12. The Butterfly Just Needed a Flower
12. The Butterfly Just Needed a Flower
-According to the contract. In exchange for Han Si-jun’s life span of 6 months, he borrows a magic core for 10 minutes.
Too bad it takes a lot
In general, the intake of magical nutrients is divided into three times a day.
Since I took an overdose of it at once, combined with the side effects, the value of the huge magic core seemed to rise as well.
This is my unique ability, Libra Palace.
It has the meaning of Libra and follows the principle of equivalent exchange.
Nothing is gained without a price.
Description of skills related to my ‘beginning’.
An ability that he was reluctant to because he had only life to offer in return.
Slowly, magical energy began to circulate through his body.
“…Obviously, it was written that I was born with no magical powers.”
“Who is it? I don’t have magical powers.”
If only the price is paid, I can have power equivalent to an S-class hero for a moment.
However, the price that Libra is asking for is just too high.
I pointed the muzzle filled with magical power at Nayuna.
Nayuna started pouring out the language towards me.
“Do you want to keep going? Do you think you can beat me even if you have magical powers? It’s a misunderstanding too. Just be calm. It’ll be over.”
He grabs the spear again with a stab.
It looked like he couldn’t control his anger at being stabbed in the corner.
“If there is a mirror, I want to show it.”
“..what.”
“You don’t know what face you’re making right now, do you?”
Nayuna frowned.
The state of the face that always remains expressionless.
What does that mean?
She didn’t seem to notice that her mask had been removed.
“I’m genuinely angry.”
In a way that doesn’t even think about butterfly companies.
“And that.”
f*ck.
I put a smile on my face and pulled the trigger.
Paan!!
The goal is 4 Nayuna.
All four remaining shots, whether fantasy or reality, are fired.
A bullet with a different magical power than before.
Adds magical power to bullets that rotate in a spiral.
The amount of rotation in 1 second is 3000 times.
The obvious difference in speed and rotational force.
The current magic level is between 6 and 7.
It was enough destructive power to make Nayuna come to her senses.
‘This is… the power of magic.’
The sound of magical waves emitted from the gun barrel dominated the hall.
A bullet with pure magical power.
Destructive power is the perfect weapon for me with low physical abilities.
Such a magical bullet hit Nayuna’s shoulder, whose eyes were wide open in embarrassment.
“Hey..!”
An unusually girly scream.
After being hit in the shoulder, Nayuna’s spear flew high into the sky.
At the unexpected blow, Na Yuna hit her buttocks.
No matter how high the visual acuity of the body, it could not exceed my doped magic power.
Na Yuna was also unexpectedly rolling her yellow eyes.
“My.. did I get hit and fall…?”
Why?
I could see the flow of magic for a moment, but when the shock spreads through my body.
Nayuna’s new model had already become one body with the floor.
Dropping the spear, I approached Nayuna who was bewildered.
“You don’t want to admit it? You lost to me.”
“…”
It can’t be shocking.
Worst status.
The weapon he uses is an outdated pistol.
It would be a difficult ending for her, who has been walking along a solid road of elites.
“..don’t admit it.”
Right.
This is the original pattern.
Did I lose to that weapon…?
I can’t admit it..!
A perfect line as an excuse for a loser.
I approached Nayuna, who was trembling in anger.
Shudder.
Nayuna’s magic barrier was not broken, and the match continued.
All I had to do was pull the trigger on her.
“How do you feel?”
“..I’m annoyed. It’s humiliating to look at me from above. It’s terrifying to lose to you guys.”
It’s hard to say.
In my mind, I want to make fun of you a little.
Then I decided to stop because I thought I would get stabbed by a spear while I was sleeping.
By the way.
What did you say in the game?
According to the strategy, go to Nayuna who is lying down after the battle and say it in a small way.
‘I understand you. Nayuna.’
Go straight to Nayuna’s route.
An episode of the Nabi family that boasts the highest difficulty.
The essence of a waste product with a drug waste tag.
I never wanted to do that.
Still, this isn’t a game, it’s reality.
Because he has a free mouth, he only needs to save Nayu and the individual.
Not them, but only you, Nayuna.
I put the gun to Nayuna’s head.
“Are you done talking now?”
“Ugh…”
Nayuna starts making sounds of pain.
He seemed to have some kind of fear of defeat for the first time in his life.
I pulled the trigger on Nayuna like that.
Pak!
“Hey..!”
But.
What echoes is the sound of a blunt blow, not a gunshot.
Na Yuna grabbed her forehead in the middle of the night and made a sound of the wind blowing.
Then, 10 seconds later, Nayuna understood what had happened to her and shouted at me.
“Uh…what are you doing…! Without ending it! Are you sympathizing…!?”
“I’m not sympathetic.”
10 minute time limit.
My body no longer had the strength to shoot magical bullets.
Even if it was loaded and fired with normal bullets, it wouldn’t work for her with a superhuman body.
