Transformation or Death - Transformation or Death chapter 296

296 – Snake’s Head (5)

Miracles bring hope.

Even if it is said to be nothing more than a coincidence, it doesn’t matter.

Be it luck or whatever, a miracle happened here.

Miracles bring hope.

Hope makes us reject death and live life.

Jo Ayun, who was trembling at death, is not here.

Now she has a sense of duty to protect Han Jae-joong and a greed to make him hers.

I was given another chance. So, you should use it.

“Let’s slaughter that damn snake b*stard….”

Jo Ayun, who was trying to step forward with hope, stumbled.

“Oh.”

Something was strange.

Even standing up was too much strength. Her breathing was heavy, her shoulders were constantly rising and falling, and her legs were shaking. A butterfly he was holding fell between his hands. My grip strength was also weak.

“…no way.”

There was nothing to think about.

It’s a depletion of magical power.

I started experiencing the same symptoms that I experienced at least once while engaging in magical girl activities.

Why? Jo Ayun was puzzled. What on earth caused the depletion of mana?

Next to him is Ara. The location is on the rooftop of the Magical Girl Headquarters. This was probably the time when the Hydra monster first appeared in the city.

From what I remember, I had never used enough magic to deplete mana at that point. But now this body is experiencing symptoms of magical power depletion.

There is only one cause that immediately comes to mind.

‘…because of regression?’

Still, it’s strange. It was my future self who used magic. This is not the body at this time. Why are we receiving that backlash at this point?

‘I hope the path to the future continues….’

The magic to control time was a great magic that even Yun Seol-hwa, who controlled the supernova, found difficult. Even Supernova Magical Girls, who boast different levels of magical power, are at that level. Needless to say, Jo Ayun.

It seems that paying at just one point was not enough.

The magic power used as a price for magic was collected from both the person before and after the return.

“Fuck, if I do this, I’m completely out of town….”

It was difficult to even move my body right now, so of course I had no time to use magic. Of course, as it is depletion, it will recover over time.

That was the problem.

There was no time.

There is no snake’s shadow in the sky. Not before the snake appears. If that were the case, the starlight wouldn’t be flowing through Ara’s body as it was during the war. That’s proof that the entire body of the snake was captured by shooting an arrow into the sky.

Perhaps now is the time when all the snake heads have gone to Japan and surrounded Han Jaejoong. That was when Han Jae-joong posed as bait, saying he would get information about the snake.

‘If this continues, my brother will become the target of the snake’s surprise attack again….’

Jo Ayun looked at the sky. Tears flowed as I remembered the last scene before he lost his eyesight.

I frowned because the sunlight felt stinging for the first time in a long time. Now I’m getting chills. You do it all. Write. Jo Ayun gritted her teeth, swallowing the drool flowing between her trembling lips. Curling his body, he soothed the pain for a moment.

“Why, why are you doing that…? “Where are you hurt?”

Ara was worried and afraid. She suddenly started crying and screaming, making a fuss and even collapsing. For her part, she couldn’t help but feel embarrassed.

“…are you okay.”

Jo Ayun shook her head and responded to Ara’s concerns.

Of course it was okay. It had to be okay. It’s the best opportunity I’ve ever had. It’s life gained again. I couldn’t send it away without any meaning.

‘…I can’t avoid my brother becoming the target of a snake’s surprise attack anyway. In order to defeat the snake, you ultimately have to fight. In the process, the snake will also notice my brother’s power.’

It is only a matter of time before the snake discovers its power. After thinking that it is an opponent that it cannot defeat head-on, the snake will change its course with a surprise attack, disappear and not appear until the transformation is released.

And the fight has already begun…

“We have to see the end this time.”

Jo Ayun made up her mind. She manipulated the belt. She activated the communication function. She wanted to tell Han Jaejoong everything she saw.

Crackling. Cheezy. But no contact was made. A painful noise was heard and it bothered my ears. It is not that the other party is rejecting communication, but the communication itself is not reaching.

“Fuck, it’s really not working out….”

I don’t know if it was the snake’s own ability, or an error that occurred due to time crossing, or an error in Han Jaejoong’s belt, but I couldn’t waste more time on communication.

We were still trying to communicate, but other things had to be taken care of.

It was about securing manpower.

