Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 632 - 47: Cosplay Maniac_2

This was its real pleasure.

It reveled in masquerading as other creatures, but not by creating them from nothing. Instead, it would kill a prominent individual from those creatures and then take their place.

The Long-eared Ancient Ape was one example, but the most infamous case was that of the White Rock Giant Bear incident.

The White Rock Giant Bears lived in the northern region known as Red Lotus Hell, among the Giant Bear Clan.

Chaos directly and undetectably killed the clan leader.

The death of the White Rock Giant Bear’s clan leader went unnoticed, and the creatures of the Giant Bear Clan did not realize that their leader was no longer the leader they once knew.

Chaos had observed for a long time and had gotten very familiar with the habits of the White Rock Giant Bears.

The most frightening aspect was that each time, it became so engrossed in the role that it seemed to completely forget its original identity.

It became the clan leader, even dedicating itself to the future development of the Bear Tribe. It led the Giant Bear Clan in constant battles across Red Lotus Hell, establishing itself as the strongest beast clan there.

It was a good clan leader to the Giant Bear Clan and also a good father and husband within its giant bear family, treating its spouse with extreme tenderness and its children with kindness and enlightenment.

One could scarcely believe that this was the same Chaos, notorious among the four malevolent beasts.

But eventually, its guise was exposed because there was one day each month when Chaos could not transform into other creatures.

It was so immersed in its roles that it either forgot this detail or perhaps, deep down, it yearned to be found out by these creatures?

At the moment its disguise was penetrated, Chaos’s eyes were filled with pity.

With its massive body revealed, it said regrettably and gently,

"My lady, my children, my dear ones, you shouldn’t be shocked. You should pretend nothing has happened. See, haven’t I led the Giant Bear Clan well?"

With such a tone of regret and loss, Chaos began a massacre, killing its spouse and offspring, slaughtering all the Giant Bear Clan members present in an extremely brutal manner, leaving no body intact.

This affair was brought to the Court of Beasts. The Giant Bear Clan was nearly exterminated, but Chaos did not pay with its life. It was merely demoted from the position of Judgment Chief and became the chief assassin in the assassin group of the Court of the Beasts.

By the time Tang finished telling all this, the sky had already darkened.

Tang Xiaojiu and Tang set up a campfire.

Tang Xian, however, sat to one side, instructing Tang on how to roast the meat.

Bai Mansheng seemed to be worried about Tang Xian and said,

"Chaos can transform into other creatures and seems to possess their abilities as well. Moreover, if it appears among us, we might not even notice it."

Tang Xian smiled, turning the leg of the Mount-Control Beast roasting on the spit.

Beside him, the eyes of Tang Xiaojiu and Tang followed the rotation together.

"Don’t worry, I’ve encountered creatures with similar special abilities before, but they can’t mimic me nor grasp my powers. As for disguises, there’s even less to worry about because no disguise means anything to me."

Bai Mansheng said,

"You were quite timid before."

"That’s because I didn’t know what kind of enemy I was facing. The unknown is the most terrifying, but now it’s not so mysterious."

"What if it tries to get close to you by taking my form?"

"I’d give it a thrashing. It can’t get close to me."

Tang Xian didn’t elaborate, but his eyes could indeed penetrate any seemingly perfect disguise. But this was his secret.

Bai Mansheng actually wasn’t fixated on how Tang Xian could see through disguises. In fact, she always felt a sense of being seen through in Tang Xian’s presence.

However, women, whether they’re artistic types, ordinary, or coquettish, all share a curiosity for certain details.

"If it took my form, why would you just give it a thrashing? What form would it need to take for you not to hit it? Tang Xiaojiu, Qing JiuYu?"

Tang Xiaojiu didn’t hear what Bai Mansheng said; she was intently focused on roasting the meat.

Tang Xian gave her a look full of puzzled question marks:

"Of course, it would get a thrashing regardless of the form it took. What are you thinking?"

Bai Mansheng seemed to accept this notion of indiscriminate thrashing.

When the meat was slightly crispy and greasy, Tang Xian passed the task of divvying up the meat to Tang.

Tang was principled when distributing the meat, following his own set of rules.

Tang Xiaojiu received two portions of meat, Yuan Wu and Bai Mansheng along with himself got one portion each, and Tang Xian got five portions.

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Then Tang Xiaojiu said,

"Tang Xian, is this enough for you? If not, I can give you some of mine."

How could the same trick work on a Saint twice?

Tang Xian replied,

"Okay, then give me the meat," she said.

Tang Xiaojiu opened her wide eyes, feeling so heartbroken she couldn’t breathe, watching as Brother Tang Xian simply took the meat away.

Full of confusion, she wondered why that trick didn’t work anymore.

Bai Mansheng watched this scene and thought Tang Xiaojiu was quite cute.

But if she were to act cute and silly too, she imagined Tang Xian would just think she had gone crazy.

Bai Mansheng thought about it and realized she probably wouldn’t do something like that.

Moved by the moment, she asked,

"Why do men like cute girls, even when the cuteness of that age is obviously feigned?"

Tang Xian thought for a while and said,

"True cuteness doesn’t need to be feigned. The cuteness that is feigned is just to provoke some strange behaviors in people.

In the social forums of ancient times, such as on Twitter, many juice-squeezing princesses liked to use school uniforms, twin ponytails, over-knee socks, and other such things to package themselves as cute.

And the men who like this kind of cuteness are often just craving the body, not truly fond of the cuteness itself."

"Lust?"

"Yes."

"But it seems that even those truly cute little girls will still inspire lust in some people."

Bai Mansheng actually also liked cute little boys and girls.

But after seeing many stories, especially after the websites of the twenty-first century introduced things like bullets and comment sections, she realized that whether it was pure affection or impure affection, humans always turned the discussion towards cars.

Tang Xian said,

"Human thoughts are always bold. But human criminal law is also well established."

Bai Mansheng seemed to understand but not quite, clearly regarding love as very pure and not so carnal.

She didn’t continue the topic and asked,

"What are you going to do next? Continue westward?"

"Yes, but before that, we need to hunt chaos."

"What if I can’t defeat it?"

"Chaos probably isn’t the fighting type."

"How can you find something that can disguise itself as any creature?" asked Bai Mansheng.

Tang Xian smiled and said,

"Wait."

Bai Mansheng was puzzled.

Tang Xian explained,

"I can be certain that the chaos fond of impersonating others is around here. It could be a cicada or a bird."

"Isn’t that terrifying?"

"Terrifying? From what Tang has described, this chaos is a character roleplay addict who’s sick to the core.

It often gets too caught up in the role and forgets what its true form is.

There are such beings in human society, too. Drama kings and queens often can’t tell their real selves from the roles they play."

Tang Xian realized that perhaps each of the four ferocious beasts had its own distinct "personality."

The gluttonous creature who dared to eat anything and everything, yet spoke with eloquence, enjoying poetry and prose.

And chaos, the strongest assassin in the court, liked to play the roles of others.

Perhaps Qiongqi and Taowu also had glaringly expressive personality traits.

Tang Xian found this fascinating. Because of these overly prominent human traits, they could be seen as weaknesses.

"Chaos is probably someone who thinks highly of its acting skills, and I love nothing more than to expose pretense."

"But what if it gets too involved and really forgets itself?" Bai Mansheng said.

"Tang mentioned that chaos would reveal its true form on a certain day. We just have to wait for that day. And according to my guess, Tang hasn’t felt chaos’s presence for many days, so that day must be approaching."

For some reason, Tang Xian suddenly considered a possibility—

He might have already met chaos.

Maybe... even greeted it.