316 – EP.11 1 Year later
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Autumn has already arrived on campus, where fresh leaves were blocking the sun. The leaves, dressed in colorful clothes, fell freely in the autumn breeze.
With the strong seasonal wind blowing from time to time, the tree branches that had protected the campus for a long time gradually revealed their bare appearance.
It may seem like a rather lonely sight, but for the new college students crowding in groups on the well-paved road, it was just one of the changes of the seasons.
The same was true for a group of five men and women passing under a ginkgo tree.
“There are a lot of assignments. Sister, let’s get together and do them together.”
The chestnut-haired woman groaned and placed her chin on the head of the woman ahead.
She frowned at the feeling of something touching the top of her head, but showed no further reaction.
“Are you trying to copy again?”
“Hey, let’s do it together. It’s disappointing….”
As if he knew your intentions, the other person went silent.
“But it seems like Seong-ah always does the homework.”
The tall man who was walking behind started to provide support fire.
“Hey, why are you always looking for me?”
“It’s as big as a crab, so it’s a crab.”
The man smiled and saw Kim Seong-ah running ahead.
“Oh, it’s okay. Anyway, let’s do it together. No, help me. I don’t know a single thing about the assignment.”
“Huh? Then I’ll join in too.”
“Me too!”
As the short-haired man shouted, he and another female student with their arms around him shouted.
“Then, should we set up a study room? After lunch, I think it would be perfect to go and buy coffee at a cafe.”
The tall man who protected Seong-ah said.
“Yes, yes. Then. Sister, what do you want to eat? Tteokbokki? Malatang?”
A woman with brown hair hugged Kim Seong-ah from behind. She seemed to be handling a precious doll.
Kim Seong-ah frowned at the huge chest of her one year younger brother, feeling it on the back of her head.
“I can’t do it today.”
As Kim Seong-ah finished speaking, the eyes of her group, including the man who was searching her study room, turned to her.
“Why?”
“Uh, why?”
“Huh? What’s going on?”
“Sister?”
“I have to go home early today. I’m going to go home now.”
Seongah Kim turned her body and looked at her group.
“But I have a class later.”
“We will cancel classes on our own.”
Everyone looked surprised by the remarks of Gwatap, who was a model student of hers.
“I made all the plans, but I’m sorry I missed you. I said it too late, didn’t I?”
When she stuck out her tongue and asked for her understanding, her companions waved her hands, saying it was okay.
A group of five men and women arrived at the main gate of the school. Kim Seong-ah got on the bus from the bus stop to the subway station.
“Well, see you tomorrow.”
She said hello as she boarded the bus, and her group waved her off to see her off.
Once the bus left, the remaining group headed to Eat Alley to have lunch.
“Sister, you look a little strange today.”
The brown-haired woman said as she stretched.
“Hey, let’s go to a dakgalbi restaurant. But, what’s strange about you?”
The tall man said.
“You looked kind of dazed today.”
“What day is today?”
The short-haired man who was flirting with his girlfriend behind him spoke, and the chestnut-haired woman shook her head.
“Seong-ah, I don’t think it’s a special day considering what I don’t know about my major.”
“You are also in critical condition. Why didn’t Seong-ah cut him off?”
The tall man made a bored face.
“Mr. Woo, if she’s going to cut me off, she probably wouldn’t have even pretended to know you guys already, right?”
“Ah, today is the day to take the CSAT.”
The tall man who was looking at his smartphone said.
“Ah~ It’s already been a year. What is the difficulty level of this year’s CSAT?”
“If it’s time… I’ll be watching English.”
After passing through alleys and alleys, the group arrived in front of the store.
“Hey, there are a lot of people at the Dakgalbi restaurant. Do you want to go somewhere else or wait?”
“It’s the same everywhere else. Let’s just wait here.”
The chestnut-haired woman crossed her arms and held up her smartphone.
She then starts sending messages somewhere.
“What are you doing? [Sister, you’re not feeling well, are you? See you tomorrow~ I love you&] …Ugh, you’d better confess.”
A tall man approaches behind her and peeks at the contents of the screen.
