‘This isn’t the real one, a summoned wizard, huh? Pretty strong summon, and he’s kept his awakened status hidden so well… where did he practice?’

Lude saw the burning golden flames reflected in his eyes. For a moment, he thought he locked eyes with Yi Hyeon, but then he felt a crushing sensation around his heart and froze in place.

It was a mental attack, powerful enough to momentarily affect even Lude. This meant the figure in front of him wasn’t human.

Seeing Lude paralyzed, Yi Hyeon raised his sword, ready to strike.

“You think such tricks will work?”

Lude’s paralysis lifted from his hand first, and he immediately grabbed Yi Hyeon’s collar, pressing their foreheads together.

Their blue and black eyes met. Lude noticed something wriggling in Yi Hyeon’s blue eyes and Yi Hyeon immediately stopped his movement upon seeing something in Lude’s black eyes.

Lude stared directly into Yi Hyeon’s blue eyes, at the magic caster hidden deep inside, controlling this monster while hiding.

“Don’t be arrogant. You and I are on different levels.”

With those final words, Lude activated his special trait.

[Avatar Exclusive Trait: Fragments of the Primordial Dream] [The power of the Chaos Master ◼◼◼◼ is used.] [Using the skill borrowed from the Messenger.] [Messenger ◼◼◼◼ Exclusive Skill: Chaos Always Arises from the Unconscious of Humans.]

Crash! As soon as Lude caught the red magic in Yi Hyeon’s blue eyes, the illusion of Yi Hyeon dissolved, revealing the true nature of the library.

The floor was covered with sinister magical circles, and bookshelves were pushed to one side. And at the center of the magic circle…

“Ugh!”

A tall boy with glasses and pink cloud-patterned knee blanket on his head was lying face down on the floor, retching.

It seemed he had directly received Lude’s mental attack. After catching his breath for a while, the boy shakily got up.

“Wow, what was that? I sent out my best attack, and you just blocked it so easily.”

The tall student, with black hair and sharp eyes, stood before Lude. His red eyes seemed to pierce through souls. A green name tag pinned to the chest of his navy blue school jacket read ‘Min Jae Yun’ in calligraphy.
“But, I’ve discovered something interesting.”

Min Jae Yun. Lude thought he had seen this face somewhere before when suddenly, the student smirked and dropped a shocking revelation.

“So, you’re not a brother, but a sister?”

Time seemed to freeze for a moment.

Well, Lude thought it did. Like hitting the pause button on a video, an eerie silence enveloped the library for a few seconds.

“Wha-what are you talking about?”

[You just had a voice crack, Lude, the Chaos Master shakes his head in amusement.]

“Wh-what? Me?”

“Uh?”

Caught off guard and inadvertently responding out loud to the indirect message, Lude’s reaction made the student raise his eyebrows in surprise.

[It seems your perfect undercover life is coming to an end, the Chaos Master chuckles.]

‘No, no, no, this can’t be! This avatar is something extraordinary. Do you think just anyone can create something like this?’

It was Lude’s ultimate secret skill, one that even the most skilled illusionists couldn’t replicate. Only Lude could materialize people with this technique.

Realizing that not one but two people were close to discovering his avatar’s true nature – and one of them merely guessed it by sensing – Lude was dumbstruck.

‘I’ve already been almost caught twice. And one of them just guessed by sensing, not even seeing my true form! Already, it’s so embarrassing!’

Managing to suppress his urge to scream in panic, Lude looked straight at the young student. The student grinned mischievously and waved his hand, saying,

“Ah, don’t be so flustered, sister.”

“Si…sister!!”

Lude’s body stiffened at the term ‘sister.’ Min Jae Yun continued to grin, irritatingly smug despite being younger.

“Jepar is pretty accurate with such distinctions. That’s why it picked up on it.”

“…”

“Of course, under normal circumstances, my magic wouldn’t work on the number 1 like you, but luckily, this is my workshop, and Jepar is a real demon.”

“A real demon.”

Lude looked at the student, clearly flustered. Seeing his reaction, Min Jae Yun chuckled and pulled something out from inside his jacket.

With a rustle, the student held a red leather-bound book with gold leafing in his hand. The book, wrapped in chains and looking rather shabby, was obviously a dangerous and ancient grimoire.

The title on the cover was written in Latin, but Lude recognized it immediately. It was the Lemegaton, the grimoire of Solomon sealing 72 demons.

Min Jae Yun laughed again, his annoying laughter echoing in the room.

“By the way, Jepar usually takes the form of the person you’re most attracted to, so it seems you have quite a fondness for Hunter Kang Yi Hyeon~?”

“You! You! You!”

[Just calm down, Lude. The Chaos Master gestures soothingly.]

Red-faced and looking ready to pounce, Lude was calmed down by the Chaos Master through indirect messaging. After cooling his temper, Lude asked,

“Do you have complete immunity to evil-aligned mental attacks or something?”

“Me? Oh, no way. That kind of overpowered trait doesn’t exist!”

“Are you registered as an awakened?”

“Nope, I’m just a lowly hikikomori.”

“Good.”

“Huh?”

Lude lifted the black half-scissor stuck in the ground. With a determined expression – having failed against Yi Hyeon but not this time – he declared,

“Then die right here!!”

“Ahhhh!”