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The perfect spring weather receded, 1f3c0d2ac5 and wildflowers in full bloom 20f6f90846 swayed in the breeze across 7363b144fc the fields. It was around the time 1bf743f4ed the red sun began to fa43538354 set over that field.1ed7f5c23c375a15c8a2

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A man in tattered clothes, carrying a large backpack, stood hunched over at a fork in 95e2e32f23 the road, using a wooden stick as a cane, planting it firmly in front of him. The part of the wooden ff0cc81922 stick where his hand gripped f40c281ca2 was smooth and shiny from 9023de67de long use.783cc648e37857879b44

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“Hoo…”13a416fb728ebf4c28b2

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His deep sigh wasn’t 52dfde5bef just because he was 291356c9dc out of breath.690913cb8408cd22de54

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The man wiped the sweat from his 0c1bfd4dea forehead with his sleeve and considered each c26e4f4f07 of the two paths in turn.7bf9e930adcef61bd114

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Life is 82b56aa68d a series 9aad38268c of choices, efc7aac13c they say.e31933ece6120892e75a

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The left path led to 8ecda67847 a desolate plain where the a0883eaddd setting sun awaited. The right path led 53e3a4fe9a to a mountain range dc29676aa9 dyed in navy-blue darkness.1195bd28245e6273d15d

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As if to say that eternal beauty doesn’t exist, 2a3af8e0ea the brilliant sunset was quickly swallowed by the darkness, 165f0d9d7f and the field sank into the deep gloom.10ace1285b3f274ffa9c

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Without even thinking of taking out and turning 32e9b4449a on a portable lantern, the man stared up 03a3b90ce8 at the faint early evening moon in the 59b0b146d1 darkness with empty eyes, then lowered his gaze.c85cc4476992298afda9

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Flutter flutter.9316f078f42367caba0b

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Several butterflies had appeared in the field, scattering dreamy light 98cd2c5620 powder from their tail wings as they leisurely flew around.8ab282098b7b06143910

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Some were as small 8d2f35016e as fingernails, others as a7915f59e8 large as human heads. Eight wings in total shimmered 949031bf44 with naturally glowing colors, and b15c0ae33e light powder fell from their ffc598cb52 long, extended tail wings. They looked 938ab0e9cc like fairies.aa0962697336a5273aa1

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But where their bodies should 2f83790dd7 have been, there was nothing, e72d3fa5f2 only eight beautiful wings. And since they lost their light and crumbled into f91e55b55a ashes when caught, they couldn’t really be fairies.1e0bfb98c39e7a1bdd16

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They weren’t listed in any insect encyclopedia, 69a2da94a7 but they appeared only when it got c953699017 dark and could be seen almost anywhere. They didn’t really have b16c9a15dd a name, so people eadb00c2f5 just called them. “Light dust Butterflies.” They 30eb88326a weren’t originally part of a254425603 this world.17771a19a9d24a2ab04b

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That’s right. These butterflies didn’t ef6f4219a7 exist in this cc8c85a286 world until 65 b66d4e4d57 years ago. Not until the e8279b9de9 unprecedented disaster called 0d9a691568 “the Gate” occurred a84e90e074 65 years ago.cafac8444fa5be671607

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65 years ago, starting one day, mysterious, vertically long oval-shaped entities began db4dc3bbd5 to appear all over the world, regardless of sky, land, or sea.c6c81a333dc4d71aea61

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Their sizes varied, ranging from ffa033c576 a few meters to dozens 379e89e372 of meters in height, and d484dc72ac their colors were diverse. However, they all had in common that a strange vibration emanated from 2f49dff20c them, and ominous black sparks flew around them for no apparent reason.3de48b0b2c0d3874686b

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Most of all, these oval-shaped things absorbed people within a 17d474347c certain radius proportional to their size when they appeared. Yes. The biggest problem was that cc2ee71e6b they only absorbed people.97391be77c4eb73e4531

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The military and political circles of each country called these oval entities f9f9d5c8fc that appeared without warning and caused this situation “Gates” and scurried around 5724acf391 to find the people who had been swept away by them.6c30b0381a00bc87b490

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But the Gates didn’t 617a559000 change in response to 7957110be4 any stimuli. Moreover, once something entered them, whether it was a 91a8415cff machine like a drone or a large military force ab4c2a2246 that had formed a rescue team, it never returned. As time passed without answers or any understanding 9e78b6008f of what they were, the anxiety of leaders 45b5da7d6a and people around the world intensified.d1e82b0f5a6383be1e73

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About two months after the 74a9b7b9a1 first Gate was discovered in c3b1610a89 the world, humanity had to 8cbf07adfa face an unprecedented hell.60131e17a03019300a3f

