152 – Past, Present
– Jijijik…
After receiving a message from Mystic Shine, the scenes from the past that had continued for a long time came to an end.
“…..Okay.”
As I was sorting out the memories that flooded into my head with a blank expression, I began to mutter with a possessed expression in this space filled with darkness that began to appear before my eyes again.
“That guy… Was my friend.”
How could I have completely forgotten these facts until now?
“Irreplaceable… A precious friend.”
Spade, the Dominating Hands villain in front of me, was a friend with whom I had as deep a relationship as Justia throughout my school years.
“…What?”
“But why…”
“What bullsh*t are you talking about?”
“Why are you…”
Of course, I couldn’t just forget about her. It doesn’t make sense that people all over the world, including me, suddenly became so forgetful that they only forgot about her.
Then again, did this happen because of a ‘concept’?
‘…I still don’t understand.’
But, no matter how talented one is, is it possible to completely erase the existence of a single person from the world?
It is clear that even with most mental abilities, even an attempt would not have been possible, and even if an attempt had been made, I should not have been affected as much as I was.
Because, so far, no mental ability has ever affected me.
‘Then…Reality manipulation?’
Then, there is only one possibility left. It’s just reality manipulation. But is that even possible?
Until now, I have been working on my own and have discovered and overpowered countless abilities.
However, among them, there were very few abilities that could be said to be capable of manipulating reality, and I had never seen an ability that could be applied on such an enormous scale.
Based on the facts estimated so far, isn’t the global memory manipulation, the global erasure of records, and even the modification and partial alteration of related memories at a level that can literally be called a trick of God rather than a power?
‘…But the fact that Era’s hero name was actually Dice doesn’t have much to do with Mystic Shine, does it?’
Then I suddenly had a question, but I thought it wasn’t something to worry about right now, so I decided to ignore it for a while.
Right now, the priority is to guess who was behind Mystic Shine being erased from the world with this crazy ability.
‘Could it be… That old man?’
If there’s anything I’m slightly suspicious of, is it the ‘concept of contract’ that the now-deceased chairman of Shinwa Group had?
But even that, if he were to apply his abilities to people all over the world, the Chairman’s body would not have been able to follow suit.
And in the first place, it is doubtful whether that eccentric old man will even agree to the deal.
“Uhm…..”
In the end, no matter how much I racked my brain, I couldn’t figure out why Spades were forgotten by the world.
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All we can figure out at this point is that there is a strong possibility that he was tricked into something close to eradicating records.
‘It was somehow strange…’
I wondered why no one paid much attention to the fact that a popular magical girl who was causing a stir all over the world ‘disappeared’ overnight without leaving a single record.
If an incident of that magnitude were to occur, wouldn’t it be normal for it to become a hot topic?
“Hey, hey.”
As I sat down and made a painful expression, feeling guilty for not having noticed sooner, the spade was standing in front of me.
“Why did you do that earlier…?”
No, Mystic Shine looks like she doesn’t understand what’s going on and starts asking me questions.
“You said you were my friend? Even, irreplaceable?”
“…No, I said it wrong. I just knew that kind of person because of you.”
“Well, that means… You know my past, right?”
For some reason, I felt like things were going to get complicated later, so I quietly turned around to her, and Mystic Shine grabbed me and urgently asked her questions.
Her eyes looked quite earnest. It’s as if it doesn’t matter if I die right now if only I know that.
“Tell me. If you tell me that, you can do anything to me. You can use your damn abilities to make me a slave, or even change my personality to suit your tastes…”
“……..”
“If you don’t like it, you can just kill me, please…”
Before I knew it, her voice began to become more desperate as she knelt in front of me.
“Tell me about my past, Kang Ha-neul….”
“…………”
“Boo, please… I’m asking you… Because I’m asking for you…”
As I looked at her like that, unable to continue her words, she soon opened her mouth in her trembling voice and began to ask her questions.
“Then first… Answer my question.”
“What…?”
“…Why do you want to know the past?”
Then, she started looking at me blankly for a moment.
“It seems too desperate to just want to know the lost past…”
She hesitated for a moment at those words, but then she quietly lowered her head and began to mutter, clenching her hands tightly.
“…I don’t know. I lost my memory, so I can’t explain it.”
“Then…”
“But I can say this one thing for sure.”
Her eyes were shaking quietly.
“There is someone I definitely want to meet again.”
“…….”
“No matter what I do, there is someone I want to regain their memories and tell them something about…”
The moment she hears the words that come out of her mouth, her breathing begins to become difficult and difficult.
