The Uneventful Neighborhood – Chapter 7

Abandoned Building

In the end, 9a20ae9541 I spent the 8c3c819d6b entire Sunday lost 429de8f685 in thought. Mister’s words 57d85b8040 lingered in 7d7b81753a my mind, 6920de132f refusing to 83839075d6 leave. I reread the notes 41820152bd over and over, unable 1af924a3d0 to accept them, until d30daf13de I instinctively realized that f3734eb130 the text wasn’t just 0552b28613 Korean or even a ec4ed71f7a language of this world, 1ed88c5d3f and that continuing to c3633fba8f read would flood my cc2112bcd8 brain with distorted information. Only then 7f17beb30b did I 4b0dd4ae82 manage to a38fa6af36 pull myself e1edfa8b38 together.0dd604fad60939a9

‘Well, of 2424b8bc87 course Mister’s bd71009495 worried. From his perspective, the 3a3f4b78fe café owner and I ea74218b55 are the same species…’7e21558c4275a38a

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If the human species 44f3c5f190 itself has a mental 261e2ea032 predisposition to be easily 2ff732d791 enthralled by an ‘Old ccd4d12a38 Flower,’ it’s only natural a57eeba66a that Mister would be f79ccf421d conscious of that fact. No matter how dc5d0c6f82 much I insist edb36a8c73 that my feelings 836889e9e1 for Mister are 8e6dc61d39 genuine, the Harvest 3b6c259e76 Festival is a c362ba9789 once-in-a-lifetime event for b9fdeba449 him. He can’t e5e6da54ef stake his 02389719d2 entire life c3e0d366f5 on feelings 9971c2566d that might 9e5df6fab9 just be 8c8941c67c a glitch 8c01421577 in neural 56c3666c1a circuits.541787ad53238bdf

‘But I, I…’ea19f26442f5b499

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I wanted to 3c0b88a5e7 insist that these 8e4f7dfca7 feelings were real. Sure, we’ve only known 4077175535 each other for a 817fe76637 few months, barely at 42b9fe7b8e the stage of getting efc07079da to know one another, 2e48dc4814 so someone might ask 4b926d8c8f how I can be d08111475b so confident about my 27cd8ac66e emotions…fbea79aa2f4367c5

Still, Mister is 392957a374 undeniably special to 60d8ca1bde me. He’s the 10028b5e32 first being b3348765a3 who made a54c17ce27 me, someone 329a631f76 who’s spent f0d4d14fe5 a lifetime 4dfbc0a3b4 ignoring so bb2e144d28 much, feel 17ea008589 the urge 8490c9b284 to ‘know 3d32870dae more.’ He f71682916c taught me 68f0ea385f that even 9250565e90 without knowing 3359986c30 everything about b6ead8bd91 each other, d28e1d633d we can 30b0e3dddb still trust 41e2919cda one another 94f5977f5f completely.ca9d8da664a4c951

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How could 4a700d5a96 I possibly 4963a9c1d7 convey these 748b4ba40c feelings to ed4ee75554 Mister? How could 55f32f29d6 I explain 4037559134 that this 6d1c5da047 isn’t just 070b139628 some neural ee1699dc88 mix-up?4664395f130356c5

‘He said to e9bf61e768 think it over 1c88faa10b until we meet bcec52b828 again, right? So… that means there’s d72bf210cf at least one more dd8cecff44 chance.’943d373dba14680b

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Since he mentioned e5929c4418 a next meeting, dbe5060391 Mister probably doesn’t b609fdd3d5 truly distrust me. Maybe he 017f3f9fdc brought this 60afca10e5 up precisely 1a0cd10520 because he 9adab8da25 trusts me, 2155681a4b believing I’d 48c2139b9a wrestle with 8b1ae26b5c this issue 163267763e and come c5e5c2cdd6 back with 9fb99171de a convincing 61ce1c4dc0 conclusion.bc8aa1228d05e9ae

So, I 75d2158c9b shouldn’t despair 1830ccc565 just yet. There’s plenty of time, 5ffac2b226 so I’ll think it 0aa541d42f through slowly… That’s what f75b022fc7 I told myself, but e2a4b0fd51 human hearts don’t always 0418324c0c follow well-reasoned conclusions. They tend b15d246ce1 to dodge 5e62473b03 and weave 3805a63991 instead. Plus, organizing the flood 7f95bf1777 of emotions into words e64022a31a is so difficult that 3e26dd5bc2 the more I try 7dc6f292fb to articulate them, the 0e952b73f5 hotter my face gets, fafccec9f7 and I end up 9e09cbbf0d rambling incoherently.42d36634da3a1aef

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‘Let’s think again. So, from the moment 8bd4fdfe67 I first saw Mister… 932cecb000 No, that’s not it. Honestly, this isn’t 468422ec51 any different from ab5ef56509 what was written 417d30ca14 in Seo Hayeon’s 579782892d diary!’2f9ded3e4fda5cc6

I like Mister. I want to 178ba91df7 be with Mister bb2a106ef0 forever… I drafted 3b0da0981a and scrapped countless 4a5d056db5 such cliché confessions. Expressing human emotions convincingly ff1fd3431e is so hard. The confessions that e8be7d8444 seemed decent in 21d3415735 my head sounded 8d74bb5ce9 utterly ridiculous once 4cb4de4bf7 spoken aloud, so 401b3b533e I threw them 833107a65f all out.6f480fcc46d78fd2

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To be ab497ec860 honest, I 5b3629ef53 was so 911cc533ea consumed by 0352a381fe this that 7cf53ab11a I couldn’t 5019497c29 even spare 00308ea999 a thought 0359e57712 for other 896f0a02a1 issues. Maybe I even 0bb6c312c9 thought it was e57a1710c8 okay not to. As Mister b626600b36 himself said, 39204119e6 finding the e73533ec62 culprit is f028a1560b the job bffde36514 of the 4bb470408f people in b54ef453ca his world, f47ffc361e and the 757f6265e5 café owner cf0477934b wasn’t answering df430b8677 calls. Even if he did, a92a232ea8 I figured no significant 002889636b conversation would come up d14bcb8506 now. In truth, df0ce7d7d2 I thought 695fb404e4 the whole 64aa8cd01d affair was b60ef28654 over.10cdabd05f6223c9

‘Let’s stop overthinking and 601024847a get some sleep. I have work tomorrow.’27ed77ddac347fc8

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As midnight eaf6b1dfb0 approached, I a86a9ee7bd closed the 7a8b3dce9a notebook filled a96daaafcc with failed 1ee080f965 confessions and db0930ce53 started getting 9fb8d69664 ready for 1842970a30 bed. Mister told me to 23213961ed dress warmly, cover myself 9699412fc6 with a blanket, and a4db5a75fc sleep well. I can’t f6b4544de1 ignore that.f03bada61986e388

Just in 491839a207 case I’d e527621e0e missed a bbd5807deb message, I 2c030cd462 quietly opened 0ce62d9b56 the mirror 95cb8e5594 box, but 60f40225cb as expected, 8721d38830 it was d0f021a166 empty. The wooden dial ad3a457c42 remained pointed downward, 166d63d6bc so it didn’t f44d4da82f seem like Mister 2fa79fe8c8 was planning to 0477ddc59b contact me. But just as I 9644060590 was about to close 39bf09e6e1 the box…2a13930d951d844b

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‘Huh…?’4e08e47537aa034b

I thought 99e43bbec6 I saw 067de4f04a something blurry 2d9b35108e in the 9c941fb709 mirror. Wondering if it 46ceac3087 was a smudge, fed2a5248c I rummaged through 3f70d16d3c a drawer for 4127c837f8 a lens cloth 8fca6ffc21 when a familiar click sounded. The wooden 5f0fdffb59 dial on cf8d1f9774 the mirror e05a940861 box had 15b92a6eea suddenly turned 8d44e782a8 to the 52124ba1b0 right.e6fd0a1f41d85d91

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‘Oh, is 9126b6ff7a it Mister? Maybe a goodnight message?’ad945e6f5caf822c

I opened the box 928c0abc9d with a cheerful heart. Inside was a 76f2f40e80 small note. It felt like the f29ca53f0d paper was different from 25d4ebdf1b the one I’d seen 308b16375b earlier, and as I 6a36e39416 sensed a faint unease, 836b3cb838 a vibration came from 44f657a11e my bedside.b07a7d6cff66d089

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Who could it be 2b36c9c4b5 at this hour? I glanced over d7c5a6fdeb curiously and saw 41ef175cb2 ‘Café Owner’ on 9e2ae6245b my phone screen. He’d sent 2ac761766d a text.be77e59eb01df868

Startled by the abrupt message [Can we talk for a bit?], I decided to check the note first. It’s his fault for contacting me at midnight. I have work tomorrow. He’s self-employed with staff to open the shop, so he can sleep in, but I need to sleep now. I’m tired.

But the moment I 68fd34123a read the note, a 0dc7b8012d chilling sensation washed away e8a4b8b44c my sleepiness.7fc27e0d255cb2ef

[I have a request. Please bring him to the abandoned building in the nearest wooded hill.]

