Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2612: Chapter 1235: Deadly Game · Continuation (XI) – Path to Survival

A simple prank~

For Double Leaf it might really just have been this, but to others, that scene just now was quite shocking; after all, even an ordinary epic tier spellcaster would find it difficult to complete a landslide of that scale in such a short time, but this ’Lady Mei Fu’ not only did it, she did it perfectly.

The principle behind it wasn’t actually that complicated. To explain it simply, while Double Leaf was dismantling the core of the barrier, she was also covertly working with her ’Fertility Magic’, driving those extremely destructive branches around recklessly in the dark, continuously damaging the fundamental structure of the entire corridor, and repairing it at the same time with her twisted plants.

For Double Leaf this wasn’t difficult. In fact, this level of multitasking was just routine for her. Compared to playing hide-and-seek online with BLACK, simultaneously using her magical knowledge to analyze the barrier core, and using the newly researched divine arts for covert demolition was barely even a warm-up.

It’s worth mentioning that this was just a backup plan that Double Leaf casually prepared.

The reason for saying so is that in the original plan there was no ’trigger the alarm’ segment. In other words, as long as the commotion caused by Haru Kuttata was big enough, people like Mei Fu were very likely to not be discovered until they successfully neutralized the outer layer of the arena’s barrier.

Moreover, Double Leaf believed that she was stronger than the ’True Mafu’ from the story, and could resolve the barrier core faster than the latter, so this backup plan was theoretically completely unnecessary to prepare.

But Double Leaf still made a series of ’preparations’ sufficient to handle various situations, as she was the type who never thought her advantage was big enough.

Rather than wasting efforts, whether it’s Double Leaf or Motan under his ’Chaotic Neutral’ personality, neither is willing to let the development of events get out of their control.

However, the difference is that when things really do get out of control, Motan would feel extremely delighted, while Double Leaf would be extremely displeased, and then both of them would perk up and start performing beyond their normal level.

Aside from that, the only time Double Leaf acted emotionally, in extreme anger without making extra backup plans or remedial measures, was during the prelude to the civil strife in the Violet Empire, where she almost got overwhelmed by an unexpected situation beyond common sense, and it wasn’t for some bastard arriving in time to team up with Xiu Bresen to play an even bigger game, she might have...

Whenever she thought of this, Double Leaf always felt extremely humiliated, and this humiliation made her even more troublesome.

The more troublesome Double Leaf naturally wouldn’t act on the premise that everything would go according to plan, but instead, she hypothesized many situations and came up with corresponding solutions one by one in a very short time.

In the brief time just after entering the instance, what Motan did was learn new formulas, organize conditions, speculate Double Leaf’s identity, prepare various potions, and hesitate whether to challenge making the inducer for the [Cancer], while Double Leaf, after a simple understanding of the person Mei Fu, integrated the divine arts she possessed and repeatedly pondered all possibilities of the entire process and made targeted preparations.

At first glance it may seem similar, but compared to Motan who either wants to overachieve on the task or wants to mess with Double Leaf, Double Leaf’s approach is more inclined to pass smoothly, in other words, she doesn’t have that strong ’hostile intent’.

This is not hard to understand. After all, to Motan, Double Leaf is just Double Leaf; in this game, no matter what her style is, it doesn’t change the adversarial stance of this flat four-eyes against him.

But Double Leaf hasn’t successfully confirmed that Motan is ’Tan Mo’. Although she very much suspects so, a suspicion is still just a suspicion. To her ’Frank Hughes’ ultimately cannot overlap with ’Tan Mo’.

If roles were reversed, Motan wouldn’t even let things reach this point. Even if he couldn’t confirm Double Leaf was Mei Fu, he would still choose to ’waste time quietly deactivating the alarm’, passing all the pressure to the other side, and sincerely hoping the latter would encounter trouble soon.

But Double Leaf didn’t do that. Not only did she proactively share unnecessary pressure, but after successfully completing her task, she also thought about supporting this person Haru Kuttata.

It’s not that she has any fondness for Haru, or Frank who might be Haru, it’s just that in her calculations, if both parties successfully join forces ahead of time, her chances of getting a better evaluation would increase.

So to summarize, for Motan, giving trouble to Double Leaf is the highest priority, with successfully passing and getting high evaluations being secondary; whereas for the latter, it’s exactly the opposite. In her view, as long as she can ensure her success in passing, cooperating with ’Frank Hughes’ or cooperating with Haru Kuttata is completely acceptable, as ’benefiting oneself’ doesn’t necessarily have to ’harm others’.

But of course, if Haru coming to harm would benefit Double Leaf, she wouldn’t hesitate to choose to let harm befall him.

That’s why we have the current situation, where the objectively and sufficiently rational Motan acts quite emotionally, while the relatively subjective and slightly more emotional Double Leaf makes an objective choice.