Chapter 333: Cold City Girl

[Egostic <<<<  If it’s just God, it’s okay lol]

(A giant sea monster is attacking the city)

(A picture of Egostic looking up from the sky above a fallen beast with a hole in its head)

Protector of the Republic of Korea

SSS-class Hero

I just can’t imagine Korea without this guy anymore.

The GOAT of Korea forever

Egostic.

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[Egostic<<<I just have to be a villain for life lol]

ㄴ[What is a lifelong villain lol]

ㄴ[Egostic and Korea are one. Any attack on Egostic is considered an attack on the Republic of Korea. The light of the world. Egostic, my salvation. Egostic, my mango.]

[Whenever there is a great crisis in Korea, you are always the first to appear… just a glow… just a glow…]

[Info] The beast he defeated is currently undiscovered outside of the country… how dangerous it could have been]

[Stardus looks a little stressed]

ㄴ[that thing had come ashore and advanced on Seoul, it could have been ugly.]

[Egotistic mango king~]

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[Angelstick <<<< just overwhelmingly honest]]

(angel cringes when she calls Egostic master)

(Front view of an angel flying in the sky)

(shot of her shooting a beam and taking down a monster)

Star Mango? Ice Mango? Fuck you all.

It’s all about <<<Angel Mango>>>>…

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[This is it…]]

[This is the part where even the stars admit it]

ㄴ[Someone admitted it.]

[Star Mango Hacker Mango Ice Mango Elec Mango Moonlight Mango Japanese Mango Angel Mango Why are there so many mangos? Is it a mango restaurant?]

[I didn’t know what you’d like, so I prepared everything~]

ㄴ[Where are the Shadow Mango and Death Mango?!!]

ㄴ[Gay gay…]

[Killing it with a single laser shot was crazy. Honestly, I was a little suspicious that the angel was a joke until then, but I realized it was a real angel when I saw the giant monster killed in one-shot…]

[lol angel death beam makes no sense]

[Yeah who cares what anyone says, the reason for Egostic terror was because of Stardus from the beginning~ The original Starmango is still strong]

N[Actually, he didn’t say a word when he caught the sea monster this time, except for saving Stardus]

[Honestly, I can’t imagine life without Egostic anymore… I mean, he gives me a new mango rice cake every time?]

[Mr. President, this mango is good this time]

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“Hah…”

Stardus’ office, the Korean Hero Association.

Shin Haru, who was mindlessly dragging down the Egostic FanCafe there, sighed as a thought suddenly occurred to her.

‘After all…’

Yesterday, I didn’t get to talk to him much.

…And honestly, she was annoyed that he kept adding more girls, but she knew that she didn’t have the right to say anything since she wasn’t that personal with him… but it still bothered her, haha…

When Lee Seola said that she was curious about what had happened yesterday with Egostic, she headed to the Yuseong Group headquarters to meet with her again.

A few hours later in the president’s office on the top floor of the Yuseong Group headquarters, Lee Seola was sitting on the couch, with the night view from the window behind her, drinking tea and listening to Stardus.

“…What?”

Stardus’ words stunned her, and she slammed her cup down in disbelief.

“So… you couldn’t talk to Egostic after all?”

“…Yeah.”

“No, wait. Why?”

“Because…”

…Because she was embarrassed…

Shin Haru blushed, turned her eyes to the side, and twisted her golden hair slightly as she said that.

She felt unbearably frustrated.

‘…No, Haru, please…!’

You don’t have much time left…!

From the sounds of it, it wasn’t long before Egostic would retire.

Once he retires, he’ll be much less likely to encounter Stardus, so it’s good to get some closure before then. Honestly, if Haru would just confess her true feelings, he’d be okay with it, right?

…But, why the hell…!

‘You two stuffy people, why are you doing that…’

Haru… It’s not the time to be ashamed…

Looking at her friend in front of her like that, Lee Seola felt a little confused.

