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The perfect spring 78c19f8933 weather receded, and 872055ecc4 wildflowers in full e33eec8b7d bloom swayed in 33b755e89f the breeze across a7b00f5390 the fields. It was around the time 8eefe9466d the red sun began to a56085feab set over that field.ec628a6537b487f9

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A man in 0d0e70f4bb tattered clothes, carrying 11caa5fa01 a large backpack, f52d066d3b stood hunched over 6554c0a1eb at a fork 0dc172efe0 in the road, 649a11a7f0 using a wooden f6f36c00ca stick as a 4be8869762 cane, planting it 01b4d2c1c9 firmly in front 6af6f2d38b of him. The part of the wooden ab69ea8c2f stick where his hand gripped 5646ee7eaf was smooth and shiny from 349d966e9e long use.9e289171887e099b

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“Hoo…”b3bf92e9f913ed09

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His deep sigh wasn’t just because he was out of breath.afe5cdc1e4aea7f3

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The man wiped the sweat 628b07563d from his forehead with his 2c931adba7 sleeve and considered each of 63c7e08e9c the two paths in turn.ee277fcb36627b2b

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Life is a series of 5ec5a4e68c choices, they say.e6b231e4b1d51496

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The left path led 0381a13f52 to a desolate plain e9f55e4cc6 where the setting sun 40cbae7a68 awaited. The right path 13f6a2ceb0 led to a 77c204abd1 mountain range dyed 433a37a2d7 in navy-blue darkness.e76fbca092b79727

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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.15b220a867946225

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Without even thinking of 30fd1679a8 taking out and turning 38864446fc on a portable lantern, 1cf51a31c2 the man stared up 70f1216de4 at the faint early c1a5a90058 evening moon in the 6bb3d79464 darkness with empty eyes, fc4c957f4c then lowered his gaze.1f9395fd3b61b55b

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Flutter flutter.b25938f1183074cb

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Several butterflies had appeared in 520451f4a8 the field, scattering dreamy light 4bed3f8c0f powder from their tail wings 9afb43e82a as they leisurely flew around.4b4c6a6b4b29a8bb

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Some were as small as 2916ee5d99 fingernails, others as large as 51c44d21eb human heads. Eight wings in total 7ea278d95d shimmered with naturally glowing 15b45cf326 colors, and light powder f7bd5aff35 fell from their long, d9e74884b4 extended tail wings. They looked like fairies.1b8590d9a75b5992

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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.e7ca791e424ad50e

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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.2299eab3c1ee688d

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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.6b679f67b0b19ba1

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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.c1864d2bd4b6d61e

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Their sizes varied, 1ab0b8107f ranging from a d34190ef6e few meters to 5f8de44681 dozens of meters 01f5b5e145 in height, and 34646724ad their colors were 4c6b0365aa diverse. However, they all had in d6bbd65677 common that a strange vibration 61708e8b38 emanated from them, and ominous 2f7872b426 black sparks flew around them 17d9035952 for no apparent reason.0c3c0fae88abd5b5

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Most of all, these oval-shaped 39ccac6710 things absorbed people within a bf47434892 certain radius proportional to their 5ef8c299fb size when they appeared. Yes. The biggest problem was 2fb74c3823 that they only absorbed f47744a010 people.4fb5d2145c696f1f

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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.cf9621757682fd31

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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.e3edf72b255e29ce

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About two months after 5a6f76de49 the first Gate was e3c50c7170 discovered in the world, 10fd8cd3ce humanity had to face 2763f58643 an unprecedented hell.89290009e544700f

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Commonly known as “Gate Break.”3558f51e97019aa1

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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 191aabb94c poured out of cb2c10b7f6 the Gates began 8db031b6cd to massacre only 8ce5aecd48 humans.ad266b133db32869

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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.495108c912204ae6

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To make matters worse, Gates that didn’t even give the 60-day grace period began to appear.af425969f107fd43

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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.”0050f0114bcbc96f

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Humanity despaired, and more 8e5fde2431 than half of the b0ca52781c civilization it had built c71f373469 up over a long bb3cbb94f0 period of time was 125ecaa481 destroyed. Thus, humanity, on the verge 33df36cfcd of being extinguished like a ebd9db58f6 candle in the wind by 6891eb19f9 the Gates and monsters, could 547c10e3b5 only wish to die without b0181487cf pain.c7926668d30db53c

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Until “he” appeared.b2a41d956bc8001b

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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.aff1cb2a73b27c20

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The Gate he came 4b881eb558 out of disappeared quietly 8db1132d8a without a trace 60 a37f7d5c58 days later without breaking.c81f84d750d566af

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He had transformed into f7f2930865 an entity that could 67bcafada8 summon lightning and kill 10f38e8a67 monsters with a single 0c30285666 blow. His physical abilities 79c81f4431 were also far 1e3cf8d6cb beyond the standards b05ee8faa4 of normal humans, c5d47b49ec such as cutting 654424d0b1 granite rocks like 755f1be777 tofu with a e871ec6555 single finger.b556a7c46bbfff9d

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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.”cbb34da7d5b6e882

