Chapter 310

I am not a returner Episode 310:

A Faded Promise (2)

A night where thick darkness descends like a curtain.

On the rooftop of the fourth floor of an old, shabby orphanage, two boys and a girl were looking up at the night sky.

“Ah, that damn bald bastard. Even if you hit me, do you hit me in the eye?”

The girl with auburn hair carefully stroked the skinny boy’s bruised eyes.

The director usually doesn’t hit prominent places like the face, but today he felt so hot that he even touched his face.

It’s a dangerous place where you could lose your eyesight if you’re not careful.

“You bastard! “I’ll definitely report it to the police!”

“...You know it’s no use even if you try.”

The boy shook his head with a bitter expression.

I had already reported it to the police a few times, but they only half-heartedly investigated whether bribes had been exchanged before turning back.

Even if you show the bruises around your eyes, it will just be assumed that you fell and got hurt.

“Anyway, since I’m getting old, I’m making fun of my kids’ names!”

The girl seemed to be unable to let go of her anger and continued to curse at the director, grinning furiously.

“I should have held back.”

“What are you holding on to? “Ojini, you didn’t do anything wrong!”

A faint smile appeared on the boy’s lips as he heard the girl’s decisive words.

“But thanks to my sister’s help, I wasn’t hurt too much.”

“It doesn’t hurt that much! Noontaeng became Bamtaeng!”

“I would have been beaten even more if my sister wasn’t there.”

The boy continued speaking while gently holding the girl’s hand.

“Thank you, sister.”

“joy! “Thank you and I hope you get well soon!”

The girl lay down on the boy’s thighs and looked up at the night sky.

The brilliant starlight was shining beautifully like a blessing from the sky.

The boy stroked the hair of the girl who was lying on her thighs, with beautifully shining stars in her eyes.

Like stroking a precious treasure.

carefully.

“sister.”

“Huh?”

A girl tilting her head and looking up at the boy.

The boy continued speaking with a faint smile.

“Let’s live together when we get out of the orphanage.”

“Huh? “What?”

“Let’s live together.”

The girl gaped as if she had been hit on the head with a hammer.

He nodded with a face as red as his hair.

“That’s right. “Let’s go live together.”

“I will protect my sister then.”

The boy touched the girl’s red cheeks and spoke as if she were swearing.

The girl who was lying on her thighs jumped up and snorted.

“Heng! “How do you protect me?”

A girl who puts both hands on her hips and laughs as if it’s funny.

“In the first place, older sisters protect their younger siblings!”

“okay?”

“Gorum! “How can you be so arrogant and say that your younger brother will protect your older sister?”

The boy burst out laughing and nodded.

“Then I will help you protect me.”

“What do you mean by helping me?”

A girl laughing and pulling the boy’s cheek.

The boy was too thin and emaciated to accept the words ‘I will help you’ without hesitation.

“You idiot, you always lie every time you open your mouth.”

The girl who was playfully pulling the boy’s cheek soon turned around.

“Let’s go down slowly. “If there’s more, I’ll get caught.”

The boy muttered quietly as he watched the back of the girl walking away.

“It’s not a lie.”

Is it because my voice was too small?

The boy’s last murmur did not reach the girl.

* * *

The tent shook in the chilly wind blowing through the canyon.

Ojin opened his eyes and got out of the sleeping bag like a caterpillar shedding its skin.

“I guess it’s because I talked about old times with my sister yesterday.”

The promise we shared on the rooftop of the orphanage a long time ago came out in a dream.

A faded promise that she probably won’t even remember.

Oh Jin chuckled as he recalled his childhood memories.

‘Help me protect myself.’

There was no specific plan or goal.

For reference, Poppy was given the corpse of a demonic beast caught nearby for breakfast.

“purr!”

Poppy let out a happy cry as if she had finished her meal and kicked her feet vigorously.

How many more hours did we spend wandering around the canyon?

“Look over there.”

Haeun sits on Poppy’s back and points her finger.

Where she pointed, there was only a dull rock and nothing else to be seen.

“There’s nothing?”

“Eh? What are you talking about? “There’s something like a firefly floating around over there, right?”

“what?”

He tilted his head and pulled up the stigmata of the constellation Canis, but all he could see was the dull rock.

“I can’t see anything.”

“wait for a sec.”

Haeun kicked Poppy’s back and jumped.

He went near the rock and pointed.

“You really can’t see anything?”

“uh. “All I can see is a rock.”

“...what?”

Ha-eun tilted her head and stretched out her hand toward the blue light floating around the rock.

When Ha-eun stretched out her hand, the blue light, floating like a fairy of light, seemed startled and started flying somewhere.

“Oh, he ran away.”

“Is it only visible to you?”

“I think so.”

Ha-eun put her hand behind her head and took off the blindfold.

If she could see herself but Ohjin could not, there was a high possibility that the cause was the ‘Yongan’ she possessed.

“Wow.”

A low exclamation came from Ha-eun’s mouth.

Before I took off my eye patch, I saw that the surroundings were filled with blue lights that had been seen sparsely.

“Let’s go over there.”

There was a place where rays of light flowed like a stream.

“for a moment. First, judge whether it is dangerous or not...”

“It is not dangerous.”

Ha-eun said with a confident voice.

“Something... I don’t know exactly what it is, but I know it’s not dangerous.”

“Hmm.”

Is there something else I feel because I have the Dragon Eyes?

Oh Jin did as she said and walked along the ray of light that only Ha-eun could see.

How far did you walk like that?

“...here.”

A building that looks like it was carved out of a huge canyon.

A city so magnificent that my jaw dropped at its overwhelming scale unfolded before my eyes.

‘Is this the Dragonian Kingdom?’

As expected from the kingdom of dragons, it was a city with a heart-pounding grandeur just by looking at it.

“I guess that’s the Dragonian Kingdom.”

“Huh what? “Is this the road to the kingdom?”

I just followed a group of blue lights, but when I suddenly arrived at my destination, Ha-eun looked embarrassed.

Ohjin nodded and continued speaking.

“There is no way such a huge city could not be seen from afar... Was it hidden behind some sort of barrier? And my sister found it all at once with the dragon eye.”

The veil that was hiding the kingdom of the dragon people was revealed so easily that Ha-eun’s dragon eyes made people laugh.

“What is it? “Are my eyes a little bright?”

Instead, Ha-eun traced the corner of her left eye with a puzzled expression.

Around the eyes, ugly tendons sprout like roots.

The vertically split pupils, like the eyes of a reptile, were emitting an intense glow.

“Shall we take a look outside first?”

Even once you found the kingdom, you couldn’t just enter it without taking precautions.

Because they were able to show their rejection of humans like they did during the beastman tribe.

“Wait here for a moment. I’ll go upstairs and take a look inside the city.”

Because of the walls surrounding the outskirts of the city, I couldn’t see inside from here.

Taang!

Ohjin climbed up a nearby rock wall using a wire shooter and jumped high, using the brightness of the brain scar in succession.

“...what is this.”

Ojin’s expression hardened as he looked down at the city with the power of the stigmata of the constellation Canis the Hound.

What caught his eye was the sight of a kingdom so horribly destroyed that it could be said to be ruins.

The dragon people were nowhere to be seen, and groups presumed to be demon people were wandering around the ruined city.

“Damn it.”

Ojin’s expression distorted fiercely.

‘Is it too late?’

The Dragonian Kingdom, which came with great difficulty, had already been destroyed by the Demons.