## Chapter 80 – Operation to Subdue the Continent-Class Pyromaniac Girl (1)
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“Let’s hurry! Before we miss her… we’ll capture her first.”
Siyoon and the other females quickly changed clothes and began preparing to go to the airport.
Jiwu took off her headdress and apron and put on her usual hoodie and shorts.
Chaeryeong hid her ears and tail and put on long jeans and a crop top.
‘It’ll take at least an hour to get to the airport from here…’
Siyoon and the females’ hideout is in downtown S City,
and it takes at least an hour to get to B City’s airport, no matter how fast you go.
“Chaeryeong!”
Siyoon rushed to Chaeryeong, who was hurriedly getting dressed, and grabbed her shoulders.
“Nyaa…? What’s wrong?”
Chaeryeong, who was only halfway dressed, with her skirt just around her waist, wore a bewildered expression.
“You said you can switch the locations of the clone and the main body, right?
Can you move with something in your hand if you use that…?”
“A… small thing about the size of my palm is okay.”
Chaeryeong said, showing her palm to Siyoon, who was asking about her ability.
‘So… it means it might be possible if I enhance her ability.’
After the imprint evolves to the 3rd stage and the female becomes a ‘Corrupted Slave’,
abbreviated as Slave, it is possible to share or enhance abilities.
Siyoon was planning to enhance Chaeryeong’s ability, ‘Doppelganger’, to move himself and Jiwu at once.
“Wait a second… Can you just finish getting dressed for a moment?”
Siyoon told Chaeryeong to finish getting dressed first,
and then brought up the Corruption System’s display and fiddled with it.
[ Welcome, Hashiyoon, owner of the 〈 Corruption System 〉. ]
[ Currently available imprinted targets nearby: Yeonjiwu / Chaeryeong ]
[ Imprinted targets in possession: Seollumi (Stage 2 – 35%) ]
[ Slave Management: Yoon Dohwa / Yeonjiwu / Chaeryeong ]
[ Slave: Enhancing Chaeryeong’s ability ‘Doppelganger’. ]
While Siyoon was applying the Slave Management function,
Jiwu finished preparing and stood next to him, waiting.
“Okay…! Chaeryeong. Do you feel like something’s changed?”
“Nyaa…? I feel like there’s a strange feeling in my body.”
Chaeryeong tilted her head, feeling a subtle sensation that she couldn’t quite grasp.
Siyoon held Chaeryeong’s arm tightly, who was making such an expression.
“Would you… like to try switching places with your clone now?”
Chaeryeong was puzzled by Siyoon, who was holding her hand with a suddenly confident expression, even though she had clearly said earlier that she could only move with small objects.
But as it was her beloved master’s order,
Chaeryeong thought there must be a reason and reciprocated with both hands.
– Poof!
“Master and… Chaeryeong Unni disappeared…!”
Then Chaeryeong and Siyoon, who was holding Chaeryeong’s arm, disappeared somewhere,
and only Chaeryeong’s clone at the airport remained in the hideout.
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– Thud!
“Ugh?!”
Chaeryeong, who was used to switching locations between the clone and the main body, took a step without any problems,
but Siyoon, who was new to this kind of movement, fell to the floor and landed on his butt.
“Ugh… But I’m glad we succeeded!”
“H… How did you do that? Before, it was only things like cards!”
“I enhanced Chaeryeong’s ability.”
Chaeryeong asked, surprised by the level of ability output that she had never been able to do before.
Siyoon answered her with a slightly smug expression.
“Anyway… I think people are a little surprised.”
The place where Siyoon and Chaeryeong switched locations with the clone was somewhere in the airport’s restaurant district.
Some citizens who were passing through the restaurant district seemed a little surprised to see Siyoon suddenly appear.
“Ahaha! It’s nothing. It’s nothing.”
Siyoon and Chaeryeong held hands and walked away as if nothing had happened,
and the citizens also headed to their respective destinations with somewhat bewildered expressions.
“Let’s go somewhere with fewer people first. We have to bring Jiwu too.”
After getting out of the restaurant district with a considerable floating population and entering a less crowded place,
Chaeryeong clapped her hands a few times and safely brought Jiwu to the airport.
“Ugh?!”
Jiwu also landed on her butt like Siyoon,
and showed a surprised reaction, asking if it was really possible to teleport.
“Dohwa said Jiwu contacted her, right?”
“Yes! She said she’s not too far from the airport and will arrive within 30 minutes.”
“Then we can move now.”
