Chapter 111 – Episode 110. Way Back (4)
A self-made room is like an iron-walled fortress, and she used to feel peace of mind and body only when she was in her own room.
If you go out of the house, there are people aiming arrows everywhere.
The arrow is pointing towards herself.
Her arrowhead, her spark of anticipation at her tip, made her cower, spread her breasts, made her lose her courage, and was also her weapon that threatened her at any moment.
So, for her, this self-made room is a peaceful place where she can fully rest.
In addition, the world in this monitor is the only passage to her, and it is her salvation and a place for socializing.
Of course, the arena of her fighters is also built there, but that has nothing to do with her.
However, even if she is surrounded by such an iron-walled castle, she has her own hardships, so they are hardships with the name of bankbook and balance.
“… What to do.”
She frowned as she looked at her bank account, which now had a balance stamped with three zeros.
Money, money matters.
People need money to live.
Even if she tries to drink one of her favorite drinks, iced tea, she needs money, and even if she tries to buy ramen and eggs, the essence of taste created by masters and doctors, she needs money.
Sometimes I get so hungry that I need money to eat rice, and I need money to eat my favorite salad.
However, with this balance, there is no story.
– Tiding!
The cracked and broken in places, the ugly smartphone rang on the desk.
If the vibration button is broken and you set it to vibrate, you don’t know whether you receive a message or a phone call—even though there’s no place to receive a call in the first place—so you don’t know, so you put the smartphone in sound mode with the volume reduced.
“Oh, it’s the warden… “
He was the director of an office that manages day laborers in Koh Pang, a distribution center that goes out occasionally.
“My, tomorrow… ?”
Looking at her smartphone, she could clearly see her distress.
It was a text asking if the person who was supposed to come out tomorrow had a puncture and asked if she could come out instead, but she hesitated for a moment even after seeing the message.
“… 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… That’s it, one minute… ?”
As soon as the minute changes on her smartphone’s clock, she’s ok, I’ll be there tomorrow morning! She replied.
If you get a text from a guy, don’t reply right away.
A woman shouldn’t be like that, looks like hehe.
Wait for a minute and then reply. You should also show a bounce.
It was the truth I saw on the internet.
Doesn’t it seem so?
– I’ll go.
– Yes, thank you. See you tomorrow morning.
Loading and unloading wasn’t that difficult.
She was strangely more physically and muscular than others, and thanks to that strength, she used to be invited to try weightlifting when she was in school.
However, she said that exercise is also dependent on exercise.
No one expected that her motor nerves would be so ruinous, and thanks to her, she quit exercising after thinking that it wasn’t —
Thinking that far, she shook her head and brushed off her miscellaneous thoughts.
How about anything
But thanks to that, she can earn money by loading and unloading parcels, so it’s okay.
Looking at the clock, it’s 8:00 pm.
I’ll have to go to bed early to wake up tomorrow morning, but it’s already a bit disappointing to go to bed.
After some thought, she got up and opened the refrigerator.
She grabbed the last can of iced tea, returned to her desk, picked up the remote control, and turned on the television.
Just because she’s her doesn’t mean she’s only on her computer all day.
I also watch TV sometimes.
Recently, an entertainment program that is very popular in the community is being rebroadcasted.
It is a variety show famous for its bizarre concept of gathering celebrities and sending troops, but I have never seen her.
She only saw a collection of roughly captured screenshots or something like that, and when she saw those things, she wondered if this was fun, but the program was running at the same time, so she started looking at the TV blankly.
Still, it’s kind of funny to see.
“Still, how do you go to the army twice… “
No matter how much money you give.
Going to the army twice is something I would never do.
“I can’t serve in the army twice, really.”
– There’s the problem of going to the army twice, but it’s better than marrying a man.
‘… Huh?’
A voice came from somewhere.
It was strange, because the voice sounded so much like her own.
– Do you have to do this again?
– Doing this for four years?
– You have to go to the army again?
– Ah… Should I just be a girl…
“… What, what What?”
Suddenly, as if a dam had broken, her voice began to emanate.
Like a crackling noise mixed in.
– —All over the world! Received! So, report it!
– Oh, I’m finally going home… !
A man’s voice now.
It was a man’s voice that was different from the voice she used to call Asti.
“Sleep, wait… What is it, what is it what is this all… ?”
I heard the sound of something tearing in my head.
