Justice 3

Han Seoyeon had seen many butterfly effects.

She had experienced several events that became unrecognizable from their original form.

So she thought she wouldn’t be surprised anymore.

But she herself easily crumbled.

She thought her possession of the Falling Star Sword might have been discovered.

Because there was no place in this city beyond Lee Yeon’s eyes.

Wasn’t the original work twisted into a mess?

It’s quite possible that Lee Yeon would learn about the Falling Star Sword earlier than in the original work.

But if there was one thing she didn’t expect.

It was the fact that Lee Yeon uttered the word “reincarnator.”

“Do you remember the terrorist who attacked you in Japan recently?”

It’s an unforgettable memory.

Among the only three people present, Han Seoyeon carefully nodded.

“I killed that terrorist once.”

Suddenly, what came to mind was that man’s status window.

In the man’s initial status window, there was ‘1UP’.

When she faced him for the second time, she was too frantic to look closely.

But thinking back, how about it?

There was no ‘1UP’ in the man’s status window.

There was no trace of ‘1UP’ being used either.

The reason was simple.

Because the man had already used up his spare life.

“I analyzed that person’s memories. It was quite interesting.”

Lee Yeon’s ability, Creation, is a collection of countless abilities.

If you combine several of those abilities, analyzing memories is not an impossible task.

“Another world, original work, reincarnation… They were quite trivial contents. To say this world is inside a novel, it’s absurd. It was too elaborate to dismiss, which was extremely unpleasant.”

Lee Yeon added.

“But there were a few things in the man’s memories that didn’t fit.”

Despite such detailed and designed memories.

Only the most recent parts were out of sync.

“The protagonist of the novel the man read, that name was Han Suho. None other than your younger sister.”

To be more specific.

From the moment Han Seoyeon came into the world along with Han Suho.

“And in the novel the man read, there was no existence called Han Seoyeon.”

A character who originally shouldn’t have existed is born.

From that point, everything starts to twist.

“The man’s time in this world wasn’t very long. So he made a mistake. He thought he just confused the protagonist’s name. He didn’t know about you and your sister.”

Black hair and red eyes.

In this world, there’s only one Korean with such an appearance, the protagonist affected by the Falling Star Sword.

“I’m not like that.”

One could easily make such a mistake.

If they were an ordinary person.

“I know your actions.”

Fighting as a child soldier, hunting monsters.

For the hero who became today’s Leader of the People, the situation was different.

“I compared them one by one. The actions of a character who doesn’t exist in the original work, and the events of the original work.”

Past events with the heroines.

Responses to several terrorist attacks.

Actions in the slums.

“Your existence guided this world’s story in a better direction.”

They were all righteous actions.

At least compared to the original work, they were decent results.

“Even better than the original work.”

Among those results, there were some that couldn’t be understood as the actions of an ordinary girl.

“You knew the future.”

The first terrorist attack.

How could Han Seoyeon move faster than the professors, as if she knew the terrorist’s location in advance?

“Knowing the future, you became the protagonist of this world instead of your sister.”

So I made one assumption.

The traces I investigated afterwards all point in the direction of that assumption.

“No. To be more precise… You didn’t want your sister to become the protagonist. According to the memories, this world was a tragic story, the kind where the protagonist suffers.”

Above all.

The traces related to Han Suho.

“You are a reincarnator. Knowing the future, you worry about your sister’s well-being, and by acting as the protagonist, you want to prevent your sister from suffering. As the protagonist, you want a better ending than the original work.”

Lee Yeon declared.

“Is there any part that’s wrong?”

“…”

Han Seoyeon remained silent.

Silence was affirmation.

“In fact, I wasn’t completely certain whether this speculation was correct. But seeing you directly with my eyes like this, I can tell.”

The golden eyes flicker.

Eyes that read the flow of mana.

“…What is the reason you called me here?”

“I want to make a proposal. The reason I invited you all the way here is to show my sincerity and goodwill.”

The highest secret of the Hunter Management Bureau.

The proposal she wants to make even while revealing this to a mere Academy cadet is.

“Become my subordinate, Han Seoyeon.”

As always.

It’s to bring down the throne beyond the starry sky.

“You must know too. You can’t say you don’t know.”

What makes her so urgent?

Han Seoyeon knew the reason.

“What lies beyond the Gates.”

It’s also revenge.

But it’s not necessarily just revenge.

“Beyond the Gates…?”

Michaela inadvertently asked back.

Beyond the Gates.

A concept she had never given any thought to until now.

