Chapter 1383: 141. Another Trap?

"What the hell is going on? Did the Love God attack again?"

The instant his hand was tightly grasped by those soft, delicate hands, even Muen failed to react at first and froze on the spot.

Because what was happening in front of him was completely beyond his expectations.

Wasn't this supposed to be the first meeting between a highly respected and outstanding Master Mage and a talented disciple who had nowhere else to study, creating a beautiful scene of a benevolent teacher and a devoted student?

What was with immediately getting handsy?

Could it be......?

Muen's heart tightened, and he immediately grew furious.

Outrageous!

He, Muen......

Master Enmu was still a respectable figure in the magical world. Since when could his mind be shaken by something this trivial?

Did she really think this would make him give her special treatment or open a back door for her?

Although these little hands really were quite soft, and felt rather nice to touch, enough that if he wasn't careful he might......

"Ahem."

A soft cough drifted over with the breeze.

His sense of impending death quietly sounded the alarm.

Muen's expression stiffened. He glanced sideways out of the corner of his eye and immediately met a pair of eyes in which killing intent was gradually brewing.

"Teacher, what are you spacing out for? You still haven't responded to her."

His most, most considerate beloved student Alice stood beside him as well, revealing the sweetest, sweetest, sweetest smile.

—Danger!

"......Student."

Muen immediately straightened his back.

That tiny trace of laxness from just now seemed to have been nothing more than an illusion. Once again, he became the solemn and cold Master Enmu, seriously addressing the girl who looked as though she was about to throw herself straight into his arms.

"Please pay a little attention to your behavior. Don't bring that sort of wanton conduct into a serious place like the Origin Tower. More importantly, as a master of noble conduct and outstanding professional ethics, even if I starved to death, jumped from here, and died outside, I would never do anything indecent with one of my own students. So please don't entertain any little thoughts along those lines."

"Ah......"

Only then did Agatha seem to realize what she had done, and her small face instantly flushed bright red.

She hurriedly released his hands, staggered backward several steps as though drunk, then abruptly came to attention and began bowing to Muen over and over like a woodpecker.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Master Enmu! I didn't mean to! I absolutely didn't mean to!!"

"Hm?"

That reaction instead left Muen even more confused.

"What do you mean? You weren't trying to take advantage of me?"

"Take......how could I possibly? You're a master I deeply respect. How could I have any disrespectful thoughts toward you? Besides, you're not even the type I like......"

"Then what was that just now......"

"I......I just thought Master Enmu looked very much like someone I'm extremely familiar with, and I accidentally lost control of myself. I'm truly very sorry!"

Agatha spoke with complete sincerity and apologized again and again.

Rather than the embarrassment of someone whose little scheme had been exposed, she looked more like an innocent girl desperately asking forgiveness after making a mistake. When she bowed, her little head nearly reached the ground.

She looked......

Genuine.

Muen and Ariel exchanged a glance.

The latter clicked her tongue, muttered, "Pretty women are the best at lying," and turned her head away, clearly unwilling to pay any more attention to the matter.

The corner of Muen's mouth twitched.

If this girl named Agatha really was lying, then her acting......

Was genuinely impressive.

At the very least, that kind of pure, crystal-clear stupidity was not something an ordinary person could convincingly imitate.

"Looks like I misunderstood you too. Stand up. If you keep apologizing like this, other people really are going to think I did something to you."

Muen sighed softly.

He could no longer maintain his solemn and icy image as a master, so he could only soften his expression slightly and make himself look a little less intimidating.

"Th-thank you, Master Enmu!"

Agatha carefully straightened up, but her face was still bright red, and she did not dare meet Muen's eyes.

Clearly, she also understood just how "offensive" her earlier behavior had been between two people meeting for the first time, especially when those two people were supposed to have a teacher-student relationship.

"Please, Master Enmu, don't think......don't think I'm that kind of girl."

Agatha clenched the corner of her clothes, looking as shy as a delicate flower that had just blossomed, enough to stir anyone's pity.

"I really just lost my composure for a moment. I absolutely didn't have any other thoughts."

"Don't worry. Only someone truly filthy-minded would keep thinking that way. I was only joking just now."

Muen waved his hand magnanimously.

A girl had only touched his hand a little.

That was nowhere near enough to shake the conviction of Belrand's number one good man.

"Th-thank you! Thank you so much!"

Agatha felt as though her thoughts had already been thrown into complete chaos.

She had clearly promised herself she would remain composed.

And yet......

And yet things had developed like this.

At that instant, she still had not managed to control herself.

"But for you to care that much, that person must be extremely important to you."

Muen touched this face that even he himself found unfamiliar and asked curiously:

"Do we look that similar?"

"N-no......"

"Hm?"

"N-no......I mean, yes."

Agatha nodded vigorously.

"You......you really do look very similar. At first glance, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. That's why I lost control like that just now."

"I see......"

Muen rubbed his chin.

To fit his cover identity and prevent the people of the Origin Tower from noticing anything suspicious, this face had actually been created for him by that old hag in a little girl's body.

In other words, from a certain perspective, a person named Enmu genuinely existed.

At the very least, he existed in the Origin Tower's official records.

Otherwise, Muen could never have infiltrated the Origin Tower so easily, to the point where even the Tower Master himself had not shown the slightest suspicion toward his identity.

And now, this student he had only just recruited was saying that this face looked familiar?

Could the person she was actually familiar with be the real Master Enmu?

What kind of coincidence was that?

Someone who knew the genuine article had just happened to run into the impostor using his identity?

But that didn't seem right either......

Her reaction just now did not look like someone who had discovered an impostor.

Then where had that uncontrollable excitement in that instant come from?

Had she mistaken him for the real person?

No......

That still didn't fit.

Muen's gaze swept over the obedient-looking Agatha in front of him.

Noticing his gaze, the girl who had just done something so embarrassing lowered her head, her entire body tensing as though she desperately wanted to find a hole and bury herself in it.

That reaction definitely contained none of the shock or anger one would expect from someone who had discovered that a familiar person was being impersonated.

But the embarrassment she was giving off did not seem fake either.

......He really couldn't make sense of it.

"Could it be......there really is some hidden storyline here that I don't know about?"

If he could not explain it, then the only possibility was that he lacked information.

But the moment he thought of that, Muen suddenly became vigilant again......

Come to think of it, the identity of Enmu had been prepared for him by that old hag in a little girl's body.

If there was some problem with this identity as well......

That old bastard couldn't possibly have dug another trap here and be waiting for him to jump into it too, could she?!