Regress and Eat

I finally accepted Adam's offer.

We decided to subtract the details of how long to cooperate with each other and how many accomplishment points to give.

He expressed his intention to follow me first.

“Point is important, but I'm very interested in your Awakening self. He's worth studying. ”

“No, I told you I was going home soon. Can I extend it this way? ”

“It doesn't matter.”

“Isn't the advisor coming to get you? After returning home, a graduate student who had to step up escaped · ·. No way. Graduation evasion? ”

“I'm not a grad student! ”

He grumbles again, disgusted, and then mutters:

“And why am I taking their heads off? They have to listen to me. ”

“ · · · · · ·? ”

Anyway, the longer I stayed on Earth seemed to be fine.

I contacted Kim's secretary and his place was ready in my home.

A few days later, the two of us snuck into the house in secret with Adam's request that the annoying thing was just a disgust.

It was because reporters who arrived outside the door in advance were crowded like photographs.

‘Well, it's a specialty. ’

The Constitution Department responded vigorously to my notification that I would take a foreign SSS-class hunter to Korea and join the guild. I was ready to send a private plane for the two of us and lay the red carpet at the airport.

And today, the government was releasing press releases hard. The Celestial Dragon PR team had to follow the example.

“Here I am. ”

Kim's secretary, who was waiting, bowed his head.

“Welcome, Guild Master. ”

I have a single smile on my mouth.

His gaze shifts towards Adam standing beside him.

“You've come with a very big gift. ”

“Hey, you speak Korean. ”

“Oh, really? ”

It's not magic, and I don't know what the hell it is, but Abrams says that most languages on Earth are freely available.

Kim looked up at the enormous body with an admirable young gaze that was close to three meters tall and had muscles attached to it beyond human limits.

“Nice to meet you. I'm Byung-ho Kim. Please, call me Secretary Kim. ”

“Nice to meet you.”

Kim led us to Adam's room.

“We've made and prepared all the furniture specially. ”

The room was perfectly equipped with special furniture fitted to the giant's body, three metres tall.

I didn't expect it to be ready in such a short time.

‘Anyway, good job. ’

I looked at Kim's assistant and said,

“Well done. ”

“No. In fact, even if the furniture is ready, it may be a bit uncomfortable for Abrams to build a new annex that connects him to his home. ”

Well, I think it would be better considering the ceiling height, the entrance, etc.

“You're on your own. ”

“Yes, I understand. ”

Adam says that he can transform his body to be smaller than it is right now, but not only is it very uncomfortable, but if it lasts for a long time, it is hard for the 'stuffed things' in his body.

That's why it was so much bigger now than it normally was in human form.

“What about Nate and Hibiki? ”

“It's in the underground training room. ”

After I became the guild leader, the two of them left their homes and entered the house.

Because it's easy to keep close to the training.

“I don't know how much more I'll have to face, but I'm going to live under one roof, and I have to say hello. Do you want to go for a minute? I'll introduce you. ”

We broke up with Secretary Kim and headed to the underground training room.

When the door opens, two people's gaze is on us.

“Jin-wook!”

Nate cheering and running.

“Hello?”

Hibiki says hello calmly.

And...

“Hmm? How many Empire ruins do you have?" ”

Adam came in behind me and saw the tattoo on Nate's neck.

I knew it. I knew it.

“There are a few small ones. ”

A blue mana shaped female linked to the tattoo floats over the head of a rounded nate.

The spirit casts its gaze at me expressionlessly and reaches back in.

If nothing special happens, the artificial intelligence that keeps silence all day long is also an item related to the Severian Empire.

“Come on, say hello. ”

I introduced them to each other.

Nate stares overwhelmingly at the massive body, and Hibiki knows what an SSS-grade Hunter is, and has a slightly turbulent look in his eyes.

Adam seemed to be greeted with a dry greeting and not much interest to the two of them.

“I've been watching you outside. Seeing as how you're using your skills, Hibiki's gonna have to get promoted again soon. ”

I remembered a pale flush on her cheek.

Hibiki's active Mana has already risen to Class A.

The light of the core that proves you've been trying to live.

At that moment, Nate intervened.

“Jin-wook! In the meantime, I can do something new! ”

He spreads his hands like a brag. And then, I hesitated for a second.

“You said Adam was an Awakener, right? You're not just anyone, are you? ”

There's only one reason to ask that.

“Yes, it is. ”

“Well, here we go! Look!”

Whew!

The wind blows.

A zombie orc protrudes from his shadow.

“Hoo?! ”

Then Adam revealed his interest in being other than me for the first time.

“Undead?”

Nate said because he was excited.

“How do we do that? ”

He rolls his eyes and looks at Hibiki.

She shoots you with an uncommon look on her face.

“Send it to me one more time? I'll fucking kill you! ”

It's a pretty harsh language for a Hibiki.

They must be getting close enough to talk to each other like that.

By the way, "send"?

Contrary to previous life memories, I could see what Nate was up to.

‘Ah, that's it. ’

Nate grunts and grunts in response to Hiraki's intense reaction.

“I'm just messing with you for once. ”

Turn your head and tell me.

“Now, see? ”

Whee!

The wind blew again.

The shape of the orc shakes like smoke, and it disappears in an instant.

But this time instead of Nate's shadow sucking it out,

“You've gone into my shadow. ”

I looked down and said,

“What, you're not surprised? ”

Nate scratches his head as if he was cool.

Was my reaction too weak?

But I've seen it all in my past life.

I told you.

“Are your senses still connected in this state? ”

“Yes. Even if the orcs are in the shadows, the situation outside looks blurry and I can hear the story. I can watch and listen with you if I want. ”

“If you want, you can take it back out of the shadows? ”

“Of course!”

