Chapter 28 – Episode 28. A Male Hero Stands Next to a Magical Girl (3)
Episode 28 A male hero stands next to a magical girl (3)
As always, Sherwood Kelly sat in an unwavering position on the central throne of the temple and spaceship that departed from the planet Paramas, looking down at the Ogres.
As usual with fanatics, her pupils were unwavering, and her large pupils were completely covered with white, which was clear but difficult to see due to the narrowness of her area.
When her earthlings saw her, despite her beautiful face, they felt a strange discomfort about her, and it was precisely because of her inscrutable eyes.
Her big, cat-like eyes would occasionally turn sharply vertical, and her small mouth would be pursed.
Mainly when she was angry.
“So, Ogre died?”
“Ogre lives here.”
The huge throne that Kelly would never leave was even more spacious now, as it was large enough to accommodate her even when she transformed into her adult form.
She jumped up and let out her yell.
“Not you, you idiots!”
“…”
“I’m talking about Ogre, who decided to take an ‘oath’ from the magical girls. “Didn’t that guy collect the body?”
“… Ogre was completely extinct.”
Several ogres spoke to Kelly about being humanoid, tentacled like an octopus, or in liquid form.
Some of them were Ogre No. 40, some were No. 37, some were No. 15 and even No. 7.
Or, even though it is the latest model, No. 41, there are some who remember its previous form and keep it that way on purpose.
It’s a prank that Kelly doesn’t understand.
Maybe it’s because it hasn’t evolved yet.
“…”
Whenever Paramas invades, it uses indigenous people, or cloned life forms, to make it easier to attack and blend in with the planet’s inhabitants.
Basically, the life form called ‘Ogre Zero (0)’ gradually perverts and develops its form through information collection and absorption of genes from indigenous people.
Ogre 41 can be said to be the achievement of several decades.
Originally, they tried to implement a reign of terror by directly unleashing the Paramas adult warriors, but the Earth’s army was stronger than expected, and most of all, due to the activities of the magical girls, their ambitions were repeatedly thwarted.
So, decades ago, a strategy was used to stimulate the distorted desires of indigenous people and train brainwashers.
When that also failed, they are trying to change the entire planet to be more favorable to Paramas by scattering restorers who are believed to have been ‘purified’ throughout society.
Meanwhile, Ogre continues to develop.
In case the numbers were wrong, the next best solution was to create an Ogre army and wipe out the Earth.
And he was also useful for information gathering.
Ogre was also the work of Sherwood Kelly.
She was not a fighting type of star, preferring infiltration and disruption operations using technology.
Because Earth was a periphery compared to the size of the Paramas Empire, she was allowed only a small number of troops.
An illegitimate child of her empire, she used her own brilliant mind to build a kingdom here for Lord Paratz, with whom she hoped to gain his trust.
However, recently, that work has been falling apart again and again.
Even though it was not a project that had high expectations from Paratz, he gave Sherwood Kelly a benevolent voice every time he made a report.
“… Burning it with fire. Liquid flame too? How did you create such technology? “I heard that something like that existed throughout Earth’s history, but… The fact that you used it means you know about Ogre, right?”
Kelly leaned back against the throne with a feeling of discomfort, touched his lips, and crossed his legs arrogantly.
The Ogres lowered their shiny heads and waited dumbly for her next command.
Although their intelligence had risen to the level of the average Earthling, their willpower was still poor.
Because they simply follow orders, Sherwood Kelly needs to give them specific instructions and correct their behavior.
As the generations increase in the future, when Sherwood becomes the 100th, 200th, and 1000th Sherwood, it will be able to evolve into a destructive army, but it is still far away.
“… What on earth are you doing, Smileface?”
Kelly muttered.
Because the Smile Face was completely burned with an unquenchable flame, no feedback could be received from the dispatched Ogre 41.
He is basically a cell-level life form, so even if his life is seemingly cut off (for example, if his head is blown off), he absorbs all nearby hearing and sensory information.
In short, if only those cells were recovered, they would be delivered intact to Ogre No. 42 and improved.
Smile Face intentionally blocked it.
I haven’t been able to get anything like an oath or anything, and I haven’t actually found out any information about it.
Sherwood Kelly only suffered losses, and B.H even ended up recovering part of the Ogre’s body.
Perhaps through him, Ogre will find out that there is an evolutionary relationship with previously collected life forms, and then future improvements will become even more difficult.
