Chapter 41: Reviews

“I’m sorry for lying about loving you.”

The mournful words that flowed from Yeres’ lips,

and the affectionate gesture of caressing her cheek like a lover,

made Happy’s movements sluggish, incomparably more so than before.

It didn’t end there, either.

The light she had gathered to heal the blood-fountaining neck failed to achieve its original purpose.

It didn’t even rouse her from the winter sleep from which she would never awaken.

Instead, she slowly knelt on the floor, where blood and water were mixed.

Feeling Yeres’ body temperature gradually cooling, she let out deep sighs erratically.

Happy knew very well that she shouldn’t be doing this.

But she couldn’t help it.

She was overwhelmed by the truth that Yeres, who had constantly lied, had shown for the first time.

“Unnie. Stay still.”

That didn’t mean she intended to end it here.

It might be arrogance that overwhelmed her pride, but she possessed the ability to do so.

Judging that she could save Yeres even if she started healing now, she gathered the light that had been hovering in the air once more.

At the same time, she filled her lungs, which had been emptied by constantly sighing, with oxygen.

Then, she tried to forget the words she had just heard.

No.

Unable to forget, she began to suspect Yeres, saying that she was still lying.

Otherwise, she didn’t think her sluggish body would speed up.

“This is… the truth.”

This time, it was no different from before.

She shouldn’t, but she couldn’t help it.

She didn’t want to insult the words that Yeres, who would die soon, was struggling to continue.

The two sentences that flowed from her lips had sufficiently confused Happy’s heart.

Because those were the words she had wanted to hear so badly.

As if not caring even if they were lies.

With a smile stained with a bit of sadness and a bit of joy drawn on her lips, she stood by Yeres’ side.

She endlessly repeated the words she had uttered in her head.

I’m sorry for lying about loving you.

This is the truth.

Slowly.

For a long time.

I’m sorry for lying about loving…

“Cough…!”

“Ye… Yeres Unnie!”

The tragedy of neglecting the injured person struck.

Yeres’ hand, which had been caressing her cheek, fell onto the liquid-filled floor like a marionette with its strings cut.

The blood and water, which had not been mixing due to magic, had their boundary lines blurred and soon embraced each other.

Only then did Happy, who had returned to reality, try to heal Yeres, but her soul had already left her body.

“Unnie…?”

There was no answer.

Instead, the shock of her beloved committing suicide before her eyes and the loneliness of being left alone in this world.

The regret of not healing her even though she possessed the ability to do so, and other miscellaneous emotions, greeted Happy.

“…It’s okay.”

So she shed tears and wanted to sob.

Not wanting to do so, she wiped away the flowing tears,

forced down the sobs that were squeezing out of her throat and trying to burst forth,

and tried to smile somehow.

“You confirmed a lot of things this time, right?”

Just because Yeres died in this life

doesn’t mean she will die in the next life as well.

It’s just that she’s not used to it every time she sees it.

While gently embracing her 132nd corpse, which had turned cold,

sadness was no longer visible on Happy’s face, who had soothed her thoroughly broken heart.

“I just need to do better next time.”

Now it was time to start the ritual that she had been performing every time after defeating the queen of the evil organization Dark Moon.

When she gathered light in both hands, the liquid that filled the floor writhed.

Soon, light and liquid formed a bizarre harmony and drew a magic circle centered around Happy.

“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

At that moment, a cry similar to the roar of a beast was heard in Happy’s ear.

When she turned her head towards the source of the noise, Alpha, who had witnessed the death of the queen she served, was wailing loudly.

“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

A gag was stuffed in her mouth, so the sentence structure was not clear.

However, judging from the vampire’s unique red eyes and the expression drawn on her face.

And the struggles to somehow free her bound body.

It was probably filled with words cursing the magical girl.

“It’s noisy.”

Thinking that her soul might rot and fester if she continued to listen, Happy frowned and stood up.

“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Had she forgotten the weakness that had been swept away by Happy’s strength in the past?

Or was it because she served Yeres so much that she had surpassed that?

Alpha was not afraid of the approaching Happy.

Rather, she began to wail even more fiercely.

“I was like that at first too.”

But Happy didn’t kill Alpha.

Instead, she patted her shoulder and nodded.

She understood the wailing of a stray dog who had lost its master.

“I hated the fate of having to kill Yeres Unnie so much.”

In fact, all of this

imprisoning the queen of the evil organization Dark Moon and pouring love into her,

and Yeres ending her life by suicide.