“Nya! Firecracker is in the cafe in that restaurant district.”
The three returned to the restaurant district where Siyoon had fallen on his butt,
and quietly approached the cafe where Firecracker was said to be.
“That’s her! The short woman with green hair.”
The face he had seen in the executive information that Dohwa had previously provided for the operation in the Union.
Long green hair down to her waist, purple eyes,
and a rather petite physique confirmed that it was Firecracker.
However, perhaps to hide her identity, she was wearing an ordinary skirt and a black hooded zip-up instead of the modified cheongsam she usually wore.
“If there are strangers like me or Jiwu, she’ll definitely think it’s suspicious.
So… it would be better for Chaeryeong to go alone and bring her.
First, create another clone here,
and we’ll take the clone and wait outside in a large taxi.”
“Then… I just need to take Firecracker and switch locations with that clone?”
“Yes. You understand well.
And… if anything happens, contact me with this smartphone.”
Siyoon handed Chaeryeong a spare smartphone that he had prepared in advance.
The smartphone screen displayed an internet map showing the taxi stand inside the airport.
“I know you’ve been here a few times, but just in case, I’ve marked it on the map,
and I’ve also connected to the Wi-Fi that’s available inside the airport. So, I’m counting on you.”
“Nyaa! Leave it to me!”
Siyoon and Jiwu stood at an angle where they could quietly watch from a place where they could see inside the cafe,
and Chaeryeong entered the cafe where Firecracker was staying alone.
“Welcome!”
Then, pretending to be an ordinary customer, she first approached the clerk who was busily moving in front of the counter.
“One iced Americano, please.”
“Yes! It’ll be out soon, so please wait a moment!”
Chaeryeong, who paid in cash instead of with a card, received the iced Americano that came out quickly,
and walked over and sat next to where Firecracker was sitting.
“It’s me.”
Perhaps she didn’t feel Chaeryeong’s gaze as she turned her head to look at her and couldn’t hear her,
Firecracker was only dozing off with her eyes half-closed.
“Ruilin. I said it’s me?”
“Ugh?! Wh… Who are you?! Uweeett…?!”
When Chaeryeong tapped her shoulder to induce her to turn her head,
she turned her head as if annoyed, and then stuttered in surprise when she saw Chaeryeong’s face.
“T… Trickster-nim…?! A, are you alive…?”
“Shh! If you say that outside, everyone will hear you. Call me by my real name.”
“Ah! Yes! Yes… Ch, Chaeryeong-nim….”
The affectionate and cute pet cat appearance was nowhere to be seen,
Chaeryeong returned to her previous elegant and charismatic ‘Trickster’ appearance.
She calmed down Firecracker, who was flustered and babbling in a loud voice,
and sat with her for a while to share stories about what had happened in the meantime.
“I see…. Dain-yang disappeared somewhere…
And Executor-nim was eventually caught by the heroes….”
“Yes… I, I kept coming here just in case… but there was no one….”
It seemed that she had been circling around the inside and near the airport for the past three days, just in case.
Then, she caught the eye of Chaeryeong, who had left a clone.
“I know for sure what happened to the others.
Ruilin must have had a hard time too.”
“E, everyone suddenly… disappeared… I, I was so nervous that I would be caught….”
Firecracker sobbed and grabbed Chaeryeong’s arm like a child.
The really interesting thing is that Chaeryeong is much more mature and actually older than Ruilin,
but Ruilin, who has Chaeryeong as a pet cat, is one year older than Siyoon.
“I’m glad I came here, thinking that everyone might be waiting here.
Then, let’s go to the place where I’m hiding for now.”
“R, really…?”
“Of course! You’ll be able to see the Supreme Leader too if you go.”
Firecracker believed Chaeryeong’s blatant lie that the Supreme Leader would also be there without any doubt.
The two returned the glasses they were drinking from to the counter,
and walked out of the cafe with each other’s arms tightly clasped.
“First, we’re going to move to a temporary hideout on the outskirts of B City through a vehicle prepared outside the airport.
I’m going to teleport to that vehicle with my ability, so… you have to hold on to my arm tightly, Ruilin?”
“Y, yes…!”
While talking about the organization’s future operating plans that didn’t even exist,
she walked into a corner with few people passing by with Firecracker.
‘Uhehe… Ruilin will soon find out too. Who our true master is…♥’
Chaeryeong clapped her hands while holding Firecracker’s arm so as not to let go,
and switched locations with the clone in the vehicle that Siyoon and Jiwu were riding in advance.
