Chapter 179:

Chapter 179:

Chapter 179 Remember that your life was meaningless.

“Sigh.”

As he restored his body that was riddled with holes, Dusk let out a sigh mixed with laughter.

Surely, Flan was a human beyond his expectations.

“You make me use my life force to recover.”

Just as humans consume mana to manifest magic, vampires use their life force.

Dusk was originally more inclined to spend his life force on disguise than recovery.

That’s why he was interested in Flan.

It meant that Flan was strong, since he made Dusk use his life force to recover. Moreover, he was not similar to other humans.

He had no emotions, as if they were suppressed. If he had to compare, he felt like he was facing a vampire rather than a human.

In short, he was a talent.

However.

‘He should be synchronized, right?’

Why was the princess fine when he was in the form of Aurora?

It was a simple and big question, but Dusk soon shook it off.

It was because he remembered the words of the girl vampire at the meeting.

-No, how can you not be careless against a human?

Dusk muttered with a sneer.

“I guess I was too careless too.”

He had no choice but to blame himself if there was a mistake.

There was never a problem with the ‘synchronization’ for a long and long time, so he manifested his refined black magic once again.

Kwang-!

At least, until his head exploded.

“...”

After restoring his eyes, Dusk narrowed his brows. As expected, this time too, Aurora’s body was fine.

Bang-! Kwang-!

Dusk’s body explosions continued in a chain.

The power itself was not great.

It was only a level of blowing up the ends of his limbs. But that made Dusk’s mood even more uncomfortable.

The meaning was clear.

Once, and again.

As if to make Dusk realize that he was not synchronized, Flan repeated the small explosions.

As time went on, Dusk began to feel anxious.

He put aside all the attacks and defenses and focused only on the synchronization.

...But there was no problem with the synchronization.

“Why?”

He looked down at his arm.

He saw his hand that had disappeared from the explosion. ally, the body of the princess, who was the original, should have exploded too.

“Did you see through it?”

He couldn’t help but think that way.

The man in front of him, he pierced through the principle of ‘synchronization’ and inflicted effective hits only on Dusk.

“I told you for sure. It’s written on your face.”

Flan continued calmly.

“It was the words you spat out, including your pathetic magic.”

Dusk suddenly felt something on his forehead.

It was sweat.

This body was feeling the sensation of ‘tension’ for the first time in a long time.

“I admit it. I tried to take it too easy.”

Dusk stared at Flan with a strange look. Then, the vampire’s body twisted and began to create a new appearance.

“I’ll show you how long I’ve been watching you, how deeply I’ve studied you, this love and interest...! My sincerity...! I’ll show you now!”

The scene of bones being reassembled and muscles being torn and reattached was not strange to call it recreation.

Flan watched it quietly.

Soon, a woman appeared.

Black hair like pitch black, burning red eyes, a knight who looked like Scarlet but much stronger.

As Flan calmly guessed the identity of the appearance, a faint voice came from the floor.

No, synchronization itself was a trick.

He copied the appearance of the other person, then hid his presence and attacked both himself and the target at the same time.

In other words, it was a high-difficulty illusion.

I was confident in my mental power more than anyone else.

“You should know. You can never imitate me.”

So I said, as if nailing a nail to the mirror.

“You shout synchronization, but you’re just a fake. You’re a fake who can’t even approach the essence for a moment.”

Dusk was enraged by my words.

The blood-red mana of the vampire began to sway from beyond the mirror.

“...”

He stared at me for a while.

“Fake and real will be redefined by me.”

With those words, the mirror world vibrated.

Kwagwagwagwa─

Many mirror surfaces began to reflect me. His voice slowly surrounded the space.

“I will devour your mind completely. I will become you and meet the princess.”

The mirror surfaces themselves began to approach me slowly.

Memories related to the people Dusk imitated, which remained somewhere in my head, floated in the air.

“Flan, it’s not too late. If you compromise with reality, you can remain as the real one.”

Dusk rummaged through my thoughts.

I firmly rejected his attempt to dominate my emotions and memories, and muttered.

“I wonder if you can do it.”

Dusk didn’t answer with his voice. But soon after, the vibration of the whole space increased. It seemed to be a considerable provocation for him.

The more he did, the more calm I found.

“You can’t even imitate me, let alone devour me.”

“...!”

Dusk’s eyes in the mirror began to shake.

He was clearly shaken. But I didn’t miss the guy who tried to turn his eyes away.

“Look me in the eye and say it. Dusk.”

Such interference was nothing but a child’s play.

My flawless mana ran through my body and unfolded magic.

I slowly changed the mirror world into my library.

I performed a simple miracle of changing his space into mine.

I looked closely into the mirror.

“Speak up,” I said.

“No, no. No. No─!”

He started to avoid my gaze. His arrogant plan to clone me had gone wrong.

“Are you really worthy of being the original?”

I was curious.

Did he really have the confidence to do that?

“Ah─! Aaaah─!”

The mirror began to crack.

“Blame yourself for having no essence.”

As spiderweb-like cracks appeared, the reflections of the fakes multiplied.

They all looked agonized.

“Remember that your life was meaningless, no matter how long you lived.”

Crash─!

The mirror shattered.

It was probably beyond repair.

Dusk had lost the battle for his identity.

Sssss─

After his unique domain dispersed, I suddenly felt a strong gaze on me.

A tear drop on the tip of her chin, swollen eyes, and gasping breath. She looked miserable, not like a princess at all.

Aurora was looking at me.

After a while, she licked her lips.