183 – Training (5)
I was out of breath. A heavy silence hovered over the ruined building like a ghost. A chilling wind passed by my skin, and a sharp, low voice broke the silence and sank to the floor.
“Wow…!”
Jason coughed up blood. There was a neat circular hole in the middle of his torso. Blood, as sticky as oil, poured out endlessly from there.
Jason, unable to even speak, let out a sound like an animal in pain, accompanied by blood.
“Now, wait a minute.”
The archer raised his head and looked at Botis as if he was embarrassed.
“What are you doing all of a sudden, you crazy b*tch?”
I couldn’t even scream due to the pain and shock. Although it contained the most anger, the voice was too calm.
“Gah, suddenly what the f*ck is this? You idiot…”
Botis ignored his words and swung the wooden stick he had stabbed into Jason’s body, wiping away the blood. Nevertheless, there was still some damp flesh left on the stick.
“I’m sorry Jason. “When I thought about it again, I thought this was right.”
“Keuuk… Gasp….”
“It’s okay, you won’t die. “I know that much.”
Botis searched in his arms and pulled out a porcelain bottle. He then tilted the bottle and sprinkled its contents over Jason’s wounds.
The white mucus-like liquid seeped into the wound, and soon the bleeding stopped.
Literally give a bottle and give medicine. He healed the wounds he had created himself. However, the hole in the middle of the upper body still remained. The only thing that stopped was the bleeding, and the wound did not heal.
It was around that time that the two people, who had been dazed for a moment because they could not keep up with the situation, regained their focus.
Watcher ran and dropped Botis on Jason, and Odette wrapped Jason around and knocked him back.
Originally, Watcher’s intention was not just to drop Botis, but also to suppress him.
Chaeng! However, Bottis’ response was too quick to do so. He deftly moved the wooden stick to release his fist, then swung the stick around and struck the Watcher in the stomach. The flow of the series was so natural that I thought it might have been put together from the beginning.
Botis took a few steps back as if he was running through the forest, grabbed the archer’s waist with his stick, and pulled him behind him.
Although Botis was known to protect all her monsters, there were a few awkward aspects to what she was doing now.
Are they protecting a toxic monster, or are they discriminating against Jason alone?
The answer was revealed naturally as Botis opened his mouth.
“Originally, I had no intention of going this far.”
Are you making excuses to the archer looking up at you, or are you making excuses to all the monsters here? Botis muttered like a monologue without looking at anyone.
“Do you think there can be peace in a race that has no choice but to fight with each other?”
That is Botis’ question.
The peace of monsters who must endlessly compete for the rare resource of humans in order to achieve their dreams, become stronger, and survive.
Is there peace in a race that is destined to bite each other, step on the loser, and prioritize only itself?
Finding this answer is her dream.
“I think so. However, you will have to make a few more sacrifices.”
There was no trace of excitement or longing in the voice talking about the dream. Not the steps of an explorer, but the steps of a shepherd. It belonged to a worker who did repetitive tasks tirelessly.
It was the voice of someone who had already shouldered his duty.
“Everyone just needs to give in a little bit. Help those who can achieve their dreams first, postpone dreams that are a little difficult to later, protect those who are weak, and control those who are too strong to prevent them from going wild. You just need to be able to control it by creating regulations and rules, little by little. “You just need to be satisfied with the small amount of happiness within that control.”
“All the monsters?”
“Yes, all the monsters.”
I don’t like representing the monster’s point of view, but I still have to say this. Han Jaejoong answered without hiding his displeasure.
“Isn’t that dictatorship?”
“…A certain level of order is necessary. Because actions and ideas that are too extreme can only become cancer to the entire organization. “If we can make small happiness the satisfaction of life based on mutual concessions…”
“So, that is dictatorship.”
Concession and order? Words are good. But what will be the standards for concessions and order? Of course, this is Bottis’ personal standard.
Unilaterally imposed morality is ultimately a coercion of freedom and is nothing more than violent oppression.
Botis is now trying to control the monster society according to his will.
“That’s right. “It’s a dictatorship.”
Botis grinned and affirmed the series of words.
