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The perfect spring weather receded, c3a93b6ece and wildflowers in full bloom e108654c2e swayed in the breeze across 0bb894fc8c the fields. It was around the time b7cb6079f5 the red sun began to b86edbee8b set over that field.6fb6ffcf3709f3f0

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A man in tattered 71fb09fbd2 clothes, carrying a large 8ac0d4e099 backpack, stood hunched over adda4ecf2f at a fork in 2425c1b22e the road, using a 13fe0e38c1 wooden stick as a 09cf0cde1c cane, planting it firmly 0eb492b711 in front of him. The part of the wooden 7b4a9fe4af stick where his hand gripped de342d54e5 was smooth and shiny from 6459947294 long use.9583f9c84b5a7a56

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“Hoo…”5a7798fdd1b32660

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His deep sigh wasn’t just because he was out of breath.3fa65ad7b1381465

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The man wiped the e752391f46 sweat from his forehead 86bdd25bed with his sleeve and 3edefcde5e considered each of the 062ceefea6 two paths in turn.b2a635222f3ceff6

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Life is a series 684874204a of choices, they say.d4c7229ba3d6f774

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The left path led to 81e37806e3 a desolate plain where the 766d27179a setting sun awaited. The right path led 5a86992bff to a mountain range ae5776ea34 dyed in navy-blue darkness.8149a5bccf2c55c5

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As if to say that eternal beauty doesn’t exist, the brilliant sunset was quickly swallowed by the darkness, and the field sank into the deep gloom.7a157e7486c729b9

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Without even thinking 1a8c0f2577 of taking out 9a1ba96fae and turning on 61ab3bfc81 a portable lantern, 53bc60f611 the man stared 3f609e57d8 up at the 73108edfcc faint early evening 2b1bbf392b moon in the 87020057fe darkness with empty ce26436e50 eyes, then lowered 8610e8471b his gaze.34058fe0c79ad209

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Flutter flutter.37e9f266be830378

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Several butterflies had appeared in 3692683b88 the field, scattering dreamy light b60ae362c5 powder from their tail wings 65d54cf12a as they leisurely flew around.4a4709b87f35581d

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Some were as small afc4ac46e6 as fingernails, others as 1538c0e8ba large as human heads. Eight wings in ef1af2a7ed total shimmered with 06724bdd8a naturally glowing colors, 3985fc2dda and light powder ab9f37600e fell from their 5e62293f57 long, extended tail 64892cf13d wings. They looked like fairies.d0edc490ecaae97d

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But where their bodies should have been, there was nothing, only eight beautiful wings. And since they lost their light and crumbled into ashes when caught, they couldn’t really be fairies.afcca039a39d5a06

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They weren’t listed in any insect encyclopedia, but they appeared only when it got dark and could be seen almost anywhere. They didn’t really have a name, so people just called them. “Light dust Butterflies.” They weren’t originally part of this world.6c20a2171d7f5150

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That’s right. These butterflies didn’t exist in this world until 65 years ago. Not until the unprecedented disaster called “the Gate” occurred 65 years ago.ae0cad9917b271d4

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65 years ago, starting one day, mysterious, vertically long oval-shaped entities began to appear all over the world, regardless of sky, land, or sea.568ae9d9698be23a

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Their sizes varied, 109f155a50 ranging from a e63886d9d7 few meters to 9d269ccbd6 dozens of meters dd32ffc14d in height, and de9c2a1931 their colors were 61193677d1 diverse. However, they all 0dfe759513 had in common 8fcda8523a that a strange b45c980897 vibration emanated from b7670b1639 them, and ominous 0affbedc1e black sparks flew 7d124fdf11 around them for 065f803118 no apparent reason.7ce16b95f4ce3420

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Most of all, 3aca56ae61 these oval-shaped things c51af371dc absorbed people within 6df3b2fce1 a certain radius 4718f91cdf proportional to their 7c0ca4139f size when they 69f854fb7c appeared. Yes. The biggest problem was f31217c8eb that they only absorbed 8e889146b9 people.5a1d008d7bd24a71

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The military and political circles of each country called these oval entities that appeared without warning and caused this situation “Gates” and scurried around to find the people who had been swept away by them.ceec8402d57d6c1b

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But the Gates didn’t change in response to any stimuli. Moreover, once something entered them, whether it was a machine like a drone or a large military force that had formed a rescue team, it never returned. As time passed without answers or any understanding of what they were, the anxiety of leaders and people around the world intensified.613622851f1b152f

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About two months after 0e480d8d77 the first Gate was 979f4bc68a discovered in the world, bd210660ec humanity had to face bf6e995423 an unprecedented hell.e524eb2e5a23c7fb

