187 – The Last Longing
“Hey, Mr. Miracle Shine.”
“…Yes?”
Just a few minutes had passed since Se-ah Lee called my phone from Pandora’s phone number.
“I have something to tell you.”
“What, what is it?”
With Miracle Shine’s help, I was flying above the artificial island with Miracle Shine hanging on her waist.
“You’re not going to break your promise now or say it was actually a lie, are you?”
“…….”
“If that’s the case, I’ll just throw you out of here!”
It was a godsend that she recruited Miracle Shine on the condition that he would help her meet Mystic Shine, the forgotten magical girl she had been searching for her entire life.
Rather than riding a car that can travel over 100km, her broomstick flight, which was not hindered by traffic conditions, allowed her to reach the hideout several times faster.
In the first place, I said all that because her fighting power was on par with Mr. Diamond, who single-handedly destroyed her academy.
“Can’t we go a little faster?”
But still, I had no choice but to urge her with her pale face.
“It’s too slow.”
“…Are you serious? I’m flying several times faster than my normal maximum speed right now!”
Of course, I knew it was far-fetched.
“Look at all those extra passengers stuck to your legs like threads! They don’t seem to slow down the flight!”
It wasn’t just me who was flying with her, but also Diamond, who was hanging on my leg, and Lumia.
“Why are you taking me with you?”
“And why are you bringing that student back? If I do this, it’s like I’m kidnapping him!”
“Oops, I forgot to drop this off.”
“aaa…!”
I almost forgot, but the ‘real Pandora’ was also accompanying us.
“…I’m sorry.”
But that is not the problem now.
“But please, please go a little faster.”
Because, it was obvious what it meant when Ise-ah contacted me using Pandora’s phone at the hideout.
“Please…”
That’s why I don’t have time anymore.
“Why on earth are you in such a hurry?”
“My girlfriend was attacked by a gunman.”
“Ah.”
“And then I got a call from a stranger from my girlfriend’s number.”
Because of this, Miracle Shine responded by biting his nails with his teeth, and then looked blank for a moment.
“…I’m sorry, but this is my maximum output.”
“…….”
“But, I’ll be there in a few minutes…”
“This won’t work.”
That was the moment when she was muttering with an expression that did not know what to do.
“Kya!?”
“Excuse me for a moment.”
Suddenly, the broom she was riding on suddenly swayed, and a low voice began to come from behind her.
“Well, what are you going to do?”
“I think the output is a bit lacking.”
“…Yes?”
Even though he was carrying the real Pandora and Lumia in his net, Diamond was sitting on a broom with an incredible sense of balance, twirling his arms and muttering.
“What is that…”
“Sigh.”
“…Wait a minute, you can’t believe it.”
The next moment.
-Ku family and science and science and science and light … !!!!!!
“No way!!!”
With an ear-splitting explosion of sound, Diamond’s fist explodes as if shooting a massive air gun in a straight line.
– Burbubububbung…!!!
“aaah!!!”
In the aftermath, Miracle Shine’s broom instantly begins to accelerate at a frightening speed.
“…Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.”
In such a situation, unlike Miracle Shine and the real Pandora, whose faces turned pale, I felt hope, so I quietly called out Kyaurik and strengthened the bond between me and the broom.
“Hmm…”
– Pubung…! Bubble!! Bubble bubbung…!!!
And sure enough, this time, Diamond grabs the broom tightly with his toes and starts punching the air one after another.
“Shouldn’t the speed be this high to be called magic?”
“It’s so fast…!!!
“Save me… Lord…”
“……..”
After about a minute, surprisingly, a very familiar landscape begins to come into view.
“This is…”
The hideout building I left a few hours ago began to appear beyond.
“Ugh… Is it there?”
“Ah…”
And at that very moment, my heart begins to freeze cold after hearing Miracle Shine’s words.
“No…”
The fact that the hideout building hidden by the villains’ abilities was visible to Miracle Shine, not me, meant that something was wrong.
“…Oh, my.”
Sure enough, as soon as we get a little closer, a terrible scene comes into view.
The defense systems and Pandora’s drones that defended the outside were all lying on the floor, spewing out smoke, and the hideout was completely destroyed and half destroyed.
