The World of Masks

Ehhh!!!

A siren breaks the silence of darkness. The red light from the fire truck was shining around the old age. However, the red light emanating from one building didn't make much of a difference.

Cold water begins to spread over the flames, which continue to expand with a burst of deadly poison gas. Fire craves elongated oxygen and turns the water around, avoiding the water that tries to kill its breath, but baptism strikes precisely the source of the flame. It wasn't easily extinguished by the flame, but the flame certainly began to blaze.

At the time when the arriving firefighters desperately started to extinguish the fire with water gushing out of the lake, they saw two young men on the rooftop of a building that was far away. The fire was so big that even on the rooftops here, the scene of the fire was very well seen.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Poor guy's gone, yeah."

An old man looks at the scene of a fire with a deep tap and a cane. An old man who looked like a gentleman in Gentleman England kicked his tongue with pity. But if he had seen this, he would have snorted and asked, "What are you up to?" The old man was a self-claiming angel who had given Jin the masked world access tool.

I don't know if the group that you were with was crazy. I turned my eyes to the old man who had seen the fire.

"It was my father, wasn't it?"

"Even if I did, there are unfortunate things. If I'd gone a little farther, I wouldn't have lost my life."

'The world is a place where good people go first.' The old man muttered.

"Don't you just have to remember what it was like for the family of a dead player or people around you?"

"Yes? Why should I? Memory manipulation is just a service. They're just messing with their own desires, but they're definitely helping me with my plan, so that's just a small reward. If I lost my life and my family followed after me, how sad would it be? I'm sure you know my gratitude very well even in death."

'No, not at all.'

But the group closes their mouths. It doesn't matter if you try to fight back here. If that was the case with his father, that was it.

"Besides, you know better. Removing memories is a tricky job. We're doing it as a service to the players' associates, but it's a waste of time to give that kind of support to a distraction. Besides, a hot-headed human like that doesn't give up easily. He can dig again if he notices something suspicious even when he flies his memory. He also ignores social pressure with a smile. He may not have been promoted easily, but he's a great help to society. He's just as much a pain in the ass as we are. It's better to get rid of it neatly."

The old man explains to the group step-by-step, as if explaining to his child.

The group with the old man was a woman. As if trying to match the old man in a clean suit, the black suit of a woman who was wearing a slender body as a whole was a dark suit. However, Bast and Hip were clearly self-asserting even though they were thin, and in a way, they were all dreaming.

Her face was a striking beauty. It also had an overwhelming aesthetic, like a celestial being, not just a beauty. Her skin was white, and the time of night seemed colorless, shining only on her face. His thick lips, smart nose, and slightly raised eyes gave a slightly sticky impression. But the biggest characteristic was the hair. The color of naturally wavy long hair was pale, shiny silver hair. His head, which seemed to reflect the moonlight and starlight raining from heaven, was reminiscent of the Milky Way. She strokes her windblown head lightly and looks at the fire from a distance.

"I'm sure you've got everything covered, right?"

The old man who was watching the landscape he created asked. The woman nods.

"Yes. I've arranged for some 'slaves' to be taken care of. They won't even notice that we exist. As long as that Eun-hee is behaving properly, she will be fine too."

"Yes, you should. The girl named Eun-hee worked too hard because she was excited. I'm not supposed to know what kind of game this masked world is. There may be unexpected interference, so let's be sure to secure. I hope he behaves himself."

The old man raises his hand and strokes his rough mustache.

"Or maybe we should end up with one of the players who's helping us."

The old man's eyes gleam in horror. The woman swallows her saliva. It was created by the need of that old man, and even though he had been brought by his father until now, he was still somewhat accustomed to the strength of the old man.

"Then again · · · · · · · · ·."

The old man suddenly spit.

"You said that Eun-hee has something to do with Kim Jin-seok?"

"Yes."

The woman looks at the old man with strange eyes and replies. I didn't think all human names would come out of my father's mouth. Just hearing what he said, he seemed to know that Kim Jin-seok well.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm not a very friendly person."

The old man smiled bitterly and said, But the woman's questionable eyes did not flinch.

"But I've never seen my father pronounce a human name in any other way."

A tool. It was used by humans to play in the world of masks. They were consumables, literally, that needed neither attention nor reason to give to the elderly, or to themselves, or to individual humans. Of course, the ability of the elderly to play with human identities will be all in their heads. But a human who seemed to be that interested, it was the first time a woman knew.

"It's right to keep an eye on him. No, one of the people I care about and watch, to be exact."

"Are you going to make them human beings who will lead the next plan?"

"Yes, I will. So keep your eyes peeled. Moreover, even if he is the person I expect the most, it is no exaggeration."

What kind of person is his father complimenting him like that? The woman thought of a list of players she knew. He was clearly a member of his father's clan, but his abilities were really enormous compared to his father's. His memory was as clever as the rest of the humans, but he didn't have everything figured out perfectly like his father. There, the woman was not even memorizing the players individually because she had little interest in the existence of humans in the first place. I was only identifying the top players who were at most able to exert the most influence in the masked world. There was no name Kim Jin-seok in it.

"With all due respect, is that player Kim Jin-seok that great? Not in the names of the top players."

The old man smiled at the question of a cautious woman.

"You're mistaken. The Humans I'm looking at are not those with high abilities. As long as he can stay alive in the Masked World, even the less fallen ones will naturally follow."

One of the merits of the masked world is the ability to lightly push human limits by raising their abilities. No matter how stupid you are, you can defeat a genius as long as you can play the Masked World constantly and increase your abilities. Of course, it's not easy for a fool to continue to survive in a masked world.

"Of course, if you're good, you'll be comfortable. But abilities come second at best. The first one needs something else."

"What · · · · · · · · · · · ·."

The old man looked at the woman and said straightforward.

"You must be crazy."

"Yes?"

Seeing the woman staring at herself dazed, the old man bursts into laughter. It was like a little successful joke.

"He must be crazy. Think about the plan we were going to execute in the first place."

The old man put his face to the woman's face and said in a playful voice.

"Will a normal person be a part of our plan?"

The old man laughed loudly as he said so.

"Then Kim Jin-seok is a human being."

"Ah. Crazy as a top class of crazy. There's cunning and smart. In a way, it's the ideal I want."

I really liked the cheerful foam. The name Kim Jin-seok was engraved on the head of the woman because it was not commonly seen by the elderly.

"You'd better find out. If he's chosen as the next leader of the plan, you'll have to make him your master."

"I understand."

The woman bows her head publicly. The old man frowns, smiling and turns his head again.

A red flame was still rising on the scene of the fire.

"Now it's only a matter of time before they open their eyes completely. I have to start working on my next plan, so I'll need to grow fast to grow up. I expect very much from you. Jinseok."

With a faint smile, the old man mutters silently in the dark night air.