225 – Goal (1)
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“…… !”
The shadow turned once.
In other words, the subject of the shadow moved freely.
Poo-Hak-!
And a black hand came out of it and tried to grab Mew’s leg.
“I know you will be beaten!”
There’s no way. Mew swung the sword with one hand.
Chack!
At the moment the sword marks left horizontally left an afterimage in the air, the black hand that had been torn by the sword strike wriggled and stopped moving.
“… ! What?!”
It stuck again, as if glue had been applied.
‘Play… ?’
No, it’s different.
That’s not playback….
It was just not cut.
“Kuu!”
Carmelo stood still, but his shadow did not. Two hands came out of the black shadow this time.
‘If normal attacks don’t work… !’
There are ways to do this too!
Mu focused his mind on one point. Just as the soul and the sword are assimilated. The sword became me, and I raised the sense that I became the sword from within.
Not just the senses, but a more fundamental energy.
Fire—!
Mu’s magic circuit was burning hot. Even the purple eyes blazed as if they were burning in flames. The overheated mana wasn’t enough to heat up the body, it traveled through the bloodstream and flowed to the place connected to Mu’s hand.
So.
Shuuuk—!
Two huge black hands attacked Mew again.
‘Now!’
The moment Mu cried out with her heart.
Roaring—!
A spark of magical power rose from Mu’s sword.
The sword body shone brightly. Burning flame.
‘If this gets blocked, I have to run away.’
Mew stood on the ground and swung his magic sword diagonally.
Chow-!
The blackened hand was torn.
Then the torn area burned.
Hwareuk made a sound, and his hands couldn’t join again, and just like that, he disappeared into the shadows.
“Ha.”
Mu grinned.
“No big deal.”
I didn’t know that Carmelo could handle this kind of intimacy, but it seemed that there was no problem with counterattacking.
All that was left was to quickly defeat the madman and find Ezio, and if he was in danger, help Ezio solve the situation.
‘Wait, Ezio.’
I’ll go.
That was the moment I thought about it.
“… You are mine.”
Carmelo pursed her lips again.
Poo-Hak-!
From one shadow hand to two, then four.
Five or ten.
“…… !?”
It wasn’t just that.
The new model of Carmelo that had stood still until now suddenly disappeared. She couldn’t catch her at all, even with Mew’s body vision. Speed of light. Maybe sooner than that. Embarrassed Mu quickly glanced around him without letting go of tension.
‘I can’t see it.’
Where did you go?
I didn’t have time to judge that.
“…… Keugh! These are real pairs!”
Shuuuk!
A shadowy hand attacked. As many as ten.
“Go away, go away!”
Myu swung his sword and cut it off. She swung again. She swung again. Even after swinging it a couple of times and continuing to hit it four or five times, the hands protruding from the shadows everywhere stretched out to Mew like a beast.
‘I’m sorry… !’
I can’t help it. Have to deal with it all at once.
Myu grabbed the hilt and bit his teeth.
Lower your posture, as if you were speaking out.
“—Haaa!”
Shoot aaagh—!
She swung her arms wide. The tip of her sword went all the way. The sparks of magical power that were burning left an afterimage in the shape of a crescent moon. Her eight hands were slicing cleanly like bamboo.
Flame!
A flame burned from the severed area. The hands burned and disappeared all at once. The shadows sighed and melted beneath the ground.
‘All that’s left… !’
The surroundings became quiet for a moment, but Mew hurriedly rolled her eyes. This won’t be the end There must be something more….
As expected.
“Why do you reject me?”
“… !”
Carmelo, who had disappeared, appeared right next to Mew. Mew hastily turned her body to hit Carmelo’s chin with her elbow. She saw that Carmelo’s eye sockets, which she glanced at briefly, were dark, but she did not panic. She was
She was the same She couldn’t hit Carmelo.
‘Again.’
It’s gone.
“I can do better.”
“Don’t talk bullshit!”
I was on the right just now, but now I’m on the left.
… Was he such a nimble person? When sparring, I was slow like a slug.
She said she would blow off her arm or kill her, but she couldn’t bear to cut anyone. Then Ezio will hate you. Because of this, when Mew faced Carmelo, she had no choice but to deal with her sword face and taijutsu.
