Transformation or Death - Chapter 304



304 – Snake’s Head (13)

Before Silver Luna and the Japanese magical girls stopped the snake’s head, Jason and Amundsen were working separately.

Amundsen moved to the highest point for sniping, while Jason, on the other hand, moved to the lowest and dreariest place, a back alley that was dark even on this bright night.

Stars shine brighter in darkness. Beings originating from that star also have their eyes glowing in dark places.

“Comrades!”

“Who is your comrade?”

Monster.

A mysterious monster born into the world one day.

Jason contacted them.

“Help me! “If this continues, we’ll all die!”

None other than to ask for help.

A snake is approaching. We need cooperation to stop that giant beast. This was the answer Jason came up with after racking his brain in his own way.

If you ask me if that plan is realistic, it’s a little bit not.

“Why me? I am different from weak humans. “Do you think you can live even if something like that falls?”

“Let’s join forces to take down that snake? Huh, just by looking at you, you look weak. You’re planning to go all out and aim for the moment when you’re exhausted, right? You cunning b*stard! “How can you entrust your head to a competitor?!”

“Yes, cooperation is good. For our dreams, we need to save humans. Speaking of which, you seem to be friendly with humans. Can you introduce me to some useful humans? what? No? “Then why do I cooperate with you?”

“I will survive on my own. “I don’t feel like there’s a need to cooperate.”

“Rather, I wish it would fall?! Extreme situation! Human nature comes out in that situation! “It’s the perfect testing ground for my dreams!”

Most monsters refused his request.

I understand. Jason’s persuasion did not work for them as they calculated losses and gains.

The reason why Jason tries to save people is because of a sense of kinship. Most people are weak like Jason. They live each day without a dream. Struggling against danger coming from all directions. Jason felt a sense of kinship with that wandering.

Therefore, not only monsters but also people were comrades to Jason.

“People are comrades? What bullshit. “They are just tools to make your dreams come true!”

Of course, most monsters disagreed with this opinion.

“What is your dream that makes you want to save people like that?”

There was no answer to that.

There are many things Jason doesn’t know.

First of all, he doesn’t know dreams.

It is said that when he was in the constellation Argo, he dreamed of owning the world. Jason doesn’t understand the dream. Jason didn’t have that much greed. He almost wants to ask what he will use the world for. He doesn’t know why he wants it in the first place.

So Jason does not call the dream his dream. A dream he does not understand cannot be called a dream.

Additionally, there is a contradiction in the titles of his comrades.

Jason knows a person who is strong enough to be compared to a monster. Many magical girls were like that, like Jo Ayun and Han Jaejoong.

They are not weak. He is strong enough. Nevertheless, Jason thought of them as comrades.

It is clear that the sense of solidarity that comes from being the weak must disappear, but Jason thought of everyone, not just the weak, as comrades.

Is it an expression of loneliness or is it because he has feelings he doesn’t know about?

Jaejoong Han said that the constellation Argo itself has the ability to brainwash. It is said that even those with the zodiac sign change their thinking to suit the captain of the Argo ship.

So what does Jason mean when Argo disappears?

What will be in the empty space where the great greed that will devour the world has disappeared?

Jason doesn’t know the answer yet.

I don’t know why they love humans so much, are weak, and ignorant.

That’s why Jason doesn’t know himself.

There’s only one thing I know now.

“her….”

The miracles brought about by the will of people are beautiful.

A miracle created by those who came together to fight against an enemy they could not fight.

A window made of starlight.

Jason was amazed at the phenomenon created by the magic girls’ lights.

The spear made of light formed a long tail at the end and disappeared.

The snake’s head also disappeared.

“I’m glad… I guess I’ll have to go back to my comrade now.”

Jason moved on to Amundsen, grateful that others had taken down the snake in his place of incompetence.

“comrades! Good luck! Now if I just try a little harder… huh?”

Shortly after using his powers to travel to Amundsen, Jason saw the snake coming down from the sky again.

And then I heard Amundsen’s declaration.

“Jason, my disciples. “There are times when a man risks his life.”

Amundsen manipulated the belt. Broken and rusty belt. The spherical belt split, revealing a luminescent plate. But there was no light yet.

“I think now is the time.”

To carve light into the belt, Amundsen moved his other hand. There was a key in his hand.

“Transformation.”

Amundsen cried out for change.

Those eyes shone.

**

Life is about accumulating karma.

At least that’s what Amundsen thought.

The karma we have accumulated in our lives will come back one day.

Good deeds will someday return to good deeds, and evil deeds will someday return to evil deeds.

