147 – All you need is a little money and a place to live tomorrow (9)
Early in the morning, the subway station was crowded with people going to work or school. A young man was also one of the many people who left in the morning to find something to do.
He had to arrive at school by 9 o’clock today. For this he had to take the next subway. Resenting his home in an area far from his school, he wondered if he should find his own place to live. It was a thought he had every day, but it was impossible to realize because he had no money.
Time is running out now. The young man walked quickly through the crowd of people to get to the platform.
In the meantime, suddenly. My nose bumped into the back of the person in front of me.
“Oh… I wrote… I’m sorry.”
Touching his numb nose, the young man slowly lifted his head up. He was a man of considerable stamina. He is easily over 2m tall. Like this, he didn’t notice until he bumped noses with a big guy? The young man thought that his hasty mind prevented him from observing his surroundings closely.
“…Huh?”
But it wasn’t. This giant suddenly appeared in front of me. It was like a thunderbolt in the dry sky. Everyone around them focused their attention on the giant that appeared out of nowhere. It wasn’t simply because he was bigger than an ordinary person.
Light was pouring out of the giant. A strange light that anyone living in this era would have seen at least once. A dreary brilliance that looks like a collection of twinkling stars reflecting off the night sea. It was the starlight of a monster.
The young man took a few steps back. As his field of vision widened and he was able to see more, he was able to see what he had hit.
It looks like the planks of a wrecked ship were glued together. His skin, body hair, hair, or facial features are not visible. At best, it was only about snow. The red-stained eyes were eerie, like a water ghost seen at night.
The giant slowly turned back. The young man was met with those eerie eyes.
It was quiet. The platform, which had been noisy just moments before, was filled with silence. No one could say anything.
The countenances of the countless people who gathered as usual to go to work, to school, or to meet people were unified as one.
[Next station….]
The sound of the train rattling along with the announcement that the subway would soon arrive shook my brain. Even that couldn’t break the silence.
The subway raced down the platform, leaving an afterimage. Even as the running slowly came to a halt, the vibration did not stop. The vibration came from even deeper than this underground. I couldn’t tell if my legs were shaking because of fear or because of the shaking.
“Huh, young… Ni… Im….”
The giant opened his mouth. At the same time, the young man was able to regain his senses.
“Oh sir….”
As soon as he parted his lips again, the ground began to split. Water gushes out from the crack.
The water that surged like a volcano tore the young man’s body apart. In this way, the young man’s last will was decided. A mumble that did not even amount to a single curse was his final stop.
The life of an ordinary student who was contemplating leaving alone due to the long distance between school and home was submerged along with the lives of the 1,347 people gathered here.
**
The morning dawned on the third day after Blue Sirius and Jaejoong Han went missing. The Magical Girl Association hid Yun Seol-hwa’s disappearance and did not announce it.
Citizens’ anxiety is accelerating due to the increased frequency of S-class monsters. News of the disappearance of a top magical girl only adds fuel to the fire.
Some people felt puzzled that Blue Sirius, which had been on the scene every day, did not show up for two days in a row, but it was not yet a serious situation. If you say it’s a vacation, you won’t dig deeper.
The cleanup of the Sagittarius bombing has been completed to some extent. If it were a time like now, there wouldn’t be any major problems.
But this is only the media’s story.
The unicorn in the center of the Magical Girls Association was getting older with each passing second. It looked too weak to be considered a fantasy animal that was immortal and immortal.
‘Where did you go….’
I felt like my soul was going to fall out of my mouth.
“Haam….”
[So I can get some sleep.]
When Baek Ah-hee yawned slightly, her own mascot, Ribbon, started nagging. She stayed up all night yesterday looking at her cell phone. It wasn’t because she had been browsing her adult site all night.
It was because I was waiting for a call from none other than Han Jaejoong. I was looking forward to a follow-up to the bitterly lost contact. But no matter how much she waited, she never heard from him again.
I couldn’t understand. The affection he showed to Baek Ah-hee was comparable to that of her biological father. Whether it was because of guilt or because he was proud that she had sworn to become a hero even at a young age, Han Jae-joong accepted Baek A-hee’s foolishness infinitely.
That’s why I couldn’t understand it even more. How can she cut off all contact with her so cruelly?
Furthermore, it hasn’t been long since we exchanged a secret oath regarding lifespan.
‘…Could it be that I don’t have much life left?’
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So she may have decided to hide her tracks. Baek Ah-hee jumped out of her bed with rising anxiety.
[Don’t think too deeply. In times like this, the reason may be simple. As White Davich said, it could be spending time with her lovers….]
“I won’t do something like that….”
[Sorry, I made a mistake.]
Reborn closed his mouth at the sharper response. As if her unicorn was dying, Baek Ah-hee was getting on her nerves with each passing minute.
At that time, her ribbon eyes sparkled and shined. This is the signal when a call comes from headquarters. This means that there is something to be notified directly rather than via electronic device contact, which poses a risk of hacking.
It is usually used as a signal to dispatch a monster, but now Baek A-hee had one thing to look forward to.
“Did you find Seolhwa?”
When I asked, unable to hide my excitement, I heard a voice different from usual from Ribbon. The unicorn connected directly and transmitted his voice through the ribbon.
[Monster appears! A monster appears! Guys, get ready quickly! I’m sorry, but everyone, including those who are on vacation today!]
His voice seemed quite urgent. Baek Ah-hee did not hide her disappointment. I had high expectations, but here I am again with a call like that.
But the words that followed her woke her up.
[A monster appears in B-2! It’s an emergency! More than 3,000 people have already been submerged!]
When Baek Ah-hee heard the call, she immediately stood up. She then went out onto the veranda. If it’s a B-2, you can easily see it from here.