Crunchy, crunchy, crunchy…
It looks like the fabric is tearing.
Whoops, whoops, whoops…
It looks like something is cracked.
Ah.
To have a headache.
*
“Ah… What time is it… ?”
The innate survival instinct is so frightening.
I think I lost consciousness from a sudden headache, but when I opened my eyes, I unconsciously looked at my watch.
4:44 am.
I woke up six minutes earlier than I should have.
The survival instinct is so frightening.
The intermittent bank account balance leads to a tenacity not to miss today’s work, and it seems that I fell asleep after losing my mind due to a headache, but anyway, even though I fell asleep like that, I open my eyes at this time.
She rubbed her eyes and got up and headed to her bathroom.
If you can’t wash her hair, at least brush her teeth, and comb her hair up into a ponytail and put on a hat.
“Uh… “
Struggling to brush off her faintly lingering headache, she brushed her teeth and slipped on the sweatpants she had tucked into her corner.
Uploading and unloading is convenient.
No one looks at me strangely even if I go out in a casual training suit.
No one looks at me strangely even if I go with my hat on.
The work is hard and difficult, but it is so comfortable.
If you walk out of the house, there is a convenience store.
A sandwich from a convenience store would be fine for breakfast.
But even that is not easy when you consider the bank balance.
Early in the morning when the morning sun was not rising, at 5:00.
This hour of the morning’s chill, she turned her alley around her bend and went out onto her boulevard.
There are vehicles waiting for her on her boulevard.
It’s a small van, but there are men sitting in it, almost crumpled.
“Come on, get on.”
“Thank you.”
The man in her driver’s seat gestured towards her.
Apparently, the van was full of middle-aged to elderly men, and it was difficult for her to fit in among them, so she always sat in the passenger seat when going to work.
Although there was some dissatisfaction with her preference for her in the beginning, when she goes to work, she does three or four times the work of others, so there is no particular voice of dissatisfaction after that.
“Oh, aren’t you cold wearing that?”
Then she looked down at my clothes.
It’s already too early to wear a parka, but she’s wearing just her sweatpants like she is now, and even with the front down, it just doesn’t fit the season.
But what can I do?
It’s not really cold.
“It is not cold at all. What do you have?”
Her man asked her again as she crossed her arms as if nothing was wrong.
“Did you not sleep?”
“No, I slept.”
“Why, did you have a nightmare or something?”
“I dreamed of going to the army.”
Of course it’s a joke.
I fell asleep while watching the military enlistment program, so I wondered if that might be the case.
“Did you go to the army?”
“Yes!?”
“I’m kidding. What are you so surprised about?”
However, it didn’t sound like a joke.
– Hey, I went to the army, but why do I have to go to the reserve again…
– My main specialty is administrative soldiers, so why do you keep firing at me, huh?
Again
I hear that voice again.
Asti, Asti— A voice different from the usual voice, not too angular, and one that could be heard anywhere.
– I’d rather go to the army one more time than get stabbed by a man.
– Asti!
– How to get back…
– I can’t do it without you. Please help me…
“Are you okay?”
“Uh, uh!? Ah… Yes, it’s okay, it’s okay.”
The man who was driving her was looking at her with her worried eyes.
The look in her eyes seems to really care about her, which makes her feel a little embarrassed.
“I just had a little headache. I’ll close my eyes.”
I get annoyed when people ask me if I took my medicine or something like that.
Before she could wait for the man’s answer, she leaned against the sheet and closed her eyes.
Like don’t talk.
*
“What.”
Emily was in the studio and suddenly looked out the window.
A peaceful afternoon with sheep-like clouds floating leisurely in the clear sky like grass.
The afternoon at the academy seemed to be uneventful.
It would have looked that way in the eyes of others.
But she was strange to Emily.
Mana is fluctuating.
She was pushing mana as something gathered, and as if she couldn’t be pushed so helplessly, her mana fluctuated and she was repelling something unknown that was trying to push me away.
Not only Emily, but all the magic students at the academy, and even the instructors felt that something was happening.
And at the moment when the perception that something unusual was happening between them began to spread, a change occurred.
The academy started to shake.
To be precise, the ground where the academy was located was shaking.
Around that time, the ground shook as if there had been an earthquake, and some of the buildings began to collapse.
The ground cracked, and ominous red pillars of light began to rise from everywhere.
