140 – Destiny and Bad Relationship (3)
I’ve never thought about it that way before, but time seems to pass surprisingly quickly.
“Hey, do you know what?”
“Huh?”
“Well, in today’s test…”
In the blink of an eye, the academy exam date where I had to spar with Mystic Shine was approaching.
To be more precise, tomorrow is the test day.
“…What? You’re fighting with him?”
“Hmm… I hope you’ll be okay.”
I didn’t think anything of it at first, but for some reason, my anxiety began to grow as I felt the gaze subtly coming from all directions.
If the reaction is already like that, won’t we end up in the worst situation in some way, regardless of whether we lose or win this sparring?
If I win, everyone will avoid me until I graduate, and if I lose, they will either openly ignore me or treat me poorly.
In that case, it would not be a bad choice to try your best to win.
Of course, it is questionable whether I, who came in second place by chance during the entrance exam, can beat an active magical girl, but since my ability itself is still a mystery, I may have a chance of winning.
“…Ugh.”
But that didn’t relieve the heightened tension and anxiety, so I reached down with my trembling hands and started rummaging through my bag.
“……..”
When I finally found a round cylinder in my bag, I began to feel calm just by that.
– Click…
Perhaps due to the advancement of science and technology, these days, these pill-type tranquilizers are easily available.
The effect is quite good. If you take a few pills of this before meeting your sister, you will not feel like there are bugs crawling on your stomach or hyperventilate as if you are suffocating.
Thanks to you, I was able to cook a decent meal yesterday for the first time in a while, so I think I’ll be using it quite a bit in the future…
– Tub…
“……?”
I was about to take a pill out of the medicine cabinet and put it in my mouth, but suddenly someone grabbed my arm and stopped me.
“Hello?”
“…What are you doing?”
Someone said it was Justia. She reached out her hand and held my hand as I tried to take her medicine.
“Let go.”
“They say friends should speak informally to each other. And I’m sorry, but I don’t like that.”
Why is this happening all of a sudden?
I noticed that the kids around me were looking at me and smiling like the devil, so I thought I needed to take some medicine urgently.
Why are they preventing me from eating it?
“Look at the number of drugs you took just now.”
Justia’s answer to that was simple.
“…You’re not crazy, right?”
“I’m saying this because you don’t know something.”
Of course, I had a handful of medicine in my hand. But what does that mean?
“This drug from Shinwa Pharmaceutical has very few side effects. I have never felt any side effects.”
“But the label says it’s not recommended to take more than 10 pills a day?”
“It’s not recommended. It doesn’t mean you’ll die if you eat it.”
“…Hey, you know.”
Her eyes, which were silently looking at me and speaking as if admonishing me, darken slightly.
“I saw earlier that you ate this much during first period as well.”
“……..”
“What’s going on?”
It was a very kind and gentle voice that made me want to answer right away, but I kept my mouth shut.
Because what I needed right now was a tranquilizer, not counseling with the number one ranked hero in the school who knew nothing about me.
Slowly, a monster begins to appear among the laughing children in the class. Aren’t you tired of it? If I don’t take a few pills now, it might follow me around all day.
“Are you doing this because of this test?”
– Wow…
“Gwae, if it’s okay, would you like to do it with me? I haven’t found a partner yet. They all feel like a burden on me…”
But this girl in front of me was still holding my hand tightly and just said that with an expression that showed no clue.
“Well, I think you would be a pretty good partner if you were ranked 2nd… What do you think…”
“…Get your hands off me.”
At that time, I somehow hated it. She told her that she was determined to live to the best of her ability.
“Please clean it up…..”
Of course, as the monsters slowly came right in front of me and were laughing at me, my mind was pushed to its limit and my voice quickly became like a plea.
“Please…..”
“…….”
“Noona… I’m sorry…”
How much time has passed?
“I… Did I do something wrong…?”
My mind, which had been so panicked that I didn’t even know what I was muttering, suddenly started to clear up.
“Now just eat one at a time.”
“…….”
“Even if there are no side effects, if you eat that much, you will eventually become dependent?”
It seemed that Justia herself had put a pill in my mouth.
“…If it’s a test, I already have a partner.”
“Really? That’s a little disappointing…”
“The kids in your class were talking all day. I guess you didn’t hear me?”
As I looked up at her like that, I began to sarcastically say something again, wondering what was so annoying.
“You were talking about it just a moment ago, but I guess you’re not interested in me as a person, even though you’re helping me.”
“Over there…”
“Are you already managing your image? After all, you are the No. 1 Hero on campus…”
“Rang Haneul.”
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I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut.
“…The kids in the class already left class 20 minutes ago because of the mobile class.”
“Yes?”
“I came here because the professor told me to come find you.”
Only then did I realize that there was no one around me.
“Ah…”
For some reason, I wondered why the kids in my class had devil-like horns growing on their heads.