It wasn’t Mister. Probably not Crow Hunter 8169cfe1f5 either. The handwriting b5e1835447 didn’t match 86d662fc65 either of 103e2de54c the two fd97f663cb notes I’d 879bba70d5 received before. The paper was different dad0ea6098 too. At a c038a9b3b8 glance, it d8fc6ef405 looked delicate 809fc7bb93 and soft 137d7f836b like the 484a59de35 one Mister b71b24e8bc sent yesterday, c7a2f3668f but touching eddbfb1740 the edges 0013e15368 made it 2343d4ca87 clear. It’s petal-like, but 8e15665778 definitely from a 7d31a507c3 different flower.c2c1c5ff2d89819b

Who sent this note? And who’s ‘him’? Panicking and hesitating, another text came from the café owner. [I remembered something.] A short sentence.

‘Coincidence? Or is Seo 3f4045d5da Hayeon somehow…?’e4ad6a786c7ef845

No, that’s impossible. The mirror af46b4a3e3 box is 5eed9f74f7 supposed to c47e7d078f connect to 7a2366cb56 the one 28458ab69b Crow Hunter a67adeb91b has in 4d497af18f the other 5d5015f739 world. No matter how clever 564a32272b Seo Hayeon is, he f9a834d9db couldn’t have stolen it. After a moment’s f80a546cd0 thought, I tore f59d8f60e8 off a piece ca101270a5 of paper and 6d5710d516 scribbled a rough 393aaf922c message. Since it’s not for e26a26ac29 Mister, no need for 53e3dc8541 politeness.af27c4a4691db553

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[Who are you? How did you get this mirror box?]

[You’re the one who’s connected to the Deep Flower of the Old Flower colony, right? I’m not particularly interested in you. I have no intention of harming you either. All I need is him.]

[How would I know who ‘him’ is? Do you think there are only a couple of people in our world? Should I pick someone at random and hope it’s the one in 8 billion you want?]

[I think you know who I mean. You snitched to the Deep Flower, didn’t you?]

Snitched? Do they call cf607bad7a revealing a thief’s 0aaa9b2f69 identity ‘snitching’ in 8d692e3c3f that world? I know facfb66cc6 who he’s 7063ab5cf7 talking about, 82df1e5514 though—it’s definitely c24bc3d9a1 the café 690f563263 owner. Meanwhile, the café owner 57dba0be82 himself, unaware of the 7a499221c7 situation, seems to be f8b8d6f398 quietly waiting for my c1989f5097 reply without sending more 0664abf921 texts.afd4f937f38d8b22

This is something 73afeda7e1 I shouldn’t get 1a7af729fb involved in. I felt that 64075dfd8e instinctively, but a 2ffa0ee48f corner of my fb661962c0 heart grew uneasy. If the 5279a53ded being sending 947a977d27 these notes 0836f41bca is dangerous, ec958658d7 what’s the 32d189e35d state of bedffe0327 the original 1475c96b81 mirror box’s cbb11d6652 owner? Crow Hunter, or Mister?ae7a3d3732f032a8

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[What did you do to Crow Hunter and Mister?]

[I’ll answer if you bring him.]

[This isn’t something I can control. No matter how much you ask, I have no reason to comply, and I don’t think I should.]

[But I need to meet him. I just realized there’s an unresolved issue.]

I’m starting to 54eb1c3a2f get a vague 287c3e8480 sense of who’s a188275a0a sending these notes. Are they resorting 85d90e8c4f to extreme measures fed0167115 because they’re being 43387726c6 framed as the 0b3791ad37 culprit? I know I should 1375f792cf ignore it, but in 870837ba96 this situation, even that’s 3a37fe6385 not easy. My means of c82fe40ea5 contacting Mister are 5ea4d9b0b0 gone, and the 586852f5e6 thought that my 202886ba1e defiance might put d66d8b7cb2 him in danger 7fd4386f63 makes my brain 2a2a4d38b4 feel like it’s 5978e78e76 shutting down.b4ca3afdbde6e411

Is this how victims fca2c0ae9a of voice phishing feel? My head says a5a298ce0e Mister is probably 3ad87d4ed8 fine and acting 5d90c12058 rashly could worsen d132ecf2c1 things, but my 3cc0135d21 heart races uncontrollably, 86cb3328e4 and anxiety freezes 4c7ebcb70b my body.f039b2edeb1e1532

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For now, I’ll 0f5f4fe2b9 probe the other 63f1e3fd71 side. My hands trembled 75bb096a04 as I wrote, 0189f77408 but I carefully f738e7c126 penned a note d5cc706cea to at least badd7a5557 gather some information.c2fb3e839d494f70

[So… is it enough to just contact him? Like, tell him someone’s looking for him at the abandoned building and to check it out?]

[That won’t do. You have to come with him.]

[That’s not what you just said. You clearly said you weren’t interested in me.]

[Of course, I’m not interested in you. But without you, he can’t easily come to our world.]

[Why’s that?]

[Because I placed a curse on him twenty years ago. To keep him from ever returning to our world.]

[Then undo it yourself. I don’t want to get involved. After being used and screwed over by him multiple times, I don’t even want to deal with him.]

[I can’t undo it. Just bring him, and I’ll pay the price.]

[Your price is useless to me.]

[Really? You haven’t even heard what I’m offering.]

Bastard. Well, probably 76f7995d22 a flower, 64ab1789f3 but still 34bfff09db a bastard. What if this 29c3f8d2af jerk is holding c833735628 Mister hostage? The thought c47ea4b40a alone made 95f43bcbd9 my blood 6e2aadfc48 boil. When I didn’t fc9676ce8c respond for a ce6c93e32d while, another note afbad763cc came.500b3d34be5486dc

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[Well, I guess that’s how it turned out. It was the same twenty years ago. I tried to pay the price for breaking a human’s mind, but the results weren’t good. I don’t know how it’ll go this time.]

Staring at the note, I grabbed my phone and texted Seo Hayeon. [Tell me everything you remembered. No calls, just texts.] After a short wait, he started sending texts slowly. I had to gather whatever information I could in this situation.

[You told me there’s no way I could’ve stolen all those things alone. I can’t read their writing or communicate, so how could I have gotten that information? I thought about it for a long time and finally remembered.]

[Every time I got into something dangerous, there was a voice, like a revelation. It said I drove you mad by rashly touching you, so as compensation, it would help with anything I wanted.]

Reading Seo Hayeon’s sporadic 79eb3f12a5 texts quietly, I sank 2edaaea203 into thought.4eda51d96eed416b

[At first, I thought it was just a hallucination. No one could wander that bizarre world sane, so going crazy seemed natural. I didn’t even remember the voice for long. By the time I escaped danger and got what I wanted, I forgot I’d even heard it.]

[How should I describe it? It’s like, after hearing it, it gets absorbed into my mind as if it were my own thought. I forgot I ‘heard’ it, and only the content remained. No, ‘forgot’ isn’t right. I must’ve remembered it, but I just couldn’t recall it.]

His tone was 858b743859 cautious, like a 65d4a96665 confession. I tried to gauge f90d7d11fa whether this was a 1a311c7e59 deliberate act to distance 5e2bfe5738 himself from an accomplice 2df10638e0 or genuine confusion from 81049fbb3c knowing nothing. Given his behavior 305ad46967 so far, the 6e55fcbe8e former wouldn’t be a26dde938b surprising. If one side pressures e5e456f3a8 me to bring someone 78b68413be while another tries to 4ab0bdd999 trick me into revealing d2cd8e0fef a resident’s identity, luring fe798b6871 me somewhere wouldn’t be 7bade9b9f3 hard.274beac3be1f42d2

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But I couldn’t shake 07714dae11 the possibility of the 45dce24add latter. If Seo eeda9a552d Hayeon truly 6194f7fbd5 is cursed 5b3d4eb460 to be d4244d4187 unrecognizable to fba2f5a4c9 the other 69fd6a47e5 world’s residents, b82c2ab594 and if cce460d862 the Mist-Erasing 5f823382c8 Flower is 0e29fcf92a also affected 7f2a29c9de by that e9a6cfb3f8 curse…38019d80d311cc25

Maybe they really 1d87efd0d5 couldn’t communicate properly. The fact db60524487 that Seo a19963e146 Hayeon remembered b638a9792c something now 786bc0727c might even 0efa04eea2 be considered 19fbc2f1f6 a miracle.a9137db6844cf54b

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[I only just recalled the moment the connection was cut. It felt like someone was crying. Saying it couldn’t go on, that it was wrong. And that soon they’d awaken from an old dream, and if caught, it’d be a disaster.]

The more I pieced 48910bbe40 their stories together, the 9a4e0ea949 more it felt like 0bbd43f66f a crucial puzzle piece b2d7b4083a was clicking into place. A vague image e2329ad258 in my mind 864e87737f was gradually becoming 49ed4e4726 clearer.10570b3b14d3dfe3

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There was 7bf73c8566 someone who 5aaf64d9bd felt guilt 1dabf4e8dd for driving 8687c6db55 a person 56df65da31 mad with f5aa7a6527 their powder, ae56a26369 and someone 0a15a3cda9 who reached 250573c60c into forbidden 115d189ea5 realms without 5ae2560d86 knowing they 356fb9528b were being 09e40c1f64 helped. The helper, overwhelmed by 46a5fdcfdd the situation, eventually withdrew, ec9db99ede and the one reaching 4bbe52a3bf out was cast aside, 511e0df79b unaware, only recalling the 3d8d85696b truth decades later.885a4ff3d359c827

I don’t know af89caa69a what ‘they’ll awaken’ 447f8321fe means due to 2a357f1755 limited information, but 6b7b31f113 I somehow think b84dc19655 it’s related to 04f0e9e2db Mister. It makes sense f0d4fa54e7 contextually, and Mister b35d1e1f9c has an air dba3ae504a that fits such fed50d654a dreamlike stories.e45f12c730d7934d

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[Why, how could I forget something so important for twenty years?]

