142 – Destiny and Bad Relationship (5)
“…Hey.”
“…….”
“What are you doing?”
In the dead silence that continued for a long time, voices finally began to be heard.
“What are you doing now?”
It was the voice of Mystic Shine, who had been quietly looking at me for a long time without doing anything.
“…What are you doing right now?”
“That’s…”
“Why aren’t you attacking?”
When I asked her a question in her own direction, she lowered her gaze, trailing off at the end of her words.
“Wasn’t it you who suggested the match to me in the first place?”
“……..”
“I heard you were pressing the bridge of my nose. But why are you hesitating now?”
I began to slowly walk in front of her.
“Did you suddenly feel sympathy?”
“…No.”
“Why not? Do you think I didn’t see you?”
“……..”
“On that day when the moon was unusually bright, and even yesterday in the hallway, you were all watching me.”
A strange feeling was rising inside me, I couldn’t tell if it was anger or sadness.
“…Do you think there is anything in the world as miserable as being pitied by others?”
“…No.”
“If you think so, start quickly.”
Forcibly suppressing those feelings, I walked right in front of Mystic Shine and muttered in a fierce voice.
“I’m telling you to press the bridge of your nose quickly.”
And then silence began to flow between us for a moment.
– Students, what’s going on?
– Shall we stop the game for a moment?
But in that silence, no attacks from Mystic Shine came.
“…It’s not a pity.”
The only thing that came out was her voice, which was quieter than before.
“I’m not doing it because I pity you, damn it.”
“Then why?”
“…Because your abilities responded to you.”
What does this mean? Mystic Shine’s ability responded to me.
“Please explain in detail. There is no way I would know your abilities.”
“…Magical girls can know the location of people in need.”
Those doubts were immediately resolved when she heard her own words.
“Since the day I challenged you to a match, that ability has constantly responded to you.”
“…So you followed me around?”
“I was curious because my request for a match meant a crisis for you to the point where you would react to your abilities.”
She was avoiding my gaze, clenching her fists and muttering.
“…It sure looks like he needs help.”
“…………”
“To be honest, I didn’t want you.”
“Me?”
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“…Anyone who saw what you did during the entrance exam would have thought that.”
I don’t understand.
Of course, the examiner was seriously injured, but compared to the training he had with his sister, it was a relatively minor injury.
Although the training my sister and I are doing is quite extreme for training, I know that all heroes do this, so I don’t even know why everyone is making such a fuss.
“He doesn’t even try to mix in with the kids and creates an atmosphere of fear in the class…”
“…….”
“Well, those were probably all excuses.”
As I was scratching my head with an unconvinced expression, Mystic Shine’s complexion darkened, perhaps due to a misunderstanding.
“Because of that incident that happened at that time, we lost second place in the rankings.”
“…Is that so?”
“Personally, even putting aside the media that is disparaging me by saying that I am ranked 3rd in the school rankings, there is a reason why I must take 2nd place.”
Her expression soon becomes quietly crumpled.
“…I don’t like talking too long, but I’ve been talking for so long.”
“……..”
“Go for it, you idiot.”
She eventually whispers in a fierce voice.
“Even if it’s me, I hate beating down defenseless enemies, right?”
“……..”
“As an apology, I’ll give you a chance to attack first. So, why don’t you show your sincerity?”
As she prepares to attack by emitting light from her hands, she waits for a while and makes no progress, and her bored audience begins to cheer her.
“…Are you serious?”
However, I was able to realize that I was watching her right in front of her, not those who were watching from beyond her as if watching her fun game.
“Yes, seriously…”
“Lie.”
There was no feeling of life in her.
I couldn’t even compare it to my older sister’s fierceness during ‘training’.
Because the dog she encountered in her alley could not detect even the slightest trace of life emitting from her as a warning.
– If you don’t start soon, both of you will abstain~?
However, the moment the instructor’s voice, mixed with laughter and irritation, echoed throughout the stadium, I had no choice but to put those questions aside for a moment.
– Kugugugugugu…!!!
No matter how lifeless it was, Mystic Shine’s attack was so strong that I had no choice but to do my best to avoid it.
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“Ha, ha…”
“…………”
The atmosphere in the stadium is cold.