Only the chestnut on my forehead is the best area I can do.
I said to Kang Soo-ho, who was staring blankly.
“Han Shi-Jun 38 times. I will abstain.”
I will admit defeat.
The sound of the voice shook the hall.
Giving up on a match in a situation where the winner is decided.
Are you kidding me now?
No matter what the process was, you won’t be able to send a kind gaze.
“Are you serious?”
“Yeah, I don’t feel strong anymore.”
I waved my limp arms to him.
Now that’s the limit.
A recoil where a magic core was created and then disappeared.
The pain was coming to me more and more.
‘I’m tired.’
To be sick is to be sick.
You have to pay the end
I looked at Nayuna.
Eyes that can’t really understand me.
I said to her.
“If you want to rest, come to me. I’ll wait for you.”
“..What are you talking about.”
Taking off the mask and getting out of an expressionless state.
I will become a flower that is a haven for the butterfly trapped in the cage.
A weak wind will gain strength and come rushing in and destroying the tower.
I pulled my shaky body and said with a bright smile.
“Well, let’s just be friends.”
I mean that.
As it was, my body collapsed into Na Yuna’s body sitting on the floor.
My eyes slowly closed, and the pain of side effects came to me.
Let’s go to sleep
Then the pain will fly away too.
In that state, I lost my mind.
***
“…”
How would you describe your current state?
Nayuna couldn’t come up with any words to describe this tickling feeling.
“What is it?”
A man named Han Si-joon, whom the opponent was judged to be insignificant.
Rude, rude, c*cky.
A man I didn’t like.
It was the first defeat he had ever tasted, but Nayuna’s feelings were mysterious.
“What does it mean to be friends?”
Friend.
The word friend she knew was like a calculation.
Give and Take.
A relationship that is sure to end.
Do you want me to be in a relationship like that?
Han Si-jun didn’t look like that.
Butterfly’s granddaughter.
Academy student with a promising future.
A woman with abilities and looks.
It wasn’t me who was just a shell like that, but the way she spoke as if she was looking at Na Yuna in a mask.
He seemed to be telling me to dream, in a lonely cage.
“If I become your friend, will I be able to go back to the old days…?”
Na Yuna stared at Han Si-joon, who was lying down.
She looks weak, but she has a pretty face.
However, his insides gave the impression of a wall that was harder than anyone else.
Na Yuna ruffled Han Si-joon’s bangs.
“..it’s so stupid.”
At first, I felt ashamed of the feelings I had.
Get angry at the right words.
I couldn’t be honest with myself.
Na Yuna whispered softly into Han Si-joon’s ear, who was sleeping.
“I’ll be your friend.”
Taking off the mask, a small word expressing one’s honesty.
It was a huge step forward for Nayuna, who has always lived alone.
“friend..”
With a smile like that, Na Yuna stroked Han Si-jun’s forehead.
His forehead was warm.
As Nayuna, it was the first time I felt the body temperature of a person.
It was spring.
***
White ceiling hospital room.
This is probably the health room of the Hero Academy.
“ah..”
How much time has passed
Outside the window was already with the sunset, and it had a red color.
When I checked my body, I felt nothing but a slight pain in my chest.
It was a natural result since the magic core was removed after a while.
Oh right.
What happened to Nayuna?
I didn’t get an answer.
The last time I saw Nayuna’s expression, she said she couldn’t understand it.
Would she really have accepted me?
If you don’t accept it, things get really messed up.
With that concern, I looked out the window at the students leaving school.
“It will be around 6 o’clock.”
Wait 6 o’clock?
Nutrients that strengthen my body 3 times a day.
Breakfast lunch dinner.
If that routine is broken, the effect is also halved.
Now my clothes are patient clothes.
I got out of bed hastily.
“My clothes, where are they? My medicine..!”
A pill for 3 days a day.
I carried it in my school uniform pocket.
If you eat it now, the effect will be less halved.
A cough leaked out of my mouth, which moved so quickly.
Cool.
Oh, is it a side effect of the Magic Core?
Red blood leaked from his mouth and coughed.
“shit..”
It’s only been 10 minutes, but that’s it.
A truly cursed body.
I wiped the blood off my hands and took the medicine out of my pocket.
Strength, agility.
They threw the two into their mouths without water.
“There’s not much left, but it must have been a big deal..”
“..not much left..?”
Tuk.
The sound of something falling and a human voice.
I turned my head to where the voice came from.
Long time no see
There was my homeroom teacher with red hair.
However, she had something different from usual.
“Shin Shi-hwa, sir?”
Did you even come to visit?
But why do you look like that?
There was sadness on her face.
Shin Shi-hwa said to me in a trembling voice.
“What do you mean..? Not much left..”
“yes?”
Blood smeared heavily on his lips.
Han Si-joon hurriedly pours out the pills.
That appearance was enough to cause a big misunderstanding in Shin Shi-hwa.