223 – Monsters and People (9)
Once a transaction is started, it is generally impossible to stop.
This is because the moment assets are offered in return for a transaction, their ownership disappears from Libra.
It was a kind of opportunity cost.
Should I give up on the deal, taking this loss, or would I push through to the end even if I suffered more loss?
Libra chose the latter this time, and as a result, she lost most of her assets.
The amount of investment in Starlight is not that much, but more than half of its lifespan has been invested. All the capital I had was gone.
There were times when I thought about giving up on the deal.
But he insisted on carrying out the deal until the end.
There was also an emotional reason. The fear formed by seeing Blue Sirius, the compensation psychology created through a long period of patience, and the liberation of desperation. There were many other reasons.
The most fundamental reason is that I decided to burn everything down in this one plan.
If I could use this opportunity to prove my dream, I would sacrifice everything I have.
I abandoned any contingency plans.
All or nothing.
If you don’t prove it, the only thing you can do is die!
“Gaaa!!!”
Libra shouted her anger high into the sky, telling her to leave. He was furious at heaven for setting his life of such great value.
I have finally found someone who can fulfill my long-held wish! Since the time was not long, we ended up shaking hands like this. What kind of coincidence is this?
There were numerous coincidences.
Coincidence happened coincidentally. Very small probability.
Coincidences that inevitably happen and must happen are called fate.
A choice that does not change even in a parallel world of astronomical numbers.
‘Not even a little….’
Han Jaejoong felt the fateful event as he felt the golden light entering his body.
‘It didn’t help at all…!’
The length of the extended lifespan was infinitely small compared to the amount of investment. Libra’s roar was almost comical. Add a few pinches of sand with your finger to the top of the falling hourglass.
However, Han Jaejoong was not angry about this. He didn’t even feel like he was collapsing.
Just as he did not feel particularly grateful or disgusted with the air he breathed in every day, he too could naturally accept that fact.
My death is inevitable.
New light was engraved on the retina, which was gradually losing light.
Han Jaejoong grabbed the unfamiliar starlight gathering in his hands. It was a powder-like sparkle that I would be ashamed to call light, but it was definitely brilliance.
A sensation I have felt in the past. Predicting the future through the belt, a view beyond.
It feels like you can see all the way through, not just the fragmentary path ahead.
It was a fragment of transcendent power that had been used within the belt.
Yoon Seol-hwa, who happened to be the first to find the site where Han Jae-joong attacked the factory workers, Red Vega, who happened to be the first to find the place where Han Jae-joong and Yoon Seol-hwa escaped, the hideout that Blue Sirius found by chance, Libra who accidentally consumed all of her alter egos, Libra continued to carry out the transaction without canceling it due to a few coincidences….
I thought everything was coincidence and luck.
But so far there has been no coincidence.
It was Yun Seol-hwa who listened most intently to Han Jae-joong’s location tracking and flew the fastest. As a latecomer, I had immediate access to information filtered out by first movers. As she was, it was not strange for her to find Han Jaejoong first.
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The reason why Libra happened to be where we first attacked the hideout is simple. The members of her Libra organization, who are currently active, all started from that hideout. The other hideouts probably don’t have much activity, so it’s not unusual for them to return to that location the higher they go.
Libra has a cautious personality. Instead of losing the fight against contradiction due to her poor judgment, it is right for her to do her best. She was a thoroughly safety-oriented monster, so it was not surprising for him to invest his entire self into her.
Depending on the situation, surroundings, and personality, it becomes a choice that is luck, not luck.
Han Jae-joong was able to empathize with what the ‘choice’ that Sky Polaris was talking about was.
Even if everything seems like a coincidence, it is not just luck.
There is a more likely choice. Those choices come together and lead to inevitability. Inevitability soon becomes destiny.
Every step along the path we have taken so far is causing a fateful movement centered around Han Jae-joong.
The new possibility that Odette opened up was not a possibility to avoid death.
The only choice to protect the world and save yourself.
It was the world after his death.
“Jae, Jaejoong, are you okay?”
Looking at Han Jae-joong, who was dazed for a moment, Yun Seol-hwa asked worriedly.
“The body is….”
