A Mysterious Package
A Mysterious Package
【Prologue】
"Kulleok-"
"Give up now, Nightmare Walker."
"You are strong indeed... Rainbow Bubble."
"You're just weak."
"Keuk-keuk, were you always this arrogant?"
The goat-headed man, half of whose body had vanished, giggled and laughed. Finding that sight unpleasant, Rainbow Bubble curled her fingers into a circle and, with a hoo-, blew out a pure white bubble.
The bubble touching the goat man's body popped with a pang! and instantly began to freeze him.
With pure white frost creeping up to his neck, the goat man spat out laughter with an even more bizarre voice.
"Keuk-keuk, to think there were those who could resist my reality warping."
"Your ability is certainly troublesome, but it doesn't work on us magical girls. Now it's time to pay for your evil deeds."
"No, you're wrong, magical girl."
With his one remaining unfrozen hand, the goat man ripped out his own heart that was visible between his wounds.
"If you resist, I just have to overwrite it with a greater curse."
"What are you...!"
"I sacrifice my life to rewrite reality! You, magical girl Rainbow Bubble! Your limbs shall be no more, and you, who received everyone's love, shall entrust everything to the person you hate the most! Furthermore, you shall never be able to separate yourself from the symbol of your downfall!"
"What on earth does that—kyaaah!"
Rainbow Bubble, who was about to blow another bubble, saw that her arms had vanished.
Then, as her legs vanished as well, Rainbow Bubble rolled onto the floor with a kung-.
And together with something pitch-black that engulfed her body in an instant, she lost consciousness.
"Then, try living in hell......"
At the exact moment the head of the goat man, who had crushed his own heart, dropped dead, the doorbell of a house somewhere in Seoul rang.
Tting-dong-
"Delivery... I didn't order anything though?"
"Well. The address is here, you are Han Seunghoo-ssi, right?"
"Yes, that's right."
"Try to be even a quarter like your younger sister."
"Don't waste your energy, yeobo. Still, we are lucky our Yena is so good and admirable."
Thanks to my younger sister who excelled since childhood, I was the so-called headache, parasite, and disowned child.
Mom, who would tell the auntie next door as if joking that she wished I wouldn't bother coming out of my room.
Dad, who went around talking outside as if his only child was my younger sister.
Maybe that's why, when the world faced the Great Cataclysm and the two of them lost their lives to entities called villains.
I wasn't particularly sad.
"What is this? It tastes terrible. Whew, I'll just buy something outside. Eat this yourself."
"I followed the recipe though......"
"Then how about starting over with studying Korean? Tasting this, it seems like you can't even read properly."
"That's harsh, Yena-ya."
"Look at you acting like an oppa with your pride. Whatever, I'm leaving."
However, that didn't mean my life changed.
Because my so-called great younger sister awakened as a magical girl on the day of the Great Cataclysm and was still doing extremely well.
"...Let's just clean up."
I threw away the stew, which tasted like trash even when I tried a spoonful myself, and started cleaning.
Because if dust popped up again, my younger sister would throw a total bitch fit.
In particular, my mysophobic younger sister utterly loathed dust that wasn't even visible to the eye, so just the time spent on cleaning consumed six hours a day.
-Magical Girl Rainbow Bubble has defeated the villain that appeared in Jamsil!
-While citizens express their gratitude to Rainbow Bubble, the Association has also announced Rainbow Bubble as this year's Magical Girl of the Year, deciding to award her a prize of 10 billion won!
-Rainbow Bubble, please say a few words to the citizens!
-Ah, yes! Thank you to everyone who cheered for me! I, Magical Girl Rainbow Bubble, will do my best for all of you precious people! Then everyone stay happy, Bubble Pang!
-Bubble Pang! ...Ah, I'm sorry. As expected of Rainbow Bubble, she is shining brightly today amid the cheers of citizens!
'Her nose is going to be stuck in the clouds for a while again.'
While engrossed in cleaning with the TV on loudly, I heard the familiar voice of a magical girl.
Calling herself a magical girl at twenty years old, isn't she embarrassed?
That's right. Korea's strongest magical girl Rainbow Bubble, who puts her finger to her lips and disposes of villains with colorful bubbles, is my younger sister Han Yena.
Of course, it's not like my younger sister told me; I saw it in her diary that she hadn't put away while I was cleaning the house.
If she found out I had seen it, given her personality, I might get murdered, so that day I intentionally left a ton of dust behind, pretending I couldn't clean because I was sick and feigning that I hadn't stepped into her room.