Even the fact that the subordinate survived while the queen died.

These were all events that had occurred for the first time for Happy.

She hoped that those peculiarities would gather and gather and that the peculiarity of Yeres loving her would finally appear.

“You must feel the same way as me.”

However, she only strengthened the magic circle drawn on the handcuffs, just in case the vampire couldn’t overcome her anger and used the blood sprawled on the floor as she pleased, and didn’t impose any other sanctions.

“So just watch quietly.”

“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

When she walked back to Yeres and reached out her hand, Alpha’s seizure worsened.

She had already decided not to care anymore.

She began to repeat the actions she had repeated 131 times.

First, she closed Yeres’ open eyes.

Then, she stole the sadness from her face where joy and sadness coexisted.

There’s no one who’s used to that, but.

The feeling of the body, which had always been warm, turning cold was not easy to get used to.

She stole a kiss from her lips to convey even a little bit of warmth.

Now it’s time to send Yeres away.

Forcibly pulling herself together, she cast magic using the light hovering in the air.

At first, the light was warm, but it gradually became hotter, and in the end, it blazed like a flickering flame.

Happy poured that light onto Yeres without hesitation.

Now it’s time to remember this life she had with Yeres.

Happy knelt down next to her burning body and didn’t move an inch.

She watched Yeres gradually fading away,

smelled the scent coming from her,

and reminisced about her while listening to the sound of her corpse burning.

There were no nightmares in the memories that came to mind.

They were all filled with memories that made her smile.

So she forced her smile to distort and grieved.

Because the person to share the memories with had disappeared.

Smiling and distorting.

The smile where joy and sadness coexisted on Happy’s face gradually deepened.

…
…

Before she knew it, the cremation was over.

Yeres’ traces had completely disappeared from the floor soaked with blood and water.

“I won again this time.”

When she finally opened her mouth, the declaration she suddenly blurted out was pathetic.

“Ha. Does anyone think I want to win?”

Even so, Happy

“It doesn’t matter if Unnie kills me.”

Looking at the floor where nothing was visible

“If that makes Unnie happy, I can give up my life at any time.”

She continued to open her mouth.

“Hyunseo agreed to this too.”

I remember all the constantly repeating lives because of you.

“Does Hyunseo know too? No. She doesn’t know.”

In fact, I didn’t remember everything from the beginning either.

“I overcome the sadness, overcome it, and overcome it, and when I finish the awakening, I remember everything.”

Before that, I can’t remember everything either.

“Hyunseo can’t hear me either.”

But when we get here

“I try like crazy to be loved by Unnie.”

We love you that much.

“…”

No.

“I’m not stupid enough to be swayed by what you say.”

And I’m not a fool who’s gone crazy for love either.

“No, maybe I’m doing this because I’m a fool.”

Just once.

I wish Unnie would treat me sincerely.

“I can’t be satisfied with this right now.”

Hey, you. It’s already the 132nd time.

“You don’t know how unpleasant it is to watch the person you love die 132 times, do you?”

So aren’t you giving me compensation?

“Ha…”

You tell me that only on the 122nd time and say that?

“Even the compensation is ambiguous.”

…

“Okay. I’ll take back the word ambiguous.”

It’s good.

“Creating Unnie’s resident registration card.”

Having a colleague who gives me money by my side

“Getting rid of my disgusting father”

It’s all good.

“But if you think about the problems that arose because of that…”

I can’t just say it’s good.

“You agree with this too, right?”

Good. It’s good that we’re communicating well.

“In that sense…”

This life…

“I really hated it, but it was good.”

Thank you.

“You shook Unnie’s heart.”

I had a lot of firsts with Unnie.

“It was a little annoying because it was a lie.”

Anyway.

“Let’s end this story here.”

I always say this, but I hate you so much for manipulating Unnie’s life as you please.

“So please grant my little wish this time too.”

What could it be?

“That b*tch was there.”

I mean the subordinate Unnie took in first.

“This time, I want to shake that b*tch’s heart.”

Then…

“Goodbye.”

The magic circle drawn under Happy’s feet was now complete.

I don’t know exactly what it was, but

the energy that was smoldering from inside the magic circle

possessed a power so strong that it could turn the whole world upside down,

like the wish that Yeres had so desperately wanted.

That’s how their 132nd meeting came to an end.

In a life full of tragedy and comedy,

Happy didn’t lose her smile until the very end.