242 – Heroes and Monsters (4)
Before he knew it, blood was flowing down Han Jaejoong’s side. It resembles a wound from the past. His white shirt turned red from the inside.
“Now, wait a minute… I froze…”
“No.”
Yoon Seol-hwa tried to maintain his state by putting his body into a cryosleep state or near-death state, but Han Jae-joong refused.
“Time passes even in ice. “It would be too late to go to Haru like this.”
“Well, then…”
“….”
Han Jaejoong began to concentrate again. It is not enough to simply make Davih’s star bloom within this. We must approach that more fundamental power.
We must approach the border between life and death.
He has already experienced the unity of beginning and end once. Life is no different. Anything that begins has an end, and if there is an end, there is a beginning.
What you need to do now is to bring your soul closer to the beginning.
We must create the power to handle the boundary between life and death and guide the soul to life.
I know the principle. It just takes time. It is difficult to pinpoint just one element in an infinite, expanding universe. You have to embark on a literally infinite journey.
Of course, Han Jaejoong had no intention of spending a long time on this process. A few tens of minutes will be enough.
‘But…’
Han Jae-joong saw Yun Seol-hwa. The condition is not serious.
Breathing was irregular and eyes were shaking. The white around him was dyed black without a gap to be seen, and before he knew it, his clothes and hair also took on a similar color. The starlight sank heavily. There was almost no magic in the starlight.
An unsettling brilliance unique to monsters.
At this point, it’s hard to even call her a magical girl.
Monsterization is in progress.
Yun Seol-hwa was confused.
‘Why… Did the same thing happen as what I saw in my dream?’
A very strong deja vu. It is similar to the dream I had yesterday and today.
‘Did I have a precognitive dream? No, this is different…’
They are similar, but not the same. The tunnel in the dream was a place in reality. There were a lot of people, Han Jaejoong suffered more blood loss than now, and it wasn’t this hot that day.
The dream and now are different. But it’s so similar.
‘As if I had glimpsed a memory of a parallel world….’
Yun Seol-hwa frowned at the strong sense of discomfort she felt.
That is not important now.
Han Jaejoong was injured. He was in so much pain that he felt like he was going to collapse at any moment. He may like his own pain, but he cannot like Han Jaejoong’s pain.
We must protect it. We must save him from that pain.
But how?
His own power is ice. It’s chilly. It’s frost falling on the world. I can’t save him with that kind of power.
A different force is needed. Also, stronger power is needed.
He needs the power to protect him from all the threats in this world.
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The dark starlight became more intense.
“It’s a snowflake.”
Han Jaejoong opened his lips.
“There is no need for you to overdo it. I was able to save myself. All you need is a little time. Really. “Nothing you worry about will happen.”
His voice was extremely peaceful. His eyes were slightly harsh, perhaps because of the pain, but his voice was soft. A voice that seems to soothe a child.
“Seolhwa, will you come here and give me a hug?”
Yun Seol-hwa did as he said. She sat on the floor and hugged Han Jaejoong. It became a support so that he could rest comfortably.
“Thank you.”
“Nothing… No. “There’s only so much I can do.”
“That’s not true. You have saved me and supported me countless times. “Not everyone can do that.”
It is difficult to be kind. Because kindness means sacrificing your own convenience. Anyone can have good intentions, but doing good deeds is difficult.
“But you hugged me without any complaints. “This is undoubtedly your good will and good deed.”
“…That’s just repaying what I’ve received so far.”
“It’s not easy to give back what you received.”
Han Jaejoong laughed. The chill I felt on my back cooled the heat just right.
“And if I return the good deeds I received from you, you will return the good deeds back to me. We’ll repeat that endlessly. “Probably until I die.”
“….”
“It doesn’t matter who did the first good deed. Like the chicken and egg debate, this too will cycle endlessly. “What’s important is how you and I feel.”
Frost formed on the tunnel walls. However, there was no damage to Han Jaejoong’s body. Yun Seol-hwa listened to him without saying a word.
“You may think this is obvious, but you saved my life several times, and each time I got hurt. “That feeling felt truly noble to me.”
Han Jaejoong took out the broken belt from his arms.
“So I wanted this kind of power to be of some help to you.”
Guardian of guardians.
When I think about it now, I thought it was too young, but the sincerity I felt back then has not changed.
“Seolhwa, I told you before. As long as you want to protect me, you will be my hero. “That feeling hasn’t changed even now.”
He was not a monster or anything, but his own person.
“You are my brightest star.”
Han Jaejoong recalled what the unicorn said.
