episode_0316

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Autumn has already arrived on campus, where fresh leaves used to block the sun. The leaves, dressed in colorful clothes, fell freely in the autumn breeze.

Due to the occasional strong seasonal wind, 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 the well-paved roads in groups, 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 this together.”

The chestnut-haired woman groaned and placed her chin on the head of the woman ahead.

He frowned at the feeling of something touching the top of his head, but showed no further reaction.

“Are you trying to copy again?”

“Ah, let’s do it together. Regretfully…”

As if the other person limped in response to your reply that he knew your intentions.

“But it seems like Seong-ah always does the homework.”

A tall man who was walking behind came to provide support.

” Hey, why are you always craving me!”

“Because it’s worth craving, I’m craving it.”

The man smiled and saw Kim Seong-ah running ahead.

“Ah, that’s it. Sister~ Anyway, let’s do it together. No, please help me. I don’t know a single assignment.”

“Huh? Then I want to join too.”

“Me too!”

As the short-haired man shouted, another female student with his arms around him shouted.

“Then, are you setting up a study room? I think it would be perfect to go to a cafe and buy coffee after lunch.”

The tall man who protected Seong-ah said.

“Yes, yes. OK. Sister, what do you want to eat? tteokbokki? Maratang?”

A woman with brown hair hugged Kim Seong-ah from behind. It looked like he was handling a precious doll.

Kim Seong-ah frowned at the huge chest of her one-year younger brother that she felt on the back of her head.

“I can’t do it today.”

As Kim Seong-ah finished speaking, the eyes of the group, including the man who was searching the 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.”

Kim Seong-ah turned around and looked at the group.

“But I have a class later.”

“We will cancel classes.”

Everyone looked surprised by the remarks of Gwatap, a model student himself.

“I made all the plans, but I’m sorry I missed you. Did I say it too late?”

When she stuck out her tongue and asked for understanding, the group waved their hands and said 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 the group waved her off.

After the bus left, the remaining group headed to Eat Alley to have lunch.

“Sister, you look a little strange today.”

The chestnut-haired woman stretched and said.

“Hey, let’s go to the Dakgalbi restaurant. But, what’s strange about you?”

said the tall man.

“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.

“Sung-ah, considering what I don’t know about my major, I don’t think it’s a special day.”

“You are also in critical condition. Why didn’t Seong-ah cut him off?”

The tall man made a bored face.

“Woo, if you were to the point of cutting me off, I wouldn’t have pretended to know you already, right?”

“Ah, today is the day to take the CSAT.”

A 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 were time right now… I would 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 do you want to wait?”

“Same goes for other places. Let’s just wait here.”

The brown-haired woman crossed her arms and held up her smartphone.

And then it starts sending a message somewhere.

“What are you doing? [Sister, you’re not feeling well, are you? See you tomorrow~ I love you♥] …Ugh, it’s better to confess.”

A tall man approaches behind her and peeks at the content on the screen.

“Don’t steal anything! 개새끼야.”

A woman with brown hair gave a flying knee kick to a man who was pretending to vomit.

While the man and 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 watching something happen.

***

The sun was setting when I arrived home.

Seongah Kim headed to the refrigerator.

She took two cans of beer out of the 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 tell how long they had been left unattended.

Since the incident a year ago, Kim Seong-ah has not cooked or eaten anything at this house.

“Let’s go. It’s going to be late.”

Although it wasn’t a fixed appointment, she left the house in a hurry.

The sun went down and night came. The place she hurriedly arrived at with her bag wrapped around her was the rooftop from a year ago.

As she sat down on the floor, she had already transformed into a magical girl, but the door to the rooftop was locked and she had to fly in.

It was a transformation after just one year.

The biggest reason was that there was no enemy attack, but there was also an anxiety that the memories of that day would come back vividly if I transformed.

“Uncle.”

She opened the beer she had brought. With a light sound, the can’s lid opened, and she drank it.

The fizzy carbonation of the beer danced down my throat and down my stomach.

“I am living well. I made a lot of friends and ate well.”

There is no answer back.

“I’m also considering a criminal record. It’s called the Department of Convergence Physics, and I thought I could study things related to the dimension you mentioned.”

She muttered into the air.

Sipping her beer again, she smiled softly.

“You must be traveling to another world, right? I hope I don’t get involved with a strange woman.”

She ran her fingers along the railing. The dust just came out.

“I think there is no need for magical girls in this world anymore. Thanks to you, I am at peace. Of course…”

I felt a huge wave of power.

Seongah Kim looked at the crack opening above her head and calmly drank her second beer.

“Just get rid of one more thing.”