Even if things go wrong, they can’t go wrong like this!
She thought of several possibilities.
A man named Smile Face who suddenly appears and acts evil, but is not on Paramas’ side.
Since he is not an Earthling, there is a high probability that he is an alien or a reincarnation from an alien planet, but what intuitively comes to mind is the possibility that he is a ‘male hero’.
Logical reasoning is still difficult.
However, since he first landed on Earth more than 100 years ago, Sherwood Kelly has become familiar with Earth’s culture, as well as the structure of the organization and the magical girls who claim to be the protectors of humanity.
Male heroes have also faced each other several times.
Descendants of that damn Bright Star, heroes who would occasionally appear and become game changers during the several generations of magical girls opposing Paramas.
The only difference from a magical girl is that her gender is male and her abilities vary.
There were some shabby guys who died from Paramas’ blows for no reason at times, but there were also some who called themselves cruel villains and only caused incidents that ended up giving the magical girls an advantage.
In short, the anomalous being always created a gap between Paramas and the magical girls.
Compared to the guys I’ve met so far, the way he goes out of his way to get excessive attention was a bit irrational… Otherwise, his superpowers can’t be explained.
In particular, depending on their level of awakening, they may have more memories of their past lives than magical girls, and as they went through repeated reincarnations, they may have recalled information about alien beings such as Ogre.
“… Then you are the most dangerous being right now.”
Sherwood Kelly bit his lip nervously.
First of all, in order to continue the existing operation, countless recoveries are being killed by Smile Face.
Moreover, because he was a master of agitation, the pro-restoration public opinion that had been building up was little by little overturned.
Does this mean that he is a born superstar, encouraging people by creating a fan club or something?
No hero has ever had a performance like this.
If we leave him like this, considering the exponentially increasing number of fan club members and social influence, it would not be surprising if he runs for president in the future.
“Kidnap Jeong Hyeon-jeong.”
After thinking about it, Kelly said.
Jeong Hyeon-jeong was Ahn Byeong-guk’s wife.
‘Officially’, the wife of the first recovery person killed by Smile Face must know An Byeong-guk’s weaknesses and secrets, and I recently heard that she went to B.H.
Kang Ga-hyeon noticed something.
“Damn bitch!”
Although I was good at studying, I was not very sensitive to things like this, so I was looking at it funny, but I had no idea that they would try to stab me in the back like this.
But as time passed, Kelly realized that there was ‘someone’ behind her anomalous behavior.
The only thing that can be counterattacked is that Jeong Hyun-jeong must have learned a lot of information while she was at B.H.
“I will kill Jeong Hyeon-jeong and create Ogre No. 42.”
Kelly, who immediately felt better, laughed.
If Jeong Hyeon-jeong’s memories are melted into the body of the existing Ogre No. 41, a new Ogre No. 42 is born.
Kang Ga-hyeon expected that her Jeong Hyeon-jeong would tell her about her ‘disguised recovery person’, Ahn Byeong-guk, so she would have treated her with utmost respect and told her various information.
Just aim for that point.
Ogres scattered at her words.
“Oh, and you…Recognize the smiley face. “What is that guy’s identity and what is his purpose?”
Kelly said as he looked at a corner of the central control room, which was built like an ancient temple, bare but majestic.
“…”
He disappeared without a word.
***
‘Thank you for saving me.’
Jeong Hyeon-jeong, the wife of deceased recoverer Ahn Byeong-guk, had been withdrawn for a while, but she recently confessed that she was.
Those words gave Kang Ga-hyeon great comfort.
As expected, she was having a hard time.
In other words, I felt sorry for myself for falling into the stereotype that recovered people are unconditionally ‘good’.
“…”
Ga-Hyeon Kang was lost in those thoughts the whole time as she returned to her room located inside the B.H base.
After recognizing her biometric information and opening her door, she took off the gown she always wore as a uniform and took a shower.
Her body was cold, perhaps because there was usually a lot of blood flow to her head, but the warm water from the shower flowed from her head down her breasts, solar plexus, navel, pubis, inner thighs, and calves, making her feel good. This was good.
She tied a towel on her head and sat in front of the mirror, applying a simple pack and cream. She placed her laptop and tablet PC on a stand and watched videos from the Smile Face community and the Scarlet Fox channel, which recently started updating her videos. Played simultaneously.