Therefore, we must stay away from evil deeds and close to good deeds.

This was consistent with a famous quote by a respected great man named after Amundsen.

-‘Victory comes to those who are prepared, and people call it luck. Defeat comes to those who do not prepare in advance, and people call this bad luck.’

Accumulating good deeds is a preparation process for obtaining good luck.

In that sense, Amundsen was one of those who did not prepare in advance.

He was a sinner.

A massacre who massacred countless people.

Can sin be wiped away?

Amundsen thought, it could be done.

However, the liquidation must be done through evil deeds, not good deeds. If you kill someone, the ending should not be a life of saving someone else, but a life of driving yourself to death.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Death for death.

It’s a given.

“Those are violent thoughts, Kimu.”

Helios said after hearing his thoughts.

“It’s noisy. “I have to snipe.”

“That one? Shoot it down? Arthur. What could be so meaningless? “Do you think it will burn up and disappear before the arrow even reaches me?”

“…There’s a way to everything.”

Helios looked at Amundsen, who was holding his bow tightly.

The world has yet to see a second head.

This conversation was before the magical girls stopped the snake.

Amundsen climbed to the highest point, the Magical Girl Headquarters, to shoot the snake, and Helios followed him after spotting him.

It was a leisurely chatting time between the two older generations.

“Are you planning to die?”

“Even if you don’t want to die, you will die someday.”

“It’s different when you choose that death yourself.”

Helios asked for his death.

“I have to stop you first. “Preventing suicide is one of the jobs of a magical girl.”

“Drying it out doesn’t stop it.”

“Then you have to try harder to stop it. “Because that’s my job.”

“There’s really nothing to do….”

Amundsen chuckled. Helios also laughed along.

“The reason you decided to die was because of what you did as a monster?”

“okay. “Little one.”

“If I’m a kid, you’re even more of a kid… Huh, no, that’s enough. But if you really think about it, you saved more people before you killed them. “What happens to that karma?”

“What is that…?”

The two reminisced about the past. A time when humans were much weaker than they are now. A story about a time when I survived all kinds of accidents in a period of about a month.

“I also benefited from your help. You made up for my magic weaknesses. Kimu, it’s thanks to you that I became so proficient in magic. “If you think about it, you also indirectly helped the people I saved.”

Helios talked about his good karma, as opposed to Amundsen talking about his bad karma. He knows because he lived in the same era. How many people he saved from the shadows.

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“How will your good karma be paid off?”

Amundsen said nothing.

After a moment of silence, Helios opened his mouth without hearing his answer.

“A tiger dies and leaves its skin, and a person dies and leaves a name… That’s the proverb you told me.”

Death is not the end. It was always a law to leave something to the living.

There is something that leads to death.

“Even if a person dies unexpectedly, a name is left behind, and if a person decides to die, it must be because there is something they really desperately want to leave behind in the world.”

Helios asked again.

“Kimu, what can your death leave behind?”

What do you want to leave behind?

“Do you have to die to be left behind?”

Is it absolutely necessary to leave it behind?

Amundsen hesitated at that moment. He pondered whether this was really a necessary death. He thought about karma, sin, and death.

Not long after that, Helios departed for heaven. He said that he couldn’t dare to let his juniors leave me behind and play.

That was really funny. When I first saw him, he was a kid who trembled and threw fireballs in strange directions at the sight of even a low-level monster. When did he grow up to be like a senior?

When did you get the courage to take on a challenge like that?

It was a fight where death was inevitable.

Just looking at its size, it is no match for it. Even if you gathered all the magical girls in the world, you could barely fill one of those snake eyes.

This is especially true when looking at starlight. The snake had an intense brightness like a real star. It’s like the sun. The magical girl’s starlight is no better than a firefly compared to that.

It is literally a fight between predator and prey.

They were going to die.

Knowing that, Amundsen could not stop Helios.

Because they were going on an adventure.

It is natural that you will die, and even if you are lucky, your chances of survival are low.

Dangerous journeys, low wages, heat waves, places so bright you can’t even open your eyes, constant danger, and the precious uncertainty of safety.

But when successful, fame and glory.

It was a journey towards love and peace.

The fight that started with an unarmed punch from a cowardly girl soon brought together all of Japan’s magical girls. Regardless of senior or junior, age or experience, strength or weakness, they gathered together and united their hearts to defeat the enemy that threatened the world.

These were grand wills that were not defeated by one gigantic individual.

The struggle of the weak and cowardly.

Even that weak struggle had its own aesthetic. Even in the seemingly ruthless use of magic and magic, there was skill.

