“It’s working…!” Lude felt relieved. Thankfully, one of the guards seemed completely entranced, and the other, though not entirely, was quite influenced.

Lude internally sweated bullets but finally let out a sigh of relief.

This skill almost automatically made him speak in a cheesy tone, and since charm levels varied from person to person, it was truly a gamble whether it would work or not.

“Alright… I’ll let the child go!! But in exchange…”

“In exchange?”

“……You must come up here.”

“Once I see the child safely descend with my own eyes.”

“Hey, hurry up and go down!!”

The guards nodded and untied the child. The child, with a sad face, ran out of the castle walls.

Before the sobbing child could say anything, Lude opened his mouth in a somewhat tender tone.

“Run towards the forest in the back. There are no monsters there. Keep going, and you’ll find a safe place where people are gathered. Stay there. Can you do that?”

The child stopped crying and vigorously nodded their head. Lude patted the child’s head and murmured.

“And don’t look back on your way, no matter what happens. This is a promise between you and me.”

Lude extended his pinky finger to the child. The child hooked their pinky finger with his, nodding. Lude then smiled and said,

“……Thank you, Hunter Uncle. Really, thank you!”

“Good, you’re brave. Now go.”

Watching the elementary school child run off, Lude’s eyes turned cold. He took out his phone to check the time.

“The time now is……”

He had declared earlier to the handsome gentleman that he would finish within 20 minutes, so he had about 7 minutes left.

Lude’s motto was to quickly clear the game without spreading his detrimental psychic energy in the dungeon. He immediately opened a portal and climbed up the castle walls. The guards, not expecting him to ascend so swiftly, swallowed hard at his arrival.

“Here, as you guys wanted, I’ve come up.”

“Now, now you’ll…… to us……”

With a snap, the last words of the guard trailed off as his head rolled on the ground. Lude shook off the droplets of blood from his black half-scissor and approached the remaining guard.

“Pathetic fools, taking a child hostage. You scum.”

“Ugh…!”

As he slightly raised his scissor, the guard’s spear turned to paper and fell to the ground. The guard looked at Lude.

Their eyes met. The guard saw something writhing in Lude’s black eyes.

And then he froze. Like an animal meeting its natural predator, he was paralyzed. For a few seconds, fear filled the guard’s mind.

This is… pure evil. Absolute, pure evil. Like fear personified into a human. Lude’s maximized charm and fear were intertwined. Terrifying, yet unable to look away. Even though he knew it was wrong, that it might lead to death, he still wanted to stay by his side.

No one could withstand such a person. No, there wouldn’t be such a being!

“Your boss.”

Lude continued to lock eyes with him as he spoke, sending shivers down the guard’s spine.

After staring at him for a while, Lude continued in a cold tone.

“Where is he?”

“These guys again…”

Entering the 3rd stage after wiping out all the guards, Lude twitched his eyebrows upon seeing hostages tied up in the garden.

It seemed like office workers, caught after working overtime, were bound by the thorny stems of the stage boss, a plant-like monster.

“It looks like they were caught after working overtime,” commented the Chaos Sovereign, shrugging his shoulders.
“Seriously, company employees working overtime should not be messed with.”

This was the problem with stage-type fields with sentient creatures. The monsters, anticipating the arrival of hunters, captured civilians and used them as hostages.

“The hostages are all adults, let’s quickly finish this off,” suggested the Chaos Sovereign, shrugging his shoulders.

What to do. If it weren’t for the hostages, Lude would have cleared the stage in one second and headed straight to the boss room. While pondering, Lude’s gaze met with the stage boss.

“Hey, look! Even if you look at me with such a seductive gaze, it’s useless! I can’t release the hostages or tell you where the cult leader is!”

Dressed in a white gown with pure white hair and rose stems densely packed under her skin, blossoming with white roses all over her body, the 3rd stage boss, a woman of white roses, blushed profusely while looking at Lude.

‘Oh, it works on this one too.’

Lude propped his chin with his hand. It seemed that the gate’s monsters had a taste for Lude’s type.

Good. It was best to solve it quickly without using mental manipulation. Lude then spoke with a deep look in his eyes.

“Can’t you release them for my sake? Please? And guide me to your cult leader too.”

“Oh… Ah, if you look at me like that…”

The woman of white roses, the 3rd stage boss, wrapped her arms around herself and stepped back. As Lude approached her, the monster bashfully said,

“But, but still, I can’t… I have my faith…”

“Just repent later, I don’t visit often. How about it? Won’t you release them?”

Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me

One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.

Synopsis:

Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.

But this is still far from enough.

He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.

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