“…I’m sorry.”
It was a truly bleak situation for me, but I felt like I needed to at least apologize, so I bowed my head to Justia and muttered that.
“I have no shame.”
“……..”
“…Ugh.”
Then Justia looked at me blankly and suddenly stretched out her hand forward.
“Sorry, sorry…”
– Sigh…
She reflexively turned pale and closed her eyes at that sudden action. Her hand, which had paused for a moment, began to gently stroke my cheek.
“……..?”
“Now that I think about it, you have a lot of cuts and bruises on your body.”
As I unconsciously froze in the warm touch of her hand that I felt for the first time in over ten years, leaving a question mark in the air, she whispered to me in a low voice.
“…Are you being abused?”
“Oh, no. No.”
Even before my brain could understand what she was saying, an answer came out of her mouth reflexively.
“You’re misunderstanding. It’s not like that, so don’t worry about it.”
“But…”
“Just leave me alone.”
At that time, I probably didn’t want to hold back my older sister, who was just starting to appear on TV and was raising her stock as a top-ranking hero.
“…If you’re having a hard time, tell me.”
“There is no need.”
“I’ll help you anytime…”
As I reacted violently, Justia, who had been staring at me for a while, quietly stood up and opened her mouth.
“And this is confiscation.”
“…Yes?”
“I don’t want to see my classmate die from drug abuse.”
“Now, wait…!”
I hurriedly stretched my hand forward, but I, who was already out of my mind, couldn’t beat the quickness of the person ranked first.
“If you need anything, tell me. I will take responsibility for managing it from now on…”
“…………”
“…When you calm down, come to the mobile class. The professor is very angry.”
I was looking at Justia, who had opened the classroom door and walked out with a blank expression.
“What do you know about me?”
– Beep!
“……..?”
It was at that moment that the smartphone in my pocket started ringing.
“…Ah.”
I took out my smartphone without thinking and my mind immediately turned completely white.
“Noona…”
This was because the sender was none other than my older sister.
“…Hello, hello?”
It was the first time in several years that my older sister called me first.
Maybe I decided to ask how you are doing like in the old days?
If not, are you trying to compliment me because the dinner I made yesterday was delicious?
“What?”
So I answered the phone with vain hope, but my sister finished speaking briefly and hung up.
“…Observe?”
It was grim news for me that I would be attending the academy exam as an examiner.
“Ah…”
I guess I have to go find Justia.
“…….?”
Because my classmates who had disappeared reappeared and were looking at me with strange expressions.
“Wow…”
Even if it wasn’t necessarily because of that, I was overly nervous about the fact that my sister was coming, and suddenly I felt nauseous, so I had no choice but to run out of the classroom.
“Get out of the way…”
“…..!”
By the way, as I was going out, I think I pushed aside a girl with a blank expression who had no idea how long she had been standing in front of the door. I guess it was because of my mood.
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“…Ha, ha.”
After sulking in the bathroom for a while, I felt like I was regaining my senses.
“Whoa…”
It was a shame to spit out all the medicine I had taken, but I decided to take comfort in the fact that I came to my senses.
“…I will withdraw from this match.”
“Why?”
Anyway, it was too late to go to class again, so it was at that time that I walked to the classroom to get some sleep.
“You know that because I decided that way.”
“…Is it perhaps because of my shallow sympathy for that boy?”
In the hallway at a time when no one was supposed to be there, a very excited voice began to echo.
“Shut up. It’s not like that…”
“Gee, I still don’t think you know your topic…”
I wanted to know something, so I quietly hid my body and stuck my head out, and the sight that came before my eyes was.
“…Big?”
“I don’t like you these days… Mystic Shine.”
“Uh, uh…”
It was a dizzying moment that it would have been better not to see it.
“Not only did I miss out on first place in the entrance exam, but I ended up coming in third place instead of second place…”
“S-stop…”
“If we give you a chance to make up for it by being patient, you will abstain…?”
This was because an unidentified man hiding in a dark shadow was holding the neck of Mystic Shine, who was clearly the girl I had pushed aside earlier, and was lifting her up.
“…Oops.”
Eventually, the man’s fist stuck in her stomach, and Mystic Shine’s body, which had been struggling wildly, went limp.
“Regain second place in the rankings in this match.”
“…….”
“Get the right to challenge for first place and prove your minimal utility. Mystic Shine…”
She sits down with her back against the wall, and an unidentified man whispers in a low voice.
“…This is your last chance.”
– Far away…
“Next is disposal.”
After he finished saying that, he disappeared in an instant, as if he was melting into the air.
“”…………””
And then the silence began.
“…Ugh.”
In that silence, a cry that I could not believe was coming from the undefeated magical girl who had made a world of noise rang out, and I had no choice but to quietly lower my head.
“Huh… Hmm…”
“…Ha.”
If you look at things like this, you can’t help but feel a sense of homogeneity.