“Araya.”

“Uh, uhh… Doesn’t it feel friendly to you to call me that?”

“Where is Ahee?”

Han Jae-joong’s firepower alone may not be enough to deal with the large monster. If Han Jaejoong tries to attack from the inside, you can try to attack from the outside.

Red Vega, who uses expansion and explosion as his strengths, was the most suitable character.

“Why is Red Vega suddenly… Should I look for it?”

“I hope so. One o’clock is urgent. As soon as possible. “I don’t have time!”

At Jo A-yoon’s urging, Ara looked embarrassed but found Baek A-hee’s location.

“Well, that’s right. We’ll need her strength to take down that snake. “Okay, if you take it down, that’s fine with me.”

Red Vega was dispatched to investigate an abnormal phenomenon occurring above the city. Finding someone above the vast expanse was an easy task for Orange Altair.

In less than a minute, she detected Red Vega’s location.

After hearing the news, Jo Ayun did not hesitate. He threw a butterfly towards that location and moved towards his Red Vega.

Squeezing out what little magical power he had, he raced through the sky. The feeling of the wind passing through my ears is cool.

I remembered a time in the past when I knew the world only through the wind passing through my ears without my eyes. It’s not a memory old enough to recall. Because it was like that right before.

But the wind was different then and now. Now, instead of just being swayed by the wind, I was flying directly against the wind.

Running, not running away. This is not a retreat to continue living a miserable life. Moving forward in the name of hope.

Soon, the unforgettable red starlight came into view.

“…Aheeya.”

“uh? Sister?!”

Baek A-hee’s face, which I saw for the first time in several months, was so beautiful that it is difficult to put into words. She did her part even in the midst of her grief over losing her love to save her people.

I thought I’d never see you again. Her expression was distorted under her helmet as the mystery of meeting someone she had never been able to meet mixed with the emotion of coming back alive.

Time doesn’t come back. Dead people can’t meet again. An obvious proposition. That is why human life is valuable. Although we sometimes think it is obvious, people cannot fail to know the value of time.

This is why the entertainment, songs, games, and culture experienced during youth have incomparable beauty. Because memories of times that cannot be returned make them even more beautiful.

Meeting someone you cannot return to is an outrage that denies the value of life. At the same time, it was a blessing that erased regrets from his life.

Return is a miracle.

I realized that keenly once again.

“Oh, is it because of morning work? I really didn’t do anything suspicious?! Well, I really didn’t do anything! Hey, I felt it a little bit, but it wasn’t anything strange…”

“What are you talking about?”

So you can’t waste it.

“Follow me right now. “I have work to do.”

Even at this moment, Han Jaejoong is struggling with a snake. And after this moment, you will never see the snake.

Now is the only chance to defeat the snake in a head-to-head fight.

“I have to save my brother.”

I needed strength.

“yes? What happened suddenly…”

Anyway, this was a notification, not a proposal. She held Baek Ah-hee’s hand and activated her butterflies. The scenery of the sky filled with nothing but blue changed completely.

In an interior surrounded by walls on all sides, the faint smell of chemicals and the scent of a humidifier, dripping. And even the sound of water drops falling. The place we moved to was a hospital room.

“What’s going on? “Ayun.”

“I need your strength.”

It’s frustrating, but she can’t solve that snake on her own.

“Save my beloved brother.”

If necessary, he had to borrow the power of his enemy to defeat him.

Yun Seol-hwa smiled slightly and nodded at the modifier attached to Han Jae-joong’s title.

“Yes, if it’s to save Jaejoong, who loves me. “I can’t help it.”

It was consent. Except for the strange emphasis he placed on ‘loving me’, he was an impeccably cooperative doctor.

“Now, wait! What is my opinion? “I, too, love and am loved…”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time. “I’ll move right away.”

The acquisition of the two supernovae has been completed.

Jo Ayun activated the butterfly again without a moment’s hesitation.

In fact, both physical strength and magical power had long since exceeded their limits. Even speaking, moving my fingers, and even thinking were overwhelming.

It is often said that a healthy body creates a healthy mind. Conversely, an unhealthy body creates an unhealthy mind.

Her spirit even carried the experiences leading up to the destruction of the world. It can never be normal.