Boom!
As she fired her high kick toward Carmelo, who had taken over behind her, she screamed in her mind, just in case.
“Are you the culprit? You got Ezio involved!”
“Throw away that guy.”
Wrong. There was no conversation going on.
She had a lower hunch that something was wrong, but Carmelo was now her own enemy anyway. She’s here and will keep interfering if you don’t knock her down. In case of emergency… Really should even think about cutting her arm.
“Come to me. I’m more-“
“I told you to shut up!”
She was Mew who got used to appearing and disappearing like a ghost. Her excellent reflexes made it possible to counterattack effectively.
Mew flung her body to her side and swung her sword at the same time. Her sword face puffed up and dug into her Carmelo’s waist. She wanted to do some strength conditioning and couldn’t afford to do it. I think I heard her bones break.
“Why?”
Carmelo stumbled. She held her side with her hand.
“I just want you.”
“… Disgusting bastard.”
Who gets what? Mew ignored her swear words and carefully examined Carmelo’s shadow. Her hand didn’t stick out any more after her sin-slicing, but she was not to be caught off guard.
“I am tired of being taken away.”
“Shut up. Just die.”
“You are mine. I will have it.”
“… Fuck. Really.”
I can’t listen anymore.
I must finish it with the next blow….
Mew felt the hilt of her sword quiver. Her magic circuit burns very hot. The passion that surpassed her anger and reached her loathing resonated with Mu’s sword. Her sword body cried lightly. She’s in a crowded environment. Anyway, she had to get out of here quickly.
“Go to sleep. You’re a disgusting bastard.”
Mew let out her fishy sneer and grabbed her sword hilt. I wasn’t going to kill her, but I was thinking of killing her half and putting her up against a wall. Then she won’t even wake up for a while. It was this guy who attacked her first of all. It was called self-defense. She had nothing to distance herself from.
And so, the moment the sword wrapped in flames swung into Carmelo’s other side.
—Ahahahaha.
Someone laughed right behind me.
The action was great. Because of that, I couldn’t protect my back. It would be fine if she rotated her body like this, but Carmelo was where the sword passed.
Kwaaang—!
As intended, Mew succeeded in striking Carmelo with the sword, but was unable to react to the sound coming from behind her.
‘Ah.’
Shadow.
Her hand, which had only stretched out from Carmelo’s shadow, came out of her own shadow. Dozens of them too. As wide as a net. Mew stared blankly at them as they swayed and approached like waves.
‘… Ruined.’
Ah ah ah ─
Gulp.
Myu was swallowed up by the shadows.
‘… Uh.’
Mu opened his eyes in a dark place.
The feeling of sitting in a small room with the lights off. But the feeling was not. Looking down at her, she couldn’t see her own body. Even though she waved her hand, she didn’t catch anything. It would be better to describe her as wealthy. There is no floor, and the sky is infinite, such a heterogeneous space.
There was nothing Mu could do in this space. He just floats silently in the void, exhaling silently as if floating. No, he’s not even sure he’s breathing. Was he still alive? She seemed to be dreaming of falling into an abyss of darkness.
‘… What.’
It was then.
A very small light appeared at the end. It was smaller than the mole on the nape of Mew’s left neck, but it grew bigger and bigger, to the extent that it filled Mew’s field of vision.
Mew closed his eyes tightly, but the light did not disappear. She covered her eyes with his hand because he was getting more and more dazzled, but this, too, was of no avail.
And.
The color was applied to the black drawing paper.
‘Uh… ?’
The darkness lifted, and Mew saw something in her.
‘That….’
On a cold day, someone was sitting on a bench in what appeared to be a town square. A girl in front of a large fountain. A girl with her muffler on, her hands clasped together, looking around with her hum. The surroundings were full of people. Close lovers, family, business, children…….
The girl paid no attention to all of that, blowing her breath into her clasped hands and a smile on her lips again. Like a child waiting for a gift from her parents. Just like that, she painted a pleasing smile on her lips.
Ah.
Is that me?
‘… ….’
Yes.
The girl was Mu herself.