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Commonly known as “Gate Break.”56f7c88015ce61bf

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60 days after they first appeared, the Gates emitted intense shockwaves and began to spew out monsters that seemed like they came straight out of cheap B grade movies or fantasy comics. The monsters that poured 1b373a093c out of the Gates 928f35f248 began to massacre only 6efc106b56 humans.035e8f2ca469dbdf

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Unfortunately, humanity’s modern weapons didn’t do much damage to the monsters. Unable to find a way to respond by any means, Russia and the United States, as a last resort, dropped nuclear missiles on their own countries. But the result was that only the small fry were dealt with, and they failed to eliminate the Gate’s masters, called “bosses,” and their sub-bosses, only contaminating their own. territories.6a8335f8fd2097e2

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To make matters worse, Gates that didn’t even give the 60-day grace period began to appear.e0d80a2f00c55c09

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As a result, humanity began to distinguish between Gates that broke 60 days after their creation, calling them “In-Gates,” and Gates that spewed out monsters as soon as they were created, calling them “Out-Gates.”687145f74a026710

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Humanity despaired, and more than dba80b28bb half of the civilization it d5c445eb9d had built up over a dfc4baa9c6 long period of time was 11a8e132c1 destroyed. Thus, humanity, on the verge b24247c625 of being extinguished like a a0155ccede candle in the wind by a8963a2131 the Gates and monsters, could 3167156b8b only wish to die without 2f77092bd0 pain.d6f4c34d8d42417f

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Until “he” appeared.03d1db53b9b76669

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He was a Swiss mercenary who entered a Gate alone to find his lover who had been absorbed and disappeared, and he returned alive after four days, holding his lover’s corpse. Moreover, he had become something other than human.94b61aced7042a84

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The Gate he came 504a674a69 out of disappeared quietly 297b31e1af without a trace 60 a3e70663d0 days later without breaking.7addbb015f64f91d

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He had transformed into c6225ea6a8 an entity that could 64c400a1d2 summon lightning and kill 0c5932b669 monsters with a single 33bb79b820 blow. His physical abilities were also 6e27c5921d far beyond the standards of 02aa5ba06f normal humans, such as cutting 2f0d93c048 granite rocks like tofu with 997f57af55 a single finger.ef13ce65fdab89eb

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After that, people who awakened various superpowers like him and could confront monsters with their bare hands sprang up like mushrooms after rain, and the world called them “Espers.”ca5081c70df66e7b

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It was during this chaotic 8beff4f7eb period that the Light Powder c9124048ec Butterflies first appeared in the 71554fbae4 world. At one time, d8596c28ff people considered these 25bb9b3b0b butterflies a symbol 4fa48776d8 of bad luck 1a241a6e8d and crushed them 0813033492 as soon as 81783d242a they saw them, bbd2a6f636 but a generation 51ce4dc3c9 later, most people 739df09050 just regarded them 1c24a2b861 as pretty lights a5b4b187e8 on dark night 43c347d2af roads.00ea6b32998c1863

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The man lightly waved his 5a90f0ce71 wooden stick at one of 582e574393 the butterflies fluttering toward him, 038d5f56b6 sending it flying away.d8aafeb1910b0b3c

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If those butterflies touched a person’s body, they would turn into black ash and crumble away. If the lights illuminating the dark field decreased, he would only be at a disadvantage.1f08d4159c5ecff7

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Where was I in my 983c8cae22 thoughts?2f4735a30e6fe579

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The man took his eyes c143c2a9c0 off the butterflies and looked 5bf777a8b4 back and forth at the 931ce9b4b1 fork in the road again. The left was toward 09e8f329d1 the Out-Gate that had b972173750 been subjugated a while f2a346573f ago, and the right 3d1e99caff was an escape route bf6aa0bd7b to another area.5025a7abc40b8922

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The world was almost destroyed once by the Gates and then rebuilt. However, to this day, many people’s lives were ruined and impoverished by the loss of their families. The man was no different from those people, living an unhappy life, and he was standing at a crossroads where he could choose how to be less unhappy.6848514fcda50e8d

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Life is a series of choices, they say. But that didn’t apply to the man. His life kept forcing unhappiness on him without him choosing, forcing him to live unhappily. That unhappiness was not his choice, despite everything.e79147e48d1baf3a

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Therefore, this choice could be 86633ee62e said to be the first f269d4f4ed choice the man made of e0cf4f5d9f his own volition.74d17acf9bd8a98c