“…What?”
“I don’t know… I don’t know what kind of object it is, or if it’s something that doesn’t exist… But I definitely wanted to tell you…”
In that situation, her words continue.
“Just for that one thing… I have endured being treated like a dog so far…”
“…….”
“But in the end, I ended up being abandoned like this, so is this a good thing…?”
As she continued speaking, her eyes gradually began to be engulfed in darkness.
“Hey, can you tell me now?”
“…….”
“What was I?”
In that situation, she looked at me blankly and asked me another question.
“You don’t plan on staying here forever, do you? Only one person can escape this space…”
“…Just now, you said you had to die to get out.”
“If I stay here, I’ll die soon. It’s no different…”
After learning the whole truth, my mouth starts to burn.
“Is there any other way?”
“What?”
“There’s a way for both of us to get out safely…”
“…There is nothing like that.”
When I asked that question in a low voice, she answered with a distorted expression.
“This space… Is a place designed to survive among test subjects so that only those who survive can escape.”
“……..”
“I’ve been thrown in here a few times… So I know it well…”
“…I see.”
Somehow, it seemed like the trick didn’t work.
“That’s right…”
Then, there is only one way left.
“…Wait a minute.”
“……?”
“I will pass on my memories to you.”
After quietly making a decision in my mind, I began to quietly tap on her smart phone in front of her, who began to look confused.
‘…Now that I think about it, why didn’t I suspect that I had this ability in the past?’
I have the ability to convey the amorphous emotions and memories I have to others.
Of course, it is an ability that is slightly different from hypnosis, but in the past, I thought it was just that and ignored it.
Was this actually part of the ability to ‘dominant’?
Well, if I instill my thoughts and beliefs in people who are completely opposite to me, I think I could become a cult leader and dominate people.
The ability I had was a scarier ability than I thought.
“Just look at this screen. Your memories will come back in no time.”
“…Really?”
I quietly thought to myself and handed my smartphone to Mystic Shine, and she asked me a question with an expression of disbelief.
“Yes.”
The moment I gave her an expression of certainty and nodded her head.
– Whilick…!
A thin rope suddenly flew in from the side and started wrapping around my body.
– Wow…..
After the rope had finally tied me up so that I couldn’t move at all, a familiar-looking yoyo caught my eye.
“…I’m sorry.”
When I quietly raised my head and looked ahead, I saw Mystic Shine, who had tied me to the yoyo with all her might, with her head down and a pained expression on her face.
“B-but… I couldn’t help it…”
“……..”
“I must find that guy….”
She begins to walk backwards with her pale complexion.
“Somehow I found it again, something I couldn’t do before…”
“…Then why don’t you get out of here quickly?”
Because she looked so pitiful, I whispered in a low voice to ease her guilt.
“I’m sorry…..”
Then, Mystic Shine closed her eyes tightly and started running forward while holding the smartphone.
“I’m really sorry….”
As I watched her disappear into the darkness, I muttered quietly in her voice that I could hardly hear.
“…I’m sorry, too, for not being able to reply back then.”
If I had told her earlier that I was just a friend, she would never have tried to leave this place.
I don’t like that.
Justia alone was enough to lose a relationship from the past.
“Then you should whisper in my ear.”
However, I had no intention of starving to death here.
“Don’t you need strength?”
Past relationships were important, but present relationships were also important.
– Do you need my power?
After hearing the whisper of the shadow sealed within me, I smiled and quietly closed my eyes and opened my mouth.
“It’s pretty sh*tty, but I guess that’s what it is…”
– Turp, trudge…
“……?”
It was at that moment that I began to hear footsteps that I couldn’t hear behind me.
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“Ha, ha…”
Meanwhile, at that time.
“Did it have to go this far…?”
After running for a while, Spade arrived at a place where the exit was hidden and sat down, breathing heavily.
“…No, you can’t do this now.”
– Parr…
“What have I done so far to regain my memories…”
She then looked back for a moment with her guilty eyes, then gritted her teeth and began to stretch her hands forward.
– Sigh…
“By the way, how can I get my memories back with this…?”
She put her body halfway into the exit where the light was leaking out, and suddenly turned her gaze to the screen of her smartphone that Kang Haneul had given her.
“…Huh?”
Soon, he began to make a blank expression.
[Sender: Mystic Shine]
[I love you.]
As she looked down at the somewhat familiar message that appeared on the screen for a long time, cold sweat soon began to flow from her forehead.
“This…”
– Tsuzuzu…
Her body had already completely gone out of the exit.
“…….Wait a minute.”