…Honestly, seeing that she didn’t do it this time, it seemed like she wouldn’t have anything to confess in the future. Haru, really? You don’t even know your own mind?

She was distressed by her friend’s frustrating shoveling.

After a while, she thought to herself.

‘…Yeah. Maybe shock therapy would be better.’

At the rate she’s going, she’s not going to be able to keep up this pace for a month to a year.

It seemed like a good idea to give her a jolt to wake her up. After all, it would be a great stimulus for him to announce his retirement.

Lee Seola continued to think about it.

She quickly changed her mind and came up with a Plan B.

First, she would have to make him look back at Stardus.

…All of this trouble right now, actually, is because he’s trying to avoid Stardus and retire.

But in the first place, if you think about it, it was weird that Da-in, who wanted Stardus, was avoiding Stardus in the first place. Actually, the whole thing is more of a problem.

I don’t know what’s going on with Stardus, since Egostic won’t talk about it, but wait. No way…

‘Is he tired of Haru?’

Lee Seola continued to think about it.

She even came to the ridiculous conclusion that maybe, just maybe, Egostic was tired of Stardus.

‘…Is it a good thing that there’s less competition?’ she thought for a moment but shook her head, realizing that she could never abandon Haru, her best friend in the first place. Nah, we’ll still have Haru with us, and we’ll have the other members of the Egostream anyway…

Then again, that would mean we’d have to get Da-in to look around Stardus.

“Mmm…

Seola thought over and over again, and eventually, she came up with an idea.

“Haru, how about this?”

“Why don’t you just treat Egostic as coldly as you used to?”

“…Huh?”

Seola advice began.

She suggested going for the bad girl style that’s in vogue these days.

“It’s said that relationships between men and women are pushy. If you push too hard, they’ll lose interest.”

“…Yeah, I’ve heard that before.”

“So now you’re going to treat him like you treated him the first time you met him. Sharp, like you’re dealing with a real badass villain.”

Listening to Lee Seola’s seriousness as she spoke of her self-conceived plan, Stardus silently thought to herself.

‘…Right, now that I think about it.’

The point at which Egostic began to avoid her was after he escaped from prison.

Now that she thought about it, it makes sense.

-Stardus thought, seriously.

…Until she realized that he’d lost his memory of that time, and that the only reason he avoided her was because his heart skipped a beat every time he saw her.

“Maybe he was attracted to you because of what you used to be, so why don’t you go back to your roots?”

…That was the advice from the self-proclaimed relationship expert.

The reason Egostic is avoiding her is that he’s lost interest in Stardus, and if she becomes cold again, she’ll be able to capture his attention.

“…I think that’s a good idea. Cold, yeah…”

Shin Haru readily agreed.

She wasn’t sure if it was right, but it was Seola’s advice, so it was probably right.

It also explains everything that Egostic has been avoiding herself until now…Maybe because he always emphasized being a hero. Could it be that he didn’t like the fact that she was soft on him?

Cold, cold, cold. Just like before…

‘…I wonder if I can do it.’

As she thought that, she suddenly felt skeptical.

Maybe in the past, but now she felt differently about Egostic than she did then. Can she say that so harshly?

…She didn’t know.

Still, she had to try her best.

She thought she heard a voice somewhere shouting, “Don’t try your best at that…!” but it must have been an illusion.

That night, on the top floor of the Yuseong Group, the conclusion of the Anti-Egostic Task Force meeting was announced.

And

The problem with all these meetings was.

‘…It’s going to work, right?’

In the first place, even Lee Seola, who gave the advice, was a novice in love who had never been in a relationship before…

And so the shoveling continued late into the night.

…Still, it was summer.

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‘…What is this strong feeling…?’

I shuddered as I plotted my next terror, feeling an ominous sensation.

An uneasy feeling, like I’m about to get a lot of abuse.

…No, why should I feel this way even on the verge of retirement.

I thought to myself, and shrugged it off.

Well, I’m mentally strong now, so it won’t matter.

Maybe.