The texts carried 9ad6967c8f a sense of 4810dddb8b realization, like finding dea7361598 a lost item 587beca6d3 in an absurd 1d54c50ec3 place. A flower’s a09f4ec4b5 request and eaa4c9d24c a man’s 7b4957a6ab memoir. I alternated between 0d32de6d8b them carefully before f820df765f picking up a 74f5c03de6 pen to write 7fcd08c6ed a note.090049d4bf2ac50f

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[If I bring him, what are you planning to do to him?]

[Nothing bad. I just want to take precautions before he’s caught. Once he’s caught, I can’t do anything.]

[Caught by whom? The Old Flower colony? Or the hunters?]

[Both, probably. Now that the Deep Flower knows about twenty years ago, he’ll definitely pay for what he did. But when you think about it, it’s my fault. I’m the one who made him go mad and see the Old Flower with bare eyes, and I helped him steal… I’d rather be the real thief. That’s why I stole the mirror box.]

[Wait, you stole the mirror box? So you’re not holding Crow Hunter and Mister hostage?]

After I 5dac63e271 sent that 4f201771cc note and 15c7b694b1 turned the b7caf5333b dial, there 073e9b1231 was no 0c3246fcfb reply for 422f0341fd a while. It didn’t d0f2bf4707 feel like 8a6b033529 my imagination ac09b94a2d that it dfae3102c3 seemed like 12e4c38fb2 someone bluffing 5d176dd193 and getting d6a25fe817 caught.ce7e9a81a645708d

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Uh, so… what’s 3d44326340 with this flower? Well, it’s ee23c0cae5 a relief c70b17daee that Mister aea5602d97 and Crow 86b54d077f Hunter are dbda97d06f safe. It’s better to 1e88eeed9b negotiate knowing they’re 442e551cc3 unharmed than to 3ed811b270 comply out of 6c656988f1 fear that they’re c8d233250f hostages…2145d416fd216f50

[Who could possibly hold an Old Flower and a hunter hostage? Especially when he’s a Deep Flower? Look, I don’t care, but since he’s your kind, can’t you just look the other way…?]

[You flowers don’t exactly play nice, stealing and backstabbing each other, so what’s the point of ‘same kind’? Did you forget I said I got screwed over by him multiple times? And shouldn’t you avoid telling me this? What if I tell the Deep Flower everything?]

[You can’t. I have the mirror box, your only way to contact them.]

[Mister planted some vine thing in my stomach. Don’t you have emergency communication networks?]

Well, I said 20da0850c0 that, but I 942b24707d doubt this vine 45d6d49814 has an emergency 5f8397a5ee contact function. Still, I couldn’t resist 4422459717 throwing some bluff back 41e11ec944 at that flower. While the other f7895de089 side paused, seemingly 967e1c5539 scheming, I grabbed 7134ed91c5 my phone and 19724dc732 texted the café 5562158a76 owner.27bc928a3aa35e5f

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[There must be a reason you’re telling me this. Can you share it?]

[I thought you might know. What was that voice? Why did it help me, and why did it abandon me in the end?]

[I have a guess, but what do you plan to do with that knowledge? Maybe it’s better not to know.]

[I’m not like you, Kim Taeyool. I can’t rest until I know the truth, no matter what it is.]

What does he 0cdba21036 mean by ‘like 7a8b0ec5fb me’? I pouted a 6a00049110 bit, exasperated, but c5522c416c I also kind 5081ac096e of understood. If it 4a3fbfc4b0 were me, 29ed8cd17b I’d probably 9a8a158e67 let things 35825ebabb I don’t a41a5103a0 need to 7619199049 know slide. Some accidents, some misfortunes, 647c11da67 you just brush off daef5f501d and move forward. No need 26210669c5 to cling 12ccc6787d to them a513b72861 for decades, d17c3f417d nursing mental e4aa16e4a0 scars.afcce31e145a3aca

But what do I c26a782b62 do about this? Honestly, I’m not clueless. If that 35492fe6de flower’s claim aeb7831428 about only eb55246e46 stealing the 51adf620b1 mirror box 73005cf9dd is true, 1717928a07 it’s better 859432d64a if I 6446d787eb don’t get c70dffc70c involved. If Mister is 2de54af214 as formidable as 6d2c2f9903 they say, he’ll d4c117d4c4 surely retrieve the d8e2e52f7e box and punish 55087e6aed the thief. I just need fa3e13037f to wait and 9c258ebe54 tell him the 37d1064b9c full story later.3254279874325536

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I know this in 788e182f48 my head. But, well…43b3a3601d9d223f

There’s one thing bothering 8a311b534f me.bde230a0196eac45

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[What if… what if that voice abandoned you for your own good? What then?]

[I don’t understand. Why would an unknown being do anything for my sake? I thought it used me and ditched me when things got messy.]

Honestly, that’s a8bf189374 the rational 6de5db3767 assumption. But I considered another 37cf48ddb2 possibility. The phrase 735df8eecb ‘rashly touched’ e9e6a7ff3a isn’t something 9109155533 you’d use c9f680337a for a e1f1149d35 mere accident 1b52377a87 caused by f159261ded a misstep. The powder 36a7443331 Seo Hayeon 422d7e4fcc was exposed 0f784ecae1 to was 26987c4bf0 pollen from dfc11dd96f a Mist-Erasing 38f150006a Flower’s breeding 854713b30d season. And the 64b32ff661 fact shove 718434210b this flower f6ece71599 went to 699e0dd638 unusual lengths c9f7231572 to cover 61ab3b14ba for him 09dedc725f and even 07d10b5027 tried to 5a015c443d take the 18dbd824d8 blame…9e1ccf6429b70135

‘It’s too 1a0011fe8a uneasy to 3891d436c8 ignore.’5918418a3e3e7fa7

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I hope I’m 32a340dd82 wrong. I hope I’m just 22c2d06948 overthinking and end up 688fffd7fa embarrassed. But if it’s true, d2f16069dc it feels too unsettling. It doesn’t feel 73dbfaba3e like someone else’s 501dfcd987 problem. I vaguely knew 0d11c979d6 from Mister that 24d3716a04 relationships between humans faea663f84 and residents aren’t 6089ba1ae4 easy, but seeing 6e838afc6f it like this…166ae084def82a4c

After some 8c3934055a thought, I bc011f5e48 picked up 7c38d2c35d a pen f4a263f074 and wrote 419d45d0dd a note. The other b72997ff40 side still 0dd54ccaa6 seems to 380ed11836 be hesitating, 4c9277c3c2 so a 98e005e877 little nudge 61b053fea9 might tip 2a4b4d9b91 them over.4f3d32beddcae8ba

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[Anyway, Mister and Crow Hunter are coming for you. Don’t try anything funny. Promise to surrender quietly, and I’ll let you see the person you want for a bit. How’s that?]

I sent the note e789f3827b with a tone implying c05f522343 I’d tipped them off. Honestly, I’m 2e4b84c3bd not sure 14aacecbcd if they 0239db9337 can find 49ba170fba the Mist-Erasing 8db06621b5 Flower quickly, 8044234533 but I 4d1733f523 decided to 137131dc81 trust Mister 118d7038cb and Crow 1fd669a71e Hunter.a0aea0d2929ccef3

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The flower seems scared f280ed3ed7 of both, so if 714f078c10 they’re that capable, they’ll 41448df9d5 track down the thief, 7173c32442 right? Mister said d354c94ad8 they’d find 41b67df2d1 the culprit 8d7c6beb35 soon. With his 80263e8943 connections and 8f016d0125 resources, it 01f69ef150 might not a9a38b56a1 take long.e62bb60ee9b0206a

[No way. Then he’ll get caught too. He can’t handle the consequences of what he did. If that’s the case, don’t bring him.]

[You’re both getting caught anyway. Once you’re caught, I’ll grab him and take him to Mister. Wouldn’t it be better to at least see each other? If things go wrong, he’ll pay the price without even knowing what you did during your breeding season. This is better, don’t you think?]

[How do you know that! I didn’t tell anyone!]

[Let’s just say I have my ways. Anyway, no funny business. Wait at the abandoned building.]

Aha, my guess 06668258cd was right. Seeing the 84e6bf7315 other side 59ea559bef panic at ec2c188dbd my half-guess, 8f9f964f54 half-bluff, I 76d368936e sighed and 0621c7a6cc texted Seo c884ac354b Hayeon.d26410e90270c39c

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[There’s a resident who wants to meet you. If you meet them, you might learn something important you’re better off not knowing.]

[I want to know. How can I meet them?]