-‘Monsterization is a phenomenon that occurs when a magical girl’s heart becomes tainted by evil. ‘It’s not something other people can do to stop it, it’s up to you.’
It’s up to you.
Han Jae-joong decided to trust Yun Seol-hwa.
“Now I will be very focused. So much so that it doesn’t even budge under any stimulation. You may be in a lot of pain during this time, but just think of it as a healing process and ignore it. Seolhwa, trust me. “I will definitely survive.”
I turned my head and aligned myself with Yun Seol-hwa’s eyes. Eyes still dark.
“And I will believe in you too.”
I had no doubt that there would be light in those eyes again.
Han Jaejoong started to concentrate after those words. His eyes were open, and his body was limp, as if he had lost all strength. Still, he did not let go of the belt he was holding in his hand. He still had the habit of handling starlight.
Yun Seol-hwa thought.
It’s a ridiculous thing to believe.
‘I might kill everyone involved with you.’
Now I know. Dream scenes are not mere imagination. This may actually happen. In some worlds, something like that may have already happened.
‘I am not a hero.’
What kind of hero could kill someone without hesitation?
Since when was a madman who turns a blind eye when it comes to someone he loves a hero?
If I think about it, I can’t understand why I was chosen as a magical girl. Neither then nor now, Yun Seol-hwa’s feelings have changed.
She became a magical girl only to save him.
But he couldn’t save it properly. Number of days defeated by enemies. She put him in danger countless times. It still is. He could not provide any help to the bleeding and suffering man.
‘Why can’t I only use magic like this?’
The power of magical girls and monsters is based on their origins. Starlight is what turns their will for their dreams into a miracle.
But Yun Seol-hwa did not understand why her own magic was frozen.
‘Why does it have this kind of power?’
What good will it do if it only makes people around you cold?
Ice will eventually melt.
It was a pity that I inevitably used the power to change with an unchanging mind.
Even ice at an absolute temperature that should not melt melted powerlessly against the lion’s silver mane.
‘Why do you still believe in me…?’
Yun Seol-hwa did not understand Han Jae-joong’s feelings.
‘Why do people like me…’
If Han Jaejoong hadn’t loved himself, he wouldn’t have had a better outcome.
Wouldn’t he have been happier if he had met a better person?
In the end, it was all a meaningless assumption.
Now, the one he trusted and loved was Yun Seol-hwa, and Yun Seol-hwa did the same.
There were many reasons why she liked Han Jaejoong, but she did not love Han Jaejoong for that reason alone.
‘Ah, I see.’
Probably, he will be like that too.
The human mind was originally like that. What is important is not the beginning or the reason.
‘What’s important is your and my heart.’
I thought about what Han Jaejoong said.
‘Repay and be repaid….’
The cycle never ends. Probably until I die.
Han Jae-joong believed in Yoon Seol-hwa. It had an implicit meaning.
She believed that he would protect her, and that she would continue to be her person.
‘I have received your trust, so I must repay you as well.’
Yun Seol-hwa watched Han Jae-joong with warm eyes.
Like that, if it’s long, it’s long, if it’s short, it’s short. Time passes.
A shadow has appeared beyond the tunnel.
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Wow!! He was a line in the heart of contradiction. The blue and red armor was torn and blood flowed from within.
“Oh my.”
Quang! Contradiction rolled on the ground.
A silver-colored mane fluttered from the nape of his neck, but only a little bit.
“The timing was really bad….”
Just before he could completely copy the lion’s power, the lion’s attack hit his body before that.
Mosun tried to get up but failed. So much fatigue had accumulated in my body. I can’t move now.
“If I had been a little faster, I don’t know if I would have been able to take more time than this… But it was a shame.”
Unfortunately, we can no longer deal with lions. Contradiction lay on the ground and used starlight to restore the blood flowing from his body.
Because of the severe fatigue, recovery was slower than usual.
Contradiction arose and healed all wounds.
But the lion had already passed the contradiction and was heading towards the distance.
“hahahaha….”
Anyway, I no longer had the stamina left to face the lion. Contradiction sat down with his back against the remains of the building.
“I believe you will survive well.”
Mosun smiled and looked at the lion who was becoming a tiny dot. The contradiction left him with only one wound.
It was a slash delivered at the same time as he succeeded in replicating the galaxy-colored mane.
But the wound is shallow. He provides no advantage in battle.
“If I could defeat the lion with my own strength…”
Mosun muttered.
“That will probably be the moment when I find the person who will fulfill my long-cherished wish.”
The one who defeats that lion alone will become the strongest shield.
I had no doubt about the contradiction.
