Four Split Personalities

Beo tugged at the corner of his mouth: "This..."

"Also, my family doesn’t know about those dangerous matters. I hope you can spare them. In exchange, there’s a hidden compartment in this storage bag. You can find the information you want there, don’t doubt its authenticity. I’m actually a very selfish person, more concerned about my family than those grand causes."

Cliff didn’t look at Beo but continued, "But please don’t expect too much from me. After all, I’m just an ordinary professor at a common college in Academy City. Although among ’comrades’ there is no distinction of status, the information I can access is indeed limited. I hope you can trust me."

Beo shrugged and sighed quietly, signaling with his eyes for Cliff to continue.

"The information in the compartment can be handed over to you, but other insignificant items I hope to leave to my wife and daughter. They are sentimental people and will appreciate those little trinkets."

Rabinsky Cliff caressed his space bag and softly said, "Ah, there’s also a diary in the compartment, containing content that I wrote after realizing I had a hidden ailment and feared my days were numbered, specifically left for my family. The reason for writing it was precisely to prevent this situation."

Beo continued, "So..."

"So I hope I can die naturally, preferably the kind where you just pass away peacefully in your sleep."

Cliff continued naturally, saying lightly, "I can see, Beo, that you are a very gentle young man. Of course, maybe your age is even older than my grandfather, since with you acting agents, anything can happen. But I still hope you... could fulfill my impolite wishes."

"Hmm."

Beo nodded, spreading his hands: "Although I do have the ability to fulfill your wishes and don’t mind doing so, Professor Cliff..."

"Thank you. You’re a good person."

"Do you really want to die here?"

"Of course, I have no choice, right?"

"But I’m not the ’acting agent’ you’ve been waiting for all along."

"Hmm?"

Cliff’s eyes widened instantly, letting out an ungraceful sound: "Huh???"

"Literally, Professor Cliff."

Beo smiled brightly at the esteemed older professor in front of him and said cheerfully, "Clearly, as remnants of the Sun Dynasty... sorry, remnants of the Sun Dynasty, you have some misunderstandings about me."

Rabinsky Cliff was stunned for a full half-minute, then leapt up from his chair like a startled seal, his eyes wide with shock: "Misunderstanding!?"

"Yes, just a misunderstanding."

Beo nodded, spreading his hands: "I suspect you’ve been worried all these years, scared of being dragged out by that horrifying Sky Pillar Mountain, scared of losing your peaceful life, scared... of losing your life any day."

By this point, Professor Cliff’s expression had completely relaxed as if drained of energy, slumping back into his chair, pale-faced, pulling at the corner of his mouth: "Haha... haha... this really is..."

"It’s a lesson, Professor Cliff, a perfect lesson."

Beo gently interrupted the elder’s reflection, raising an eyebrow: "Honestly, despite your seemingly carefree attitude, you’re overly diligent in your primary job... hehe, you should know which ’primary job’ I am referring to. But even if Isaac Comprehensive College is not well-known, its influence in the Academy City’s larger context can hardly take center stage, your inclinations in imparting knowledge are still too apparent."

Experiencing the biggest ups and downs of a lifetime in just a few minutes, Cliff took a deep breath and slowly nodded: "Maybe you’re right, young man, but I..."

"You are far from being as carefree as you think, one’s fear of death cannot lie."

Beo shook his head, his tone soft yet convincing: "Just a suggestion, dear Professor Cliff, if you truly cherish your current peaceful life, try to be more ’proper’ in the days to come, you should understand what I mean."

Professor Cliff raised his right hand and wiped away the cold sweat from his forehead, staring intensely at Beo’s clear and gentle eyes that, apart from being clear and gentle, showed no emotion, word by word asked: "Who exactly are you?"

"Personally, I consider myself first a Bard, a spectator, an insignificant observer, a storyteller of tales, but this answer is unlikely to satisfy you."

Beo tapped his temple slightly troubled, then exhaled lightly and said somewhat helplessly: "So, you can regard me as a... uh, how should I say, a big shot?"

Cliff anxiously twisted his fingers, murmuring softly: "Big shot..."

"Yes, big shot."

Beo chuckled self-deprecatingly, subconsciously stroking the dark purple bracelet engraved with a harp: "I belong to an organization whose name is undisclosable, nature is undisclosable, purpose is undisclosable, members are undisclosable... simply put, everything is undisclosable, occasionally carrying out some unclear, meaningless, undisclosable tasks."

Cliff opened his mouth somewhat bewilderedly, clearly unable to understand, yet deeply shaken.

"Then, let’s get back to the topic."

Beo sighed, speaking without much spirit: "Although I prefer a more relaxed conversational atmosphere, but... alright, Professor Rabinsky Cliff, I’ll be straightforward, I hope that for a long time henceforth, you all remain vigilant, sufficiently vigilant."

Cliff narrowed his eyes, probing, "You mean... us?"

"That’s right, you all."

Beo nodded, seriously: "You and your comrades, to be more explicit, all those who still actively remain in this world, hoping for the revival of the Sun Dynasty."

Cliff pursed his lips, whispering: "I think I understand what you mean, but we’ve been always..."

"Always cautiously hiding yourselves?"

Beo sneered, interrupting the other, saying calmly: "That’s not enough, my dear professor, that’s far from enough. I know very well you’ve been disguising your existence, afraid one day Sky Pillar Mountain’s acting agents walking the earth would notice any anomalies, and pride yourselves on doing well."

Cliff’s expression turned somewhat sullen: "But in fact, is it not?"

"Not necessarily, first of all, you did indeed perform well in the first hundred years, you were cautious, jumping at shadows, startled by every movement, assimilated thoroughly into every corner of history, leaving no trace."

Beo began with a cheap compliment, then his tone shifted: "However, because you hid so seamlessly, in recent hundreds of years, apart from a small number of people who still work diligently, most of the Sun Dynasty remnants... such as you, Professor Cliff, have already become complacent. Just think, if a random passerby who heard your lecture today wasn’t Beo Lucanus, but a Sky Pillar Mountain acting agent?"

Cliff struggled to pull at the corner of his mouth, trying to use a lighthearted tone to say: "Then I would now probably be a corpse."

"No, you would remain unharmed, not even aware that you have been discovered."

"What?!"

"Isn’t my hint clear enough? Professor, do you really believe... that immense mountain has ever considered you all a threat?"

Chapter 1194: End

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