That momentary gap. Libra used all her strength to stab something into Yun Seol-hwa’s shoulder. Yun Seol-hwa looked at the punctured area as she felt a tingling sensation. A stainless steel syringe is placed in the eye.
“Huh…?”
Libra moved his thumb and injected the entire contents of the syringe in an instant.
“uuuw
In unbearable pain, Yun Seol-hwa pulled out the syringe and grabbed his shoulder. Pain like a sharp pain in the throat.
“It wasn’t something to use on a b*tch like you!”
Libra raised her voice in shame as she saw Yun Seol-hwa shaking in pain. The scale on her shoulder tipped once again.
It was not an attempt to gain something. It was a miracle used to lose something, to get rid of it by giving it in return.
The scale moved, and Libra’s legs faded.
He separated her from her own body by giving her legs trapped in unmelting ice in return.
As a reward for sacrificing her legs, she gained the momentum to fly in the sky for a moment.
Quang! Libra flew upward with an explosion like a rocket.
“Damn it… I haven’t even experimented with cases other than monsters…! Still, four years between a monster and a human can be at least usable!”
Libra continued her words, screaming as if to vent her anger.
“Yes, I admit it! I made a lot of mistakes today and I need to reflect on them! But!”
His burning eyes were aimed at Han Jaejoong.
“I have no regrets!”
He spread his arms wide and declared.
“I will overcome all these variables and prove it! There are just sacrifices in this world! Jaejoong Han! Be prepared! “I will definitely cut you off!”
And then it quickly flew somewhere in the sky. The miracle of teleportation could not be used as the wealth ran out.
However, Libra could not escape in the end.
Some time after leaving the hideout, Libra heard the sound of the wind blowing.
Piyung-! Suddenly, an arrow hit Libra as it was flying in the sky. The arrow was enough to stop Libra from racing through the air and cause her to fall.
“Wow!”
Someone approached Libra, who had fallen to the ground. Among the crowd of people who were running away in panic at the appearance of the monster, he was the only person who was flowing among them and approaching the monster.
“…Kid?”
The person had the appearance of a boy. He has a youthful appearance and is about the size of a middle school student.
“Who are you, you bastard?”
With that voice, Libra realized her own illusion.
“…Archer!”
“It is Amundsen.”
The kid in front of me was not a person, but a monster disguised as a boy.
He immediately released his disguise and regained his original appearance.
A monster with a face resembling an insect wearing rusty armor. He looked quite different from the one Libra was used to.
Rust had fallen from the armor here and there, showing its original appearance.
If it was scrap metal that could not be restored before, it now looks like scrap metal that can be used in some way.
“You were the one who suggested I come. He said he would heal Jason. But what is that like? “Where are your legs?”
The monster of Sagittarius.
According to the original plan, the monster who would have been drugged had to be him.
It was one of the reasons why I chose the city as my residence. Because we need to start a rampage right away in this city.
He was a talented person who could quickly destroy the city without anyone having time to stop him.
But it is now impossible. I used up one of the already completed medicines.
“Just a little more… You should have come a little faster! “You stupid thing!”
“Why the f*ck?”
Libra hit the ground and regretted it.
If he had arrived a little sooner, planning would have been easier.
“Hey, but.”
For now, I just hoped that Blue Sirius would do well.
“Why are you doing that?”
Amundsen frowned in puzzlement.
A huge black storm was raging in the distance that anyone could see, even if it wasn’t his eyes.
**
Right after Libra ran away, a pitch-black storm began to blow from Seolhwa Yoon.
A wind of starlight, soggy and noxious, like tar stuck to the lungs.
Kwagwagwagwagwang! The wind was vivid, as if it contained real darkness. The wind split the concrete floor like meat, destroying everything it passed through.
It was incomparable to the starry storm that appeared around the time of giving up on peace. The ominousness was similar to the poison seen from the scorpion.
“Jaejoong, run away!”
Yun Seol-hwa pressed her shoulder and urgently informed Han Jae-joong. She may not know what happened to her, but she knows that she is in danger now.
The power is out of control. Starlight continues to escape like water draining from a hole in a dam. It’s not mana. It is the power of unpurified stars.