“Don’t steal it. It’s a dog.”
A woman with brown hair gave a flying knee kick to a man who was pretending to vomit.
While the man and the woman were chatting, the short-haired man and his girlfriend waited for a table to become available in the restaurant with a calm expression, as if they were observing what was happening.
***
When I arrived home, the sun was setting.
Kim Seong-ah headed to the refrigerator.
She took two cans of beer out of her refrigerator and put them in her bag.
Then, I glanced at the sink where the gas range and cooking utensils were mounted.
Looking at the white dust that had settled down, I could see how long they had been left unattended.
After the incident a year ago, Kim Seong-ah did not cook or eat anything at this house.
“Let’s go. We’ll be late.”
It wasn’t a fixed appointment, but she left the house in a hurry.
The sun went down and night came. The place she hurriedly arrived at, packing her bag, was the same rooftop she had seen a year ago.
As she sat down on the floor, she had already transformed into a magical girl, because the door to the rooftop was locked and she had to fly in.
It was the first transformation in one year.
The biggest reason was that there was no enemy attack, but she was also anxious that the memories of that day would come back vividly if she transformed.
“Mister.”
She opened the beer she had brought. With a light sound, the can’s lid opened, and she drank it.
The tangy carbonation of beer danced down my throat and down into my stomach.
“I’m living well. I make a lot of friends and eat well.”
There is no answer back.
“I’m thinking about changing my job. It’s called the Convergence Physics Department, and I think I can study things related to the dimension you mentioned.”
She muttered into the air.
Sipping her beer again, she smiled softly.
“She must be traveling to another world, right? I hope she doesn’t get involved with a strange woman.”
She brushed her fingers across the railing. The dust just came out.
“I don’t think there’s any need for magical girls in this world anymore. Thanks to you, it’s peaceful. Of course…”
I felt a huge wave of power.
Kim Seong-ah looked at the crack opening above her head and calmly drank her second beer.
“If I just get rid of one more thing.”
A woman in black squeezing out of a huge crack.
There was no room in her stiff face.
“I waited.”
A magical girl who ascends to the sky makes eye contact with a witch.
“Where is the man?”
As soon as the witch appeared, the question asked was Kang In-ho’s whereabouts.
The magical girl controlled the emotions welling up inside her and took another sip of her beer.
“I am enough for you.”
The fight between the two began with Kim Seong-ah throwing her beer can at the witch.
The witch crushed the can that was flying at her at high speed, and before she knew it, she raised her arm to block the kick of the magical girl who was right in front of her.
“I waited a year!”
What followed the kick was a sharp spear thrust.
The sharpness of the spear aimed between the eyes prompted the witch to summon her huge hand and try to grab it.
“I felt your growing power, and I made a plan to tear you into tens of thousands of pieces!”
The magic girl flew over the witch’s head and struck down, but the witch barely managed to block it.
“Ugh!”
Without even being able to gauge each other’s power, her magical girl rushes at her with all her power.
The witch’s hands became dizzy from her constant barrage of attacks. Little by little, the scratches piled up.
For something called the pinnacle of evil, it is unable to offer much resistance and is pushed back.
“Well, it’s the law!”
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The witch moved her hands widely, showing off her arrogant pride.
Her huge hands created a powerful wind that pushed the magical girl behind her.
Now there is a distance. Medium and long distance fighting was the witch’s specialty.
Sword red rays shot out from her huge hands.
“[Stella, dress up]”
The starlight in the night sky twinkled for an instant and then disappeared.
And they gathered around the magical girl. A dress made of starlight is worn by a magical girl.
“Ha!”
The dark red rays that were being shot out are extinguished by the starlight rays emitted by the magical girl.
“This, a lowly thing!”
The witch was enraged by her own attack, which was so easily deflected, and the magic girl, sprinkling her starlight, lowered her stance and raised her wand.
“I’m going.”
In an instant, the magical girl’s appearance disappeared. The witch looked around her and figured out her opponent’s location.
Is it the right one? As she turns her head, an attack comes from her left.
She narrowly avoids the attack and twists her body to her left, causing a spear to fly out from underneath her.
