Chapter 1593 – 1593. The Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated Into The Baek Family
“Kueh?!”
Melisa, hit by the torrent of semen, flusteredly shook her arms. She braced her legs to keep from falling. Having endured one wave of the semen waterfall, Melisa was covered in it. She glared at me.
“Master. Have you finally lost it? What was that all of a sudden? And what’s with that getup?”
Even while complaining, she formed a hand seal and used magic. Clean water fell from the air, washing away the semen on her body.
I opened my mouth with a brazen face.
“It’s all for you. Look at the wound on your wrist. It’s healed, isn’t it?”
I hadn’t just poured the semen waterfall on Melisa for no reason. The semen waterfall was a kind of healing agent.
“…The wound did heal. But was there really a need to use a waterfall? You could have taken a potion from that inventory thing, couldn’t you?”
“Ahem. We have to save where we can. Anyway, are you okay?”
“What… Ugh.”
Melisa trembled. Her face flushed, and her breathing became ragged. Lust shone in her eyes.
Normally, she would have thrown off her clothes and seduced me, but given the situation, she swallowed hard and suppressed her desires.
“…Just what happened? Explain the situation first.”
She was demanding an explanation from me, her master. After clicking my tongue at the scene where it was unclear who was the master, I spoke.
“I’ll put it simply, so listen carefully. On the 50th floor, I was hit by the Demon King’s power and became a sex fairy.”
“…A sex fairy?”
“A sex fairy who can use semen magic.”
“What’s that supposed to be?”
Melisa looked at me as if she couldn’t understand.
“So you’ve been wandering around with that adventurer named Claudia. Where is that adventurer?”
“She’s on a different floor. I don’t know exactly which floor.”
“You don’t know which floor? How did you get here?”
“I used a space-shifting trap.”
There were various traps in the labyrinth.
Traps where the ground suddenly gave way and you fell into a pit, or where boulders fell from the ceiling, were the most basic. Among the annoying traps, there were also ones that suddenly summoned dozens of monsters, or ones that randomly transported you to another floor.
I had intentionally used a space-shifting trap to appear on the floor where Melisa was. I could do this because I could use space-shifting magic to go to where Claudia was. Of course, this was Claudia’s idea.
Melisa and I continued our conversation, exchanging information.
“…I understand that you’ve become a special being. That form is a bit disgusting, but your abilities are outstanding, so I can trust you.”
“You think this form is disgusting? Not cute?”
“How could a fairy with such a grotesque thing be cute?”
Grotesque, she says. That’s a bit harsh. Her moaning while being impaled by this thing was still vivid in my mind.
I swallowed the words I was about to retort and asked,
“What about Yuria and the other battle maids?”
“The battle maids fell together at that time. They’ll be in groups of three or four, so there’s no need to worry too much. The problem is… Madam.”
“You must have watched the battle between Yuria and the Demon King to the end, right? What happened? Is the Demon King dead?”
“Madam couldn’t kill the Demon King.”
I was a bit surprised, but I accepted it easily. The Demon King hadn’t tried to fight Yuria head-on. In the last situation I saw, the Demon King was trying to escape.
“So the Demon King successfully escaped.”
“He did allow Madam to attack him, but since he didn’t die, I guess you could say he successfully escaped. The problem is what happened after the Demon King escaped to the ceiling of the labyrinth. The labyrinth suddenly attacked Madam. It seemed like the labyrinth itself had a will and recognized Madam as an enemy.”
“That’s one of the Demon King’s powers, the power of domination. He must have used the power of domination to control the labyrinth and attack Yuria. Still, there’s no way Yuria would be defeated by just the labyrinth.”
“What happened after that was something I couldn’t understand. Madam deliberately let the labyrinth hit her and fell down. Deliberately… or maybe that’s just my misunderstanding.”
“……”
I acknowledged Melisa’s skills and insight. The possibility of her being mistaken was low. There was a possibility that Yuria had deliberately let herself be hit and fell down the labyrinth. Various thoughts crossed my mind.
‘There’s no way Yuria would have given up her life… Did she judge that deliberately getting hit was more advantageous?’
No matter how much I racked my brain, I couldn’t come up with an answer.
“What is this place? I saw you fighting something strange earlier.”
“It’s a doppelganger. It’s a rare monster I learned about back when I was in the academy. It’s probably the gatekeeper of this floor.”
“The thing inside the glass is a doppelganger? It’s more like a ghost.”
“A ghost? Well, it’s similar. Doppelgangers are also called illusory beings.”
“An illusory being? You mean doppelgangers don’t have a physical form?”
“Doppelgangers originally don’t have a physical form. What are you talking about?”
The doppelganger I knew and the doppelganger Melisa knew seemed to be different monsters with the same name.
“Tell me about the doppelganger.”
