Stage 1-5

**Stage 1-5** is a story stage of Chapter 1: Final Program.

## Script

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* I sincerely apologized and paid for the opened potato chips. When I walked out, the sun was shining, but it also started raining.
* The recurring dreams I'd been having also had these sunshowers in them.
* Walking in the rain, my mood brightened considerably.
* Just then, the phone in my bag started to vibrate.
* **MC**: Probably Anna about the funding withdrawal...
* I clumsily fumbled in the bag for my phone, not realizing I was standing in the middle of a crosswalk.
* "Beeeep!" The blare of a car horn sounds behind me.
* I turn my head and see a taxi rushing toward me.
* Too late to do anything! I instinctively close my eyes.
* But the crash I was bracing for didn't happen. The whole world suddenly goes quiet.
* I fall into a warm embrace.
* I open my eyes. Raindrops hang still in the air. A man is holding me in his arms.
* His body emanates a piercing but soothing spirit...
* **MC**: You... who are you?
* Dream overlaps with reality. In a moment, I seem to return to the accident when I was 5 years old.
* He looks at me. We lock eyes.
* A trace of surprise skims across his face.
* **Secret Man**: Evolver?
* **MC**: ?
* **Secret Man**: You still don't know?
* **Secret Man**: The ability is beginning to awaken though.
* **MC**: Who are you?
* **Secret Man**: You don't have to know.
* **Secret Man**: And you better forget what I said just now.
* How can someone say such strange things and then expect you to forget it...
* **MC**: Okay... I still have to thank you for saving my life.
* **Secret Man**: You should watch yourself. Someone can't come to your rescue every time.
* He put me down on the roadside. When I turned to say thank you again, he was already gone.
* Then all the sounds came back. Raindrops fell down, the taxi drove away, and people dispersed.
* Like nothing happened just then.
* I stood alone by the roadside, still wondering about the whole thing.
* **MC**: I was... Could it be... Was it a daydream?
* The wind blew, swaying the shadows of trees. The snacks on the ground tell me it's real.
* If it's real, could he be related to... the boy who saved me in childhood?
* And the E... Evolver he mentioned? What does that mean?
* **MC**: Or have I been dreaming too much recently and hallucinated the whole thing?
* **MC**: It's as if superpowers have become a reality...
* **MC**: I should invite him to Miracle Finder... The Special Effect Unit could use a break.
* **MC**: But, from how he acted, he probably wouldn't agree to go on, right?
* **MC**: Didn't even tell me his name. Like helping a cat out of a tree while out on a stroll...
* I cleaned the snacks up and left in confusion.
* **MC**: Anyway, it's lucky I avoided the accident...
* **MC**: Or there'd be a headline: "Miracle Finder Loses Funding, Producer Commits Suicide"...
* What I didn't notice is that with that gust of wind, a man appeared noiselessly in the sky above the city.
* Even in that windless afternoon, his windbreaker somehow flutters. The gun in his holster shines coldly.
* He presses the call button on his headset.
* **Mystery Person**: Agent B-7, energy wave detected in Loveland. Sending Coordinates.
* **Mystery Person**: Target locked. Taking action immediately.
* His sharp vision follows the girl's figure until she leaves the street.
* A girl in a flower shop seems to spot a shadow in the sky, but the next second, it's gone.