episode_0075

Yuna was a pretty, reserved, and emotional child.

Such a child has difficulty making allies. He is easily isolated, not accepted by either men or women.

And an isolated child is bound to be met with hostility and ridicule.

The problem was that Yuna was naturally good at finishing fights.

Perhaps it was because his sickly mother’s wish came true that he was born with a strong body. His fierce temperament also played a part in that.

It was a childish fight that should have ended when the blood started and the person started crying, but once the fight started, they acted as if it would stop only when the other person died. It is natural to be scared when you think that the other person is trying to kill you.

So, all the kids who got into fights with Yuna experienced the bitter taste.

It would have been better if there were only one or two. Since the fighting spirit would disappear quickly, Yuna could calm down relatively quickly.

The problem was that they believed in numbers and were the majority, encouraging themselves and posing a great threat to Yuna as well. In the end, Yuna was the one who stood still, and the guys who rushed in were really destroyed.

If Yuna had been just a little older, if she hadn’t been a frail girl on the outside and always alone, Yuna’s family would have been ruined by the compensation money.

It was the mother who thought that her daughter would not be able to live a normal life if things continued like this.

It is rare for a child to be able to insist that they did nothing wrong in front of their always affectionate mother who cries and pleads. As if that wasn’t enough, the sight of her mother going to the homes of the guys who had picked absurd fights and kneeling down to apologize broke Yuna’s heart.

The girl who was born with a temperament that was not only unladylike but also completely uncivilized, barely managed to take her first steps toward civilization.

Although I couldn’t be nice to others or fake a smile, I was still less aggressive toward them.

At least her mother didn’t stop her from getting piercings or riding a big bike that even men would have a hard time riding, because she knew that her daughter was enduring it in that way.

Because I knew that her fierce temper still remained inside her.

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The role that Se-ha gave to Yuna was ‘wait’.

He told me to wait and never come out of the hideout until he said it was time for me to do so.

Everyone else was given a role.

First of all, there is no need to discuss Se-ha, who disguised himself as Shin Myeong-jun and carried out some kind of operation.

The chairman also volunteered for the role of stopping Sajamyeong, with the condition that he would only use his powers under limited conditions. Before that, it was the chairman who had taken care of moving the slaves that Sajamyeong had left behind in the gym to the sickroom.

Suin went to find a person named Aret and received the equipment that Seha would use, and then placed it at the designated point. Then, together with Yuren, she moved the female cadets that Sajamyeong had brought to a safe place.

The only people without roles were Saya and Yuna.

And in fact, even that is not true.

Saya… could also play the role of taking care of Seha’s wounds in the worst case scenario. She had just recovered from a serious injury, but I could tell that she would never hesitate if she thought it was necessary.

The only person who really had no role was Yuna.

As if that wasn’t enough, Se-ha gave Saya this order before leaving: [Until Se-ha calls, you must never leave the hideout.]

He said something strange like, ‘Operation Yuna Awakening without Yuna,’ and then just told me to wait and left.

“What the hell are you thinking.”

This was the umpteenth grumble. Saya could see her shoulders hunched at the nervous tone in his voice.

Even though I thought that this shouldn’t happen, I couldn’t suppress my anger. No matter how many times I changed the camera footage that was covering the hideout, I couldn’t find what I was looking for.

It’s not that there haven’t been fights up until now, but Se-ha always knew about them first and prepared sufficiently before joining the battlefield. His attitude was that winning before fighting was the best.

But this time, with insufficient numbers and a hastily planned operation, they have to face a powerful enemy.

Although he succeeded in hitting all the traps he had prepared, the sight of Sajamyeong getting up and chasing Seha as if nothing had happened was still a little creepy.

After getting out of the traps, I couldn’t follow the chase no matter how I changed the camera, so my anxiety only grew.

Communication between members, which had been going back and forth quite regularly, was also cut off. To be exact, only Seha’s was making noise.

The chairman said that the chase was still going on and that he probably just dropped the communicator during it, but that did nothing to ease the anxiety.

“Ji, calm down, Yuna.”

“… Yeah.”

There was a hypnotic drug in front of Saya. If Se-ha was seriously injured, she had to first take this hypnotic drug to anesthetize the pain, and then transfer the injury. Otherwise, if the transferred injury was serious, there was a risk of shock death.

I couldn’t dare get annoyed with Saya, who was waiting with such determination, even if it wasn’t for someone else.

“… Are you okay?”

On the contrary, it was Saya who worried about Yuna first.

Yuna unconsciously touched her ear. The piercing that matched Seha’s was in her hand. She felt the texture and chose her words.

“Do you… trust that guy?”

Nonsense that doesn’t answer the question.

Saya seriously considered those words and then answered.

“To what extent?”

“… I’m surprised. I thought you’d believe everything about that guy.”

