The Hypnosis App Was Fake – Chapter 65

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Teottry
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The A-rank wolf-type monster, academically named Black Mane, boasts a size in the upper-middle tier among beast-type monsters, with an average height of 3 meters and a body length of 8 meters.

There are three main points to be cautious of when facing a Black Mane: one is the characteristic biting force of wolf-type monsters, another is its serrated claws that never let go once they’ve latched on, and the last is its legs specialized for leaping.

To give you an insight into the speed of a Black Mane’s leap and charge, there are accounts of people who saw a Black Mane the size of a finger in the distance, blinked, and then found it with its jaws open right in front of them.

The Black Mane’s leaping power and instantaneous speed were among the top tier of A-rank monsters.

The moment such a fast Black Mane first stepped out of the gate and into the city, and rushed towards its pitifully crying prey, the prey’s life was as good as gone.

According to the Black Mane’s experience and knowledge, that’s how it should have been.

But life, no, a wolf’s life, never goes as planned.

-Zzzzap!

With the sound of a spark, the Black Mane’s vision was reversed. It had clearly been rushing towards its prey, but all the Black Mane could see was the black asphalt road.

-Krrk?

-Craaaash!!!

Without even a moment to be surprised, the Black Mane crashed headfirst into the pavement at the same speed it had been leaping.

The Black Mane, which had created a hemispherical crater as if a meteor had fallen, did not understand what had happened to it.

I jumped forward, but I fell downward. And my body’s direction itself was twisted vertically. What in the world is this?

An A-rank monster, even a beast-type one, has an intellect not much different from a human’s.

The Black Mane, with its head ringing from the impact, pondered why it, which had been rushing towards its weak prey, was now with its head buried in the ground.

Then, suddenly, the Black Mane recognized one strange thing.

I’ve lost my prey, so why am I having such thoughts?

I don’t know what happened, but my head is ringing a bit. My body is fine, though. I can still hunt, so I’m indulging in the pleasure of thinking. Soon, the riffraff pinned under me will start crawling out one by one.

The Black Mane pulled its head out of the ground, shook its body to send dirt and rock fragments flying. As expected, there was nothing wrong with its body. It was just a little surprised by the unexpected impact.

“Grrrrr…..”

When it turned its head towards the sound, the strange creature it had met as soon as it crossed the gate and the screaming prey were facing each other, their mouths moving.

The Black Mane identified it as communication between the two individuals.

“Hey… He’s getting up! Just give me the phone! I’ll just check it and let you go!”

“What? He didn’t die from that… H-Hiiik!”

“Ah, here we go again. I’ll just take care of it myself. Please bill Liar’s Trap for any lost items.”

During their communication, a sense of annoyance and a slight urgency was felt from the strange creature.

To feel such emotions while looking at me. It seems that strange creature did something to me and made me crash into the ground.

“Grrrrrrrk…..!”

Its wild instincts led the Black Mane to the correct answer.

Convinced that Faster had slammed it into the ground, the Black Mane changed its target from the screaming prey to Faster.

For the Black Mane, a top predator with few rivals even within the gate, being toyed with by a mere creature was an incredibly humiliating experience.

The strange creature is just weak prey that would turn into mincemeat with a single swipe of my claw.

But even with such pathetic physical abilities, the strange creature was not afraid or crazy, and it even exuded a strange energy I had never felt before.

That’s why I hadn’t attacked, just to observe for a moment, and yet it did this to me. I will never forgive it.

“Grr… Crunch!”

With the thought that it wouldn’t be fooled a second time, the Black Mane tensed all its senses, looked at Faster, and bent its four legs to gather momentum.

The accumulation of power, on a different level from when it had first targeted the screaming citizen, caused the ground under the Black Mane’s feet to crack, and the earth began to vibrate.

-Rumble…!

“Grrrrrrrrr…!”

The Black Mane, its throat rumbling in unison with the earth’s trembling, emanated a formidable aura that would make even an A-rank Awakener quiver with trepidation.

