I'm afraid I haven't gotten around to bringing in the merchants...

　If possible, I wanted to show everyone how weapons, recovery pills, and other items were bought and sold here.

　However, there was no way the merchants would be able to get together since the adventurers who were customers hadn't yet come to the dungeon.

''Well, I don't think that's what Yoko-san is trying to say.

Hmm?　What do you mean?

'I mean, why is Master Hurt using alter ego magic?'

'Yes!　Why the hell have you changed into your own person?

Because it'll come in handy?

　The alter ego magic is useful.

　It's not only that, but it's also possible to do small tasks that the flame knights can't do, and most importantly, since it's completely me on the outside, I can go to the human town and shop.

　All of the weapons and armor in this dungeon's pre-market are bought by my alter ego's while I was renovating the dungeon.

　That's how I got the goods, but I couldn't get the shopkeepers to come. Still, I wanted to demonstrate this market, so I decided to have my alter ego work as a shopkeeper at each store.

　The clothes are changed a little bit, but the body and face are all still me.

　If I mastered my alter ego magic, I might be able to change my body shape and face, but it was quite difficult to create an alter ego that completely mimicked a human, and I still had to create a copy of myself.


'No, I'm not asking why my Lord used the alter ego magic!　I want to know how in the world he is using this magic!

You want to know how to activate this magic?

Yes!

''Master Hurt, at least we've been altered into ten people but is your magic power okay?

I'm curious about that too. The alter ego magic I studied is a magic that divides the person's magic power equally. It's not a problem if you can alter yourself into ten or more people?

　Mai, May, and Seira seem to be concerned about my condition.

　It's not that I want to keep it a secret, I'll tell you.

It's actually an application of the flame knight. So it's probably a little different from the real alter ego magic that everyone talks about.

　As I say this, I release my magical power.

　I control that magic...

　A knight in shining armor with a flaming body appears on my right.

And this is the unattributed knight.

　Next, I made a knight consisting only of unattributed magic power appear on my left side.

　The knights standing on my left and right sides differ only in whether they have the attribute of fire or not, but other than that their performance is exactly the same.

　The unattributed knights are able to act autonomously just like the fire knights.

　The attributeless knights had a transparent body and a core shining in the center of their chests.

　It was this unattributed knight that would be the base of the alter ego magic.

''First, I'll lose this guy's back legs.

　With his hand sword, he slashed off the hind leg part of the horseman.

　The magic power that made up the slashed off hind legs dissipated around them.

''Next, I will strip the armor off.''

　Maybe it's because the image I had when I first created it is too strong, but my knight series always appears in armor.

　That armor is a hindrance, so I rip it all off.

''I'll shrink it because it's a bit large.

　I held up my hand towards the knight and lightly squeezed it, and the knight's body was compressed.

　I wish I could adjust my body shape at this point, but if I'm conscious of my human form as an alter ego, I'll inevitably end up with my own body shape that I'm used to.

　This is something I hope to do in the future.

'So, I'll take off my helmet.

　I instructed the unattributed knight to remove his helmet.

''──Eh?!''

　My wives were just as surprised as I was.

　When they looked at me...

　There was a translucent me standing there, holding the knight's helmet at my side.

'Was it under the flaming knight's helmet?'

　I think what Tina is trying to say is whether all the faces of the Knights of Fire are my faces.

　Maybe Tina is imagining a centaur-like torso with my head on it.

　-No, that's very weird!

'No, it's not!　I'm just changing it to my face when I make him take off his helmet. Ho, ho, ho, look at this!

　I hurriedly make the flame knight beside me take off my helmet.

　An emotionless, flame-filled face appears.

''Yo, that's good. As expected of a centaur's torso and Hurt-sama's face, it's not quite...

I don't think that's a good idea.

That's not very nice.
Mr. Merdi, you're too straightforward.

　Oh, that was close.....

　It seems that my wives had such horrible imaginations, after all.

　I'm glad I was able to clear up the misunderstanding early.


''Well, that's about it. The other thing you need to do is to combine wind, water and light magic to give my skin color and texture.

　You'll see me in front of you.
　It's like looking in a mirror.

'This is my alter ego magic.

Oh, um ... can I touch your alter ego, Mr. Hurt?

　Rifa asked me.

　For one reason or another, I was getting closer to me, not only for the look of my alter ego, but also for the texture and warmth of my skin.

'Fine,'

　I was proud that I could pretty much recreate myself with my alter ego magic.

''This, this is...''

　Rifa is engrossed in touching my alter ego's body. Yesterday was the day I slept with Rifa, so it's like she's touching me while remembering that feeling.

　Since he's beside me, it's okay for him to touch me........

'Wha, I would like to touch you too.
"So are we!
My mistress is interested, too.
I'm gonna be Halt's alter ego!

Okay. Okay, let's see how well my alter ego does.

　Saying that, I called my alter egos that I had been having sold at each store.

　Twelve of them.

　That's as many as my wives, excluding Sally and Lilia here. Kikyou's portion is an added bonus.

　I had noticed that the recent increase in wives was causing them to miss me.

　So I decided to increase my own, hoping to distract them from their loneliness a little.

　My alter ego magic is equivalent to that of a flame knight, so everything my alter ego experienced when its body disappears comes into me.

　Also, having trained my mind-reading skills and intuition, I was able to reflect my own consciousness into my magic, although I wasn't perfect yet.

　In other words, my alter ego could be myself.

　The only thing I couldn't reproduce was my reproductive function.
　I couldn't - or rather, I didn't.

　I just didn't want to give up that part to my alter ego.

It's amazing.... just like the real Master Hurt.

　Tina, who was supposed to be touching me the most, was amazed at the degree to which she was able to reproduce her alter ego magic.