A Hero Becomes an Obsessed Villain - Episode 271
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a destroyed world.
There, under the red sky, Starthers was looking with trembling eyes at a woman with blonde hair just like him..
"uh..."
That woman, who looks much more mature and has blonde hair a little darker than mine, is looking at me with a cold expression....
Probably myself in this world. It must be Stardust of the future.
...While she was confused, having never imagined that she would run into herself like this,.
The woman who had been quietly looking at us opened her mouth as if she was not particularly embarrassed..
"...Is it a remnant of a hallucinogenic monster? I thought I had this area covered... but no.."
He muttered quietly as if he was talking to himself, and then he stretched out his arms and clenched his fists..
OK.
Couuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
Centered around her hands and arms, an enormous energy shining with an intense yellow light began to surround her arms like a gauntlet..
Ready to attack at any moment.
And Stadus, startled by her appearance, hurriedly opened his mouth..
"Now, just a moment! I'm not a monster or anything.."
"Hmm..?"
My future self, still with tired eyes, looking up at her from the mountain of abandoned buildings, arms shining with light..
Stadus, who was flying in the sky in front of her, hurriedly opened his mouth before she suddenly attacked..
I don't know what the situation is, but let's explain it calmly for now..
"I am... you from another world! I don't want to fight, I just..."
As she began to explain, the Stardust of this world stopped attacking for a moment and stood quietly, looking towards her and listening to her..
...In that way, Stadus explained her current situation diligently. I happened to fall into something like a dimensional door and ended up in this world. something like that.
"..."
And Stardus carefully looked at his appearance in this world as he listened to that story..
Perhaps because of her age, she looks much more mature than she is now, and she looks somewhat tired yet sharp..
I felt like I was a stranger to myself in this world where I seemed to be tired of life... but also clearly older than my current self, which had a dangerous atmosphere..
Maybe that's why Stadus was explaining things using polite language without her knowing..
"...so. When she opened her eyes she found herself here."
That's how her explanation ended..
Starders of this future world, who had been quietly listening to her and looking at her with murky eyes,.
He didn't seem to be very interested in what she said..
but.
"...haha. It's fun.""
"You completely removed my old self.?"
He just said that with a somewhat bitter expression..
When Stadus was still confused after hearing that, she turned her head and spoke quietly..
"...It's a different dimension. huh. That can't be possible. Because that can't happen."
"Still, I don't know what you are. I'll accept it for now. There's nothing more to do in this place where it's over anyway...."
Because it doesn't seem to have any effect on cause and effect..
After muttering that, she turned her head again and just stared blankly over the horizon like the first time..
Her attitude, as if she didn't really care about herself..
...Stadus momentarily wondered if he was still being treated as a hallucination, but he decided to count himself fortunate that he had said that he would accept it for now and not attack him any further..
under the red sky.
A strange moment when you encounter someone who looks exactly like you but is clearly different..
It was slightly unclear what was going on and whether this was reality..
Starthers looked behind him and decided to ask what he was most curious about first..
"I..."
"Speak comfortably."
"Uh...yeah. okay. So... what happened here??"
okay.
She asked what she was most curious about first..
Why are there ruins everywhere and no people in sight? Why is everything collapsed around here?.
And the answer to that came back very calmly..
"destroyed."
"....."
I knew it.
I expected it, but hearing it in person was shocking again..
"...why?"
When I continued to ask questions while looking at the reckless behavior around me with trembling eyes, my other self fell silent and soon began muttering with a tired expression..
"....I won in the end, but I guess I didn't win because the world ended in the end. To answer your question... well. Maybe it was destined to be like this from the beginning.."
She continued to speak in such a tired voice, staring blankly into space..
"It was too much. There were just too many villains. The enemies were strong and numerous, but the number of heroes against them was infinitely insufficient...."
She keeps muttering like that, as if reminiscing about the past..
"In the end, I managed to achieve balance somehow. When the Bank of Korea attacked Seoul with weapons and destroyed half of the capital, that was when the downfall began...."
Is another Stardust doing it to himself, or is he ruminating on his own memories? She began to continue her words so calmly..
The story of Seoul collapsing due to invasion by various villains, and the capital being moved to Busan. Afterwards, the collapsed city center of Seoul was rebuilt and a new Seoul was created, but even that collapsed at the hands of villains..