[… The winner this time is Kim XX who lives in Gwangju! 이분께는 개별적으로 연락드렸구요. I will send you the earring goods as you requested!]
In the Scarlet Fox video, Song Bo-yoon, who has already become like an official notification, is broadcasting the event winnings with an overly bright and cheerful face.
Even though it was an event, he was a despicable guy who saw Smile Face about the ‘recoverer’ and, no, told him about it.
그 대가로 받은 것이 굿즈다.
“… It looks exactly like the one Scarlett uses.”
Is this also Smile Face’s black humor?
강가현은 태블릿을 조정했다.
The ‘earring set’ sold or given away as a prize by a fan club named ‘Smile Face’s Space’ was Magical Scarlett’s transformation tool.
물론 사람들은 모른다.
In the first place, it was unknown that her identity was Jang Hye-ri, an ordinary academy student, and if it became known that her transformation tool was an earring, wouldn’t everyone recognize her?
The core of magical girl activities is secrecy and hiding.
The moment this becomes known, a magical girl’s daily life will be destroyed, and mental collapse and exhaustion will soon follow, so they must keep it a secret or retire.
But, they are selling it as a product?
무슨 짓궂은 장난인지.
As a result, the more people who wear it, the more candidates there will be for Magical Scarlet, which may make it safer for those involved.
설마 그가 그랬을까?
…Why?
도무지 그의 의도를 알 수 없었다.
According to the information he usually shared, Smile Face knew quite a bit about magical girls.
If so, I would have known that and made it.
What is the intention?
그에게는 배후 세력이 있다.
“솔레나위도우… 당신은 누구지? Are you also a member of Smile Face? Or a daily wage?”
Kang Ga-hyun stopped the video and re-read the email that had arrived at his personal account on his laptop.
[Ahn Byeong-guk’s wife is being assaulted by Ahn Byeong-guk. Please find her and save her.]
Ga-Hyeon Kang’s personal account is not known to B.H. Employees, so it cannot be found out with most information.
In the first place, it would be impossible to mention Ahn Byeong-guk’s wife, who will die in a few days, just to make a prank on the general public.
이것은 일종의 예언이자 경고였다.
Based on the information he has, it can only be assumed that the person using the nickname ‘Solena Widow’ is Smile Face or one of his associates.
In the first place, the things Smile Face has done so far were not something that one person could have done.
이 모든 일이 우연히 겹칠 리는 없었다.
Ugh.
그녀의 폰이 진동했다.
이번엔 업무용이었다.
[회복자 전수 조사 결과.Pdf]
강가현은 사전에 정보원들에게 지시해둔 사항을 기억하고, 회복자들의 근황을 확인했다.
그리고 알게 됐다.
그저 ‘정화되었다’라고 생각한 회복자들의 사생활이 생각보다 심각하게 어지럽다는 걸.
물론 겉보기엔 몰랐다.
No matter how much of a recovery program it was, there was public suspicion, so B.H. Would actively check their condition after they returned to society.
However, they were not stupid enough to blatantly expose their misconduct in a prosecutor.
B.H’s professional informants disguised themselves and delved into their private lives, and eventually discovered many things.
They were too promiscuous to say they were ‘purified.’
It was different on the outside and inside.
Why didn’t I think of finding out like this?
Kang Ga-hyeon blamed herself.
For those who recovered, the ‘Bright Crystal’ did not work, or at least it did not heal the soul.
They were just released from brainwashing, and their original humanity remained the same.
“… Is it true that you have been released from brainwashing?”
Kang Ga-hyeon swallowed.
Now her thoughts were dangerous and anti-establishment for a responsible doctor at B.H.
If Director Jeon Seong-wook finds out, he will definitely be angry.
Such ‘moods’ are not important in science, but since B.H. Is also a political organization, we often had to pay attention to what was being said.
Based on the information given by Widow Solena, since the stabbing was revealed to be true, Ga-Hyeon Kang felt that she should also investigate the identity of the owner of the mail.
Perhaps it would be better to track this person rather than the unknown Smile Face.
Ga-Hyeon Kang, who was absentmindedly refreshing herself while pressing the back of her hand to her head, which kept showing signs of fever, discovered a new email from her newly arrived ‘Solena Widow’.
[Hyeonjeong Jeong is in danger. Protect her.]
