These skills, coupled with Kang Oh’s Hyper Intuition, would maximize his evasion.
‘I’ll attack without getting hit.’
That was the style that he sought. A one-sided beatdown. A one-sided advantage. How good does that sound?
Kang Oh grinned, and the martial arts instructor asked, “Are you really not going to learn any combat skills?”
“I’m fine.”
With his Hyper Intuition pointing out weaknesses, his SS-rank magic sword, as well as Gluttony, which would explosively increase his abilities, he had enough attack power.
It would be a waste of time to learn more combat skills. It was better to keep using Slash to improve his proficiency in it.
“In any case, I wonder if Eder found a clue yet…”
Kang Oh, having finished his business here, headed to the Altein Central Library.
* * *
Turning the clock back…
Eder, who had been immersed in The Loxia Chronicles, secretly looked to his left and right.
“He’s gone,” Eder muttered.
As he said, Kang Oh had definitely left the Altein Central Library.
Then, he straightened his back and pushed The Loxia Chronicles away.
“Does he think I’m an idiot?”
Kang Oh’s ‘carrot’ hadn’t worked in the slightest.
In fact, it’d be even stranger for it to have worked.
But there was a reason why he acted like it had.
He needed to get out of Kang Oh’s clutches, as he had threatened him with the magic sword.
‘You’ll see first-hand what a ghost’s resentment feels like.’
Not only had he not read The Loxia Chronicles, but he hadn’t even looked at it.
Instead, he passed the time by reading some of the medical books here that he’d wanted to read.
Of course, he’d turned it to a certain page so that it looked like he’d read some of it.
Time passed, and Kang Oh had finally returned.
“Hey, Brother-in-law!”
‘Like hell I’d ever become your brother-in-law.’
However, Eder’s actions completely contradicted his inner feelings.
“Welcome back.”
Eder looked really happy to see him.
Kang Oh looked blankly at him and asked, “Have you found any clues?”
“I haven’t found it yet. It’s such a long book, so I will need more time to read through it,” Eder said.
He would, of course, never find any clues to the magic sword no matter how much time passed.
“Hmm. It is quite a thick book.”
Kang Oh nodded his head.
“I will need a week at the very least.”
Eder planned on buying as much time as possible and then continue dragging this out by asking for more time.
‘What can he even do if I can’t find any clues!?’
“I got it.”
Eder’s congenial smile matched that of his smiling mask.
However…
“I’ll try finding clues in my own way. But if I find the clues first, then you’re useless to me. I don’t need an incompetent good-for-nothing traveling with me, so I’ll kill you right then and there.”
Kang Oh brandished the magic sword and stroked it. His face was etched with a wicked smile.
“What are you talking about!?”
This is bullshit!
“Yeah. I don’t care what you do; that’s what I’m going to do.”
Kang Oh’s voice was firm; it was clear that he would follow through 100%.
“That’s unfair!” Eder yelled.
“Life’s unfair, dirty, and cheap. Just do as I say!”
Kang Oh tapped Eder’s shoulder with the magic sword.
“Unless you want to die.”
It was a villain.
* * *
Coming back to the present…
Kang Oh’s point of view.
“Unless you want to die,” Kang Oh said.
Eder bowed his head at Kang Oh’s words.
His plan of getting back at Kang Oh had failed miserably.
‘Did you really think you could fool me?’
Kang Oh stared at Eder, his gaze frigid.
He had already seen through Eder’s plan.
How?
He was a psychic who possessed Hyper Intuition, that’s how!
It seemed as though it had another ability, aside from ascertaining weaknesses, warning of danger, and finding hidden objects/places.
It was the ability to see through lies!
‘I’m sure.’
Kang Oh recalled the feeling he’d felt when he returned to the Altein Central Library and had looked at Eder.
Eder had welcomed him back.
But as he looked upon Eder, he felt unpleasant and uncomfortable, as though he were pricked by a thorn.
So much so that he wanted to kill Eder!
The reason for this unique feeling had to be because of his Hyper Intuition. However, it shouldn’t have activated now.
If that’s the case, it must be similar to how he had a feeling when he discovered a hidden dungeon.
What was it telling him?
He felt an unpleasant sensation from Eder.
Furthermore, adding the fact that he forced the work onto him, the conclusion was simple.
‘This idiot. He’s putting up a front!’
Thus, Kang Oh secretly sounded him out.
Once he confirmed that the book was indeed thick, Eder insisted that it would take a long time to go through it.
When Eder said that, that unpleasant sensation only became stronger.
Thus, Kang Oh was sure that this was a new facet of his Hyper Intuition.
‘This is the ability to see through lies!’
Although Eder had attempted to swindle Kang Oh, he had only managed to prove how Kang Oh’s Hyper Intuition had evolved.
“I’ll forgive you if you tell me the truth. Were you lying to me or not?” Kang Oh said to the bowing Eder.
“What are you talking about!?” Eder reflexively yelled in astonishment.
“I’ll forgive you if you tell me the truth.”
Kang Oh unwaveringly stared at Eder without giving him an inch.
If Eder possessed a real body, then he would’ve avoided Kang Oh’s gaze. And he would’ve gulped too.
“I-I really didn’t…”
“You said you were trying to find clues, but you were really trying to buy time and try to get in my way, weren’t you? Yes or no?”
Kang Oh interrupted him and interrogated him.
‘It’s obvious what you were trying to do.’
It was clear to him what Eder was trying to do, as he’d done quite the nasty deeds himself in Warlord.
“…”
“This is your last chance. If you come clean, I’ll give you a break. 3! 2!”
Right before he counted down to 1…
“I did it. I did!”
Eder confessed.
Kang Oh was already sure of it, so if Eder kept to his story, he’d be on his way to heaven right now.
“You idiot.”
Kang Oh cool-headedly forgave him.
After all, he was the one who’d backstabbed him first, so he could forgive him just once.
So instead of torturing him, he decided to put him to work.
“I’ll let it go this once. But in exchange, you have to read it all by tomorrow and find the clue.”
Kang Oh pushed The Loxia Chronicles towards him.
“That’s impossible! I can’t read it all in a day!” Eder said.
“…”
Kang Oh, without a word, simply stared frigidly at him.
Eder nearly suffocated from the silence.
“F-Fine. I’ll do it!”
Eder began reading The Loxia Chronicles. With all his might!
“You should’ve done that from the start.”
As expected, Kang Oh really was good at handling NPCs.
The stick, the carrot, and then the stick!
Eder couldn’t escape Kang Oh’s grasp, just like how Son Wukong couldn’t escape Buddha’s.
* * *
Jae Woo got ready to go out.
He wore a white T-shirt with a peace sign on it, as well as a pair of jeans and a baseball hat.
“Big brother, where are you going?” Yura asked.
“I have some business to attend to,” Jae Woo said curtly.
“Ah, are you going to the bank?”
“Mm, just some business.”
Jae Woo was headed to the bank, just as Yura had expected.
The Piggy Savings Bank!
It was a bank that used a red piggybank as its mascot. It meant that their bank would be a piggybank for the normal person.
“Welcome.”
“I came to pay a debt.”
It was an exhilarating feeling, like throwing a resignation letter at your boss’s face.