I am losing strength endlessly. This meant that no matter how much it was lost, the starlight would continue to be refilled.
‘…What is it?’
Yun Seol-hwa somehow deduced the identity of that power beyond the fading consciousness caused by intense pain. As with most inferences, she tried to draw her conclusions from the experiences in her memory.
A water disaster that occurred when spring came. Yun Seol-hwa quickly discovered that the monster who caused the disaster was similar to the person she is now.
Will I cause the same explosion myself? When such thoughts entered Yun Seol-hwa’s mind, she became terrified.
She was not afraid of herself turning into a monster. The person closest to her, she feared would kill her lover, Han Jae-joong.
The love that bordered on madness forced me to wake up my body, which was about to lose consciousness due to intense pain and fatigue.
“It’s a snowflake!”
“Don’t come!”
When Han Jae-joong, wounded by the black wind, began to approach, Yun Seol-hwa stopped him with cold feet.
“You can’t come, Jaejoong. Run away. Right Now!”
“That’s a poison only for monsters! “It is of no use to the human body!”
Looking at Han Jaejoong’s wounds, I felt unbearable fear and tried to look away, but when I heard his words, my movements stopped.
“…What?”
If that’s what you said, doesn’t it sound like you’re a monster? Why would a drug that would not be effective on humans be effective on ourselves? There was only one answer.
Because he was turning himself into a monster.
Well, there’s nothing strange about it.
Yun Seol-hwa sneered.
Look at what we have done so far.
The magical girl who was supposed to protect the peace gave up on it. She attacked the same magical girl. Although she is said to be a criminal, she definitely attacked people. I abandoned my duties and was swayed only by my personal emotions.
Botis, Virgo. There is no difference from the magical girls who have fallen so far.
“…Then, that’s the end.”
As the transformation into a monster continues, the poison will seep deep into your body and encourage you to run away. The procedure is clearly visible.
“Jaejoong, I’m already done. “Quickly throw it away and run away…”
“Shut up!”
Han Jae-joong’s anger flew towards Yun Seol-hwa, who was licking her lips in resignation. It was genuine anger, completely different from the contempt mixed with pity until now.
“You might need a real punishment… I told you. Sacrifice is not true love! Are you the only one who doesn’t listen? I don’t know how to listen either! If you become a monster, do you think I’ll let you kill me right away? Isn’t that possible if I’m not some kind of psychopath?!”
The black wind continued to cut through the body. The human’s fragile flesh could not withstand the slash and fell off, spattering blood.
“We’ll all just die together! “You and I will both die and meet in the afterlife!”
Nevertheless, Han Jaejoong kept moving forward.
“Seolhwa, do you think you are a rare double b*tch? “You attacked a magical girl and attacked some people, right?”
“….”
“If that alone made everyone into monsters, we would have all turned into monsters together during the last Argo Family attack! But it’s not.”
Black starlight still poured down from Seolhwa Yoon, and the darkness stirred the air.
“It’s a snowflake. “Do you hate people?”
For a moment, it felt like the storm was shaking and shaking.
“I hate you too. There are probably many people other than you who hate people. Seolhwa, anger is a legitimate emotion. If you’ve been harmed, you want to give back to people. “People say that if there’s something they’ve been holding in, they want to let it out.”
In no time, Han Jae-joong had come right up to Yoon Seol-hwa. His blood flowed like a stream from all over his body.
The blood drops fell and quenched Yun Seol-hwa’s thirst.
“Your feelings are valid.”
Brought vitality to dry lips.
“…So you’re saying I won’t become a monster?”
“I can’t give a definite answer. But I know that.”
Han Jae-joong slowly got down on his knees and folded his hands on top of Yun Seol-hwa’s hands.
I remembered the night when I became her lover in earnest. It was as dark then as it is now. It was a dark night without a single light.
“Because you will try to protect me. So no matter what anyone says, you are my hero.”
Nothing was said to each other. The hands we held were shy that day. The night air was humid, but I had no intention of letting go. Each other’s hands were filled with sweat, and before we knew it, our bodily fluids were all mixed together inside. The rising heat was too sweet to blame on summer.