The beast’s murderous intent and hostility were solely directed at Faster, the F-rank Awakener of Liar’s Trap.

-Kwooooooooong!!!!

-Thwoooom!!!

The moment the Black Mane leaped, dragging the ground with its front paws and kicking off with its hind legs, releasing all the power it had gathered, that hostility and murderous intent became a materialized black flash.

The powerful leap, strong enough to shatter the asphalt and pavement, brought the Black Mane’s form right in front of Faster in an instant.

-Craaaack.

The Black Mane, so that its opponent wouldn’t even realize it was dying, opened its mouth to swallow Faster’s upper body in one bite at the same time as it charged.

-Zzzzap.

But the sound of a spark rang in the Black Mane’s ears for the second time, and its wide-open jaws bit down on empty air.

-Craaaaaash!!!! Thump! Thump!

Flustered by Faster and the citizen who disappeared in an instant without warning, the Black Mane lost control of its speed and crashed, leaving a long, deep scar of destruction on the asphalt road.

-Whoooosh…

The night wind brushed past the nose of the fallen Black Mane. It scraped its throat briefly, overcome by a sense of emptiness unlike anything it had ever felt before.

“Krrk… Grr… awoo…”

Roughly translated into human language, it meant something like, ‘You play this game like a fucking asshole.’

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“Uh, uh? Where am I?”

“It’s the entrance to the shelter. I left everything but your clothes and wallet back there. Please bill Liar’s Trap for compensation for any other lost items. Well then.”

“Y-Yes? What does that…”

-Zzzzap!

After dropping off the screaming citizen in front of the shelter, I immediately moved to where Wolfy was. The reason I had asked for his phone before moving was because he might have been filming me.

My Rabbit Burrow was an ability that should not be known to people.

It was a top secret, known only to the S-rank Awakeners of Liar’s Trap, the Doctor, a few elite guild members of my Team 2, and finally, the retired former Team 2 leader.

There’s a limit to how much I can pass it off as a spatial movement-type unique ability.

Moreover, a spatial movement-type ability that could move consecutively at a speed that even an A-rank monster couldn’t perceive, and move an opponent at the same speed, did not exist in the world.

When I moved with Scarlet at the restaurant this evening, I could just say, ‘I have a spatial movement-type ability,’ if someone asked how.

But moving three times in an instant like just now was in a realm that couldn’t be explained away with ‘I have a spatial movement-type ability.’

Commonly known spatial movement abilities were ones that required you to set the coordinates of your destination, gather the mana to move there, and then, in a calm state of mind and body, focus your mind entirely on the movement.

It wasn’t a simple ability like my Rabbit Burrow, where you could just pop out of existence and pop back in.

And because it would become useless if the mana concentration was high or if a monster’s mana interfered with the calculation formula for spatial movement, such a tricky ability was in fact unusable during dungeon or gate raids.

That’s why my Rabbit Burrow, which could be used anytime and anywhere, was special.

No matter how great Rabbit Burrow was, it was useless if I, the user, was weak.

-Craaaaaash!! Bang! Bang! Kaboom!!!

When I returned to the front of the Liar’s Trap building, the guild members on duty who had come out and Awakeners dispatched from other guilds were gathered and fighting Wolfy.

“Sigh… Look at that bastard going wild.”

Wolfy, with its characteristic speed and wild instincts, was fighting quite well among the numerous Awakeners.

At first glance, it even looked like Wolfy was pushing the Awakeners back. From that, I could tell that Wolfy was a pretty strong monster.

Seeing the Awakeners, who were at least B-rank, struggling with one Wolfy, made my chest feel heavy for no reason.

“Those people are fighting so hard over there. What am I doing here right now?”

I, with my great ability called Rabbit Burrow, couldn’t kill the fiercely rampaging Wolfy over there, nor did I have the power to close the gate.

