194 – Named One (6)
At the same time, Jason also succeeded in escaping from Botis’ Goldilocks zone.
“Brother, you’re back!”
“I believed it!”
“Welcome!”
“Brother, you are a hero!”
However, when he returned to reality, September was holding him, so when he returned, he ended up on top of September’s ship.
“…I didn’t do anything, you idiots.”
September stopped their cheering and took control of the ship again and began to lead it skillfully.
“Those bastards over there! Look ahead again and raise anchor! And those smelly guys over there! Start aiming the cannon! “What were you doing without me?!”
As soon as he appeared, the ship began to move forward again. Huge shells rained down from the stopped cannon, and smoke rose from the chimney, making the sound of a trajectory.
“Brother… No, September. “Why did you suddenly bring me here?”
Jason carefully watched the ship. It was because some people’s views were not good.
‘Why did the traitor come here?’
The eyes look like they are protesting.
Although their appearance was different from before, it was immediately apparent that they were human members of the Argo family.
“Huh? We’re just helping people we know, so why bother? Right. Is this your first time seeing them like this? Wow, I had a hard time.”
When they heard September’s voice, they quickly turned their eyes and began to concentrate on their work again.
“He went through all kinds of trouble to unite children from different countries and races. Well, in the end it worked out that way.”
Agree.
Along with challenge, it is the most important spiritual value in the Argo family.
The more members of a group have similar thoughts and emotions, the higher the sympathy rate, and the more they can share each other’s power. Emotional sympathy extends to physical sympathy.
September is also a member of the Argo family. Most of their changes came from his power.
The current appearance of the Argo Family is a terrible sight with something that looks like a wooden plank growing on top of a person’s skin. Their hideous appearance, which was no different from that of monsters, was like a token of how much they felt like monsters.
The amount of starlight has increased incomparably compared to a few months ago.
The same goes for September. As the number of members in the organization increased, its power became greater.
Instead of changing the right arm into a cannon, it was possible to make it into a huge battleship like this.
“Come on! Let’s not think about unnecessary things and just move forward.”
A great challenge has begun.
Without any shouting, the members rowed in unison and moved forward, firing cannons.
“…Brother.”
Even though I cut off my relationship with September as a sworn brother, the title still remained in my mouth. Because of that familiarity, Jason still calls him brother.
“What are you doing now?”
“What a great challenge!”
September answered calmly. The ship continued to move forward.
There was nothing to stop them in the infinite sky. Except for one thing, a huge beast.
The scorpion raised its spear like a knight and let out a high-pitched roar in the air.
Cheolpuk.
With a roar, something like a lump of sticky liquid poured out of the window. They poured down like a heavy rain and soaked the ground, and a scorpion appeared in the dirty ground.
It looks like a human-sized version of the scorpion that has now become a knight.
Everyone who understood the habits of the scorpion realized that it was an alter ego.
Below, clones began to roam the earth, and above, scorpions began to rule the sky. He swung his spear again.
Then this time, the flames, ice, bushes, lightning, rain and sunlight that had just appeared in the abyss appeared and fell into the world.
Perhaps the fact that he almost died motivated him, and his attitude was much more aggressive than before.
“hehehe, that’s really flashy.”
September waved his hands heavily and quickly, like a troupe conductor.
Then, among the gang members who were firing the cannon, the people on both sides began to fall down at the same time.
After falling, they got up without a scratch and ran toward the clone.
It looked as if the crew of a pirate ship was committing plunder. Even though a hole in personnel suddenly appeared, none of the organization members panicked.
As the Scorpion and the ship got closer, the person manning the diagonal cannon fell down.
The ship did not stop. If anything, it was getting faster.
It was the same next time and the time after that.
In the end, only one person operating the cannon in the center and the rowers remained, and everyone else fell to the ground.
The distance between the ship and the Scorpion has completely closed. The scorpion is ready to strike its spear.
“Accelerate!”
With September’s instructions, the ship began hyperaccelerating. The ship escaped the range of the spear and flew towards the center of the Scorpion.
There was no sign of the acceleration stopping, and starlight was condensing inside the barrel of the central cannon.
“Brother, this… This is like…”
Jason could not continue his words. To be precise, he was thinking about how to purify the words he was using from now on because they were not good words.
“Isn’t this a suicide special attack…?”
But in the end, the words that came out were the same words that came to mind from the beginning.
“No, it’s different.”
Jason had to think. All monsters are crazy.
This is a group of people who identified physically and mentally with that monster.
“What’s the point of a challenge if you don’t risk your life?”
Of course, that way of acting would be crazy.
Boom!! The ship crashed into the Scorpion’s core. The scorpion didn’t even stumble. I wasn’t even aiming for that anyway. If anything, it was the one that would be in trouble if it shook and lost its balance.
“All fire power! “Focus on the center!!”
All the starlight focused on the central cannon.
“No, bro, sleep….”
“Fire!”
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BOOM!!!
The archer clicked his tongue as if he was offended by the sound of gunfire coming from the sky.
“f*cking loud….”
This is an attack that will not work properly anyway. Rather, it is an attack in which the user is more likely to suffer damage due to the shell being fired from close range. What help does this have for the strong body of a scorpion?
