17 – Because the stars are pretty
Magical Girls Association.
That was the huge building in the center of the city.
A building that rises high enough to overlook the movements of people.
It was the best place for a magical girl to dispatch.
Unlike the modern interior, the exterior was stately like an old castle. The walls, painted in pastel tones, turned the profoundness into a fairytale-like dream.
It was a symbolic building for modern magical girls, visited by tourists from all over the world every day.
It was also the best place for a magical girl to rest.
Higher floors off civilian access.
All of them are magical girls or those who were once magical girls, and at all, there are only mascots that are not subject to individuals.
I didn’t have to worry about anyone’s gaze.
Red Vega was taking a break in the high-rise lounge.
I lay on the sofa and stared blankly at the big TV screen.
– It was the best! As a junior who went to the same school, I really respected him. really….
– Even though they are the same age as me, they are completely different! Brave… courageous…
-I thought I was envious of life when I heard that I wasn’t taking the CSAT this year, but I changed my mind! It wasn’t even a wall to jump over in front of Red Vega!
-Even in the unusual situation of simultaneous attacks by A-rank monsters, there were no fatalities due to the magical girl’s quick response…
It was about praising a magical girl while pretending not to.
In the news screen, students from the same school were cheering for Red Vega by making an electronic display board with their smartphones. Some even jokingly bowed.
“Puh…”
That look was very funny.
Also, what I did wasn’t wrong. I was able to think again.
But it’s still not enough.
If it wasn’t for the monster of the Big Dipper, what kind of ending would the people at the university have met? It’s obvious if you don’t look.
If you’re an A-rank monster, you can break through the barriers for giant monsters in a matter of minutes.
No matter how quickly we get there, some people will have already died. Red Vega knew it naturally.
‘If it hadn’t happened that a dispute between the monsters had broken out there…’
No, was it really a simple dispute?
What if the monster of the Big Dipper really acted to protect its citizens rather than a fight between his own people?
Red Vega turned on his smartphone and searched the Internet.
– Praise the true hero Big Dipper!
└ Why don’t we call the Big Dipper our Septentrion?
└ Big Dick! Big Dick! Big Dick! Big Dick! Big Dick!
└You crazy people
There were already posts praising him playfully in the community of the university that was attacked today. It was also captured and spread to many places.
However, there were responses saying that praising the monster should be avoided, but most of them joined the prank and sent reactions such as praise or laughter.
These aren’t sincere either.
It was safety that happened by accident during a dispute between monsters, so it was possible to play around like this.
But if this repeats itself.
Gradually, in people’s perception, the monster of the Big Dipper is not the one who attacks, but the one who protects.
To be honest, it doesn’t matter in the slightest that the monster is on our side.
Rather, I wish it were.
His words today were clearly sincere.
So far, there has been no hostility in his feelings.
Embarrassment, pity, concern. only those things
Why? Why is the monster worried about the magical girl herself?
Once again, the long history of tragedy between humans and monsters came to mind.
‘still….’
Knowing that it was a futile dream, Red Vega prayed like that.
If you say this to your seniors, you will surely get scolded.
However, he couldn’t stop praying that his good intentions were true.
Of course, I lost twice, but…
That’s something you’ll have to take revenge on someday.
The problem was not the fact that the monster was on the same side, but an opinion that would come to the fore the moment it was recognized that the monster was on the citizen’s side.
Magical Girl Dance Theory.
Stupid bitches who eat money but can’t do anything compared to monsters. It was clear to me that those words would come and go.
Red Vega didn’t want that to happen.
Being a magical girl is her dream, and it is also the one she loves the most.
Even now, when I go to my room, all kinds of magical girl goods are plastered.
It’s okay to curse at yourself. However, I didn’t want the value of being a magical girl to be denied.
“As expected, there is only one answer!”
[tutelar…?]
In order not to be ignored by the monster again, in order to prevent a situation like this, in order to prevent certain things to come in the future.
Red Vega stood up and vigorously declared to her mascot, a red cat-like cotton ball.
“It’s just getting stronger! Ribbon! Is there any way to increase the brightness of the stars more here?”
“No, asshole.”
Pink Deneb responded by bursting open the door.
“What kind of brightness are you thinking about raising the brightness in less than a year now? Every time you do that, I’m compared with a similar color. Take it easy.”
“It can’t be! Now that the dilemma is starting to set in motion, we need to get stronger!”
“If I made up my mind to become stronger, then I would have already eaten it. You bitch.”
Pink Deneb dismissed her words as if they were insignificant.
“Oh Ah-hee. Don’t be impatient. We can’t save all the people in this world anyway. On the other side of the world, tens of thousands of people are still dying~ Huh?
