233 – People and Heroes (10)
Unlike Red Vega’s injured body, White Davih had a lot of physical strength and magic power. She even woke up briefly, so her mind was clear.
The judgment was quick.
Just before the light flashed, White Davich, who noticed his attack in advance, threw his body out to block the attack.
It was a reasonable decision.
Red Vega is the only one in my power right now who can deal with that monster. It was an action based on that judgment.
White Davih lacks social skills. Her empathy is severely lacking.
Benevolence, wisdom, and compassion. Although she learned about human nature, she did not fundamentally understand it.
The noble value of life was also something that could not be understood.
Her death was not a heavy concept for her as she dealt with her life and death in the first place.
Life and death are connected like two sides of a sheet of paper. Life ultimately leads to death.
Life is light because there is death.
So death is as light as life.
For White Davich, her life was of little value. A value that can be used as much as you want.
Of all of them, the most useful life was of course himself, so throwing one’s body was a very natural choice.
“One day… No… One day….”
Red Vega carefully extended his hand towards White Davih. Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.
‘What have I been doing all this time?’
Even though the wound did not increase, Baek Ah-hee felt pain as if her head would break.
‘It shouldn’t have happened like this.’
White Davih is here to assist, not hinder. She didn’t even have time to convey the situation because everyone was busy fighting. She would have had no information.
White Davich was the first to rush to this spot to help her. She always was like that.
She always took Red Vega’s side. Even her childish actions during her rookie days were able to be achieved because of her active support.
For a moment, she became disillusioned with herself and with her resentment.
The feeling of shame turned into sobs and overflowed.
“Don’t go….”
“I’m not dead!”
As Red Vega’s tears touched her cheeks, White Darby opened her eyes.
“They’re already trying to send it away… Keaaa….”
As much as she wanted to raise her body, it was impossible due to the pain throughout her body.
“Ssssstt oftt
Even though she said that, she did not regret it. The durability of zombies cannot withstand that beam of light.
It was a wise choice to use the strongest body I had.
“One day!”
“Brother, stay organized! “A weakling who can’t even use his strength!”
Han Jaejoong moved his body reflexively at the sight of her injury. White Davich scolded him and she stopped moving.
“You’re impatient.”
These were not words directed at Han Jaejoong.
Libra began to gather rays of light into her arms again.
White Davych drew her horn from her own shadow. Her horn shattered, scattering white powder, and a single flute emerged from within.
Just before the rays reached them, White Davich played his flute and let out a beautiful melody.
With the sound of the flute, the bodies of Red Vega and White Davich were shrouded in shadow. As a bonus, Han Jaejoong is also there.
A ray of light swept through their empty space hidden in the shadows. Quagwagwang!! The steel bars of the building that were hit directly by the beam melted, and the building lost its support and collapsed.
The old building, which was not even half of what was left, disappeared without a trace.
People who had been hiding in the shadows of the debris of those buildings appeared.
“I wish I had used this from the beginning….”
“At that time, I didn’t even have time to play the flute. If you can’t use magic, just do it.”
“I can’t use it because I don’t want to, but it makes the general public sad.”
Perhaps because her attitude throughout the day was so light, Han Jaejoong also treated her lightly. Her words were light, but her heart was not so, and she was caressing her hair anxiously.
“Ah… Damn it. It’s so damn hard. Jiknyeo. Now there is no next time. “Choose carefully.”
“….”
Her cool-headed gaze was directed at Red Vega.
Perhaps the magic from before was her final struggle, and her transformation was lifted.
“Ah, the next attack is coming right away. “It’s not a bad choice to act a little faster…!”
As soon as those words were finished, Libra approached. In the process, the remains of the building flew into the sky like fallen leaves. There was no need to calculate how much force was involved in the advance.
Red Vega held the people on both sides of her arms and flew through the sky.
“Damn it…!”
“When did you learn such bad words! Swearing is a bad word that should not be used….”
“Is now the time to say something like that?! Wow!”
As soon as she took flight, Libra also took off. She doesn’t have her flight capabilities. She forced a jet of light beneath her feet and soared like a rocket.
Unfortunately, its speed was faster than Red Vega.
Puck! Libra’s fist touched the tip of Red Vega’s leg.
“Ugh…!”
Red Vega was not embarrassed and gathered flames at the tips of her toes and released them. Quaaa! A line like a pillar of her flame was drawn.
The line hindered Libra’s pursuit and made Red Vega’s escape faster.
Red Vega distanced herself from Libra and quickly descended. The flame of divinity, its firepower, was able to create some leeway.
“…Please stay here. One day, don’t overdo it anymore.”
“What should I do?”
“What the heck. Of course we have to fight.”
But her firepower also had side effects. That overwhelming firepower makes her hurt them just because it was around her.
Red Vega gritted his teeth as he looked at the burn marks left on Jaejoong Han and Haru.
“…I was hurt a lot.”
