Transformation or Death

243 – Heroes and Monsters (5)

Yun Seol-hwa remembered.

It was her memory from when she became a magical girl.

It’s been almost 10 years now.

Her memories faded like her dreams.

I know the overall situation.

Han Jaejoong was attacked by a monster and was in danger. The magical girl who was dispatched had to deal with another monster that suddenly appeared. There was no one to save him. Therefore, Yun Seol-hwa decided to save him herself.

Just like that, I obtained magic.

Yun Seol-hwa could not understand. Isn’t a hero inherently someone who works hard for everyone? How did he get that qualification when he dedicates his strength for just one person?

At the time, she was just happy to have the power and didn’t think about it in detail, but as time passed, she realized it.

Yun Seol-hwa is not a suitable candidate for a magical girl.

The reason monsters are defeated is not to protect people, but because monsters are hateful and people do not particularly want to be protected.

It’s burdensome if someone you don’t know gives you one-sided affection, and it’s even more difficult if it’s hatred or jealousy.

Being a hero is not apt for you.

Yun Seol-hwa closed her eyes for a moment. Her senses have not yet returned to normal. She is not okay emotionally or physically. She feels like she’s dreaming. The line between reality and fantasy is blurred for her.

She was like that the day she became a magical girl, and she was like that today too.

Maybe that’s why Yun Seol-hwa saw a dream again. A dream I had today. She was truly a memory from before she became a monster.

Han Jae-joong was injured and bleeding like now, and Yun Seol-hwa was holding him like now.

His blood-covered lips were opened.

I’m going to die soon. When I started rhyming with the sentence, it turned out to be a will.

Han Jaejoong was the first to say that he loved me.

He said that my life was happy because of you. He talked about happy memories as well as sad ones he had experienced. It was repeated again and again that sadness was driven out by joy, and that joy was accompanied by Yun Seol-hwa.

Han Jaejoong said that he admired magical girls before pitying them. He said that that longing started because of you. He said he was drawn to you like a snowflake falling to the ground.

That’s why he said that he didn’t want you, who made me happy, to be unhappy because of me.

Because Yoon Seol-hwa was a hero who saved his life, Han Jae-joong did not want that hero to be tarnished.

It was a request that could not be fulfilled.

The one who caused his wounds was a monster and a person.

After Han Jae-joong’s identity was revealed, he attacked him regardless of whether he was a monster or a human being. In this concentrated fire, Han Jae-joong was mortally wounded and collapsed.

The most fatal wounds near the liver were man-made. He pretended to be a person seeking rescue and approached him with a knife.

The reason was absurd.

-‘Because all monsters must be killed.’

An idea that Yun Seol-hwa once also had. However, she gave up that idea because Han Jae-joong was a monster.

That one thing was more important than ordinary moral concepts.

That’s why I hated everything that took him away from me. He hated himself too.

Han Jae-joong’s breath was slowly withdrawn. His vision darkened. He could only hear sounds.

Yun Seol-hwa shook her head, engraving the sound of his breathing in her heart.

-‘Seolhwa… Nothing happened… Right…?’

When it came to Han Jaejoong’s questions and requests, she couldn’t give any answers.

Yun Seol-hwa slowly gathered her mind for revenge.

I promised myself that I would use everything in this world as flowers to offer at his funeral.

That’s how Yun Seol-hwa became a monster.

And she was killed by Han Jae-joong. Not long after Han Jaejoong killed her, he died.

The two became flowers for each other’s memory and fell together.

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Krrr.

Yun Seol-hwa did not turn her head when she saw the shadow filling the tunnel.

The heat has arrived. The inside of the tunnel was hot like a sauna. The heat grew stronger and the inside of the tunnel began to distort. A haze blooms and the iron bends.

The shadow did not move at all. Didn’t act

The environment changes simply by existing.

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That was the power of the lion, the beast of the galaxy and the strongest beast.

Han Jaejoong, surprised by the heat, opened his eyes for a moment. He saw the intimidation of the beast that existed right in front of him, beyond the tunnel.

I have not yet found the boundary between life and death. If he runs away in his current state, his body will collapse. If it got this close to begin with, it would be impossible to escape.

The only remaining option is to repel.

Han Jaejoong frowned and tightened his hand holding his belt.

‘If only I had a little more time….’

Yun Seol-hwa’s transformation into a monster has not yet stopped. If they continue to clash like this, their transformation into monsters will progress further. Jaejoong Han knows the ending of the corrupted magical girls.

They lose their memories and humanity and become monsters in human form.

The end is misfortune and death.

A voice that brought peace came to his anxious ears.

