CH 118

Ep.118 Family-like Atmosphere

It hasn’t been long since the last Egostic’s terrorism.

The terrorist attack, which took place at a time when his public interest was at its peak due to the last incident, was enough to draw attention.

This terrorist attack, like the last one, was caused by a member of the Villain Union Ego Stream, which was founded by him.

Stardus, who is now almost his exclusive opponent, was dealing with a girl in a suit that looks like a mobile mechanical armor.

A battle that took place while people were amazed about where Egostic would bring those talented people from every time.

And the initial situation was more advantageous for Egostic.

In line with the name Starbuster, the girl in the mechanical machine had a considerable advantage over Stardus, and Stardus was responding defensively by avoiding and preventing the attacks.

Everyone thought that Stardus was lagging behind because of course.

Things started to change at some point.

[What?]

BOOM-. BOOM-.

A fierce battle in which only wind and dust swirled.

While the mechanical fist was being swung, it smashed the nearby outer wall and went wild.

Against Starbuster several times bigger than herself, Stardus was on the offensive.

[Come on…! I’m telling you to fight me!]

BOOOOOM-.

Starbuster bounced far away as Stardus attacked.

Holding on to her startled mind again, the girl inside clenched her teeth.

Unlike before, Shin Haru smiled and talked while watching the smoke flying up and Starbuster’s arms dangle.

“Surrender and admit your defeat now. It’ll be better for you.”

The hacker inside was gritting her teeth at the seemingly dismissive words.

[Ridiculous! Take this!]

At the same time, the huge Starbuster raised its arms toward Shin Haru.

At the same time, something began to crack out of the machine arm.

What sticks out like that is a small-sized missile.

“……!”

[Haha! Goodbye!]

Missiles flew toward the Stardus in an instant with laughter from inside the machine.

At the same time, Stardus also flew away.

BOOM-.

Where Stardus was standing exploded.

The area was covered with smoke and dust caused by an explosion

[…Gulp]

Starbuster was still on alert and looked at the smoke.

Still, when Stardus’ figure wasn’t covered by the smoke.

[….Ha. Oppa, I knocked down Stardus!]

The hacker inside shouted excitedly.

And the chat window went wild.

*

[It’s cute that she keeps calling him oppa oppa hahaha]

[Is she really Mango Stick’s sister? Hahaha]

[I’m watching a battle between hero and villain, but why is the villain so cute? It feels like I’m seeing my cousin, so I want to cheer her on]

[Did she knock Stardus down? If that’s the case then she shouldn’t be…]

[Stardus showed a weak side to the Moonlight Witch last time, but would he have collapsed from that explosion?]]

[Did you do it?] [Not done]

[5 seconds before the Stardus resurrects like a dog]

*

And as expected.

A shadow of a person appeared in the smoke.

And that thing gradually walked out.

She came out in the smoke, bouncing her head once with her hand, without a scratch. Stardus walked leisurely without any damage to her suit.

[Gosh, really. Haa… What kind of superhuman are you? How can you endure this?]

The girl in the suit muttered in a despondent voice as if she had already tasted the bitterness of life at a young age.

*

[Fact) She’s a superhuman]

[She’s a superhuman because she has superpower.]

[I’m shocked that Stardus can still stand even though that hacker kid kept attacking her hahaha.]

[Ah hahaha Stardus is a semi S-class hero haha]

[???: It’s too early for you to deal with me]

[It kinda have deep meaning like ‘Come to me when you’re grown up’ hahaha]

*

While the chatroom was already crowded as if things had already been expected.

Soon, Stardus flew back up, swung her arm once, stretched out her fist, and flew toward the Starbuster.

In response, the hacker’s mechanical suit also lifted its heavy arm and began to swing a steel fist at Stardus.

The battle started again.

[Urgh.]

Stardus just pushed it unilaterally, overwhelming her opponent, the weapon Starbuster

***

[Oh my god]

BOOM-.

The last blow she made with all her strength.

The machine got hit by it and bounced up into the sky with the scream of the girl who was inside it.

It’s already been a long time since the machine was almost destroyed by her attack.

The head of the machine suit is also damaged, and the image of the young girl inside is reflected.

Watching Starbuster fly away like that.

At the same time, Stardus also kicked it.

That’s right, it was the end of a long battle.

… What the hell was that machine made of? It was quite strong, and the battle was a little longer than expected, but it was her victory.

