NABC Chapter 43
Chapter 43
Chapter 43
It resembled the unpleasantness that comes from being solicited by religious groups on the street.
Going further, it was like an act of evangelism that threatens you’ll go to hell if you don’t believe.
A kind of compulsion that dismisses doubt, a rational process, as unnecessary.
The unpleasantness came from that kind of thing.
“Why should I...”
“You.”
Botis interrupted him.
“You’ve only just become aware of your purpose recently?”
That was true. It hadn’t even been a week since he became aware of his ideal.
“We often joke among ourselves that the most frightening are those who have just become aware of their purpose. People who have just realized their purpose are terrifying. If they think it will help realize their ideal, they lose all hesitation and resort to all kinds of desperate acts. Hahaha, I’m ashamed to say I made many mistakes around that time too.”
Botis laughed as if he understood completely. He had the same embracing quality as an experienced senior in life giving advice to a younger brother or family member.
“It was a good thing you restrained yourself when you tried to kill me earlier. I don’t care personally...but who knows how the kids by your side would think. It’s too much to expect human intelligence from mere balls of fluff, not even lambs yet, right?”
He never hid his murderous intent. Botis couldn’t have missed the murderous intent he had before sitting on this mat.
Moreover, the livestock frolicking in this vast nature.
He turned his attention to the signs he had been ignoring. The many beasts gazing menacingly towards this place.
Covered in wool but not gentle, ferocious villains.
Botis leisurely waved at them in greeting.
“Seeing you restrain yourself, you seem remarkably docile for a villain who has just become aware of his purpose. Ah...of course! You’re human when you release your transformation. Haha, my bad. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you not to worry too much. You’re acting rightly. Don’t doubt yourself.”
It was a kindness Han Jae-jung could not accept.
“Even if you think it’s a mistake now, it will turn out not to have been a mistake in the end.”
In the end, those words too stemmed from the belief that the Belt would guide him to the right path.
It was close to religious fanaticism.
Han Jae-jung, sick of Botis extolling the Belt, cut him off.
“You’re just making me more defiant. Are you perhaps in love with machines, extolling them so fervently? A very passionate love.”
“Getting angry? That’s just because you lack sweetness. Want me to give you some honey now?”
“No need.”
He felt like pouring the milk in this cup right onto Botis’ face. It was the same milk he had drunk earlier, so he would surely drink this too.
However, not only would that not be a ‘conversation’, but the many enraged villains glaring this way were also an issue.
Holding back a sigh, Han Jae-jung asked, “Hey, why are you so adamant that I believe in the Belt? If you know my purpose, it won’t be of any help to you.”
Botis laughed.
“I’m on the side of all lambs. ‘All’ lambs, I mean. Even if conflicts arise occasionally, I can’t deny that dream.”
Lambs – the word he uses for villains.
“Ah, I see.”
Han Jae-jung finally realized why Botis so extolled the Belt that guides one to their ideal.
There were two reasons he was invited to this space.
One was to give him time from the villains chasing him outside.
The other was to define whether he was a lamb or a wolf.
“You want me to become a villain.”
What the Belt presents is a path with the possibility of realizing one’s ideal.
A path where the process doesn’t matter as long as the ideal is achieved, the very path of a villain. Điscover new chapters at novelhall.com
Botis’ aim was to make him think that path was right.
So that gradually, in body and mind too, he would become closer to a villain.
To become a lamb who knows where to go but not how to get there, wandering aimlessly.
“For me to become a lamb in your flock...I see.”
Han Jae-jung recalled when he resorted to violence against Red Vega in order to instill fear.
According to Botis’ words, that would not be a sin. It’s a path to realizing the ideal.
But he must not accept that.
“I refuse. Don’t bother with your nonsense and just keep sucking milk.”
Botis laughed loudly.
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Ippotranslation
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Red Vega was just thinking about killing the villain.
No other thoughts were needed. On the urgent battlefield where victory or defeat could be decided in just a second, there was no room for leisure.
Agony was a luxury.
“Sister Aldebaran!”
As Red Vega shouted, a laser line was drawn again on the villain’s neck. However, it was different from before. Multiple lines were drawn overlapping one line, dozens of strikes.
Kagagaak!!!
An unpleasant noise scratched the ears. Red Vega gathered flames in her two fists without caring. Using her signature firepower as thrust, she threw her fists towards the area where multiple lines had been drawn earlier.
Bang! Bang! Tadadadang!
Not just one or two consecutive strikes, but dozens of consecutive strikes. Each one was an intense attack that could easily tear rocks and melt iron. Dozens of those. Concentrate on one point.