“It’s okay.”

Yun Seol-hwa hugged him lovingly and chanted.

That was the answer of a certain day and the comfort of today.

“It’s okay.”

“…Is it a folktale?”

Yun Seol-hwa realized everything.

Love and hate, sacrifice and revenge, origin and end.

I realized both his heart and my own heart.

That’s why she said.

“It’s okay.”

It’s okay. Don’t worry. Your worries and fears will never come true.

She stroked his hair lovingly and kindly and continued to say words of relief.

Yun Seol-hwa knows.

He is not the person to play a hero. If you go astray just a little bit, you end up becoming a murderer instead of a hero.

He is a human being, but he hates other people.

Even if I became a monster, I hated monsters.

There is more to hate in the world than to love.

There are more sad things than happy things.

Efforts are not rewarded, and the results of doing your best are met with regret.

Good deeds were not the answer.

Nevertheless, Seolhwa Yun says:

“It’s okay.”

Despite all these misfortunes, he says he is okay.

“Because you trusted me.”

Revenge did not become love. Sacrifice wasn’t love either.

Then what is love?

“I will repay you.”

It was a reward.

Even through all these misfortunes, love was reciprocated.

The sight of her looking down at Han Jaejoong had suddenly become human.

The pitch black clothes disappeared. Her eyes and hair were white and silver, and her eyes were as white and fair as snowflakes.

“Do we still need more time?”

Yun Seol-hwa smiled and whispered.

“Then, please trust me and wait for me.”

Han Jaejoong nodded her head.

Yun Seol-hwa slowly put down his body.

“It won’t take long.”

The lion growled and spit out flames.

“Let’s go back.”

Yun Seol-hwa gestured. The mascot is not held in her hands like before. All that is caught is the dark starlight, the height of unrest.

Quaaa!!! The pure white flame and black chill clashed in power in the middle. The two forces faced each other tightly, as if competing for strength.

‘Now transformation like before is impossible.’

In Seolhwa Yoon, justice is dead.

Love and justice. It is the basis of a magical girl’s power.

With her half-human justice gone, she was no longer able to maintain herself as a magical girl.

Love also lost its power.

Her self-righteous love, which gave her strength to her, collapsed.

Gone is that spirit that would give up everything she had for her beloved.

The star is dead.

‘I am not everyone’s hero.’

Perhaps it was her compensation, but black and red starlight, like her blood and internal organs flowing from her corpse, poured out of her. They became cold and faced the flames.

It was no different from that of monster painting.

The lion puffed up his body even more. The galaxy-colored mane on his neck also became gigantic.

Kaaa!!

When the lion roared, the flames in its mane also advanced along with the sound. The strongest flame that burns all starlight. It couldn’t even resist Yun Seol-hwa’s chill.

The flames are getting closer.

Ice will eventually melt and flow. It becomes water and eventually becomes water vapor and disperses in the air.

However, no matter how much the appearance changes, the essence is eternal.

That is why Yun Seol-hwa was an ice wizard.

No matter how the appearance changes, the will does not change.

‘From the past until now, you have been the only star for me, Jaejoong.’

So for her, her death is not the end.

It doesn’t end even if you die.

Eternal will continues even after death.

‘So, I will continue to be there for you too.’

Death is just a new beginning.

‘I will continue to be a hero for you.’

Justice is dead, the star is dead.

There is no light here.

However, the will exists.

“I don’t change.”

Monsters and people, people and heroes, heroes and monsters.

All thoughts until now are dead.

Nothing can define her.

He is driven by a private heart, so he is a hero but he is a human being; he is a human being but he is strange and he is a monster; he is a monster but he is human and he is a human being.

A star-shaped brooch was held in her right hand.

Yun Seol-hwa took her first step.

The horizon of thought.

Toward the beyond.

[OVER THE HORIZON.]

Darkness poured out from the brooch. The darkness came together and became one dot.

Lights, sunlight, flames, and the light flowing from there flowed into this small dot and disappeared.

The lights are distorted.

All light was gathered into that one point.

“Because that’s my repayment for the love I received.”

The dot exploded, pouring out light around it.

Quaaang!! With a loud noise, the suppressed light within the dot dispersed, and the light gathered towards Yun Seol-hwa again.

Beautiful amber light and mysterious pitch black like the universe enveloped her.

The death-like explosion left behind by a dead star, in turn, revived the star in a new form.

Yun Seol-hwa placed her brooch, which she held in her right hand, on her shoulder.

Her appearance began to change.

Her blue-silver hair turned jet black, and her eyes turned amber.