“But why is that? Look at the monster society now. It is an extremely animalistic, self-indulgent society. Many people shed tears and blood because of them. Countless monsters competed with each other and then turned to ashes and disappeared, and that’s still the case today. Monsters have no choice but to attack, and they have the karma to be attacked. Why do you want to bring peace to such a society?”
“Of course I’m not perfect. However, it can be a sufficient moral standard for a society without any means of sanctions. I am confident in this. I don’t care if it takes years. “I will take care of vulnerable children, teach them, and lead them to contribute to this peace.”
“In the first place, this is good for you humans too. If order is created among monsters, wouldn’t the number of attacks on humans decrease? “If we find peace, you will naturally find peace too.”
Botis constantly expressed his opinions. His intention was closer to explanation than to persuasion. He had no intention of making anyone agree with his opinions, and he was firm as if he would not be swayed by anyone.
This is certainly true. Aside from the unpleasantness that comes from the word dictatorship, her logic itself is flawless.
In the first place, modern society did not become a democratic society without any preparation. The monsters were a primitive society that did not even experience royal rule.
It is not surprising if there is an arrogant monster who controls such an immoral and unconstitutional group.
It may not be particularly helpful to humans.
“Nothing good will come of these already annoying people uniting together.”
Those who were individuals until now will become a group. If they put their mind to it, the worst armed group of all time is created, capable of destroying a city in seconds and eradicating a country in less than three days.
If it is controlled and has good unity, how many forces will be able to oppose it?
“hehehe, don’t worry too much. It won’t be that serious. All you have to do is select a city that can be raided once every few months and hand over a few hundred humans each month. We can all take off in peace.”
“I’m going to turn.”
Han Jaejoong’s prediction was correct. In any case, the fact that humans suffer from monsters does not change. Due to the nature of the monster race, the dream had to come true, and humans would be needed to make that dream come true.
“It’s okay. The personnel to be recruited will mainly be prisoners or the elderly, and a magical girl will always be on standby in the city being attacked. Wouldn’t this be a good opportunity to purge people who are not needed in human society and help magical girls grow? It doesn’t matter if you consider it based on current morals and ethics, because when the time comes, this will become natural.”
Especially the existence of magical girls who are heroic beings.
Their questions were often particularly pedantic, so the existence of a magical girl, an extremely human figure, to find the pedantic answer was valuable and essential.
“Of course it will take a very long time. Several decades. Or it might take well over a hundred years. But I will do it. “I will create peace in this world.”
Botis’ voice was full of confidence. His self-defense logic is clear, his plan is specific, and his sense of purpose is clear. She had no doubt that the day would come when peace would come.
“f*ck! “What does that have to do with why Jason died!”
She screamed like an archer throwing up. Botis reached for his waist, took out the same ceramic bottle he had dropped on Jason earlier, and poured its contents.
“For the sake of peace, sometimes there are things you have to give up. Especially if they are dangerous elements that threaten this peace.”
Her logic was simple.
“Before he was stung by a scorpion, that child was a very dangerous monster who would threaten all of us monsters. “A very dangerous monster who could rival even the beasts of the galaxy.”
Dangerous elements are expelled.
“But now, my memory and strength have been taken away by the scorpion and I have become a blank slate. What crime can this child who knows nothing be guilty of? So he protected me until now. But you recently gained your memories by defeating Scorpion’s clone. “I can’t help but feel like that child might be too.”
Botis, who had not paid attention to anyone else, clearly focused his eyes on Jason.
“I’ll give you my life. But stay out of this hunt. That beast and the past are not something you can handle.”
The archer laughed as if he were empty. Perhaps because Botis’ medicine had adequately healed him, his speech and actions had become more stable than before.
“Then the reason you appeared here was not to protect me, but to use me as bait?”
I wriggled and got up. So far, there were still aftereffects from the hit, so all I could do was barely raise my upper body.
“You damn b*tch! A less advanced topic! “What can a bastard who is no different from me talk about so proudly…”
He screamed in agony. Anger hit my eardrums like a drum. Botis did not frown, but lowered his head to make eye contact with his archer.
“Yes, it fell less. “You and me.”
Then he turned his head and looked at Jason again.