“I believe in your heart, junior. But the future is difficult, so it might be difficult for your predictions and plans to all turn out as they are.”

“… I envy you just for being able to affirm that you believe in your heart. I do believe in it, though.”

Saya laughed.

“Junior… Are there times when you act like a puppy?”

“It doesn’t seem that cute… . That’s what it does.”

Saya must feel that way because she has never faced him as an enemy. However, to Yuna, who had briefly been an enemy, there was a moment when she felt like an ominous and unidentifiable beast.

Whenever that guy comes in front of Saya, he lies on his stomach and acts cute, so it makes me feel very uncomfortable.

“I didn’t know that Yuna, who said that, would be so distressed by not being able to help her junior.”

Yuna flinched at the words that came out so casually.

But she couldn’t deny it and let out a sigh. Yes. She couldn’t say it out loud, but that fact continued to torment Yuna.

It had only recently become apparent that I liked someone, but now I was learning to feel jealous.

He was jealous of Soo-in, who acted as if it didn’t matter if he wasn’t first. The next object of his jealousy was… the chairman.

Something about the way Se-ha said that he was a trump card… that he was a reliable force… something that bothered Yuna. Even though he never mentioned her name even once.

It’s not that I don’t like Suin or the chairman. Just a while ago, when I saw you transform Seha into Shin Myeongjun, even Yuren almost got a little jealous.

So… anyone who can do something for someone different from themselves is jealous.

“You… .”

He abruptly cut off the question that was about to come out without him knowing.

But Saya seemed to know the question Yuna had swallowed, and answered with a weak smile.

“I’m used to not being able to do anything. I’m just grateful to those who do things for their juniors that I can’t do.”

“Something like jealousy… You really don’t feel it?”

“… My junior asked me the same thing this morning.”

Saya hesitated awkwardly and then asked.

“Yuna. Do you know what the word ‘sun-ae’ means?”

“… Huh?”

Yuna was taken aback by the sudden question.

“Pure love… isn’t that something like that?”

“But you know, there’s actually another word for pure love. It’s not the pure (純) word, but the Chinese character for death (殉). It means ‘to sacrifice everything for love.’”

I thought those words suited me so well.

For Saya, who has a hypnotic drug in front of her eyes, and is waiting for the time when Se-ha will suffer an injury that is too difficult to bear, she is ready to sacrifice herself.

“I… I don’t think I can do something pure. I like my junior, but I like you too, Yuna, and I like that… my junior’s body too… … … … .”

It was too blatant a statement to believe it was said by the shy Saya. But Saya continued talking, blushing.

“I don’t know how pure it is, but I think this is probably not pure… . But if I give it everything I have… I want to do that. Maybe that’s why, I don’t really know if it’s jealousy or something. ”

Yuna felt something like dizziness.

People often say that when you are in love, you become prettier… but is that really true? Saya, who talks about love… seems to go beyond becoming prettier, and become something else.

But Saya’s words… didn’t end there.

“Yuna too… I think it’s similar.”

“… Me?”

“Jealousy, originally, is something you feel when someone takes what you deserve… right? But Yuna feels that way when someone gives her something she can’t. Isn’t that… similar to me?”

That can’t be the case.

How could I possibly have such feelings about something so special… so girlish… .

“Oh, your face is red.”

I felt my face heat up even more at that remark.

As she tried to turn away, Saya came a little closer and grabbed Yuna’s hand tightly.

“Yes. Our relationship is… really strange… . My junior says that his standards for judgment are different from the average person, but I don’t think I’m that average either. So… I think we have to be honest with each other.”

“… There may be times when it looks strange if I tell you my true feelings… .”

“Yeah. I know that happens a lot… I know that too. But I think that’s right. You and I, Yuna, we all like each other so much, right? We think we’d give each other anything we could, right? Then, when people reveal their honest feelings, I don’t think it’ll go in a bad direction.”

There will be difficult things,

There will be times when your heart will be hurt.

But Sayaya said that it won’t go in the wrong direction and that things will definitely turn out well.

As if wishing.

Yuna sighed.

“I can’t think of that… I’m being honest with myself, so there aren’t many good things that have happened… .”

But I also know what happened when I turned away from my own heart.

I almost lost Saya forever because I denied my love for her.

Thinking about it, it would be better to say it. Sayado Seha and Yuna will accept it no matter what her true nature is.

Yuna said.

“I want to kill that bastard. I can’t forgive him for hurting Se-ha and you. But here I am now. I feel like I’ve been sentenced to no help… and I can’t do anything for you who’s trembling… .”

From the moment they first held hands, Saya’s hands were shaking.

It’s only natural. Yuna’s heart is also trembling with worry, because there’s no way Saya will be okay.

But she is thinking of me. She is trying to comfort and soothe me. I am grateful for that, but I am also angry that Saya has to go through all this.