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It was during this chaotic 9b11c8bfe6 period that the Light Powder 78eced33e6 Butterflies first appeared in the ba47471d73 world. At one time, people 23671538f6 considered these butterflies a 01ac97f4f9 symbol of bad luck ebbd010eb3 and crushed them as 874fade17c soon as they saw 5f4d9ce60c them, but a generation 986f6604a1 later, most people just c1b6010695 regarded them as pretty 4a4df6da2d lights on dark night 3dcd283546 roads.a4d69b64e3b0397b

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The man lightly waved his 8cbc975dd6 wooden stick at one of 4c4e29111d the butterflies fluttering toward him, 1c213400d3 sending it flying away.ab230883b7d445f9

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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.0585cbc2a8458c13

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Where was I 0fa815af88 in my thoughts?56bf80e4b3ccda16

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The man took 200b310afc his eyes off fd7c0a0dbb the butterflies and c69460f7b7 looked back and 2d0cd170b3 forth at the ac37757750 fork in the a389e636f5 road again. The left was toward e6d0668ea8 the Out-Gate that had 16a06e7f1c been subjugated a while ef98e5ef2f ago, and the right dd6254a912 was an escape route cef7e6dcbf to another area.63fd0fa9e8d35f45

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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.f57d365363bffaeb

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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.e2302f844936a7a5

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Therefore, this choice could 00849f2266 be said to be 115b06a772 the first choice the 8736e7ed48 man made of his 3db6a9a154 own volition.6d56db9b30760412

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“Huu…”30e27284e98b39bb

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The man curled up 5c343fef18 and gasped, as if 65f6685a90 screaming, from the excruciating af1bbcd5df pain. of having his entire right eb88c1352d leg torn off. Then, he moistened his 24acddc72c parched lips with his 0ade16501a tongue, tore open a 5717798bfc packet of medicine from 8a999cd3d9 his pocket, and swallowed 674b8fa0ec it without water.6f23be00de7f2455

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Three packets of medicine left. He had to decide 8f614e55ac where to go before 1e4a425388 he took all of 21f85b6522 his painkillers for the bf8387a366 day.d60977d90285766b

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The man recalled his situation, 2913e233dd having taken out a private 8f7f6fc887 loan for hospital bills and 2d845c15ea having to pay off a 096722a6e1 large amount of arrears.1ae10f991931808a

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With his body ruined a2477f3419 by being soaked in 8956f066f8 various drugs such as 14ce2cd6b3 narcotic painkillers and steroids, 5c90a58ed8 there was nothing else f142282279 he could do.25882930552509e4

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The day before the man fa476f0806 came to this crossroads.b2155cab58bd4450

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The creditor, a C-class Esper, tapped the man’s beaten face with the toe of his shoe.5c362c97b00f1b06

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“Your body is so soaked in drugs that I can’t even take out your organs or sell you.”fbdf5f057abf0486

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The Esper smacked his lips and threw a large backpack over the man’s head.b17a9b2826cf672d

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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.”e6bb8e8898d810e7

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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.b7ce767fe68f8225

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“Damn it, I should have just eaten him and sold him before he broke down. I waited for nothing.”317f37eb562a3c23

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There was a report that af248c9f7d there was a guerrilla Out-Gate 86e90bf239 that had been subjugated a 1c0129ac47 while ago in an area 29e398ba6a where there was a warning 5d019ae415 that there were signs of 7e2e085730 a Gate forming. If a Gate formed, people aa217ee70d would be in danger of 254fa43d06 being sucked in, so access b9bc4eb5a1 would be infrequent, so the ead8a354d3 collection of byproducts from the 50b824d48f monsters that came out of 058b53a00d the Out-Gate and were subjugated c6efdfcd54 would not be complete.03632902b3af10fa

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If he went there, he 06e2f6ff51 would be sucked in if 96f409caa6 the Gate opened, but it 17b52a9358 would be good if he f3f18f12e2 came back with byproducts.9331590cfb523db6

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The man closed his eyes 6780762f5d as he felt the medicine df44848787 take effect and the pain 1eed35c8d3 loosen.9ae90c33d048d307

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Since he was a 3dfd83f621 goner without medicine anyway, 25511297fc even if he chose 5e139f4270 the escape route and f7db4a6724 survived, he would have 1ae75aed6f to live in terrible f733a5e460 pain because he had c47ab54cc2 no money.13a590475e9853fd

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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?3ce7bdcbdb0a1a47

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The man tilted 2e7224c126 his head to c54e1e37b3 the side, thought a4cba5655f about it carefully, a0d26dfffc and shook his e447842317 head.13a7dee204e8afe3

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Don’t commit suicide.704580a7773e4cd3

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Don’t be killed by the Esper.20853b9f05d4788e

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The man, recalling his determination 35de9c4c60 that he must never commit 6784051b00 suicide, held the wooden stick 4261591e80 he used as a cane 2b46b37a3b in his right hand and 21474285c0 stood up.6286a038df97edc1

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If it’s a choice between what to do and what not to do, isn’t it not a choice?2ce6b69d2d54f70c

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The man took a1b472aece a step onto 937b7d151c the left path, 0395eeed4b relying on the efef777bfc light of the cdb1d3e3aa butterflies for visibility.3bdd85aaca9342d3

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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.5de774065cba4267

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