episode_0074

Even though the magical girls made a bit of a fuss, I finished my meal.

When I make pizza, it doesn’t taste like the store-bought kind.

I guess for commercial products, there must be some kind of source code that only this company uses.

But, except for Korean-style pizza, I can easily make pizzas like Gorgonzola or pizza Margherita.

You can make New York style pizza or even Chicago deep dish.

It’s easy, since I learned it step by step while taking a vacation from Eden and going around eating pizza with Ellie in the US.

In places like Italy, I had a history of going on business trips for a short while to collect something.

Besides the pizzas I’ve tried, Korean-style pizza is really hard to replicate.

Pizza… I think I’ll make my own pizza next week.

People aren’t going to say anything if you make a few small changes to your monthly diet. You should just change it up a little on the sly.

Oh, right. I forgot to check when you asked me to write down what I wanted to eat next week.

I should have done it yesterday.

Because of those things, I couldn’t check it.

I tried it once last week and the response was good.

Well, it’s not like I can’t cook. There’s no reason I can’t do it if you ask me to.

There was also a happy side to eating delicious food and saying thank you.

Hmm, I guess I didn’t really have any thoughts of subduing magical girls with this dish.

But are you still fighting?

“Yoon Seol-ah?”

“Yes, yes…! Hye-won!”

“Hey, what’s the honorific between us, huh?”

“Hahaha, right? ”

“That’s right, we’re between us. You wouldn’t say something like that, right?”

A soft, sun-kissed magic surrounded her.

Right next to her, another magical girl was surrounded by peach-scented magic.

Both magical girls looked like they would be in trouble if they were touched.

Ah, I’m thirsty.

Was there a cola in the fridge?

Oh, you came by delivery service.

Even if it’s a little lukewarm, it’s okay to eat it with ice.

The moment I was about to get up to get some ice from the refrigerator, a question came to me.

No, it’s more of a notice than a question, a sentence.

“Vine, where are you going?”

“I’m thirsty, so I’d like some ice… ”

“Sister Yuri, please give me some ice. Vinnie, sit here.”

“Excuse me…?”

“Who else lives in this house besides you? Come on, sit down.”

“Today, it’s a little scary that the crybaby is talking in an un-crybaby tone… ?”

“I’m quite angry. You’d better sit down. Oh, Sister. Sister, come back quickly. I have a lot to ask you, right?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Although I wasn’t particularly conscious of it, the current situation, as indicated by the unemployed man’s speech, seemed to be more serious than I thought.

Just like the first day I came to this house, standing there, with a voice filled with anger.

Her low voice, not her usual relaxed one, suggested that she was angry and had no intention of being relaxed.

And then, the crybaby’s voice that continued on turned its arrowhead not toward Blanc, but toward me.

“Okay, let’s say Yunseul, you don’t have anything to say, Bine?”

“Is that you…? Did I do something wrong…?”

“Wrong, so you think I didn’t do it?”

“Well… To be honest, I have made so many mistakes up until now… ”

“That’s not what we’re trying to talk about, is it?”

“Hmm… Honestly, I don’t know… ”

“Why did you try to follow Yunseul? At least, if a strange person comes and offers you money, you shouldn’t follow them. And Yunseul, you don’t blindly try to get money for your child like that… Sigh… ”

“Honestly, I don’t care… but even if I hadn’t followed Blanc that day, I would have sold this body.”

“… What? Yunseul, you said you told me everything you know. Why are you saying something different?”

“No, I really told you everything I know, really, okay?”

“Hmm… Well, I get it. But, you’re selling your body?”

“Because I didn’t have money. Anyway, in the end, that was the only way I had left. To give my small body to the people I like, and to sell spring for money. Well, isn’t that a proper end for a villain?”

“No… Haa. Really.”

“Sister, do you know what I was thinking when I first heard this? I really did nothing wrong… Yes? Hyewon, okay? ”

“Yoonseul, shut your mouth. Sigh… My head really hurts.”

“Ah, yeah… ”

He’s groaning and holding his head as if he really has a headache. Should I get him some water?

But, it looked like he was about to get really angry at Blanc and held it back. In times like this, it’s best to just sit back and watch the situation unfold.

Because he’s a scarier person when he gets angry than you think.

It would be better to cut off the neck of a weak villain like me to relieve the anger.

Clearly, when we first met in this house, he rushed at me and tried to kill me…

Hmm… It wasn’t a big deal, was it?

That yellow-haired crybaby was… crying. And she was crying to Blanc.

You shouldn’t touch it. Yeah, yeah.