“Huh…”

Technology is created so that the weak can overcome the strong. To produce maximum force with minimum force.

Their starlight, that magic, contained some of the tricks that Amundsen had taught the magic girl in the past.

“It’s so fucking absurd….”

circulation.

Teaching leads to teaching.

Good deeds lead to good deeds.

Good deeds come back.

Soft moonlight illuminated Amundsen’s eyes.

They eventually won.

It was a victory of will.

Here, good karma has been liquidated.

Now, it was time to clear away the bad karma.

Amundsen was convinced when he saw the snake reappear.

This is where I will die.

-‘Asshole teacher! I got information from Ayun. Please forward it to them too. The Watcher has now left for space. Even if a snake is cut, its neck continues to grow. also….’

Information came in from the last disciple. This is information about the snake and information about our allies.

The Watcher has escaped from Earth and is fighting the snake in space, the Hound is unable to fight due to poison, and Red Vega uses Supernova once and takes time to reuse.

However, it is a crazy monster that comes back to life even if you kill its enemies.

Unfortunately, Amundsen cannot kill that monster. He can’t help it. There are limits to his power. And the limits are clear. He has already reached it. Even a fatal blow would not be enough to sever the snake’s throat.

He is the strongest among the monsters who did not become a galaxy. It can literally be called the head of a snake. An ambiguous strongman. You will never be able to enter the top class.

However, I might be able to leave something to that elite.

Even a snake’s head can bite a dragon’s tail.

“Transform!”

Life is about accumulating karma.

A sinner’s sins must be paid off with the same sin.

So can a sinner become a hero?

Amundsen thought it was possible.

If dying is a natural life, you can also choose the process leading up to death.

If you lived as a prodigal son, live with honor until the end.

“Adventure with the stars!”

Intense starlight erupted from his belt.

What we bring is the heyday of the past and the possibilities of the future. A healthy body in the past and a more advanced technology in the future. It looks like it takes the best of both worlds.

Two pairs of arms to wield more weapons, eyes enlarged like insects to look at more places, and hardened skin. A body specialized for fighting.

I used the second key I received from the Watcher. There is now one key left, but unfortunately that key will not be used.

“I will never go your own way!”

[I’m busy so I can’t answer properly… Uh, what are you saying, you’re not Ayun?]

“It’s me, you idiot!”

The belt was activated and communication with the Watcher continued. It seemed like it could be reached even if it was beyond space.

Amundsen laughed from ear to ear. His eyes also widened.

“I’m using your gift well!”

Those eyes were beyond their limits. I even see things I couldn’t see before. An act that turns life into ashes just by looking at it.

What those eyes see is victory over misfortune.

“Please take good care of the Hell Union that is gone!”

The eyes saw death.

The death of the deathless.

The blood that creates death.

A place to cut off the power of regeneration.

To see death is to get closer to death. Amundsen’s life slowly burned away.

“I didn’t live as a hero, but…”

Amundsen held the bow with both hands and the arrow with both hands. Starlight gathers on his body. Gradually, the boundary between the bow and the body became blurred.

“The hero could see.”

A master of weapons. Everything you grab is a weapon.

“I saw that cowards had courage, monsters could love people, and ordinary people could become extraordinary. “I saw people who should not have deserved it, who were not destined for it, become great!”

My body was also a weapon to him.

“So I believe! “Even the unqualified can be qualified!”

Weapons are tools and consumables. It will break someday.

“Even those who cannot become heroes can become heroes! “This is an adventure to prove it!”

The weapon that has completed its maximum attack has fulfilled its purpose and disappears.

He used his own body as a weapon and fired it.

“Here I go on my final adventure!”

The last arrow was fired.

“Remember my end, this courage, this result!”

Starlight flies in the sky.

“I prove it! “Anyone can be a hero!”

It flies like a shooting star. It flies with its long tail hanging down.

“Even the lowest can rise to the highest and shine!”

It was a rise, not a fall. Endless rise. transcendence.

The light soon reached the giant monster’s head and dissipated.

The monster collapsed and never appeared in the sky again.

No new head was created.

Amundsen also did not return.

He lived a sinner’s life and died a hero.

The snake’s head did not touch the ground.

Therefore, no one died.

…There were 0 casualties.

Later records proved him.

**

The world goes in a cycle.

The will of the weak leads to the will of the strong.

The snake’s head, which was the summit of the weakest, leads to the dragon’s tail.

His will and memorabilia were left behind.

The will went to the sky, and the keepsakes fell to the ground and reached someone else.

Jaejoong Han opens his eyes.

Jason picked up his belt.

By this person who went to hell, unity began again.