Admission is nothing (180)
Lesson 35. The Last Changeling – 5
Those who cling to an illusion usually know that it is an illusion.
I know, but I can’t give up
No matter how hard you squeeze it, it won’t hold.
Even if you pull it, it won’t pull.
Even if you chase, the distance will not be shortened.
It always hangs in front of my eyes as if it were near or far, just shining.
I just chase it until I die, believing that I will get it someday.
To Ketra, it’s actually not a light emotion like love.
Not friendship, honor, or family.
It wasn’t even a desire to get revenge on his parents who threw him into a village of unknown humans in a lower dimension.
It was just a longing for the root of being a fairy.
He needed confidence in his roots that were firm enough to overwrite the memories of the past, which he had to grow up with always doubting himself.
So it’s only natural that he hung around Mira, who is clearly a ‘real fairy’.
To him, the mummy was not an individual, but the fairies themselves, not a love object, but an object of admiration and hatred that could not be abandoned at the same time.
So–at least that’s what he thought until one day, a banyuwon suddenly appeared and took away Mira’s body and mind.
“You will die.”
“Not the man who stuck a spear in my belly.”
There was already a terrible wound in her abdomen, as if it had been dug out with a bayonet, and she was stabbing a red spear into it, so Ketra thought it was a miracle that she was still alive.
Climbing the Tower of Babel, sometimes piracy, improving one’s abilities and collecting artifacts were not in vain.
A faint smile crept across Ketra’s lips.
The man who saw it also smiled with an absurd face.
“Why did you betray me? Ketra.”
It was even before she entered Union Academy that Ketra joined the Crimson Spear, one of the most representative dimensional pirate groups along with Exodus.
It was the same as Exodus and Crimson Spear that had adhesions with the higher dimension, but
Exodus could not hide its desire to bring them down while using the higher dimension.
Crimson Spears enjoy the prestige of a higher dimension and want to be incorporated into it.
It was an ideal group for Ketra, who was abandoned by her parents in a higher dimension and longed for her race, which was rooted there.
“Weren’t we doing it together? Dimensional change.”
A man who speaks in a stronger voice and urges him to answer.
Ketra let out a short sigh as she faced the man who stabbed her with a spear.
until just a while ago.
That is, until he manipulated the information and dragged the elite troops of the Crimson Spear to the E-1 dimension and confronted Exodus.
As a dimensional pirate belonging to Crimson Spear like him, he had a fairly deep exchange with the man in front of him.
“No, no. Isn’t that a common thing? To fall in love with a woman in the enemy camp undercover for an operation, and betray her allies to save her?”
“Ketra, you are for that bitch.”
The man snorted.
“If Princess Crimson found out, she would laugh out loud. And– He will take out his anger on us as much as that.”
“I’m sorry, Sheldon.”
“Ha, it really makes me go crazy. I’ll turn around.”
The man he called Sheldon scratched his head as he pulled the spear out of his stomach.
He knew that Ketra would die soon anyway, so there was no need to stab him further, and the betrayal was so sudden that his feelings for Ketra hadn’t been sorted out yet.
“… Swapping Exodus guys with our members wouldn’t pay off even if your soul was torn to pieces.”
“Yeah, that’s right… how did it go?”
“Exodus has now been sorted out. Thanks to that, only one of our ships remained.”
Ketra belonged to the Crimson Spear and was working on a large-scale project.
It was an attempt to surpass Exodus, an attempt to completely upset the balance of the S-class dimension, and at the same time a brutal revenge against the fairies.
However, Ketra, who was actively working on it more than anyone else, suddenly manipulated information, destroyed confidential data, and finally caused the Crimson Spear fleet to collide with Exodus by ‘changing’.
It was a miracle that even one ship of the Crimson Spear survived because the powers of Exodus and Crimson Spear were balanced and matched as if they had been precisely manipulated.
It was also proof that Ketra’s changeling ability had reached its peak.
Well, if it wasn’t for that, it would have been impossible to transfer Mira’s wound from being stabbed in the abdomen to a changeling from a long distance.
“Hey Ketra. Is love really that great? Enough to risk your life?”
“I don’t know.”
Ketra responded lightly, taking a piece of candy from her bosom and biting it down.
It was handed to him as a gift after having a sincere conversation about mummy after being broken in sparring with Banyuwon one day.
