chapter 13
Episode 13 – Hero Maker
Ariel Everray.
A freshman at the International Hero Academy who had only hoped for a hero for a few months.
“I’m looking at you and talking to you, so why are you pretending not to know?”
“…….yes?”
From the first day of school, she faced the biggest challenge of her life.
“I don’t remember, Ariel.”
trauma. A supervillain who appeared like a comet just a week ago. An existence whose identity and purpose are unclear, neither predictable nor controllable.
“We saw you last time.”
Such a terrifying person was talking to her with a transparent barrier around her, blocking her approach.
“Oh, you’re talking about the academy.”
Ariel, who had been sweating in a cold sweat, slowly opened her mouth at the silent pressure of trauma.
“Well, thank you for that.”
“……..”
“Me and me… you saved Mr. Great…”
But she couldn’t even finish her words and blurted out the end.
“okay?”
It was because the traumatic atmosphere of muttering while slowly tilting his head to the side was unusual.
‘Boo, the atmosphere has changed.’
On that day a week ago, for some reason, the figure that seemed like a doll without a soul had disappeared.
‘why? I must have seen it then.’
It was seen in the moment of attacking the monster that attacked them.
‘…the appearance of my sister.’
The figure that looked like her older sister, Justia, had also disappeared.
“That’s right, you.”
For the current trauma that whispers like that,
There was only a sense of darkness.
“Wow, what do you want to say?”
Ariel started to back away without knowing it at that creepy feeling.
“Heh, heh heh…!”
At that very moment, a terrifying voice began to be heard from behind the trauma.
“I try to show it with actions, not words.”
Behind the trauma with raising his hand, a citizen holding his neck and trembling comes into view of Ariel.
“Come on, wait!”
Seeing that, she hurriedly reached forward.
“Say it in our own words…!”
– Woodduck…!
However, it was too late.
“ah.”
The citizen, who had completely broken his neck with his own hands, collapsed to the ground helplessly.
“There’s already one.”
Ariel looked at it with blank eyes, then moved her gaze forward at the words of trauma.
“You, the hero, died because you couldn’t stop me, the villain.”
Her legs start to tremble.
“Sah, save me!!”
“Mo, my body is doing what it wants…”
“Rain, on the subject of villains…”
The hostages behind her and Trauma begin to panic when they witness the murder scene.
‘Lu, Rumia-san is…’
Seeing that unbearable figure, Ariel began to look for someone who could be of help while trembling.
‘…No, that’s wrong. There is no way.’
However, Rumia, who was not affected by her abilities, was just scratching the barrier with her nails and grinding her teeth.
Seeing that, it seemed like there was no sharp solution for him either.
“Where are you looking?”
Ariel had no way of knowing what to do.
An aspiring hero, not even a formal hero. It was not an event that she could handle, as she had not yet received a formal education.
– Kwadeudeuk…!
But despite this, the moment when three hostages twisted their necks in an instant and collapsed.
“Stop it!”
Ariel screamed and ran towards Trauma.
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a few minutes after that.
“Cool, cool…”
“Yes, that’s a hero.”
The trauma of looking at Ariel, who was breathing out in front of her, muttered in a low voice.
“But I can’t help being weak.”
As he said, Ariel’s lips were broken, bruises all over her body, and her long long hair was burned and turned into short hair.
“why?”
All the hostages in the front row outside the barrier had their necks broken and their lives lost.
“Why are you doing this…?”
Seeing that figure, she threw herself several times, but no one could save her.
“Why don’t you kill me? Why are you doing this to me!”
Thanks to her, she went to the point of breaking her heart, a cry full of despair.
“You did that to me.”
The trauma sitting next to Ariel whispered in a low voice.
“You say I’m a hero.”
“Why is that…”
“It was annoying.”
His gaze was directed at the coverage helicopter flying in the sky.
“If you see me as a hero, then we can’t be enemies of each other.”
“Only… for that reason?”
Ariel’s trembling voice echoed through the barrier.
“In the first place, why am I your nemesis?”
Her slender hand grabs the cloak of trauma.
“Why do I have to fight you…?”
When Ariel said that, a single tear fell from her eyes.
“That’s good enough.”
The trauma of holding her by the shoulders and slowly standing up from her seat.
“because…”
The area around the eyes of the mask, which was still broken, met her eyes.
“Because I killed your sister.”
A brief silence began when those words were finished.
“…….What?”
“You’re Justia’s younger brother, you’ve been hiding it.”
The trauma gently stroked Ariel’s head, who asked a question while getting tired of blue.
“But, you look so alike. You can’t fool everyone forever.”
Ariel pushed away his hand with all her might and escaped from the trauma.
“Nonsense.”
As she crawled backwards in that state, she murmured with a shocked expression on her face.
“But the one who killed my sister…”
“A river sky?”
But the trauma of intercepting those words midway and shouting with arms wide open.
