120 – Symbol of Peace (17)
“What an idiotic idea, that is. Why is it the sun? “It will freeze on its own as soon as it goes into the atmosphere.”
“Well, the reason is simple.”
The watcher pointed to the sky.
“Once you’ve started, isn’t the best way to aim for the highest point?”
“…Damn it.”
“Style is important. Very important. Even if it’s just cosmetic, it’s a clear motive.”
The board has been set.
Her version for the girl who likes to show off.
At the same time, her plate always drives her to feel intimidated and underestimate herself.
The Watcher smiled and looked at the hardened orange Altair. It was a bourgeois attitude without any sense of ambition.
“Are you scared?”
“….”
Orange Altair stared at the Watcher for a moment and then nodded her head heavily.
“Okay. It must be scary. It’s natural. Of course it would be scary to think of gambling with someone else’s life, not your own. That sense of responsibility and pressure will keep you sane. It will bring cloudiness to her eyes and coolness to her hands. “
Looking at Jo Ayun’s abilities, it is theoretically possible. I saw people who touched butterflies in falling buildings disappear without a trace. That would not be extinction, but moving it somewhere. Judging from what they exchanged, her exact ability is presumed to be the ability to move substances that come into contact with a butterfly to where another butterfly is.
It is quite possible to touch that monster with a butterfly and simultaneously shoot an arrow up to the sun.
The problem is literally just theoretical.
Shooting an arrow all the way to the sun is impossible. I know better because I am Orange Altair myself. I don’t have that kind of power.
People’s lives cannot be risked for such desperate attacks.
“But that’s only when it comes to gambling. “I don’t consider what I said to be gambling.”
But Watcher still did not give up.
“Didn’t I tell you? They say it shows stars. You can’t show something that isn’t there from the beginning. Orange Altair, you can do it. This is not cheering or anything like that. It’s not even a recommendation. It’s a statement. “I know you can.”
I affirmed her as much as it seemed unreasonable. When even her own self gave up, she was the only one who did not give up on her.
“W-what basis?!”
“I can see the future. So, I know you can do it.”
There were no lies.
Although it was only about 3 seconds, it was true that she could see the future, and she also saw that she shot an arrow all the way to the sun.
It only created a possibility of misunderstanding and did not contain any lies.
I thought about the scenery in the original work. The majesty of shooting a bow and dropping a star.
He is the one who can perform the miracle of connecting lines to the stars with a human body.
Even if he died later, it was a great achievement. Moreover, in the original work, there are even fewer people who don’t die, so there’s really no need to say “Although.”
But that won’t be the case this time.
Orange Altair can become stronger. This is already an observed fact. Also, its majesty will not fade with death.
‘Because I will make it that way.’
Despite the Watcher’s remarks, Orange Altair still had a passive attitude.
“Well, still…”
But the expression was not like that. The compliment I received after such a long time was so sweet that the corner of my mouth kept twitching. It was clear that if I pushed just a little bit, it would come over.
“B-but you can’t shoot up to the sun… Yo! To snipe, you need to be able to look properly, but the sun is so bright and far away that it is impossible to look at it….”
“Altaïr.”
She is hungry for recognition.
I hope someone affirms my worth.
I wish I could be with someone.
“Don’t say things that are impossible. Yes, there are some things that are impossible. But that doesn’t mean you should give up on seeing.”
A girl with an inferiority complex who is very jealous, suspicious and presumptuous, and always makes enemies. The person that girl hated the most was always herself. The opportunity the Watcher gave her was more of a chance to face herself than a chance to become her hero.
“Don’t you think you are worthy enough to face the sun?”
I needed to take off those colored glasses and look at what kind of person I was.
“…But you could ruin everything because of me.”
“Don’t be mistaken. You are not taking on this challenge alone. You are arrogant. Did you feel like everything in this world was your fault? I thought you were timid, but you are full of self-esteem. Good night.”
Orange eyes filled with suspicion looked at him.
“Odette and I will be by your side. I encouraged your actions. Your responsibility is my responsibility. If you fail, just blame me. “I happen to be a monster, so it would be even easier to pass on the blame.”
“Why are you treating me like this…?”
“What an obvious thing to say. “You just have the best magic to use here and now.”
“Are you telling me to believe such a meaningless lie?”
“Whether this is a lie or not, you don’t have a choice, do you? “Isn’t there a saying that if you can’t avoid it, enjoy it?”
“I avoid it because I can’t enjoy it.”
“Huh. You don’t say a word. Anyway, that’s what I want to say.”
The wind was blowing mercilessly. Due to the vibration of the atmosphere, the sky flowed down like melted plastic, and the ground was lightly lumped and lifted up like cotton candy. The unconscious magical girls woke up one by one and poured their magic on the culprit who created the wind. However, most of the magic could not be reached and was scattered.