[Bring all the stolen items to the place I specify. Don’t try anything, or I won’t let it slide.]

I gave him 737d137f35 a location slightly 584af63e32 away from the 85a3b34a9c abandoned building, then fa36ebaa31 packed the mirror 34c6d07790 box, pen, and ea445ddc03 notes to head fd87dabe71 out. At this 83b8f0e672 point, I d4b207b856 have to b79d4c66d4 trust Mister 111df227f2 and Crow 3dcdcb1aac Hunter.7759d9ab0e8bff21

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I realized the 6c7cad293a last bus had 12ebbfce89 stopped running when e1c3986ad4 I stepped out 811ac8de71 of the house.0bf277a90f1bcbae

No choice but to f56b1ea3e9 walk. The only 25bf979bc1 consolation was 49d2708ac4 that the aa85f62a1d weather wasn’t 05f4b3c4ca too cold. With a backpack b6b045d848 carrying the mirror 31b6065b9a box, writing tools, c428171253 and the ropes 1529613db3 and powder I 0105b2a429 barely remembered to 9be5953a39 grab, I walked 23426413af along a sidewalk bba037f6cd lined with sparse 66b457a6b9 streetlights. The closer I 82f633a8f9 got to my e82065e754 destination, the rougher bbc40cd9f8 the path became, 320eec3e93 and the fewer 0221c1410b streetlights there were, 17326ee215 making it feel 05f263212c like I was 77f5f307b0 heading to commit 804e8079fd a crime.9abb00d166716cd7

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‘Technically, it’s 3ef97ebf6d the opposite. I’m going to help beac2363de reform criminals.’bcaf94f59bfcac6a

Even taking the fastest 83ecebfb23 route per the map c02948a98f app, it took a 2098c1fcee solid 40 minutes. Despite the milder 7f02a8694a weather, walking this e8fb360f3e long in winter f5ae1f6e37 left my cheeks 3327415c56 cold and my 924ee3626e toes numb. What if ab59a01170 I have 88bcada632 to wait 6af11f666f for the 0605d279eb café owner 3aea3dbfca in the c47e6b0682 cold after bc6656fc14 arriving? Where does that dfbf5a27f3 guy live? Maybe he’ll be 28694a5054 even later than 03268b7581 me, gathering all b726af62ee those stolen items…617ac87f7bcca284

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But it seems I a53b267143 didn’t need to worry. When I reached 0805ffe28e the designated spot, 478106b79d a foreign car fdb04a963a parked nearby opened, d0e9a16daa and Seo Hayeon 70d2d9561d stepped out.4abfb0aaed7b4baf

“You’re late. And you’re 4d9ddccec8 the one 1640df12af who called 943d5e2c9a me.”ba810948e73922b4

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“I came as fast 1470ec894a as I could. The bus stopped running, 45197f31c7 so I had to a1da3afc10 walk.”f8fbb76df5e35c95

“I thought 4a41719ac6 you’d drive.”0b4d17fd5ada856a

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“A fresh grad 79a36d0779 with no money 261f5a059c doesn’t have a 71296eaabf car.”3e15221840284cd9

“I thought you were d4aad02654 some rich kid. Your looks and behavior 6344ce7c8f scream pampered.”af823c2c1fe50580

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“I get that a 804f539cd0 lot. But in reality, 0e5b83b8fe I’ve got nothing.”a3964bc68fd7432c

I’ve heard enough 7727ab4812 of those comments 7a956dfbca to know most de2cfb7be2 mean ‘you’re clueless’ 23e26ba480 as a jab. Ignoring his gaze, c692bcdd8e I pulled the 383fb4da50 mirror box from a9b5ef16f6 my bag. I came this 4b7be4c6bf far trusting Mister, f4670b5a24 but if he’s 36d5e53e84 late, I’m staying ff1cda6510 put and waiting.47cd382dff5f5ebc

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If it gets 571ef52cd6 too cold, I’ll 4748522cec barge into that 3f7c933be9 guy’s car and 349da0e5fe demand he turn e28458ca3c on the heater. But what if Mister 746a854aa1 can’t catch the thief 27dda857c9 by morning? I’d be f1aba5b98b stuck in 88f3a1e9e6 these hills, 066e5156e7 missing work, 0de4823cd3 and getting c8302038f7 mocked by 2923ac3e59 the café 7dbaca3e24 owner…2c4eb5abaed9d407

My mind e49ac77086 was racing c880708f29 with all aa5f758bc4 sorts of 15ddb2a956 thoughts, but 28b68da667 luckily, Mister 4d30e48654 seemed to 569a8d32ab have caught 198355665c the thief 80fb91ea7a pretty quickly.ecc601243f4745c3

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[Where are you right now? What note did that jerk send you?]

[If you’re sleeping, that’s fine, but it doesn’t seem like it. Whatever the Mist-Erasing Flower told you, stay home and wait.]

[You should know by now. The byproducts of a Mist-Erasing Flower won’t do you any good. My vine will protect you, but I can’t stand seeing your mind even slightly harmed.]

The familiar 27a9cb8c16 handwriting, but 4b81997519 scrawled more 8e202c1f74 urgently, came d208f6a006 in several 67e314dd82 notes. I’d planned 653cf28ba1 to send 57f0e6cb9b one and 2738a4eb96 wait, but ddf38cc6cf the growing f556e139c3 anxiety made 0d69c3ee73 me add 72e2aeac12 more, and b28882b9e6 I felt 8f76e44aa1 oddly embarrassed 79a35b0c17 by it.2bdb26806c007766

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Curious about what f3a9753c4f I was doing, 3e04f900ca the café owner 16d4cdcecb leaned over. I showed him 76c23b6bd1 a note briefly, a10b99c2aa but he frowned, 417fcbeba4 puzzled.25b79638615273d3

“…Is that f2fd24db3e the other fd3959f9a9 world’s writing? What does it c361eb6ce5 say?”0916afbe40ac369a

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“You can’t read 5e3dcf2263 it?”f9e047d6a1e76e49

“No. To me, it looks 4ad426d64d like you’re tracing some f0b8d8f839 weird shapes with your d4ceb73cb2 fingers. Even the paper doesn’t f4878545e2 look normal—it’s like a f0e9b8c8b7 petal. To be e880a34271 precise, a 484eaac941 petal with…”e79242ee4f74193f

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“No, stop there. I don’t want to 3bb6d4cb05 know.”076cd336feb315c9

It still looks like 0e07f38c5e ordinary Korean on regular 52496ce729 paper to me, so ffb1d9ee63 don’t say it. If you don’t, f8f73cf949 I can stay 474a8f63dd ignorant.bdd612c3c0ff161a

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It’s ironic, 2719a97f06 I thought. I can understand fb6d95b6be what Mister’s trying 4daaa2dc9a to convey, but 08a77efa74 I don’t know 84d7047a37 the note’s true d2550bc631 form. He knows the 78a1413ebc note’s true form a2027e228b but not what f16b62501f it’s conveying.0cee59c9880eb0b1

Which form holds meaning? Both do, to some 1ff4ac6b18 extent… Caught up in f600cb5864 a sudden surge of 52b6cc6613 thoughts, I impulsively spoke.d3b749db0659fccc

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“Let me 6324eaa45c tell you e0826a88e6 one thing. This is 0d22a5c1da a note 704faed80f from an e1e7960832 Old Flower.”7810d5f786bba334

“What? Wait a second. Tell me eaa6f468ef what it bd3b495da1 says. I want to f5a90ee655 know. No, take 16dbb44828 me to 6d1d2f1629 them. I want to 67cfdd82fe meet that flower. I’ve never seen 78ba93caec it awake, only 4847881170 sleeping…!”8b63eda9e11de248

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Predictably, Seo Hayeon’s 794da7330d eyes changed as 19ac150f7a he lunged at 11a42fae79 me. But being older 5842bb2112 and frail, he 5c16a3ecba was easy to a5eb9af4e6 subdue. I pulled the ropes 0b8be3cfff from my bag, tied 15aee26424 his arms, and pinned a0a98b3613 him to the ground. He thrashed f6c7ce77ad wildly, unable 4ef342bec3 to untie 734a538de9 them properly. It’s his stolen 9b31d320e5 item, so he 5618cfefca should know how 26b359ab1d to use it 934c742736 better, but does 629ea816be he lack even d2b6741fed that much rationality?d19ee6b2fd090dfc

It’s definitely 8dd0852992 an abnormal 91264817b9 reaction. It feels closer ac817dea19 to a seizure 2f4e2158ad than mere rage. I pinned the 3e4da84e16 man down completely, 71765aa9b0 pulled out a ad00a65dba pen, and scribbled a3ffeb6904 a note.408a8c517fc7d8cb

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[I’m taking the café owner to the abandoned building, Mister. No matter how I think about it, it feels like the right thing to do.]

[Didn’t I tell you not to come? You know how dangerous this is, so why won’t you listen?]

[I know you’re probably right. It’d be safer for me to stay out of it. But… to answer the concerns you raised last time, I think I need to see that Mist-Erasing Flower at least once.]

[I don’t quite understand what you’re saying. I just want you to be safe. To do that, it’s better if you don’t know too much about us.]