“And that kid too.”
“…!”
“I am a child who has forgotten his dreams and has become lost in the world. How much has it fallen? Is the power given to that child worthy? Are you qualified enough?”
Botis’ voice was cold.
“…If you truly want to achieve your dream, you must be able to judge things more calmly. “That kid is your friend. Are you okay?”
“That thing….”
“Isn’t this the relationship you abandoned anyway?”
Tung, I hit the wooden stick on the floor once, and the arrow on the floor bounced up along with the wave. The arrow, which bounced like a water drop, naturally entered the archer’s hand.
“Think of it as training. Training for the way you will live in the world from now on.”
This was an option.
“Oh, by the way, these words weren’t just limited to you.”
Botis looked at everyone in the room and said.
“You all need training.”
With those words, a bug broke out in her shadow and crawled on the floor.
An unusual arthropod with a tail resembling a fishhook and pincer legs. That purple exterior was nothing short of hideous.
Scorpion. The moment the beast was recognized by the people present, it grew to a gigantic size.
The scorpion’s back, which was similar in size to a rock, rose so high that it almost touched the ceiling.
**
It’s strange.
This was the thought that Magenta Helios had as he repeated the battle. She has fought scorpions three times since arriving in Korea.
But it wasn’t the third one.
This was because two scorpions appeared during today’s dispatch.
“There! Don’t stand out more than me!”
“Is now the time to worry about that?!”
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Fortunately, there were two divine beings here as well, so it wasn’t such an unfavorable fight.
The moonlight, which seemed to cover the entire world, and the blue light, which seemed to turn even the air into ice, obscured the two hideous beasts.
The battle of the sacred had a grandeur that always touched the heart. I hoped that other magical girls who had not yet become divine would also learn from this.
‘It’s better to have at least one more power….’
What was unusual about today was not limited to the two scorpions. The strange monster alliance that always came first to attack the scorpion was nowhere to be seen, nor was the senior who had become a monster.
Only contradiction appears and stands as if protecting the two scorpions.
Scorpions have a technique that makes their bodies as small as the real animal scorpions. When it takes on that form, it is so obscured that even starlight cannot be detected, so only a scorpion with such a large appearance was able to detect it.
Yellow Castor was in charge of the detection. That man, the contradiction, always existed next to the scorpion that I sensed.
He acted like he was protecting the scorpions, but he wasn’t very proactive, and it felt like he was trying to control the two scorpions so they wouldn’t run amok any longer than necessary.
This was strange.
This attitude is no different from asking us to take down a scorpion.
The moment you see his subtle behavior, you realize that this scorpion is just an alter ego.
It was the third battle, but Contrary always maintained that attitude.
Magenta Helios knows the characteristics of the scorpion. Because I fought, and since I was young, I had always collected all the information I could to defeat it.
Winner takes all. The losses accumulated within the scorpion flow out to the winner.
This means that the alter ego is the same and the winner is given the same reward.
To sum it up, the contradiction intentionally exposes the alter ego’s location, forces a fight, and then lets the scorpion fall.
The reward is probably starlight. You can see that the monster in Ursa Major is bigger than the next day.
Then the purpose of contradiction is…..
**
f*ck you.
Han Jaejoong gritted his teeth. It was anger that came from deep within.
“These guys, I plan on making all of their clones fall.”
Defeat all scorpion clones and become stronger.
“I have no intention of releasing the body of the scorpion until then.”
Now, we can slowly see their thoughts. This game, which seemed to say that the main body could be defeated at any time, was only playing in the hands of contradiction from the beginning.
“Damn it…..”
This anger was not simply caused by lack of time.
“It’s dangerous if the body goes wild.”
The main body after all the alter egos have disappeared poses a risk of a different level.
They plan to make him face Scorpion, who has become stronger since the last fight.
The main body of Scorpio.
The truth is not just the appearance of a bug. It is bigger, more ferocious, and in its worst form.
Defeating this alter ego is training to defeat it.
After noticing this plan, Han Jae-joong also wanted to awaken the divinity of Jo Ayun and Baek A-hee.
If the main body becomes the final battle like this, there is no hope for humanity.