When he tried it, it really had a greater effect than any other potion he knew, but as Sheldon said just now, the series of changes he performed today are at a level that even if he sacrificed his soul as a sacrifice, it would not count… Even so, it was just staying at the level of slowing down the last way and reducing the pain.
But now, I am tearfully grateful for that grace.
“Hey Sheldon. Since I was hit with a knife instead, wouldn’t that guy accept the last greeting?”
“I think so too.”
To this day, Ketra wasn’t sure if she really loved Mira.
Without any confidence in myself, I have been acting as myself who is full of lies even at the academy.
He wanted to know what meaning there was to the emotions built up on a false foundation.
Well, that’s why I couldn’t decide on my future path properly, so I’m going to have a good time in my place, but it’s like this.
“Are you going to send it?”
“…good. Our team is all screwed up anyway, so I need to make it easy for you on the way to the end.”
“thank you. really.”
However, this feeling of wanting to see Mira was definitely not a lie.
Even if he conceded everything to Ban Yu-Won, acknowledged him and backed down, there were still things he could not yield to him.
If you can’t throw away a lie, Ketra wanted to believe that it was real.
“Opened.”
Selden said curtly and pointed to the bottom of the ship.
One of the squarely positioned emergency exits opened, and a gust of wind blew through Ketra’s hair.
“Selden, thank you so far.”
“If you’re thankful, you fucking bastard, you can’t leave this damn thing behind.”
“The project will fail.”
Selden’s face contorted as Ketra asserted.
“Are you swearing until the end?”
“I mean seriously. The fairy princess has a great ally. An excellent ally that even the Red Flame Princess could not help.”
The fairy princess is a mummy.
Understanding his words, Selden snorted.
Mira was very important to the project and was actually one of the Crimson Spear’s targets.
Of course, I knew everything about her interpersonal relationships.
“You’re not referring to the human kid down there, are you?”
It was the correct answer.
If the possessor of the power to make the changeling of the fairies look good and create the results he wants comes out to help the fairies, can the Crimson Spear really do the fairies on their own?
I thought it wouldn’t be Ketra.
The first time I approached Banyuwon was because I thought I could use it for a project.
In the end, I laughed because I had created the biggest enemy of the Crimson Spear with my own hands.
“If you’re trying to change your affiliation, Exodus won’t work either. I heard mango Because I already turned him into an enemy.”
“Eolssi, so what? Stop piracy altogether and start mercenaries?”
Ketra, who was approaching the emergency exit, suddenly put her hand on the bottom of the ship.
A wave of energy arose around it, and before long blue lines ran all over the inner walls of the ship.
Selden quickly figured out that it was a change of the ship, exactly the process of changing the ownership of the ship from the person in charge of the Crimson Spear to himself.
“You you…”
“If you start with a ship, you’ll be able to play the role of a mercenary. I already changed my face, so I don’t have to worry about being tracked.”
“uh? what the fuck!”
After hearing Ketra’s words, Selden, who realized that his face had changed, touched his cheek in fright.
“Because you’re much more handsome than before, so thank you.”
“No, this bastard is real from earlier.”
“There is a reliable route in my mirror, so try using it.”
thanks.
Before Selden could argue further, Ketra left those words and jumped down the emergency exit.
Left alone, Seldon stayed there and pondered for a while, but when he was deceived by Ketra’s strategy and flew to this dimension, he realized that he had already become a traitor, and finally sighed deeply and picked up the mirror he had left behind.
* * *
Everyone witnessed Ketra jump down the emergency exit when Mira finished explaining to the half-yuwon about the ‘changeling’ that had happened to her.
The ship of the Crimson Spear disappeared on the spot as if it had completed its purpose… Shati clicked her tongue a little later.
“I knew the president.”
“Isn’t that person pretending to know only belatedly after the work is over, when in fact he doesn’t know at all?”
“No, the name of the person who said that Professor Jeong’s departure would be delayed was the vice president. Oh, Professor Yumina is also leaving now.”
“I really want to lose.”
And since the Vice-Chairman is now jumping off the Crimson Spear’s ship.
It means that the president really knew that Ketra belonged to a dimensional pirate group.
“Whoa.”
Despite having lost most of her organs, Ketra, who managed to survive, landed softly on the floor and grinned.
He knew how to say something to Mira, and the first person he spoke to was Shati.
“I think the restrictions on the president disappeared?”
“Vice-president, you are being treated like a dead person. There’s no way restrictions would be triggered for dead people.”