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“Huu…”b057984d4a78d901

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The man curled up d6422a2838 and gasped, as if d84b7078c0 screaming, from the excruciating 5134470d0e pain. of having his d6597fcfec entire right leg 0b63f7729b torn off. Then, he moistened 470475acb7 his parched lips af0ff2042e with his tongue, 098def44f7 tore open a a81cca782d packet of medicine ffa538a0e2 from his pocket, 23d71e9b3e and swallowed it 20e94de272 without water.d4475fdde8f15f10

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Three packets of medicine left. He had to decide 43f90ec91d where to go before 73d55c26f7 he took all of a7ea3d34c6 his painkillers for the 0c872e2d9d day.0891374808ac534c

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The man recalled 5973e0d54d his situation, having 266566a343 taken out a 3b6d9db41c private loan for decd2d0529 hospital bills and d0cda47e36 having to pay 34ba9df227 off a large fbac70c264 amount of arrears.61cab594a56c6fe3

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With his body 5766fbe809 ruined by being c4a6c729e3 soaked in various fc1948d096 drugs such as f118928078 narcotic painkillers and a62bd24c52 steroids, there was c66c2ee22d nothing else he 1e758f4486 could do.613476ea97f31843

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The day before 85157c158d the man came 69a21f55f0 to this crossroads.f6f553bf76942090

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The creditor, a C-class Esper, tapped the man’s beaten face with the toe of his shoe.10cb1876ae88eda8

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“Your body is so soaked in drugs that I can’t even take out your organs or sell you.”12c9c249d953ad92

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The Esper smacked his lips and threw a large backpack over the man’s head.c2fea9abc3075888

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“Since you’re going to die anyway, you might as well go and make a big score. If you bring back good byproducts, I’ll give you some strong painkillers. Fill the backpack to the brim.”b0dbceb6e269d917

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The Esper didn’t wait for a response from the man, who was neither answering nor groaning, as if he was used to it, and muttered as he walked away.b4fa8645a0a9de32

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“Damn it, I should have just eaten him and sold him before he broke down. I waited for nothing.”ec1b5dd7cb388136

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There was a report c21b3277c5 that there was a 91953abac6 guerrilla Out-Gate that had 442ee2bb9a been subjugated a while 65c289d94c ago in an area c40dc9fe5f where there was a bc0f52d5ba warning that there were fa95bce990 signs of a Gate 6034b1a8e7 forming. If a Gate a1cdf426cf formed, people would fab62aff16 be in danger 2b32b08060 of being sucked 6a276158e9 in, so access 96f172bfff would be infrequent, 02febc8890 so the collection 2dcd23994f of byproducts from a413b61fa8 the monsters that fc2fa52e04 came out of e882f17d17 the Out-Gate and 362c2adf2f were subjugated would 288c8aa65a not be complete.b8bbe85f9e551e0d

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If he went there, he 443735af95 would be sucked in if dfd165e063 the Gate opened, but it 034a40e4a8 would be good if he 3a877ba4e7 came back with byproducts.c3c810d61267887b

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The man closed his 1d67ec0649 eyes as he felt 972f899b86 the medicine take effect b94b03bfae and the pain loosen.6bedf6bd7d7116db

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Since he was a e011f11268 goner without medicine anyway, d1dbdb6db9 even if he chose b64c0a1831 the escape route and 783e23adbf survived, he would have 0f27549639 to live in terrible 12bb5504be pain because he had 6e1a84ef07 no money.0898ef01b60c1ee4

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It would be nice if he met a monster hiding in the mountains while running away. Is it suicide to run away knowing you’re going to be killed by a monster?a2fed474cf00de6b

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The man tilted cffc6787b3 his head to b3b269da62 the side, thought 24dd6c4c61 about it carefully, cfc3badff7 and shook his 5d61b296f1 head.f30f1b54a6436272

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Don’t commit suicide.5c5e2fd11c8d94bb

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Don’t be killed by the Esper.dda929142ec28948

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The man, recalling 6d29d9b4e0 his determination that 672db5f30e he must never a1f7e2fba4 commit suicide, held d7db6db2ed the wooden stick 95a5d59abb he used as ac2e0688c4 a cane in 105354721c his right hand e71b17e86f and stood up.c3fbc2a6e39311f1

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If it’s a choice between what to do and what not to do, isn’t it not a choice?f570b6f3628b9965

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The man took a step 43193013a6 onto the left path, relying 6f96bd6f61 on the light of the 4fa8236744 butterflies for visibility.8560beefb0ec05a5

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The man made a choice that wasn’t a choice. He had no idea what nightmare that choice would lead him into.c8b6f3d43e37f5a7

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