Transformation or Death - Transformation or Death chapter 268

268 – Storm (7)

When we think of a date, we often think of an intimate moment between lovers.

Date, like the word meaning date, is a happy time when you meet someone you like, get excited about things like what to wear and what to do before you meet, and immerse yourself in the lingering feelings even after you meet and break up.

It should have been that way.

“hey.”

“…sorry.”

It may be rude to the other person, but Han Jaejoong wasn’t looking forward to today’s date.

“Really, really, I have nothing to say….”

As she gently lowered her head, the sparkling sunlight touched her hair and made it shine silver. It seemed as if luxurious silk was fluttering.

In reality, what she wore was silk.

Even though it was a hot day with the sun shining like a spear blade, she was wearing an expensive-looking wave-patterned kimono.

That old-fashioned, elegant outfit made her beauty shine even more.

It is elegant yet still has a glamorous feel to it. Its beauty stood out among numerous jewels.

“No, there’s no need to be so polite, Luna.”

“Mi, Mitsuki is fine, benefactor…”

Mitsuki. As Silver Luna, a magical girl whose fame extends beyond Japan and around the world.

She was Han Jaejoong’s date today.

The reason why I went on a date with a girl I had little acquaintance with is simple. Because she came forward and proposed first.

After withdrawing from the sea, we arrived at the Japanese Magical Girl Headquarters and rested. It was a short rest before headquarters provided accommodation.

Han Jae-joong, tired from the long journey and battle, solved the problem with his colleagues.

It mainly talked about Jason’s viciousness and his lament about how to deal with it. In a word, he was an insult. At the time, there was a competition to see who could crush those crazy pirate b*stards in a rougher and more provocative way.

Mitsuki secretly approached Han Jae-joong, who had gone out to get a drink from the vending machine. Her face turned red and she was sweating to the point that it made the viewer anxious. She conveyed her request in an earnest manner along with her letterhead.

He wanted to repay the favor of bringing back his family, so he asked that he be given that opportunity.

-‘Can you give me one day to treat my benefactor…?’

-‘If it’s a treat….’

-‘Now that my benefactor has traveled to this faraway land, I would like to give you a gift. I’m not bragging, but there are many rare and expensive items in this land. All I have is this humble body and the money I earned with that miserable body… I want to repay the favor in this way.’

gift. Material reward or the most standard reward.

It may seem secular, but for most people, secular values ​​are the most effective, so her idea was not a bad idea.

-‘Originally, I would have to think about it myself. It would be rude of me to give my benefactor a gift that goes against his tastes, so I would like you to go around the village with me and choose something you like. Can this lowly woman receive the honor of serving her benefactor for a day…?

But honestly, it was burdensome.

With that strangely formal tone of speech, it was clear that the gift should only be something very expensive and not something ordinary.

I didn’t mean to be thanked like this. Of course, restoring the family relationship that was lost to the scorpion’s venom was something that everyone could be grateful for.

But as I said before, that was just a reward for the hard work she had shown so far. In fact, she did not achieve it alone, but was the result of many other people’s struggles. If you’re going to express your gratitude to one person, it’s right to say it to Jo Ayun.

Sometimes, people’s emotional judgments take precedence over their rational judgments. Mitsuki was like that now.

No matter how much Han Jaejoong persuaded her, it was clear that her opinion would remain firm. No matter what she says, she will be disappointed because she will assume that you just rejected her own offer for no reason.

In any case, it is obvious that a person with such a strong reputation will ask for this kind of favor again someday.

It would be inconvenient for both her and himself if he left her in debt for no reason, so Han Jaejoong decided that it would be better to take this opportunity to grant her request.

-‘Yes, I like it.’

Therefore, Han Jaejoong agreed to her request.

-‘Really?!’

-‘yes.’

-‘Well, then, tomorrow’s date… I hope you’ll take care of me…!’

-‘yes?’

Mitsuki quickly turned around and ran away. He couldn’t ask why the opportunity to return the favor turned into a date.

I agreed to get rid of the debt in my heart, but in turn, I ended up creating a meeting that would create debt in my heart.

However, I couldn’t cancel what I had already promised, and even if I tried to cancel, I couldn’t tell the story because I didn’t know their contact information.

Eventually, time passed and the promised time arrived, and Han Jaejoong had no choice but to go to the place written on the letter.

And as soon as Han Jaejoong arrived at the meeting place, he couldn’t help but be taken aback. It wasn’t just because of Mitsuki wearing a kimono.

When we think of dating, we usually think of one-on-one interactions. If you think about it, it’s natural. Someone else’s intrusion into a loving relationship would be unpleasant.

Unless you specifically plan a double date or something like that, most of the time it means meeting just the two of you.

Jaejoong Han also thought so.

“No, you have nothing to be sorry about. However… I didn’t hear that you guys were there…”

“Oh, was it a disturbance because we were there?”

“Are we also in the same position of receiving grace?”