I can't believe you played a prank on Hibiki with this.

“[Multiple Accident] You took a break from training and put a zombie in the shadows? ”

“Wow, if you pretend, you're Chuck! ”

The zombie orc hides in the shadows of Hibiki while she goes up to the second floor after training.

And squeeze Hibiki's ankle with a half-rotten arm out of the floor! It is said to have been gripped.

Of course, the furious Hibiki · · ·.

“That's why the second-floor windows and interior materials changed. ”

“· · · · · · Sorry. ”

“No, reflexively counteracting with magic means training is good enough. ”

The second floor destroyed by the spell she cast on the zombies required complete repairs.

I told Nate.

“But wouldn't it be better to improve rather than be satisfied with this? ”

He tilts his head.

“How?”

“Now you need to get one zombie out and put it back into someone else's shadow. The trajectory that goes in and out is visible to ordinary people. ”

“I haven't seen Hibiki. ”

She protested.

“I was focused then! ”

I nod and say.

“Yes. But what if we could turn on the lights and keep an eye on them and develop a way to move the undead so stealthily in their shadow that they don't even know it's there? ”

Then he looked at me with betrayal in his eyes.

I shake hands.

“No, I don't mean for Hibiki to play with, I mean for real. I think it will be more usable. For example, how about this? ”

I say as if I just remembered.

“Nate, you're overlapping shadows with other people in advance. In that state, can your shadow move directly from one another's shadow to the next? In a straight line without revealing yourself outside. ”

Then he adds.

“I don't know if it will or not. I'm just talking about it as an idea. ”

Of course, it is unconditional.

It's how I've done it in my past life.

Nate listens to me.

“Huh? Why would that be possible?! ”

Excited, he shouted, and instead of moving his body, he tilted the shadow a little bit and overlapped me.

Next, we have a frowning, focusing look.

And then a little time passed.

“· · · · · · · Well, not now. But I think we should practice! ”

It seems impossible because of its low proficiency, but it was a matter of time anyway.

Meanwhile.

Hibiki was grumbling at her parents for bringing dangerous toys to an uncontrollable child.

He adds a word for her.

“Stop messing with the guild members. ”

“Okay! ”

I think there was a strange silence before you answered.

“Oh.”

Until then, Adam, who was listening to our conversation, suddenly intervened.

“Hey, you. You said your name was Nate, right? ”

He opened his eyes and looked at Adam.

“But?”

“How many of those undead you gave me back there? I've never seen this kind of skill before. I wonder how it works. I'd like to experiment with something like that. ”

Is Nate's unique skill a strange concept to Adam as well?

“Well, there's nothing to it. There are a lot of Orcs.”

Nate doesn't seem to have much attachment to the undead with the ‘subordinate’ ticket, rather than the zombie that he classifies as his‘ friend ’.

Nevertheless, I hesitate to answer because I have a dissent against the word experiment itself.

Adam said as if he had misunderstood that reaction.

“Of course, it's not free. ”

The more you look at it, the more sensitive you are.

Adam straightens for a moment, then suddenly transforms his right hand.

The flesh is covered with red muscles and swells and rises about the same length as his kidneys.

At the tip of the hand that changed its appearance, sharp, sickle-shaped claws appear.

“Huff!”

Nate looks at his arm in a dazzled look.

“You strengthened the Giant Mantis' front foot. ”

What he mentioned was a powerful monster who came out as a Class S dungeon boss.

Nate shouts with gleaming eyes.

“Awesome, awesome! ”

Hibiki and I said at the same time, as if it were ridiculous.

“· · · · · · Cool? ”

“Is that it?"

Adam smiled and said.

“I can convert your right hand, too, if you like. There's only one ingredient in a human arm. ”

Nate, put your hands in the air before you finish saying that.

“I will! I will! ”

“Hey, wait a minute. ”

I had no choice but to intervene.

“Explain to me how the modification works. And, Nate, you can't accept that you're remodeling! ”

“Oh, right. I don't want to get sick. ”

Adam assured me not to worry.

“It doesn't hurt at all. ”

“Really?! ”

Aliens seduce Nate like horses.

“These claws can hold Mana. It's literally an artifact. · · Depending on the use, you can also apply Class S items. ”

The moment Adam breathed Mana into the claws of the Giant Mantis as if to reproduce that phrase.

An unexpected telepathy echoes through the room.

- Threats Found for Escort Candidates!

It was the blue spirit that was hovering over Nate's head.

“Again!"

Hibiki panics and casts a protective spell.

Nate frowns and yells at the spirit.

“Hey, you idiot! ”

Back then.

Shhh!

A flash of light flashes from the air and a massive metal structure is summoned.

It was full of ceilings of training rooms the size of auditoriums.

It was a large caliber, multicombustible radiator that could eject thousands of rounds at a time.

The Telepathy is ringing once more.

Warning! No further access and no immediate fire response · ·.

I mutter in vain.

“· · · · · · But I learned something, so I'm not launching it this time. ”

Nate shoots the spirit overhead.

“Hey, you idiot! This is a threat from nowhere! ”

Adam scratches his cheek, looking at the mess.

“This is why I get an item that I don't recognize. Rarely are such artifacts treated as Imperial Ruins. ”

“ · · · · · ·? ”

With everyone's attention, he said.

“When the Empire was rebuilt, it accessed a collective intelligence network to share experience and knowledge, but the AI controlling it now is like a newborn. It is not difficult to teach concepts and objects one by one, and protection is programmed with priority over other command execution, which makes it hard to listen to the owner and is essentially a fully bound item, so it is not a very good deal · · · · · · · ·. ”

Then, this time, Nate looked at me with a treacherous look.

What's wrong with both of you today?