101 Avatars
74. Times Have Changed

The bullying of Bobi did not end even after we went up to Junior High.  Whenever there was a chance, they were always looking for an excuse to bully Bobi.  In sports, art, swimming, even during molecular chemistry lessons, they were once desperate to flush hydrochloric acid into Bobi's body.  Fortunately the acid solvent we used at that time was not sulfuric acid, otherwise it could have been more fatal.

Deafness does not stop, even from day to day, the intensity gets worse.  I'm weak, not strong enough to protect my best friend.

Until that day.  Unexpectedly, one of the avatar monsters named Moon ambushed us while we were at the picket section cleaning the gym.  But what those pickets with me and Bobi said was when Moon asked us to choose one of us to die,

“Hey, monster, you just kill him.  The boy is also a monster, very suitable with you.”

That's what they say more or less while pointing towards Bobi.  They did not feel guilty when they said that sentence.  Was it for them that a mutant was truly no longer worthy of being looked upon as a human being that there was no longer any guilt in killing them like killing an animal?  They're all really mean.

I saw the monster step forward before Bobi.

“No.  Can't be like this.”  I murmured in my heart.

During his life, Bobi only continues to experience misadventures, kidnapped by mad scientists, experience illegal experiments, become a mutant, even after it's all over, at a time when Bobi should be able to feel a glimmer of happiness, he said, should his life end like this?

No. gabe.  I can't accept any of that.

I ran and stood between the monster and Bobi.  But what happened was that suddenly a yellow arrow of moonlight filled the roof of the room except in the area between the monster and Bobi.  Then in a moment, then,

“Slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  A slash!  Slash!”

the arrows hit the heads of the students and killed them.

If I had not immediately run towards the direction where I was now standing between that monster and Bobi, I would have been the victim of the sharpness of that monster arrow like the others.

I'm shaking.  I don't think I can move this leg anymore.  Though I ran to save Bobi, but apparently my decision was only for myself who finally survived the attack of the cruel monster thanks to the decision.

Suddenly a soft touch was felt from behind my back.  Apparently it was Bobi.  My best friend calmed me down in a trembling moment, when she should have been the one most deserving of such treatment.  I really have given him a lot of weight.  I'm not a friend.  I am just a parasite that constantly troubles his life.  I hate myself like that.

After the attack, Moon kidnapped me and Bobi as survivors of the attack, or more correctly said as survivors.  We were kidnapped for about 3 days until finally we and the other kidnap victims were rescued by the Hero of Red Blood.

After that incident, Bobi's trauma became more and more severe.  Bobi was unable to dispel his guilt because he thought it was his existence that triggered the avatar monster Moon to kill the students.

Bobi assumed, if only there was no figure of himself as hated in the class, the, there would be nothing for his friends to say to Moon when the monster asked him who one of them deserved to be killed.  If so, all of them would only be kidnapped by the monster and would eventually be saved by the Hero of Red Blood.

After finally he was able to regain his normal life after there were no more people around him who knew his secret.  Butwhy?  But why did he return to reveal it to the public like this?

We were watching the precarious situation that occurred on the roof floor of our faculty building which was always decorated with raining pointed ice-ice that fell from up there, suddenly startled by the fall of someone from the rooftop floor of my faculty building.

I saw Bobi's face so panicked.  I also know the figure of the fallen woman.  She is Nafisah, a woman who was heavily appraised by Adrian.  But why should Bobi be so sweet?  As if, Bobi and not Adrian are the ones who are assessing the weight of the woman.  Without a second thought, Bobi grew his wings and flew to save Nafisah.

This is good news.  Just as Bobi saved me, I knew from the beginning that this friend of mine was a very soft-hearted person.  So I had expected before, he would also save Nafisah.

But what now?  His identity was once again known to the people.  If so, once again Bobi will be repressed sadistically.

“Wah, look!  The man is winged.”

“Wah, cool!  The winged man saved a girl who almost fell from the top of the building.”

However, it seems that my concern is an unnecessary thing.  Now people's views on superhumans have turned more open.  Thankfully, my friend was able to survive until now until the time when in the end people could accept the existence of superpowers.

I saw Bobi together with Nafisah who carried him and landed on the roof of the building.  I see things have calmed down.  Worried, I immediately went to that place.  When I got there, I saw that Bobi, who had returned to his human appearance with Nafisah, seemed to be worrying about someone lying there.

Apparently, he was Adrian.  Apparently, the young man who had always looked weak in his daily life on campus when hanging out with us was the one who had just fought on the roof floor of the faculty building.

Apparently, the problem with the avatar monster, Adrian was also the one who had solved it alone because from earlier, I did not see the existence of the figure of the Red Blood Hero.

I also smiled with relief.  Not only because he saw how Bobi finally accepted in society even with his mutant powers, but also because he saw my other best friend who also developed into a great young man.

I soon joined Bobi and Nafisah.  We then rushed to take the apparently wounded Adrian to a nearby hospital.  However, we were immediately prevented by a handsome middle-aged man and a beautiful blonde woman who claimed to be the management of Dewantara Group Hospital.

They say that let them take care of Adrian about his current status as a criminal suspect.  It would be dangerous to take him to the hospital carelessly.

I saw that Bobi had argued with the two men, but it seems that they were acquaintances of Nafisah and Nafisah trusted them very much.  Be Bobi also followed Nafsah's decision to submit Adrian's treatment problems to them.

However, before Adrian was brought by the two of them, Adrian was aware first and somehow suddenly in a very healthy condition.  Adrian also said that there was a place that must be visited at that time and then went to leave us just by flying in the form of the Blue Arrow Winged Knight.