“You don’t know.”

It’s a door through which monsters come.

It must be nothing less than hell.

Just as Michaela was thinking this.

“Good. I’ll teach you this time.”

For the first time, after a long time.

Lee Yeon trembled for a moment.

“Beyond there, people live.”

It was an emotion called fear, albeit faint.

“…What.”

Michaela, for a moment, didn’t understand Lee Yeon’s words.

“You think it’s nonsense? Unfortunately, it’s true. People who look exactly like us live on the other side. Think of it as a parallel world. Just like your homeland.”

Another remnant of memory read from the man.

Lee Yeon continued, making it easy even for Michaela to understand.

That’s right.

Beyond the Gates, there exists a parallel world completely different from here.

Therefore, it was a Gate.

Connecting world to world.

“That world is rich in mana. Naturally, they have developed technologies related to mana, and among them, there are powerful beings called Constellations.”

Those who live there are people.

Therefore, they are not absolute transcendent beings.

“A world where people live is generally the same. The world on the other side is like that too. There were conflicts. Conflicts among them.”

They were just superior in terms of technology and power.

They are humans with desires no different from the people of this world.

“In their world, there was a being close to a god. The mother of all monsters, the Star Queen. That thing whose shell is now taxidermied in a glass container behind me.”s are greedy beings.

They have an ambition to go higher.

“Originally, the world on the other side coexisted with humans of the same form as us and monsters. But humans wanted more. So they devised a scheme.”

Their actions were essentially no different from the history of politics and wars in this world.

The strong want to conquer the weak and cultivate more wealth.

“The Star Queen was too innocent. They said. To the Star Queen. Please leave this land. They said that the mother of excessively powerful monsters was rather hindering the peace between humans and monsters.”

Isn’t this a common story in history books?

The story of civilized people deceiving uncivilized people with plausible words and taking everything from them.

“So the Queen left. To a world far from their reach, far from mana civilization, here. In a world without mana, the Queen soon lost her power and fell to a mere shell. And naturally, the ruling class of their humanity purged the herd of beasts that lost their queen.”

To secure a place for the superior race to live, they took all the land of the inferior race.

The inferior race is completely expelled.

“For their safety and peace, they expelled the monsters from their world.”

To a remote area suitable for the inferior race.

To a land where not a handful of mana exists.

“…To the trash can, that is.”

To the trash can named Earth.

They literally threw away the trash.

“Was that all? Having achieved victory and peace, they fell into boredom. Eventually, to relieve their boredom, they found an entertainment. They started a circus by rummaging through the trash can.”

Not satisfied with just that.

They mocked our humanity.

Calling themselves Constellations.

Naming their puppets Players.

“The Gates are not natural disasters. They are man-made disasters with clear malice.”

Grr.

As if the mere thought makes her grind her teeth, Lee Yeon clenched her jaw.

“Due to their malice and games, humanity was driven to the brink of extinction.”

That was the reason why research related to the Gates was strictly controlled by the Hunter Management Bureau.

Because we don’t know what kind of panic might occur in society the moment the truth is known.

“There can be no compromise. I have seen their malice with my own eyes.”

They were unilateral terrorists.

There can be no compromise with terrorists.

“The other side is a world where people live. There are those blinded by wealth, and those who are not. There are certainly good people too.”

In the first place, they didn’t even have the perception that they were committing terrorism.

For them, it was no different from watching gladiatorial combat in a colosseum.

“They killed. Even their own kind, the good ones.”

They cut off even their last conscience with their own hands.

“…Lily.”

“That’s right. They killed my friend.”

Lily.

Who felt pity for humanity and felt guilty.

The child who loved humanity more than anyone else.

They killed that child, even creating a monster called Behemoth.

“It was impossible to counter. Because our human bodies are not suitable for mana. The world on the other side contains abundant mana in the atmosphere. Our human bodies can’t withstand it.”

Humanity couldn’t reach the Constellations.

Because the world on the other side is too rich in mana.

The mana on Earth was diluted through the Gates.

So we can endure it.

However, we cannot accept the high-purity mana beyond the Gates.

With our meager human bodies, just crossing the Gate a little is too much.

“They too have limited mobility in a world with little mana.”

Even Constellations can only interfere indirectly.

Because this world is severely lacking in mana.

That’s why they enjoy their amusement indirectly using Players.

Their main bodies would soon wither just by crossing over to Earth.

“…For them to cross over to this world is no different from suicide. Conversely, our humanity couldn’t even intercept them.”

