After defeating the demon king in another world and returning to Japan, a dungeon appeared on the ground. - Chapter 74

Chapter 74

“Indeed, a powerful ability.”

The power to read another’s mind.

It’s undoubtedly one of the more unusual types of skills.

“And there’s no limit to it, so I can keep it activated all the time. With this power, reading your thoughts is a piece of cake, Ando Shogo.”

“…I see.”

“By the way, what you are thinking right now is, ‘I get it, your skill is impressive, so get to the point already, I’m tired.'”

“…Yeah, please do.”

I shrugged.

Ichinose looked quite proud of himself.

“Alright, let’s get to the point. My purpose here is to assess your abilities, Ando Shogo.”

“…That thing again?”

“My subordinate should have come in contact with you the other day, but the report was extremely weird. It kept saying, ‘Ando Shogo is an insignificant explorer. It’s a waste of time to even deal with him any further.'”

“…”

“So, what did you do to my subordinate?”

Ichinose’s gaze grew sharper.

“You can know about it without having me tell you right? Just read my mind?”

“Hahaha, that’s right… Let’s see… Hmm… You altered his memory because you didn’t want information related to magical abilities getting reported… Magic?? Is this related to your skill? I’m not sure, it also says that you altered his memory. So, you messed with my subordinate’s head.”

“…”

“Waow… Quite a ruthless skill you have there, Ando Shogo. But, it still doesn’t make sense. How did you defeat those stampede monsters with just some a memory-altering skill?”

“…”

“They say you wiped out a stampede on your own, there are even rumours saying you became an intermediate explorer in a day… There are all sorts of rumours that doesn’t go in line with what’s in your head.”

“…”

“Well, I can just find that out by fighting.”

Saying that, Ichinose took a fighting stance.

Here we go again…

I sighed.

“Why do I have to fight you now? You read my mind right, don’t you know I’m tired.”

“If you don’t come at me, I’ll come at you instead you know?”

“…”

It seemed no matter what, I can’t avoid this fight.

I reluctantly faced Ichinose.

“You’re thinking this now.”

“…?”

“Reading minds is indeed powerful, but how do you even fight with that?”

“Should I spell out whether each of your answer is right or wrong?”

“I have done martial arts training. By combining it with my skill, I can read my opponent’s thoughts and anticipate their future moves…With a tactic like that.”

“…”

“Now then, Ando Shogo. I’ll read your mind! I’ll know your next move! As if you are completely exposed!”

“…”

“……Nn? … What?… eh?”

“Hey, did you manage to read my mind?”

“…I read it, but… What’s this…? Teleport behind me and strike with the knife handle before I can react and cut off my conscience…?”

“…”

“Is this your plan…? What the heck is this, delusion?”

“Nope, it’s reality.”

“——!?”

True to Ichinose’s words, I used teleportation magic to instantly move behind Ichinose and struck the back of his neck with the knife handle and cut off his conscience.

“Ughu!?”

Just as expected, Ichinose couldn’t react and passed out with his eyes rolling back.

“Done and dusted.”

I looked down at the unconscious Ichinose.

Reading minds is indeed a powerful skill.

It’s powerful, but when met with an attack that – you can’t react to even after you anticipate it, it’s useless, since you can’t counter that.

It might be quite effective when used in team battles, though…

“For now, I’ll take your memories. Please, I beg you, just leave me alone.”

Just like last time, I extracted the memory from his encounter of me from Ichinose and moved his body to the side of the road to avoid any interference.

Then walked away from the scene.