I muttered while chewing the beef jerky.
“A brat…? “You don’t know shame…?!”
The archer huffed and pondered Jason’s words.
I wanted to refute it, but I couldn’t think of a rebuttal. That made the archer even more angry.
How prideful and shameful it is to have to accept that your logic is wrong. Therefore, rather than admitting that they are wrong, most people tend to achieve a mental victory by strangely distorting their own opinions.
“Then what? That’s my dream! “Isn’t it even weirder to ignore your dreams?”
Of course, there are many logical loopholes in the remarks made in the process of such rationalization, so if others point them out, they will be able to quickly poke through those loopholes.
Unfortunately, when you achieve mental victory, there is usually no one around. In this way, more and more fools are created who mistake themselves for being logical.
“Yeah, I’m not weird!”
The archer was just like that.
This kind of mental rationalization often occurs during adolescence. This is usually the case when people blame society for their rebellion.
Archer was also in a similar state. A monster with excessive self-consciousness who does not admit his mistakes, has high pride and has many shortcomings, and is insignificant in the eyes of others. A foolish state in which one believes that one’s own thoughts are the only correct answer due to lack of life experience.
He was welcoming the second spring.
“What the f*ck is wrong with me!”
The archer shouted and rolled his eyes.
His miracle was snow. They can see things that others cannot see, see through obstacles, and distinguish sounds, waves, and even smells and temperatures. The best view that cannot be created even with all the cutting-edge technologies.
Abilities are based on the monster’s ideology and identity.
In other words, its essence lies in dreams.
Han Jae-joong guessed the reason why his miracle became snow, despite his numerous other abilities.
‘There must be something I wanted to see.’
Archer also believed in this hypothesis. But so far he hasn’t found what he wanted to see.
Until now.
Yes, the archer was now sure of what he wanted to see.
“A world where only the right people have power…!”
When I first saw Sky Polaris, the motivation for starting was simple.
That was my feeling at first. He seems to have longed for it. But that longing was short-lived. I realized the obvious fact that men cannot become magical girls.
After that, longing changed its appearance and became a new emotion. He took out his desire to shine and filled the void with something new.
If only there were people who shine like you, this world would be happier.
It was a much more violent accident than in Tokyo. A fascistic way of thinking that equalizes everything in the world. It may not have mattered when I was young, but even now as I get older, my thoughts don’t seem to have changed much.
When the archer was burning with ambition, something disturbing was caught in his sight.
“Are you okay?”
“Uh, Mom… Mom… Ugh…!”
“…First, go to a safe place and I will definitely come find your mom.”
“Mom…Mom….”
It was the appearance of a monster taking the child and transporting him to a shelter. The strange-looking monster wearing a pink winged suit was extremely human-like, despite its name.
That’s why it was annoying.
Obviously, that woman was like that because she was as wrong as herself. When she heard the story, didn’t she even say she was a magical girl before? Why hasn’t the hypocrisy yet stopped when the subject went from being a magical girl to such an ugly figure?
“…No way.”
The archer slowly pulled the string. The target, of course, is Odette over there. Because the distance is quite far away, the enemy will not even be aware of you.
The very moment the string fell from his hand and the arrow began to fly in the sky.
Lightning struck.
“You really can’t do it.”
The white thunderbolt simply split the arrow and landed on the ground.
“Don’t disturb me…!”
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I was so angry that I repeatedly struck my bow. The speed was so fast that it seemed like a single action.
Dozens of arrows flew towards the Watcher. There was no way left in his path to avoid this. He filled all the squares.
But as if mocking this, the Watcher struck down the arrow and reached him at the fastest distance possible.
The red eyes glowed menacingly in the thunderbolt.
“…! “You can’t believe it…”
The hypothesis that came to mind when I first saw Watcher was replayed again.
“The future….”
Boom! The fist literally came like lightning and exploded into the archer’s face. The helmet broke and collapsed miserably, and he flew through the sky like an arrow that had just been fired.
“Yes, I think I have to use it now.”
“Damn it…! Why does a guy like you have that kind of power… Why does a bastard like you have that kind of power! “On a subject I have no qualifications for!”
Watcher sighed deeply.
“I never imagined that I would see you attack Odette first, rather than on the trail of a scorpion.”
It was absurd. Even in this situation, you barge in thoughtlessly like a child.
“Are you jealous of us that much?”
“…What?”
The archer forgot his words for a moment. It was so absurd that there was no time to get angry. I’m jealous. What kind of nonsense is this?
It wasn’t even funny.
“Are you out of your mind? Or did you get hit by that scorpion bastard? “It sounds like you have a tumor on your head.”
“You seem to be mistaken. Your actions now are not like a judge born from a sense of being the chosen people. “If I had that kind of awareness, I would have acted more noblely, logically, and unwaveringly.”
Han Jaejoong thought carefully. Why does the archer do this?
It was understandable that he was attacking himself and Jo Ayun, who gained power from the same belt, saying they were not qualified. But even though a magical girl would have that qualification, he even attacked a magical girl.