And then it hit me.

He thought that he hadn’t changed much since he was young. He couldn’t understand why he was the one who was at fault when he was the one who was at fault.

Now I know that it was just the stubbornness of a child who did not know the structure of the world.

But it’s still the same now.

Chimi can’t hold back her anger. It’s like she’s been given a power outage notice, but she still wants to run away. She’s still a stubborn child.

At that moment… Saya was surprised and picked up the medicine in front of her.

The implications were obvious.

Se-ha is seriously injured. Saya is trying to transfer the injury to herself.

It overlaps in my head.

Sayaga, whose legs were both crushed.

Se-ha, who had been summoned and appeared, had an expression full of despair on her face when she saw the sight.

My hand moved before I thought. I grabbed Sayah’s wrist as she was trying to swallow the medicine.

The words came out urgently.

“What’s the status?”

“Ankle… Ankle… .”

Se-ha must have been running away from the Lion King. If he had hurt his ankle, it was obvious what was waiting behind him.

“I’ll go. So, don’t do that.”

If it’s Se-ha, I’m sure she’ll be able to bear a little pain. So that’s better. If we rescue her quickly, that’ll be fine.

“Ha, but!”

As Saya shouted, Yuna [accelerated].

No, I failed to [accelerate]. I stepped hard on the ground, but at the same time, I felt the impact as if I had hit an invisible barrier and fell to my knees.

At the same time, he spat out the hot thing that was rising from the back of his throat.

I noticed it when I saw the blood pooling in my hand. This was it. This was the image I had pictured in my hallucination.

I never really thought about it deeply, but I couldn’t help but laugh at the pitiful sight. Could this be the reason why it happened?

[Until Se-ha calls, you must never leave the hideout.]

I guess this is the result of disobeying that order and running outside.

“Yuna?!”

“Be honest… I told you… to be honest, right?”

With a severe headache, Yuna couldn’t tell if she was speaking properly. She was listening to herself as if she was listening to someone else.

“Because we like each other… If we show our honest selves… Nothing will go wrong… .”

I wasn’t sure about Saya’s words. Saya is always passive, so she doesn’t make assertions lightly. So it was more like a wish or a wish.

Yuna also wants to do that.

Well then… now is the time to be honest.

I want to save Se-ha.

I don’t want to let Saya get hurt.

I want to smash that piece of trash.

“You… Me… ? and take orders… !”

Yuna ran faster than Saya could cancel the order. She straightened one knee that had been on the floor as if she was doing a crouching start, and flew again.

The order was canceled before it was canceled. I felt a crushing pain in my body as a reward for resisting the order that had force. But this time, I did not kneel in the pain.

Yuna took the next step. By the time Saya uttered the last syllable of ‘cancel’, she had already broken through the doorway and leapt out into the sky.

A spark-like thing remained in Yuna’s wake.

For a moment, Saya couldn’t understand what she had seen. Yuna had clearly been there just a moment ago, but at some point, she had disappeared from sight in a flash.

The wind was so high that the ground below seemed like a distant dot. However, Yuna could quickly tell where the idiot who had come up with such a ridiculous plan was.

And the sight of that piece of trash grabbing that idiot by the ankle and throwing him to the ground.

How long would it take to get there in free fall? That was a question that didn’t really matter. At least to Yuna now.

Yuna appeared there as a lightning bolt.

Kookwakwakwakwang!

Sajamyeong, who was hit by a kick from above, let go of the hand holding Seha and fell to the floor. Yuna grabbed Seha, who was about to fall to the floor, and supported him.

His ankle appeared to be completely crushed, and blood was gushing from his head.

But he grumbled to Yuna with a mean smile, as if that was nothing.

“It’s too late… .”

“You’re the bad guy who planned something like that.”

Se-ha made a gesture as if he didn’t understand English.

“That’s weird. Didn’t you clearly explain it as ‘Yuna’s Awakening Operation without Yuna’? Then you should have just watched the situation without doing anything. What’s the problem? It was a perfect operation… .”

“… What if things don’t go as planned… .”

“Of course I had a plan. But… I believed you would wake up.”

Yuna thought.

I want to give this annoying guy a really bad beating.

So I said.

“Okay. I’ll beat you up with Sayara tonight.”

“… I feel like I’ve suddenly become too honest.”

Se-ha took out a spare communicator from his pocket with a slightly trembling expression.

──Okay, Chairman. It’s okay now, so go back and protect Saya-senpai. Can you hear Saya-senpai? If you turn on camera number 8, you’ll see this. You’ll see Yuna looking great, so you should also look after her.

“… Did you have a spare communicator?”

“Yeah. If you start to overreact, I’ll have to stop you.”

Yuna really wanted to hit Seha.

And now, because Yuna was being very honest with her feelings, she actually tried to hit Seha.