He lifted the ax that had been put down for a moment.
“Don’t stop challenging even if you are afraid.”
Lightning fire flashed from his axe, and flames also flashed in Orange Altair’s gaze as he looked at it.
“I will make the road.”
Push. Several epaulettes attached to his shoulders fell, emitting a steam-like sound.
[Speed form.]
The heavy-looking decorations fell off and lightning struck his body. And then he ran straight ahead. Literally like lightning. A powerful white thunderbolt appeared in the wind.
Soon, silver lines were drawn simultaneously in several places in the air. In fact, it wasn’t at the same time, but the speed at which the lines were drawn was so fast that to most eyes, it seemed like they happened at the same time. Those lines cut through the wind, and the noisy vibrations of the atmosphere momentarily became quiet.
This silence lasted only for a moment, and the wind blew again into the empty space where the atmosphere had been torn apart. Dozens of silver lines appeared again, displeased with this rising tide.
“Wow, you fight well, as expected.”
“….”
“Rather than fighting something like that, it’s better to fight an immortal, right?”
Orange Altair quietly looked at the monster. Does that guy not know what he looks like right now? He is a monster who speaks friendly words to a magical girl.
“Aren’t you a monster?”
She asked harshly, pretending not to know her identity.
“You and I are enemies. But why is it so crazy? “Why do I do this when I’m in a position to kill you?”
He usually cursed like that, treated me like an uninvited guest, and treated me like someone who didn’t even exist. Ignoring, ridiculing, slandering, and harassing.
“Why is this so….”
Orange Altair swallowed back his words. She knows her facts. The reason she is unkind to you when you meet her is because she is herself.
Since she was the first to treat him with a sharp attitude, she only gets back the same.
A girl named Joa Yoon just has bad speaking habits, but she is not a bad person.
“What is important about my appearance?”
“Yes?”
“What is important about my appearance? “What you do is important.”
“That… Is sophistry. Appearance and birth are also part of the essence. They can never be separated. Humans and monsters can never be combined….”
“Wow, that’s a lot to say. “Jjinttaya?”
“What?!”
She was startled by the sudden curse. Orange Altair’s expression became bewildered.
“What the f*ck are you talking about? So, are you telling me to leave you guys alone and just run away? Because I’m a monster? “It’s really frustrating.”
“Oh, no, I didn’t mean that…”
“That’s what you’re saying, but now it’s nonsense. “Aren’t you just making excuses because you don’t want to do it?”
“No!”
“No, it doesn’t matter. “It’s pathetic.”
“You really….”
“Oh yeah, now that I think about it, it’s so f*cking pathetic, what the f*ck?!”
Suddenly, her irritation rose and she screamed. Orange Altair, the target of the beating, shrank.
“Isn’t it pathetic to make excuses and get away with something that only you can do?”
She had nothing to say. Even when she became a monster, she was the same.
She raised her head and looked at the windy world. She brought together all kinds of spirits and tried to kill the immortal. The only one who didn’t move was Orange Altair and her. She is the only one who survives with the help of her colleagues and is given a chance with the help of a monster. She alone holds the key to her victory.
‘…Pathetic?’
I was overcome with tears for a moment and glared at that shameless monster with wide-open eyes.
“It’s not me that’s pathetic, it’s you! What is that? “If I tried to save someone with a body like that, I would get scolded!”
What a b*tch.
After being ignored, ridiculed, disparaged, and harassed, what is this?
Even though he became a monster, didn’t his foolish nature disappear?
Pathetic. It’s so pathetic.
“…What are you doing? “Quickly hang that strange commendation here!”
She gathered the magic power in her hand, created an arrow, and held it out in front of her. After a brief pause, she smiled and attached a butterfly to the tip of her arrow.
“Do your best.”
“Do your best!”
After shooting them sharply, the two parted ways.
One forward, one upward.
Orange Altair raised his body upward endlessly. To gain higher altitude and get closer to the target. It might not mean anything considering the distance from the target, but I stopped thinking pessimistically and started moving my body.
Take the challenge.
Now, I have let go of all my worries and anxiety. I threw away the pessimism, inferiority complex, and jealousy I always had. The more she threw away, the lighter her body became and the closer she got to the sky.
There was no wind blowing around her. All the winds that came to her were blocked by her thunderbolts and disappeared.
I saw someone who recognized me.
I saw someone who wanted to be recognized. I saw Jo Ayun.
Pathetic b*tch.
Why do we keep doing such foolish things? At best, I would be happy if I stopped being a magical girl. I don’t know why I’m going through such hardships.
If I were to become a monster, I would do crazy things based on my desires, but what the hell would I do to save people? Really pathetic…..
‘No, it’s me who is pathetic!’
There is a person who does not stop taking on challenges even after becoming a monster, so why did he stop because he felt sorry for himself?
