By Zephyria I thought I was going crazy.
It’s an extreme expression, but that’s how it was.
Of course. He’s going to be cut in half and die……. What? It must have hurt?
“Ahn Seo-myeong.”
Ki Jae-eon hardened his expression, unlike usual. He was asking if he was joking.
“N, no joke.”
“Yes. Well, since the Spirit showed it, it’s probably real with a high probability. Hyung, but…….”
Ahn Seo-myeong rolled his eyes and then continued, “Do you know it happened every other day?”
“……?”
Ki Jae-eon’s eyes widened.
It happened every other day? He didn’t just faint for a moment? At his reaction, Ahn Seo-myeong raised the corners of his lips with a smirk. He had expected it. Then, he reached out and neatly arranged the disheveled blanket.
“Everyone kept coming and going.”
“…….”
“I also kept thinking about it while you were asleep, hyung. About death.”
It was scary. Ahn Seo-myeong muttered indifferently. However, his eyes, which were more sunken than usual, seemed to show his deep worries. Well, in a way, he has a limited life span now…… There’s no way it would taste good.
“It was terrible. I was completely cut in half.”
Just as Ki Jae-eon flinched and was about to offer a quiet apology, ‘I’m sorry because of me.’
“But still.”
The atmosphere was reversed.
Ahn Seo-myeong stretched his arms out and yawned coolly, then showed a refreshed expression.
“Just because the probability is high doesn’t mean it’s absolute, right? I think even the Spirit can be wrong sometimes. After thinking about it all day yesterday, I found evidence to support that. We didn’t meet early in the future that he showed us.”
“…….”
“I won’t ask about that memory in detail. Because I’m not a man who dwells on the past.”
Instead. Ahn Seo-myeong reached out and tightly grabbed Ki Jae-eon’s hand. A warm warmth was transmitted.
“I have something I want to say.”
The light in his eyes was directed towards Ki Jae-eon without wavering.
“The future that hyung experienced is different from now. We met early. And we formed a bond. Jae-eon hyung, the future changes. Every moment, even at this time.”
“…….”
“So the future we will reach.”
Ahn Seo-myeong slowly nodded his head.
“Will definitely be together.”
Ahn Seo-myeong showed his courage as if making a promise. He could feel the energy rippling beyond the hand he was holding. His divine power, reacting to his upright heart, was vigorously fluctuating.
That would soon become the foundation for promoting his amazing growth.
“I didn’t have a big goal in life. Thanks to you, I have a goal now. Let’s survive to the end, us.”
We’re going to prove that the Mountain Spirit was wrong. Doesn’t that sound fun? Ahn Seo-myeong showed his unique mischievous smile. Ki Jae-eon received strange comfort from that youthful face.
‘The future……. Changes.’
Together?
“………Haa.”
Ki Jae-eon’s face contorted. He lowered his head and took a few breaths, then slowly nodded. Ahn Seo-myeong quietly smiled at that subtle movement.
“Yes, good job.”
It was praise for something he didn’t know he did well.
But it didn’t feel bad.
Yes, let’s live together.
This time for sure.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere among the main office children, including Kim Ju-won, was serious.
“Is it really……. The future.”
“Rather than that, Jae-eon oppa-.”
Jo Eun-ha stopped talking.
Because it didn’t make sense.
How can a person go back in time!
But they were the ones who dealt with such bizarre phenomena.
In other words, Ki Jae-eon’s regression was also possible.
“So reincarnation really exists.”
“It’s dizzying, dizzying.”
“It’s so sudden that I’m rather calm.”
“I feel like I’ve already died and come back to life.”
“Should I write a will…….”
“No, guys. What we saw might be a delusion!”
One of the children tried to offer an opinion with an awkward smile, but everyone knew that couldn’t be the case.
“So, are we really all going to die?”
Eventually, someone took the lead.
“Hey!”
“That’s right. The future that Jae-eon hyung experienced…….”
Just as anxiety swept through the room once more.
Bang-!
Kim Ju-won slammed the wall hard, suppressing the agitated atmosphere, “Don’t talk nonsense.”
“You guys know too. The future that the senile Mountain Spirit showed is different from now.”