I am extremely exhausted both physically and mentally.

But it moved.

I didn’t stop using my mouth, my hands, my magic, or my thoughts.

Time passes.

I couldn’t fall behind the flow.

The butterfly that flew beyond the window soared far away.

Somewhere close to the stratosphere.

There was a dark, shadowy place far from the blue.

It was too heavy to be a shadow, and pale scales could be seen beyond the shadow. A place where snakes gathered their heads and coiled themselves.

A butterfly landed there, and a person appeared.

“Is it okay if I just take that thing down?”

“It’s really big… but it’ll work out somehow! “Isn’t it good that there are so many places to hit?”

Yoon Seol-hwa and Baek A-hee raised their magic power.

The sunspot behind the Hound absorbed the light, making her even darker, and Red Vega became infinitely brighter, shining like the sun.

Supernova.

The power of a star granted to only two people in history.

I felt jealous at one time, but now I felt very reassured. A vast force swirled around. A force that literally shakes the earth.

No matter how hard and big the snake was, it would not be such a big deal in front of them.

“Now, let’s begin.”

“Then, let’s go!!!!”

The Hound’s black spot ate the snake’s body, and Red Vega’s explosion reduced the snake’s body to ash.

Their violence began to manifest itself in the world.

The snake’s body, which was comparable to a huge mountain range one by one, was easily torn down like a collapsing paper tower. The rapid rate of destruction was astounding.

The biggest danger of snakes is their cunning. Don’t open your tail to the strong, but open your mouth to the weak. In front of the monster of the universe and the magical girl of two supernovas, he was nothing.

Just as violence occurred externally, violence occurred internally as well. Light often leaked through the coiled bodies of snakes. Han Jaejoong was on a rampage.

Odette quietly admired their violence. I wanted to do something to help. I had no strength in my body.

I could no longer maintain my flight magic. Starlight slowly dispersed from the tips of his fingers, and soon his transformation was canceled. The completely exhausted body fell into the sky.

The world seen from the point of fall was beautiful.

As if there was a fireworks display, colorful starlight came together to create intense colors. The world trembled once with each explosion.

Jo Ayun also quietly trembled at the explosion. It was because of the tears. Tears poured down endlessly. This time my eyes didn’t hurt.

The snake gradually disintegrated in a baptism of starlight. Jo Ayun continued to watch as the long fall continued. How long has it been?

The darkness that covered the sky was shattered.

A man who embraced the mysteries of the universe fell into it.

He could clearly feel the dynamism of life. He had some blood and soot on his armor. The slightly frayed look gave it more liveliness. His arms quickly swept the sky. The brilliance radiating from those arms was beautiful.

“Ayoona!”

he said I screamed. The voice that passed by my ear was sweet. It was lovely.

didn’t die My neck is stuck. Stretch out his hand and speak to him. Alive. It’s alive before your eyes. Not a corpse in a red world. Alive under this blue sky.

didn’t die Didn’t kill him. I saved it. I saved it. Success. I saw him again. Now, you won’t miss it. I loved and am loving.

Tears poured down and poured down again.

He quickly descended from the sky and grabbed her in the air.

“Ayun, are you okay?”

When she heard that worried voice, she couldn’t hold back her sobs. Her voice poured out, her throat cracking. Jo Ayun buried her face in his chest and wailed. Even though he didn’t have the strength to move, he seemed to have the strength to cry.

“Oppa, oppaaa….”

“It’s especially sticky today… Were you that worried?”

Now everything seemed like a dream. In fact, maybe everything I’ve experienced so far was just a momentary nightmare. Maybe it was an extension of the dream I had this morning.

“Oppa… my brother died….”

Inside that chest, Jo Ayun confessed everything she had experienced so far in a tearful voice. He was crying and was so nervous that his words were out of context and sometimes stopped, but Han Jaejoong listened to everything he said without saying a word.

He listened to the whole story and believed it, even though he himself couldn’t believe it.

“Uh, so… don’t release the transformation… you have to keep doing that…”

“Haha, that’s a bit of a difficult request…”

Was it because he kept burying his face in his chest? Jo Ayun didn’t know that she had already arrived at the rooftop again.

When she looked up, Baek Ah-hee and Yun Seol-hwa were watching her with subtle smiles.