Still, it wasn’t satisfactory. There was still no sign of injury on the villain’s body. Shiiik, smoke rose from the point of impact. It was just heat, not a scar.
“This is driving me crazy.....”
“But if we keep attacking, a way out will appear.”
“A way out, you’ve studied quite a difficult word.”
“Huh? What do you take me for....?”
“Kids, get out of the way!”
As Blue Sirius’s voice came from behind, the two swiftly flew into the sky to get out of the way. Immediately after, a thick ice spear flew and struck the villain’s neck.
It was a maximum firepower attack by compressing magical power together with a clone. The ice spear that flew at bullet speed easily pushed the villain back.
Normally, the neck should have been blown off the moment it was hit.
The villain’s overwhelming endurance did not allow such a phenomenon.
“It’s wounded!”
Their earlier attack had been effective. It was not in vain.
There was hope there.
Red Vega even felt a thrilling elation.
“Yaaaaah!!”
Regaining her cheerfulness, Red Vega thrust her fist towards the villain’s neck.
There was no fear.
As the distance closed, a slight crack was visible near the villain’s neck.
“Let’s attack together!”
The invisible Phantom Strike also aimed for the villain’s neck.
“Ha... ha...”
Their simultaneous attacks hit the villain’s neck.
Crack!
The hard shell encasing the neck split open, revealing a black, leathery substance inside.
Success.
They didn’t stop. Fists and Phantom Strikes rained down again. With the shell gone, they would be more deadly.
“Hah!!!”
Thud!
They were deflected. Both blade and fist.
“...Huh?”
Red Vega realized.
Inside that hard shell, there was.
An even harder, indestructible armor in place.
“Hahahahaha!!!”
For the first time since arriving here, that laughter resounded.
The villain laughed loudly and grabbed the leg of the deflected Golden Aldebaran. Though hidden, considering the trajectory of the earlier attack and traces left, her position could be inferred.
Grabbing her leg, it spun her around and hurled her towards Red Vega.
“Ugh!”
“Ack!”
With that centrifugal force, the living projectile was a formidable weapon. Red Vega’s unstable stance left her unable to properly receive it like Golden Aldebaran had, she could only tumble to the ground together.
Above them, the villain’s body came hurtling down. Its spinning, turtle-like shell now revealed sharp blades protruding in places, unseen before.
Taking that head-on would undoubtedly deal a shocking, tearing blow that would forcibly dispel their transformations. And if the onslaught continued after that... They would die.
The perspectives between villain and magical girl had reversed.
When a magical girl first sees a villain from the sky, it’s usually from above. Then they meet at eye level.
But rarely from below.
Because looking up at a villain from below signifies defeat.
Death, or a lucky survival.
Statistically, the former outcome was understood.
Understood, but never felt.
Red Vega recalled the memory. Just days ago, the one-sided violence inflicted by the villain.
The pain and fear then, the helplessness, the weakness.
Her hands and feet trembled like a rung bell, her mouth forgot language. She couldn’t even scream. Couldn’t even expel air.
But her body incessantly rang the alarm bell.
Run away.
It was almost a reflex action. An instinct.
Holding Golden Aldebaran, Red Vega concentrated her magic power under her feet. No direction set, no speed adjusted. She just wanted to get away from this place immediately.
The spells practiced to charge at the villain now spewed flames solely to flee it as far as possible.
Bang!
Dust and ice shards scattered as the two were blown backwards, the villain’s vicious spinning attack striking the spot they had been.
Crunch crunch!
The ground was horrifically gouged and torn.
Witnessing it with her own eyes, Baek Ah-hee tightened her hold on her senior like a child clinging to a doll to forget a nightmare.
“Ve..Vega? How far are we going?!”
Even after escaping that spot, Baek Ah-hee did not stop. It was only after flying a great distance that Red Vega landed on the roof of a quiet building.
“Thank you. Now let’s go back and...”
“No.”
The moment their high-speed flight ceased, Golden Aldebaran tried to get up, but Red Vega stopped her.
Her heart was still pounding tremendously. It felt like her internal organs might spill from her mouth.
“Don’t go... back...”
Red Vega had gained fear.
She couldn’t even turn her head. Even with eyes closed, intensely bright lights could still be felt.
No matter how much she fled and tried to forget, once witnessed, she could not but know.
The terror of losing one’s life.
Red Vega knew fear.
“Don’t... go back...”
Her faltering, trembling voice sounded like a child struggling not to cry.
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