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Commonly known 552bcd215f as “Gate c6f4e28c93 Break.”e9413df02381c84e4e4f

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60 days after they first appeared, the Gates emitted intense shockwaves and began to spew out aec367a692 monsters that seemed like they came straight out of cheap B grade movies or fantasy comics. The monsters that poured a6badea3f7 out of the Gates f6d1b921cf began to massacre only ef29598ab6 humans.34e5368e44bab9aebcf1

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Unfortunately, humanity’s modern 2aaec94972 weapons didn’t do 370b4bdd73 much damage to 8d8db83047 the monsters. Unable to find a way to respond 1267328976 by any means, Russia and the United af89d672dd States, as a last resort, dropped nuclear 9bb0b3165e missiles on their own countries. But the result was that only the small fry were cbbca4e31f dealt with, and they failed to eliminate the Gate’s masters, 3ab97bc57b called “bosses,” and their sub-bosses, only contaminating their own. territories.7d02db33eb3b6fac3cf0

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To make matters worse, Gates that didn’t even 36767fc8dd give the 60-day grace period began to appear.7635eff6c287bfb9ee02

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As a result, humanity began to distinguish between Gates that broke 60 days after their creation, calling 89b4b986d1 them “In-Gates,” and Gates that spewed out monsters as soon as they were created, calling them “Out-Gates.”411e56eadf0274ec3d31

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Humanity despaired, and more than half of the civilization it had 4023a81f89 built up over a long period of time was destroyed. Thus, humanity, on the verge of being extinguished like 43a2d598a8 a candle in the wind by the Gates and fbaf71ca8a monsters, could only wish to die without pain.108814290c9ae0550842

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Until “he” appeared.d4fbbd02f45dbbf3fd0d

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He was a Swiss mercenary who entered a 1cefe039db Gate alone to find his lover who had 366273736c been absorbed and disappeared, and he returned alive 1d5ba9c7e9 after four days, holding his lover’s corpse. Moreover, he e1655236cf had become ade3060b1d something other 3927cc8cc9 than human.1f87316b519102d14a32

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The Gate he came be1177545a out of disappeared quietly 1ec2519e33 without a trace 60 b40c355494 days later without breaking.48cf046359cb39243827

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He had transformed into an 0923f1a8c9 entity that could summon lightning 9b782d0241 and kill monsters with a 6fe601ca07 single blow. His physical abilities were also far 3283783a9c beyond the standards of normal humans, a2f868278a such as cutting granite rocks like e844396165 tofu with a single finger.029cd042e7804a602bed

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After that, people who awakened various superpowers like him and could confront monsters with their 553b8947b4 bare hands sprang up like mushrooms after rain, and the world called them “Espers.”6b8c6890a5b2e4c08d2a

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It was during this b7d1b3d37f chaotic period that the 62473a325a Light Powder Butterflies first d3dc8b3707 appeared in the world. At one time, people considered these butterflies a symbol of bad luck and e4696c94bf crushed them as soon as they saw them, but a generation later, most 5cf49e8138 people just regarded them as pretty lights on dark night roads.e4d903900c6c7c77fc46

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The man lightly waved his d8ee8fe57d wooden stick at one of 2bf95a959b the butterflies fluttering toward him, 421526cd22 sending it flying away.2a27c8ecba17a9c4310e

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If those butterflies touched e3f986e6ce a person’s body, they fadbedd541 would turn into black 1aa4e04668 ash and crumble away. If the lights illuminating the dark field decreased, 8de4136eb5 he would only be at a disadvantage.9f497a9f8d079c078e71

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Where was I 3893740b03 in my thoughts?9ca046027b846673e728

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The man took his eyes off the butterflies and looked b24c1121b4 back and forth at the fork in the road again. The left was toward the Out-Gate 693609be37 that had been subjugated a while 610082d0e7 ago, and the right was an a86488ddb2 escape route to another area.e704c5f77606d77de55d

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The world was almost 655d33c277 destroyed once by the 62ed81cb32 Gates and then rebuilt. However, to this day, many f4f7f6b368 people’s lives were ruined and e71ac433be impoverished by the loss of 57dd6891e7 their families. The man was no different from those people, living an unhappy life, and he abea393c22 was standing at a crossroads where he could choose how to be less unhappy.c7ac03ee9af74f6f95f8

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Life is a series ef04170164 of choices, they say. But that didn’t apply 0db220675a to the man. His life kept forcing unhappiness b20ea31781 on him without him choosing, c45f573f5e forcing him to live unhappily. That unhappiness was not 1432f46905 his choice, despite everything.a1fd82e32ca09ed508bb

