Trait Absorption Hunter Hunter Part 2 Episode 70
70. The identity of the black mask
Song Chi-hyun’s mind became confused after learning the identity of the Black Mask.
‘W, that’s ridiculous. It was Choi Sung-min? Oh, no. That can’t be true. Mistaking him for someone else… ‘
He doubted his eyes, but no matter how much he looked, the person in front of him looked exactly like Choi Sung-min.
‘Yeah, he’s probably just a lookalike. What a big world… … .’
“Great hero.”
But those thoughts disappeared as soon as I heard the voice.
Even if the face is similar, there’s no way that there’d be someone whose voice is similar.
“Choi Sungmin! Are you really Choi Sungmin?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“What are you doing here?”
“What are you talking about? You say something like that even though you know the identity of the person you were fighting with just a moment ago?”
Choi Sung-min’s gaze changed in an instant.
He aims his dagger with a murderous gaze I have never seen before.
“I came to kill you.”
“what……?”
The subordinate he trusted more than anyone else is pointing a dagger at him.
And then he says he came to kill me.
Song Chi-hyun was speechless for a while because it was an ending he could never have imagined.
“You still don’t believe me? Even though I took off my mask and revealed my identity?”
“That, that can’t be… … This is a dream.”
“Is this escapism now? Then I need to wake you up from reality.”
Choi Sung-min approached and picked up a dagger.
Phew-!
“Khaaak!”
A dagger was stuck in Song Chi-hyeon’s knee.
“I can’t even get up and walk anymore.”
“You, you little punk… … !”
Poison rose from Song Chi-hyun’s eyes.
“I see you finally believe me. Then I don’t need to be respectful to you anymore.”
Choi Sung-min, who had been smiling, put his mask back on.
Song Chi-hyun has lost so much blood that it wouldn’t be strange if he died at any moment.
If he dies without wearing a mask, we can’t replicate his appearance. That’s a problem.
“Why! Why did you betray me?”
Song Chi-hyun was angry.
I was betrayed by the subordinate I trusted more than anyone else.
It must be difficult for him to accept.
“Before I die, let me know the reason. When did it start? When did you decide to betray me?”
“From the beginning.”
Song Chi-hyun was surprised by those words.
“What? The first time? When I came to your house to recruit you?”
“No. That wasn’t the first time we met, was it?”
Song Chi-hyun, who was recalling his first meeting with Choi Sung-min, was surprised once again.
“Sir, really?”
“That’s right. The day you disguised yourself as an investigator and investigated Do Eun-jeong. From that day on, I decided to betray you.”
“… … .”
Song Chi-hyun was speechless at the absurdity.
“It was from that time? How? How did you know it was me when I was wearing a mask and hiding my identity… .”
“That’s not all I know.”
“what?”
Song Chi-hyun looked at Choi Seong-min.
I hear a voice in my head.
-I knew about your trait too. It’s the trait of reading minds, right? Right?
Song Chi-hyun’s eyes grew incredibly wide.
“Th, that, uh, how… … .”
-Do you know how hard it was for me to pretend to be loyal until now? I told you that it was so hard to hide my true feelings that I almost died.
“… … .”
The shock Song Chi-hyeon received was beyond imagination.
“Everything… everything was a lie… … .”
Choi Sung-min knew not only his own identity but also his characteristics.
And from the beginning, he had planned to betray, so he hid his true intentions and pretended to be a loyal subordinate.
The greater the trust, the greater the shock of betrayal.
“……what.”
“what?”
“… …Who ordered you to do this?”
Song Chi-hyeon didn’t think that Choi Seong-min had done it alone.
I thought there must have been someone behind the assassination.
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“Who… … Who ordered me to kill? No way… … .”
There was someone who had a guess.
“Kwak Min-cheol, that’s the kid. He knows my characteristics and he knew that I was working as an investigator!”
The puzzle fit together.
If it was Kwak Min-cheol, he would want to kill himself, so it was definitely him who ordered it.