“”……..””
At that moment, both Diamond, who was running wild at such a terrible scene, and Miracle Shine, who was screaming, became solemn for a moment.
– Blame it…!
“No, wait a minute! What are you doing…!”
I couldn’t stand watching that horrible scene any longer, so I fell off Miracle Shine’s broom and started heading towards the ground.
– Kkrrr…!
Then, now, without me having to tell it to do so, it automatically stretches out its tentacles and begins to surround me.
– Wow…!
And the next moment, just before I hit the ground, I was soared upward again by the tentacles that Kkoreuk had spread out, and I landed on the floor as quietly as possible, gritting my teeth.
“……..”
Then, right in front of me, the heavily charred, half-open door of the hideout began to come into view.
– Heart pounding, pounding, pounding…
As I look at that, my heart beats rapidly due to tension and I start to feel nauseous.
If you open this door and enter, you will find out what happened.
Will I really be able to maintain my sanity after seeing that?
As someone who had already experienced the inability to remain as me, and who had seen such a future, it was something I couldn’t guarantee.
If I open this door, I may no longer be myself.
I might become the monster I’ve been afraid of my whole life.
– Sigh…
However, I couldn’t just stand in front of the door like this for the rest of my life, so I took a deep breath, stretched out my trembling hand, and quietly opened the door.
– Turp, trudge…
I soon began to slowly walk forward, taking in the sight of the murderous scene unfolding inside the hideout, which was filled with a thick bloody smell.
“…………”
The conditions inside the hideout were literally the worst.
All the personnel in the hideout who were alive just a few hours ago were either fatally injured or unconscious or their lives ended, and there was no place that was not stained with blood because of them.
They were all people who specialized in protection and defense, so even if they couldn’t defeat their opponents, they would have at least been able to hold out until we returned.
How on earth did Isea…
‘…No way.’
Suddenly, I thought of one of the few people who could neutralize all abilities, and I paused for a moment. Then, thinking that it was too early to make a hasty judgment, I gritted my teeth and started walking forward again.
“…….”
How long did I walk, staggering through the corpses, until I arrived right in front of Pandora’s door at the end of the hideout?
“…….Ah?”
Instead of the scene I was vaguely expecting, but trying to deny, I faced a completely unexpected person in front of me and started making a blank expression.
“Cluck, cough…”
She was lying limp, leaning against the wall, with her back against the wall, coughing up blood, mortally wounded and seemingly hopeless.
“Sister?”
“……..”
It was because it was not Pandora, but my older sister, Kang Maru.
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“…Come to your senses, sister.”
“Ugh…”
After standing there frozen in her place for a while, her river Haneul soon staggered towards her, took her hand and whispered to her, leaning back against the wall, her eyes opened. Kang Maru, who was doing this, begins to moan softly.
“…Who is there?”
“Sister.”
Then, she carefully raised her head and asked her question in a low voice.
“Are you on the same side as Haneul?”
“…It’s me, sister.”
Her eyes and ears, already blurred by witnessing her death, were unable to recognize that the person holding her own hand in front of her was her own younger brother.
“If so…”
“Can’t you hear me?”
“…Please spread the word.”
Her river Haneul opened her mouth with a blank look on her face, but her river Maru just looked ahead of herself with her blurry focus and began to mutter.
“I did my best… But I couldn’t prevent Pandora from being kidnapped.”
“…What?”
“But everyone who attacked was banned from doing anything that could harm Pandora… So there is still hope.”
“…………”
“And…”
Then, he chews his lips with a strained expression for a moment, but then says what he wanted to say with all his might.
“He said he was sorry… For being my older sister… Who was untrustworthy to the end…”
After saying that, Kang Maru lowered his head again and started coughing, and soon silence began to fill the hideout.
“Cluck, cough…”
In that silence, Kang Maru, who was gradually losing the light in her eyes, muttered this with an expression tinged with regret just before she closed her eyes.
“I haven’t talked to the sky yet…..”
With those words, a single tear slowly began to flow from my closed eyes.
“…………”
Her breathing stopped quietly.
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