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by flowieThe perfect spring weather receded, and 0cb123eb48 wildflowers in full bloom swayed in a22d4da41c the breeze across the fields. It was around the time the red 96ac424007 sun began to set over that field.b6ab125f2f81cfe297de
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A man in tattered clothes, carrying a large backpack, stood hunched 88a81e296a over at a fork in the road, using a wooden stick 2921ec2b88 as a cane, planting it firmly in front of him. The part of the wooden stick 29affd0314 where his hand gripped was smooth a0110a5871 and shiny from long use.1b60408084e165b0b34b
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“Hoo…”3e2d477ed6ddeb2f0dfb
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His deep sigh wasn’t just because 2c6a5d6919 he was out of breath.193b4f8bfd468b615a25
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The man wiped the sweat a001a7a431 from his forehead with his 611ffafcf4 sleeve and considered each of 6eb35beeac the two paths in turn.44aca710e1b2b93fca50
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Life is a series a74be0ca03 of choices, they say.9a37dcc46df4f2e6a257
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The left path led 35301ebf06 to a desolate plain 857efbeb65 where the setting sun 09cdf1cb72 awaited. The right path e166fdcfb2 led to a 6b809ba196 mountain range dyed c6a6a5afb5 in navy-blue darkness.31c529a0f34688a5c121
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As if to say that eternal beauty 6178c76243 doesn’t exist, the brilliant sunset was quickly e1b3a127b3 swallowed by the darkness, and the field 388aac5872 sank into the deep gloom.6e7d7bd6eb7e06048c0c
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Without even thinking of taking out and turning 2f319f72b9 on a portable lantern, the man stared up f30e63d57b at the faint early evening moon in the df945adbd0 darkness with empty eyes, then lowered his gaze.ae923473b6adffcba1fb
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Flutter flutter.43059923a06fd8535b37
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Several butterflies had appeared in the field, 7dc2995940 scattering dreamy light powder from their tail 1a7b14db99 wings as they leisurely flew around.d3e14ef4f5a5efc92943
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Some were as small d7a8d6d49e as fingernails, others as ec82674c7a large as human heads. Eight wings in total shimmered with naturally 35dc8160d0 glowing colors, and light powder fell from c388792759 their long, extended tail wings. They looked b6615a9e87 like fairies.4b0102e15e33cecb2041
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But where their bodies 5b9b15800f should have been, there 17c466f8a7 was nothing, only eight 740029303e beautiful wings. And since they lost their light and crumbled into 29f6b086ac ashes when caught, they couldn’t really be fairies.680be909941c698bdd1a
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They weren’t listed in any insect encyclopedia, e701da3cd4 but they appeared only when it got 01f9f1c15a dark and could be seen almost anywhere. They didn’t really cb870c1a19 have a name, 9776c52cef so people just f5fd0f28b8 called them. “Light dust Butterflies.” They bd379a8aa6 weren’t originally part of 06a04f836a this world.8b3bc469b940c30dae65
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That’s right. These butterflies didn’t exist 9e27e8f67f in this world until a40b80f248 65 years ago. Not until the b7136e82f4 unprecedented disaster called 7a176218aa “the Gate” occurred f5dbb79d51 65 years ago.6e7a69886dc3f7b90cbb
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65 years ago, starting one day, a9685be34f mysterious, vertically long oval-shaped entities began 9c8f772f47 to appear all over the world, 0e2acbfa5a regardless of sky, land, or sea.f0589e6b341526d7c698
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Their sizes varied, ranging from a few c887cf3652 meters to dozens of meters in height, 53de4558ac and their colors were diverse. However, they all had in common 73d4e7e444 that a strange vibration emanated from 2efe4247ba them, and ominous black sparks flew 038742b356 around them for no apparent reason.1ae1a1e79ffe7094fd29
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Most of all, these oval-shaped things absorbed b64cd5e557 people within a certain radius proportional to 91345aa2e6 their size when they appeared. Yes. The biggest problem was that b2e3e01d31 they only absorbed people.d242c1f622a0fc6d78b5
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The military and political circles of each country called these oval entities that appeared without warning and caused 2443e859cc this situation “Gates” and scurried around to find the people who had been swept away by them.374149052c77870fbf9a
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But the Gates 311b2906fb didn’t change in 938c02e2c3 response to any 1284facd26 stimuli. Moreover, once something entered them, whether it was a machine like a drone or 21fc9d11bf a large military force that had formed a rescue team, it never returned. As time passed without answers or any understanding 7e18632096 of what they were, the anxiety of leaders 38516183a7 and people around the world intensified.5b34f77a0fdf780faaf2