The first person the crybaby who had been crying opened his mouth to speak was, unexpectedly, me.

“Vine.”

“Yes, why are you like that?”

“Do you still think so?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about… ”

“Still, your last proper thing… In that moon village, your body… Haa… ”

“Didn’t you want it? Sister’s revenge.”

“No, that’s… ”

“Wasn’t it a good thing for you? After all, you uprooted the vine that made your sister fall from the sky and threw it in the trash can.”

“Why is that a good thing… Sister, sigh… ”

“I first came here and I heard from you… Why is a kid who should be stuck in the marina standing here so proudly… ”

“Sigh… ”

The crybaby who heard what I said couldn’t finish speaking, perhaps because he was more embarrassed than angry.

Is it really that embarrassing to hear yourself say something again?

“What does that mean…?”

This story could have ended here even if Ellie hadn’t asked what I said.

“Huh?”

“No, I was listening… but, what. I can’t organize anything in my head? Moon Village? Selling your body? ”

“Ah, Ellie. That’s… ”

“That’s so different from what you said. Didn’t you say that you were hiding and doing well until you were caught by Blanc and ended up working here? ”

“Hmm… That’s right too, right?”

“Vine! No, Blanc. I need to hear a proper explanation from you?”

Was it fortunate that Ellie’s blade was pointed at Blanc and not me?

No, that blade will definitely come back to me, so how can I prepare an excuse again…

“… The beanie I saw, in that neighborhood, really… haa… ”

“Stop whining and speak frankly. If even one thing you ask me is different, I’ll get really angry.”

“Haa… I see. You know that neighborhood. Happy Village? There was a fire there a few years ago, and it’s famous for a lot of things.”

“Yeah, I know.”

“… It’s a shantytown. You know that.”

“… … ”

“Vine was there.”

“Why Vine? Surely… Eden’s operating funds… No, at least there must have been money earned during the prison term.”

I have nothing to say.

The amount of money earned during the prison term.

While I was carrying it around, more than half of it was stolen by a drunk on the street.

With a body like this, wearing a leash, and a criminal record, it would have been better to give half rather than make a fuss any longer.

Still, the rent for that house was paid.

… and spent three years in prison.

I did hard labor that paid me a little less than 20 thousand won a month…

700 thousand won.

Hmm…

Actually, the money I received was less than that.

The guards aren’t kind to villains.

If it’s obvious, then it may be obvious.

Just thinking about that person still makes my teeth chatter.

Like sending me to the punishment cell just because I was a little offended.

They make you do all the hard work they ask you to do, and they even falsify documents to get you paid less than you should have.

Even in such a situation, the title of villain cannot help but be unreasonable.

Was there not a single prison guard you became close with during those three years?

Except for that woman, we had talked and done things to some extent.

Because that’s where people live too. Yeah.

If you listen to what other guards say, that person said that he was harmed by Eden.

The house I finally got.

He said that he had barely managed to get a house by applying for subscription and even applying for youth support…

The building collapsed because I was fighting there.

Due to the government’s complacent response, the victims of the building were given a pitiful compensation and were told to stand in line again.

He said he got into a lot of debt because of that incident.

It must have been a large sum compared to the salary of a correctional officer.

As it happens, the mastermind behind the incident is right in front of us.

A weak and fragile girl.

However, this is a job where he can do whatever he wants with the girl, and what happens here never leaks out.

To confirm my power, to confirm my position.

Because he was a villain, he probably thought it was okay to bully him.

No matter how much she harassed him, beat him up for being strong, and even…

… Just thinking about it, haa…

This is also called PTSD.

You shouldn’t be bothered by something like that.

For a little under 700 thousand won.

The cheapest and smallest house in the most inaccessible area of the shantytown.

Even though it was far from a public restroom and close to a mountain, wild animals often appeared, and it was said that there were many drunks and rowdy people because it was a slum area.

70 in water…

No, it was 30.

When I think about the money I was robbed of many times while looking for a house.

The landlord who barely accepted it…

They only asked me to pay 70 thousand won per month without a deposit.

But the money is still woefully inadequate.

In the winter, we need to get rid of briquettes, but I don’t know if we can afford the briquettes.

What are you going to do about the food expenses?

Even if the monster’s body is more efficient than expected, it still has to eat.

…I didn’t have money.

huh.

“I didn’t have any money. Not a single one. How could I get Eden’s operating funds out? They’d be watching me from all sides. I was just unlucky.”

“Vine… ”

“No, it was probably just my karma. Yeah. That’s what it is.”

Those eyes looking at me.

It’s hot.

Even warm sunlight can hurt.