If Sajamyeong hadn’t suddenly rushed in, he would have definitely hit Seha with one blow.

Sa-myeong, who was indignant at the two of them completely ignoring him and talking, rushed at Yuna and Se-ha, but what he was waiting for was Yuna’s low kick.

The lion screamed and fell to his knees at the impact on his shins.

“What is this… What is this…! Hey, why is [Geumgangshin]…!!!”

“Well, you’re just a fake. The name ‘Geumgang’ is the real one.”

Se-ha said that and then took a few steps back.

This is because Yuna, who was angry at being interrupted, was starting to show her true feelings.

Yuna walked out and stood in front of the lion name.

Sparks flew out, and ionized air enveloped the surroundings. The atmosphere was completely different from before, and fear bloomed in Sajamyeong’s eyes.

“Don’t make me laugh! Me! I’m strong! I’m much stronger!”

The lion’s name screamed. It was a process of encouraging and gathering strength, but Yuna only thought of it as being noisy.

What comes to mind now is the process leading up to manifestation.

After hearing Seha’s story about the stages of manifestation, there were moments when I felt like I had a clue.

When I stopped telling myself that I should hate Soo-in and that I shouldn’t tolerate him. When I fought the chairman and won, even though I didn’t think it was necessary.

In either case, it was a time when I rejected the demands of reason and followed my heart’s desires.

okay.

That was the clue.

Something I’ve been hiding for a long time. Being honest with myself as a child, violent, sometimes cruel, and stubborn.

Her parents tried to dissuade her from being so violent and dangerous and make her a civilized person. Hurt by her mother’s tears, she suppressed herself.

Knowing that he was in danger, he was deeply conscious of the law and morality and was careful.

But now… it wasn’t the time for that to happen.

What comes to mind is the moment when his parents first realized his strangeness as a young child.

One stormy night, Yuna was looking out the window when she discovered ‘it’. Her parents were puzzled when she said she had seen such a pretty flower.

But after a while, when the flower Yuna had spoken of actually appeared outside the window and roared loudly, her parents were terrified.

They felt a kind of fear as their daughter went out into the storm to see it more closely. So they tried to pass it off as a childish delusion and not let such strange thoughts enter their minds.

Even so, the essence does not disappear.

The flower I saw then was,

That moment of fascination is,

Clearly Yuna’s essence. The original scenery engraved in her soul.

‘But… it definitely looked like a flower.’

Yuna thought like that and rushed at Sajamyeong. It was hard to bear with that guy who was just screaming in confusion at the repeated wounds on his diamond body.

Sajamyeong didn’t even realize that Yuna had arrived in front of him. He just instinctively covered his face with both arms, realizing that he had a gut feeling that something was scary.

He kicked the knee with his toe. [Diamond God] was mercilessly destroyed, the flesh was torn, and the kneecap was ripped off. He did the same to the other knee, and Sajamyung screamed and fell to his knees.

“Why?! What is this?! Why is it like this?!”

But no one heard that cry except the lion himself.

This was because the loud noise that followed Yuna’s movements belatedly buried all other noises.

Rumble… Kwakwakwakwakwak!!!

‘Yes. It’s natural not to believe that a flower makes such a sound.’

Yuna is tall for a girl, but she is still smaller than Sajamyeong.

However, the kneeling lion was already much lower in sight than Yuna. The face that couldn’t keep up with the situation was so ugly that it was unpleasant to just look at it.

Yuna… decided to recreate the flowers from that time.

I launched a vertical upward kick with all my might towards the lion’s jaw. The jaw shattered, sending bone fragments flying, and the lion’s body soared into the sky as blood sprayed from the end of the tongue bite.

With that, the sound of thunder rang out again.

It was not a metaphor, it was a real thunderclap. Yuna soared into the sky in pursuit of the lion’s name amidst the sound of thunder that filled the heavens and earth.

Then, he turned his body around in the sky and gave the lion a sudden heel strike.

At that moment, Yuna’s body completely materialized.

She, who had become a complete lightning bolt, fell to the ground with the lion’s name, and the electricity discharged along with it covered the sky.

Yuna looked at the lightning streaks spreading across the sky.

That day,

To Yuna, who was lying down and looking up at the storm outside the window,

The lightning striking like this looked like a flower drawn with only lines.

The lion let out a dying groan, but even that was buried under the thunder that came later, so no one heard it.

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In this way, Yuna entered the manifestation stage.

The name of the awakened ability that has finally found its true form is [Full Bloom Vajra].

It refers to the thunderbolt ruled by the god of thunder, Indra, and is a weapon created to defeat the immortal god, Vritra. It is so strong that it cannot be destroyed by anything, so it has the meaning of ‘Vajra (金剛)’.

True Vajra, manifestation.

Fake Vajra, completely destroyed.

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