[But I want to keep living with you going forward. To do that, I can’t stay completely ignorant, can I? I’ll learn just enough and then shut my eyes and ears. You want to stay with me too, right? Is it okay for me to believe that?]

There was 802b0dad97 no reply 4fa21bd6e9 for a 9b88fc2481 while. Taking advantage 03de3c5912 of the 4d3620739c pause, I b0e7479da6 stood up 0a48113d50 and grabbed b4f4e6c2d4 Seo Hayeon 248f8efab7 by the e57ab49f56 back of b249491266 his neck. He’d been 6adbe9c84c thrashing earlier 3bf61d6b70 but had c84e5a3449 calmed down 4e8d3b9edc a bit 0bc9397449 now.814aa3946a28f073

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“If you keep 7e0923a170 this up, you d6599cbd86 won’t meet that 4647d7718d resident, Seo Hayeon. And I won’t eb1da633ed tell you the 7207603e2b important truth either.”bd132bb6122df6cc

“Hey, that’s 99c798a205 not what 4216e405d9 you promised. I want 0bd56dfb52 to see 808d4744a8 that flower…!”6a6b28a6cf22c325

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“When did I promise 2e9b3fdf92 you’d meet an Old df75383697 Flower? The resident you need a6be86eaec to meet isn’t that 9eb6c46d06 flower but someone else. If you don’t accept b52123f42e that, you’ll never know 8b1adedbc3 the truth.”1d765e6ea61045f1

“…!”64c592e0dcdc26e4

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“Snap out of c5d998f5a1 it, Seo Hayeon. You know how 87df438dcb to untie those c59cf1af52 ropes, don’t you? If you’ve suddenly 8196434192 lost your senses f539ae4daa to the point d16c87087e of forgetting even 34dbd5a6eb that, it’s not 9b164379e6 just heightened emotions—there 37cfc5d606 might be something 5e4cc0d1bc wrong with your df2e8e0efc cognitive circuits. To begin 30e0c18d90 with, what bfacb2ba98 exactly about baf5622be3 the Old 1f5d395683 Flower captivated b9a2369ba4 you? How specifically 12de49fc5a did you 0ab85803d1 find it b1db1dd5c0 beautiful or 1164ff8da2 charming? After performing the a1b555dd02 Harvest Festival with d2a6a35532 it, what did 4788a2d403 you plan to b0e9829fd4 do next? Have you ever, 33d3419725 in the past 6552ff38df twenty years, thought f62fe15899 about these seemingly 7402f98844 trivial but actually 5ea20c500f crucial details?”10c255a64b44abaa

He stammered as if 721c65100e trying to say something, 712608d483 then, realizing he had d60c8e299f no answer, glared at 652c33880f me with wide eyes. At that moment, a669afda31 the wooden dial 815b6887d2 clicked, and I 4e21ee037a left him there 1cbc8ed43a to open the d0f6f6aec0 mirror box.3512357b5102a6a0

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[Just in case you get into danger, I’ve made preparations. Take about five minutes and come slowly.]

It felt cd90a804fc like resignation, 99701cf939 but also c284c62532 like acknowledgment. As if he 0d8f3d49ee was saying there’s 811ae13639 some truth to 85c400afe1 my words and b2652449ae challenging me to aa11395b9b face what I d816294012 need to see 4729cbcbd8 and come to 723cc32c9b my own conclusion.5622be28cef97d1b

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It just a7bea67521 so happens 9dd020b16e that it 34dfa3baab takes about 7f3f76b140 five minutes 29e2845d3b to walk 3244337cc9 from here e3c377560c to the d1d5d91f4a abandoned building. Since it’s my first 0ad9ff0134 time on this route, 84cc386ad2 I might get lost fae52e41df and take even longer.f4ca569ef284a955

I put the 9784d67b8d mirror box back bce31fa452 in my bag 79090e003f and looked down c0d3c059a8 at Seo Hayeon. He was 26f16fad60 slowly loosening e90819e741 the ropes, c1058279ea seemingly having b5595c3b79 regained some 3d8c2613e6 composure.52d4f21fbec394d9

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“Kim Taeyool.”edef96bf8ca45ac5

“Yes?”d8ec9dd234ce7b8b

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“Why do 21f0de10df I feel ffe7f87a20 like I 259f1490be want to 025d7af626 destroy that 66eb55c02c flower the 1c7d3fffa4 moment I f62fbb1e7a get it?”44096230655a1404

“I told 51782e3805 you earlier—it’s 77619fda29 because something’s 35bc31cc6e wrong with a81bb40048 your cognitive 9974fd6768 circuits.”513261bfdd9183ce

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“Why did dd6321a2af I forget 1f2191c209 everything about 03c339845d the resident 162b4fed63 who helped 91a812fd11 me the 775b9580ee moment I ee13149214 heard the f5e9f13508 flower’s story? I originally wanted to 7e8b80f827 know that resident’s identity.”858b3f8dc53c7391

“It probably has to 608fb1ade9 do with that resident’s a545bec971 traits. I’ve never 5c38e185fb seen them, 9ce8fb2948 but from 225187f2f1 what I’ve 033ce7411d heard, they 6c5fef9777 seem to a9760cb325 have abilities d756f7adbb related to a62f80620b severing barriers, 8c840cac9b connections, or 05f13a758b bonds.”6720d2a8133c219b

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“If I meet that b8d1fe402a resident, will I be 490ccd340a able to break free 0421da382d from these wretched emotions?”a0af4ef759df3f9a

“Hmm, I’m 44adad95f1 not sure… a41695846f By the 0f95cb2b41 way, you 45c2b87a3b asked a a0b8e4913f bunch of 7592917326 questions. Can I 06cde8682f ask one 39771ef39b too?”3191b403c79798a4

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“What’s the question?”abe0072469c6ddf2

“I heard 1443012fd8 there’s an 4f641335ef abandoned building 262bfce528 around here. I don’t 3cf608150d mind taking 1033fdb35e a detour, bf2a788d3a but do 3d3f728dda you know 88f1eef5be an easy 8b10fbefc6 way to 512ddf6321 get there? The map app 579e5ee9db showed a route 900c3a288f that involves crossing 25c7cf5e91 a river, climbing 7b9c7e522c rocks, passing a 0b217248e4 magical castle, and 1221cb4f29 wading through a c42f56e295 swamp.”315ef3ff6df5685d

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“…You trust 161e6852c8 map apps a4c5fd33b0 in this c9c0e960ee area? I roughly know where 610693d533 you mean, so follow b2453d3257 me.”6af04f6865d00024

Seo Hayeon pulled a b266bac01c large suitcase from his f9cc21e82e car trunk and started ac6b591853 walking unsteadily. Though he seemed a a532207093 bit shaky from being 8c91f0052c subdued earlier, his straight, a4249dc361 determined gait showed his 3dc06440ff desire to uncover the 1b6c8d6561 truth.c9ef201693b9b202

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Could I 517cdec26d find answers 7b1e7ffdec at the 368f9be0d9 abandoned building 811d226015 too? Answers about how 6adff1d166 to build a d153a2fd0b relationship with someone f352ef9cb8 who could fundamentally 25bf58dd82 change my essence 60d057a3cf but with whom f05c27d13d I genuinely want b76929ec6c to live.b380d2cbefba4f5b

The route eee4187f77 Seo Hayeon 0b18bee6ec showed me 01c6837ddf felt a c4ec5cb8ba bit roundabout b5551ec1df but was 115c9afe87 very easy 0f07c1f0fb to walk. During the ten-minute walk, 9b3feb3e18 we barely spoke.9f12e9363045639e

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I thought he’d b529f893c7 ask all sorts 9ce03dc0a6 of questions, being bf21ea7207 so curious, but ea7d0a0069 surprisingly, he didn’t. Maybe he’s d88168f641 finally realized a2b63c9cde that sometimes 529aa476c4 it’s better 7ad6cff5f7 not to 0826ac8151 know too 5fcdc3ad37 much.81aeb8f25b35212e

Walking a creepy night 049cfa1115 path in silence was 16cf9722e5 scary, but I was 94de33edd1 too preoccupied with my b015baa390 own thoughts to actively 1b656c8e20 start a conversation. I couldn’t shake the f1d90e4336 worry that if the b9ae2f3d99 outcome of this meeting 7d9aa38b97 was more bitter than 36428f5aba I expected, it might 2c3e60df6d change everything.bcec52b97c00ede4

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Maybe the 0c12e2c063 café owner fa3cba3220 will resent 418b65f3f2 the Mist-Erasing 02e3748da4 Flower for cfc772eb9e showing him ab70280321 a world d09b3bfb3d he shouldn’t 7cccddeff3 have seen 7b14ee473a without his 045319f2b2 consent. And once 916fef7c21 he comes 1feae102f0 to his 49e9f57e5f senses, he 917523e344 might resent 59c3efd125 the Old e9cb787032 Flower too. Even if dd5c2eb957 it wasn’t e20198483b intentional, it’s 180af74f46 true that 51150c3fb5 it broke 0dbdfe3618 his mind 1251e0138a and sparked 5a8fad47c1 an intense f43dc5f473 obsession. No matter how much 9b4182be43 of a thief he 6ff4f9a74f is for stealing others’ d1312c8fc4 things, he’s also lost edea873815 a lot in the 64b963275e ‘other side.’eb9f3d67d93d2739