“I know. “But you still have to do it.”
“Isn’t it a magical girl’s duty?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
I wanted to tell Han Jaejoong, who was worried, to calm down, but I stumbled because my legs couldn’t stand properly. His bones were probably broken in the previous attack.
Han Jaejoong looked at her with a distraught face and then nodded at her.
“Okay. “If Mr. Vega says that, I have no right to stop him.”
“…Yes. Thank you.”
“As I said before, I respect Mr. Vega’s choice.”
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Selection. Those words weighed heavily on my shoulders.
“I hope this is a choice you will not regret.”
Red Vega said those last words and turned away from Han Jaejoong.
You can see Libra heading towards you.
Once again, it took off powerfully. If you’re in the air, it doesn’t matter if you can’t use your legs. It rushed towards Libra with flames swirling around it.
‘It’s like a moth to fire.’
Red Vega mocked himself.
Unfortunately, there is no possibility of defeating the current Libra.
Life is a series of choices.
Choice is choosing something and giving it up. Giving up is always behind a choice.
In the end, it was a list of sacrifices.
In her life so far, Red Vega has sacrificed numerous factors.
Now, even if he sacrifices something, it may be no different from what he used to do.
‘…Now, when I go back.’
You can buy it. Not only can I survive, but I can also save Han Jae-joong and Haru. It is possible to run away with all your might while holding them.
We have already seen that Libra, who is not used to being in the air, cannot keep up with her own speed.
‘I can protect the people I love.’
But if you try now and lose, everything will end just like that. Libra will definitely kill Jaejoong Han and Haru. No, she might die from the shrapnel she fights in the first place.
The battle of divinity has a huge impact. The collision of a star that shakes the earth shatters the small stones next to it without even considering them.
Libra is gradually getting closer. A mass of starlight, before she could even determine what was in it, parted the clouds of her death.
While death was getting closer.
For some reason, Red Vega turned his gaze towards the ground for a moment.
A somewhat familiar geographical structure. She realized that this was the same old building she had used for suicide prevention counseling in the past. Although she can’t find any traces of it now, she recognized it from the surrounding roads and buildings.
The landowner decided that it would cost more to rebuild, so it was abandoned.
The place of memories remains broken.
But there were also memories that emerged from broken places.
On this day, Red Vega approached divinity for the first time.
Even then, Libra clearly caused destruction. At that time, he was so strong that Red Vega couldn’t even fight him.
I came back and now the scene has been recreated.
‘Why did I fight back then?’
Even at that time, the possibility of escape was open. In fact, she even ran away once. But in the end, he came back, fought, and achieved victory.
‘I fought because I had to protect people.’
I was equally afraid that day.
I am afraid of death. For Red Vega, as much as life was valuable, death was as heavy as it was.
Then why are you even more afraid now?
The reason was clear.
There is someone I love.
There is more to lose than there was then. The relationships I have made so far and the people I want to protect are right behind me. Rather, it was foolish to try.
People change. A considerable amount of time has passed since then. Circumstances trump sincerity. The emotions created by the memories until now were constricting my heart.
It whispers to me to run away.
It was closer to an angel’s whisper than a devil’s whisper. A well-intentioned suggestion not to lose everything in a moment.
However, if we run away with only them now, the Libra left behind will create chaos in the city. It is an enemy that even Red Vega cannot face. It’s hard to believe that other people can win normally.
Would you give up peace for love?
Red Vega asked himself a question.
“I am….”
She asked again to find the answer to that question.
“Did you see the stars?”
If you see it, you know it; if you know it, you remember it.
Red Vega never forgot the bright light she saw the day she first decided that she wanted to become a magical girl. She cannot forget that longing.
The dream she had that day still remains vivid in her mind.
I want to become a hero who leads through this chaos and makes everyone feel safe.
“Yes, I saw it.”
At the same time, she cannot forget the day she realized she was in love. That too was a bright light that matched her longing. A happy light that made her heart rosy and filled with that sweet red color.
“I saw it clearly.”
Love was also her dream.
If you were to list the sacrifices in life, one of your two dreams would have to be sacrificed.
But her life was not a series of sacrifices.
It was a series of meetings.
Numerous encounters and partings, memories that bloomed from those encounters, emotions that arose from those encounters, and dreams bloomed from these countless encounters.
“Then we should approach.”
The answer was simple.
Though the situation changed and my heart changed.
Sometimes there are things that do not change.
“I am Red Vega. “Starlight that will reach someone’s heart like a comet.”
She raised her fist. Her fingers are shaking. However, she held it tightly so that it would not loosen. A spark filled her fist.
“A light that does not shine for fall, but for moving forward.”
The red flames gathered endlessly in my small hand, to the point where I could no longer describe the details. The amount of light was so great that it appeared as a single white dot.
It looked like a single star decorating the blue sky.
“There is nothing impossible in my path!”
Nothing is impossible. A hero must be bold.