“No, that’s because Jae-eon hyung is living a second life, so of course…….”
“That’s why it’s different.”
Kim Ju-won swallowed a sigh and opened his mouth. His voice was resolute, as if there was an answer there.
“The situation is very different now from when the disaster that Ki Jae-eon experienced was approaching. He’s not alone. We already know, and we have plenty of time to discuss countermeasures. And even if we all died in that damn memory, so what? We’re alive now. The present is reality and life to me. So-.”
Kim Ju-won looked over the children.
“I won’t let anyone die.”
“…….”
“Isn’t that the same for you guys? Why, are you just going to give up and die?”
“That’s not it.”
“Hmm, that’s true.”
As the children made their mouths into a straight line and lowered their gazes, one of the children leaning against the wall stepped forward.
“Okay, okay- let’s not get too heated.”
A child older than Kim Ju-won clapped his hands. The child began to soothe the younger siblings with a serious expression.
“If you think about it carefully, Ju-won is right. Everyone knows that it’s already been twisted a lot, right? No matter how much Jae-eon reincarnated, even if the ending was like that……. No one can guarantee that the future will be exactly the same. It can definitely change. Guys, don’t be depressed. Everything has changed a lot. Jae-eon and we met early, and we have the power to change the future. Let’s overcome it together. Let’s not give up and be defeated. How about thinking of it as the Spirit giving us a hint about the trials to come?”
At his words, Lee Gyeong-hak, who was sitting far away, raised his hand and shouted.
“That’s right. Nothing has happened yet!”
Then, one by one, the other children began to take courage.
“Yeah, let’s not be discouraged.”
“If we prepare thoroughly from now on, we can prepare.”
“Don’t be afraid!”
The gloomy atmosphere took a new turn.
The children looked at each other’s faces and nodded.
Kim Ju-won patted the shoulder of the child who explained it for him and thanked him instead. Then, he left a warning to the children, “Hey, don’t make uselessly gloomy faces when Jae-eon’s bastard comes later.”
“Oppa, where are you going?”
“To the master.”
Kim Ju-won left the room, saying that he needed to know ‘whether those who did not attend the Purification Ceremony also inherited the [memory].’ But his expression was strange as he walked down the hallway. His face, which had been cold as usual as if nothing had happened, gradually crumbled little by little. Then, he quietly turned around, and as soon as he confirmed that his younger siblings were not there, he collapsed and covered his face.
“Haa.”
The hand covering his face was trembling.
It was a very different appearance from when he was yelling at the children in the room.
‘He experienced that terrible future alone? Damn, it’s easy to say…….’
In fact, that’s right.
He spouted nice-sounding words to the children, but it was all bluff.
No matter how he thought about it, Ki Jae-eon was just amazing.
It was almost a miracle that he had only gone ‘this much’ crazy.
‘I wouldn’t be able to do that.’
Kim Ju-won sighed as he rubbed his face roughly. Memories of his meeting with Ki Jae-eon came to his mind one by one. But somehow, there wasn’t a single good scene from start to finish.
Fists, curses…….
‘Wish Eater, ha……. Damn, really.’
He felt his heart drop as guilt washed over him like a wave.
His lips trembled and he had difficulty breathing.
The harsh words he had poured out on him until now returned as sharp knives and pierced him.
‘Just a rich young master who happened to be born with good talent…….’
Kim Ju-won’s eyes grew hot. His face turned red with shame for his own prejudice.
‘Why didn’t you say no to a single word. Why…….’
Ki Jae-eon, what was that foolish guy thinking, eating, breathing, and living?
What was he thinking when he saw the Wish Eater?
Why did he forgive himself so easily?
-’Wri, write me a letter.’
That was all he wanted.
“Ki Jae-eon…….”
A long sigh escaped from Kim Ju-won’s mouth.
He was the one who wanted to turn back time.
“Hey, what did I do to you?”
The mumbling voice was faintly trembling.
“……Ah, really. Annoying.”
Did you keep it all to yourself? Why.
Kim Ju-won finally lowered his head and shook his shoulders for a long time.
Because the apology was endless.
It was atonement that he could not repay even if he devoted his whole life.