101 – Picking stars from the sky (1)
The brilliant white flash dazzled my eyes. The lightning that rose from the ground, not the sky, rose infinitely upward as if ignoring the law of all things flowing downward. It was enough to see the lightning from afar.
“Hoo.”
Libra, who was looking at it from her own area, gave a small exclamation. It was beautiful starlight. It was clean and gorgeous, like a high-purity jewel. A starlight that seems to be somewhere between a monster and a magical girl.
“That’s amazing. Wasn’t that that idiot’s territory? I never thought someone with that much power would go there. I’m really lucky too. “Isn’t that how you live?”
The ecology of Dark Matter is complex. While faithfully following the principle of the fittest, the possibility of the weak becoming the strong remains open at any time. Additionally, there are numerous strong players of a similar level.
A person who has already become a powerful person cannot help but be anxious.
For them, there was nothing more unfair than losing one’s life in a conflict before achieving one’s goal.
Dilemma members signed several treaties to prevent this. Of course, blood was shed in the process. This was one of the reasons why the S-class monsters had been quiet so far.
Territory was also part of the treaty. It manages various low-level monsters and hinders their growth, while also prohibiting trespassing between each area and preventing conflict among the monsters that created the constellation.
However, there is no significant enforceability in this treaty. Even if you follow it, it’s okay if you don’t follow it. There aren’t actually that many constellation monsters with territories.
Nevertheless, the territory is respected.
Going in for no reason and wasting your energy by getting caught up in a useless dispute is a very purposeless act.
“I guess so….”
Libra responded harshly to the words of the man in front of her.
“Still, fate does not change.”
He caressed the plastic bag in front of him and didn’t even look at the thunderbolt.
“That thing over there is a lion.”
Lion.
Of course, it is not an expression referring to the animal lion.
It was an expression used to refer to an unknown Leo monster. The monster was unusual in that although it was a monster with stars, it had no intellectual ability.
Conversation was impossible due to lack of language. He was not inclined to follow orders and always acted according to his own will.
Even if the minnows attacked right in front of him, he would fall asleep without worrying about anything, and other times he would suddenly wake up and head somewhere, killing all living things there.
He has such maverick tendencies and his strength is so powerful that it cannot be compared to other monsters. Unlike other monsters who only use the stars that make up their constellations as a source of power, they use all the stars in their area as their power.
I don’t know when or where it came from, and its purpose is unknown. They do not belong to anyone, they do not follow anyone’s words, their actions are free, but they are basically belligerent. It comes unexpectedly and destroys everything.
It was truly a walking disaster.
The lion was like a monster even to monsters, and was a beast.
For Libra, who was subcontracted and received hourly reports of the lion’s movements, fighting against the lion was synonymous with winning against a tsunami or an earthquake.
“Only ashes remain where the lion passes.”
“Wasn’t there someone who made the lion run away before? “My teacher.”
The man in front of Libra laughed, leaning back on a luxurious leather chair.
“I can see the same possibilities as back then in that starlight. “It’s just my feeling.”
“Don’t say inefficient things like persimmon. “Continue with your business.”
Libra didn’t pay any attention to what he said.
“If you are a Sagittarius, focus only on the goal in front of you.”
“You were the one who looked outside first, so why are you talking to me?”
The figure called Sagittarius frowned and quietly turned his head.
“Why did the lion go there?….”
The lion has a habit of falling asleep for a long time and then leaving somewhere as if possessed. And he destroys everything he lands on.
It was as if he had been given in a dream a mission to destroy everything in that place.
Like a monster that received a prophecy from mythology.
According to the words of Contra, one of the madmen who challenged Leo, Leo’s abilities are not just physical abilities.
It is said that predictive ability exists.
They say they couldn’t use it because they didn’t know the activation conditions.
“Why did the lion move now?…”
Why did the lion, which had stopped moving for a while, turn towards Virgo once again? A messenger has already gone to Virgo twice.
Is Virgo the problem? Or did he feel something special within that area?
Sky Polaris is the person who made the lion run away.
But the Sagittarius monster who looked at that scene could not possibly express that it had ‘run away’.
There was no battle between the two.
Sky Polaris said a few words to the lion, and the lion left.
The scene was not one of running away, but was closer to taming a lion.
Is it really a coincidence that starlight similar to Sky Polaris can be felt in Virgo’s area right now, and that there is a lion there?
After taking Libra’s drug, the Sagittarius monster fell into regret.
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The lion was not defeated by the thunderbolt and let out a roar. That ferocious howl rang through the ground once again.
Following the roar, fire like a lump of scorching hell was released. The air is dry and my lips are dry. The lion was surrounded by flames.
Haru, White Davich, Yun Seol-hwa, and Blue Sirius were unconscious within the range of the flame.
Kugugu Goong! Around this time, the entire area was engulfed in fire with a roar that could hardly be heard as the sound of fire passing by. Only burning ashes remained where they were.
“It’s dangerous.”
The Watcher put down the two bodies he was holding with a sigh. They were White Davich and Blue Sirius.
He succeeded in protecting them before those vicious flames burned them.
