Chapter 24 – Episode 24. Star’s Oath (5)
Episode 24. Star’s Oath (5)
This cannot happen.
Hye-ri Jang lowered her head and bit her lip to hold back tears that were about to come out.
Still, something was stuck inside her, and she could barely maintain silence even after clenching her fists.
However, Kang Ga-hyeon spoke firmly.
“Give me the earrings.”
Her voice was like frost.
Although she was like her mother, she was a little more than 10 years older than her, and the gentle voice and smile that had suggested to her at her orphanage, ‘Why don’t you try becoming a magical girl to Jang Hye-ri?’ Were no longer there.
No, this would also be her mother’s role.
“If you did something wrong, you should be punished.”
Ga-Hyeon Kang added.
“Or do you think you didn’t do anything wrong?”
She seemed to have a mountain of things she wanted to say.
However, Jang Hye-ri kept her mouth shut.
She knows Kang Ga-hyun’s personality well.
If you say something back that should end in a single scolding, you get back several times, no, dozens of times that amount.
Of course, the punishment Jang Hye-ri received now was literally capital punishment, so it wasn’t like a scolding.
“Or should I take it myself?”
Ganga Hyun stretched out her hand.
Hye-ri Jang instinctively took a step back, trying to protect both of her earrings with both her hands.
Her pupils rolled from side to side.
After her full day at the hospital, her B.H rushed to her base and everyone was staring at her.
And straight away this happened.
It is embarrassing.
I am so ashamed and embarrassed that I want to die.
I’m not a kindergartener who did something wrong.
Their eyes didn’t say anything, but to Jang Hye-ri, it was like a whipping reprimand.
“Give it to me.”
Ganga Hyeon stretched out her hand again.
This time, Hye-ri Jang could not refuse.
Circular earrings of different sizes connected by a ring passed from her earlobe to Kang Ga-hyeon’s hand.
A magical girl’s transformation tool.
Just like Joo Yena’s necklace and Mayuri’s anklet, Jang Hye-ri’s transformation tool, which is a necklace, was taken away by the doctor.
Now Jang Hye-ri was nothing.
… All of this was because of Smile Face.
As she rested and thought for a full day at the B.H. Designated hospital, she reflected on the fact that she had made such a sudden move.
My emotions were so intense that I couldn’t understand it, and the only way to avenge the humiliation was to make an oath of stars.
Because of that, she acted assertively.
She had the sense to cast ‘Uriel’s Mirror’ on Smile Face to eavesdrop on her truth, and I think it was an appropriate counterpunch.
However, the words that came out of that frivolous man’s mouth were ridiculously shallow.
‘… Repeating the situation several times… We worked hard to capture you guys. You became my flesh slaves and were freed from the pain of being a magical girl. While you were with me, you seemed so happy that hearts appeared in your eyes. ‘That’s our relationship.’
A slave.
That was fate.
What kind of nonsense is this?
If you listen to such sexual harassment, you will start to doubt it, no matter how accurate the skill was.
Did it really work in the first place?
Looking at Smile Face’s supernatural powers, I don’t think he’s from Earth… What if he really is from another planet like magical girls?
Or what if you are the reincarnation of such a being?
… But he said that wasn’t it either.
He said he was an ‘outsider.’
It was something I could never understand.
Does he have the illusion that he is God?
He was not a squire but a dangerous psychopath.
After that, he revealed his true colors and threatened to kill even good citizens if they did not give him the Star Oath.
So what more can we do?
Hye-ri Jang, who had decided to sacrifice her youth for the peace and safety of the Earth and its citizens by fighting as an apostle of justice and as a magical girl, was enraged.
‘I’ll swear by that star!’
I don’t remember much.
The activation of the Star’s Oath was personal and instinctive, and was done through strong willpower rather than specific methods… Other than the fact that the area around my eyes became hot and my vision went black for a moment… I have no memory of it.
It seemed like the sky had darkened, but I was distracted by the blackout vision and the vibration of my trembling body.
…I admit it.
Hye-ri Jang was impatient and dogmatic.
If Blois and Solena had not properly intervened, and if Smile Face had not escaped, the Star’s Oath would have been activated until the end.
But doesn’t everyone make mistakes?
In any case, the star’s oath was not activated, so Smile Face was in vain.
