Chapter 49 – Episode 49. Smile Face Ruined Me (6)
Episode 49 Smile Face Ruined Me (6)
‘I own the smiley face.’
That was Jang Hye-ri’s last voice.
For a moment, Yena Joo felt disappointed by her cold voice, but her heart tightened due to her nervousness.
Is that obsession normal?
When the trio originally got together, Jang Hye-ri had repeatedly said ‘as the leader’ that Smile Face would become a villain that would surpass Paramas.
However, when she was controlled by Kang Ga-hyeon and B.H., She was at least self-reliant, but now she is going on a rampage.
If she didn’t have a transformation tool she wouldn’t have cared anyway, but she ‘became’ a magical girl.
Without even a transformation tool!
Smile Face’s ‘brainwashing’ ability came to mind.
I thought Kang Ga-hyeon’s guess was unlikely because it relied too much on Song Bo-yoon’s words, but if it was the doctor’s prediction, it wouldn’t have been without basis.
Joo Yena lost her confidence.
Although she is not as good as Jang Hye-ri or Kang Ga-hyeon, she was secretly thinking of her smiley face as her enemy and was building a hypothesis, but she fell apart.
‘I am like that, well.’
Joo Yena thought in despair.
She has a good personality, her smiling face is so pretty that it makes me happy just looking at her, I’ve heard a lot of compliments about her, but I’ve never heard that she has good hair.
Not to mention Kang Ga-hyun, Jang Hye-ri is one of the most gifted students in the academy, so the smiley face they all have in common is probably a real villain.
“…”
After finishing her phone call, Yena Joo went into her bed with her gloomy face and pulled the blanket up to her chin.
A strange error occurred.
It is true that she is not as good as the two, but she also has the responsibility of a proper magical girl.
‘Male hero.’
Yena Joo was strangely fascinated by it.
To be precise, the clues that had been floating around in other areas were stacked up exactly in front of her.
This was what Song Bo-yoon told me.
In context, Song Bo-yoon thought there was a high possibility that ‘Solena Widow’ was a male hero, but the more he thought about it, the more it overlapped with Smile Face.
Reason?
I don’t know about that.
It’s just a intuition.
What if the smile face is ‘Solena Widow’?
Simply calling it ‘intuition’ is not enough, but for magical girls, this is often accurate.
As a descendant of the Bright Star who protects the entire universe, the standards of right and wrong recorded in the Akashic Records sometimes take precedence over her judgment.
This was the same for previous magical girls.
This doesn’t always work, but it’s helpful to follow when you’re cornered, and was actually taught during basic magical girl training.
‘When in doubt, follow your intuition.’
A voice suddenly appeared.
Yena Joo’s feelings appeared before her eyes when she was a middle school student when her breast size was only about a B cup.
When her father, a truck driver, and her mother, who was pregnant at the time, were about to be kicked out due to a rental fraud, Kang Ga-hyeon reached out to them.
Then the scene changes.
Yena Joo was recognized for her qualities as a ‘magical girl’ and she was enrolled in the Magical Girl Training Institute established by B.H.
Even if it is a training institution, only a very small number of people who will become magical girls are selected at the preliminary stage.
There she met Ma Yu-ri and Jang Hye-ri.
The scene changes again.
‘When in doubt, follow your intuition.’
The words ring in my ears again.
The person whose voice is…
It was Sentai Magical Solena.
Naturally, Magical Scarlet, Solena, and Blois were taught by the previous generation to the next generation, unless it was an unavoidable situation (when a magical girl was killed in action, retired in disgrace, or was in a situation where communication was impossible).
Yena Joo received teachings from her ‘senior’.
I fell asleep.
“…”
At that time, the senior was over 30 years old.
Because the ‘talent’ of magical girls who usually appear at intervals of several years did not appear at that time, the squadron played magical girls until their thirties.
Because the age difference between her and her was well over 10 years, it felt awkward to even call her ‘sister.’
Plus, it’s a unique feeling of languor.
Joo Yena could even read the slightly annoyed looks in the eyes of the three women she had worked with as magical girls for nearly 15 years.
Because her relationship was so difficult, she couldn’t ask much because she was watching, but she remembered that one thing.
It means to follow your intuition.
Perhaps Jang Hye-ri is also following suit.
Looking at Hye-ri Jang’s words and actions to her Smiling Face, she was not brainwashed by him.
She’s just following her own intuition.
So why?
…Jena Joo came up with her own hypothesis.
Smile Face may be a hero who has not yet awakened.
She had once heard in pre-education that ‘heroes’ were not necessarily on the ‘side’ of magical girls.
In short, they may emerge as villains and only realize their role right before they die.
They may oppose the magical girl and become a burden, but in the end, they are helpful.
That was the fate of the ‘hero’.
Heroes and magical girls were the descendants of Bright Star, so it was natural.
Isn’t that also the case with Smile Face?
If his ‘claim’ that the restorer was a hindrance to magical girls, B.H., And Earth’s civilization was correct, then he was playing the role of a hero.
Without even realizing it.
He didn’t harm magical girls.
Although he aroused hatred by using his signature sly smile and openly saying things that were no different from sexual harassment, in the end, those were just words.
What if it’s evil?
As a result, what if all of those evil acts are working in a way that benefits magical girls?