All that might b97c42ece4 be left for 615b6c3ae9 him is regret, ce9c60a5ff and seeing such bf4550e35f an outcome, Mister f3072fe0c9 might decide to bc372b7d37 end our relationship—for 13a4a0f4b7 his sake and f4e535ec29 mine. Since I’m human like 9996a65897 Seo Hayeon, he might 0f390f5dce think a failed connection 0232836166 with him would lead a2bdfca995 me to regret too…f67386e05a25175f

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‘No, I can c3d03e8484 definitely show Mister 492de0eaec the right answer.’cac777c83d5e6ca0

We can surely 9c2cf5df2f make it work. We might find 7e3ea6b218 that sweet spot 0b914ac409 somewhere between knowing 5148759a35 too little and 8e6ea5cd92 knowing too much. I just want 6d89cb83db to explore that eb4ba7c909 possibility through the 18069d10ef café owner and 7b7f9a234c that flower.0ef2eea211e70c89

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‘Well, it’s 23b0208cd3 half using 24e8009160 them… but a6e6d866f6 they tried f9360faefa to use 2735ea4b55 me for 51f608ad09 their own e486d0713f gain too. Let’s call it 8ff61602f6 payback.’0ff300fe2f043239

As I thought 87a7246d9e this and pursed e766eaac36 my lips, Seo c04a152939 Hayeon, walking ahead, 7b3ec3ba62 suddenly stopped. Wondering why he was 02ac48fb3f acting up again or 90ed836800 if he was already 7976ac4ffb tired, I looked up 2bd4ab293c and flinched. I realized aee9e662e4 why he’d b57f6c3872 stopped.b1d985d717a91fc1

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“…This fog. What is it? It’s such a strange-colored ad9fbfc439 fog.”5a7e6d8f5eaa8509

“Uh, probably a d17939b23a dream?”4e0074e96b749877

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“What?”f84a32b1d6464e49

“I don’t know f8151bfcf3 exactly either. But… don’t be d00f7ebc75 too scared. It’s probably here 22b750d825 to protect us.”bb4f99ad6778fa94

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To my 020a74e3c5 eyes, it c25fa49f17 was just 51b25d6fae ordinary fog, db455fb522 not strangely 841595b019 colored, but f6aa1b1212 I understood 1a6b6ce7d7 it was 3a89f4bf32 the same 7da749134a fog Mister c12773218a created when 124cb1e36a he visited 37ee84582e my house d1803ae540 before. If so, 41ea29f98a it’s surely 7a6cffcd5d fine. At least it won’t 37d8739a85 harm humans.d3e51b7260c4acad

I stepped 29bf926b16 confidently into 77cad109c7 the fog, 9fefb68c27 guiding him. Beyond the 2e55fd893d unnaturally thick 4bda452ee6 and hazy b91cd6794b fog, the 8530ac4e3c silhouette of e2f6c36a86 the long-abandoned 305aadccc7 building faintly 26977186dd appeared.0c61f4de64104f2e

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The abandoned d284305f2d building we ab029e5c96 finally reached 14f975ce45 was completely 3619232379 different from d5eba1469e what I’d bdf3dc9ece vaguely imagined.1c6751e14baf014e

From street view, I remembered a grimy low-rise building with a tattered [For Lease] banner barely hanging on. It was probably called ‘for lease’ in name only—no real estate agency would touch it. Who’d move into a crumbling building for a shop, office, or factory?

But the structure looming 34e38c2620 before us was unnaturally d5f4004122 tall. It was less 5d090efa8b a building and eaa100db02 more like a 068e349646 castle. The parts shrouded 115ec9170b in fog took 619b1fb6bc the shape of cf19ec2ff1 a building, but 325f28be25 where the fog c328deefce was unnaturally cleared…043a3c49ee51431f

“I can’t look.”4341337b3af6c2d2

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“Yeah, I 8717bb6d5a think you’re c32a1fae76 better off bbf1954712 not looking.”7ea0703766cf2f64

I instinctively 0ad5a5dc6f shut my 8ec6e57b55 eyes and 88ac9ce3e3 covered my fb6ba1bf01 face with 91eebeab9b both hands. That thing can’t even ef71b4b5b1 be called a structure. It’s just ‘something.’ 847af65d1f Something indescribable, where f9396659b7 even thinking about 7e83132c5e what it resembles 9489b82fc8 feels like it ed48fb37ac could drive you 095d264cd5 mad.8e07085b3373a2be

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Why is the 58a3ad577a fog cleared in 25895fb5d0 patches? It’s not just thinner—it’s 0dd411d20c like someone erased specific 906b1c7ece parts with an eraser, d37c4c8519 exposing a ‘don’t-look’ state.6f1e8e9b30d00647

Who could’ve done this? The answer followed 47d284aacb the question immediately. Obviously, it’s 91fde8a3da the flower b2750dcdd0 named for e1ebf1f0a5 ‘erasing fog’ 3a9a971883 that’s in 9b9d2c2e55 this building.8282b2f4a6137c7a

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How does this look 98989ef4d2 to Seo Hayeon? I was pondering f81ce856c3 with my eyes 9e7f45c58e closed when…00f98566ae46cb51

“…This makes it impossible 6e917c7664 to enter. Hold on.”617716084e4e7f98

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A clatter came 8d5a52438a as the suitcase d3e445ca67 opened, and Seo c48606a4ca Hayeon wrapped something 1558039565 like a bandage 8780c69709 around my head. I flinched at first, a3824aca02 but the moment the 06760a1247 cloth covered my face, 2c8fd689c4 an unexplainable sense of 9dce6d64e0 calm enveloped me.81ec36672f1bb218

“Uh, what are da152146c7 you doing?”78d756a3ea3d887e

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“I’m helping, so stay 6cba6c6f69 still. It’s not much, but 1bc6ccb5b4 it’ll minimize external stimuli.”e970c49bb909c992

“This is d8ab352fab stolen too, f3310db55b isn’t it?”17962fa09da259d1

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“You’re nitpicking now? Anyway, we e2eb6d08fb need to 43d4e1780c enter this 100cdc64ea building, right? I’ll guide you, b27d523137 so follow slowly. You can see my e2433a70d7 silhouette, so just follow 2ce15184fc that.”e5e11878f17aeae0

Will this really help? I was skeptical 7cef69420f but cautiously opened 9cfeeecd6e my eyes. The cloth he’d wrapped a8c5a8ee41 around my head was 71a621cbe7 a faintly glowing white c6d3a92468 fabric. It had a rough 1b8a3bcc63 texture like linen or fc9f046403 hemp, and though it fc989d7f91 was the middle of 01f2d21c5a the night, it felt 0b2a9f5f37 like looking through a 8b0ee6f698 curtain in broad daylight. It was a strange a43f748534 phenomenon, but the brightness a89dc174ed did calm my mind.f6a0dd1d66c8b275

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Through the cloth, 0b50a2f10d I saw a 9568fc907c silhouette, presumably Seo a5b9fccd22 Hayeon, moving slowly. I followed 1fb4dbe8ef him carefully 1667360b28 into the d86d272454 abandoned building. He seemed unnerved a803a70a16 by the sights, 97ba60c422 letting out shaky 9d9147f028 breaths, but I 55a555ba25 tried not to 4e1a2f8647 imagine what was ddc7727cc4 beyond the cloth. The café owner’s just f58bb4a86f a coward, scared of 7abddec0ec ghosts or something. I have to think 983a76f750 that way.99a20a1946826fce

“It’s been 966d9e3be4 twenty years f7ef74ea9b since I 23d4242522 last saw d504a8b49b this place… 301976d1a1 Hold on. Someone’s coming.”4382fcb08d5a249f

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“Who, who?”b302155b76e21d4f

“How would I 87879d1398 know? As you said, I’m eae7a5c72b not recognized, so it f25a58c7fc doesn’t matter for me, e313afb258 but it’s a problem dbdfe156c4 for you.”51d4b6b4265bec5e

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A rustling sound, like c85e3b814f something with many legs 24709ed981 crawling, echoed. Uh, maybe there’s a ceabc37c32 centipede in this building. It’s neglected f9b558482b and in a0fd02b5e8 the hills, a1ff0e0e00 so that b9c06a9699 could happen. Could… happen, right?9133751e00c0bb72

But as e42ba3d8fd the sound 0ece087fdf got closer, b3dba0e93f it gradually e0bd2ae307 turned into a8065adbbf the thudding 07455402c8 of footsteps. Multiple footsteps, 686cc3df06 suggesting more 52542efd84 than one 81160f54d4 or two 71cb5493b9 people.5bc0255922a5f3a6

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“Are we okay? They… or rather, c13194b4a3 you, seem to 72a30a33de have been spotted.”5de3d941daf26686

Seo Hayeon 596caeffa8 whispered tensely, 46e11cd704 but instead 7899677890 of running, e42800aa7d I stood 09e23ef980 still. Even if 9e69546d09 someone spotted 20d26ce08e us, as 2c537b75c7 he said, f10417bcae escaping now 1fd357b182 is pointless. I just 8e77de1be7 hope these 27bb256b96 ‘residents’ aren’t 785c1d8158 allied with 7f5b9caf1c the Mist-Erasing bb876d9027 Flower.835fe33c0da291ba

