151 – Destiny and Parting
A few hours after the stadium, which had been going wild with copies of surrounding inorganic objects, calmed down.
“Hey. Calm down.”
“……..”
“Hey!”
“…Hmph.”
A girl with a blank expression in the academy’s infirmary stands up from her seat with a startled expression at the angry command of the river sky.
“…Huh?”
Then, she immediately made a stupid expression and started looking around her surroundings.
“What is it, hell?”
“No.”
“The chick hasn’t come to his senses yet…”
“Ah.”
Then she finally noticed River Sky and Mystic Shine sitting on the corner of the bed, and her complexion began to turn pale.
“I, Justia’s…”
“Hound dogs?”
“New students these days are fearless…”
“…To my colleagues.”
In her dreamy voice, she was trying to say the famous nickname in her academy without even realizing it, but she noticed Kang Ha-neul and Mystic Shine, who were quietly starting to exude life, and she quickly said goodbye to her. Edit your statement.
“But why here…?”
“Is it memory loss? I’m going to have a hard time writing the poem.”
“…Wait, it may be because the hypnosis hasn’t completely worn off yet.”
When she tilted her head and asked, Kang Ha-neul quietly stretched out her hand in front of her girl.
– Just…
“Ah…”
Eventually, as he snapped her fingers and made a cheerful sound, the girl’s dazed expression, as her body began to tremble, slowly began to relax.
“…Ugh, ugh.”
Eventually, she remembered the horrible things that happened at the stadium and her complexion began to turn pale.
“Do you think your memories are coming back now?”
“Drink some warm water, chick.”
“Thank you… Thank you.”
Her river Haneul and Mystic Shine call out to her in voices that are quite gentle for such people and offer her warm water.
“…Then, was it really me who brought the stadium to that point?”
“I guess that’s true given the circumstances. The guy who was your opponent’s ability is stealth. He’s a senior who was brought in to match you. He’s not the type of guy who would go on such a clumsy rampage while fighting a freshman.”
“What if I was actually strong!?”
“…There was a statement that he was running around right before he ran away.”
“Tch…”
Finally, looking at the girl who was quietly making a puzzled expression, Kang Haneul opened her mouth again.
“I said her name was… Kim.’
“Yes.”
“What did you think your abilities were until now?”
She answers that question as if it were obvious.
“It’s a disguise.”
“Disguise?”
“It’s a very simple ability. You can clone the appearance of the person you want and apply it…”
But soon, she begins to quietly trail off her words.
“It must have been that kind of ability…”
“I’ve done a few experiments since you were incapacitated, but nothing really stuck.”
Her river sky, which was looking at her like that, sighs and begins her explanation.
“I don’t know what the relationship between transformation ability and proliferation is, but it is very likely that it is a misunderstanding of the concept, so take the time to explore it for yourself.”
“It’s a hundred percent. There are more than a few dozen chicks who misunderstand the concept of possession each year…”
“…Hey, over there.”
Meanwhile, the girl lowered her head and opened her mouth with her face blushing.
“Please don’t call me by name…”
“…..?”
“It’s so old-fashioned. It makes me cringe just hearing it…”
At her words, River Haneul and Mystic Shine quietly tilt their heads.
“If you call me by my hero name, Dice…”
“On the topic of chicks, hero name?”
“…Leave it alone. It’s the best time.”
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Eventually, Kang Haneul sighs and stands up first.
“The post-mortem investigation team will come to interrogate you soon. Don’t be too nervous, just answer the truth and there won’t be any problems.”
“…………”
“Well then, take a good rest. Rest for now, and I left my phone number on the desk next to you, so if anything happens…”
“…Over there.”
After giving advice, he was just about to turn the doorknob of the room.
“There is one thing I want to ask.”
“…What is it?”
The girl who seemed to live without any worries, maintaining a fierce atmosphere, asked him a question as she was about to leave the room with a trembling voice, lifting the blanket over her chest.
“At that time, she reached out her hand to me through that mess…”
“…That’s right.”
“How did you do that?”
The river Haneul, who stopped walking, asks again with a question mark on her face.
“How did you do it? I don’t really understand the question.”
“…Oh, I guess so.”
Then, a pessimistic feeling passed through her eyes.
“I was just curious… How he was able to risk his life in such an urgent situation and jump in to save me, a stranger.”
“……..”
“I’m still an aspiring hero, but I was scared to fight my opponent, let alone save others, so I just ran away and formed this division.”
River Haneul, listening to those words, begins to quietly swallow her sleep.
“I tried sharing my concerns with my friends, but they couldn’t empathize well.”
“…….”
“Well, I’m different from other kids because I entered school with pull-ups due to my non-combat skills…”
In such a situation, she mutters in her melancholy voice.