Pink Deneb, who was hanging around, took a beer from the refrigerator and drank it. He naturally sat down on the sofa and slapped Red Vega’s thigh.
“Don’t you know that the one who is impatient in a game of life is short-lived?”
“Ugh… don’t curse!”
“Curse this bastard, this advice with the bones of a senior.”
After sipping beer a few times, Pink Deneb let out a small exclamation as if he remembered something.
“That’s right. There’s a CCTV at that university today. We’re going to see it later as an important material. Will you come?”
“Really?!”
“Then you won’t see it. There are three S-class monsters gathered, so we have to prepare. If you don’t like it, don’t.”
“No, I’m going! I’m going unconditionally!”
“I see.”
Deneb sipped his beer with a big smile.
Drinking along today.
I thought of the two of them behind the junior’s cheerful voice.
Blue Sirius, who would have fallen asleep crying drunk at home by now.
A man who is the cause.
‘Han Jaejoong…’
The shabby appearance of the person he once followed could not be adapted even after a long time. I didn’t even want to.
‘Amnesia loss… telling obvious lies…’
Maybe we were the people we didn’t want to see.
In response to his bitter taste, he crushed an innocent beer can.
**
“Fuck.”
It was a night where I smoked a cigarette I had never touched in my life.
The collapse of ego and worrying about identity, it would be really self-defeating to be at this age and worrying about things that should have been solved in adolescence and graduated.
Even that concern was not abstract. I just couldn’t get over it and get over it.
I’m not a simple possessor, Han Jaejoong who lost his memory? However, this body is not a monster now.
Complex.
It was complicated and there were no clues, so it was an impossible answer to come to a conclusion.
The stars were bright.
Still, it was night in the city, so the faint starlight was hidden by the lights of the street lamps.
As I stared blankly at it, memories as dim as stars came to mind one after another.
Did you say memories are chain?
Just like when you connect constellations, finding one star makes it easier to find the next one.
As I searched for memories like drawing a line, one fragmentary memory was completed before I knew it.
What was completed like that was Pegasus, a common sight in the autumn sky.
The first one that attacked me was Pegasus.
A monster with a horse’s head as an ornament on its chest and white wings on its back.
Except for those two pure white parts, the rest of the body was covered with snake-like thick muscle fibers, which made it disgusting.
-Did you look at me and think that I was going to talk? Are you afraid of my ugly appearance?!!!
Starting with Pegasus, who began to make a sudden acceleration, the faces of the monsters came to mind one after another.
They reveled in my fears and would never let me die in one blow. Virgo in particular had a strong tendency to do so.
-Jaejoong-ah, no. If I don’t run a little longer, will I die? huh? Our cute Jaejoongie. Play your body properly.
It’s a way of talking like it’s not the first time we’ve seen each other.
Was it Virgo’s opinion that decided to attack Han Jaejoong and me? What kind of relationship was that?
Wasn’t Blue Sirius the only one who was related to Han Jaejoong among magical girls? no It is possible that he fell in love with her and became acquainted with several magical girls. But why would she be after me?
Anyway, I ran away from the monsters to my death.
Gradually, the number of wounds on his body increased, and his stamina ran out.
The more I think about it, the more fear springs up. At this rate, not only the media but also monsters will develop phobias.
[That will create difficulties in future defense actions. We recommend that you clear your mind and create a comfortable state. Find a yoga method that can relax your mind and transmit it to your brain […]
‘Be quite.’
You have to think about it once.
And in the end, lying on Virgo’s beam, brooding over the fear of death, he was engulfed in the starlight deliberately shot by the monsters.
‘Was their purpose to create a monster out of fear? Most of the other monstrous humans would feel the same way, right? Was there anything that differentiated you? Why do you want me?’
Strange is not one or two parts.
Why did Jaejoong Han, who was so afraid of death in the first place, choose to commit suicide?
What secrets are tangled in this body?
What truth is hidden beyond the many memories I haven’t recalled yet?
“Hey belt…”
[What business are you doing?]
“Do you know how to recall memories?”
I was dumbfounded even when I said it. what did you expect
With a feeling of grabbing at least a straw, I asked the ironsmith next to me.
[The first method is to activate the chain memory by meeting with the person holding the clue of the lost memory like today. The second method is to continuously perform the quest.]
“…What?”
Belt spoke without hesitation.
[It is to strengthen the transformation body by collecting star fragments. There is a chance of recovering memories when the star is fully activated. The latter is recommended.]
Hearing his words, I fell silent for a moment.
I was dumbfounded.
The reward of the quest wasn’t just my enhancement, but finding my lost memories? I got a rope from an unexpected place.
“Why are you saying that now?”
[Because you haven’t asked a question in the meantime.]
That’s right, but I’ll pick it up a bit. Of course, you should have said this beforehand when talking about compensation.
