Episode 45 – Enlightenment (Correction)

“Are you… adopting me?”

“Yes, you are our child from now on.”

“……..”

When Maru realized that he was different from others.

Two young couples come to her and begin the adoption process.

“Sky blue eyes similar to mine~”

Kang Maru, who saw the innocent-looking woman with her hands put her hands together and muttered like that, thought to herself.

‘After all, you’re going to leave me soon.’

In fact, she had already been dismissed three times.

The reason is that she has an ominous and strange ability.

It was impossible for adults to see him always conversing with his shadow.

Of course, she was also aware that talking to the shadows caused problems.

However, the shadow was his only friend whom no one approached.

Talking to him made me feel at ease.

In times of danger, he came out to protect himself.

“I do not need it.”

That’s why Maru didn’t need new parents now.

Because I was sure to leave a fourth hole in my heart that won’t hurt anymore.

“I came today too~”

“Hello, Maruya.”

However, the young couple, who had thought they would quit by showing a brief interest, started to come to her as the day went by.

“Is it hot? Would you like some ice cream?”

“You should cut your hair.”

summer is over

“Are you watching the First Hero Great Man?”

“Maru also dreams of being a hero.”

Autumn is over.

“Isn’t it pretty chilly these days?”

“Come on, the scarf I made myself~”

Winter has passed.

“…why do you keep coming?”

So, on the first year since they came, Maru asked them a question.

“I’ve already chosen her as a daughter, but I can’t give up.”

“You and I have the same eye color.”

Only then did I realize

that there are good people in the world.

If there is a shadow, there is also a light.

“…Ma, Maruya? Why are you crying?”

“Oh.”

That day, Maru became Kang Maru.

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“Sister!”

“Why, again.”

A few years later, Kang Maru had a new family.

“I’m hungry!”

“Hmm. That’s right.”

He was a younger brother named Kang Ha-neul.

“But Mom is coming late today.”

“Hmm…”

The precious fruit of her mother and father, who were diagnosed with infertility, after a really long effort.

In fact, if you look at cartoons and movies, that was the beginning of misfortune, but surprisingly, the relationship between the brothers and sisters was good.

This is because Kang Maru’s parents were very kind people, and Kang Ha-neul was also a good little brother who listened to his sister.

“Would you like my sister to cook for me?”

“Yeah! Yeah!”

And he liked the food that Kang Maru prepared.

“What shall I make?”

“Kimchi stew!”

My favorite food was kimchi stew.

“How is it, is it delicious?”

“I like my sister!”

“No, kimchi stew is a little bit right.”

“I like my sister!”

“Pooh.”

For Kang Maru, these days were like a dream.

“Shall we eat and go to the playground?”

“Yes!”

A precious family that always smiles at you.

And the shadow that hasn’t come out since the creation of such a family, now the memory is clouding like a delusional friend of the past.

If the world she lived in wasn’t just a world where demons appeared, Maru’s family would probably have lived a normal life.

– Kieek…

“……!”

However, one day when everything was peaceful, the moment when the two brothers and sisters went to the playground after eating a small demonic beast.

“Hey, heaven!”

Everything started to change.

“Leave the sky alone!!”

It was because the moment Maru, who had been blocking the demonic beast trying to bite her younger brother, shouted that, her powers were awakened.

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“Maru-ya, you’re really amazing.”

“Look, you’re on the news. What a prodigy who stopped Justia for 10 seconds.

“…Si, what is a prodigy? Justia, who broke my orders with force, is a monster.”

After it was revealed that the ‘concept of command’ inhabited Maru’s body, her life began to change radically.

“By the way, is the admission to the Hero Department going well?”

“Ah, yes! I put the application documents in the middle school, but…”

“You will definitely become the best hero, Maruya.”

It is the number one job that children want when they are young, and the number one job they give up the most when they become adults. pro hero.

The job she had longed for was too easy to get under her overwhelming ability.

“…Sure.”

So, Maru at that time was overflowing with confidence.

“Who’s daughter am I?”

Of course no one pointed it out.

She was strong enough to be overflowing with confidence.

It was because the appearance of a girl who listened to the voices of Justia’s rivals in the world and had positive self-confidence, far from falling into arrogance or arrogance, couldn’t be seen as bad to people.

– Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!

“…under?”

That’s why, when a new type of demon suddenly appeared that day, breaking the window.

“Get down.”

She gave the order without hesitation.

“Stay still. Deadly. Quietly. Unwillingly. Obey. Submit. Accept.”

– Well, the extreme…

The order was successful.

“…done!”

Her special move, which she has been practicing on a regular basis, is to issue a powerful command by hitting a large number of keywords at once.

The special move that she had been researching for a long time created an unprecedented great event in which a single human succeeded in controlling the Witchbeast.

Of course, the monster that invaded was at the bottom of the danger level, so weak that even an ordinary adult woman could win somehow if they fought.

“I, Justia couldn’t…”

However, even if it was a beast of that level, he chose death, but no one obeyed humans.

As if it was manipulated by someone, an innate malice towards humans.

“I did it…”

It was the first human who conquered such malice to appear.

– Gugugugugu…

And at that very moment.

“uh?”

Her shadow began to run wild in all directions, and the demonic beasts controlled by her began to be sucked into it.

“Maruya? What are you doing…”

“Ma-beast?”

Before Kang Maru even tried to do anything, ‘it’ was born, a combination of shadow and demonic beasts.

– Grrr…

The seed of all tragedy, registered as the world’s first ‘off-the-field’ magical beast.

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“……..”

A few days after ‘the incident’.

“I’m sorry… Mom…”

In the darkened room, Kang Maru, whose eyes had lost its light, was standing on a chair.

“Dad…..”

The incident left my parents in a coma.

