There Is No Right Answer (5)

There Is No Right Answer (5)

“You, you are…!”

“Stay back.”

Jo Ui-seok opened his eyes wide when he saw her. However, she was equally surprised. She had intentionally waited until Jo Ui-seok responded.

But he, contrary to her expectations, was not consumed by despair and hatred.

“You, vermin…”

Meanwhile, Kim Ju-hyeon, directly hit by the Parma light, rose with his body burned and damaged all over, twisting and staggering grotesquely.

“Do you want to die!!”

Jeon So-hyeon bit her lip inside her mask as she prepared a second spell, watching the monster that had lost its reason and was roaring.

“Ugh… gack.”

However, there was no need to cast that spell. A chain-end iron ball flew in from somewhere at tremendous speed, striking Kim Ju-hyeon’s body and literally bursting it.

“Ah, should I have captured him? I was in too much of a hurry.”

Karin clicked her tongue and pulled back the chain to retrieve her weapon. Only then did people belatedly rush to the scene. Among them were many Frontier officials, including Lee Min-hyung, who had immediately rushed out.

“Mr. Chairman! Are you alright?”

“I, I’m fine.”

Lee Min-hyung fussed over Jo Ui-seok. However, Jo Ui-seok, while sighing at the sight of the broken USB on the floor, couldn’t take his eyes off one particular spot even as he was being supported.

It was because of the girl emitting a blue light who had saved him, now facing off against Karin.

“You’re not a magical girl, are you?”

Karin smirked and pointed at Jeon So-hyeon with her finger. At the same time, she gripped the chain in her hand.

“Although it’s faint, you still harbor a tiny bit of malice at the level of an ordinary person. Who are you?”

“I came to check things out myself because I was frustrated, but I didn’t expect something like this to happen.”

Jeon So-hyeon raised her hands to show she had no intention to fight, in response to the attitude of the Management Bureau agents who had openly drawn their guns.

However, there was no fear in her demeanor. After all, Gabi, invisible to others, was protecting her from dying in situations like this under Taquilas’s orders.

“Enough. It would be better to talk about who you are inside.”

In the end, Lee Min-hyung stepped in to end this brief standoff. As the agents lowered their guns, Karin also snorted and disarmed herself, and Jeon So-hyeon relaxed her stance.

“Regarding Assemblyman Jo Ui-seok’s security…”

“Our agents, along with two magical girls, will accompany him. We plan to rotate them.”

“Alright. Let’s focus on this matter for now.”

In the underground of the top-secret facility. Lee Min-hyung nodded as he received the report. Now that the Cho Ui-seok matter was settled, he intended to concentrate on the task at hand.

“Well then, shall we have a calm discussion, Miss Jeon So-hyeon?”

“Ugh?!”

“Unlike magical girls, your appearance doesn’t change… Even if you cover your face with a mask, we can identify you almost accurately just by your bone structure and body shape.”

Jeon So-hyeon, who was sitting down, flinched at his words, realizing he already knew her identity. She then sighed and removed her mask. She didn’t intend to hide her identity to the end like magical girls anyway.

“It’s fascinating. Usually, mediums and shamans… try not to interfere with worldly affairs.”

“I’m not an ordinary psychic.”

She snapped back with a last bit of defiance. Of course, it had no effect on Lee Min-hyung.

“So, why did you try to find us on your own?”

“I couldn’t stand it anymore. There’s a monster running around trying to corrupt people, and I had no idea if you were even aware of it since there was no news.”

Jeon So-hyeon stated her business without hiding anything. There was no point in concealing it anyway.

“But… it’s not that we have no news at all.”

Jeon So-hyeon’s eyes darted towards the glass wall where the pastor wearing a tiara was confined. The pastor was still growling and banging on the glass.

“Thanks to Magical Girl Ren’s efforts, we managed to capture him alive, but we can’t communicate with him. That tiara is the problem – if we try to touch it, it cracks and attempts to self-destruct.”

“Ren…”

Jeon So-hyeon flinched at this unexpected information. It was the moment she visually confirmed that the magical girls had united under one name.

“…This time, I’ll ask as an ordinary student. If you get a lead on the enemy, will you really deal with it properly? Without acting arrogantly like the Special Forces?”

“I promise.”

It wasn’t the plea of a warrior wielding the power of Parma, but that of a sincere high school girl. Lee Min-hyung and the entire Frontier leadership made a firm promise.

Let’s put aside politics and power struggles and focus all our energy on facing the enemy.

Although naturally achieving results first would lead to political gains, Lee Min-hyung didn’t bother to say such obvious things.