“I don’t give up on anything!”
Love and peace. I will take them all.
The fist was swung with such determination.
Bam!!! An explosion occurred in the sky along with a huge explosion. Flashes of light exploded like a flood. It’s so intense that everyone who looks up there is blinded by the light.
Sparks flew in all directions around the flash.
Colorful embers, like fireworks, decorated the sky.
Something fell out of the flash of light. It was Libra. Most of his body was distorted and looked like roughly touched clay.
Red Vega fell after that.
The figure slowly leaving traces in the sky looked as if it was moving across a huge lake.
The bravery of advancing.
There was an aesthetic of rise within the fall.
The aesthetic fall ended when it hit the ground.
“Wow… Gasp….”
Red Vega took a breath.
My body doesn’t move, probably because I’ve used up almost all of my magical power from the attack just now. She lay down on the soft ground.
A shadow fell over her face.
“Really… I told you to stay still.”
“I came to check if he was dead.”
“How much I have been colored by Haru in this short period of time.”
It was Han Jae-joong. She seemed to have been influenced by Haru and raised the corners of her mouth, hearing the joking tone.
There was no anger. Because he wasn’t his in the first place. It was just an arrogant illusion. First of all, he is a person. He cannot be possessed.
We just move forward together.
“Oh, that’s right. That’s right.”
Red Vega let out an exclamation as if he remembered something about her.
“Meeting Jaejoong helped me achieve my dreams.”
This was the answer to the question before.
“My star is shining based on all of that.”
Red Vega calmly admitted that fact. She didn’t add, she didn’t do anything less.
“This is my answer. “Then, what about Jaejoong?”
After she finished answering, she asked him again.
“Did my meeting help your dreams? “Did you see a shining star?”
Han Jaejoong quietly nodded his head.
“Yes, of course.”
He also calmly admitted the truth.
“Here, in front of my eyes.”
Red Vega smiled.
“That’s really fortunate.”
Red stardust flowed out. A small light like a firefly. One of them reached Han Jaejoong.
Han Jaejoong thought as he touched the starlight.
‘Why did I lose my memory?’
Aftereffects of a simple resurrection? Were there any side effects while reconstructing the body? No. A lot of strange things remain.
‘Why was this loss necessary?’
The starlight of Red Vega, which he was caressing, disappeared as if melting into his hand.
The starlight entered Han Jaejoong’s body.
The starlight drew a circle around the missing heart. One circle. The starlight continued to spin, drawing countless circles. In that orbit, an almost infinite circle emerged.
A very small starlight became a star itself.
[The star has been activated.]
The glass plate of the belt, which was no different from a piece of junk, glowed and a voice came out from within it.
‘Aha indeed.’
[Replay the memory.]
It was only then that Han Jaejoong realized the reason for this memory loss.
Lost memories can be activated by obtaining stars. In the process, your mind is directly connected to the belt.
The loss of memory was not only a necessary process for reconsidering one’s self, but also for making inner contact with the belt once again.
A kind of trick.
Han Jaejoong felt like he was losing his mind.
My mind flows into the belt.
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My vision is distorted. At the same time, the world is also distorted. The body itself sways as if it were a circle. Small dots come together to become longer, and the lines stretch out like a passageway to create a road.
Along the way, Han Jaejoong realized everything he had done.
Literally, everything.
At the end of the road.
Han Jaejoong looked at a broken world.
“Hello, see you again?”
In the world of Belt, where everything was broken and falling apart, Sky Polaris welcomed him.
“It’s jingle.”
Han Jaejoong laughed. Looking at his rotting expression, Sky Polaris sighed with regret.
“You’ve already returned to normal… I liked it when you were so fresh.”
“Shut up.”
“So what? How does it feel to be newly aware of your origins?”
Sky Polaris smiled.
“Guardian of guardians. Yeah, it’s a really nice dream. “Okay then.”
“…Yes, that is my dream.”
“So? Are you going to fight again? Even after becoming a corpse?”
Han Jaejoong did not answer the question and changed his mind.
“When I entered the world inside this belt again, I gained memories.”
“That’s right. “Because it replays memories.”
“I got all my memories.”
All memories. He repeated the word as if to emphasize it.
“All the memories related to you. All my possibilities. “You have seen the end of everything you have seen of me.”
“Aha.”
“I watched my death, destruction, corruption, it all.”
Han Jaejoong sighed and closed his eyes.
“And I decided.”
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I exhaled as if all the poison had been expelled, then took another breath and opened my eyes.
In a split second, I had many concerns.
Dreams and life, the future of humanity and one’s own future. Those who love and those who hate. Regret and reflection. These countless troubles.
A conclusion drawn as a result of pondering and pondering over those painful concerns.
“I will break the contract with the star.”
Contract with the stars.
The duty to protect the guardian obtained in exchange for giving the power to carry out one’s dreams.
It was a declaration of cancellation of the contract.