Look, it already lost power after her final attack, and flew away helplessly.

Looking at the scene, Stardus thought.

Although the kid was weaker than her, she was still quite a strong opponent. I think she must be an A-class.

How the hell did she make this? What was the hacking that she mentioned? What did she mean by ‘In the same house’?

Shin Haru had so many questions about the girl who kept calling Egostic ‘oppa’.

Okay.

For more details, she can drag her to the association to ask.

With that in mind, Stardus flew up into the sky with her golden hair flying in the wind, reaching for the girl on the weapon who was still flying in the air.

Then.

At that moment, before her hand touched the fainted girl.

Swoosh-

In front of her, a purple magic circle suddenly appeared.

And at the same time, Shin Haru hurriedly avoided it, looking at the magic circle that began to shine.

At that moment

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

The rays of destruction, which she saw in the storm the other day, brushed her hair.

Stardus turned around after the sudden attack.

“…Hehe, Stardus. I’m sorry, but I can’t let you take my colleague so easily.”

With his hands on his black hat, his cape fluttering in the sky

“……”

It was Moonlight Shaman, the red-eyed woman in a white shaman’s outfit, who was looking at her as if she were guarding up while making magic circles with her hands.

***

Phew, that was close.

Smiling on the outside, I wiped my sweat inside.

At first, Seo-eun was almost self-evident that she would be beaten by Stardus, so we prepared everything in advance. Of course, I only trusted Eun-wol.

In the first place, the plan was to rescue Seo-eun at the last minute after she lost, but suddenly Stardus rushed to catch Seo-eun. I mean, I never thought she’d try to catch the kid from the air.

Anyway, thanks to Eun-wol who rushed to push her away with the lightning, Seo-eun didn’t get arrested. Of course, Eun-wol used magic to take Seo-eun, who was falling down from the air.

After stopping Stardus, I grabbed and hugged Seo-eun, who fainted inside the robot. She’s so light.

“…Egostic.”

Stardus, who got disturbed by me just before she could catch Seo-eun, looked at me with anger and muttered.

And I smiled at her.

“My apologies. Still, of course, I have no choice but to take care of my colleague, right? She’s my family.”

“….Family?

In the midst of a cold wind blowing sky

Stardus stared at me, and Eun-wol was creating magic circles to threaten her behind to prevent her from attacking.

I was floating with Seo-eun in my arms in the air, saying the final words.

Terrorism is over. We should go home now.

First of all, I wondered what Stardus said. Family?

“Yes, of course! All of our Ego Stream members are close like family. We’re a group of true villains. Just like that, now… Ehem. The ‘colleague that has been with me the longest’ was defeated, how could I stay still?”

Good. I also said what Seo-eun asked me to do, and justify her identity.

I was still operating the floating camera on the wire mesh side over there with telekinesis, so I pulled it back to this side.

I started to make my closing remarks.

“Anyway! All right, Stardus. It’s your victory. You knocked down my colleague fairly. As you’ve won, I’ll step down from here. I’ll have to take my colleague for treatment now.”

I gestured to Eun-wol.

Eun-wol, who understood what I was saying and stayed right next to me.

Embracing her in one hand, I gave Stardus a final greeting.

“Then, adios!”

“…..”

I teleported and disappeared, leaving Stardus with a lost look on her face.

Why are you making such a sad face?

…Even so, I can’t give Seo-eun to you.

***

“Stardus, are you all right!”

“Yes, yes. I’m fine.”

The attack has ended.

Shin Haru was on the move, escorted by the association staff and police who rushed to rescue the trapped hostages and clean up the scene.

With the cardigan they handed over on her shoulders, sipping a cup, she sorted out today’s harvest inside her head.

Terrorism, as always, ended without any victims, destroyed the surrounding commercial districts, and Egostic will be fine with some kind of compensation.

It’s unfortunate that she missed the hacker at the end, but she can still summarize that she got new information about Egostic today.

So she summarized what she learned today in the car.

‘That girl was a hacker… Maybe she’s been the hacker so far.’

‘…And live in the same house, she said’

‘And, what? Precious colleagues, family. He said they were like a family…’

Reflecting on the thought, she felt gradually worse without realizing it.

The image of Egostic hugging Electra before, the image of Egostic disappearing hugging those two girls, and the image of Egostic hugging the little girl as if she were more precious than anything else, emphasizing the word family-like colleague, came to her mind.

“……..”

Family. Family.

Hah, gosh.