As soon as she opened the veranda door and looked directly at the scene, Baek A-hee was astonished.
Water was rushing between the tall buildings as if it had been hit by a tsunami. This is what you can see from here, but there was no need to imagine what it would be like up close. The roads are probably already locked.
This place is far from the sea. That’s not a tsunami or anything like that. From the center of those flowing waterways, I could see a group of whitish lights rising into the sky. Even during the day, the starlight can be seen from far away. This is not an ordinary opponent.
“Ribbon!”
[Yes!]
It’s not worth worrying about even an inch. Baek Ah-hee immediately jumped off the veranda.
This is something that other people would call crazy. But before she knew it, there was a magic wand in her hand. A transformation tool transformed into her mascot, Ribbon. Baek Ah-hee swung it, feeling the wind of her fall with her whole body.
“Dress up!”
[Dress up your star!]
A ribbon shining like a jewel came out from the tip of the magic wand. A long ribbon that looks like something a gymnast would use. The hem of the cloth wrapped Baek Ah-hee’s body.
As the light flashed and fluctuated, the pajamas she had been wearing just a moment ago disappeared and a gorgeous dress based on the school uniform adorned her body. Her hair, which had been loose, was neatly arranged into pigtails, and her unwashed face became white and clean.
As soon as the dress was wrapped around her body, which had been enjoying a free fall just moments ago, it floated up and raced through the sky.
“…Why now!”
There are still people suffering from the aftereffects of the bombing. Red Vega gritted his teeth and flew up to the scene of the incident.
As the distance was close, it was easy to reach the place.
The seniors who arrived there first were rescuing people.
“Please save me!”
“Hey, over there. I have a little brother! “I haven’t been able to escape yet…”
“Me first! “Please save me first!”
The chaos I always saw was there. People who lost their homes in an instant and people who lost their homes and families. Everything I had accumulated so far was swept away and swept away by this waterway.
“I’ll help too!”
Then, Red Vega wrapped flames around her feet and struck her down. Her footsteps cut through the water and made it evaporate. The evaporated water vapor obscured my vision. In addition, the temperature was so high that it even affected the temperature of the surrounding water.
Oh no. This doesn’t help the rescue at all. This smoke blocks the view of the seniors being rescued, and the rising water temperature can easily cause burns.
I was so nervous that I couldn’t properly understand my surroundings.
“Our newbie! “Did you become incapacitated because of water?”
“W-I’m not incompetent?! And I’m not even a new recruit anymore!”
One of the seniors who came before me joked. Even though he was busy, he seemed to be trying to be cheerful somehow. The corners of her mouth when telling a joke did not turn up at all.
“Looking at you getting angry, it looks like you hit the nail on the head. “Don’t sweat here, go over there.”
The senior pointed with his finger to the center where the water flows. A place where there are monsters.
Red Vega knows. It is impossible to evacuate these many people with just the personnel here. For magical girls, saving people is more important than defeating monsters.
Also, they probably also wanted to fight monsters. Most magical girls have a sense of justice as strong as Red Vega. They probably want to bring justice to the monster with their own hands.
But they also know. The fact that they are powerless. It’s okay to be a level A monster, but anything more than that is difficult. Knowing that, they left it to Red Vega.
“Quickly.”
Red Vega bowed his head and flew towards the monster.
A comet was drawn in the sky.
“Please do something….”
I hope we can cut off this waterway. Her feeble hopes were pinned on her.
People who lost a lot in this waterway also made a wish while looking at the line of the comet.
Please give us the final grace. I hope what I lost now is enough.
Please leave us some money and a place to sleep tomorrow.
**
Jo Yoon frowned as he watched the news.
The news reported casualties as they were counted and showed the city submerged in water.
“This oppa, the world is in such chaos, and he can’t even see his nose removed….”
In times like these, you are the kind of person who will run to you regardless of who you are. Even though she had only seen him for three days, she could still see his face.
As she didn’t like fighting, she needed at least one excuse to fight. Han Jaejoong was the best excuse.
Because he fights, I fight too. His enemies were always powerful. Because it seemed like I needed a helper or two.
But protecting Han Jaejoong was not her only purpose. In the news, magical girls were doing their best to rescue people.
Something seemed uncomfortable. If I had Hong Ik-oh at this time….
[Now there is something better.]
“You’re so noisy, dude.”
Afterwards, she sighed deeply and looked at her belt. Parrot’s voice. Unlike before, it had the appearance of an iron ball, but what was inside was undoubtedly Jo Ayun’s partner. A reliable companion who always helps her with her magic.
[Guardian, phone rings.]
“I know.”
My cell phone has been ringing continuously since a while ago. The recipient is Ara. Orange Altair. I had a rough idea of what she was trying to say.
Orange Altair has confirmed that Jo Ayun is Odette, the monster in the constellation Cassiopeia.
“That doesn’t look easy… Well, you can just do what you did before.”
Let’s shoot it into space like last time. Jo Ayun got up from her seat.
Soon, a ‘Closed for Business’ sign was erected at the cafe.
**
Yun Seol-hwa stared into space, sweating. She seemed like empty space to others, but not to her. There was her mascot.
A mascot that resembles a husky.
Lights continued to ring from the mascot’s eyes.
As usual, it would ring once and be the signal to dispatch horses. But today it didn’t stop ringing for several minutes. It meant a significant emergency.
There is no TV or Internet here. It was difficult to figure out exactly what was going on. It didn’t matter if I turned my eyes away like this. Don’t you know the gravity of the matter?
But she couldn’t turn her eyes away from it. Beads of anxious sweat ran down her back.