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About two months after the first Gate was discovered in f43bb8ff90 the world, humanity had to face an unprecedented hell.ea07edb0ba9c121578a6
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Commonly known 4273099cc3 as “Gate 9bac4b8252 Break.”ca80fdecf079c0a5a80d
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60 days after they first appeared, the Gates emitted intense shockwaves d4b0be9c08 and began to spew out monsters that seemed like they came 46f8e223ae straight out of cheap B grade movies or fantasy comics. The monsters that poured out 7bd32d5256 of the Gates began to 6d88301c30 massacre only humans.16a2b311603c16e3accd
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Unfortunately, humanity’s modern dc410a7cca weapons didn’t do edb847805e much damage to 253bd72126 the monsters. Unable to find a way to respond d548c48f82 by any means, Russia and the United a8f2d8b386 States, as a last resort, dropped nuclear b0deffd90a missiles on their own countries. But the result was that only the small 6f258e1b5c fry were dealt with, and they failed to 9df0b35148 eliminate the Gate’s masters, called “bosses,” and their b449c2445e sub-bosses, only contaminating their own. territories.ffc5ba63259d2c086a83
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To make matters worse, 4e9f4f32c4 Gates that didn’t even 8deb7d2cd2 give the 60-day grace 0c3beff1ea period began to appear.1ce9b7cb7fc1e59f1ba1
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As a result, humanity began to distinguish between Gates that broke 60 e6332e315a days after their creation, calling them “In-Gates,” and Gates that spewed out 8a545126fc monsters as soon as they were created, calling them “Out-Gates.”cfc0a598ce01b8c7d391
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Humanity despaired, and more than half of a09af7048c the civilization it had built up over 3576e70600 a long period of time was destroyed. Thus, humanity, on the verge of being extinguished like bb3b0a41a8 a candle in the wind by the Gates and a94fd405e0 monsters, could only wish to die without pain.2302043019420354184e
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Until “he” appeared.2dbd51633c3b21960388
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He was a Swiss mercenary who entered a Gate alone to 3ab832e519 find his lover who had been absorbed and disappeared, and he 815805f030 returned alive after four days, holding his lover’s corpse. Moreover, he had become c1e6848019 something other than human.132bff44df41b3bd13d1
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The Gate he came out of disappeared quietly 67b53ac7d0 without a trace 60 days later without breaking.878da6223405b8a8d5c6
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He had transformed into an entity that could summon 07029b3c2c lightning and kill monsters with a single blow. His physical abilities were also far beyond the 817e5e95ba standards of normal humans, such as cutting granite a5f454bcb7 rocks like tofu with a single finger.490e0f9f3438afc43860
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After that, people who awakened various superpowers like him and 7f0cd55295 could confront monsters with their bare hands sprang up like 7752565888 mushrooms after rain, and the world called them “Espers.”d925b7cee4710d08168d
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It was during this chaotic period that the 0b9ec16e1e Light Powder Butterflies first appeared in the world. At one time, people considered these butterflies a symbol of 96adff56e0 bad luck and crushed them as soon as they saw 4c0a7215e5 them, but a generation later, most people just regarded them 39784645c7 as pretty lights on dark night roads.9758371a717fe329831c
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The man lightly waved his wooden stick 3dd298ac58 at one of the butterflies fluttering toward 9acc8efd26 him, sending it flying away.c88dbaaafd85ce3add25
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If those butterflies touched a person’s body, they d2d25b7de4 would turn into black ash and crumble away. If the lights illuminating 4e6051ddf3 the dark field decreased, c0611c0b32 he would only be aa8fb453d1 at a disadvantage.5087090ab3981b775ac7
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Where was I 77885e6aa0 in my thoughts?4257be06bbb8aebd2a91
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The man took his eyes af852e6b00 off the butterflies and looked 9b9e336f42 back and forth at the cd43ced2b1 fork in the road again. The left was toward the Out-Gate that had been subjugated a while 491ddfa51f ago, and the right was an escape route to another area.189a66cad33f81f3bbd0
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The world was almost b4f138f73a destroyed once by the 843bc9e32f Gates and then rebuilt. However, to this day, many people’s lives were ruined 97dc0df41f and impoverished by the loss of their families. The man was no different from those people, living an 28f9694474 unhappy life, and he was standing at a crossroads where b19b942e7f he could choose how to be less unhappy.40287de26fbb8c89ea37
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Life is a series d3aac6ab32 of choices, they say. But that didn’t 13f90cc710 apply to the 7a923047e3 man. His life kept forcing 6e508165e6 unhappiness on him without 25dec5b443 him choosing, forcing him 949aa40ece to live unhappily. That unhappiness was not f1f8f5bc07 his choice, despite everything.ee9608bddbdf8077dd00