He poured all the money he had saved up to go to the academy for treatment, but the doctor said there was no hope of it happening any time soon.

Maybe even the day my life ends.

“sorry…”

Kang Maru couldn’t stand it at all.

The price for coveting the sweet dream of raising a happy family and living a normal life was too harsh.

If anything dangerous happens at the orphanage, a monster that jumps out against his will and injures his friends.

It was not a distorted memory of childhood.

As he once thought, he was a monster.

A being who should disappear from this world with those terrible eyes still lurking under the bed.

It was time to finish what the couple would have done if they had come one day later.

– Sreuk…

Gangmaru, with a rope around his neck, closed his eyes tightly.

On the topic of monsters, the memories of living as a human were emerging.

My parents, who showed me the blue sky while riding a wooden horse.

The cute little brother who ran around beside him and fell down and cried.

“…I don’t even know the subject, what I’m thinking.”

However, it was herself, an uninvited guest, who made it impossible to see that beautiful scene forever.

If you refused adoption to the end.

Maybe if he hadn’t thought of himself as a human, not a monster.

because they would live happily

“…Kek, Kheuk.”

After organizing his thoughts and kicking the chair, Kang Maru begins to writhe while twisting his body.

– Jureuk…

Blood was oozing from the wound on his arm caused by the failure of the first and second attempts.

“Ugh… Ugh…”

Why don’t you die sooner?

why am i still alive

Why did suicide keep failing?

“Sister aa!!!”

Kang Maru, who was drooping with such thoughts, suddenly began to hear a familiar voice along with the feeling of hearing her body.

“No, no, no, no, no, no, no…”

Kang Ha-neul, who came in after breaking the door, was hugging her, bleeding from her hands.

“… Ha, increase.”

After that, on the table, the kimchi stew, prepared with poor skills, was getting cold.

Perhaps, while waiting for him to come out until this late hour, he noticed something strange.

“Leave this…”

“If noona dies… Me, how am I supposed to live?”

Kang Ha-neul, who grabbed her weak body and laid it on the floor, hugged her with tears in her eyes.

“No… don’t die… don’t leave me alone…”

“Heaven.”

While trying to stroke Kang Ha-neul’s back, Kang Maru hesitated and started talking in a trembling voice.

“I’m… a monster.”

“No. My sister is my sister.”

“Mother and father… it’s like I made it that way… No, I made it that way.”

After saying that, Kang Maru closed her eyes tightly.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever kill you too…”

Hot tears were flowing from her eyes.

“So just stay still, okay?”

“……..”

“This is, yes. Because this is an order…”

“Then I’ll be the monster instead.”

But at that moment, Kang Ha-neul began to speak in a trembling voice.

“If I do this, will you come back to me?”

As Kang Ha-neul starts to shake the pendulum, which is a button attached to a thread pulled out of clothes, Maru’s mind begins to get hazy.

“I saw it on TV. They say this is hypnosis. Once you get this, even people who are sick get better.”

“Sky…”

In such a state, Maru buried his head in tears at his brother’s admirable words.

“The monster under the bed did that.”

“…What?”

“If you do as I told you while shaking it like this, my sister will return to normal.”

Then, she looks at the sky with a shocked expression.

“I’ll take your place.”

“Oh, no.”

“My sister, please be the best hero for me.”

“No!! Heaven, no…”

Soon after, she vaguely realized what he was trying to do, and began to twist her body with an astonished expression on her face.

– Farr…

However, the body, whose hypnotic effect had already spread throughout his body, did not even move.

“Kang Ha-neul!!! Don’t be stupid!!”

In such a situation, Kang Maru screams urgently.

“You’re still young. You’ll definitely regret it. So you’d better kill me and get rid of the monster! Don’t do such stupid things!!”

“…….”

“It’s an order!! Kill me, Kang Ha-neul!!”

However, Kang Ha-neul only shed tears and smiled.

“Why… Why don’t you kill me?”

“I knew my sister would, so I signed a contract with that strange grandfather who came to the scene.”

“what?”

“Even if I become a monster, I can’t kill anyone.”

After those words, Kang Maru’s spirit began to fade away.

“sister.”

In such a situation, Kang Ha-neul’s voice began to be heard softly in my ears.

“Your sister is not a monster.”

“……..”

“Hey, you’ve always been my sister.”

Even at the moment he lost his mind, he was digging into Kang Maru’s mind.

“So me too.”

“sky.”

“Forever my sister’s younger brother…”

“Heaven…”

The last scene she saw was a monster under the bed that had stretched out in her shadow, drawing arcs in her eyes and digging into the back of Kang Ha-neul.

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“…sky.”

After waking up again, Maru Kang was lying in the hospital room where he was hospitalized.

“Heaven.”

“Patient?”

“Heaven ah ah ah!!!”

Maru lay on the bed and muttered with a blank expression, then immediately shouted his name and got up from his seat.

“What the hell have I done so far. It’s ridiculous. This isn’t it.”

“there…”

“Gee, we need to meet right now. See you right now…”

Before long, she was about to step out of her mind.

“Stories…”

Soon, he turned his attention to the TV news that was coming out next to him.

“………”

And then, she hardens in that state.

[Breaking News: Class A villain Kang Ha-neul, confirmed dead]

Then, in his confused mind, the memories of the seminar came to mind, and Kang Maru’s legs began to tremble.

[The testimony that they saw it being transported by the beasts came out… The whereabouts of the corpse are unknown…]

Then, soon after, she sat down on the floor.

“Come here, please! The patient is in shock!”

Maru’s expression, holding her head, slowly begins to deteriorate.

“I’ve made you a monster for years.”

In that state, Kang Maru started muttering like that.

“That monster was me.”

The light disappeared from her eyes a few minutes later.

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