203 – 40. Arthur
The girl.
I was no longer a girl.
She was already an adult.
All of her past colleagues are dead.
Some people called her her hero, but others resented her.
Now, instead of holding on to her hopes, she is only holding on to her dreams from her childhood, which have become a ruin, and to Hector’s will.
So she just lives her life in an ugly way.
The girl who longed for specialness suddenly became the standard for specialness.
What is left for her?
Even she couldn’t be sure because she had stopped being a girl.
At least one thing was certain.
……… Even as all her special people left her.
Only that voice remained.
That was certain.
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“……You disguised her face.”
“Rain?”
“So… That’s why no matter how much I researched, I didn’t know. It was a face that didn’t exist in the first place. The name I knew was probably fake, and everything I knew was fake?”
Hector Arthur, who was disgusted with the principal, had already disappeared.
Lucas, who was looking at his younger brother who was muttering something to himself, narrowed his eyes.
‘The reason she married her father…….’
You have the same name as a man who died in the past?
Because the only person who would accept my crazy promise to use the child as I want in exchange for marriage is my father?
If not that.
──Ooh, ah………
──This experiment also failed…… Why? It must have been a combination of the two most special genes.
──Woo?
──Would it have been better to create it from scratch rather than give birth to it myself? But the material…… We need a special job, but we can’t kidnap those who protect the world………
──Uh, uh, Ma?
──…… Okay, let’s watch a little more. If you take the time to succeed…… It will definitely be the best result.
The principal.
The eyes were extremely dry and emotionless.
Nevertheless, it was truly absurd…… I had hope.
The problem was that that was the hope he had while conducting human experiments on his own child.
“……………….”
Rain was silent.
No matter how much she brings up Namgoong Min, her mother, Lane, is the person she has been looking for and what she has been pursuing for over 10 years.
The only warm light in the cold and painful Arthur.
It’s almost embarrassing that Lane, who has been searching for her mother for so long, is somehow able to hold on in the face of her harsh truth.
‘…… ‘Let’s leave it alone.’
I’ve already said everything I could. Even if I tried to talk to Raine again here, there would be no way for her to reach out to me again.
More than anything, this is a weight that Lane must bear alone.
In the end, it is a burden that even Namgoong Min cannot bear, much less her brother Lucas.
Because the memories of her mother are a warmth that only Lane had.
Even if that warmth burns even her…… In the end, it will be a problem that Lane will have to overcome alone.
‘Rain.’
I believe in you.
I believe that you will be able to endure everything and achieve happiness with Namgoong Min.
Because I trust you…… I won’t help you.
Even if we help here, the person named Lane Arthur will never be made whole.
That’s why Lucas looked at the principal, not Lane, with determined eyes.
Because there is still some past that needs to be heard.
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──It’s not enough for us.
Inadvertently, she muttered that.
The , Who first entered magic at the age of ten, has now lived for nearly 100 years.
She has been crossing gates and killing monsters throughout her life…… She realized the truth she had been ignoring for so long.
Her specialness cannot save the world.
Even if you gather all the other special people, it’s impossible.
The supposedly tough special professions kept dying, and I thought about lowering the standard for specialness a little, but those who ran away from the battlefield came to mind.
There was no compromise. I had no doubt that those who were born special were the ones who were born special.
But now it is time to face reality.
Speciality alone.
That we cannot protect the world.
And that’s why.
──If you cannot protect the world with your specialness.
──The most special being…… Isn’t it okay to just make it?
The sound that a voice whispered a long time ago.
At first, she didn’t even care because she believed in her own specialness.
Later, the strings of reason stood in the way.
It only sounds sweet when you get to the very end.
Those words in the voice.
She is.
You can ignore it as usual…… There wasn’t.
But she didn’t cross the line.
Even though I knew that using people was the most efficient method, I ignored it.
So, after countless attempts and failures, she…
Is there really a need to package it nicely?
In the end, things went astray.
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“If you can’t use someone else… You can just use the child you gave birth to yourself?”
A child born from marriage to the most ‘special’ school principal and Hector Arthur, who was special like her even though he did not have a special job?
That would be the most ‘special’ test subject, right?
‘I’m out of my mind.’
Lucas gritted his teeth in unbearable discomfort.
It’s so disgusting that a person like that is their mother.
Although I have seen the trajectory of the principal, I also know that his life is worthy of sympathy.
That does not mean that what the principal did to Lucas and Lane will disappear or be forgiven.
Hypocrisy is also good, and a good lie is ultimately a lie.
The fact that the principal used Lucas and Lane as test subjects is the only truth.
“……………….”
That’s why Lucas didn’t look back to see what kind of expression Lane was making.
…… Actually, I wanted to see him and comfort him right away.
Reference, I endured.
Lucas is even better than Namgoong Min…… Because I trusted Lane.
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Rain Arthur looked at the scene before her in fascination.
──The transformation magic worked better when I gave it Jeong. Did the psychological trust relationship have an impact? You should act like that.
The principal pretends to be a loving mother from day one.
──Even if this test subject becomes the most special being…… Ultimately, it is impossible to do alone. Let’s make it a mother body that can give birth to other special things.
The reason why they chose Lane, a woman, over Lucas, a man.
──Superpower person…… It’s a wonderful special thing. It’s special by nature, and if you add my specialness to it, this test subject is definitely…… !!
