A hero becomes an obsessed villain - Episode 354
EP.354 - Starders
When Egostick retired, Stadus was in pain..
Only then did she realize.
He said he was relying heavily on the ego stick..
He always claims that he is a villain, but he is always the first to run to her when she is in danger. She always felt reassured in her heart that he was smiling like always..
and.
...And he wishes that such an ego stick could stay by his side forever. she had thought.
But the ego stick is gone.
One day, suddenly, he said he wouldn't need me anymore..
It was nonsense..
She still needed the ego stick.
Now I couldn't imagine him not being by my side..
So suddenly, you left.
That's why Starders was in great shock for a while..
Why did you suddenly leave? What did I do wrong? What's wrong?.
Even though she was so worried, she still believed in a part of her heart..
One day, ego sticks will return. There will definitely be a chance to meet again.
It was then.
What she heard was.
'Ego stick, he has a limited time limit..'
...what?
At first she didn't believe it.
No, I couldn't believe it. He who was so fine suddenly...
...wait for a sec.
I'm fine?
It was only when she thought about it that she remembered.
If you think about it, egostick has never been okay..
He had his stomach pierced by a monster for his sake, staining the floor with his blood..
Due to my mistaken self, I was beaten inside a mechanical device..
...And in the first place.
Sometimes, I would vomit blood and walk around..
Why didn't I know.
If you think about it, there were always omens..
How he always struggled after teleporting a few times, and how he acted boldly as if he was giving up his life..
That was something that could not be done unless someone was about to die or was certain of their own death..
If he was terminally ill.
Actions that I didn't understand until now all made sense..
Why did you suddenly retire? Because I don't want people to know about my death.
...Even though he went through so much with himself in prison. Why did you act like you forgot everything? Because I know you'll be leaving soon, I don't want to hurt you.
If you think about it that way, everything becomes more explained..
and.
The moment he realized this, Starders was overcome by a feeling of despair that was deeper than anything else..
"Ah... ah, ah..."
And from then on.
Inside her, something seemed broken..
The day always started like usual.
Wearing a red suit that fits tight to the body.
After tidying up his blonde hair, he flies through the sky and fights enemies..
It was no different from usual..
...However, except at some point when you start to feel skeptical about what you are doing this for..
'I killed it.'
Such auditory hallucinations.
Sometimes, it would ring in Starthers' ears..
If she had known he was sick from the beginning, she would have treated her better..
I would have confessed my feelings without making a fuss..
I would have told him honestly that I wanted to be with him more..
she couldn't do anything.
...Egostick has done everything for me so far..
what did i do for you.
This suffering just keeps piling up.
I wanted to apologize.
When I see him again, I want to talk to him. I'm sorry. I did it wrong.
'I killed it.'
If you had done better.
If it could have been different.
...If I could meet him one more time.
I shouldn't have been jealous in the first place..
What if we all stay together? When he's with me, all he has to see is himself.
She just regretted everything..
I'm so mentally exhausted and regret everything..
So much so that he thinks he killed Ego Stick..
And those thoughts.
It went in an extreme direction.
'...I who killed the ego stick, is it worth living??'
dawn.
Sometimes, when she felt dizzy, she thought like that without realizing it..
Feeling the wind blowing your hair, looking down at your fist indifferently with blue eyes.
I decided to live my whole life protecting people..
Then what do you do.
I couldn't even think of a single person who liked me or who I liked..
...So that's it.
That was the reason she cut off ties with everyone and focused only on being a hero..
Half a year has passed since Ego Stick died..
Now she was acting aggressively, as if she was sacrificing her life like an egotist..
Because I can't find a reason to live anymore.
"Phew..."
So the next day.
Likewise, she was standing on a nearby rooftop railing and leaning back after spending an entire day hurting herself and defeating the villain..
...it's tough.
Ego Stick must have had a harder time than me..
Stardust leaned on the rooftop with dead eyes and a sigh, naturally thinking about ego sticks as usual..
Then, a sudden thought occurred to her, and she turned her head..