If I went crazy, I could at least hate him, but I can’t do that anymore.
‘You’re still amazing, you…!’
I felt comfortable after admitting it.
I wanted to be recognized by Jo Ayun. Because he admired her. I admired her for walking a similar yet completely different path to her own.
“I hope you continue to be that great!”
The heat of the sun is getting closer. My face was hot. My body was full of heat. Now you can barely see people. It looks small like a dot. The sky was wide and clear. It seemed as if my dirty mind had become clear.
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I picked up my bow. Raised upward at an angle. Led to protests I pulled harder than usual. The tendons in her arms snapped and the veins in her eyes burst.
I have no intention of failing.
“Because one day, when I become greater than you, I will stand out even more!”
After overcoming fear and feelings of inferiority, what was created was a spirit of improvement.
Not a desire to belittle others due to jealousy or to fall into the abyss together due to feelings of sameness, but a pure desire to rise.
I saw you, a monster, falling into the lowest abyss a person can fall into, but still trying to be a human being.
I saw you becoming a much greater person than me in a much worse situation than me. You were always confident, regardless of your abilities or frustration.
You can always save people as if it were a given.
With you like that, I can’t fall from here.
There is no more delusion. There is no doubt. There is only certainty.
You can trust it. Can do.
Orange Altair recalled his first encounter with magic. To be exact, the heart that I desperately prayed to a star on that first day.
I want to be like that person. And it can be me. I can do better. It can be recognized by everyone.
A heart that started from such admiration and faith.
So Orange Altair’s magic was the bow.
An arrow always leaves the moment it is fired. You cannot manipulate it at will. That’s why a bow requires faith.
Faith that my wishes will come true.
Confidence beyond belief.
Display and confidence in one’s own abilities.
I believe that even if there are many variables that cannot be controlled, one day I will definitely reach my dream.
Because it originates from this origin, the miracles caused by Orange Altair occur in the form of a bow.
“So, I have to shoot here.”
As if everything would be over if I failed here, I gathered all the strength of my whole body and concentrated it on the tips of my arms. The taut strings had a similar shape to all her muscle fibers. It seemed like it would be destroyed after being fired once.
Let’s go. A terrible sound came from between the bones. It was appropriate to say that I was leaving my body. The veins all over my body were pulled, torn in several places, and blood was flowing out from the seven holes.
However, there was no shaking.
But this is not my finale.
This performance today will not be my last.
As someone said, I will become even better in the future.
“Because I am a person who can shoot an arrow that will reach the sky.”
I gave up the protest.
Boom! A roar that was hard to believe was the sound of an arrow being fired vibrated the air.
The sound flowed like waves through the air and reached those below.
Those who heard the sound looked into the sky. A line crossing the sky at incredible speed clearly caught my eye. The line was so high that it was almost out of sight.
“Now!”
“I know!”
The Watcher cut off the wind surrounding October, and Odette sent a butterfly into the center. It was the last remaining butterfly.
The butterfly went straight and reached October’s heart.
Soon, the wind stopped.
From the center where he disappeared, the air gradually began to regain its original peace.
The island’s scenery also gradually disappeared. The Goldilocks Zone collapsed, with all the owners who maintained the space gone.
The world that had been in turmoil was regaining peace, and at the center of it, someone was falling. He didn’t have fancy hair or a flashy dress, but he was definitely an elegant person.
As soon as the Watcher saw it, he immediately threw himself. Her body, which she caught midway through the sky, was very light compared to what she was carrying.
Ara, it was when she reached her land, in the Watcher’s arms, that she opened her eyes. Ara opened her eyes and slowly looked around. A peaceful cityscape without any problems. A space of peace where the survivors sigh.
Then I felt something cold at the tip of my finger and turned my gaze towards it. Perhaps due to the impact of the previous location, a small puddle of water remained. It was reflecting the world like a mirror.
“Did you see the stars?”
Watcher asked. Ara is a small puddle that is too shabby to be called a sea. Looking at the reflection there, she nodded.
“It was here….”
**
A sign was hung at Jo Ayun’s cafe. This meant that the business had officially started opening.
The name is ‘Baekho’.
The tiger was called Baekho, not Baekho, because it was called a white pond.
There were many other cafe name candidates besides Baekho. After fighting over what to choose for several days, we decided to draw at random, and the one chosen was Baekho.
Ayoon Jo criticized the idea of changing it, saying it was just a joke, but rules are rules, and in the end, the sign was put up as a white tiger.
In the meantime, Jo Ayun left Baekho, who had decided to call it something trendy, and called the cafe ‘White Lake’ in English. I laughed out loud at the shallow way of thinking that if you just use English, you look hip.
Today is the first day of official opening. Of course there were no customers.