“thank god. I wanted to see your face.”
Restriction refers to keeping Ketra from coming near the mummy.
In fact, that restriction was a really sure way of attacking Ketra, a member of the Crimson Spear, so if this had been discovered, he would have been excluded from the project anyway.
“Mummy.”
“Ketra, are you stupid?”
Mira said with a puzzled expression to Ketra, who turned to her.
“You are stupid.”
“Don’t put a heavy burden on me on your own. If you say that, then I…”
Mira, who couldn’t overcome her emotions and spat out the words, immediately closed her mouth with her eyebrows furrowed.
Instead, the anti-yuwon spoke to Ketra.
“Why did you do that?”
“Will you believe me if I say love? Do you believe me, Mira?”
“…I can’t believe it, but believing doesn’t mean anything.”
“Haha, trust me. Even if it’s a lie.”
Perhaps feeling resistance to Ketra’s words, Mira instinctively tried to step back, but there was already a semi-amusement there.
Banyuwon put his hand on Mira’s shoulder and said in a quiet voice.
“I hate blind denial. Especially since he is the one who protected my precious person.”
“You said you would accept all of me.”
“that’s right.”
Yu-Won Ban gently stroked her stiff cheek.
“So no matter how you are, I can’t tolerate stealing a part of you on your own. No matter how embarrassing or sinful you are, memories are precious to me.”
“Ugh…”
In fact, Mira didn’t deny Ketra just by thinking that she wanted to be faithful to the half-yuwon.
She denies everything about Ketra because his existence symbolizes the sins she committed in the first semester.
At that time, she blamed Ketra for not taking good care of her because of the constellation that guided her heart, and using the anti-yuwon that just appeared as a good excuse, she broke up with her past self and created a new self.
However, no matter how pure her feelings are, it is actually not very good for Ban Yu-Won to remove all the turbid parts that make up her for the sake of that purity.
“Ahhh…”
Ban Yu-won’s words are embarrassing, lovely, and thankful, but at the thought that his true intentions have been revealed, a sad and depressed heart soars.
However, if the master who owns her everything (even though he never calls her that in front of him because semi-yuwon hates it) wanted it, she honestly had no choice but to accept it.
“I’m sorry…”
Mira bowed her head to Ketra.
Tears dripped to the floor.
“The thing I was trying to kill… I did something ugly…”
“Mummy.”
Ketra made a surprised expression, then looked at Banyuwon, not the mummy, with a somewhat relieved face.
“I really can’t win…”
“I’m sorry, thank you. sorry.”
Mira spoke again.
Ketra let out a deep sigh and sat down on the floor.
The limit was gradually approaching.
“It’s okay Mira. I was actually trying to use you. I was going to commit a ridiculous villainy of changing dimensions by using you and the fairies as sacrifices. So you don’t have to feel sorry for me.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“I already sent it to my junior mirror, so read it slowly later.”
Ban Yu-Won is horrified when a story of a different scale suddenly pops up.
Ketra laughed as if satisfied with the response, and added a word.
“I have enemies at the academy. Take a good look at the children of the teenage family.”
“all right. Thank you.”
“Mummy.”
“Thank you, I’m sorry…”
“Mira.”
Ketra called out loudly to Mira, who was repeating the same words like a broken doll.
“I liked ‘I love you’ better.”
“That may have been in the past.”
Mira, who was ordered to be honest with Banyuwon, spoke really honestly while looking at him.
“But right now, only Yoo-won says I love you. sorry.”
“It makes a difference even if I get hit with a knife instead of Ha.”
Ketra giggles.
Ban Yu-won laughed at his smile, which returned to the atmosphere he had when he first met somewhere.
“I know that women’s hearts are easy. You should have held it when you seemed to like it.”
“As expected, my junior is the same class as me. What did I say? I said that if we ate together, we would be the strongest.”
…I had nothing to argue with.
“Thank you for reconciling my juniors. Mira, thank you too. President, I’m sorry for being an ugly subordinate.”
After saying her last goodbye, Ketra grabbed her dagger and held it out to Ban Yu-Won.
“Can you finish it, junior?”
“You’re making me do something I don’t like. Is it revenge?”
“Since I lost the girl I like, I have to do this.”
“…thank you for protecting mummy, senpai.”
Bye.
Banyuwon did what he was asked to do.
Mira closed her eyes tightly.
He realized that his first love, which he could not finish properly, had finally ended perfectly.
