Chapter 393

Chapter 393:

Quiet.

The only thing that reaches my ears is the sound of the scattered rain. It was not easy to even open my eyes because my body was weak and my eyelids were so heavy.

Suk-

I woke up while walking on the white blanket that is unique to hospitals. An intravenous drip was inserted into the arm to inject healing fluid, and the body was wearing a patient’s uniform.

“Hmm...”

Shin Ha-yoon let out an incomprehensible admiration at her miserable appearance. What was in those eyes was not resentment, sadness, or misery.

If I had to put that feeling into words, wouldn’t it be insensitivity?

“You lost in the end.”

And the words he spat were so simple that Shin Ha-yoon himself was surprised. Lee Hyuk looked at Shin Ha-yoon in silence. It was the first time Shin Ha-yoon was like this, so I couldn’t open my mouth.

Why does Shin Ha-yoon, who was beyond confident and even arrogant, feel heartbroken?

“Why do you look like that?”

Shin Ha-yoon smiled.

On the other hand, Lee Hyuk’s expression was so dark that he wondered if he was the one who was heartbroken.

“Hayoon, you’re not as bad as I thought. If it were you...”

“Did you know that the road would run amok?”

However, Lee Hyuk, who had maintained his seriousness, was relieved by Shin Ha-yoon’s joke.

“yes. I knew you would run amok.”

“That’s right. That would be correct, but why? I have no feelings.”

Shin Ha-yoon looked at the window.

Through the closed glass, I could see a snail crouching on the window sill to avoid the rain.

Dreuk –

Shin Ha-yoon got up from bed, opened the window, and grabbed a snail’s shell. And then I realized that it was lighter than I thought.

If you thought there was a snail, you must be mistaken. I didn’t know it when I saw it from a distance, but when I heard it, the inside of the snail’s shell was empty.

“...maybe. In fact, it might be empty inside.”

Shin Ha-yoon turned the snail’s shell around and examined it carefully. Then, as if he had lost interest, he put the shell on the window and returned to the bed.

“Even if I pretend to be alive by imitating the past... I might have died the moment I was hit by that sword?”

Lee Hyuk was speechless at the sight of Shin Ha-yoon. Lee Hyuk’s silent disposition was the point of Shin Ha-yoon living high. Oh, of course, Lee Hyuk had no reason to follow him.

“But why are you here?”

Shin Ha-yoon’s question was really pure. I wasn’t being sarcastic, I was really wondering why Lee Hyuk stayed with me. Thanks to this, Lee Hyuk, who had been waiting for Shin Ha-yoon to wake up, hardened his expression.

“Ha-yoon is you...”

Lee Hyuk’s expression became more and more distressed, but Shin Ha-yoon still didn’t understand.

“You saw it too. See me defeated.”

But it was natural.

Shin Ha-yoon has argued that power is everything, so he defined his value only with the standard of strength. Human values and relationship values were not different.

According to his own standard, Shin Ha-yoon was a broken, defeated, and useless human being.

Just as the Shin-O family and herself did to Shin Yu-seong, she also deserved to be abandoned.

“Looking at your physical condition... I don’t know how long it will take to recover the old mana. You won’t be any different from normal people for a while.”

The moment Shin Ha-yoon got Ryu Jin’s sword stuck in his body. Deep inside me, I felt something missing. It was no different from what he had done to Velvet.

“...causation and retribution. You literally reap what you sow.”

Shin Ha-yoon lay down on the bed and opened a book. It wasn’t about Hunter or Morgan’s old books, it was an ordinary magazine placed for patients.

Shin Ha-yoon just turned the pages of the magazine with a bored face. He said weakly to Lee Hyuk, who still refused to leave him, as if it was over.

“Now I have neither the strength nor the confidence. And the goal...”

Feeling human emotions.

[Yeah... I’m already satisfied. There is no more time left.]

For the sake of humans.

[So even if the cost is true extinction... I can laugh happily.]

Could it have been love?

Took-

Shin Ha-yoon suddenly grabbed Lee Hyuk’s hand.

“Lee Hyuk. are you in love with me?”

Then, I asked for something like a proposal casually like a lunch menu.

“Ha Ha Yoon-ah!?”

“I want to check it too...”

Lee Hyuk, embarrassed, stiffened like a frog that met a snake, but Shin Ha-yoon fidgeted with his hand.

“As expected, I can’t feel anything when I hold my hand.”

Was it too crowded? Couldn’t he have felt the same emotions as Laplace or Lee Hyuk?

“Ha, Ha-Yoon.... That’s not what I said.”

“Didn’t you tell me you loved me? Of course, I thought it was meant as a reason.”

Although they are sisters, Shin Ha-yoon is different from Shin Yoo-seong. Shin Yoo-seong lives in Musin Mountain and knows nothing, but Shin Ha-yoon already has witch knowledge.

“That’s right... Ha Yoon-ah, the order is...”

What would other students think when they saw Lee Hyuk, who was always known as a cold and scary senior, blushing?

Weeing!

Shin Ha-yoon used his meager mana to make Lee Hyuk the bed he was lying on. It also brought it right in front of you. Then, I confirmed it by carefully examining the face and reaction.

“...breathing quickens. His face is also red, which means that he is sympathetic. I’m sure Lee Hyuk likes me.”

Shin Ha-yoon, who made an accurate and cold-hearted judgment as if examining the condition of an object, chanted with a regretful heart.

“I am not at all. Still, I’ll have to check the next step.”

next stage?

Shin Ha-yoon pulled on Lee Hyuk without even thinking about expressing his doubts. Their lips overlapped. The kiss was as dictatorial as Shin Ha-yoon’s personality, but Lee Hyuk silently closed his eyes.

Tick – Tick – Tick – Tick –

4 seconds passed like 4 years, no like eternity. It was Shin Ha-yoon’s voice that broke the silence.

“...get it?”

Shin Ha-yoon got up from the bed.

Lee Hyuk still stays in bed with his mouth open like an idiot, but Shin Ha-yoon’s voice is the same as usual.

“Your feelings for me are a one-way street. Even that doesn’t have a bowl, so it doesn’t contain and scatters.”

The voice that pierced Lee Hyuk’s heart without any agitation.

“You will not be rewarded. No matter how much you yearn... there’s nothing I can give you. Aren’t you so frustrated?”

It was the same as Shin Ha-yoon, whom he longed for, who made him face the cold reality more rationally than anyone else.

But Lee Hyuk woke up.

The heat from earlier still lingers on his lips, but he tries to hide his emotions by adjusting his clothes.

Shin Ha-yoon’s words made my heart thump, and more than anything, it hurt me, but I spat it out calmly nonetheless.

“no.”

It is a lie to say that there are no winners and losers in love. Lee Hyuk knew. That this is actually no different from a battle.

In the end, the loser has no choice but to follow the winner. The person who fell in love with the other person first has no choice but to follow the other person.

“It’s already expected.”

No matter how hot it is in hellfire, I have no choice but to jump like a moth to a fire.