A Hero Becomes an Obsessed Villain - Episode 351
EP.351 - Swinging bridge lantern
After things ended with Celeste.
I came back and started doing things normally again..
"Cough."
...Write it.
Before doing so, I wiped the blood from my mouth. Sigh, it's been a while since I used my telekinetic powers in the temple of the sun god, and I overexerted myself, and hemoptylated again....
Anyway I was working.
...Of course, just saying that, what I was most interested in was.
"No, Starders, really, why are you like this these days??"
It's about Stardust..
The world is very confusing these days. When you hear news from around the world, you hear stories like a villain has taken over a country's capital or a country's economy has been shattered by continued terrorism. In particular, it is said that Korea's diplomacy is not easy as the number of countries such as Japan and China are occupied by villains. Because not all other villains are like Katana....
Anyway, perhaps that's why our country's news seemed to be trying to show only hopeful things about our country as much as possible. So, they started promoting ‘Korea is safe, everyone!’ by launching Heroin Starders..
In reality, Stardust was very good at defeating villains, so there was nothing to worry about. but...
'...That's strange.'
That fact could not have fooled my eyes as a Stardust expert..
There was something strange about Stardust that I saw on screen recently..
His expression was originally stiff, but recently it felt like he had become more subtly expressionless..
More than that, he seemed to be somewhat tired. To be precise, it feels empty, like someone who has lost his purpose is just killing villains out of habit..
and. Starders...
'...I'm doing something very self-destructive..'
I held the pen, looked at the screen, and thought with a serious expression..
Beyond being an expert on Stardust, I accepted it even more keenly because I was an observer of Stardust itself, having seen her from a first-person perspective through the original work..
For example, in this video today, it was like this.
[Oh no, it looks like the villain Widarmak is spewing flames nearby! It seems like he's trying to distance himself from Stardust... Ah! The moment I say that, Stardust just flies straight through the flames.!]
When the enemy spits out flames, Starders goes right into the fire..
...Normally she would never be like this.
Take a step back and check if there is a way to bypass the fire. If there was, he would have taken a detour. If not, he would have waited a moment for the flames to die down and then charged..
But she didn't do that, and when the fire came, she pierced through it as if she had been waiting for it..
Of course, as she has become stronger, there were no major injuries, but the problem is that this behavior is repeated..
"....."
As I looked at her like that, I rested my hand on my chin and quietly thought..
...Seeing her like this, the public would have just thought, ‘Ah, Stardus has become so brave!’.
But I knew. What Stardus has been doing recently is no different from an act of self-harm. She repeats risky actions as if her death is not that scary. To anyone, she looked like someone who had lost the will to live..
And this behavior was already similar in the original work..
'...When Kim Chae-hyun, her closest friend in college, died, she was so angry for a while that she showed this extreme behavior..'
But the problem is that the senior is not dead now, and it was only like that for one day, but recently Stardus has been doing that all the time..
There was no reason for that to happen, but even after I retired, I was relatively fine, and then all of a sudden, recently, people started acting like that..
'What happened??'
As I was thinking about such things alone, I quickly shook my head and thought,.
okay. What should I do, complaining to myself? I'll have to ask someone close to Stardus about this..
After thinking that, I immediately took out my cell phone and made a call to someone..
"Oh, Seolya. What are you doing?"
***
Lee Seol-ah, Chairman of Yuseong Group.
...When I visited her office, I said hello to her, who was looking blankly at one of the piles of paper in front of her desk..
"W, Lee Seol-ah. What are you doing?"
"...ah. Mr. Dain!"
She raised her head to my words and responded with a wide smile as if she had been waiting. She then signed a piece of paper, threw it behind her, and stood up..
"haha. came?"
"Uh... but you look a little busy.?"
"ah. Ahahahaha. I know. Life isn't easy."
After answering me with a smile, she just fell down on the sofa in front of the small table in the middle of the office and sat down facing the armrest..
"...Are you okay??"
"Ahaha. It's okay except a little busy... Um, no. To be honest, I'm really busy and I'm annoyed by all these fucking bastards... but other than that, it's okay.."
Lee Seol-ah, who was smiling like that, didn't look like she was doing well..
He's clearly speaking with a smile on his face, but no matter how I look at him, he almost looks like he's lost his mind..
In particular, now he had thrown away the suit and tie he always wore somewhere and was wearing a dress shirt, lying on the sofa, smiling heartily, unlike the chairman of a large company, and he was like a wild maniac..
You must be having a hard time these days....
I left her behind and turned my head towards the TV that was turned on alone in the spacious office..