However, Mitsuki had her two older sisters around her.

Unlike Mitsuki, who wore traditional clothes, the two sisters’ fashion was quite modern and esoteric.

One of them was wearing a fashion called mine-style, with lots of ribbons and frills, and the other was wearing a very revealing and flashy fashion, commonly called gyaru.

Although their makeup and fashion were different, it was easy to tell them apart, but their faces themselves were very similar.

“Hello, nice to meet you. “My name is Mika.”

A woman dressed as a minesweeper lowered her mask and spoke.

“This isn’t our first time, right? Even though we met as a monster and a magical girl. It is called Yellow Castor, Nozomi. Please take care of me~!”

The gyaru woman said, making a V shape with her nail polish to make her shiny nails stand out.

These two women were Mitsuki’s older sisters, Navy Polox and Yellow Castor.

“…sorry. “My sisters never listened to me…”

“You are one of them. I heard a lot of stories. “Oh my, you’re even more handsome than in the picture.”

“Wow, your forearms are thick. “I guess at least one woman would be interested?”

“What are you doing?!”

Mitsuki was horrified as she saw her two older sisters starting to caress Han Jaejoong’s face and forearms.

“huh? Why are you doing this, princess? You are our benefactor, right? “You have to treat them properly.”

“That’s right, that’s right, it’s a process to get to know your benefactor before we treat you in earnest!”

The faces of the sisters who said that looked exactly like each other. I heard that they were born the same year, but it was clear that someone who didn’t know them would think they were twins.

Han Jaejoong felt dizzy as two identical faces chattered on either side of him.

[Oh Jaejoong, are you surrounded by women? I hope~]

Add to that Spica’s ridicule, and my energy evaporated even faster than it already was.

“If you keep calling me benefactor, it will be burdensome, so I’ll just call you Han-gun for convenience. Are you okay? Oh my, there are dark circles around your eyes… Didn’t you sleep well last night? “Are you tired?”

“Then shall we go to the hotel first? Hahaha, just kidding! Did you see her surprised expression? “You’re really cute~!”

“Wait, you’re so rude. Still, I agree that it’s cute. You look like a sheepish guy, so you have mugwort veins? “It’s definitely something our princess will fall in love with…”

“S-Stop! Stop touching me! “I’m sorry, Eun-in. Our sisters are always like this… Well, that’s….”

Mitsuki slowly began to kneel. Then, he politely folded his hands and bowed his head, making a deep bow in Korea and a posture called ‘dogeza’ in Japan, and expressed his apology through his whole body.

“I’m so sorry…! Boo, please forgive me… Wow, if you want, I will open my stomach to express this feeling…!!”

The eyes of those around them who saw the confusing scene were focused on them. The loud voices and the whispering crowd, everything made Han Jaejoong’s head pound.

‘Have these b*stards come out to repay the favor with revenge?’

They say Japanese kids are shady, and they’re trying to kill me socially using the excuse of treating me poorly. Is this also diplomatic skill? Killing another country’s power?

Han Jaejoong had serious doubts.

**

‘What is Jaejoong doing right now?’

Baek Ah-hee thought blankly for a moment.

A fireball flew before her eyes.

“Ouch!”

puck! Baek Ah-hee, who was hit by a fireball, fell backwards. It was hot, but not hot. She only had a slight shock, as if she had been hit by a rubber ball, but there were no injuries such as burns.

Detailed horsepower control that leaves you amazed.

It may seem simple, but there was a technique within it that would make anyone who uses magic stand out. Each fireball that seemed to be roughly made contained the essence of magic control. There was no magic power wasted in vain.

The master of that mysterious skill is Magenta Helios.

She is the oldest magical girl in existence, and a veteran of veterans who survived the first generation of the turbulent monster era.

“Concentrate.”

“yes….”

At her scolding, Baek Ah-hee smiled shyly and stood up.

“You were the one who asked me to become better at mana control. “I know you’re sleepy because you had a lot of work to do yesterday, but for now, just concentrate.”

“All right!”

Baek Ah-hee answered bravely and quickly stood up at attention.

As Helios said, it was Baek A-hee himself who suggested training to her.

I didn’t want to lose focus, even for the sake of Helios, who had been training since early in the morning.

‘Because I have to become stronger…!’

Baek Ah-hee’s immediate task is to reproduce the special moves performed in Libra’s fight. The cause of the failure was the instability of horsepower control.

No matter where you look in the world, there will be no one who is as good at controlling magic as Helios.

Being taught by such a woman is a very precious opportunity.

Although it is only a short period of time, less than a few days, you should learn as much as possible in that time.

“Well, if you come to your senses, it’s okay.”

Helios took his eyes off Baek Ah-hee and looked to the side.

“Are you okay?”

At the end of that gaze was Yun Seol-hwa. She, who had been standing fine until just moments before, was breathing heavily.

