in Sālāmù’ēn not long ago, Double Leaf knew quite a bit about Little Ai and Laisa, since with her cunning and eloquence, it wasn’t difficult at all to extract information from two inexperienced girls. Even if Little Ai was tight-lipped, she couldn’t be perfectly watertight in front of Double Leaf, so the latter had some understanding of what happened after Motan found Little Ai.