Lily accepted that.

Lee Yeon closed her eyes for a moment, immersed in regret.

“Now, it’s different.”

That’s right.

It was impossible.

“I have obtained it. The Spear, the power to intercept them.”

She opens her eyes.

In her golden eyes, the ice spear in her hand is reflected.

The Spear, the ultimate spear created after researching various mana.

By completely subjugating one country.

Achieved with the capital, resources, and technology derived from the power of making all other countries kneel.

She finally obtained the guillotine to execute the Constellations.

“This is a survival competition.”

At the same time, this is revenge.

Mourning those who had to be lost because of the Constellations.

“I’ll ask again, Han Seoyeon.”

“…”

“Become my subordinate. Let’s exterminate the Constellations. You too must have experienced it with that body. The irrationality of the Constellations. Their atrocities.”

Constellations.

The root of evil in this world.

All the tragedies in this world originated from them.

The reason why Han Seoyeon’s friends and sister are sad is fundamentally because of them.

“I…”

If one has to choose between liking and disliking.

Han Seoyeon also dislikes those Constellations.

“…I’m sorry, but I’ll refuse.”

However.

Han Seoyeon did not nod.

“Why? Don’t tell me it’s because of the unethical actions I’ve committed?”

“No. That’s not it.”

Han Seoyeon shook her head.

It wasn’t just because of the unethical experiments Lee Yeon had conducted.

“I’m not a righteous and correct protagonist, and I’m not such a moral person either.”

“Then why on earth…”

“Because there’s a way. A way to solve it without bloodshed, to eliminate all the tragedies that are yet to come.”

Lee Yeon didn’t say.

About the ending that the original work would face.

“The revival of the Star Queen.”

About the happy ending that the original work could face.

“You must know. If you’ve learned about the original work.”

The shell beyond the glass container.

Han Seoyeon knew how to revive the Star Queen.

“…I see. Indeed, there was such content.”

That was exactly why the Falling Star Sword continuously devoured mana.

“The Star Queen, regaining her power and awakening, apologized to humanity, promised that such a thing would never happen again, and closed the Gates.”

The Star Queen has power infinitely close to omnipotence.

Even the Spear falls short in comparison.

The Star Queen is friendly to humanity.

If she awakens, everything can be ended.

The confrontation with Lee Yeon was an opportunity.

Other than now, Han Seoyeon would never be able to approach the Hunter Management Bureau’s top-secret facility under strict protection.

“Are you telling me to believe in such a convenient happy ending?”

Lee Yeon did not acknowledge that convenient ending.

“The original work is ultimately just a story of possibility. You exist. That alone has changed the future. Then there’s even less need to follow the original work.”

Lee Yeon could not acknowledge that convenient ending.

“The original work only described content about a year or so from now. Then, what happens next? If the Gates are closed by the whim of one absolute being, why don’t you think the opposite could happen?”

Even if she learned about the original work.

Because she learned about the original work, even more so.

“Peace obtained only by someone’s whim, by a miracle, is fake. It’s not strange for it to disappear like a mirage at any time.”

She is a hero who doesn’t cling to absolute beings.

Who chants a human anthem.

“There’s only one way to fundamentally solve the problem. The extermination of those beings. You must know that without that, humanity cannot be said to have achieved true victory over the Gates!”

Her conviction doesn’t waver.

Even if she learns about the original work.

“War will involve many sacrifices.”

“It’s for the future.”

“If there’s a peace without bloodshed, I’ll choose that.”

“That’s a cowardly peace.”

“Even so, I don’t want to see blood. I don’t want to see even one of my precious people get hurt.”

“…I see.”

Han Seoyeon’s conviction doesn’t waver either.

Because she was a coward who could do anything for her precious people.

“I won’t deny it. Your words are also a form of justice.”

Lee Yeon raised the Spear.

“A justice for the sake of precious people.”

As she stomped her foot once,

A roaring sound and ground tremor occurred.

“But I have no intention of backing down either. We cannot coexist. To carry out justice means nothing other than that.”

In essence, it was an extremely simple dualistic story.

“Then draw your sword.”

Han Seoyeon wants the revival of the Star Queen.

Lee Yeon doesn’t want the revival of the Star Queen at all.

“Just as you seek to pursue your justice.”

As if the huge research lab shown until now was an illusion.

A new space of ruins suitable for war is created.

“I will advance for my justice!”

Han Seoyeon didn’t hesitate.

She placed her hand on the sword hilt at her waist.