143 – All you need is a little money and a place to live tomorrow (5)
A few days have already passed since Libra came to the Argo family.
The money bag, a trace of the visit, is accumulating dust as the weight of time has passed.
September, who had been complaining that he would squander the money on drinks, kept Libra’s bag of money after she left and did not touch it at all.
Instead, efforts were made to further increase power. As promised to Han Jae-joong, I did not extend my hand at D5, where I had previously taken root. But the city is not the only place where humans live. We were able to recruit enough people from several other places.
Antisocial people steeped in defeatism existed anytime and anywhere. There are countless people who could become allies of monsters.
The third brother, November, also did not stop holding funerals and memorial services despite being scolded by his older brother.
He also used the time to practice his revenge and used his abilities.
Jason kept wandering back and forth between the two brothers. This whole situation was uncomfortable for him.
Even though her brother was killed, Septemberna did not prepare for revenge or reflect on her evil deeds, but just continued doing what she was doing.
November, who turns away from reality and doesn’t improve much.
A subtle air of hostility flowing between the two.
All these factors made him uncomfortable.
‘I didn’t come here for this, but…’
The reason why Jason joined the Argo family was simple. Because he wanted a comrade. He thought that here, even though he had no dreams, he could feel connected and at ease.
But the relationship they presented was that of brothers, not comrades.
Brother in law. A relationship in which people think of each other as family because they are like-minded or have a strong friendship. For Jason, what he gained from this relationship was the latter. They gave each other friendship, but no meaning, and even now Jason did not understand the ‘challenge’ they wanted.
What is fun about fighting and winning against a strong monster? Is it okay to endure countless sacrifices for that purpose?
Is it because I don’t have a dream that I don’t understand this? Even though I clearly belonged to an organization, I felt a great sense of alienation.
However, despite the obvious act of betrayal, the Argo Family did not reject Jason and continued to accept him. When he is with September, he is offered alcohol, and when he is with November, he is verbally criticized as a traitor, but is encouraged to train together.
Because of this kindness, Jason did not leave their side even though he felt left out. We weren’t comrades, but we were brothers.
Today I was training my skills with November. The ability to get lost.
I usually trained how to use this ability to avoid attacks. When November attacked, he repeatedly made Jason lose track of the attack and miss.
However, Jason, who had inadvertently bruised himself during today’s training, was hit by November’s attack, and in his panic, he activated his ability incorrectly.
So Jason activated his powers on himself and lost his way.
“Where am I? It’s so crazy!!!”
In a panic, Jason repeated his ability to return home, but each time he did so, he only found himself in a new unknown location and quickly ran out of starlight and stamina.
The ability was activated with the last remaining starlight.
What I met then was this monster.
“I’m sorry about your shoulder. I didn’t know he was this much of an idiot. “Of course he was an assassin.”
He was the monster of Sagittarius. In a flippant tone, he roughly apologized. Jason laughed sarcastically.
“Ha! What do you mean? Assassin? I don’t have the ability to do that! “There are degrees of misjudgment.”
“I said I was sorry. But don’t you feel ashamed when you say things like that?”
I easily made my way through the building with just as frivolous steps as my frivolous speech.
Jason looked at him like that and felt that life was very unfair, but at the same time, he felt that it was equal.
He is strong even though he has no purpose like me, and even though he is such a strong monster, he has no purpose.
A monster without a purpose inevitably has little desire to become stronger. There may be some aimless monsters among low-level monsters whose intelligence is not even that of a human, but it is certain that they will die before they become high-level monsters due to their unique lack of desire to improve.
For a monster, not having a purpose was like a kind of disability, but he proudly possessed strong power.
This was both enviable and fascinating. Why are you like this? Suddenly, Jason remembered that he had tried to make a dreamless monster comrade like himself in the past, but had failed, and that the monster had now become so strong that he couldn’t even chase it.
“Looking at you reminds me of someone.”
“Who is it?”
“Do you know that you are a watcher? A very strong friend. “He didn’t have a dream like us before.”
“Watcher…? “I think I heard that somewhere.”
“You will like it when you see it.”
I had completely forgotten the name Han Jaejoong gave me as a monster. That’s why Archer couldn’t associate the name Watcher with Han Jaejoong.