I don’t know if I’ll see a kaleidoscope before I die, but this time of all. This moment. Mu was watching. From a third party point of view. On her birthday, which happens once a year, she was waiting for someone. That terrible moment.
Mu instinctively closed her eyes, but her vision was not blocked. She cruelly made me keep watching the scenery.
‘… Stop.’
The sun rose in the middle of the sky, but the weather was not warm. That day was like that. It was very cold. As the night progressed, it got even colder. It was chilly, and her body and mind slowly froze.
There were no hands now to cover her eyes and ears. Time passed endlessly, and as the sun went down, that girl, Mu’s expression and posture changed. The smile disappeared from her smiling face, and it was soon buried in her muffler. Her feet landed on the bench. Mu hugged my leg. She then buried her head in her lap. She remained motionless, like a frozen statue.
‘Stop.’
The voice of pleading did not reach anyone.
‘Stop….’
When the night was deep, right before Mew’s birthday was over. Someone appeared in the square where the bright moon rose.
… He was a short boy
But every time I walked, my legs creaked as if they were out of step, and I was miserable, as if I had just jumped out of the grave. He is a person who walks toward the plaza precariously as if he might collapse at any moment.
It was a senior.
‘Ah….’
The senior finally stood in front of himself.
In front of a senior who has been late for a while.
He himself,
Myself.
I am.
‘… ….’
I didn’t want to see what happened after this.
But I had no choice but to watch it.
‘Ha.’
I burst into tears.
Han swears.
Looking up belatedly, I realized that the senior was badly injured. He cried again. And he lifted the senior. He cried and ran towards the temple. He was assisted by priests. He entrusted the senior.
And, and…….
‘… Uh?’
It was the right flow to receive the letter from the senior at the temple, and to find the senior who had just left and visit them here and there.
By the way….
‘… ….’
Something was strange.
The other self thanked the priest countless times and then left the temple with the senior who had fully recovered his body.
Besides, the senpai was not the current Ezio Cranil, but the old Ezio Cranil.
What this means is that he has not grown taller and has a stronger physique… He had black hair and was still short. Just like in those days. He was his own cute and cute senior.
The senior did not drop out.
As if that had never happened, I returned to the academy and lived my life as usual. He eats, works out, reads, trains again… ….
Everything was the same.
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Just.
‘… ….’
In that daily life, Mu himself was not alone.
… Why?
The question wandered aimlessly. Without being resolved.
Mu quietly looked ahead.
… When the senior was practicing magic in the spacious training ground, someone hesitantly approached the senior from afar.
She was a female student wearing the Lorsen Academy uniform. She was a young girl with light pink hair as fresh as spring. Ah, Mew knew who that was without having to tell him.
Ruvia.
… The woman.
Ruvia finally met the senior. They were awkward at first, but after an honest conversation, Rubia burst into tears first.
The senior was embarrassed, and she patted Rubia and hugged her without hesitation. Rubia cried even more. The senior directly wiped her rubia’s tears.
Ah, what is this?
……
Time passed as the sun rose and disappeared again below the horizon. Rubia and her senior started going together in the academy at some point.
Sometimes we talk amicably, and sometimes we eat together. We also feed each other. I even play silly pranks. On the stairs, which was a place only for her and her senpai, sitting back to back, reading a book without speaking. Rubia teaches her magic directly to her seniors.
When the senior finally showed decent results right before graduation, Rubia smiled brightly and hugged her senior.
And the atmosphere soon became awkward.
Seniors, seniors. The senior who twitched her little hand. It’s all thanks to you She hugged Rubia.
And from that day on, the two became lovers.
‘… ….’
Ah.
… Now i get it
Why should I be watching this?
‘… You want to bring me down, right?’
This was a world where only Mew himself was abandoned.
A world where only Mew himself does not exist.
The senpai fully recovered from her injuries, successfully reconciled with Rubia dramatically and overcame her trauma, and even that love was reciprocated.
Senpai lived in joy every day while talking to Rubia to the fullest. Her senior seemed genuinely happy next to Rubia, and no one interrupted her happy hour.
The two went from childhood friends to lovers. It was a very romantic love. There was no one who did not bless anyone, and the target of the blessing was those two.