“I need to work harder… Now I wonder what I’ll do if something like this happens every time I fight…”
– Kuuk…
“Well, I think I’ll stop being a hero after all. hahahaha…”
In the atmosphere in the room, which has become considerably heavier thanks to this, Kang Ha-neul, who was holding her doorknob, quietly opens her mouth.
“There is no need for that.”
“…Yes?”
“Even people like me play heroes, so you can do it too.”
The girl tilted her head with a puzzled expression at those words.
“Thank you, but even if the second-ranked senior in the school said that…”
“…I also went crazy like you during our first sparring.”
“Yes?”
Her hearing those words, her eyes immediately widen.
“Unlike you, the stadium was completely destroyed. Thanks to that, some people still have the aftereffects.”
“……”
“Coincidentally, this happened in the same place where you caused the explosion.”
Kang Ha-neul stares at the girl quietly and continues the story calmly.
“…I was more serious than you at that time. When I came back to my senses for a moment, there was chaos everywhere, and all I could do was pray that someone would kill me before it was too late.”
He clenched his hands for a moment as the memories of that day were still vivid, and then he quietly sighed.
“I was also saved by someone in the end.”
“Who, to whom…”
“If the 2nd ranked player runs away, there is only one way to win.”
“Ah…”
She muttered in a voice that was crawling at his words, and then quietly nodded to the further explanation of Mystic Shine, who was standing quietly next to her.
“I saved someone this time.”
“……..”
“Looking at it this way, you and I have a lot in common.”
Kang Ha-neul scratches his head and begins to walk towards the exit again, muttering in a voice steeped in thought.
“I also have non-combat abilities. And, like you, I am of Korean descent.”
“……..”
“That means you can be just like me.”
With that said, Kang Ha-neul opened the door to the hospital room.
“…Cheer up.”
“…………”
“I may not be able to watch you as closely as the girl who saved me, but I will be watching you from a distance.”
After saying that, he quietly walked out of the room.
“”……””
And then the silence began.
“Hey, over there…”
“…….?”
Mystic Shine, who was making a slightly puzzled expression in the silence and was about to follow Haneul Kang out of the hospital room, turned around for a moment when she heard a small voice coming from behind her.
“Can I become a wonderful person like that…?”
“…Ugh. How cool…”
Finally, when the girl asked her with her fists clenched, she pretended to gag and muttered for a moment.
“…..Hmm.”
Then, after hesitating for a moment, Mystic Shine quietly answered with her face blushing.
“It’s cool…”
“Yes?”
“I don’t know, sh*t.”
Finally, after cursing, she hurriedly walked out, leaving the girl with a puzzled expression behind her.
“…Before this vacation ends, I wanted to say it properly one last time.”
“…..?”
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Time has passed since then, and the weather has become colder and the year is coming to an end.
– Jing, jingling…
“Yes, welcome…”
Kang Ha-neul, who replaces Justia, who is busy with student council work, and is watching work in her office, mechanically responds to the sound of the bell on the door ringing and begins to emit her business-like voice.
“First of all, let’s take a number ticket… No, it’s not peak time yet. There’s no one around right now, so come here first…”
However, the moment she said that and raised her head, the river sky began to cloud the tail of her words.
“…You.”
“hehehehe.”
Because before he knew it, a girl with a somewhat familiar face who was sitting in the seat in front of him was looking at him with bright eyes.
“What’s going on here…?”
“You know, new students have to receive training at the office at the end of the semester.”
“…It was like that.”
At the sight of a girl who looked quite similar to herself, who had been saved from a crossroads like herself, holding out her documents with a bright smile, the corner of her river sky’s mouth quietly turned up.
“Please let me work as a sidekick at the Justia Hero Office!”
“So, is the activity name ‘Dice’ you mentioned before?”
“…Oh, no.”
When he asked in a voice full of uncommon laughter, she blinked but quickly shook her head.
“When I think about it, it’s too old-fashioned…”
“…….”
“…Please make it paradise!”
“What’s the difference?”
It was a girl who answered with a brave attitude the question of Kang Ha-neul, who looked slightly surprised by her next words.
“It’s five letters!”
“…Ha.”
Kang Ha-neul couldn’t help but laugh at those bold words and picked up Justia’s seal.
– Tiring…!
His life, which was slowly improving, began to be dark again.
[Sender: Mystic Shine]
“…….?”
After all, it was that moment.
[I love you.]
“What the f*ck.”
Kang Ha-neul, who had been staring blankly for a long time at the meaningless message that suddenly arrived on his smartphone, spoke with a puzzled expression.
“Who is Mystic Shine?”
“Yes?”
“…It’s nothing.”
After that, he stared at the screen blankly for a while, then quietly closed his smartphone and muttered.
“I’ll remember it soon…”
But after that day, no one in the world, including Kang Ha-neul, ever thought of the existence of ‘Mystic Shine’ again.