“So you were planting that guy next to me to assassinate me! You didn’t even know there was a mole right next to you, damn it! You were playing into Kwak Min-cheol’s trick from the beginning!”
“Don’t let your delusions get to that point. Do you think I would have stuck with a piece of trash like Kwak Min-cheol?”
“Then? Who is it? Who is the one behind the order to assassinate me?”
Choi Sung-min pointed to the sky with his index finger.
“It was ordered from above.”
“So who!”
“that…….”
Squeak-!
Choi Sung-min’s dagger drew a red line.
“You’ll know when you meet in person.”
Chlapak-
Song Chi-hyun’s head fell into a pool of blood.
[Hunter Song Chi-hyun was killed.]
[Trait ‘Mind Reading’ taken away.]
[17 pieces of equipment stolen.]
[30 magic stones were stolen.]
[1 collectible was taken.]
[9 consumables were stolen.]
[1 item taken.]
[Assimilation rate 14.5%]
When we kill Song Chi-hyeon, a message comes to mind.
The message didn’t stop there.
[The specified target has been assassinated.]
[Invincibility effect remains for the duration.]
[Time remaining: 4 minutes 46 seconds]
The factor assassination duration was about 5 minutes.
This means that it only took 5 minutes to subdue and kill Song Chi-hyeon.
[Killed the target while wearing the doppelganger’s mask.]
[The appearance of the killed target has been duplicated.]
[You can transform at any time by memorizing the target’s name while wearing the mask.]
Now you can transform into Song Chi-hyun at will.
I decided to try it out right away.
‘Song Chi-hyun.’
When you say the name of the person you want to transform into, a black aura flows out from the mask’s eye sockets.
The energy soon spread down to my toes and covered my entire body.
Slowly-
Choi Sung-min’s body was transformed.
In the image of Song Chi-hyeon, without a single flaw.
“Has it really changed?”
Once I tested the voice, it was definitely Song Chi-hyun.
Choi Sung-min smiled with satisfaction as he looked at his face in the mirror.
Instead of a mask, inside the mirror was the face of the man she had killed.
‘Let’s check the characteristics and items later… … .’
Choi Sung-min looked around at Song Chi-hyeon’s face.
‘I guess I’ll have to resolve this mess first.’
Team Crush’s office was a mess of blood and corpses.
Choi Sung-min sighed softly after checking the rolling heads.
‘Is everyone dead except Do Eun-jeong…?’
Bang Tae-man, Shim Sung-jin, and Eom Jeong-sik.
Faces that were cheerful just two weeks ago were murdered because they saw Yang Jo-young.
‘I feel a bit sorry. If I hadn’t come to Team Crush that day and called Yang Jo-young, this wouldn’t have happened… … .’
But it couldn’t be helped.
It was not a situation where I could refuse the great hero’s instructions.
Besides, I never imagined it would end up like this.
‘Still… …I’m glad I could save at least one person.’
Do Eun-jeong almost became a scapegoat, but she assassinated Song Chi-hyeon in time.
‘It was a bit too blatant a fight to be called an assassination, but… … .’
Thanks to having weakened it with poison in advance, it was possible to seize the opportunity to win even in a head-on confrontation.
Choi Sung-min’s gaze turned to Do Eun-jeong.
It seemed like it would take some time for the sound sleeper to wake up.
‘Probably you didn’t see my face or hear my voice.’
Since he was wearing a doppelganger mask, there was no way he could see his face, and since he knocked him out before he could speak, there was no way he could hear his voice.
‘If anything, it’s that you might have seen my dagger while we were fighting… … .’
Since a dagger shining blood red is not common, one might suspect that the masked man is Choi Sung-min.
Swish-
Choi Sung-min took out a dagger and approached Do Eun-jeong.
He raises a dagger above her sleeping head.
‘It must not be known that I killed Song Chi-hyeon.’
If you want a clean finish, you have to kill Do Eun-jeong here.