She flies higher and spreads her distance, and before you know it, she is firing her magical cannon from above.
A dizzying array of stabs and kicks, and magical cannons of terrifying power.
Attacks pour in along with a trail of blue starlight.
“Quaaa!!!”
Receiving them with her whole body, the witch screams.
As the magic girl said, the witch who allowed tens of thousands of attacks fell to the roof of the building.
With a thud, the witch, who was thrown onto the cold asphalt floor, saw the figure of a magical girl falling vertically towards her.
“I’m dying!!!!”
Mysterious purple eyes are burning brightly. The magical girl charged at the witch with her spear in front.
Just before her spear pierced the witch’s heart, her witch’s face twitched grotesquely.
“!!!”
And then the magic girl’s spear stopped at the exposed face of the witch.
“…Okay, this is your weakness.”
Kang In-ho’s face giggled as he looked at the magical girl.
“Uncle… Mr.?”
A moment of hesitation. That brief moment was enough time for the witch to pierce the magical girl’s chest.
– Pook
“Khaak…!”
With the sound of digging into something soft, the magical girl spit out her blood.
Kim Seong-ah fell backwards.
“Whew… That’s amazing. I never thought you’d push me this far… I guess she’s a magical girl after all?”
The witch, who had returned to her true form again, was truly amazed.
“I’m telling you because you don’t seem to know, but… I can change into many forms. The form just now was… The form of the person you care about the most.”
“Cough….”
The magical girl coughed up another handful of her blood.
Consciousness begins to blur.
‘No… If I die… If I die, I can’t meet you…’
“What would be the best way to kill you? Ah… Wouldn’t it be better to kill you in the form of the person you hate the most? Hmm… Then it would be me?”
The witch’s voice was full of joy, as if she had completed her recovery.
The witch’s face twisted again, and it turned into the face she had seen somewhere else.
Red eyes, ponytail hair pulled back, charismatic eyes. Oriental style clothing.
“Hmm? Whose appearance is this? Well, guess what. Anyway, this is the appearance of the person you hate the most, right?”
As the witch raises her hands, her huge fist lands on her body.
Even with her fists falling, the magical girl’s body made no attempt to move.
‘No… I don’t want to die… Uncle! Mister!’
Am I going to die like this without being able to avenge my uncle?
I wanted to kill the witch, survive, and follow the man…
In the ever-growing shadows, the magical girl closed her eyes, accepting her impending death.
“Eat it up, procrastinator.”
“You, what are you!! Ugh… Ugh!!!!”
Kwajik, eujik, eujeok.
The unpleasant sound of bones breaking and flesh being chewed is heard.
The magical girl slowly opened her eyes. An empty night sky with nothing in it came into her eyes.
She carefully raised her body.
Degurrr… Something round rolled towards her.
It was the head of the witch who had been triumphant just moments before.
The world’s worst enemy was insignificant in his final days.
“…I was surprised.”
Kim Seong-ah raised her staff and aimed at the voice she heard in the dark.
“Who are you?!”
Instead of answering the question, something thick and black rose up from the darkness.
“Hmph!”
Kim Seong-ah let out an ugly scream at the bizarre shadow.
Something black grabbed the head of the witch at Kim Seong-ah’s feet.
“To see a familiar face in a place like this….”
The witch’s face was distorted as it was lifted into the air and then returned to its original appearance. With her death, the magic was broken.
“I thought it was dangerous, so I intervened. Oh, Mr. Gwamul. Please eat the rest.”
The shadow swallowed the remaining witch’s head.
“I have something to ask you.”
Ttogak ttogak. The clear sound of shoes echoed through the rooftop.
A woman emerged from the dark shadows under the moonlight.
Black short hair, elegant look, women’s suit.
Kim Seong-ah made a dumbfounded face at the sight of the office lady, who seemed to have been drawn from a painting.
“Who is your sister…? No, more than that, why does she know that face from earlier?”
“That’s what I want to ask. How does she know that face?”
“Oh?”
“??”
The two women tilted their heads as they exchanged meaningless questions.