93 – Like Family (4)
She protected me in Dark Matter. In order to tell why this kind of relationship was formed, she had to go back to their first meeting.
When I first saw Virgo, I had no idea she was a monster.
The only parts that can be considered a monster are her eyes, which are filled with black without any white, and her wings, which are as black as the color around the pupil. Except for these two, it looked exactly like a human.
She just thought she was an unusual magical girl.
It was not the first time that a magical girl used magic and ended up with a slightly unusual appearance.
Rather, she thought she was mysterious.
The inhuman appearance, with only a small part added, made me feel unusually miserable rather than unpleasant.
She is a magical girl who was even known to be dead, and the fact that her place is Dark Matter doubled her mystique.
Until then, to me, she was Red Spica, not Virgo.
Just looking at her appearance, she hasn’t changed much since she was last pictured. Her eye color and wings don’t fall into the category of ‘a lot’. She can be disguised and put on artificially.
What changed more than anything was my personality.
I didn’t have any personal interaction with her, so I don’t know what she was like in private life.
However, it was clear that she was not the type to grab a civilian by the neck and slam her into the ground as soon as she saw her. If that were the case, there would have been a bigger controversy over attitude than during the story.
It was a very neat suppression skill.
The type of personality that beats people up without hesitation, even if only a few seconds have passed since we met face to face. It was truly as impressive as its mysterious appearance.
“Who are you…?”
“hehehe… Yes?”
“Who, who is it? You. Are you here to kill me, me, me…? Or are you trying to get something? What is the purpose? “What is the purpose? Me, me…”
It was quite hysterical. His speech was slurred, his teeth were chattering, and the hand holding my neck was soundless and weak. Still, it was weak by magical girl standards, so it had enough power to strangle and twist my neck.
“You’re so overly self-conscious….”
I came with the intention of searching anyway, so I used my tongue without hesitation. There was nothing to be afraid of. I was chased by a monster, I was chased by a missing magical girl with emotional instability, and it was there.
The moment I die in Dark Matter, no one will know of my death. The cause of death was not important.
“Who… Would come here… To see you…! “He is said to have passed away… I didn’t come to see you…”
“Okay, then! “Then what is it?”
“Because I hate humans….”
Now that I say it, it was quite an embarrassing reason. The fundamental reason is that it is shameful. There is no respect for blatantly revealed good and evil, so people who like to talk about things like face or appearance would naturally feel embarrassed.
I was like that too. Even during this time, I felt ashamed right after spitting it out, as if I still had the dignity to question it. This is a remark made by a typical anti-social person with poor social skills. However, it is impossible to pick up what has already been said. I continued what I was saying.
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“After experiencing a few similar things in society, I started to hate people… So I came here…”
“That… Joe, Joe, damn… Kid really. Anyway, something like that…what is it?”
Are you saying that you are trying to strangle people but are reluctant to say swear words? He is such a fun person.
“Cyberbullying, stalking, and stabbing.”
“…Oh.”
“Besides me, my lover also suffered a lot of wrongdoing….”
“Lover…? “I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-ik… You, you… Are you here to deceive me…?!”
“We broke up.”
“Aha.”
Perhaps the anger has subsided a little, and the power of Red Spica pressing down on my neck has weakened.
“Did you come here pessimistically to commit suicide because you were dumped by your girlfriend? hehehe, you’re young, you’re young. How beautiful the world is! You shouldn’t try to end your life so impulsively! “Dang!”
She blew honey balm on my forehead as if she was preaching. Just with a simple snap of her fingers, it’s ok! A loud noise rang out. Is she not aware of her own power? She rolled on the ground, feeling the pain of her skull cracking.
“Oh my… What should I do? I’m sorry! Did it hurt a lot? Uh, what should I do… Ah, ah! Now, wait a minute… uhm, uh, mom’s hand is the weak one~”
She gently placed her hand on my forehead and began to sing a magic song that had been handed down orally from a very long time ago.
Should I call it pure or immature? In this situation, she was closer to the latter.
“Stop it! “What if it’s not a child!”
“A kid, a kid? My mom did this often… Oh, no! How is it! Uh, it stirred up memories of her mother, didn’t it? How is it? Does she feel like going back to her home now?”
“Suddenly?”
It wasn’t just immature, it was very immature.
“Yes! That’s what I was aiming for! Never! “I didn’t give strange first aid out of panic!”
“That was first aid… I understand.”
“Huh? Are you going back?”
“No? Are you going to keep going?”
“Oh why! It’s dangerous here! Go back quickly! Don’t you miss her mother’s face?”
Red Spica seemed quite dissatisfied with my stay here. Was it a sense of duty as a hero? Even now that she thinks about it, there were a lot of things she didn’t know much about.
“I can’t see you even if I go back anyway, because you were killed by a monster.”
I still had no memories of my parents. The memories that can be recovered are relatively recent ones. Most of my childhood memories were lost. Still, I could tell.
In the past, I felt quite displeased and angry at the fact that I lost my parents to a monster.
It was a natural feeling for any human being, so it was natural. Who would love their parents’ enemies?