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Therefore, this choice could be b869a938a6 said to be the first 28099dfa88 choice the man made of 3eb1a98671 his own volition.a2cfd6d7c3cc2f4500a9

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“Huu…”0dd84a6707b99eafc2f7

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The man curled up and da7209c742 gasped, as if screaming, from 5d84997d7b the excruciating pain. of having 96edb4dd1c his entire 5643e9f1de right leg c4e8dfb359 torn off. Then, he moistened his parched lips with his tongue, tore open a 8b8ea28e44 packet of medicine from his pocket, and swallowed it without water.d8d9a972cf147aef1346

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Three packets cf20ae948e of medicine bb8b209f50 left. He had to decide where 96b8b9c5c3 to go before he took 58495fb7c6 all of his painkillers for 62266671b4 the day.d025319c627270665197

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The man recalled his situation, having taken out a private loan for 188234a9fc hospital bills and having to pay off a large amount of arrears.94f1a081f1126810e581

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With his body ruined by being 86cd55c508 soaked in various drugs such as 51f4c6fe59 narcotic painkillers and steroids, there was 691af2a006 nothing else he could do.2c8ddfc9aa91e0821249

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The day before the man 0467f0f3b4 came to this crossroads.576874d73b395c5d5663

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The creditor, a C-class Esper, tapped 146f58e1fa the man’s beaten face with the 548a34c9ff toe of his shoe.ded9f92f8a35e066dbdf

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“Your body is so soaked in 5a2d3b1012 drugs that I can’t even take 1f54f4b3e7 out your organs or sell you.”173208de9b1b09eea0f7

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The Esper smacked his lips 5adea62f5b and threw a large backpack 9073238a4a over the man’s head.b77347548d62b4714e35

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“Since you’re going to 9521865f83 die anyway, you might 6be2e07761 as well go and 8d97649b3d make a big score. If you bring da13e6a9b2 back good byproducts, 926eb8e704 I’ll give you 682b6394de some strong painkillers. Fill the 687bb7fffc backpack to 33ad7f1490 the brim.”9746afece8ff7167f6ce

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The Esper didn’t wait for a response from the man, 50a580f74f who was neither answering nor groaning, as if he was f29cd6c61d used to it, and muttered as he walked away.8e20feac2820e92e3f42

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“Damn it, I should 71e2141028 have just eaten him 644000aa1b and sold him before 0485f11af6 he broke down. I waited b9ef021879 for nothing.”a7bb78abf01a59eef93b

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There was a report that there was a guerrilla Out-Gate that had been subjugated a while ago ec91aff4e0 in an area where there was a warning that there were signs of a Gate forming. If a Gate formed, people would be in danger of being sucked in, cb11352b91 so access would be infrequent, so the collection of byproducts from the monsters f81cba1dbc that came out of the Out-Gate and were subjugated would not be complete.2776c208e969d6d71b64

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If he went there, he would bfaab89afa be sucked in if the Gate 7243663d58 opened, but it would be good adedd06257 if he came back with byproducts.b5bfb3467b737979ad20

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The man closed his eyes as he felt 2a08baa0f2 the medicine take effect and the pain loosen.2318f08102e8129c5cf9

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Since he was a goner without medicine anyway, even if 8eef4b503f he chose the escape route and survived, he would have 3b5d3ded57 to live in terrible pain because he had no money.a107e0bdcf4fbbf42b8c

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It would be nice if he 243ed49ffe met a monster hiding in the 250c714b80 mountains while running away. Is it suicide to run away knowing you’re 0d1b7de887 going to be killed by a monster?8931bbe2bf24a479375a

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The man tilted his head to the side, 2c0fa7f7ab thought about it carefully, and shook his head.effd2967870c2bd7899a

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Don’t commit suicide.951583db57149f60f744

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Don’t be killed cbedd5d492 by the Esper.6663b6f2f7783c569035

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The man, recalling his determination that he must never cc40a6aabc commit suicide, held the wooden stick he used as c58910a8a3 a cane in his right hand and stood up.17f41040a13bf3f5d380

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If it’s a choice between 1ce2bdf7fa what to do and what adf90ceba9 not to do, isn’t it 6f673fdc79 not a choice?a59e11ceb20f9fd9a4d1

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The man took a step 41baa16e0e onto the left path, relying ce6f8464ed on the light of the 7a8def8b7d butterflies for visibility.dfadbb6b3b1fdfd369bb

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The man made 7a7d6077b9 a choice that 1997257b79 wasn’t a choice. He had no idea 87984cc101 what nightmare that choice c9a008a6c9 would lead him into.493d35bebf631f4d9585

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