137 – The Three Musketeers
“Where on earth is this…?”
“…………”
“I don’t know where it is, but it’s a pretty unpleasant space…”
Kang Ha-neul, who was looking around with worried eyes, muttered in a low voice and started tapping the floor with his toes.
– Wiggle…
“Ugh.”
Then the dark and humid room where he and the spade began to shake back and forth like a wriggling insect.
“I want to leave right away, but I don’t think it would be a good idea to do anything too hastily…”
Kang Ha-neul, who was swaying for a moment in the room, soon regained his posture and began to be lost in thought with a serious expression.
“…Hey, do you have any guesses?”
“……!”
Then, when he turned her gaze to Spade, who was quietly lowering her head next to her, and asked a question, her body began to flinch.
“If you think about it, this happened because of the tentacles that suddenly protruded from your body, right?”
“…………”
“Now that I think about it, that tentacle somehow looks a lot like my kyureuk…”
“…It’s no use.”
Her river sky was looking at her with her head tilted as she continued to speak, and her spade finally opened her mouth that had been tightly shut for several minutes.
“Huh? It’s no use? What do you mean?”
“The moment I came here, it was all for naught.”
Spade’s complexion had darkened to the point where she couldn’t bear to look at it as she raised her head and began to look at the sky above her river.
“It’s over. It’s all over…”
“Aren’t you in this mood?”
“Everything…”
“Ha.”
After looking closely at her appearance, she sighed and began to approach her.
“Don’t come near me.”
“Huh?”
“Don’t come!!”
Spade, who was looking at him with a pale expression, suddenly screamed in an angry voice.
– Turp, trudge…
“Can’t you hear me?”
However, Kang Haneul ignores her words and continues to move forward.
“Ha, if you come one step closer, I’ll kill you.”
“…….”
“That’s not a lie? Can’t you understand the situation?”
“…I did roughly understand the situation.”
He sighs and answers her semi-threatening question.
“If you speak without even the life that you normally breathe, how should I accept it?”
“…….”
“I didn’t come to attack you either, so don’t worry, Spade.”
At those words, Spade gritted her teeth and lowered her eyes.
“I’ll ask you again.”
“……..”
“What exactly happened to the two of us?”
“…You noticed it too, right?”
When she sat down right next to herself and raised her head to ask a question, she closed her eyes tightly and opened her mouth.
“You fell into my trap.”
“…Hmm.”
“I was the spy you were looking for. Heart had recently converted, and I had joined the Dominating Hands as a spy from the beginning.”
After saying that, Spade glanced at Kang Ha-neul’s expression.
“…I was the one who leaked the information to the outside world, and I was the one who secretly sabotaged and slowed down the research on the magical beast detection solution.”
“…….”
“It was I who took down the Dominating Hands a few weeks ago, and it was I who tried to trap you by tricking you into telling you that I was leading you to a hideout that wasn’t even there.”
Even as she finished speaking, her eyes did not change, let alone her expression.
“Well, that’s it. Of course, explaining it won’t change what we’ll go through.”
“What are you going to experience?”
“Why are you pretending not to know?”
She continued to glance at him and muttered in a low voice.
“What do you think is the reason for trapping you? I’m sure I didn’t do this just so I could live here with you forever.”
“…Wasn’t it?”
“Ha.”
But as the atmosphere of her river sky does not change at all, she continues her words with dark eyes.
“Only one person can leave this space.”
“…Only one person?”
“Yes, and the remainder will be slowly digested here.”
Only after hearing those words did Kang Ha-neul become slightly serious.
“What do you think? Isn’t this a pretty ideal way to use a discard card that is no longer useful?”
“…No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like you did it on your own will.”
When he asked in a low voice, Spade burst out laughing.
“I don’t want to receive sympathy now. No matter what happens, I am a traitor.”
“……..”
“I just thought I hated all of this, but it’s a little absurd that I ended up becoming the victim of a trap that I don’t even know was planted.”
A spine-chilling level of life began to slowly leak out of her body.
“You’d better give it your all. As you know, I’m kind of strong.”
“…………”
“And I still want to live.”
Before she knew it, the yoyo in her hand started spinning.
“…There’s something I definitely want to find out.”
“Hmm.”
“In the memories where nothing remained, I finally found my life’s goal…”
At that point when her hands began to tremble, Kang Haneul sighed and stood up from her seat.
“At least, I don’t want to end up being digested here…!”
It was the very moment when Spade tried to fire her weapon at him with all her might.
