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#007. Broken World (2)
The boy glared at the golem.
I am different from you.
I am a human being who feels emotions.
Hurrah!
The flames blooming on his palm were as red and hot as the blood flowing under the boy’s skin.
Huruk! Huruk!
The flames danced fiercely to the murderous intent of their master.
The vortex of flames that was completed in an instant tore through the darkness of the tunnel and rushed fiercely towards the target.
Kwakwakwa────!
A moment that lasts only a few seconds.
The golem reacted to the flames and fired its rays again.
The vortices and rays collided in the air, pushing and shoving each other as if in a power struggle.
But that was only for a moment.
The vortex, moved by the boy’s emotions, sped up its rotation and grew in size to capture the light.
And then he continued to charge with explosive force, swallowing the golem.
Gooo …
The golem struggles.
A non-breathing, inanimate object waves its arms around as if in pain.
The melted body becomes liquid.
It is consumed by the flames and vaporized without any room to flow.
The golem’s cries gradually diminish.
Gooo …
When the flames finally went out.
There was nothing left in that place.
The blackened floor and the heat floating in the air were the only evidence of what had just happened.
The darkness that had retreated has returned.
The sound of heavy rain filled the boy’s world again.
The boy was confused.
He didn’t even realize what he had just done.
What was certain was that Niles, lying on her lap, was dying.
“Niles. Come to your senses. Come to your senses.”
There was no response.
Ray slapped Niles in the face in embarrassment.
match!
“… This, this crazy guy. He looks like he’s going to die anyway. Cough!”
Niles, who had vomited a handful of blood, raised his head with force.
The moment he saw the large hole in his chest and the boy’s knee clearly visible on the other side, he burst out laughing.
Wrote it.
This isn’t about dying, this is about certain death.
“Niles. You can’t die. You can’t die.”
The gold in my heart stopped cracking.
The cracks were glued together, and the emotions that had burst out were sewn back together again.
Maybe it was an instinctive judgment made by the boy’s brain and body.
The idea that the more vulnerable one is to emotions, the more disadvantageous it is for survival was deeply ingrained in the boy’s mind.
The sadness and fear that gradually fades away.
In it, the boy shook Niles’ body.
“Don’t die. Please.”
“Stop… shaking you… hey. This really… looks like you’re doing it on purpose.”
A gasp escaped Niles’ mouth.
I wasn’t afraid of death.
Because it was a very familiar concept to those born at the bottom.
I did think that one day I would die in an unusual way.
I just didn’t expect it would be today.
“Coolook!”
The bleeding won’t stop.
Fading consciousness signals that life is nearing its end.
Do you regret your life?
Not really.
Because I have always struggled to survive in a life at the bottom that is as entangled as a spider’s web.
Still, despite being born in the lowest of places, he has had many experiences and achieved many things.
It may seem insignificant to those on high, but I was satisfied with it.
But I often thought that way.
If only I had started struggling a little earlier.
If this boy had started to struggle around his age now.
If that were the case, wouldn’t your life be a little different now?
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“hey.”
“Don’t say anything. I’ll get some medicine or something from the car─.”
Thud!
Niles grabbed the boy’s arm as he tried to get up.
It was an incredible power that was hard to believe for someone who would die soon.
Niles spat it out shakily.
“You… really get out of here… go to a better place… .”
Go up the river.
Don’t get swept away by the current.
The sentence couldn’t be spit out until the end.
Niles lowered his head and said nothing more.
In his other hand, which he had taken out of his pocket, he was clutching his car keys and a note.
────!
The boy cried as his emotions gradually closed off.
Anger and sadness.
That was the first emotion the boy learned in the world.
──────!
But the scream was drowned out by the sound of the rain and the crashing of the river and was not heard anywhere.
Tears mixed with the rain and flowed down the ground, becoming part of the river.
In this way, the boy’s emotions were erased and blurred again by the world.
Swaaa …
It was a slum night with black rain falling.
*
Ray woke up to the sunlight stinging his eyelids.