Perhaps he exists to inform the magical girl of the knowledge he learned from a source he does not know, such as the characteristics of a combatant called ‘Ogre’ of Paramas and a way to completely destroy them.
From her childhood, when she was a nosy child who never thought she would become a magical girl, she used to love ‘heroes’ while watching anime, etc.
She is a character who can sometimes be a nuisance, but the hero character who protects magical girls from afar and helps them was her first love as a child.
Could it have been a smiley face?
Although Joo Yena likes a masculine, dependable, and considerate man, she is also a little curious about his cute face and thin body.
…What am I thinking?
Joo Yena smiled, confident that everything was in order before she completely fell into sleep.
Just as Hye-ri Jang did, this time she followed her own intuition and tried to overcome the confusing and dizzying situation she has been in since the appearance of her smiley face.
There’s no need to follow her around forever, she says she is-
***
The next day, when she woke up, most of the thoughts she had had during her trance were forgotten from Joo Yena’s mind.
However, she was almost certain that Smiling Face was Solena Widow, and that she might be a male hero who secretly helped the magical girl.
Of course, I can’t say this to the doctor.
I will do it someday, but after gathering evidence.
Because she felt that the current two-person system of magical girls lacked the power to stand against Paramas, Yena Joo wanted to clear Jang Hye-ri’s name as soon as possible.
Even if she refuses.
If it is proven that Smile Face is not just a villain, she will lessen her suspicions of Jang Hye-ri, who became involved with him.
‘I own the smiley face.’
Jang Hye-ri’s sharp voice.
It may be an obsession, but she has always had a tendency to carry heavy burdens alone.
“… I’ll help you this time. “Hye-ri.”
After eating her meal and changing her clothes, Juyena barely said a word to her friends until noon that day.
She found out about it through Bang Yu-jin.
“Yena, what’s going on?”
“… Huh?”
Zhou Yena, who had been resting her chin on her desk, raised her head.
She sat down with her butt on her desk, exposing her thighs to Eugene slightly defenseless.
In Yena Joo’s eyes, she saw Eugene Bang’s earrings sparkling in the light coming through her window.
The symbol of Magical Scarlet.
Is it because Smile Face bothered to make it into goods and sell it to help magical girls camouflage themselves?
If he knew exactly what the transformation tool was in the first place, he could have cornered the magical girls himself.
Or, you could use it as an excuse to threaten him into saying the ‘star oath’ that he so desperately wants.
The reason I didn’t go that far is as expected –
“Yena!”
“… Oh, I’m sorry.”
“What are you thinking like that? “What was yesterday?”
“Ah…”
Since I couldn’t say I saw Smile Face and Magical Scarlet fight, I made up an excuse.
“Hmm, really?”
Because Joo Yena did not keep secrets from her family or her friends and did not lie, Bang Yu-jin fell for her even though he seemed undesirable.
I never thought Joo Yena would lie.
Yena Joo was already hiding her biggest secret from her friends: that she was a magical girl.
Joo Yena felt a little guilty.
In between her classes, I looked at Hye-ri Jang, but she seemed determined and didn’t even make eye contact with Yena Joo.
But at first glance, she was always nervously looking at her phone, watching smiley face videos.
Scarlet Fox.
It was YouTube, which he presumed to be running.
In addition, the notebook was filled with drawings of him and his own SD-sized characters, and symbols that appeared to be ‘coping strategies’ were written in a chaotic manner.
“…”
That day, she left school early.
After receiving her probation, Jang Hye-ri seemed to be trying to adapt to her normal academy life by starting to do palm work, starting SNS, and chatting with her friends, but she seemed to have given up on it. Did.
Well, since she can transform without a transformation tool, she no longer needs to watch out for B.H.
Joo Yena was most conflicted about that.
What happened between the two?
I’m not sure, but perhaps this was due to some kind of ‘synergy’ between the male hero and the magical girl.
[There was definitely something like that.]
A senior I contacted after a long time spoke leisurely.
Apparently, after retiring from being a magical girl, senior Solena started a family with a man and had some free time.
Joo Yena also drew something like that.
If she were to properly retire as a magical girl, she would be 24, and she might continue working at B.H, but she would have a normal corporate life before getting married and having children.
… I heard that senior Solena is enjoying that life.
Even though she was over 30 and looking for a normal life, she somehow met her boyfriend and started dating.
Magical girls are prohibited from dating.
Therefore, this means that the three previous magical girls were not able to date men until they were thirty.
I’ve never even kissed, let alone had sex.
It may be unfair that she was beautiful at an age when she was a woman, but Solena senior thought that she would be happy because she married the man who gave her her first time.
Joo Yena didn’t think it would be that bad either.
[Hero, in our case, we died quickly, but it definitely helped. When I was with that person, an unknown power boiled over.]
Usually, male heroes share a relationship with magical girls, but in the previous case, that was a little twisted.
This is because he died to save the three previous magical girls who were barely over 20 years old.
As the thought occurred to her, Senior Solena’s voice became a little gloomy, even though it was a long time ago.
[If he had stayed alive, he would have been better off. Because we all liked that person. A few years ago, right before retirement, if it had been our skills, he wouldn’t have died in vain like that, but what can we do?]
Solena senior let out a sad smile.
[Isn’t that all fate?]
She added.
[It’s a complicated fate that has been intertwined since her past life.]