A woman in black squeezing out of a huge crack.

There was no composure on his stiff face.

“I waited.”

A magical girl ascends to the sky and makes eye contact with a witch.

“Where is that man?”

As soon as the witch appeared, the question she asked was Kang In-ho’s whereabouts.

The magical girl controlled the emotions welling up inside her and drank another beer.

“I am enough for you.”

The fight between the two began with Kim Seong-ah throwing a beer can at the witch.

The witch, who crushed the can flying at high speed, raised her arm to block the kick of the magical girl who was already in front of her.

“I waited a year!”

What followed the kick was a sharp spear thrust.

The witch summoned a huge hand and tried to catch it due to the sharpness of the spear aimed between the eyes.

“Feeling your growing power, I made a plan to tear you into tens of thousands of pieces!”

The magic girl flew over the witch’s head and struck her down, but the witch barely managed to block it.

“Keuak!”

Without even trying to gauge each other’s strength, the magical girl attacks her with all her might.

The witch’s hands became dizzy from the constant barrage of attacks. Little by little, the scratches piled up.

Even though it is said to be the pinnacle of evil, it is unable to offer any resistance and is pushed back.

“Well, it’s the law!”

The witch moved her hands widely, showing off her arrogant pride.

A huge hand created a powerful wind and pushed the magical girl back.

Now there is distance. Medium and long distance fighting was the witch’s specialty.

A dark red ray of light shot out from the giant hand.

“[Stella, dress up]”

The starlight in the night sky twinkled for an instant and then disappeared.

And they all gathered around the magical girl. A dress made of starlight is worn by a magical girl.

“Happy!”

The dark red rays that were being shot out were extinguished by the starlight rays emitted by the magical girl.

“This is a lowly thing!”

The witch was enraged by her attack, which was so easily scattered, and the starlight magic girl lowered her posture and raised her staff.

“Going.”

In an instant, the magical girl’s appearance disappeared. The witch looked around and figured out the opponent’s location.

Is it right? When I turn my head, an attack comes from the left.

I barely avoid the attack and turn to the left, and a spear flies out from below.

It flies higher and spreads the distance, and before you know it, magic cannons are being fired from above.

A flurry 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 magical 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 straight towards her.

“I’m dying!!!!”

Mysterious purple eyes are burning brightly. The magical girl charged at the witch with her spear in front of her.

Just before the spear pierced the witch’s heart, her face twitched strangely.

“!!!”

And the magic girl’s spear stopped at the exposed face of the witch.

“…Yes, 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.

– deeply

“Keuhak…!”

With the sound of digging into something soft, the magical girl vomited blood.

Kim Seong-ah fell backwards.

“Whew… It’s amazing. Who would have thought that they would push me this far… After all, she is a magical girl?”

The witch, who had returned to her true form, was truly amazed.

“I’m telling you because you don’t seem to know, but… I can change into many different forms. The image just now was… the image of the person you care about the most.”

“Cough….”

The magical girl coughed up another handful of blood.

Consciousness begins to fade.

‘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 the person you hate the most? Hmm… So does that mean it’s me?”

The witch’s voice was full of joy, as if she had completely recovered.

The witch’s face distorted again, and changed into a face I had seen somewhere else.

Red eyes, ponytail hair pulled back, charismatic eyes. Oriental style clothing.

“Hmm? Whose image is this? Well, how about it? Anyway, this is the person you hate the most, right?”

When the witch raises her hand, a huge fist lands on her body.

Despite the falling fist, 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 my uncle…

As the shadow gradually fell, the magical girl accepted her impending death and closed her eyes.

“Eat it up. Mr. Procrastination.”

“You, what are you!! Ugh… Aaaah!!!!”

Kwajik, eujik, eujik.

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 view.

She rose carefully.

Deroll… something round rolled towards her.

It was the head of the witch who had been triumphant just a moment ago.

The end of the world’s worst enemy was insignificant.

“…I was surprised.”

Seongah Kim raised her cane and aimed at the voice she heard in the darkness.

“Who are you?!”

Instead of answering the question, something thick and black rose up from the darkness.

“Huh!”

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.

“Seeing a familiar face in a place like this…”

The face of the witch lifted into the air was distorted and then returned to its original appearance. With death, the magic is broken.

“I intervened because I thought it was dangerous. Ah, Mr. Procrastination. Eat the rest too.”

The shadow swallowed the remaining witch’s head.

“I have something to ask you.”

Again and again. 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 do you know that face from before?”

“That’s what I want to ask. How do you know that face?”

“Ah?”

“??”

The two women tilted their heads as they exchanged meaningless questions.