“Then, I will now destroy that tiara and purify the evil energy.”

Having made her decision, Jeon So-hyeon stood up. She didn’t think she could solve everything alone anyway. Cooperation was absolutely necessary, and after seeing Jo Ui-seok’s conviction earlier, she decided to trust the adults of Frontier.

“Is it really okay…”

“Shh.”

As everyone watched with anxious eyes, Jeon So-hyeon crossed the firewall and approached the glass case alone.

“Kuh, kuhiit…hiit..”

The middle-aged pastor, looking at her with bloodshot eyes and drooling, was clearly out of his mind. The eyeball embedded in the tiara also rolled around, staring directly at her.

“Indeed, a bizarre power.”

Gabi, who was hiding her presence beside her, snickered as if intrigued.

“However, if its root lies in evil, it will soon be unable to withstand the power of Parma.”

“I’ll get ready.”

Taking Gabi’s words to heart, Jeon So-hyeon summoned all her strength. Soon, blue flames engulfed her entire body.

This power was salvation and a path. A guiding light that saved her younger self, helplessly drifting in the waves of life, and showed her the way forward.

‘Parma technique, Genesis.’

Gritting her teeth, Jeon So-hyeon unleashed it all at once.

“Kee, keeaaaargh!!”

She could see black vapor-like substances being rapidly torn away from the pastor’s body as his eyes bulged. However, she too had to grit her teeth against the oncoming shock.

“The battle between Parma and evil is like swords stabbing each other. There’s no defense, just attack, attack, attack. The one who endures wins.”

“Ugh.”

Gabi’s voice buzzed in her ears. Jeon So-hyeon gritted her teeth and endured it.

What the pastor received when he became Smalilian’s minion. She had to drive it out to win.

‘What is it? Why is it so painful and sad?’

She, who could taste that fragment, squeezed her eyes shut. It didn’t take long for the conclusion to come.

“The traces of that dirty hybrid have been shattered.”

At Gabi’s voice, she opened her tightly closed eyes.

The pastor’s body lying on the floor had returned to normal, and the tiara on his head was shattered and scattered.

***

“The reason we follow Him. It’s simple… He gives us miracles.”

“What exactly is that miracle?”

“He brought back our mother who had dementia. Thanks to that, I was able to fully protect my mother’s last moments. Do you know? The emotion when your mother, who doesn’t even remember your face, calls your name!”

Pastor Choi Cheol-min laughed and cried at the same time. Lee Min-hyung, who was interrogating him, and Oh Yun-seo, who was standing nearby, momentarily forgot to speak.

Karin, who was watching, also clicked her tongue softly.

“It’s not just a miracle that’s shouted about in words or only appears in the Bible. He gives us everything we truly want. That’s all.”

“The price for that is people’s deaths.”

“Only those who deserved to die have died. Am I wrong? If you’re going to bring up those petty laws, don’t even bother talking to me.”

Choi Cheol-min openly laughed and mocked them. Lee Min-hyung didn’t particularly try to provoke Choi Cheol-min. After all, telling him not to mention the law wasn’t exactly wrong.

In a world falling into chaos, the laws written in law books were too heavy on their backsides.

“Even if there’s some truth to what you’re saying, the ultimate goal of the monster Smalilian is for his own benefit, right? So you’re not going to cooperate after all?”

“Heheh. Don’t tell me you’re planning to torture me? Ah~ This country’s tradition that’s continued since the days of being a public security prosecutor, uwahaha!”

Choi Cheol-min, of course, did not open his mouth easily. Naturally, this was all expected.

“Uh…uh?”

Choi Cheol-min’s neck suddenly bent without him realizing it, and then went limp. It seemed as if he had lost consciousness, but that wasn’t the case.

“My help ends here.”

Gabi, who had put him in a hypnotic state with her charm magic while remaining hidden, smirked at Jeon So-hyeon.

Thanks to this, they were able to easily obtain most of the information about Smalrilian through Choi Cheol-min’s testimony, which flowed freely after just a few questions.

For example, information about Lee Kyung-sik, the ‘religious leader’ who is the most powerful right-hand man and the root of the followers of the Black Sun, which doesn’t particularly stay in one place.

“Should we inform the police and issue a wanted order?”

“No, tell all the Magical Girls right now. We need to end this matter among ourselves. We have no choice. But with high-ranking ones like Renena and Karin, surely we can’t lose.”

Frontier began to move quickly. Calling the Magical Girls was the first step.

“I’m sorry for making kids like you step up.”

“…It can’t be helped.”

Lee Min-hyung said to Jeon So-hyeon, who ended up moving with them, but she shook her head with a bitter smile.