There, an orange-colored sunset was slowly setting, turning the sky yellow..
And looking at that scene.
Suddenly, she felt a forgotten emotion emerge..
no wonder.
I felt like I had seen a scene like this with Ego Stick before..
The moment I thought of that.
For a moment, with a splitting pain in her head, she remembered something..
Jiying
"Ugh...!"
'...It won't be the end.'
Suddenly, she heard it in her ears. what voice.
With that, she unconsciously remembered something.
For some reason, something I clearly don't remember.
'■■Even if I go back. Because in the end it's just the two of us.'
'Because people don't change.'
'There will come a day when we can have a conversation like this again..'
"Ugh...!"
What is it?.
What kind of memory is this? I've definitely never experienced anything like this.
Why on earth does this scene remain in my head?.
While she was holding her head and in pain.
With his face smiling somehow weakly.
She remembered his last words.
'Do not cry.'
"ah..."
And when I fully remembered that memory,.
She stands in front of the sunset.
Without even realizing it, I found myself shedding tears..
***
Although I recalled a strange, dream-like scene that I couldn't remember..
Her daily life has not changed.
It just made me think that I didn't want to live anymore..
But reality didn't leave her alone..
[Wow, Mr. Starders! This is an emergency! A huge monster is now covering the whole of Seoul....!]
"go now."
After answering so briefly, she stormed off with the frozen cold face that had become more familiar to her than anything else..
The thing that appeared in Seoul this time was a huge monster..
After hearing that it was almost as large as a single area, in the shape of a huge dragon, and that it was devouring several cities, she moved quietly but quickly to that area..
You don't have to go far, let's fly and see what it looks like.
'...It's really big.'
Sooooooooo-
It looked like a long dragon with its body half buried in the ground..
A translucent body, shining colorfully like colored fog, is passing through the city..
Although it did not cause any direct harm, perhaps because it was transparent, it seemed dangerous to anyone who saw it, rising higher than a mountain visible from afar and moving with a body larger than several cities combined..
It has a transparent appearance like a spiky hedgehog, and has dozens of strange jewels in front of it, with a fantasy-like appearance of light yellow-pink and blue colors..
Even she saw that strange appearance for the first time..
Starthers frowned a little, but wasn't very agitated..
Her heart is already worn out and she can no longer show much emotion about anything..
'Where should I hit?.'
That was when I was flying close to the guy in the sky, quietly observing the situation, and flying around him..
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
'...what?'
Suddenly, the transparent monster that had been moving quietly began to twist its body with a painful groan..
Soon, the guy let out a desperate scream..
-parching!
As it was, my body began to shatter like glass breaking..
A situation where colorful, transparent, fluorescent fragments begin to break apart around him..
In that absurd situation where a monster suddenly appears and suddenly breaks down on its own,.
She intuitively realized that someone had broken the monster up ahead..
In the first place, the monster's body began to shatter starting from its head..
'...Which one is it?.'
Are you saying that there is someone else here with the ability to defeat such a monster??
That can't be possible. If there is, it's probably not on the Association's side..
I need to see for myself what kind of guy he is..
With that thought, she flew towards the front with a cold expression..
In that blue and pink foggy place, what she witnessed was.
All of a sudden, she saw.
"Grump. Phew... ah."
"uh...?"
She was the person I thought I would never see again..
"Haha... this guy is really sticky. I had a hard time processing it. haha."
The person I thought about every night, but at the same time was convinced I was dead..
A person who I wanted to see so much, but who made me suffer in the face of the reality that I would not be able to see him..
"ah..."
"...haha. Why do you see it that way? Write it, hehe. I said I would stop terrorism, but I never said I would stop engaging in activities. ha ha ha..."
A person who thought that if they could see his smiling face just once more, they could do anything..
That person.
Now, it was in front of her eyes..
so suddenly.
So suddenly, just like always.
Wearing a mask and smiling.
like that.
The man she kept waiting for.
Egostick smiled and greeted her..
"Hello Mr. Starders. Long time no see."
"Ugh..."
She ended up crying.
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