Lee Seol-ah's voice comes out there..
In the screen, Seol-ah Lee was giving a speech on the podium in front of hundreds of people in suits and reporters..
[We, Yusung Group, will do our best to cooperate to protect the economy, security, politics, diplomacy of the Republic of Korea and peace in Northeast Asia, and to this end, we are the first to announce a three-year economic growth plan....]
The headline below Lee Seol-ah saying so said [[Breaking News] Yuseong Group, effectively formalizing interference in internal affairs?].
"what. Now I'm just going to criticize you for eating Korea.?"
To my question, Lee Seol-ah, who was sitting on the sofa with her legs resting on the armrests and playing with making ice crystals with her hands, answered..
"Ahaha. yes. I think it will be difficult to hide it any longer. There are also ties with other countries. Anyway, the media and public opinion are on my side, so it doesn't matter.."
"But this news company didn’t touch it? I'm just saying it's interference in internal affairs.."
To my question, Lee Seol-ah smiled slightly and answered in a languid voice..
"Oh, that's what I ordered too. If you block it too much, the opposition might explode, so it would be awkward to have a place like that. Well, since they are all on my side anyway, I will slowly make them turn towards me.."
"aha..."
"We need to slowly let this country know who the owner is.."
...Seol-ah had a plan.?
As I nodded, I felt anxious for a moment, so I took a handkerchief out of my pocket and covered my mouth..
"Cluck, cluck."
Soon, I felt the fishy taste of blood in my mouth, and hemoped up blood into a handkerchief..
Phew, I'm glad I knew in advance that I would vomit blood and brought a handkerchief with me. Last time I was in the temple of the sun god, I felt like I was S-rank, so I overexerted myself..
And that scene.
"....."
Lee Seol-ah, who had half-raised her body from lying on the sofa, was looking seriously with a stern expression on her face..
...And for no reason, I was embarrassed by the sight, so I opened my mouth and changed the subject..
"Oh, this is no big deal. Anyway, so... why did I come here? I'm talking about Stardust.."
When I brought up the topic of Stardust, her complexion became even darker..
I opened my mouth, feeling that there was something in Lee Seol-ah's expression..
"...You seem a little strange these days, something's going on.?"
She sighs, avoiding my gaze at my question..
...Then Seol-ah Lee looked at the bloody handkerchief that was still in my hand and sighed once more and said,.
"Haha... More than that, Mr. Dain, you're in really good shape.?"
"It's okay."
"Look me in the eyes and answer honestly. Mr. Dain, it's time-limited.?"
"...What are you talking about??"
After arguing about my health for a while, she soon realized that I was not terminally ill and sighed and said,.
"...Starders. ha. ...I don't know either. Mr. Ego Stick will check it out later and find out for himself.."
"...okay."
I nodded when I saw Lee Seol-ah lying on the sofa again with an expression that seemed to have a lot of story behind her, covering her eyes with her arm and saying that..
...I'll see you again soon anyway. You might be able to find out if you look at it then..
Anyway, after a few more words with Lee Seol-ah, I left..
"And don't be surprised if a strange guy appears in Seoul sometime next week.."
"yes yes? What is that strange guy? It's not like a disaster again...?"
"There is such a thing."
With a final friendly warning,.
Wouldn't it be better to know and be right than to be right without knowing??
...Was it the opposite? Anyway.
***
After Egostick left,.
"phew..."
Lee Seol-ah sat down again in silence and thought..
In fact, she knew the current state of Starthers..
...It turned out like that because I thought the ego stick was time-limited..
But the reason she couldn't reassure Starthers was...
'I really didn't risk my life....?'
It was because she wasn't sure in the first place..
In fact, I was vomiting blood again today..
However, according to his own words, he said it was not time-limited....
'Maybe if they meet in person, then their relationship will progress..'
Looking at the sky outside, Lee Seol-ah muttered that and became lost in thought..
...Until I remembered that I still had a lot of work to do, and realized that I didn't get even two hours of sleep today..
***
Anyway, that night I came back..
I was lost in thought about what to do next..
'okay. There's still time before the next event, so let's take a break and think about it until the day after tomorrow..'
I came to that conclusion and went to sleep..
The next day, when I woke up with a heavy feeling,.
"wake up?"
"Ugh..."
Seo Ja-young came up on my boat and was staring at me.,
...I wasn't surprised because I thought he must have come into bed during the night..
"...Umm. Seo Ja-young, why??"
"It's nothing special."
After saying that, she looked at me with her purple eyes and said to me,.
"Today, let's play together."
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