“Yes… it’s okay…”

“Have you tried using time stop?”

“yes.”

“How many seconds did it increase?”

“3 seconds…about.”

Yun Seol-hwa also came here with the same mindset as Baek A-hee.

I didn’t want to become complacent just because I was reasonably strong. To become Han Jaejoong’s hunting dog, it was not yet enough to become a monster that would bite any enemy. I wanted to become a monster that could literally defeat anything.

There were still drawbacks to that.

What immediately comes to mind is the duration and delay of time stop.

The freeze, which consumes a large amount of mana and stamina, has a short duration and has the fatal disadvantage of having to recover mana and stamina for a while before using it again.

Seolhwa Yoon participated in this event to learn from Helios how to use magical power efficiently and overcome his shortcomings.

‘I’m sorry Jaejoong. I know that a dog shouldn’t leave its owner’s side, but please forgive me especially this time. I’ll do better later.’

In fact, Han Jae-joong didn’t care at all, but Yoon Seol-hwa prayed for Han Jae-joong’s forgiveness in her heart. In the imagination, an angry Han Jae-joong was holding his whip in his hand to educate the misbehaving dog.

‘Jaejoong, you can’t do that….’

[Is the Guardian crazy?]

This feeling of your lower abdomen tightening must be a feeling of guilt.

Seolhwa Yoon erased Han Jaejoong from her imagination and focused on Helios again. She was still quietly looking at Yun Seol-hwa with a blank expression, not sure what she was thinking.

“It’s increased quite a bit?”

“no. “It’s still not enough.”

“It’s good to have a desire to improve. However, that technology cannot provide good fuel efficiency in the first place. Even if you had the same power, you wouldn’t be able to use it if you didn’t have an incredibly large amount of magical power. Even if improvements are made, there are no noticeable results….”

“Was there anything that needed to be fixed?”

Even if there are no noticeable results, there is no reason not to do it. There is no need to hesitate about becoming better. Yun Seol-hwa spoke sternly, as if making such a claim.

Helios smiled and nodded. People with passion are always liked.

“To put it bluntly… the loss in the process of compressing and releasing magical power seems too great. “Can’t you fix the mechanism a little bit?”

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“Then how about this method? for example….”

They spent several minutes seriously exchanging feedback and improvements.

Baek Ah-hee looked at the scene enviously.

A person much stronger than you is here, sparing no effort to become stronger. Gradually, the difference would widen.

‘…i envy you.’

I was so envious that I became anxious and even felt a little bit of hate.

Isn’t it too much to be greedy about a subject that you already have? You had a relationship with Han Jaejoong, both as a childhood friend and as a fiancé. Isn’t it okay to make some concessions in the field of magical girls?

How strong do you want to become? Do you really want to become the strongest in the world? This is absurd. It must be clear that having more people means something like that.

A sound of wind came from between Baek Ah-hee’s lips. The sound, which was either a sigh or a laugh, was her own sense of self-destruction.

‘…I’m really ugly.’

Baek Ah-hee knew her jealousy.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion that tries to make up for one’s own shortcomings by belittling the achievements of others.

Training time passed quickly.

While Yoon Seol-hwa gradually grew, Baek A-hee remained stagnant.

Gradually, his jealousy toward Yun Seol-hwa became stronger.

When it was time for a break, Baek Ah-hee went to a far corner and sipped tea from a plastic bottle and scolded herself.

‘I’m such an idiot.’

The stronger the jealousy, the stronger the sense of inferiority and self-destruction. The more I became aware of myself, the more I became jealous of others.

It was miserable.

‘Heroes shouldn’t belittle others. You can’t hate me. What should I do if the being who brings happiness hates my colleagues? You can never become strong with that kind of attitude.’

At that moment, Yun Seol-hwa suddenly stood up.

“This crazy woman dares Jaejoong….”

There was a smartphone in her hand. Helios had handed over his phone.

They asked Helios if there was a place in Japan that they could go on a date with, so Helios started searching on the internet, a place he doesn’t normally use, to see what’s trending in Japan these days, and one word caught their eye.

A controversial topic posted on real-time trends on Japanese SNS.

Silver Luna Love.

When I clicked on that letter, countless posts came pouring out.

The very top in the rain of countless posts. The decisive photo that created this topic was seen.

It looked like someone had taken a voyeur’s photo of Silver Luna and Han Jaejoong together.

“It’s a lie… It’s a lie… Jaejoong can’t be like this…”

Yun Seol-hwa was shaking, pouring out wet and sticky emotions. No matter who saw it, it was jealousy.

Yoon Seol-hwa poured out her jealousy so sincerely that Baek A-hee, who had hated jealousy until just now, felt embarrassed.

‘…My sister is an exception.’

Baek Ah-hee looked away.

Then, out of curiosity, she searched the Internet and found herself feeling similarly jealous.

I didn’t feel any sense of shame.

Because this was Han Jaejoong’s fault.