Four Split Personalities

"Whatcha thinking, bro!"

A muscular arm swung over boisterously, staggering the distracted Motan.

Following behind and equally distracted, Yizou immediately shuddered, inwardly cursing his own carelessness while glare unhappily at the red-haired orc shouting and hugging ’Elder Hei Fan,’ expressing his displeasure, "Mister Fire Yang, the elder’s injuries haven’t healed yet, please be a bit more careful."

"Ah? Didn’t he fully heal already... uh, no, what Yizou lady means is, I get carried away easily when I’m happy, no offense meant."

Halfway through speaking, Fire Yang suddenly realized his mistake, hastily removed his arm from Motan’s shoulder with a laugh, then cleared his throat and said seriously, "We’ve known each other for a long time, Hei Fan always had a frail body, it’s common for him to faint or spit blood every other day as a kid, the local doctors... um, pharmacists said his kidneys..."

"He indeed has a tough fate, unfortunate in the people he meets."

Motan quickly interjected, then lifted his arm and hit Fire Yang’s ribs with his elbow, threatening in a low and deliberate voice, "If you dare to steer the topic towards frailty and kidney issues again, I guarantee I’ll deliver your artistically modified personal data to every versatile young man within ten kilomètres around Tanhua before next semester starts."

Fire Yang scoffed and smirked, "Do you think I’d believe such a childish threat?"

"You might want to ask Yi Dong, consult him if I really could do such a thing."

Motan chuckled in response, then added unhurriedly, "Oh, right, you should know I’m really good with computers, wanna bet if I can get you caught on local fire before you can turn around?"

[Damn, I almost forgot this guy is a Hacker!]

Immediately recalling a web gathering disrupted by a mysterious beautiful girl, Fire Yang sweated and forced a couple of dry laughs, awkwardly changing the subject, "Those commands just now were brilliant! Did you see the heretics fleeing in disarray, wasn’t it incredibly satisfying?"

"Hehe..."

Motan said with a smile but no words, thinking to himself how his skill in pretending other states has improved, although all performed, just now his tone, demeanor, and speech pattern matched his ’Chaotic Neutral’ personality perfectly, completely fooling Fire Yang.

Although over the years, pretending to switch personalities has become basic skill for him, the current ’Absolute Neutrality’ personality Motan was displaying was definitely one of the finest, emulating any state with uncanny accuracy; not just external expressions, tones, and gestures, but also embodying the mindset and even the stream of consciousness, something only ’Hei Fan’ could achieve, as if fully activating the [Reflection] talent in his talents list.

Using the ’Hei Fan’ role and in good mental state, the success rate of forcibly activating [Reflection] ranges from about 10 to 20 percent, lasting five to fifteen minutes, which Motan concluded after repeated experiments over these three months. As for the characters ’Tan Mo’ and ’Mor’ that don’t even possess the [Reflection] talent, no matter how they tried to level their mentality or self-hypnosis, the success rate was always zero.

Of course, Motan wouldn’t really try to activate [Reflection] just to scare Fire Yang a bit, the chilling threats he had just made were merely a bit of acting in ’Chaotic Neutral.’

Still, the effect was exceptional.

"Hey, let me clear something up with you..."

Fire Yang patted Motan’s shoulder and came over with a sleazy squeeze of his eyes, "That Guardian Knight lady..."

"It’s Guard Knight."

Motan shook his head to correct him, shrugging, "Yizou has already said it several times, Guardian Knight and Guard Knight are two different things."

"Ah, whatever, Guard Knight then."

Fire Yang pursed his lips and lowered his voice, "Seems she values you quite a bit, keeps calling you ’elder,’ tsk tsk, her voice is nice and she’s pretty, sticks close by you all day except when sleeping, even sits outside the side hall when you log off without resting,"

Motan looked emotionlessly, "What are you trying to say?"

"You know what I mean."

"You’re thinking too much."

Motan shook his head, saying lightly, "Yizou coming here to protect me is an internal order from the Sect, she’s just very focused and diligent, try to keep your thoughts pure, okay?"

Fire Yang, clearly unconvinced, glanced back at Yizou who was still following half a meter behind Motan, lowered his voice even more, "Come on, this is beyond just being focused and diligent..."

"Are you love-struck?"

Motan glanced at him disdainfully, continuing helplessly, "You know my situation, after the battle in Misha County three months ago, Church of the Dawn caused quite a stir for a while, I became a threat in some people’s eyes, it’s expected that sending me out to gain experience might be dangerous, that’s why Yizou was assigned to follow me, and as you’ve seen... if it weren’t for good luck, I would’ve had to restart my character by now, do you think Yizou