“You also have a cute side….”

“Is it because of the dream that you were so anxious…? “I didn’t think he was a particularly great opponent…”

“Wow, it wasn’t a dream!”

Yun Seol-hwa nodded, letting Jo Ayun’s excuse slip through one ear.

“Yeah, it happens sometimes. When you instinctively feel that something is dangerous. Well, it’s funny that you said you didn’t like it so much last night and then say it now, but…”

It was completely a look of reciprocity given by those in power. She smiled and adjusted the brooch hanging around her shoulder, in the spirit of her charity as she offered her bread to the hungry. It was her transformation tool.

Yun Seol-hwa was a patient who had been poisoned. Even now, it was a time when stability was still needed. She braved her pain and went to work at Jo Ayun’s request.

“Still, I will forgive you this much. “That is the correct attitude of a wife…”

So, she had no reason to maintain her transformation any longer.

A magical girl’s transformation state is like running a marathon. It is no different from the state of moving your body without rest. In other words, it puts a strain on the body.

The burden is even greater for the patient’s condition. For stability, Yun Seol-hwa immediately canceled the transformation.

And immediately, a snake flew from the sky and decapitated her and swallowed her.

“…uh?”

Jo Ayun could not believe her eyes.

Obviously the snake is dead. All nine snakes disappeared without a trace. This means that the Hound sent all of the fragments scattered from the explosion to the other side of the singularity.

But why are there snakes?

Suddenly, something fell, grazing Jo Ayun’s feet.

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Like dark clouds, a shadow fell over my head. When I raised my head, I saw the inside of an animal’s mouth. It was the mouth of a very large snake.

Its mouth was spitting out thousands and thousands of snakes.

Snakes were pouring down from beyond the sky.

The dream isn’t over yet.

The dream did not come true.

I couldn’t even get to the starting point.

Jo Ayun noticed that.

**

From that day on, humanity was somewhat destroyed.

It was because of heavy rain.

Rain of snakes.

One day, after the appearance of a huge snake that covered half the world.

The huge snake continued to pour out snakes.

Snakes swallow anything they can fit into their mouths, whether it’s buildings, lakes, people, or plants. Buildings collapsed within minutes and cities collapsed within hours.

The snake acted as if it was literally swallowing the world.

Of course, humanity did not just sit back and watch.

Watcher and Red Vega are beings that can compete head-to-head with Snake and overwhelm him. That’s why it inflicted the most injuries on snakes. In their fight, the snake lost half of its mouth and there was no rain of snakes for several days.

But in the end, they were individuals.

The snake moved while being completely wary of them. It always appears in places where they are not, and instead of directly eating the world, it orders small snakes to do it.

They traveled all over the world without stopping to catch the snake’s body. However, where they were not, small snakes poured out and devastated the surrounding area.

As soon as they heard about the main body’s appearance, they set off and arrived, the snake ran away like a ghost.

No one knew where that big body was hiding or how it could reappear even after the nine heads were dead.

There is a limit to human physical strength. Also, the range that can be kept. It took me several months to realize that. Maybe it was a mistake.

After months of hide-and-seek, humanity lost three continents and billions of people, and in the end, the two decided to choose a region and protect only that region.

The game of hide and seek across the world ended with the snake’s victory.

They weren’t the only ones fighting. Many magical girls lost their lives or saved their lives in that fight. The number of divinely awakened people poured out in a way that could not even be compared to before. And, an incomparably greater number of divinely awakened people died.

Snakes are cunning animals. If there was a threat, they would always attack when they were weak. In general, it was time to cancel the transformation.

The magical girls decided to form a team and watch over each other while they were resting. However, if that happens, the two magical girls will become inactive. During that gap, the snake ate up even more land.

Also, he took the head at the moment when the person watching the watch was blinded.

Magical girls spend an overwhelming amount of time active while transformed. So many people lost their stamina and energy. Since it was a battle that consumed stamina, victory naturally belonged to the snake.

Humanity, whether as an individual or as a group, could not defeat the snake.

It was not only humans who participated in the battle against snakes, but monsters also existed.

The starting point was Amundsen.

Amundsen attempted a suicide attack on a snake that he could not use during his time in Argos, but it failed.