‘I’m part of a criminal organization, so I don’t kill innocent people.’
Although he tried to rationalize it like that, Choi Sung-min’s dagger did not come off easily.
Because he knew that if he killed Do Eun-jeong for that reason, it would be no different from himself or Song Chi-hyeon.
and.
‘If I kill you like this, there’s no point in saving you, right?’
Tseueueuut-
Choi Sung-min, who had released his dagger, turned away from her.
‘I’m not sure if he recognized the dagger. I’ll have to meet him separately later and question him. He also has the ability to read minds… ‘
The office was full of blood, but there wasn’t much to clean up.
‘There’s no need to touch the corpses of our team members. Just have your subordinates clean them up.’
From now on, you can pretend to be Song Chi-hyeon and have your subordinates cover up the incident.
‘The problem is Song Chi-hyeon’s body. This must never be found.’
Of course, after a month, the rankings will reveal that he died.
‘Until then, if I want to live as Song Chi-hyeon, I have to hide the body so that it can’t be found.’
Choi Sung-min’s eyes flashed toward Song Chi-hyeon’s body.
* * *
“Ugh… … .”
As soon as Do Eun-jeong woke up, she unconsciously touched the back of her neck.
For some reason my throat felt sore.
She blinked her eyes in a dazed state, then quickly turned her gaze away.
“oh!”
I looked at my surroundings and jumped up.
I was sleeping in a back alley.
‘Why, why am I here?’
Apparently, he went to the Team Crush office as usual… … .
‘Poem, corpse! I saw my senior’s corpse… …!’
I definitely saw it.
The severed heads of the team members, including Bang Tae-man.
And the face of the hooded criminal.
‘Oh, Song Chi-hyun. It was Song Chi-hyun!’
It was covered by a hood, but I could tell because I saw it up close.
‘It’s certain because you mentioned junior Seongmin’s name. It’s definitely the great hero Song Chihyun.’
Song Chi-hyun killed his teammates.
He also tried to kill himself.
I don’t know why.
The thing is, the guy tried to kill himself, and in the end… … .
‘Are you alive? I… … ?’
All that mattered was that we survived the moment of crisis.
‘Ah! Now that I think about it… … .’
Do Eun-jeong remembered it belatedly.
That a third party intervened at the moment of crisis and the two engaged in a fierce battle.
‘I remember. I remember everything… … .’
Memories that had been obscured by fear rose to the surface.
‘It was definitely a man wearing a black mask.’
The body shape was clearly male, but the face was unrecognizable.
‘It seemed like he was using a red dagger, like an assassin… … .’
I didn’t witness the battle in detail.
Because I was shivering at that time.
Besides, I don’t remember the details because we were fighting so frantically that it was hard to keep up with the scenes.
‘If I remember correctly, it was that an assassin wearing a black mask showed up and saved him. And… … that person overwhelmed Song Chi-hyun to the point of almost dying.’
The sight she saw before she fainted was Song Chi-hyeon on her knees.
I still remember clearly, even in my daze, the sight of him screaming after being stabbed with a dagger and spewing blood onto the floor.
‘I don’t remember anything after that, but the outcome was already decided. The man in the black mask won. Song Chi-hyeon… …!’
It must have been that person who had safely brought him to the alley.
‘Whoever it is, they killed a great hero. This is a major incident.’
I have no intention of defending the great hero.
I think it was a good death, since he was the one who tried to kill me.
‘The members’ bodies… … are they still there?’
I still tremble when I think of my comrades’ deaths.
But I couldn’t help but check.
Do Eun-jeong came out of the alley.
Looking at the location, it wasn’t too far from the office.
‘It might be dangerous, but… … .’
To understand the situation, Do Eun-jeong visited Team Crush’s office again.
If there are any bodies left, please report them so we can deal with them.
however.
“uh?”
The office was spotless, without a single trace of blood or a body.
So much so that I wondered if I was dreaming.