A black cloak emerges from the brooch and flutters, and a gray uniform tightens her body. Her white and beautiful legs were covered by long boots.

She wore black gloves and held a rapier in her right hand.

The white and blue Blue Sirius was not there.

However, it is not as disturbing as a monster.

It was brilliant.

It is lofty and daunting.

A majesty that would make anyone kneel.

In the background, a sunspot appears that absorbs light again and gathers all the surrounding light.

Nevertheless, the light is emitted again and draws a beautiful line.

It evokes fear like a monster, yet gives a sense of security like a human.

Cannot be defined as either a magical girl or a monster.

It was the most unique being in this universe.

[Su, Guardian… What does this look like…?]

A voice was heard from the sunspot and Yun Seol-hwa looked behind her. The voice was identical to that of her mascot, a husky.

Her mascot, who disappeared while giving up her justice, reappeared as she became an entity that had nothing to do with justice.

“Ah… You came out too.”

[What happened…?]

“Well… I’m not sure either.”

Although she did not show it outwardly, Yun Seol-hwa was equally embarrassed.

The appearance seems to be a combination of the appearance of a monster seen in a dream and the appearance of a magical girl. She couldn’t understand what had happened to her.

“Well, good things are good things. Yes, Sookhee. “It’s been a while since I’ve been out, so please help me.”

Yun Seol-hwa did not bother to understand. Whatever this was, she was who she was.

“I’m going to kill that monster.”

She killed Han Jae-joong’s parents and suffocated the monster that continues to torment him to this day.

Grumbling. Yun Seol-hwa’s rapier made a sharp resonant sound and pointed at her messenger.

[…Yes. I will follow the guardian’s orders.]

“Oh, that’s right. Forget the title “Guardian.” “As you can see, I no longer fit in with that kind of thing.”

[Then….]

Sunspot said.

[Let’s go, Seolhwa.]

“That’s enough.”

Chuck. Yun Seol-hwa lifted the rapier so that the guard part of the sword was in front of her nose. Attention and polite posture.

“Listen to the starlight… No.”

Now there is no need to receive starlight anymore.

Yun Seol-hwa paraphrased her own lines.

“I will jump over the light and defeat you.”

Sereung. She lowered her rapier down to her knees again. With that gesture, a black spot approached the rapier. A light-absorbing dot stuck to the rapier.

The entire day became one darkness and began to suck in the surrounding light.

“It’s been a long time.”

Yun Seol-hwa pursed her lips as she looked at the lion. Many memories are tied to that one monster.

“But it won’t take that long to take you down.”

Flames gathered in front of the lion’s mouth. It was like a small sun. Or more than just the sun.

An absolute flame with the color of a galaxy condensed. The amount of light was so strong that I couldn’t even open my eyes properly.

The surrounding temperature rose, and the entrance to the tunnel melted in an instant. Just by being exposed to that heat, it caught fire and turned into ashes.

“Let’s end this briefly.”

Quaaa!! The lion spewed out condensed flames.

It is light itself. It was a pillar of destruction that drove away all the darkness in its path and turned it white.

Hearing the roar of the flames, Yun Seol-hwa raised his sword.

The sword that swallowed the sunspot absorbed all the surrounding light. No attack was exceptional.

The flames containing the lion’s soul shrunk and condensed, all gathering within the sword.

“I don’t really like hot things.”

There is no desire for revenge.

Because he is not Han Jaejoong’s representative.

For the present, not the past, Yun Seol-hwa swung the sword.

From top to bottom, drawing a straight line.

With that gesture, the light absorbed into the sword was released.

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The flame, which was stronger than the power sent by the lion, enveloped its owner.

There was no screaming or struggling.

The absolute ray of light that turns everything to ashes also turns its owner into ashes.

It happened in an instant.

Hiss. Yun Seol-hwa shed his sword. In this way, the black spot was separated from the sword.

The sunspot sucked back the light that had just been released and trapped it within itself.

“Yes. “It’s a bit cooler now.”

A gentle breeze blew from where the lion disappeared.

Yun Seol-hwa turned around and saw Han Jae-joong. Before she knew it, he was standing up and waving his hand at her.

“Jaejoong, I’m done.”

“I just finished it too.”

No wounds were visible on Han Jaejoong. There was no blood, and his complexion was good.

Yun Seol-hwa held his hand with relief.

“Shall we go then?”

“Yes.”

The two began to walk through the other world, which had begun to collapse after the lion died.

The world collapsed, but people remained the same.

No one died, no one changed.

There were no heroes or monsters there.

The two became flowers that decorated each other, blooming brightly.