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“Be healthy too.”
If something like that runs rampant, wouldn’t the human world be destroyed? Now that I have starlight, I can see.
Considering the power that this monster had, the disasters it had inflicted on human society so far were cute.
Literally, it was nothing more than just taking a breath.
The Watcher turned his gaze and looked at Virgo. He was currently the most injured. The wound was such that it wouldn’t be surprising if he stopped breathing right away.
Luckily, I had just taken it with the magical girls, so I didn’t have to get caught in the flames.
She was on his back and hugged the Watcher’s neck vigorously with her right arm, which was the only intact limb of hers.
“How did you fight something like that?”
“Fight? Do you think I would have fought? “A fight is only successful when the level is right.”
Virgo spat as if in self-deprecation.
“What I did was not a fight. “I endured it.”
The Watcher turned his gaze again and saw the lion. She had a hideous appearance. It looks like something out of an old monster movie or something. The size gap was so overwhelming that I almost burst out laughing.
“…I see.”
That is the enemy who killed my parents. I looked at it with cold red lenses. Anger was boiling, but not expressed. Just like boiling water and turning a turbine, it simply operates as a force to act. I wasn’t dominated by that anger.
At the same time, purpose did not dominate him either. He didn’t even try to knock it down without the slightest anguish.
Have a clear motive, control it with reason, and act.
Hot heart, cool head. Little by little, what had been a vague saying began to make sense.
He calculated several ways to defeat a powerful opponent to the point where he had no answer, but he did not forget why he had to defeat it.
It is not revenge.
It is not to commemorate the loss.
It was not because he wanted to burn himself by being caught up in something that had already passed.
This is Suho.
This is to prevent loss. To avoid repeating it again. To break this bondage that has continued from the past to the present.
Watcher continued speaking without looking at Virgo.
“First, let me tell you this.”
The lion is his enemy, Virgo’s enemy.
This same symbol had a greater meaning.
If the day he lost his parents was the day Red Spica fell to the ground.
The person who protected him in that hell island soon became Red Spica.
“Thank you for protecting me until now. Virgo.”
Even Han Jae-joong and Birgo don’t know this. They didn’t talk much to each other. Always remained silent and ran away.
But the fact does not change.
Red Spica always protected Han Jae-joong, even when he was a magical girl and a monster.
“So this time, it’s my turn.”
For some, it is an opportunity to become a hero, and for others, it is an opportunity to escape from being a hero. Now we have arrived at completely different results from two identical experiences.
This is an enemy that a hero must defeat, he said to his benefactor who saved him.
“Run away. “I’ll take care of this.”
Virgo laughed as if it were absurd.
“What are you talking about?”
“Tell me what I think.”
He raised his finger and pointed at the lion’s eyes.
“Those eyes that look the most fragile right now. “I will focus my energies on that point.”
“What?”
“Birgo, I will go to fight.”
His words were firm.
“It is different from the time when defeat was confirmed and we did our best to receive minimal damage. Now this is a ‘fight’ to win. “We fight not to lose anything.”
Watcher truly thought he could win.
“Birgo, you said it. “Defeating a monster is like picking a star from the sky.”
He gently put Virgo down and grabbed the axe.
The blade of the ax resembled the shape of Ursa Major. A gathering of stars as rough as the giant beast drawn in the middle of the night, and as warm as the light that guides someone.
“So, I will bring you a star from the sky.”
Lightning gathered on that axe. It was a thunderbolt that would burn everything, and it was a thunderbolt that contained icy temperatures that would freeze everything.
“I will show you the stars.”
Cold thunderbolt. This contradictory light was who he was now.
“I will show you the starlight that you will never again be able to say you forgot.”
Wield the power of monsters with the spirit of a human, protect with the power to destroy, challenge and win against enemies that cannot be defeated.
Contrary to his words that he would show me the starlight, Virgo was already seeing the starlight.
It was truly her star now.
Thunderbolts like the sun collided with his axe as he jumped into the sky. The lightning that followed the ax to his entire body dyed his entire body with white light. It wasn’t as vicious as before. It was more pious.
The lion watched him quietly. The sight of it roaring as if it wanted to destroy everything in the world made me wonder where it had gone and make me think that it was calm. Its huge, rigid body made it look more like a statue than a living thing.
Lightning fell like a star falling from the sky. It was his axe. The powerfully thrown ax got stuck in the lion’s eye. The body of a lion where even the lens was hard. Unfortunately, his ax did not go deep.
I already knew. With his eyes reading the future, he had long ago predicted that this attack would fail. Instead of being disappointed, Watcher stretched out his legs.
The lightning that surrounded his entire body converged on his legs. The lightning that gathered at the end of the leg was forged into a shape similar to a bear’s head.
Cheonchu Golden Pavilion (天墜禽脚).
The roar of the beast that would make the sky fall gathered at the end of the bridge and headed towards the lion.
Quaaa!!!
His kick hit the ax that was stuck in the eye. He drove the ax deep into the lion’s eye. Soon, a bolt of lightning flew from his axe.
The lion’s head, which seemed like it would not fall, fell down to the ground.