“Ah… I see.”
Red Spica became completely depressed.
“That’s why I came here without committing suicide. No one here knows who I am, and no one cares if I die. Because there are a lot of monsters there….”
I was attacked by Red Spica and picked up the iron pipe that fell on the ground.
“I want to kill one monster before I die.”
Now that I see it, there was no such thing as crazy. A remark from a childish child. Killing a monster with the physical abilities of an ordinary person. It must have sounded really absurd to her, who as a magical girl had killed many monsters.
She must have been funny, pathetic, and disgusting.
At the time, I was also skeptical. I honestly never thought I could kill a monster.
I came here with the intention of dying. I came to die without anyone knowing. I came here so that no one would remember that I was dead. But since they would remember me at least as much as I did, I thought it would be easier to do something and die.
So I spewed out nonsense like killing monsters.
“It’s fun.”
Pi Yung.
Red Spica raised her finger. A purple beam came out from the tip of her finger, and the metal pipe in my hand melted as easily as melting ice cream.
“Ugh…!”
“How?”
She asked a question with a grin.
“How are you going to kill me?”
“Work hard.”
I answered seriously. That was the serious answer.
“Then you have to work hard. “If I rest even a little, I will die.”
Jeobbuk. She approached me. Just one step brought them close enough to exchange breaths.
“You know, aren’t you curious? Why am I here, why am I like this? “What am I…?”
“I’m not sure, but I know he’s mentally ill.”
Red Spica burst out laughing as if he really liked my answer.
“Ahh! Ugh! Ahahahaha!”
“Wow, is this really that funny?”
“I’m laughing because it’s ridiculous… Are you really here to die? “You’re not paying attention even in this situation?”
She waved her finger, which had a bundle of beams at the end, and told him not to think about useless things.
“Do you know how absurd it is to say that an ordinary person can kill a monster? It’s the same as saying that you will pick a star from the sky. “It’s nonsense!”
Red Spica sighed and looked up and down my body. I showed some displeasure at her judgmental gaze, but she continued what she was doing without paying attention to me.
“She has a smooth face, but her hair is so bad… I feel so sorry for you too!”
“What are you doing here with such a smooth face?”
“Me? Of course… Ah. I only listened to what you said and didn’t say anything about me? Sorry sorry.”
She laughed heartily and tapped the area near my heart with her finger.
“It’s similar to you. I came here to rest. “I don’t like people either.”
It was an inappropriate comment for a magical girl to make. Now that I think about it, I was no longer a magical girl, so it was inappropriate and all.
“Unlike you, I didn’t come by myself. I don’t even know how long I’ve been here. “Why did it end up like this?”
Probably from this time on she was suffering from the blessing of oblivion.
“I miss my mom, and she wants to eat, but… Just because of that, she doesn’t want to leave here. For some reason, I don’t want to go out. “I just feel most comfortable here.”
Her remarks were clearly contradictory. If she was really comfortable here, she wouldn’t have curled up and cried and left, looking for her mother.
“Maybe it’s because I hate people?”
These words were spoken lightly, as if they were not that great, but they were heavier words than anything else. It was clear that it was not a mild dislike for a magical girl who gained starlight for people to have developed an aversion to them.
It must have been such a strong hatred that it was enough to completely change one’s life.
“So, it’s really difficult for you to be here… Your situation is pitiful, but you don’t even know if it’s real, right? “Most of the people who come here are just trash criminals and people who have lived a miserable life… so the chances of causing trouble are quite high!”
The fever gradually rose near the heart. There was no excitement. There was only fear. Heat began to gather in her fingers as she touched my body.
“Are you going to kill me?”
“Uh um… Is that so? But, my thoughts have changed a bit.”
Red Spica grinned at me.
“People like you are not people I dislike. “There is no such thing as a bad person among people who don’t like people!”
The enemy of my enemy is my friend,
A person who disliked people felt favor when he saw people of the same type. She did it, I did it.
But her statement was also contradictory.
“You said you didn’t trust me earlier.”
“Did I do that? Sorry! Anyway, that’s what I’m saying…”
The beam collected near my heart was shot upward.
“I’ll give you a one-on-one lecture until you kill the monster. How is it?”
The monsters nearby gathered towards this direction. I repeatedly let monsters flock to me and protected me under the pretext of educating me.
It was the beginning of a strange relationship.
**
And now, she has protected me without change.
The feeling of the killer protecting me was quite cozy.
Ha, be f*cking happy, really.
I still couldn’t understand Virgo’s eyes.
“Good morning! Did you sleep well?”
“Thank you very much.”
I couldn’t have slept well even though I was strangled. I looked around.
Is this the hideout where Virgo lives? For her ruins, it was strangely neat.
“Really? Then let’s sleep one more time!”
What the f*ck.
“Let’s talk about it….”
Let’s move her feet to reach her.
Tuk. And something caught on her foot.
I looked down and saw what it was.
It was a lump of machinery.
A rather elaborate-looking piece of machinery that doesn’t fit here.
I instinctively realized that it was an item attached to a belt.
I also realized why I was told to keep Virgo alive.