So, I wandered around for a while.
Even though they could only see the outline vaguely in the darkness, they were proudly confident that the person in front of them was theirs.
No matter how bright or dark it is, all the emotions I feel are always the same.
When our eyes met, everyone confessed their love without question. It was also the day of my first kiss.
“He’s not a monster, he’s my person.”
It is probably no coincidence that the pronunciations of people and love are similar.
At some point, the storm of dark stars subsided. However, the already wounded body did not recover.
Yun Seol-hwa’s intense pain and fatigue, Han Jae-joong’s bleeding. All were fatal damages. In particular, Yun Seol-hwa’s condition was so severe that her consciousness was blurred.
“Remember this one thing.”
In her blurred consciousness, she concentrated all of her senses. As her vision became grayer, her hearing and touch naturally became more sensitive.
“From now on, no matter what happens, I won’t leave you. There is no way I will walk away from you of my own volition. “If I failed, it would mean that I was in some kind of crisis.”
His voice rang out in the darkness.
“If that day ever comes… Please come to protect me like you do now.”
“…Huh?”
A lovely voice, just like any other time.
“Don’t sound anxious. Jaejoong. Don’t go. Egg plant….”
“Please do me a favor.”
Lastly, just before Yun Seol-hwa’s eyes closed, Han Jae-joong cut her off and pursed her lips.
A kiss that tasted like blood felt more sorrowful than affectionate.
In no time, all the black wind had dispersed into the air and disappeared.
“Huh….”
Han Jae-joong, who appeared to the world as if a curtain had been lifted, carefully placed the fallen Yoon Seol-hwa on the ground.
For some reason, I remember the day when my identity was discovered.
It feels really strange to end on the same day that this mess began.
Time when the sky turns red. Clouds rolled in, casting a damp, sticky darkness over the ground. Along with the darkness, countless eyes were focused on Han Jaejoong.
“Look, look! Blue Sirius and Han Jae-joong, who disappeared in the black storm….”
Several reporters came to cover the story.
“…Jaejoong?”
“My benefactor! Are you okay?!”
“Stop, senior!”
Several magical girls gathered together to solve this storm.
“What the f*ck.”
“Let go, let go! I have work to do! That stupid b*tch! “You keep doing things wrong until the very end!!”
“Shut up you bastard!”
Several monsters approached and observed the situation.
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Numerous eyes were on him.
Doubt, disgust, embarrassment, anger, contempt, pity, jealousy, worry, etc. There were corresponding emotions in those gazes.
Amidst the chaos, there was one particularly unique feeling.
It seemed like the sound of bells along with the sound of a flute came from somewhere.
“It’s going to spin, really.”
Han Jaejoong laughed bitterly.
“The promised time has come. Older brother.”
“Time flies pretty quickly.”
A girl’s voice came from within her shadow.
“Because you were hurt. It used up its lifespan a little quickly. It’s okay though! “No matter when it happened, the result would have been the same!”
A small voice. The girl laughed as if she was whispering so no one could hear.
“Do you have any will?”
“I love you so much because you keep your promises like a sword.”
“Yes!”
A girl jumped out from the shadows. Clear eyes that only showed brightness aroused anxiety in those who saw them.
“White Davich?!”
Everyone could not help but be surprised by the sudden appearance. She and some of her closest friends thought this way.
She was a magical girl who loved gossip the most, so she kept quiet following this incident.
“I love you so much too!”
Kwasik! The shadow moved and stabbed Han Jaejoong in the heart. The real shadow naturally split his heart and took his last breath.
It happened in an instant.
Han Jae-joong’s life was cut short before he even felt pain.
White Davih smiled in ecstasy as he looked at the fallen body of Han Jae-joong.
“We will continue to be together from now on! Let’s have fun chatting together! “In particular, you need to tell me everything that has happened, okay?”
Han Jaejoong’s body began to slowly sink into the shadow from which she had just emerged.
While the body was sinking, White Davich continued to chat to him without stopping.
Once he had completely sunk, White Davich looked around her and nodded her head questioningly.
“…? “Why are you all looking at me like that?”
It was a calm tone and expression without any darkness.