“okay!”
His voice echoed through the barrier.
“I am Kang Ha-neul!”
Ariel’s expression, which had been blankly looking up at the trauma after hearing that declaration, began to distort.
“You don’t have to hide your identity just because you wear a mask, do you?”
“you you……”
“But, thinking about it, I don’t like it when everyone talks about my identity.”
The trauma of squatting down in front of her and pulling something out of her pocket.
“So, let’s keep this a secret between the two of us.”
“ah……”
Without even having time to resist, he used a hypnosis app to hint at Ariel.
“By the way, you are so pure.”
“I, what did you do to me? What else is that smartphone…”
Ariel, who looked at the smartphone with eyes wide open for a moment, only comes to her senses when she hears the trauma filled with laughter.
“For fun, you tested the power you stole from your sister, and you call me a hero. Don’t you keep fighting, believing that you can truly defeat me?”
“……..”
“That stupid corner, you look like your sister.”
As she looked at Ariel like that, the trauma she muttered in a voice that had lost her laughter.
“But, it’s starting to get boring little by little.”
“…What?”
“It’s really nice to have similar looks and personality. But the strength isn’t the same, right?”
Ariel’s eyes began to burn slowly upon hearing those words.
“Your sister said so at the last minute.”
After seeing it, she smiled for a moment, and then the trauma continued.
“My younger brother will one day be stronger than him. So one day he will become a great hero who will defeat me.”
“……..”
“Is that your childhood dream?”
In Ariel’s memory, a faint memory of the past comes to mind.
Her older sister who didn’t show her face well because she was always busy, but still sent a letter every day.
A time when he replied that he would become a great hero like his older sister to that letter, in which half of the content was from his partner.
However, after realizing the limits of her concept and her sister’s secret, she had no choice but to give up on that dream.
“But I guess I was deceived.”
That’s where trauma begins to creep in.
“There’s no way a weak girl like this, who’s been giving me a chance several times and doesn’t even show any signs of attacking, will become a great hero, right?”
There was absolutely no room for rebuttal.
Trauma was still openly exposing the gap.
If it was someone other than yourself.
If it was Rumia, who was still knocking on the barrier outside.
At least he could have fought back.
“Okay, let’s just finish it.”
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Just when those thoughts filled Ariel’s head, the voice of trauma heard from the front.
When those words were finished, all the remaining hostages grabbed their necks with their hands.
And Abigail Hwan started.
There was not enough time for a hero capable of resolving this situation to arrive.
‘I want to fall.’
In just a few seconds, the lives of millions of people will disappear, a moment of despair.
‘I want to protect everyone’s lives and smiles.’
Ariel staggered and stood up.
‘Even if I have to die.’
Unlike his previous appearance, he was burning with fighting spirit.
‘As my sister told me.’
After Justia’s death, she chose the path of a hero as if possessed by something.
I always pretended to be bright on the outside,
To her, who was wandering all the time, unable to find a way inside.
Having a goal stronger than ever to help someone by sacrificing their life.
‘Only one.’
That was the moment.
‘Even just one, let’s feed it properly.’
And as if waiting for that moment.
– Grip Jijik…!
A miracle happened.
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“Ahhhh!!!”
Ariel. A younger brother who looks very much like Justia. She screams desperately and starts running towards me.
– Crazy… Crazy…!
The unstoppable energy that started flowing through her arms, legs, and body.
<Visibility (LV2)>
◆Name: Ariel Everray
◆Gender: Female (17)
◆Owned concept: [Concept of a hero]
◆Special
– [Non-Awakening State]
As I looked at the information she had found out with that energy and insight skill, I smiled involuntarily and fell into thoughts.
‘After all, it’s the main character.’
The concept of possession is ‘the concept of a hero’.
Isn’t that really the main character’s ability?
“No… no, senpai… don’t do that…”
His character and personality were several times more like the main character than Hosoin, who was muttering something from afar.
“Choose me, me… Please…”
In the first place, the fact that they were passing through the streets with Lumia must have been that she was being wary of for some reason.
“That route is not okay darling!!”
At the same time, Lumia’s shout resounded in all directions, but it was buried by Ariel’s destructive sound that was approaching right in front of her.
“That’s right.”
“Shut up!”
From now on, I plan to add to my goal of making this child the strongest hero in the world.
Our protagonist, who will end this dark era.
It will become dirty manure for her to grow.
“Sister!! How much I loved you!!!”
While thinking that, I quietly closed my eyes as Ariel attacked my chest.
The monsters who were aiming for her around her had all been dealt with with the previous hostage situation.
There was a way to cover the terrible recoil she would get from the blow she had now.
Rumia, who is looking at us from behind as if the world has been lost, won’t be able to do anything stupid because of the broadcast helicopter flying in the sky.
“Why did you kill my sister!!!”
Now, instead of Justia, it was time for me to take charge of her.