When such a crazy incident happened in this city, what good could anyone come to? Most of the people who stayed there have moved away.
“Oppa….”
“Why?”
“Should we open a second store?”
“What kind of second store is this? Instead of talking nonsense, think about a marketing plan. Listen. As expected, the fact that it is a magical girl-run store is a marketing tool….”
“So, by creating a second store, we make people think that there is a first store. This sh*t is crazy. “
“What’s wrong with your pronunciation?”
“Why is it a British pronunciation?”
“How is that a British pronunciation? Oh, welcome. “It’s a white tiger.”
“White Lake!”
A rattle. The bell rang, and the first customer of the day finally arrived.
“Ah… Well, hello….”
“What is this?”
“You’re definitely a guest, but you’re not treated properly?!”
Orange Altair. It was Ara. I heard he was hospitalized at the time due to the effects of shooting an arrow, but it seems he has now been discharged. In her hands was a bouquet of flowers and a luxurious paper bag.
“Hey, this is an opening gift! And… Uh, uhm! Ha, Jaejoong Han?”
Among them, I placed a bouquet of flowers on the table. Her eyes widened sharply.
“Now, can you look at me for a moment…?”
“What the hell… Again? “Ignore me.”
“…What is this story about?”
“I want to do it just the two of us…”
“That’s really bittersweet. I can’t allow it. “Let’s talk here.”
Jo Ayun was blatantly wary and grabbed my arm, preventing me from going to Ara’s side. Ara’s eyes trembled for a moment as she glanced at us in confusion. She pursed her lips and finally opened them.
“…Huh, okay. Then listen?”
Ah, Ara blatantly opened her neck and stared at me with her blazing eyes. When she felt burdened and was about to avoid her eyes.
“I’m sorry!!!!!”
Ara lowered her head 90 degrees. If she were not careful, her head would hit the floor.
“I caused untold damage to you by suspecting me through my wrong gaze! “This is just my humble way to express my feelings a little…”
“Oh, what are you doing all of a sudden, Mr. Altair? Lift your head. “It was a well-deserved suspicion…”
“Nooooo!!! It’s completely my fault! There’s no need to use an honorific title! Now, sell me quickly!”
“hahahaha! Crazy b*tch! Hey, get out quickly. Should I sprinkle some salt, brother?”
“You too, stay still. Hey, raise your head quickly. “I will gratefully accept the gift.”
I felt like I would make a bigger fuss if I refused the gift, so I stretched out my hand to receive it. Then her hands held my hand tightly.
“You are so kind…!”
Two bright eyes looked at me.
“I looked at you wrong! “You were not a monster, but a helper who secretly protected an acquaintance who had become a monster… Oh, that was rude.”
“…Yes?”
“Oh, this is a watch. “I wasn’t sure about the size, so I just packaged it as it was, but you can adjust it yourself and wear it.”
“No, that’s not it. What did you just say….”
“Hey, I got a call from headquarters. Hope your business prospers and have a nice day today!”
Ara said that and disappeared.
“…What did she just say?”
It seemed like my doubts were resolved in a strange way.
He is my helper who secretly protects Ayun, who became a monster when she saw me, from being revealed to the world.
Doubts were resolved, but misunderstandings still persisted.
“It’s going to turn.”
When did you get caught?
**
Libra smiled darkly and looked at the syringe in her hand.
His ability is trading.
A nearly all-powerful ability to realize miracles by sacrificing a certain price.
It was a drug that was utilized to its full potential.
The performance is.
“Forced divinity.”
Forcing a pseudo-divine state by injecting it into a monster.
The current product had the disadvantage of losing its temper and going wild, but that was something that could be corrected gradually.
“I guess I should thank October. “He became a good test subject.”
Injected the kidnapped October and observed him. Because he ran wild for quite a long time, he was able to obtain a lot of good experimental data.
“If it were possible to control this quasi-divine monster…”
Libra will have a powerful army that no one has ever had before.
He smiled and looked at the syringe.
“Now, how are you going to stop that army?”
I asked a question to someone who is not here.
The person who is currently most likely to give Libra an answer. Guardian’s Guardian. Jaejoong Han.
He would even give up his life to stop the divine army.
Once that one disappears, others gain peace….
It’s a beautiful deal.
“I need to find out the golden ratio.”
Libra wandered around the laboratory in ecstasy.
It was clear that this drug would become a symbol of peace.
“hehehehe… hahahaha!!!”
The Sagittarius monster looked at Libra with disdain. Recently, because I became addicted to the study of that drug, the supply of the drug that was given to me was cut off.
“You idiot….”
What on earth is that person that stops taking drugs and finds new strength?
“Did you say Han Jaejoong?”
The Sagittarius monster was interested in him.
“I guess I’ll have to look into it.”
Is this guy worth getting rid of my drugs?