“Doppelgangers can’t exist in reality. Since they don’t have a physical form, they can only exist in an illusory space. There are conditions for this illusory space. It has to be a place where their image can be reflected. For example… like the glass wall here, or the water pooled on the floor.”
“How do doppelgangers attack?”
“Assimilation. It assimilates my appearance and self-harms. Then the assimilated me receives the same wounds as the doppelganger.”
My face became serious. If that was true.
“That means if the doppelganger commits suicide, you die too.”
Melisa shook her head and said firmly,
“Doppelgangers don’t commit suicide. They have human-level intelligence, so there’s no way they would choose to die to kill an enemy.”
“Then how do you deal with it?”
“There’s a moment when it materializes. It’s the only moment when it crawls out of the illusory space to steal my existence. You have to aim for that moment.”
It wasn’t easy.
The doppelganger was a being with human-level intelligence. It would never materialize unless it was a sure moment.
“We’ve been caught by a troublesome one.”
“I know. The standard way to deal with a doppelganger is to not engage it. You leave the place where the doppelganger is. The space where the doppelganger can move is limited.”
“But not in the labyrinth. This place is for the doppelganger.”
“That’s right. Oh, and be careful of the floor. Ironclad dolphins appear and attack.”
I didn’t know what that was, but I nodded anyway. Since I was flying in the air, I wasn’t too concerned about the ground.
‘In the first place, there’s no way the labyrinth’s monsters would attack me first.’
That’s right. The right to attack first was mine. Even the labyrinth’s gatekeeper was no exception.
‘Can’t I use this to catch the doppelganger?’
• • •
I used space-shifting to return to Claudia. Claudia was sitting on the floor, drawing a map. She wasn’t at the level of not forgetting what she had seen once, but she didn’t forget the path she had taken once.
“I’m glad you met your companion. If it’s Melisa… that’s the black-blue-haired maid, right? I heard she’s an aura master and an archmage. She’ll be a great help to Count.”
“It was a chance encounter, so it’s hard for her to join us.”
I told her about the situation with Melisa and the doppelganger. And even the method I had thought of to deal with the doppelganger.
“We’ll deliberately show a gap so that it can materialize. Since it won’t recognize me as an enemy like other monsters anyway, we’ll aim for the moment it materializes.”
“That’s a good idea, but… if I were Count, I would have tried a different method.”
“Is there another method?”
“Right now, Count is a fairy, isn’t he? I would actively use the mysterious magic of the fairy.”
“The mysterious magic of the fairy….”
•••
A doppelganger appeared inside the glass wall.
At first, I thought it was just Melisa reflected in the glass. But when I looked closely, I saw it curling up its lips and sneering at Melisa.
“That’s unpleasant.”
Melisa muttered irritably. Before she could step forward, I moved first.
The doppelganger’s eyes, with the same face as Melisa, moved and recognized me. That was all. It didn’t show hostility towards me like other monsters. It was as if it had no interest at all, and it turned its gaze back to Melisa.
The doppelganger held a dagger in its hand. It was going to self-harm again. The dagger was aimed at its thigh.
‘It’s giving me stress by injuring itself little by little. Is this a kind of gaslighting? It has a bad temper.’
The doppelganger had human-level intelligence, so it knew how advantageous this situation was for it.
I focused my mind.
Fairies, being mysterious beings, were elusive. They were everywhere and nowhere. Then, wouldn’t it be possible to go to the illusory space?
‘Teleport!’
Poof!
My body disappeared and reappeared.
I looked straight ahead. It seemed like the space-shifting was successful, but nothing had changed.
‘No, there is.’
Melisa in front of me was staring at me with wide eyes in shock, and Melisa in the glass was banging on the glass in confusion.
‘The one banging is the real Melisa.’
The distinction was simple. The real Melisa had maids behind her. On the other hand, the doppelganger was alone.
“H-How did you get in here?!”
The doppelganger said. It was the same voice as Melisa.
“I am a sex fairy. I’ve come to ask you for the sin of daring to harass my woman!”
“You crazy bastard!”
“To curse me with Melisa’s voice… That’s refreshing.”
“I feel a familiar energy from you. I’ll give you one chance… just one chance. Get out of my space.”
“Do you think I’ll obediently leave just because you told me to? As I said before, you’ll have to pay the price for harassing my woman.”
“The one who will pay the price is not me, but you!”
Mana moved violently around the doppelganger. Soon, the mana became magic and created three fireballs in the air.
Fireball.
It was a magic that Melisa often used.
‘As expected of a doppelganger, it can use Melisa’s abilities. It doesn’t seem like its memories were copied.’
I responded to its magic with magic of my own.
‘Fireball!’
Instead of red-hot fireballs, three white-hot semen fireballs were created in the air.
The fireballs and semen fireballs collided in the air.
Splat!
Semen burst and splattered everywhere. The doppelganger’s fireballs disappeared without a trace.