“…What are you?”
The reason is simple.
“Why aren’t you fighting back?”
I was just dodging Mystic Shine’s one-sided attacks, but eventually I fell from the shock.
It may be quite disappointing for the Hero Association officials and all students who wanted to see a fierce battle between the 2nd and 3rd place rankings, but this is the ending I chose.
Well, actually, it was an ending I would have reached even if I hadn’t chosen it.
“Answer me!”
“…That’s funny.”
In such a situation, when Mystic Shine grabs me by the collar and raises her voice, I start to laugh without realizing it.
“Do you know what my abilities are?”
“…What?”
“I don’t think you know, so I’ll tell you. My ability is hypnosis. It’s not an ability specialized for all-out warfare. Especially not for someone as physically powerful as you.”
“But on that day…”
“You keep talking about entrance exams and things like that. Do you know that?”
Mystic Shine’s eyes, who were holding me by my collar, began to shake at my continued words.
“I have no memory of the entrance exam.”
“What?”
“As soon as the test started, the admissions examiner attacked me, and the next moment I came to my senses, I found out that I had won.”
“What kind of bullsh*t is that…”
“You still don’t know?”
At first, I tried to speak calmly, but before I knew it, my voice was cracking.
“There’s a monster living inside me…”
“…….”
“Both mom and dad… They all became vegetative because of me…”
Her face turns pale and her hands begin to shake. Now even breathing in and out feels like pain.
“These are the people who adopted me from the orphanage… My older sister lost her very kind biological parents overnight because of me…”
“……..”
“I am a monster… A disgusting and terrible monster that even I don’t know when I will change…”
I can’t control myself anymore. It’s as if I’ve been drinking alcohol so many times that I’m on the verge of breaking my sense of reason.
“…I wish my sister would just kill me.”
“Hey, hey…”
“Do you think so too?”
As I was looking at Mystic Shine with that thought in mind, I suddenly asked a question in a quiet voice.
– Gooooo…
“……!?!?”
The next moment, I finally surrendered my body to the monster that had been following me for a few days.
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– Kugwagwagwagwang…!
“…Kya?”
“This, this…”
As the protective tempered glass surrounding the audience seats began to crack with a loud noise, murmuring sounds began to come from all directions.
“Big!?”
What happened was that Kang Ha-neul, who was covered in a dark shadow with his head down, suddenly grabbed Mystic Shine with his black hand that stretched out from inside his body and slammed him to the floor.
– Gooooo…
“What, I was wondering how you got to second place in the rankings…”
“…I guess they were able to hide it.”
As soon as black arms began to extend in all directions from Kang Ha-neul’s body, which slowly began to rise in the air, the officials, who were momentarily confused, began to analyze the situation with expressions of interest.
“…Lumia, no. The child of prophecy was right.”
But among them, unlike the others, there was someone who had a pale complexion and was muttering.
“You were, after all, a monster…”
That person was none other than Kang Maru, who was looking at Kang Ha-neul, who was spewing out black energy in all directions, with eyes mixed with fear and disgust.
“Wait a minute, but isn’t that too extreme…?”
“Well, I think we’ve gradually surpassed the scope of sparring.”
“I’m going to die like that…”
“Shouldn’t I stop you?”
In the meantime, Kang Haneul’s runaway started to get worse.
“No, more than that, don’t you think those arms are coming towards us?”
“Uh, huh?”
As the black arms that were filling the stadium began to approach the cracked tempered glass, the officials who were analyzing the situation were once again caught in panic.
“…We must destroy the monster.”
In such a situation, Kang Maru stood up with a straight face.
“Before I eat anyone else.”
As she hovered in the air, her eyes were burning with deep hatred as she gazed at the river sky, which was blankly meeting her own.
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“Rang Haneul!!!!!!!”
“…Ha?”
But her resolve did not lead to her actions.
“That guy…”
“Come to your senses!!!!!!!”
Just before Kang Ha-neul’s black hand touched the glass window, someone burst into the stadium, shouting his name in a desperate voice.
“…No. 1 In ranking?”
At the appearance of Justia, who ran into the stadium without any equipment or preparation and with only the thought that she could not watch Kang Ha-neul like this, the expressions of everyone watching the situation froze.