Four Split Personalities

Nani!?

If this scene happened in Japanese animation, those three ambitious assassins would definitely say this, but considering the realism of "The Realm of Innocence" is not two-dimensional, they ultimately refrained from saying it without any sense of discord, only exchanged a glance in shock and swiftly adjusted their posture, monitoring 180° on the left and right and above, backs to each other. Though their expressions were unseen, they were clearly in a state of high alert.

No longer holding back, the trio was completely unleashing their strength but couldn’t find peace of mind. This wasn’t a matter of psychological resilience; you’d panic too if you, after revealing your bottom card, still couldn’t discern the enemy’s true power, or even know how much strength they were using.

This situation is quite terrifying upon deeper thought; after all, when you’re ready to fight to the death, suddenly finding the opponent’s cards seem endless, and their strongest moves thrown out like they’re nothing — the game experience is downright dreadful.

Both Double Leaf and Motan with his ’Chaotic Neutral’ personality belong to this type of player.

You never know how many cards they hold. You never know how many plans or backup methods they have. Whenever you painstakingly prepare a killer move, you’ll find those two troublemakers have already figured out how to counter your current, unused, and even yet unimagined killer move — a feeling that can’t be fully explained by the mere word ’frustration.’

In short, as the first batch of assassins genuinely intended to kill Double Leaf (the initial dozen were mere cannon fodder), the four on the scene now felt an intensely dreadful sense of powerlessness.

"Let me guess~"

The girl’s silhouette appeared out of thin air about five meters outside the encirclement, hands behind her back, smiling at the three comical individuals as she said, "You must be wondering why, even though you’ve prepared methods to counter illusions, you can’t even touch the hem of my clothes, right?"

The trio didn’t answer, just silently launched a simple, direct triangular assault on Double Leaf, while the nearby assassin controlling the puppet immediately locked in on the target again, driving the life-sized pixel figure to leap at Double Leaf.

"It’s simple."

Unconcerned about their futile efforts, the girl grinned, saying lightly, "You’ve entered a thinking trap, assuming I’m affecting you with some sort of Spirit Magic or Illusion Technique, while in fact, I never relied much on those unstable tricks."

Watching a curved blade pass through ’her’ abdomen, Double Leaf lazily said, "Let me kindly explain, although initially, I did lazily entertain you with ’Illusion Interference’, I canceled that trick halfway through... roughly half a minute before you set up that anti-interference domain."

The trio’s pupils instantly constricted—

"So, what is this, exactly?"

A hint of amusement played on her lips, yet the warmth in her eyes dropped to freezing.

"Is it a mirage created by manipulating light refraction?"

The pierced figure vanished, reappearing behind the assassin controlling the puppet.

"Or is it a physical construct not actually the main body?"

With her melodious voice, her figure transformed into azure flames, engulfing the reactive assassin in a moment before he could even leap, dissolving this high-stage strong individual in terrifying heat in less than half a second.

"Oh right, could it be that ’I’ kept ’casting spells’ on the ’spot’, giving you the illusion that I truly existed in your vision?"

A dark purple bolt of lightning descended from the sky, striking the assassin closest to Double Leaf.

The next instant, as the stunned assassin, focusing all his strength to counter the lightning, found himself unharmed, a dull sound of something falling unexpectedly echoed behind him.

He and his companion turned in shock, seeing the Half-Dragon People assassin, who wasn’t the target, lying on the ground, completely charred and evidently lifeless.

"See~ what you see may not be real, and what you don’t see may have indeed happened."

Double Leaf, who somehow appeared beside the charred corpse, playfully winked at the two remaining, smiling slightly, then casually flipped the unexpected victim of "Evil Thunder" over with her foot, shrugging, "Isn’t it interesting?"

Of course, the assassins who quickly lost two companions did not find it interesting. In fact, they began attacking the moment Double Leaf lifted her foot to flip their dead comrade, with no hesitation. The two, in tacit agreement, simultaneously struck, blocking all her escape routes, with ice-cold blades mercilessly aimed at her neck and under her ribs.