“… … .”
It was under the bridge.
I felt a tingling sensation all over my body and discovered the collapsed tent, and I realized that the events of the previous night were not a dream.
I turned my head and saw Niles lying on the floor.
It was harder than I imagined.
Carrying a dead adult into the bridge alone.
After that, I fell asleep from exhaustion while trying to collect Pale and his siblings who were dead inside the tent.
Strictly speaking, it was dangerous.
Because it was something that might have been discovered by Hector’s organization members who were on a reconnaissance mission.
It was a careless action that I would never have done under normal circumstances, but it was because my physical and mental strength had been pushed to the limit last night.
Fortunately, the rain seemed to have stopped not long ago outside, where the sun was shining brightly.
Judging by the quiet surroundings, it seemed that the enemy was not active while it was raining.
“… … .”
The mind had returned to its usual numb state.
I felt like I was dreaming.
I never knew I felt such intense emotions.
Still, something was a little different.
It wasn’t exactly the same as before.
The emotions that surged through me last night left traces all over my heart before disappearing.
Fear, hesitation, excitement, confusion, etc.
It looked like a crater carved out by a meteorite.
…and anger and sadness.
The craters for these two emotions were larger than the craters for all other emotions combined.
As I focused on the traces, I could vaguely feel each emotion.
Especially in the case of anger and sadness, it was felt very clearly.
It was proof that he was human.
“… … .”
I created a fire with my anger rising.
Hwaruk.
It wasn’t as big as when I defeated the golem yesterday, but it was a much bigger flame than usual.
The hypothesis that the power of magic varies depending on emotions was not wrong.
My head started to hurt, maybe because I had been holding onto my emotions for too long.
As I came out of the immersion, the emotions from earlier disappeared as if they were a lie.
“… … .”
The feeling of turning emotions on and off.
Ray turned his gaze to see the dead Niles and the children.
‘There’s no time to collect the body right now.’
The black rain has stopped, and there is a high probability that enemies will have entered Street 17.
Ray started moving right away.
Iron-stone─ Iron-stone─
I washed my blood-stained raincoat in the river and put it on. I climbed the riverbank and headed toward 17th Street.
He planned to find and kill the wizard who controlled Hector and the Golem.
What you receive, you must pay back.
Whether it’s grace or revenge.
Even if you can’t kill them, you have to inflict some amount of damage to keep the rule.
Knock, knock, knock
I walked quickly.
As we passed the outskirts of the city, charred buildings and corpses strewn across the ground came into view.
“What the hell. What the hell is going on?”
“Help me over here. I can’t see Henry.”
The surviving residents were cleaning up the scene.
A few of Hector’s gang were seen wandering around, pretending to be directors.
“What the hell is this kid─!”
Ray’s actions were faster than the shouts of the organization members.
Ray, who quickly dove into the arms of his organization members, generated a blue current and stretched out his arms to grab his opponent’s neck.
Phagectic─!
“Ugh, ugh!”
dump!
The surrounding members looked back at Ray.
“fu*k. What the hell is this?”
“Isn’t that the kid? The kid who robbed the warehouse said he used a stun gun.”
“Just catch them. The boss said to catch all the brats.”
The members of the organization who exchanged signals took out their knives and rushed toward Ray all at once.
Coordinated movements, mindful of the electric shock device hidden inside the raincoat.
Crackle! Crackle!
Thud! Thud!
But it didn’t even take 10 seconds for everything to fall down at Ray’s feet.
The emotion that Ray is currently concentrating on is anger.
Red mana, corresponding to anger, flowed through Ray’s veins, flashing like lava.
It was a body strengthening magic used instinctively.
Ray thought of an image that would make his body ‘stronger’, and the red mana responded to his will and transformed into magic.
Heart pounding.
My muscles trembled without rest and my body felt light as a feather.
As I walked down 17th Street, the anger from yesterday was coming back to me in full force.
Now, perhaps revenge against Hector and the sorcerer was truly possible.