“Get down.”
“….Ugh!?”
Kang Ha-neul, whose complexion suddenly turned cold, gave a command in a cold voice to Spade, who was about to attack.
“W-what…”
“Did you forget?”
When Spade fell to the floor, losing her balance, and gave her a dazed expression, her river sky, which was quietly looking down at her, whispered in a low voice.
“If you say one word to me, I will be overpowered.”
“…Ah.”
As she struggled to get up from her seat, Spade’s eyes became blank for a moment.
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A few tens of minutes later.
“…Kill me.”
– Swoosh, swoosh…
“Just kill me. You f*cking bastard…”
Spade, who was lying down on the floor with his stomach exposed and doing a puppy pose with his hands clasped together, muttered with dead eyes.
“Say it again politely.”
“…Ugh.”
Then immediately, the cold voice of Kang Ha-neul, who was standing and trampling on her stomach, flew in.
“Kill me… Please.”
“…I guess you forgot what I told you to add at the end of the sentence, right?”
“….Innim.”
“Huh? What?”
As Kang Ha-neul, who was laughing with her eyes, puts more force on her feet, Spade, who was holding on while gritting his teeth, eventually closes her eyes tightly and opens her mouth.
“Please kill me, master.”
“…I don’t like it.”
But immediately, Kang Ha-neul’s voice mixed with laughter flew in.
“If you’re a magical girl, like a magical girl, you have to resist until the end, Ms. Spade…”
“…..What?”
Spade, who was glaring at him with gritted teeth, opens his eyes round after hearing Kang Ha-neul’s languid voice.
“You, you… How did you do that…”
“…Ugh?”
At that very moment, Kang Haneul suddenly grabbed his head and started to stumble.
“Ah, ah… It hurts…”
“…Huh?”
“Ah, ah… Ugh…”
“f*ck you. Aren’t you going to clean it up…?”
Eventually, he lost his balance and sat down, burying his head on his stomach, and Spade, who had been unable to move due to his command, raised his voice with his face turning red.
“…………”
“Aren’t you going to clean it up?!”
However, for some reason, Kang Ha-neul maintains that posture without moving a single inch.
“f*ck you, you bastard!!!”
“…Town.”
Just like that, eternity began to pass for Spade.
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“I’m going to kill you… You f*cking… Bastard…”
“…Phuu?”
“History?”
Kang Haneul, who had been burying her face in her stomach for a long time, suddenly comes to her senses with a heavy breath.
“”……””
And then the deep silence began.
“Have you come to your senses, asshole?
“……..”
“Then don’t drag it on any longer and finish it quickly, damn it…”
In that silence, Spade, who was looking at Kang Ha-neul with shameful eyes, grits his teeth and begins to mutter.
“…No, wait.”
But she suddenly stopped talking and spoke while looking at the river sky with a blank expression on her face.
“You can do whatever you want with me from now on, so just tell me this one thing.”
“…….”
“Was I really a magical girl?”
In the eyes of Spade, who was acting as if he had no regrets in life, a momentary feeling of earnestness passed by.
“You know my past, right? Well, I clearly remember saying the same thing that crazy white-haired lightyear said when I just turned around.”
“……..”
“Now that I think about it, when you first met me, you overpowered me with just one word, right?”
Then she reaches out her hand and grabs the collar of her river Sky, pulling it towards her.
“I know something about your ability. No matter how fraudulent your ability to control demonic beasts is, it’s impossible to control people with just a few words without any ground work, right?”
“That’s…”
“…Maybe it’s someone who has already completed the basic work.”
And then, she once again asks a question in a low voice.
“You know me. You know the past that I don’t know about.”
“…….”
“So, you can do whatever you want with me, so please tell me this…”
After hearing her earnest voice, cold sweat began to flow from Kang Ha-neul’s forehead.
“…What on earth am I?”
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“Ah…”
As soon as the terrible headache went away and her head cleared, as I pondered over the memories that came to her mind, what I muttered to myself was as follows.
“What on earth am I… Kang Ha-neul?”
‘…How did I forget this?’
Until now, I remembered that I only spent time with Justia at the Academy.
With an unknown sense of loss that somehow felt.
“Friend.”
“…What?”
I think I can finally understand the reason.
“Irreplaceable…”
I clearly remember being called the ruthless Three Musketeers throughout my time at the academy.
“…A precious friend.”
That nickname was created by a combination of me, Justia, and this guy who is tilting his head right now in front of me.