It was because I couldn’t understand the reality. Amundsen’s attack was based on precision. Even if it is an attack that costs his life, it is useless if you do not know its true nature.

Jason followed his will against the snake. His performance was surprisingly great. The monsters were united around an enemy called a snake. Once an organization is created, the power of Argo is close to invincible.

Knowing this, Jason struggled to activate the power of Argos.

However, he ultimately failed to bring out the power of Argos. He was killed by a snake without much success.

The group of monsters that lost their focus disintegrates. Each one was destroyed by a snake.

In this way, humanity was once again defeated by monsters.

To be exact, the entire world.

“under….”

The same destruction occurred. This time, I got to see destruction clearly with my own two eyes. It was more painful than when I couldn’t see with both eyes. Humanity collapsed in a more ugly and miserable way than we could have imagined.

There was no food. People gave their children or the elderly to another family and received the children and the elderly from that family. Of course, it was to catch and eat them.

The seas and lakes disappeared and there was no water. Water was the most precious value in the world, and a lot of blood was shed because of a single drop of water. It was very common for people to replace water with blood.

People were worthless than anything else.

It wasn’t hearsay, I saw it with my own eyes.

A year passed, and the world became smaller.

The two areas in charge of Red Vega and Watcher respectively were the only safe places. In fact, this place was far from safe.

One day, news of Baek A-hee’s death was heard. It was reported that she had reached the limit of maintaining her transformation for a year, so her transformation was forcibly canceled, and she died.

The moment Jo Ayun heard the news, she made a decision.

It was a very cruel decision.

“Brother.”

And Jo Ayun was not the only one who made that decision.

“Ayun-ah.”

Han Jaejoong made the same decision.

“Please die one more time.”

“I will die.”

There was no longer any hope in the world. It was obvious that if the snake was killed in this state, there would eventually be a civil war and the extinction of humanity. Resources are decreasing day by day, and people are becoming more and more impoverished.

The only hope was Jo Ayun’s return magic.

“….”

Both Jo Ayun and Han Jaejoong knew that.

In fact, it could have been activated a long time before it was activated. The reason why regression was not used until now was because the current Han Jae-joong is still alive.

Turning back time while he was still alive meant abandoning him.

Jo Ayun said she would abandon him, and Han Jaejoong said she would abandon me.

“Sorry.”

“It’s me.”

The two shared the same message at the same time, laughing, crying and apologizing. I’m sorry for making you say this. I’m sorry for not telling you first. I’m sorry for making you make that decision. Various apologies were exchanged.

The apology was repeated throughout the night.

Jo Ayun made a decision.

Let’s learn everything about the snake and save him and this world.

The morning of the day I decided to do so.

Jo Ayun saw Han Jaejoong’s body. She touched the corpse’s hand and said, Unlike last night, it was cold.

“You know what, brother?”

“….”

“They say Deneb is one of the stars that will become the North Star after Polaris. “I heard somewhere a long time ago that it will become the North Star after about 10,000 years.”

The ending of her going crazy after witnessing so many destructions may soon be her own ending.

Jo Ayun smiled faintly as she pictured that future.

“But that’s not a reason to stop, is it?”

Time had to pass.

Life had to go on.

It had to go on like crazy.

Even if it goes crazy, it must continue.

His end should not have been here. She couldn’t admit it.

I couldn’t give him a death like this.

“…Sorry.”

Perhaps she no longer feels his death as painfully as it did the first time.

The moment ‘one more time’ is created, its value plummets.

Time does not come back and life is beautiful because it has an end.

Jo Ayun took that beauty and threw it away. Her time and life changed from those of others, which was the true price she paid.

Han Jae-joong’s death is no longer heavy. But it’s not light either.

Gradually, sadness and a desire for revenge will be replaced by a sense of duty.

Only the blind desire to achieve her dream remains and will lead her to the next.

“are you okay.”

If you don’t give up, there is no end.

Dreams belong to those who don’t give up.

It was time to bet on which of the two, animals or humans, would have the greatest effort and courage.

The butterfly flew in the sky.

Carrying a dream, wrapping my body in obsession, I flew like a miracle.

The body of the butterfly fluttering its wings faded with the light.

The butterfly travels through time and turns these memories into dreams.

I reached Jo Ayun from the past again.