Never once did he call Lane ‘daughter’.
I only refer to my mother as an ‘experiment’.
The principal only called Lane affectionately when he was acting.
The research report he wrote while alone or with Rain asleep with magic was full of madness.
“……………….”
When anger and astonishment reach their peak…… Does it actually make me feel vain?
Suddenly, Lane remembered her childhood after her mother disappeared.
──Remember, the strong can do anything to the weak. If you are weak, you have no choice but to be taken away.
The time when she was wielding her whip and her twisted logic of her strength and weakness was forced upon her as a child.
──Take it away and trample on them. You are strong It’s okay to do anything.
The days of slowly and gradually reforming her thoughts.
There was such ‘education’ even before my mother disappeared.
It became even more extreme after she disappeared. Lane was not supported by anyone and had to endure alone.
That’s why she searched for and missed her mother even more.
‘A person like that?’
Yes, a person like that.
…… Lane remembers.
After the duel between Namgoong Min and Hector, the conversation was held to put an end to the bad relationship with her father.
Then Lane took one of her arms from Hector.
──Your mother…… She was the most vicious person I’ve ever known, and she did it as karma and she died. That’s it.
She also remembers Hector’s words.
I didn’t believe it, and of course I doubted it.
Now I have no choice but to admit that those words were true.
“hahahaha…….”
The most vicious human being? Hector, you are wrong.
You…… Because she was just as vicious a person as that mother.
Unlike my mother, who acted all the way to the end, at least in front of me, you were consistent from beginning to end.
‘I…’ … ‘Were you unhappy?’
Her father repeatedly whipped her and brainwashed her, her mother only saw her as her experiment, and her brother treated her coldly after suffering in her alley. Did.
In the meantime, she was trampling on the people around her with the twisted logic of ‘strong weak weak weak’, so she was called a wicked woman.
Even though she lived like that, her life would eventually end as a marriage tool for a family called Arthur.
Is this enough to say that I was the most unhappy and deserved sympathy?
“……No.”
Even if I had a really unfortunate past.
If the past was unfortunate, can the present mistakes be forgiven?
That can’t be possible.
Because you knew that better than anyone else, didn’t you take Hector’s arm and brace yourself by looking at it every time you were alone?
Of course, the mistakes from the time when Rain was called a villain—there’s no way that will go away.
“Has the past been unfortunate? Her colleagues have died?”
“Rain…?”
“So what? Then is it okay to cross the line? Since you saved so many people, is it okay to use a few as you please?”
No.
With each step Lane takes, the scenery around her changes.
Her baby Lane grew, and her principal’s research report also grew thicker.
And finally.
In the middle of the night, she fell asleep after receiving painful training as usual.
──As expected, the experiment was a failure. Is it because of my job as a psychic? Transformation magic does not penetrate beyond a certain level.
──I worked hard for quite a long time, but…… There seems to be no hope now.
The principal left, leaving Lane alone in her room.
There were no noble resolutions or resolute resolutions.
She was just a failure, so there was only a light heart that she was leaving.
──…… She’s leaving? Is this disgusting experiment over?
──Now you can do whatever you want with that experiment subject. It was a promise, right? I decided to leave as I pleased.
──Are you okay? Even after doing so well?
──Now it’s just a failure.
──…………
──Hello.
──…… Okay, hello.
After saying those words, Hector shot the headmaster in the back with an arrow.
Embarrassed, she immediately used magic, but she must have thought of something else and was hit by an arrow and fell down bleeding.
But she was visible in Lane’s eyes. She knew because she was in a lucid dream.
The principal creates a fake corpse using magic and leaves the scene.
──With this…… The aftercare is also neat.
Leaving her young Reign, her suffering.
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Her mother leaving without the slightest regret.
So.
“I saw it well, I saw it all. Didn’t I, brother?”
“………Okay.”
“It was an obvious past, a clichéd sentimentality. Did you think I would forgive and acknowledge her mother if she did this? That she was originally a good person? Because there was a time when she was pure.”
Yes, if it is Nam Goong Min ── if it is the person Lane loves, she will be angry but also understandable.
I try to act calm, but I am a very broad and serious person.
Although she may not have asked her principal to reconcile with her, he must have at least sympathized with her.
But it wasn’t Lane.
“I’m sorry, but I’m a narrow-minded, malicious, and mean-spirited villain. A past like this… Can’t stop me.”
The lucid dream is over.
You can still see it after that, but Lane shook her head resolutely.
Just boosting her
Superpower.
…… I just glare at the voice and narration I heard earlier.
“So tell me. Who are you?”
“……………….”
“It’s not the mother’s, or even the principal’s, inner thoughts. Then, is that the voice that only the principal can hear?”
“…Well, saying that is a bit unpleasant.”
Tap.
Lane and Lucas were no longer at the Arthur mansion.
You are in an unknown space where everything is white and even your senses are confused.
But they weren’t the only ones there.
“I was the one who brought that bastard down.”
“……Rain, be careful. Will not work.”
“Superpowers…?”
“Who am I? It’s that simple.”
Holding a sword with rainbow lights flowing out.
The black hair that was tied back once was flowing down.
A beautiful girl who seems to have just become an adult.
I looked at Lucas and Lane.
With a wide smile on your lips.
“It’s your sister-in-law. You b*tch.”