episode_0091
by fnovelpiaDoo. Doo. Doo. Doo. Doo.
A constant, static mechanical sound.
White textured ceiling.
A ringer of unknown identity, the contents of which drip down one drop at a time.
“… … hoohoo.”
Let’s breathe, it feels like something is blocking our mouths.
Hot breath hovered nearby.
Is this a hospital?
Thinking so, Hero Masquerade put strength into his languid body to get up.
“Just lie there.”
But he was immediately stopped by a man’s voice.
That voice is one I’ve heard before.
A new hero with nullifying abilities.
It was the voice of the hero handler.
“I was able to stop the power from going overboard with my abilities, but I heard that the body that was damaged so far needs to be slowly healed with the power of medicine.”
The handler shook his head and muttered.
“Is this… … a hospital… … ?”
“No. It’s a place that no one knows about.”
A place that no one knows about.
It was at that moment that Masquerade rolled his eyes at those questionable words.
A woman lying in the same bed next to her.
Her arch-rival, Ruina, was sleeping soundly, oblivious to the world, having done something similar.
“Right? There is no hospital in the world where heroes and villains share a room.”
“Haha… … . What nonsense.”
Masquerade once again withdrew all the strength he had in his body.
How many years has it been since I’ve been lying down like this without a care in the world?
All this time, he had been pursuing Ruina, advocating justice and trying to find himself.
“Did you figure out who I am?”
While I was deep in thought.
The handler’s voice suddenly interrupted.
“… … Unfortunately.”
“Well, it’s strange that I remember the past as a time of fighting and hitting each other like that.”
“Handler. Who are you?”
“Yes?”
“You are asking what is your relationship with Ruina.”
A strange person who seems like a coincidence but not a coincidence.
The man with the strongest traces of Ruina’s scent.
The hero handler glanced at Ruina and smiled.
“I am the lover of the person lying over there.”
“… … … … Is that so.”
There was no trace of any emotion in his words to save face.
That is to say, it was the most truthful statement.
“I now understand what Ruina said while fighting me… … .”
“What did you say?”
“I found my eternal love… … . He said that if my face gets hurt, I’ll get in trouble with you… … .”
“Hahaha.”
The handler blushed slightly and scratched the back of his head, feeling a little embarrassed.
“Ah. Wait a minute.”
Then touch the Masquerade once.
After a while, he got up from his seat, gently touched the sleeping Ruina’s face, and returned to his original position.
“My ability is limited to a maximum of 3 minutes.”
“So that’s how you kept nullifying our abilities… … ?”
“If you don’t do this, the abilities you were toying with in the lab will run wild.”
“Research Institute… … .”
Masquerade brought back fragments of memories.
The old self who said things that would hurt the feelings of his sisters, like he was going to die tomorrow.
And the past memory of calling her ’35’.
“RF,35….”
“Huh?”
“Is that so… … . Is Ruina 35… … .”
“Huh?”
The handler’s eyes grew wide at Masquerade’s muttering.
“Ho, did your memory suddenly come back!?”
Even more than Masquerade, who had found his old self in fragments, the third-party handler was even more flustered and showed a bewildered expression.
“You’re being too pushy, Handler… … . Only a few memories came to mind… … .”
“Ahh… … .”
“Still.”
Masquerade looked at his sister again, his face relaxed.
“It’s become clear that defeating that guy won’t bring back memories… … .”
In the distant past, two nameless girls met at a research lab.
The last survivors of the lab, codenamed 24 and 35 respectively, were finally able to have a dramatic reunion after becoming adults.
* * *
“I’m here.”
After work.
I stepped into a building quite a distance from my house.
“Come in, honey~♡”
As soon as I opened the door and went in, Ruina immediately hung on me.
“How have you been?”
“Yeah yeah!”
“Hey. The game isn’t over yet. Come back to your seats.”
“Huh?”
At the sharp voice, I craned my neck and looked at the bed.
Masquerade, with his disheveled hair cut into a neat bob, was sitting upright on the bed.
In front of her was a Go board.
“What were you doing?”