And the story of my future self muttering like that. No, Stadus listened in silence to his own story in this world. Suddenly a bit dizzy, I was busy comparing the path her world had taken..
'...The overall flow is similar. With my past.'
The names of the villains, the terror they carried out, and the timing. Almost everything was the same.
The only difference is that, unlike this side, which prevented the terrorist attacks with as few casualties as possible, each of them suffered a significant blow..
Unlike her, who prevented both the Moonlight Shaman incident and the Haneun Group incident, this world could not..
And even the villains who were easily dealt with in her world became violent criminals in this world..
...And all those differences were tied to just one person..
Can't be found anywhere else in this world.
Starders. A male villain who is her archenemy and an A-level villain. The leader of a group of villains, the one who always dealt with him with a smile on his face..
okay.
ego stick.
The fact that he was nowhere to be seen was the biggest difference between this world and his own..
So that's what I'm most curious about right now about Stardust..
So she had no choice but to ask this first..
"...And at that time, due to the terrorism caused by the Moonlight cult leader. The world experienced accelerated destruction. A gate was created all over the Earth, and those monsters have been coming into this world for several years. The city was destroyed, and everyone lived in hiding underground. Not only Korea but almost all countries..."
"for a moment..."
"...?"
She put her head down and stopped calmly explaining herself about this world..
...Strangely enough, I continued to have a headache and an upset stomach. This she definitely had to ask.
Maybe it's fundamentally related to all of this..
his existence.
Starthers took a quiet breath and then asked her:.
"if. Do you know that it is ego stick??"
It's not in the records, but you never know. Because the person in front of her was Stardust, a god just like her. And if she is she she can't not know him.
She asked with vague hope,.
The answer that came back was.
"...no? who is that."
She seemed to be frowning and answering, as if asking what she was talking about..
And only after hearing the answer.
Stardust finally realized.
The biggest difference between the world she lived in and this world.
That's right...
There was no egoism in this world..
"...wait a minute."
Feeling dizzy for a moment, she apologized to her future self and leaned her hand against a nearby rock-like brick..
okay.
There was no egoism in this world. It seems clear from his own words just now..
And maybe, she guesses.
That one difference changed the world's crossroads..
...The huge weapon of the Bank of Korea that Egostick had captured destroyed nearly half of Seoul without anyone in this world being able to stop it..
The Death Knight, who must have been by his side as an egotist, fell into the hands of others and lived as a weapon to slaughter civilians..
In addition, Ego Stick bursts in during the attack and welcomes her as a colleague, stopping the Moonlight Maiden's terror attack. In the end, no one in this world could stop it and it destroyed the entire city of Seoul, and the shaman eventually died at the hands of this world's self. As a result, the capital was changed to Busan, and New Seoul was created in the collapsed Seoul..
In addition, Rhino, Weapon Master, Scream Maker, etc... Those he personally sanctioned survived in this world and acted as murderers, killing hundreds of people..
The White Witch he welcomed as his companion... South Silver, Atlas, etc. were also the ones who almost led the country to destruction in this world without him..
In other words, there is only one reason why his world was peaceful unlike this world..
"...Egoistic, because?"
When Stadus was stumbling, leaning on the railing with his head more dizzy than before..
"Hey... you, wait a minute.."
The Starders of this world, who had been quietly watching her, momentarily stiffened their faces and asked:.
"Why are you like that??"
"huh? why is my body..."
Starders looked down like that, was he surprised?.
Because his body was crackling and strangely refracted, like a noisy TV screen..
As if another dimension was pulling her in.
"what..? Why are you like this??"
Starthers, who saw his body like that, finally realized that this was the reason for his dizziness..
"...for a moment. You can't believe it... Ah. As expected, it was something like that. haha."
The moment when the self in this world said that when he saw her like that.
Once again, her body was surrounded by white light just like when she first entered the portal..
"...I don't know what it is, but... maybe, me... you said... give it to...."
In the end, he sees himself in this world, still looking at himself with a calm expression and a slight smile..
Starders. Her consciousness once again fell into a space-like space..
***
That was the time when Starthers met and talked to himself in another world..
"Ahhhhh."
I was swimming in a strange space of consciousness as I chased Stardus, who had disappeared beyond a strange dimensional cloud by the Moonlight Cult leader..
Save the ego stick.
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