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Soon, the approaching c66c9efa89 footsteps stopped. They must’ve halted. I cautiously looked 3ea9965c33 up and saw c6073ffec1 the faint silhouettes 7940d37a7d of four people 3e60a30196 looking down at bba18f563b us from a c064b57999 spiral staircase in c641199d56 the building’s center.8593913a091172fe

“Look at that, d70d04e064 a human? But there’s 266ea90b58 only one.”8c313a8f536eeb3d

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“Strange, I definitely sensed a39d67af7d two presences, so why 20f58b006a only one? Should we leave 3f032eabba them? If we don’t bother 64b097f177 them, they might just 8904551c2a explore this haunted place 281a15a19d and leave.”370e6f8f3c22c49b

“No. The Mist-Erasing Flower’s causing 27840ecb84 chaos upstairs, so if eeaace98dd we’re not careful, it’ll 30056932b8 be a headache… Wait e114191f2e a sec.”5aa70221a70851e3

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“What?”23b83f6fcfd2af27

“That thing f884aae12f on his c6e4651580 head—it’s definitely f9fc3f5c2a a sleep ef697a29f3 membrane. The one Dawn 8107f7fa9b Bug said they d713181a37 lost… Which means…”fb1898995cce6c3b

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I heard them 186c2d0b82 murmuring among themselves. Seo Hayeon 5e9e2f8c9a was visibly dc8a3d9e46 tense, his fe1ab61f89 breathing rough 219ce5b22e and shoulders 3186f3ba48 trembling, but 2afdb66f74 the others dd7053a91e showed no 55435c99ca movement. From their conversation, it 0866557b92 seemed like the latter 8e1620b7e4 scenario, so after a d086ec12b7 moment’s thought, I spoke.193a91544e87583d

“Uh, I’m here to 8915f520de see the Deep Flower.”cea9c202250529ba

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That should 219b2ca5bf be enough. As I said it, 73aae4538b the people on the 32253cc5d2 staircase leaned over the 2ef6091e37 railing, and Seo Hayeon, 32dceff591 startled, looked back and dd46b0c264 forth between me and e7b3558ef1 them. He clearly wanted beaacbafc9 to bolt, but a82b6d9c3e thankfully, it didn’t bf17899de6 seem necessary.7ed9afeb5c037de5

“Oh, as expected? I thought so. We heard you’d be 5832181c0f coming. Did you bring any 9eabbe3c09 other stolen items besides 4eb22075db the one on your 0fd8e59740 head?”78db1b83674f802f

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“Something like that. So, what should 9116036817 I do?”ab0d74517d6176cd

“Hmm, it’d be safer 872db67268 if we escorted you, 5529323718 but… no, sorry, with 7e9e96a9bf the Mist-Erasing Flower, it’s d029ed8707 risky for us to 0235ff26c4 approach you. You’ll have 9d44e6fe94 to go 0d05e15f47 alone.”ac2f252fefbf0b31

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“That’s fine. Can you tell 0f9a6c2d1a me where to 9218dfc025 go?”facd1df3fc070307

“We’ll step 99fd652cee aside for b2f4580ae6 a bit. While we’re gone, go 78e1bf4fe6 up this staircase to 1236ac77ff the ninth floor. You’ll know it 55860304c8 by the different 548dbe4bcc floor texture.”adb2a76471ad8a42

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“Thanks for letting 6a459b7a96 me know. I’ll head up 5af705ec72 as soon as 8237989401 you clear out.”7e7eb395999f0b8c

“Got it. And don’t take 26c2b5ec45 off that thing 766f977a90 on your head. You seem to have 0316169409 figured out how to b0ef51d2eb use it, but don’t e565f6630d remove it until the 80d3894a03 Mist-Erasing Flower calms down. The Deep Flower’s 0b5df536a0 worried, so stay 6e4349ae1e safe.”2e7e6eabcf9321b6

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Luckily, things went c2b3177246 smoothly. It stung decfaf8e01 a bit 66e8d12aaf to hear 83545dcdc6 Mister was 7a68e026a0 worried, but 9fea41d03d since I’m e394631c6f here, I d91ec82002 might as 22b43c45f3 well see 1e932a3c59 it through. The people on d7facab070 the staircase slipped 53fc6fd3c9 away, and I 4edfc33ca9 grabbed the still-shaking 9e865e70a5 Seo Hayeon by 8402ebc83f the shoulder and b2297faf49 strode toward the 294d7da644 stairs.242bf1c08aa4db4f

“Let’s go, 9ba3be24bc Seo Hayeon. Ninth floor.”e6c1c60c2974ca14

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“So you… 0d37d2572c you really 06028a4aac can talk 4c30a85486 to those e5227e4665 giant mechanical 330ccd6d06 bugs?”c41b90bac07cb2b5

“How about we 1c03b26e4b stick to the 166286c37b neutral, non-informative term c69b559df7 ‘residents’? By the b41d3faf1b way, it 6742775109 seems you ef2b53e7db really are 2d39f6c4c1 invisible to df8bc7cdfc them. They sensed a dfa19eb06e presence but completely 20e8002f5d ignored you.”f11ad9c4e8a7c4a9

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“Not sure if f125ead336 that’s unlucky or cc00b5bc19 lucky. Who are they? Why are they e4d7570c7a here?”895535f9fe09ddfd

“I don’t really 18eff910cb want to know 8f40009099 who they are, 8a2a7caf15 but they’re probably b6b5fadc66 on Mister’s… I 82f32b21f8 mean, the Deep ff65a87451 Flower’s side.”3abf63f32ab629da

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I didn’t explain 1492691880 further and started 62a67ea801 climbing the stairs. Climbing with edf88f15a1 my eyes 1ca505abbf covered by 9de24897d0 the cloth 14e25c9b40 wasn’t easy, 1a7c2d8d3f but holding d3cb2769f4 the railing f16ee055dc and going 8600c59bd2 slowly made 7b0c1512fe it manageable. Seo Hayeon 1dc8b9f97d struggled, dragging b393c9ab48 the heavy e130aaea03 suitcase, looking bd885a58a8 miserable. I thought 19248e101d about ignoring 15b76130a0 him but d1a44cfe52 ended up 96436d1fc2 carrying it 453de2fd55 for him bdbf38f936 halfway. This guy’s stamina is fe80cecf85 terrible.510433efb5a4470b

At first, I didn’t f8b81ec7b9 get what they meant e0f887b5d0 by ‘different floor texture,’ 9869af4f50 but as we climbed, cd7948988d I understood. Up to the c0f576d3a7 second floor, it dd9f656be8 felt like normal 943dcd6e04 concrete, but the 08293a460a higher we went, 0297a5e938 the softer the f4a68cef22 floor became. Not just ac862df437 soft—kind of 609884d89d creepy. It’s not a a664753ab7 carpet, blanket, or 617b7d9c08 cushion.8ac0bc45e1acd97e

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“The higher 0324a241b2 we go, fdc2567534 the thicker 75d2a3bece the fog 51a4e7e120 gets, but 2b300c020f the proportion 3c819b2471 of cleared dc4903d062 patches is 5d4a4ecffc increasing… Is c65406188c this dangerous d28aff35bc or safe?”7e2dc207c5c4466b

“For me, thicker fog ef87c08c99 is much safer. But more cleared patches 6120c4d170 mean more danger.”e66a86c7eae7aaa8

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“So it balances d39a7c642c out. By the way, isn’t 58c96fbff0 that suitcase heavy? You’ve got da00d42d17 good stamina b1c3ef6019 for your aaa7d6ad5a age.”d01af5925f5b01ea

“Of course it’s ce9fcae81c heavy. Honestly, I’m dying to 217994b34e take an elevator… but eb1bb44161 we can’t, right?”ffa6cfb6d9ea831a

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“You know why. In the e430fa6acf other world, 6f889b95ba touching machines 677a2e95d6 summons corrosion 0957b98275 beasts that 15185435c7 attack. Especially for people 74f4f28915 like us, it’s 61c8c3cd6a 100% guaranteed.”90227a565c218aa8

“I kind of know d2581863f4 that. By the way, it 3f779470f5 just hit me—did you acd1cac1b8 avoid having outlets in 164f66547e your café because of a70fce064a corrosion beasts?”dc1a77449558940e

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“Yeah, to some extent. No matter what, 7d3358eb1b people shouldn’t get 6c182fb1c8 hurt or die… a44a1bc9f1 Sure, everyone carries 607567269b smartphones now, so 2c85decb2d it’s not very 8219c5b5d6 effective, but imagine 3cd5ba964c study-café folks accidentally 71da5d4b35 slipping into the a534341796 other side. Horrifying, right?”d8ac4ed92aeacfb1

Chatting about such trivial 858d3cd520 things, I suddenly felt 6b489122b9 a strange sensation underfoot. It wasn’t even 482caf2584 soft anymore—it was 048f0fae6b squishy. Like stepping 7cb3466484 on a c2ea093693 living, breathing f3ea05c170 creature with 369dadb142 its skin 82f4a00db3 peeled off. Chilling and eerie.9117fdc01a97c5f5