“Omok with my sister. I’m already on my 21st win and I still don’t give up. Oh my.”
“Giving up is something you say when counting cabbages!”
A manly way of speaking that doesn’t match his pretty face.
Even though her bare face was revealed, a masquerade was a masquerade.
“My sister. It didn’t feel like that before… … . Ugh, tsk tsk.”
“Anyway, come back, Ruina! The 22nd game has only just begun!”
“Ruina. Go see.”
“Byeol~”
After Ruina finished hugging me, she jumped up onto the bed.
This is a building owned by the Strategic Crisis Response Team.
Since there is no hospital facility that can treat Ruina and Masquerade at the same time, this place was being used as a hospital.
The building was surrounded by top-tier security personnel from the Strategic Crisis Response Team, and there were even two medical personnel stationed inside the facility.
It was truly a great secret agency that poured all its budget and manpower into responding to the national crisis.
After receiving treatment like that for several days.
The two people had recovered properly and were sitting there leisurely like that.
“Hehehe. I won again♪”
“Ugh… … .”
In the meantime, it seemed like Ruina had won another match.
Unfortunately, the memories of the Masquerade never fully returned.
But now that I’ve finally figured out who Ruina is, I don’t rush to kill her like I used to.
“Hey, do it for me instead of my sister. I’m tired now.”
“Are you running away?”
“Player change, you idiot. Come on.”
Ruina stuck her tongue out at Masquerade and pushed my back towards her.
“Then I’ll take care of it for you.”
I put down my bag and coat and sat down on the bed.
Masquerade had a very dissatisfied look on his face, but soon showed his competitive spirit by picking up a white stone.
“Because I am careful not to stop the fight that is about to happen.”
“Then let’s do it first.”
Omok is a game where the first player to place a stone has the advantage.
Since she lost to Ruina 22 times, she readily gave her the advantage.
Soon, black and white stones began to line up one by one on the square Go board,
“Ugh… … .”
“… … … … .”
As a second-tier player, I easily won one game due to Masquerade’s ridiculous mistake.
I can’t believe you didn’t know you had four stones.
“Sigh. I guess I should stop.”
Masquerade let out a long sigh and stood up, perhaps having lost interest in the confrontation with me.
“Where are you going?”
“I was thinking of going out to get some fresh air. Do you want to join me?”
“Oh, me too!”
“Then let’s all go out together.”
We soon rushed out of the sickroom that wasn’t a sickroom.
The treatment for both of them was almost finished, but for some reason they were still unable to go out.
So, the place we headed to was not the ground, but the top.
It was an empty rooftop of a building.
In the past few days, the world has been completely dyed white.
The three of us stood side by side, looking at the downtown skyline covered in pure white snow flowers.
“Hehe. Sister, you’re so hot, so you have to stick close to me.”
Ruina draped my coat around her shoulders and clung tightly to my arms.
Masquerade is in a unique arm-crossing pose.
He was standing wearing only a thin hospital gown.
Asking her if she was cold was pointless, because I already knew that her body temperature was extremely high as a side effect of her ability.
“Handler. I really wanted to say thank you to you.”
“Yes?”
It was an unexpected thank you from Masquerade.
“Although I haven’t completely regained my memories, I was able to achieve a little bit of my long-cherished wish. Without you as a bridge, I wouldn’t have been able to come this far.”
A, it’s a bit embarrassing to suddenly be showered with compliments like that…
“Yeah, yeah. I’m so, so, so grateful to you too.”
Soon, I heard the same gratitude from Ruina in my arms.
“You taught me love, and you relieved me of a little bit of my guilt for surviving alone, right?”
Ruina was always tormented by the fact that she had destroyed everyone and escaped from the lab.
But the joy was indescribable because he had a sister who was from the same research institute as him and was still alive.
“Without you, neither of us would have been able to do it. Thank you. I love you♡”
“Ahaha. Hahaha… … .”
I’m in a position where I get endless compliments from two pretty girls.
As expected, this is a strange fate.
I think it was a good thing that he held on until the end.
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