If he had been sober, he might have thought of that name, but now, filled with the excitement of meeting his comrade, he couldn’t think of it.
“Okay… Then, after treating him, guide him to that guy called Watcher. Comrade. “I’m a little interested to hear that you found your dream.”
“That’s good, comrade!”
Suddenly, the archer’s steps stopped. Jason looked around curiously. In the middle of a forest of buildings. There was a huge hole so deep that the end could not be seen. Sinkhole. It was a scar of a city that was collapsing from within.
“Hold on tight.”
The archer grabbed Jason’s head, which he held like a bag of rice, and threw himself into the hole.
“Oh sh*t!!!!”
“hahahaha!”
Jason waved his feet as if he were swimming. It looked like it was walking on air. It seemed as if he had started running in the direction of the bell instead of the archer who had been running sideways just moments ago.
“You fooled me, you idiot!”
“What does this guy say?”
Boom! Soon the archer’s legs landed on the floor. A huge echo echoed in the huge cavity. A cavity so large that even echoes could not fill it.
“Do you know how much force it takes to draw a bow? Long distance click? Takkaaa?! “You f*cking shoot!”
The archer’s weeping voice also created an echo, but did not fill the cavity. The voice broke down and disappeared before it could leave this hole.
“Then you should have said it right from the beginning. “It’s so confusing.”
“I told you to hold on tight!”
“Is that a good thing? How much of a lack of social skills can you have in your mindset to dismiss that as an explanation? Can’t you have a normal conversation? “It’s pitiful…”
“This bastard is really good at making people angry.”
The archer grumbled and moved his feet again. He moved forward as if he was used to it, in the darkness with no visible path ahead.
“Where am I? It’s so damn wide. Is the doctor you spoke of here?”
“It was a remnant of a fight my teacher had in the past.”
“Master?”
“Sky Polaris.”
“How the f*ck am I supposed to know that without any explanation? Sky…? But who is that?”
“Oh, you ignorant bastard.”
“Please explain well. “You learned comrade.”
“The first magical girl and the strongest magical girl of all time… Would you understand if I said this?”
Jason, hanging on his shoulder, let out a small exclamation.
“Is the magical girl your teacher? “It’s unique.”
“We’ve never even talked.”
“Wow, that was crazy.”
“Because you are a comrade, you are also crazy.”
“I know that.”
Humans feel madness when they see people who are dreaming and neglecting their surroundings.
Monsters feel madness when they see people living in reality and observing their surroundings.
For these two conflicting beings, the value of dreams was also contradictory.
Dreams were special and ordinary at the same time.
“…So where are we?”
“I explained it earlier.”
“What are you doing now?”
“Why don’t you explain it better? “Do you have no social skills?”
Jason, who responded with the same curse, groaned and closed his mouth.
“It’s now a truly amazing testing site.”
“It’s great, but could it be an asshole?”
“He’s an idiot because he’s amazing.”
A great evaluation means it is special. Being special means being far from the ordinary. Everyone who is not ordinary suffers from some kind of deficiency.
“Being able to be great means giving up a lot.”
In the archer’s eyes, it seemed like giving up. Instead of focusing on just one thing, give up the rest. Chasing your dream means how many times you have given up. That’s why the archer both pitied them and respected them.
The stronger your obsession with your dream, the more you can give up.
“That is true. So who is the idiot who gave up so much?”
“That gold-glitter guy over there.”
“…?”
A radiance was seen in a cavity that seemed to be endlessly dark. Jason strained his eyes to take a closer look at the brilliance. Meanwhile, the archer continued to walk to the light, carrying him on his back. As the distance got closer and focus came into focus, I naturally became aware of what was there.
“…!”
Jason was astonished.
“Isn’t it Libra?”
“Is that correct?”
“Hey, hey, I guess you don’t know, but I’m from the Argo family….”
“I know?”
“f*ck! “I guess they sold me out!”
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The archer narrowed his eyes and tightened his grip on Jason’s waist, feeling suspicious for not knowing how many times he had heard it. His arm, which could fire an arrow tens of kilometers away, was enough to cut off his back with just a little bit of force.
“If you have a lot of doubts, just do one.”
“I tried to make a joke.”
Jason immediately stepped down. He took the oath of comradeship, which he found odd enough to doubt.