The senior trained hard to become a man suitable for Rubia. He didn’t miss a day or night. It was like that originally too.
As the days passed, the senior grew taller, and his physique grew stronger. His jawline has also become sharper, and now he has a very handsome face instead of a cute one. So, like the current senior.
After graduating from Lorsen Academy’s middle school, the senior who grew up splendidly went on to the high school academy. Not the Imperial Frontier Academy.
And Rubia also followed her senior and entered the same academy. It was just an ordinary high school academy of the empire. If it was Rubia’s talent, she would have been able to enter the Epic class with confidence. I guess the senior didn’t have that kind of talent. That’s why she seems to have entered that academy following her senior.
Wearing freshman uniforms, the senior and Rubia met each other’s eyes during the entrance ceremony. And they showed it and laughed at each other. However, the senior and Rubia, who had been fooling around, were cautioned by the student council executives. The two, who had been sullen for a moment, looked back at each other as if they had arranged it beforehand.
And I laughed. Held hands I put on a pod affectionately.
As soon as the dean’s echo of congratulations on admission resounded, the new students cheered, and thus, the seniors and Rubia welcomed a new life amid blessings.
‘Ah.’
He wasn’t there.
Probably, it would not be there forever.
My heart ached so much not being here. It was a terrible feeling. Even when I ate something wrong and got sick, I didn’t do this. Just, just.
It was sad.
… It was me
I was the one who comforted the senior who was heartbroken, and the one who liked her senior first.
I was the first to become a lover with a senior. She hugged me more, and it was me who loved her more.
You were my own senior.
My own senior.
On your own.
Only me.
In that world, only me.
I was the only one who wasn’t happy.
I was the only one who couldn’t be happy because my senior was taken away.
Well, that fact…….
‘Ha.’
… What did you say?
This is not reality.
Mu remembered my reality.
It was terrifying at times, but at times it felt like a curse, but that was the reality of Mew.
A world in which I hurt a senior, and a senior hurt me, and that’s why everyone isn’t happy. That world was my only reality.
Yes.
My reality was much uglier than this, so I couldn’t accept a lie that was so far removed from reality as reality.
‘… Therefore.’
Something like this.
Anything like this kind of welcome.
‘You can’t break me.’
The moment when Mew removed the shadow of his heart.
The scenery where the senior and Rubia were welcoming the entrance ceremony gradually cracked.
A crack formed like a dense spider’s web, and the center turned into shards of glass that gradually shattered.
Damn, darn—!
The crack grew even bigger.
Mu became more determined the more he did.
‘My mind isn’t that weak.’
Damn it!
‘It won’t collapse with something like this.’
Damn it!
‘There were times when I collapsed, but not anymore.’
Damn it!
The shards of glass on which the senior and Rubia were drawn were finely divided and shattered. It hides itself beneath that far-off abyss.
There was only empty darkness beyond the painting.
‘Did you think I would collapse if I showed you a happy image without me? You’re welcome. Because that will never happen.’
I’m full of energy. Quite.
‘Exclusive desire? There are people, of course. If it’s not your own, you can make it your own!’
… Even if you want to know what this is like.
‘If the senior is happy, she is happy with that. But I must be by his side. I will never give up on this!’
Nothing.
‘Don’t look at me lightly!’
Mu herself was originally like this.
By the way, by the way—!
Clang-!
At last, the darkness broke.
It was shattered.
And.
“…… ! … !”
Sound.
Sureuk─
Mu slowly opened her eyes.
“Hey, hey! Music! Music!?”
“… ….”
Slightly lifted eyelids.
The figure reflected in the eyes beneath it was very familiar.
Ah.
“…… Senior.”
“…… ! Did you come to your senses?! It’s fortunate, I was wondering what to do when you become a host…… !”
Sweaty gray hair. Blue eyes. A face full of worries.
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Just by looking at him, he felt comfortable and guilty at the same time, and he had his own senior in front of him.
That too….
‘You came when I needed you the most.’
As expected.
This is where I belong.
“… It hurts, your shoulder.”
“… Oh sorry.”
“… It’s okay.”
Mu smiled thinly.
Alright that’s it, Mu best girl.