LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 45
In a world of zeros and ones, some things become crystal clear.
Parents’ hearts
Adults’ movements
The flow of public opinion.
When it has substance, things are so complicated.
But if you replace everything with dots and try to draw a picture, a clear image emerges.
Dorim realized this in her room at a very young age.
Her parents’ divorce was just two immature people failing to love each other.
Adults who tried to use her were just restless because of their own goals.
The lightness of ever-changing public opinion was merely the whispers of countless people flowing like waves.
To the girl who could now see the world broadly, this world didn’t seem so bad.
Whoooooosh…
The wind brushing her ears thumped against her eardrums, and at some point, she could hear nothing.
“Phew…”
Dorim took in the view of Jongno, which looked smaller than her palm, then lifted her gaze again. She spread her hands wide and slowly ascended into the sky, carrying a bomb.
0101010100101010101…
While swimming in the sea of data through Cyber Swimming, what she felt were the emotions of countless people.
A small amount transferred.
There, she felt a father’s worry for his son who might be starving.
An order for a suit set.
There, she sensed a college girl’s determination to prepare for tomorrow’s challenge.
A plane ticket hastily booked on Jeju Island for the university interview day.
There, she felt a high schooler’s excitement on the brink of success.
The writing history of a user on a community site that had been declining since a certain day.
There, she discovered a man’s joy in finding another source of interest.
0101100101010010101010…
The world drawn with dots was definitely not hell.
In this world, there was a beauty of diverse and wonderful emotions bubbling up and spreading all at once.
At least, that’s what Dorim thought.
Whooooosh…
The color of the surrounding sky was gradually darkening.
Beyond the bomb, what she saw was a deep blue closer to endless darkness.
Her fingertips froze, and her breath, barely held by her psychic ability, turned ragged.
“Huuh… Huh…”
Dorim looked down again.
There was the place where she was born, grew up, saw, felt, and loved.
That sight felt so beautiful that tears welled up in Dorim’s eyes.
[Dorim! It’s dangerous! Come down!]
She felt Sanghyuk’s email come through to the contact she had left open for the chairman of the Supernatural Ability Response Team.
It seemed like he managed to escape there to urgently check on Dorim’s news.
“Hehe… Uncle… your head is looking a bit empty…?”
Sanghyuk, who couldn’t continue his marital life due to the inheritance from his daughter.
Since the moment he met Dorim in the apartment park after signing the divorce papers and running away from her parents’ fight, he claimed to be her friend.
The middle-aged man who had faced life’s storms became an unexpectedly great friend to the child whose mental age was way too mature.
“Let’s not hate people.”
There was a worry in his heart that the clever Dorim might look down on this world.
“Let’s live loving people.”
“Uncle, I’ve never… not even once hated people.”
Dorim conveyed her true feelings that Sanghyuk couldn’t hear.
“Because, it’s so beautiful like this.”
Crunch
Dorim’s unique gear, the VR Goggles, couldn’t withstand the lack of magic and broke.
Since it was initially a mass of magic, once the goggles lost their shape, they shattered completely.
Crackle
Crackle
With the shattered goggles cleared away, Dorim’s face was smiling.
Just knowing that someone remembers her gave her strength.
[Dorim, I’m sorry! Come back quickly!]
[Dorim! I was wrong! Dad was wrong!]
Ah.
What a relief.
“I haven’t really hated you, I just hope you find new love and live well.”
With a bright smile, Dorim forgave her parents, who at least hadn’t completely forgotten her.
They, too, were inexperienced adults living just one life, and Dorim herself was an inexperienced girl.
…That’s how she decided to think.
――!
In the sky where the muffled wind that had been striking her ears since earlier had vanished, only a chilling calm remained.
With each breath, she felt icy air chilling her lungs.
Her hands, already numb, had lost their sensation.
“Haah… Huh… Phew…”
She had clouds beneath her feet, and all that remained was endless darkness.
Darkness…
“Phew… Huh…”
Dizzy
Just then, Dorim, who nearly lost consciousness in the darkness, gritted her teeth.
“Not yet… not yet…!”
[Dorim! Are you okay?]
[Dorim! Thank you for always watching over me!]
[Cyber Magical Girl fighting!! You must come back!]
[The strongest middle school girl, Kang Eunseol!]
[The strongest magical girl in Korea!]
“Ha… Haha…!”
