CH 20

13 minutes was very long for someone and quite short for someone else.

“Hmm… Shall I move on now.”

A short sigh flowed from the mouth of Mister Guy, who confirmed the appearance of Choi Yu Seong struggling alone in the distance, catching and numbering rabbits.

“That’s too bad. There must have been a good growth as it was a special test. Well… But isn’t the rule still the rule?”

Towards the other side where Choi Yu Seong is running, Mister Guy stepped up his long leg.

‘It seems you got it wrong. Mister Choi Yu Seong. Unfortunately, you must have been unlucky.’

In fact, this rabbit-hunting, the real thief-catching test boasted difficulty too harsh even by Mister Guy’s opinion himself.

Without Karma point support of the quite powerful God Loki and another God, who has yet to reveal himself, it would have been impossible to create a test of this difficulty in an E-Rank promotion evaluation.

‘Setting aside Prankster Who Likes Jokes nim, I didn’t expect that person would already pay attention to him.’

Anyway, excessive compensation was imposed as two big hands intervened, so the difficulty of the test was also increased vertically.

No matter how it is an extreme difficulty in the first place, it should have already ended the moment when the armor knight was knocked down.

“Let’s see. Our pretty Tori, where are you?””

Mister Guy, who walks with his big ears pricked up and his nose open, swings randomly from place to place in the field with wide legs.

There have been quite a few small groups of rabbits reflected in his eyes, but there have been no pet rabbits sought by Mister Guy anywhere.

“It’s roughly this way, though…”

Walking slowly after the smell, Mister Guy’s gaze shone.

Less than 300m to the east, a group of about 10 rabbits gathered together, and among them, it smelled so familiar and lovely.

“Hong hong, my Tori. So, you were there. Hurry and come to my arms. All I have to do is keep the ‘promise’ to Awakener Choi Yu Seong and the test is ov…”

It was when the excited Mister Guy approached the rabbit group, swinging his arms.

A group of lights surrounded him at once, and instead, the surprised Choi Yu Seong came out of the gap.

“Ah…?”

The question is for a moment.

After identified a rabbit group with about five white rabbits among them located not far from the changed landscape, Choi Yu Seong ran forward.

‘Worked.’

It is a matter of course, but Choi Yu Seong did not only purchase one pen by summoning the Dimensional Merchant Ping Pong.

‘Spell, Double-Sided Mirror Promise. I don’t have many karma points to buy things to hunt armor knights, but enough for this.’

In fact, Double-Sided Mirror Promise is one of the most common spell in dimensional stores, and the price was about 500 karma points per unit.

The method itself was rather simple.

After invoking the spell and hanging the coming out thread on your little finger, make sure to set the keyword agreed with the other person as ‘promise’. Finally, hang each other’s little finger as a seal to confirm the promise.

The effect is that if a promise is made through this process, the two can reverse each other’s positions as if they were located on the other side of the mirror through spell only once in an agreed situation.

What was important here was that the opponent had to clearly spit out the keyword, that is, the word ‘promise’.

In a way, the invocation itself is simple, but it is quite tricky to apply it secretly to the opponent.

Double-Sided Mirror Promise is basically an invisible spell, but once invoked, pink lights shine one after another on the threaded fingers.

To the point where you can feel something strange if you look at it just a little carefully.

In the meantime, you have to secretly hook your pinky and promise, and make sure that keywords come out of the opponent’s mouth.

Therefore, Double-Sided Mirror Promise was originally a spell that was frequently used in the original novel to confuse opponents by changing the positions of allies.

‘Of course, that’s after Double-Sided Mirror Promise spell was revealed to the world…’

Double-Sided Mirror Promise is still a spell before it became known to the world.

‘The first time it come out was in a year or so in the setting of a novel…’

Until then, it is a spell no one on Earth had ever looked for.

When Mister Guy heard that he was participating in the test, it was the first way that came to mind in Choi Yu Seong’s mind.

‘It’s close to impossible for me to find it myself. So, borrows the opponent’s hand again this time.’

In fact, it was an operation that could have failed if the opponent was not Mister Guy, a rather talkative evaluator.

‘But still, I thought if it’s Mister Guy, he would spit it out at least once in a fatal situation.’

In other words, he will surely spit out the word promise when he finds Tori, the situation assumed as the spell.

The prediction was completely correct.

Of course, it would have been better if it was just before catching Tori, but the situation is not bad now.

“See. It’s my victory. Loki. No matter how many praiseful situations you’re going to throw in, I also have all the means.”

When Choi Yu Seong said to himself, Loki, who had been silent since he began tracking Tori, sent a message as if he had been waiting.

-Prankster Who Likes Jokes laughs.

But it’s somewhat strange.

“Laughs?”

Perhaps, is he also felt happy together?

The doubtful Choi Yu Seong, who confirmed that there was no star-shaped dot as a result of flipping the first rabbit’s belly, marked it with a pen and jumped toward the second, feeling anxious for some reason.

‘Just in case, but the distance between the fields is quite wide, so it will take time for Mister Guy to run in.’