On the contrary, it made me feel discouraged, so wasn’t that a good thing?
… But Kang Ga-hyun’s expression was scary.
To the extent that it was uncharacteristic of her, she ignored Jang Hye-ri’s words, which were trying to move on, and spoke stubbornly.
“I’m on probation from today. There is no need to enter the B.H base. “We will temporarily revoke your pass.”
“Bah, doctor!”
Jang Hye-ri’s desperate scream resonated in her heart.
However, Kang Ga-hyeon coldly confirmed it again.
“Don’t mention anything related to magical girl activities to Yena or Yuri until I call you. “She told me not to answer to them either, so don’t do anything nonsense.”
And she was pushed out of the base.
Of course, she wasn’t dragged from her left or right… She was a magical girl who couldn’t transform, and her shock at having her transformation tool taken away caused her to lose half of her soul.
After she had left her base at a leisurely pace, she felt a sense of repulsion, thinking that she could not go back like this. However, she went back the way she came, but the tightly closed door did not open.
Kang Ga-hyeon really kicked her out.
***
Temporarily stripped of her magical girl status, she lost any means of connecting with her base.
During her break, Yena Joo took away her personal phone with an apologetic look on her face, saying it was the doctor’s order.
Jang Hye-ri desperately tried to keep it, but she was forced to give in to her words, telling her that continuing to refuse would only prolong her probation.
There was a separate phone for personal use.
But her wit and her sense of separation from her Buddhahood, which protects humanity, pushed her into an abyss.
Now she is nothing.
She is just an ordinary orphan girl.
“… Damn smiley face. What have you done to me? “That guy must have done something.”
As time passed, she didn’t understand why she had activated her Star Oath so recklessly, and her hostility was directed at Smile Face.
At the same time, her worst feelings about not being able to perform as a magical girl made her obsessed with him.
For example, like Song Bo-yoon in the past, she subscribed to the ‘Scarlet Fox’ channel and also joined the ridiculous ‘Smile Face’s Space’ site.
There was no guilt.
There was at first, but she was a civilian for a while anyway, and even though she said she was a magical girl to begin with, it’s not a bad idea to investigate as a way to get to know your enemies.
Even during recess, eating alone at lunch, and leaving school, she concentrated intently on her phone.
She had no friends anyway.
Perhaps it was some kind of rebelliousness, or perhaps it was the absence of her rival Song Bo-yoon, but she had little interest in the classes she usually focused on.
The only thing on her mind was a smiley face.
If she reported her plan to catch that light-behaving beggar man, Kang Ga-hyeon would also forgive her.
‘Because it was all for justice!’
Kang Ga-hyun will appreciate Jang Hye-ri’s passion, pat her head, and hug her, just like she always has.
She will be forgiven!
However, no matter how many times I looked at the community and videos, I couldn’t think of a way to catch that ghost-like man.
‘He’s a meticulous guy.’
Is this a Machiavellian mystical strategy?
In the video, Smile Face pretended to be cheerful and armed with wit and jokes, but in reality he did not write any nonsense in the community.
Since there were middle managers and operators, there was no need for him to step forward, but that in itself was a denial of the ‘Smile Face interested person’ theory.
If he was a man who really wanted attention, he would have tried to confirm his presence by leaving messages every day and receiving support from his supporters.
‘Then it’s all an act?’
To what extent is this a deception?
Perhaps he also put up a mental barrier in front of Jang Hye-ri and Magical Scarlet’s ‘Uriel’s Mirror’.
I don’t know the principle.
Jang Hye-ri, the caster of the skill, felt that her skill had worked properly, and if that were the case, she knew that no possessor of strong mental power would be able to avoid confessing her truth.
‘I am an outsider.’
Hyeri Jang was agitated.
Now that he has separated from B.H. And is leading a life that seems as boring and meaningless as an outer planet… He continues to interpret Smile Face’s words.
An outsider.
So what the heck is that?
His presence grew bigger and bigger in her mind, and soon, his body swelled… Until he grew to a large size, overlooking the Earth.
‘It’s a delusion, a delusion…’
Hyeri Jang shook her head.
Her intense scarlet hair was scattered.
“Ha…”
A boy, who must have been suspicious of her behavior, stared at her, blushed, and lowered her head.
“I’m going crazy like this.”
She ruffled her hair.