They say it interferes with killing.
This is obviously strange. What on earth is that qualification? Why are you even attacking a magical girl? Besides, why do you have a strangely passive attitude towards monsters like you?
Typical strong-weak-weak attitude. Jaejoong Han realized the true nature of this contradiction. It was very simple. He had no noble logic to begin with.
“What you have is an inferiority complex.”
Inferiority resulting from self-hatred.
“It’s nothing more than envy of others who had similar powers but acted differently.”
“Everyone, shut up! “What do you know!”
“Yeah, I don’t know. But I know better than you. “About that qualification.”
Han Jaejoong stretched out his finger and pointed to the sky.
“Who grants qualifications?”
Before the archer could reply, his words were silenced.
“Heaven’s will? So how do you know the meaning of heaven? Are you going to ask God face to face? No way. If you could know the meaning of the vast sky, would you be human and mortal? He who says he knows the will of heaven is the most ignorant person. From your own narrow-minded perspective, you are praying that this is fate. “Then who provides the qualifications?”
This time, the archer tried to open his mouth again but was blocked. This time it was because he was in trouble.
“Everyone? Do all people even exist in the first place? How do you know everyone’s will? Are you going to ask them all individually? In this wide world? Even if you ask in the first place, what chance is there that it isn’t a lie? If there are 10,000 people, there are bound to be 10,000 ideas. Is there anything as insubstantial as all people? So who gives the qualifications?”
The archer could not open his mouth. The more he thought, the more he fell into a labyrinth.
“You or me? Are you that proud? Are you omniscient enough to understand the circumstances of everyone in the world? Or is it so strong that no one can touch it? Or do they at least have authority granted by the consent of society, like a judge?”
In the first place, what were qualifications?
“You idiot. “There are no qualifications given at birth.”
The archer slowly looked back on the past.
“Even if you are not related by blood, you are worthy of being a father, even a simple father is worthy of becoming a king, and even a fool is sometimes worthy of becoming a wise man.”
This lump of iron. He recalled the memory of touching this thing on his waist.
“Of course, heroes are like that too.”
Sky Polaris. She wanted to shine like she did. But she realized she couldn’t do that. Because she is not a shining being like her. Because he is an ugly being who was abandoned at birth and exposed to the desires of others, making him a greedy person himself.
“In fact, there is no path as simple as becoming a hero. Actually, don’t we all know this? If you don’t take care of yourself, you can take care of others. “You just have to want to see that person live tomorrow rather than how you live today, you just have to do what you have to do but it’s annoying and difficult to do, and you just have to give as much as you get.”
What is a qualification?
“But who would want to live like that? I want myself to be better than others, and as a person, I live to be happy. That’s why heroes are great. That’s why they gained strength.”
The archer saw the appearance of magical girls.
Even though the scars from the scorpion’s poison were clear, there were people who were fighting against their alter egos, and there was a weak person who helped them.
There was someone who didn’t stop even though he felt like he was going to die of exhaustion, and there was someone who raised the corners of his mouth and reassured people even though it was difficult.
There were people who tried to get up again even though they fell down once, and there were people who tried to get up together with them even though they were scared.
There were many heroes. Even without raising his head or going to the scene, the archer’s eyes could catch them endlessly.
Clear and pure lights that I have always longed for.
“Qualifications are not given by anyone. “If you do it, it will follow.”
How great it would be if there were only people like that in this world. But I know I can’t.
“No one was a hero from the beginning. “I was able to become a hero because I acted like a hero.”
Because most people can’t live like that. As that guy said, most people live for their own benefit.
That is natural, and it has evolved that way.
The one who is a little more selfish has a higher chance of surviving. Humanity has lived that way. Even though we know the importance of cooperation, we cannot let go of our selfishness.
“But what are you? You become a monster and act like a monster, aren’t you truly a monster? “It seems like a lie to say I was human.”
Those who can go against that selfishness are no different from going against the evolution of mankind. How foolish it is to walk down the path of regression.
“Rather than you, those sinners, those who joined the side of the monster but are now risking their lives to take on the challenge, seem more human.”
What a courageous act this is.
The archer slowly looked back on the past.
A child who longed for light and followed a small light in the dark, and a child who did not stop walking even when the light touched a dangerous object.
A timid child who grew up too early, full of self-loathing.
“Please, listen to me.”
At the same time, the child was stuffed just as he was.
When the child touched the belt, he hated the machine that was said to give strength to everyone. It is an ugly tool that pollutes the stars that have value because of the night.
While I loathe it so much, I may have had other thoughts like this.
‘Can even mean people become good someday?’
That was the very little self-affirmation and hope that remained in the child.
Can a person without qualifications create qualifications on his own?
If only we could lead all people to a good path.
That was the child’s sense of adventure.
The child saw the light with a sense of adventure.
“…Ah.”
Looking back at the archer who lowered his head in despair, the Watcher turned his back towards the scorpion again.
“This is the final warning. “If you interfere next time, I will cut off your head first.”
The enemy is so powerful.
“But if you come to help, I won’t refuse.”
Many colleagues were needed.
Regardless of their past and circumstances, so many colleagues.