“Then, the object I will recreate. What is that?”
[This is something the Guardian must find out for himself.]
“No, I don’t have any fucking backbone.”
You said you didn’t tell me because you didn’t ask, but now that you’re asking again, why are you avoiding it?
Come to think of it, this belt is not one or two suspicious.
It is a medium that allows transformation, and the fact that it is visible only to the user is the same as the magical girl’s mascot.
However, it forces the user with actions such as quests and does not show full cooperation to the user.
Have you been dragged into a group and remodeled? The more you think about it, the more questions you have.
But I definitely knew what to do.
This belt, don’t lie.
You can hide the truth, but you can’t turn it into something else.
So, the method of recovering memories is probably the truth.
“Yeah… Anyway, the work to be done is the same, right?”
In the end, what had to be done remained unchanged.
Perform.
Guardian.
Advance.
[Quest occurs.]
“Tonight…? Yes, the stars are pretty, but I’ll have to sleep for a bit today.”
I got up from the bench and moved to the place the belt sent me.
Now it’s not just to get stronger, to survive.
I had to move to find my memories.
**
“Then turn it on?”
“Yes! Uh… What about Sirius?”
Red Vega asked while watching the CCTV screen that started to flow on the screen. In the audio-visual room, there were not only Red Vega and Pink Deneb, but also many other magical girls.
But Blue Sirius was nowhere to be seen. I always came to places like this to come up with countermeasures, but I thought it was strange.
“That’s right! My sister Wang is nowhere to be seen!”
“Hey, who taught the white-haired jjakbari strange words… Ugh, that’s it. Senior is going to rest today because he’s a little sick.”
“Ah, are you sick?! Are you very sick? Visit me right now.”
“Who cares about who. It’s okay, just look over there.”
On the screen, there was a monster from the Big Dipper who took out a new weapon and defeated the monsters.
“I’m shooting a gun…”
“There have been several monsters like that before.”
“What kind of monster uses such a variety of abilities?”
“Those bastards have no morals, really.”
“I don’t think there was…”
Its power to drive away A-rank monsters like flying flies seemed to be quite usable.
If such a thing were a common weapon, even a soldier would have been able to annihilate the monster by now.
Following the monster, Virgo came down from the sky.
“…Red Spica.”
“Is Red me?! Vega behind Red! It’s official! Don’t call the traitor Red!”
“This is Virgo… Please pay attention to the name.”
“That’s right! That bastard is a monster! A water rocket who couldn’t keep up with the trend of the times got desperate and extended his lifespan as a monster!”
“White Davich, don’t say that!”
“You really stop the Internet!”
Her appearance made the audience go wild. Confusion arose as many words were mixed, not knowing who was saying what.
Dark red shadows were cast over their faces.
It was because of the twinkling starlight beyond the screen. It was an overwhelming amount of light.
The girls who had been talking loudly at the power of being cleared of most of the A-class monsters in an instant shut their mouths.
After that, the Big Dipper and the Maiden collided.
The dark red starlight and the green starlight collided vigorously.
A light flashed from the gun, and Birgo held it off casually.
In the aftermath of the battle, tiles shattered like cookies, and CCTVs shook like crazy as if they had met an earthquake.
That short battle was enough to elicit silence.
“Do I have to fight something like that…?”
someone muttered. It was a word of despair, but no one refuted it. I know I have to refute it, but I couldn’t say it carelessly. Unfounded hope only causes irritation.
The winner was Virgo.
It was caught off guard with the double magic unique to twin stars.
And after a while, the starlight scattered from his body.
“…uh?”
His body gradually began to change from that of a monster to that of a human.
Are you suddenly canceling your transformation?
No, since he’s a monster, he’s rather disguised.
It was peculiar. There would be no reason to make such a choice in the middle of a battle.
Red Vega wondered what the motive behind that action was.
And I was also happy in my heart. If you find out what he’s disguised as, you’ll be able to go about your normal life and arrest the monster.
The transformation of a monster is vaguely remembered by most people, but it is clearly visible to those with starlight.
She is a magical girl. Even in everyday life, monsters can be identified.
As a result of looking closely, I unfortunately couldn’t recognize her face.
This is because he returned to his monstrous body right before all the starlight scattered and disappeared from his body.
Maybe it was a strategy aimed at being vigilant.
“Ah what is it…”
Thinking it was a bland thought, I leaned close to the screen and laid back on the chair.
“I thought I would at least be able to see the disguised figure, but I don’t… Huh? Sister?”
Disappointed at not getting much harvest, Red Vega looked around and sought sympathy.
However, Pink Deneb’s condition was strange.
“no way….”
He had a serious expression, as if he had noticed something very dangerous.