The skills of the evaluator in charge of promotion evaluation vary widely.

Some of them are monsters that even play with Earth’s S-Rank Hunters, while others are embarrassing even to D-rank hunters.

‘Just by looking at how Mister Guy looks…’

Just in time, he is running from afar beyond that horizon, leading a huge dust cloud like a whirlwind.

There was no reason to think about it.

‘He’s a monster.’

Mister Guy with a serious stiff look shouted.

“Hong hong hong! Awakener Choi Yu Seong ssi! You fooled this body well!”

It seemed to be speaking quietly, but the volume of the voice was enough to make his head cry.

Naturally, the rabbits around Choi Yu Seong also began to run in all directions, freaked out.

Surprised together, Choi Yu Seong looked at it and freaked out and flipped the second rabbit’s belly.

‘Not this guy too!’

The movement naturally continues to the third.

“Why it’s not!”

As if disproving that he has been somewhat lucky so far, his luck is also unacceptable.

“Hong hong, this is because I let my guard down, but I admit that you surprised this body! But if you fail the promotion evaluation, everything is meaningless!”

Mister Guy, who is just around the corner, jumps up and flies in the air as if swimming.

In that short time, he barely caught the fourth.

A bright smile spread around Choi Yu Seong’s mouth, who lifted the rabbit and confirmed his belly with a feeling that it was really the last time.

-Prankster Who Likes Jokes rolls on the floor with a stomachache at Awakener Choi Yu Seong’s luck.

‘See! This is the luck of a game company employee in Joseon. No. A son of a conglomerate family!’

Then Mister Guy, who was falling right in front of him, quickly held out a rabbit toward him.

“Tori! I found it first!”

Boom-!

Creating a huge cloud of dust on the ground, the fallen Mister Guy’s hardened face began to twist little by little.

The eyes draw a bright smile, and a heart is drawn in the pupil.

“Ooh! My love, cutie Tori! So, you were here!”

Then, he snatched Tori from Choi Yu Seong’s hand at once, holds it in his arms, and starts rubbing the cheeks.

“Hong hong hong…”

Choi Yu Seong sighed with relief as he watched him laugh in a good mood.

At the last minute, he gave up Tori, but he didn’t worry much.

《THIEF CATCHING! DIFFICULTY ++ VERSION

You have recovered half of your lost soul from a very bad and wicked thief(Tori)!

Congratulations! Awakener Choi Yu Seong will be promoted to D Rank! Promotion compensation is paid after settlement through the system. User’s consciousness is returning to Earth.》

Done.

While Mister Guy was drunk on his pet rabbit, Choi Yu Seong was also feeling joy as he saw the message flashing golden.

At one point, a certain energy oozing from Tori surrounds Choi Yu Seong’s whole body and permeates into him.

‘By the way, that Mister Guy, he really cares about Tori…’

Apart from that, the white rabbit Tori was actually really cute.

Mister Guy, who took his eyes off Tori he had rub his cheek so much, looks at Choi Yu Seong, who is gradually losing consciousness.

“Seriously, to think of Double-Sided Mirror Promise. How did you know a thing that no one has used yet? Oh no, you are not in a situation to answer. Anyway, I will never make promise to Awakener Choi Yu Seong ssi again. I’ve suffered from being hit in the back above that upsetting cool wits. See you again. Awakener Choi Yu Seong. Hong hong hong.”

The last thing he heard was Mister Guy’s somewhat sulky voice yet felt warm from some point on.

-Prankster Who Likes Jokes suggests a reward with a somehow joyful expression.

-‘The Gracious Blue-Eyed’ God who get the suggestion thinks. Agrees with the reward.

-A Hidden Piece occurs from the agreement of the two gods. A special Skill is forcibly passed on to Awakener Choi Yu Seong.

Following that, there were little more messages that would make Choi Yu Seong surprised if he had heard it.

***

Choi Yu Seong’s consciousness also slowly emerged into the air from a very low place, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep and then became weak all over his body.

Choi Yu Seong, who opened his eyes, looked around like a habit.

Soon, he breathed a sigh of relief.

‘Bed. Return to where you first entered the promotion evaluation.’

When an Awakener enters a promotion evaluation, his body disappears without a trace on Earth.

Afterwards, when the evaluation is over, he returns to the location where he entered.

What was surprising was the fact that in the process, no manifestation of super power or signs of magic was felt anywhere.

Some scholars fell deeply with research because they felt mysterious about that miraculous ability, but it has not yet been revealed what principles Awakener disappears and appears.

‘Even in the original novel, there are only rough hints.’

Movement of consciousness through the absolute power of the system maker.

There are two facts that can be guessed from this word.

‘First, the promotion evaluation itself takes place at a different dimension.’

And the second, maybe the body of the Awakener itself is hidden somewhere on Earth during the promotion evaluation.

Of course, there is no exact answer, so he doesn’t know.

‘Even above reasoning is originally made by Kim Do Jin.’

After Choi Yu Seong shrugged, he decided to leave the difficult problem behind.

‘It’s not something I can know right away.’