Instead of standing still and blaming my own incompetence, it would be nice if I could use Rabbit Burrow to help those Awakeners and boost my self-esteem, but Rabbit Burrow was an ability that should not be known.

I don’t know why it shouldn’t be revealed, but the Doctor, Scarlet, Lapi, and Ia-nuna all said it shouldn’t be. So, I guess only bad things will happen if it becomes known.

There was no way an F-rank like me could properly grasp the intentions of S-rank Awakeners and the world’s greatest genius. I just had to go along with it.

And because I knew better than anyone that I was incompetent despite the ability I possessed, it was obvious that I wouldn’t be of any help even if I joined that fight.

In fact, it would be a relief if I didn’t become a burden.

As I was smacking my lips, thinking that those grapes were probably sour, my phone vibrated. It was a call from Ia-nuna.

“Hello? Nuna?”

“Uh, uh, Faster? Where are you right now? Are you okay? Where, where does it hurt?”

At the barrage of questions that poured out as soon as I answered the phone, I instinctively furrowed my brow.

But I quickly realized that those questions were related to the message ‘Ia-nuna, I’m in pain,’ that I had sent earlier, and just as I was about to answer that it was nothing, an Awakener who had been hit by Wolfy flew right next to me and crashed.

-Craaaaaash!!!

“C-Cough…..!”

“R-Right now, that. Wh-What?”

Seeing the Awakener who had coughed up blood and fainted, I momentarily thought it would be good if Ia-nuna came here. If she came, Wolfy would immediately become a sad wolf taxidermy.

“Ah, nuna, I’m in front of our guild right now. A pretty strong monster came out…”

-Kaboom!!!! Craaaaaash!!! Clatter clatter clatter! Kaboom!

“Gah!”

“Kwek!”

“Kuhuk!”

“R-Run…”

“Th-That Black Mane… way t-too strong…”

I was about to continue with, ‘The guild members and Awakeners from other guilds are gathered and fighting a monster, so please come and help if you’re not busy,’ but my goodness. The fighting Awakeners were sent flying towards me.

What the fuck.

I paused the call for a moment and turned my head, and a familiar Awakener, probably an A-rank guild member whose name I didn’t know but whose face I had seen around our guild, was caught by the scruff of his neck in Wolfy’s teeth and was being shaken around and then thrown to the ground in my direction.

-Whoooosh. Thump.

“Are you okay?”

He seemed to have bled a lot, but he didn’t seem to be dead, so I asked out of courtesy.

But as if my question hadn’t reached him, the A-rank guild member on duty trembled all over with fear-filled eyes and mumbled something.

“Alpha… It’s an alpha. Of all things, an alpha… D-Damn it…”

-Thud.

And then he dropped his head unconsciously.

I turned my gaze from the fainted guild member to Wolfy, and Wolfy’s two yellow eyes were filled with annoyance, anger, and glee. The moment I saw those eyes, I knew its intention.

“You, no way. You didn’t kill these people… to keep me from running away?”

An A-rank beast-type monster has an intelligence comparable to a human’s.

And if it’s an alpha, a variant, it’s no exaggeration to say it has an intelligence that surpasses humans.

Therefore, it wasn’t particularly strange for a monster to use people as hostages.

“Grrrrrk….. Krrk krrk!”

I don’t know if it understood my words, but anyway, Wolfy scraped its throat in a very annoying way.

It was a sound that roughly meant something like, ‘You, you son of a bitch, you can’t run away now, can you? Ah, lol. Just wait. You’re dead.’

It seemed it wasn’t the time to be on the phone.

“Nuna. Please come quickly. There’s big trouble right now.”

“Y-Yes? Faster! Faster?! Wait…!”

-Click.

I told Ia-nuna to come quickly and then hung up the phone.

How did it come to this? Me, having a one on one fight with an A-rank monster, and an alpha at that. This is definitely a fucked-up mess.

“Haaa…”

I let out a deep sigh and fixed my eyes on Wolfy.

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