Fortunately, relieved that I couldn't clean, she brushed it off without looking closely, and instead, I got insulted as a parasite who can't even clean properly.
'Must be nice... to have a chosen life.'
Whatever she does works out well, and even if we invest the same amount of time studying, the progress is different.
To the point that just looking at my younger sister shows what it's like for the whole world to treat someone with goodwill.
Thanks to that, I, who was already ordinary, had no choice but to shrink back even more while being compared to such a younger sister.
And then, the Great Cataclysm.
When entities called villains crossing through Gates ravaged our world, people who awakened like in web novels started appearing.
However, the difference from novels was that only women awakened.
The world called those women who transformed using that power magical girls.
And my younger sister, who awakened almost as if it were natural, was called the strongest among magical girls and monopolized people's love and attention.
What a fucking unfair world.
While someone does nothing wrong yet gets treated like a parasitic piece of trash and an irredeemable slave.
While that magical girl responding to the camera with a cute smile is actually a rotten-personality sociopath at home who snaps and hurls insults daily.
My younger sister, who enjoyed popularity greater than an idol thanks to her good looks, was still thriving even after the world changed.
'Should I just expose her?'
But who would even believe me if I did?
On one side, an utterly useless NPC 1 who wouldn't even be noticed if he vanished right now.
On the other side, a magical girl in the world's spotlight.
It would probably end with me being dismissed as an attention-seeking troll, followed by being murdered by my younger sister.
-Another villain has appeared! The location is Bukhansan! Citizens, please evacuate to a nearby shelter and wait until the magical girl arrives! The villain is the notorious Nightmare Walker!
-Ah, Rainbow Bubble is heading toward Bukhansan on a Bubble Balloon! Please cheer for the hope of humanity, Rainbow Bubble!
Tting-dong-
Just as I finished cleaning and was about to rest a bit, the front doorbell interrupted me. They said religious nuts became even more active after the Great Cataclysm, so is it that?
They say some places spread nonsense doctrines, claiming they aren't magical girls, but angels sent down by God.
Thinking they'd leave if I just ignored them, I leaned back on the sofa.
Tting-dong-tting-dong-tting-dong-tting-dong-
Ah, why are they so persistent?
"...I'm coming!"
The doorbell rang obsessively.
Opening the door with the intention of roughly shooing them away, there stood some deliveryman.
Delivery? I didn't order anything though?
The rice I ordered a while ago was received yesterday, so it couldn't be that.
There's no way anyone would send a delivery to our house either.
Because after our parents died, the two of us were left thoroughly alone.
"Delivery... I didn't order anything though?"
"Well. The address is here, you are Han Seunghoo-ssi, right?"
"Yes, that's right."
"Please sign here, and you're good to go."
"...Thank you."
The black box handed over by the deliveryman was heavy.
Judging by the size and weight, fruit? Rice?
But is there ever a case where something is packed in a black box like this?
Although I accepted it in a daze for now, there was more than one suspicious thing about it.
Unknown sender, an ominously black delivery box, and a strange sense of incongruity felt from my name written under the recipient.
Considering how villains crossing over from Gates attack people in all sorts of bizarre ways, it was right not to handle it carelessly.
'It couldn't be a terror attack or something, right?'
I wondered if I should just report it to the police like this, but thinking I had to check it out after all, I picked up a utility knife.
This sense of incongruity that had been getting on my nerves since earlier.
I had to verify it.
The address and handwriting crookedly written on the black box.
Because no matter how I looked at it, this was the handwriting of my younger sister Han Yena that I had seen in her diary.
"Huu......"
Slicing through the tape, I carefully opened the top flap of the box.
Whether what was inside was fragile, it was a double box wrapped once more with styrofoam.
Opening up to the top flap of the second box, I dropped the utility knife.
"...Fuck."
Lying inside the box was Yena.
My younger sister, wearing her light blue frilled magical girl outfit.
She definitely moved out to defeat a villain earlier...... why is she here as a parcel.......
I was so shocked that my voice wouldn't even come out.
Her limbs, severed as if fitted to the box.
No, rather than being severed, it was as if they were originally nonexistent.
With only her torso and head remaining.
My hands trembled violently at that shocking sight.
Is she dead? Done in by a villain? But why in this state... and how did they get this house address?
Countless questions arose, but for now, with trembling hands, I barely managed to turn on my cell phone.
"R-Report... should I... should I call the Association......"
Should I say my younger sister is dead, or should I say a magical girl is dead? Clutching my dizzy head, I searched for the Association's phone number and slowly pressed the digits.
"Auu......"
"Ye-Yena-ya? You're alive?!"
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