The girls… the older sisters who were going back and forth in the Supernatural Ability Response Center.
Dorim thought she had kept her distance, quietly focusing on her own work, but they were always cheering for her.
“Now… the Silver Sister will guard you well…”
Now that she entered the realm of [Start], the kindest, silliest, and purest king she knew would protect them.
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[Is this email going to Kang Eunseol?]
[Thank you, Magical Girl!]
[I’m watching the news right now, cheering for you!]
[Thanks to you, I didn’t get scammed and can safely open a shop with my son, really, thank you.]
[You are coming back, right? What will happen if there’s no Cyber Magical Girl in Korea!]
[I’m at home watching the news and cheering for you!!]
[Without Dorim, Korea will feel too dull!! Come back!!]
010101010011100111010101011010101…
[Once I finish work, I’ll send some fruit baskets to the Supernatural Ability Response Center! You must come!]
[I made Seolleongtang, you must come and eat!]
[Thank you, Kang Eunseol!]
[The name Dorim is cute, but why are you changing it~ You must come back safely!]
[Eunseol Unnie, come back safe!]
[You are the only Magical Girl in the world who has stopped a terrorist attack!]
[I’m crying while watching the news… Thank you, Magical Girl! For protecting us!!]
[I’m proud that Dorim is the next amazing Magical Girl after [Start]!]
101010011010101110101000101010101010…
Behold.
These hearts are imbued with warmth that cannot be changed into a single dot.
Dorim found it lovely.
Dorim felt proud of it.
Crackle
Crackle
Could it be reaching its limit?
Gray noise erupted from all over Dorim’s body, and her strength swiftly drained away.
“Uugh… Phew…!”
Let’s hold on.
“Uwah… Uwaaaaaa!!!”
Dorim summoned her strength to protect those she cheered for and herself.
00:57
00:56
00:55
As far away and as fast as possible.
This speed is not enough.
Further, faster.
So that no one gets hurt and welcomes tomorrow with smiles…!
If someone asked her why she’s doing so much, she would answer like this.
“Because I’m a Magical Girl…!”
A Magical Girl who wants to love and protect everyone!
Whoooooom
She felt her Glass Star resonate greatly.
She sensed that countless people were feeling hope as they watched her ascend as a single dot into the sky.
Hundreds, thousands, millions of hearts were connected to her, cheering her on.
The world.
The world that the girl loved now responded.
The loose t-shirt that had been Dorim’s Blooming Magical Girl costume was enveloped in dazzling light.
No longer anxious about preparing for the future alone.
For the Magical Girl who loved the world and connects the hopes of millions, a fitting outfit was necessary.
01010110101010010110101010110001101…
The stickers densely clinging to her shirt scattered into fragments of magic and transformed into a large ribbon wrapping her waist.
Over the silver ribbon, countless hopes and wishes that are still endlessly being sent surged up as zeros and ones.
Gentle light brought Glass Shoes to her small bare feet.
The tangled, messy gray hair straightened and shone silver.
As the dazzling light that cloaked Dorim scattered gray crystals,
there stood a single Magical Girl dressed in silver.
Blooming 3-Star [Cyber]
Kang Dorim
In the midst of countless hopes and wishes, the girl who loved the world had truly bloomed her shining third star.
[Dorim!! Now’s the time!!]
A silvery voice faintly rang out.
The realm was complete.
“If it’s now…!”
Dorim felt the weak realm she normally couldn’t grasp resonate and blend with her third star.
Dorim raised her outstretched hands.
[Cyber] Magical Girl Unique Skill
Cyber World
“Further! Completely break free!”
Dorim shouted, gathering magic in her hands.
“So that no one gets hurt!!”
The gray magic intertwined with silver threads and transformed into a massive force, materializing the hopes of the people who had turned into zeros and ones.
Some magic became massive machinery and pushed the bomb away,
some became virtual heroes and pushed the bomb away,
some took the form of Dorim and pushed the bomb away.
The virtual world filled with people’s hearts became reality and repelled the malignant intent of the insane.
The hope mixed with gray and silver took shape and opened a grand ballroom in the dark universe.
From the bomb, pushed far away like nothing before, ominous magic burst forth.
00:00
Flash.
Kwaaaaaaang!
Even in the face of the overwhelming violence of light and energy, the virtual Cinderella was smiling.
Even after the ball ended, she could return leisurely.
To the world she loves.