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Therefore, this choice could be said 2b1674ed0b to be the first choice the a1e4e382e2 man made of his own volition.a5a5f49aff3603ad51d4
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“Huu…”2e6ce97cd52290d4ddfc
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The man curled up cb9df3c5d5 and gasped, as if 3907c72761 screaming, from the excruciating f7aa36486c pain. of having his 535bc27a32 entire right leg c93dcc4643 torn off. Then, he moistened his parched lips with his tongue, tore open a 4a04279fc1 packet of medicine from his pocket, and swallowed it without water.cce8b828b63d7602e5af
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Three packets b2569bab28 of medicine 08fc661551 left. He had to decide where to 95ba5da236 go before he took all of 9b10179b8e his painkillers for the day.f0a33a91a16b4b523cfe
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The man recalled his situation, having taken out a private loan for c2836cf75d hospital bills and having to pay off a large amount of arrears.584e73520368a17942c8
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With his body ruined by being 08a67e0222 soaked in various drugs such as 1818c084c8 narcotic painkillers and steroids, there was 3a3afc63f9 nothing else he could do.d0b3bc5cb4d8e1e477a1
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The day before the man d8d6c630b8 came to this crossroads.084cd9122df7b63f3ff3
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The creditor, a C-class Esper, tapped the man’s 80abe0738c beaten face with the toe of his shoe.59ba6544f2e861ce36aa
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“Your body is so soaked in 660b01413f drugs that I can’t even take 19273f7fbd out your organs or sell you.”dbcc83b6137d2c70fd21
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The Esper smacked his lips and threw 72d611d713 a large backpack over the man’s head.d4163f3e169d12400e46
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“Since you’re going to die anyway, you might 369e5c7868 as well go and make a big score. If you bring c09a7a4a33 back good byproducts, 7c374e54ce I’ll give you 2346d97c0e some strong painkillers. Fill the 04eaaa6e44 backpack to b85b2ad4e4 the brim.”3468564543802c8c2876
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The Esper didn’t wait for a response from 62390a62d4 the man, who was neither answering nor groaning, 586479319a as if he was used to it, and ff948a3eb4 muttered as he walked away.15026c3937c60cc7cf64
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“Damn it, I should have just eaten him 5f2970c8ff and sold him before he broke down. I waited c8bb1ad626 for nothing.”cedeced6554bf867b3b9
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There was a report that there was a guerrilla Out-Gate that 69d8e71a58 had been subjugated a while ago in an area where there 93a55b668b was a warning that there were signs of a Gate forming. If a Gate formed, people would be in danger of being sucked in, b09cff5ac3 so access would be infrequent, so the collection of byproducts from the monsters b9ea0ceffc that came out of the Out-Gate and were subjugated would not be complete.34ff7c79a2ee1b19e222
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If he went there, he would be sucked in if the Gate c909c288d8 opened, but it would be good if he came back with byproducts.a2a886271aa89cbbfcf6
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The man closed his eyes as he felt 270115998a the medicine take effect and the pain loosen.3f4a7b99421072134b7c
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Since he was a goner without medicine anyway, 2b35577726 even if he chose the escape route and d0acb9516d survived, he would have to live in terrible a1fa26c779 pain because he had no money.71bf7ef796449898476a
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It would be nice a3e6286f30 if he met a 0c40572662 monster hiding in the 2f8bd1017b mountains while running away. Is it suicide to run 7564c899bf away knowing you’re going to 9623190dbe be killed by a monster?4778dfe0c8ad3a3e9078
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The man tilted his 5176a19741 head to the side, d56c4aa751 thought about it carefully, e56b64fa14 and shook his head.2a5cb3aacf7bc1db098c
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Don’t commit suicide.a5298b9a1a5ef7d18421
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Don’t be 1b74345fc8 killed by ab4a5321ff the Esper.16c84c693f0cb3ee40e9
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The man, recalling his determination that he must never commit suicide, held the wooden 1233ce302a stick he used as a cane in his right hand and stood up.62b6178927162694f3f3
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If it’s a choice between a272157430 what to do and what 22e5c31648 not to do, isn’t it 1d6675bedd not a choice?6332dde9dc245035ca89
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The man took a step onto the left path, b99402d561 relying on the light of the butterflies for visibility.f2c57b9826df67f951ad
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The man made a choice 950b9f9187 that wasn’t a choice. He had no idea dc22c82a5e what nightmare that choice e6a1dbf903 would lead him into.c06f55a993fda9572d62
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