“Hmm… what will my brothers say to me later when they hear this…”
While he was muttering like that, Jason was shocked once again.
“…!”
“…? “Who else is there?”
“Soo, let’s hide! Hurry!”
“Suddenly?”
Although confused, the archer followed Jason’s instructions and hid his body. Also, he struggled so hard that I had no choice but to let him go.
Ignoring the pain, Jason pressed his body against the wall he was hiding in and looked at Libra and the monster in front of him.
“Why are you here…!”
It’s not a mistake. The ones over there are the brothers I trained with just now.
“Second brother…!”
It was November, the monster of the Pupae constellation.
Among the members of the Argo family, he was the one who showed particularly strong hostility towards Libra. But I couldn’t understand why November was talking to Libra right now.
As always, Jason did not understand the madness of those with dreams.
**
No one understood Yun Seol-hwa’s love. He never once hid this love, but he did.
Yun Seol-hwa was an exemplary magical girl.
Beautiful, strong, good. Textbook-like appearance and words and actions that seem to attract everyone’s ideals.
Many of her admired her, and many of her fantasized about her.
Baek A-hee was also one of them. Baek Ah-hee chose her as her ideal magical girl after Sky Polaris.
Sometimes my interest in Han Jae-joong was heavy, but if I replaced it with an obsession with my parents or family, I didn’t really understand it.
If her grandmother was still alive and had continued to be threatened by monsters like Han Jae-joong, I would have overreacted in the same way.
In the first place, the interest did not particularly harm the magical girl industry. She always tried to save many people. She did the same during the previous bombing incident.
If Yun Seol-hwa had not created an ice barrier to hinder the bombing, the number of victims would have been several orders of magnitude different from the current number.
There are people who hate monsters, but value and love human life the most, but work takes priority over that. Who could criticize a person like this for forgetting his duty because he was absorbed in personal matters?
So, Baek A-hee thought that Yun Seol-hwa would only do good deeds forever. In fact, she was like most people here. No one imagined that she would commit her evil deed.
“….”
After she called and got to the point, there was a moment of silence. She even had the illusion that the connection had been lost for a moment.
“Um… Sister Seolhwa?”
Only then did an answer come back on the other end of the phone.
“Jaejoong… Why?”
That was another question, not an answer. His voice was still soft, but his tone was slightly prickly.
“Oh, that’s it… I heard that Jaejoong was discharged from the hospital, but I couldn’t see him anywhere I went. “When I called her, she answered the first time, but now she doesn’t answer. So, I thought she might know something.”
“Aha.”
A dry voice of agreement. Baek Ah-hee’s body trembled for a moment.
“Don’t worry too much.”
Yun Seol-hwa’s voice quickly became soft again.
“Jaejoong is with me now. I heard you talking on the phone earlier. You called me a few hours ago and now you’re going to do it again? hehehe, you two were so close. I didn’t know. “Would you like me to change it for a moment?”
We are together. Seolhwa Yoon answered like that without the slightest hesitation. That’s probably true. Baek Ah-hee was a little relieved. She was thankful that he didn’t get involved with the monster.
“…No, it’s okay.”
“Why? “It’s okay.”
“Is it okay to call, and can I come see you right away?”
“Uh… Why? “Is it that urgent?”
“No. “I just wanted to see your face…”
“Um… What should I do?”
Yun Seol-hwa thought for a moment. The voice groaning like that was lovely, but also somewhat creepy. Baek Ah-hee didn’t know why she was feeling scared right now.
“Ugh… I’m sorry, but I don’t think that’s going to work.”
Yun Seol-hwa gently but firmly refused.
“Ugh, why, why? “Let’s have a small party to commemorate discharge…”
“Aheeya.”
Suddenly. Her voice fell low, as if her dewdrops were falling to the ground.
“I told you no. “Not now.”
“…Sirius, where are you now?”
“….”
“Sister?”
“….Huh.”
A deep sigh. The weight of that sound was extremely heavy. The cafe, which had been noisy just moments ago, suddenly became quiet, as if it had fallen into winter.
“Ahee, I like a boy with good sense.”
“…I like you.”
“Of course I like you too… But… But Ahee?”
“Yes.”
“I think I’m going to hate it now. Hey, not now. I need to get used to it now. “Come see me later.”
With those words, the phone hung up.
