Chapter 104

Chapter 104

Symbol of Peace (1)

“Umm...umm...”

Han Jae-jung frowned in front of the mirror and looked around his own eyes.

“This is ridiculous again.”

Behind him, Joo Ah-yoon clicked her tongue and seemed to scold him with a disappointing tone.

“Did you catch prince syndrome or something?”

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She could have just looked and moved on once or twice, but he kept doing it every time he saw a mirror, so she was getting tired of it. She admits that Han Jae-jung’s appearance is outstanding. However, if he keeps making that kind of face, her appreciation changes. No matter how good-looking someone is, narcissism is bound to wear off eventually.

“It’s not that, it’s just this eye...”

“Did you get an eye disease? Should we go to the ophthalmologist later?”

Despite Joo Ah-yoon’s concern, he only repeated deep sighs like “tsk, hmm,” without any other response.

“Well, what is it that you’re so worked up about?”

“Umm... Alright. Let’s just go for now.”

“Gosh.”

In the end, she couldn’t resolve her question and had to move on unsatisfactorily. Joo Ah-yoon frowned at Han Jae-jung’s strange behavior.

‘Did he eat something wrong? Shit...’

Did he eat spoiled food because he couldn’t stand the hunger yesterday? If that’s the case, he should have just come over to my place for dinner. Knowing Han Jae-jung’s financial situation, Joo Ah-yoon resolved once again to open a cafe.

‘Before he eats something wrong again, I need to take responsibility and make him earn his own food...!’

Even after saying they should leave, Han Jae-jung kept looking at himself in the mirror, as if he was still unsettled. His face has always been aesthetically satisfying whenever he looks at it, but recently, he’s been feeling a bit different about it.

Ever since his left eye, which had been blinded, was healed by Virgo, he’s been feeling a strange sensation in his left eye.

‘This doesn’t seem like just a healing.’

Is it a side effect of receiving Virgo’s last starlight? Since then, he has noticed several abnormal phenomena in his body. The main issue is this left eye.

Virgo’s last act of kindness was sending her final magic for his sake – the power of healing.

Of course, his vision in the left eye has improved compared to the right. Sometimes, he even feels that the color tones of the two fields of vision are different. Should he say that the R in RGB has become stronger in his left eye’s vision? It’s a bit blurry, as if he’s wearing a reddish filter.

Sometimes, he even gets the sensation that a red starlight is flowing from this left eye. Of course, it’s just a feeling, and no actual starlight is flowing.

Since this only happens occasionally, it hasn’t caused any major inconvenience in his daily life. Still, it’s quite unsettling nonetheless.

He went to the ophthalmologist, but they couldn’t find anything particularly wrong. It was an expected result. After all, modern medical technology can’t treat problems caused by starlight.

This was the biggest issue.

‘I hope I’m not becoming an odd-eyed person?’

If an adult ends up having different colored eyes, how would people around him perceive it? Han Jae-jung, who always cares about how others see him, didn’t want to make his already noticeable appearance stand out even more.

Whenever he looked in the mirror, he felt anxious that his left eye seemed to be getting redder for some reason. Of course, it’s highly possible that it’s just an illusion caused by the distorted vision.

“Ah-yoon.”

“What, why?”

“How does my face look?”

“Like shit.”

“Tell me honestly.”

“It’s pretty.”

“No, not that... Do you notice anything different about me?”

For a moment, Joo Ah-yoon’s heart froze. Her blood ran cold, and goosebumps rose on her skin like feathers trying to protect her body.

The question Han Jae-jung just casually asked could bring disaster to their relationship. It was a question of doom that, if she failed to notice the difference, would lead to annihilation no matter how she answered.

Of course, Joo Ah-yoon hadn’t noticed any changes in Han Jae-jung. That question meant destruction.

‘So that’s why he was so worked up!’

The reason he kept looking in the mirror was because he wanted her to notice the change, a cute wish! Joo Ah-yoon closed her eyes tightly.

It didn’t even take a minute for the pink seal to be stamped on the signature line.

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Ippotranslation

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[How’s the public safety situation in D5 these days?]

[I have an acquaintance who lives there, have there not been many villains around lately?]

When a man posted this on an online community, comments soon began pouring in.

└ Get ready for a funeral

└ D0 City? That place is messed up, it’s a hotspot for junkies

└ In just a few months, villains will be roaming the streets freely lol

└ If you go there, just shut your eyes and let F and G handle it, they’ll take your money and let the villains run wild

└ You should tell that ‘acquaintance’ to get out quickly

“Whew... This is a big deal.”

Letting out a deep sigh, the man shut his laptop. He didn’t actually have an acquaintance. The post was about himself.

The neighborhood seemed fine when he first rented the place. But a few months ago, rumors started spreading about villains appearing, and eventually reports of villain sightings drastically increased.

In the end, drug addicts called ‘junkies’ flocked to the area because of the villains, and a few weeks ago it was designated as a villain hazard zone.

It wasn’t just about money anymore, he had to seriously consider his survival.

“Ah shit, seriously...”

He felt vexed. He didn’t have any savings. He had spent every penny to move into this apartment, and now this was happening.

The national average life expectancy was under 40. He recalled the internet losers jokingly referring to it as ‘premature death’. To calm himself, the man opened a video site to watch a magical girl in action.

It was a video of Red Vega, who already had over 5 million views despite being active for less than a year. She demonstrated overwhelming magical power as a new generation heroine full of promise.

‘...I wish she would come to our neighborhood.’

If she’s that strong, she could defeat all the villains in our area. What could possibly be keeping her so busy... For a moment, Red Vega’s face on the ad looked reproachful to him.

“No, I need to get a grip.”

The man patted his cheeks to regain his senses. He was different from those losers. Unlike the magical girl ‘antis’ gwho lived pessimistically, thinking they’d all die to villains anyway.

Even now, the man who cared about social reputation told himself he was different from those lowest of losers.

Different from the trash heaping useless words on humanity’s only hope.

I’m still alive, and there’s still hope. With that thought, the man got up to eat something.

That’s when the doorbell rang.

“What’s that?”

He didn’t order any delivery. In fact, the delivery companies refused service to him.

Could it be a villain? A chilling thought crossed his mind.

“Coming in.”

Bang!

A thunderous sound came from the steel front door, and the 10kg steel door went flying. It was clearly a villain-proof door.

From the gaping hole where the door used to be, a massive figure walked in. Over 2m tall, a huge frame. No, too inhuman to simply call it human.

A villain.

As the man trembled in fear, looking up at the villain with malicious starlight, the villain reached out a hand.

“You, won’t you become our comrade?”

There were far too few magical girls to protect this man.

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