“What the…!”
“Re, isn’t that Ray? That one?”
Ray quickly walked away again, leaving the surprised residents behind.
“The enemy is here…!”
Dismissed!
dump!
I quickly arrived at the alley near the central square, defeating all the enemies I encountered.
─How should I handle this?
─Do as we decided in advance. Don’t be confused. Wasn’t this a fight we were going to win anyway?
In the square, there were far more voices than anywhere else.
I stuck my head out of the alley and checked the situation.
“… … .”
The moment I saw Hector giving orders to his men, I felt a stiffness in the back of my head.
The color of the red mana flowing through the blood vessels became darker. The flow also became faster.
Kwak.
Every nerve in his body was focused on Hector.
He grabbed the knife handle.
The red mana that had gathered at my feet was ready to explode.
“Kid. Can I talk to you for a minute?”
A voice was heard from behind at that moment.
bang!
Ray turned around and stamped his foot, and there was a sound like an explosive going off.
Ray shot out like a bullet and kicked the ground.
Without a moment’s hesitation, he swung the knife toward his opponent’s neck.
Wedge──!
“… … !”
Humphrey turned around urgently.
Blood spurted from the shallow cut on his neck, accompanied by a burning pain.
“this…!”
If his reaction had been even a little bit late, he would have collapsed with blood pouring out of his neck.
fault!
He wrapped his palm around my neck and stepped back a large distance.
Without giving me a chance to catch my breath, Ray immediately closed the gap and followed me.
“Calm down for a moment…!”
Wedge─! Wedge─!
Humphrey twisted his body to avoid the flying knife.
Because of the fierce and fast attack, bruises began to appear all over my body in an instant.
“what…!”
The moment his eyes met Ray’s, Humphrey felt goosebumps run down his body.
It was the look in the eyes of a beast.
Filled with only the murderous intent to stab the opponent in the heart.
Wedge─! Wedge─!
Moreover, it was not an attack where one swings the sword indiscriminately.
All attacks were organic movements that aimed only at the most critical points.
I was embarrassed.
‘What the heck? This ridiculous movement…!’
Last time I saw you, you definitely weren’t at this level of skill.
He was a street child and a good fighter, but he was easily subdued if he put his mind to it.
But now it was different.
If you don’t give it your all, you die.
As someone who has been through countless fights, I can tell.
Humphrey gritted his teeth.
We continued to allow shallow attacks and analyzed the situation.
The combat sense is good.
But it seems like he lacks experience.
then.
Fit!
“Ugh!”
Humphrey deliberately allowed a hit to his left shoulder.
He grabbed Ray’s arm without missing the deliberately induced gap.
Thud!
And then he just threw it on the floor.
It was done with only one hand, and it was done with incredible strength.
Kuung─!
Ray, who had hit the ground, bounced back into the alley.
He immediately straightened his posture and pointed the knife at Humphrey with a wary gesture.
“You… what are you?”
Humphrey looked between Ray and his hands with a bewildered expression.
The feeling of holding my arm was strange.
It felt like I was being hit with a rock rather than a person.
Also, the kid was able to get through the tech and still look fine.
In a normal case, I would have been lying on the floor and not even able to breathe properly.
What Humphrey felt was correct.
The actual damage Ray received was minimal due to the shock granted by the strengthening magic.
Humphrey took a deep breath.
Fortunately, the other members of the organization outside did not seem to hear the commotion.
“How about calming down for now? The Ghost of 17th Street, Ray.”
“… … .”
There was a strange light in Ray’s eyes.
How do you know this name?
Humphrey continued speaking, keeping a close eye on Ray’s movements and maintaining a tense tone.
“You’re famous. More than you think. There are quite a few people who are paying attention.”
When I tried to say something, it was useless.
Ray braced his legs to continue the attack.
But the next moment.
“Surely you’re not thinking of dying a dog’s death for revenge, are you? I have a proposition for you.”
I had no choice but to stop my body from running away.