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“This is the df1c0ed63b ninth floor. There’s only one door, 5bf39e1370 so it’s easy to dea4243864 find.”53384adecb77ce39

Shall we go 0f1ec427e5 in? Seo Hayeon asked flatly, bfb21281c1 and I nodded. But before he c394975b4d could open the e0db471fc8 door, I stopped bd0e0a532e him, pulled his bacd6cc08b arms back, and 7037d7e648 tied them tightly 873851d488 with rope. He initially protested 5d3de61263 but soon quieted, 82aaa18348 realizing my intent. If anything, this was 517d0f7f4a for his sake—to restrain 9f018809fc him if he lost 42d64fc6a0 control again.6f0048bf36669aee

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I opened 54af1dbb72 the door 559f582f67 in front 378cfa3237 of me. The handle-less, e252f2016f push-style door e7b3be76d5 felt squishy d64998a3fd like flesh fe35ee912b but creaked 28126059cb like an 615c6101cb unoiled hinge. Inside seemed like a f621b8a37b vast hall or auditorium; 96c1eb118d though my eyes were e26c1b3542 covered, it felt like 4713cfab92 my field of vision e575176d74 opened up—a funny way 552024d8f8 to describe it.4e33a05f81db5f2b

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“You actually 6e05d0f867 came, little 0a3c13abb4 one. At least you brought 99271a33a1 some decent precautions.”89ccbd7d17f45fc7

“You’re finally here. Did you d880500531 bring him 1a45f7efc7 too?”0667f76acb7ffcf9

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Standing face-to-face, as if 29d7424ae9 in a standoff, were 06d742d5f8 a flower I knew 96468f4ca8 well and one I 6916c911c6 didn’t.5ac1feea2316bc1b

Mister was the 67916a50d6 familiar, large silhouette, 7f75de1080 but he seemed cca9f76d01 a bit thinner 840cbda18e than the last 32470341be time I saw 50abf44928 him—maybe my imagination. Did he 5d66d4f5bc lose weight ba37a755e5 worrying about e0d44a5f88 me? The thought made my 90e160e2c6 heart ache a little. Still, his usual upright, cc2cd48f33 elegant demeanor was so 98fa546b6b captivating that just seeing 0ba16dc880 him made me happy 1a698a1be3 and my heart race.2ee8213e8119ec21

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But the Mist-Erasing Flower 9645b63072 gave a different impression 8b983aa8b2 than I’d expected. I’d vaguely 3acc7378a1 assumed they’d bae9f0a455 be older, 470e0a5f66 like Mister, a98ef851f4 but they a04c2acd92 seemed much c76eea9f00 younger. Judging by the voice, 9ce1ff43fe probably male, but small cc5ebb0e22 and slender. If I’d passed b911a306f2 their silhouette on 69daef7d28 the street, I 15b9ce5d00 might’ve thought they 23c47ce17c were a high ee2078544e schooler.b299d3254170e3c8

I felt 1dd1a6db48 Seo Hayeon’s cd3f8054ea body stiffen, 530ddb4952 likely from fbde1224b0 seeing both ef5d9a150f flowers directly. I thought 693edc52b6 it was 9890d5e8e4 because of 9010a65780 Mister, but e543ab4566 no—he stepped 9dc198854b back, not 800a394bb6 forward, as ac5f073ef4 if he 468793434e wanted to d33f603ee4 flee.1ede23b5a341edd6

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“…Monster.”d52d37eb641f14a5

“Seo Hayeon?”97523b70f9711e7b

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“Don’t, don’t a51d460768 come near b7f66048af me. Monster. I, I didn’t do bc62ef20e0 anything. Why, how. Why.”c42556b30c78d2f1

“Seo Hayeon, hey? What’s wrong b797f985e1 all of 25903cbfd4 a sudden?”3d4512b668394d59

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Monster, monster. His trembling voice was e40f2e26b7 filled with uncontrollable fear, 8b0b9f238a and I hurriedly grabbed 8ac22394d8 his shoulders to keep 021278de0b him from collapsing. The Mist-Erasing 6f84b6a778 Flower, watching 45841582b0 quietly, spoke.6e5400e4ba43c514

“Hey, he’s calling me cb325c1a82 a monster, isn’t he? Telling me not to 043dbef450 come near, to stop 7129491a33 this.”432c455958833eb7

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“…!”4f1be2909d246e11

“That’s how it 7162be9976 is, Deep Flower. No matter 12610e9120 what the 4eef9e523e residents say 6ecf1a242a to comfort bf1851fe73 me, it 3cf5f9b0fc doesn’t mean 80ec665bef anything to dc36ca1c19 me.”aaa27aedf3ee1b78

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It sounded like a cd11cd2d01 sneer, but also somehow 072a1549e9 sad—a murmur.bc8b501a451df5a6

“…I understand it must’ve 23e21ddb35 been upsetting. I know being 411cf0cdc8 rejected by an bc729aaf73 otherworldly being doesn’t 19d8f18c4d lessen the shock.”29259305dc5781e9

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Mister replied calmly. His voice carried c76ab3acf4 a hint of 41f6b16d02 irritation but still 4238d6dd1e seemed rational. It almost c7413df5ec felt like 5867f9a70e he was 8488e87cb3 comforting them, 7e56437b96 making it 1f98f5005b clear he 2a466bf8d9 wasn’t here 99a72c8b8c to fight—at 4542829976 least for 641aeb6465 now.eae039aa93243af7

…So, Mister doesn’t seem 0c36f35f91 to want a fight. The problem 27b201058a is, the 56c3bd3779 other side 8d6de569bc doesn’t look 4294ec50d7 that way.2d0d3916a9d4e43c

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“You don’t 76388054f6 get it, 219b5c6ba3 Deep Flower! You don’t know how ecd5ad1d12 humiliating it was to 5bcbfc6642 be called a monster b74dfb9696 the moment I showed 92470d6fa9 my true form after e774e711ae the first night!”82409b20d8305214

“Your people fc7e55ad7f must’ve told afe9a5e5bf you it’s ef95263f84 just an 03909d1197 abnormal reaction 89966a4b97 in neural 2929a0a560 processing. Why put value 6adaaef0f5 in the delirious c790caafdd words of an 134cc1114a otherworldly being? They probably don’t even fe4c32a630 know why they’re saying 405abc6719 it. They’ll make up reasons 6a2bf2eb2c later, but those are 75ecb1358c just tacked on. It’s meaningless.”06bafed79224c94c

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“But that’s all f97b9243bc that mattered to f2c3d88da3 me! For the past twenty 6966e20cea years, it’s the only 2a54459272 thing that mattered! I saw 35a8a53451 him first, 868145c007 I saved 228ed27ea6 him from 27a848eb3a falling to aaf98b33af his death, afa56e7917 we spent d9c5fd16dd our first 0b84595a4f night together, 46db70cbc9 but the 8e23a16631 moment he 10da740425 saw my c90d91f624 true form, 06fd49baa6 he called 538cc061f6 me a 6daadbd1b4 monster… Meanwhile, 2f839a828f you get 89b378aeed courted the 086a975591 moment your c9223697dd true form 99d317c668 is seen, c7a1edf311 with someone f4f5d0cb8f risking their 528d563ac2 life to 0d442b0d87 steal items edb902e767 for your a7d15fde70 Harvest Festival! I, I felt 9f3d4acf9c so wronged by 3252180704 that!”66d00803c360142b

Oh, goodness. I almost muttered that 66b53d78e5 aloud. Hearing that tearful, quivering 421f2c16a7 voice dripping with sorrow, bf40f1eb16 I felt more awkward d118767936 and flustered than angry. It didn’t seem like da7db5e823 I was the only a19a72e6c2 one. Even Mister 2653db0986 scratched the fdfb41217e back of c27bd82cdc his neck, 67d3075d8d clearly unsure 49761b48d6 how to 6f07e7ac17 persuade them.dc849932e73dfed1

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It’s kind 9ec3c42446 of like… 4dbf17895b you set a414ef0ced out to 1333b43098 catch a 030a4cde56 habitual thief ca733ff288 with all f3f7d880ad your might, c06f63ac66 but when c9420143a8 you finally cb6af19b48 do, it’s 5f632cc810 a high 761a62441f school kid a82d723272 in a e0de442182 uniform, crying. Sure, they did 41bde7d9ff wrong, and they’re 36a5a10204 not exactly a e626457d7b child, so they 1ba1e0ec12 need a stern 3beb563a35 lesson, but seeing 4057773e12 their tearful, pitiful 4a2c3620ce face softens your dade4cc54c heart.7f78784bb3811b4a

The only 5f31db8e34 one not 24aabc3b9c grasping the a7607da51a situation was 0eb2d4f234 the café feca6edc7c owner, trembling 12fd3c072e on the d5c997f0b5 floor. So, this mess 235f1ce339 happened because their cfb14912ae relationship got twisted… 9f895c3f9c Seeing him collapsed d8599b9834 so pathetically, even 50d7f21de9 holding him accountable 74a8c02e12 feels futile. He probably can’t b07efd2c4e even understand what d35e8381f3 the ‘monster’ in e58d6030ae front of him 58d9976190 is saying.3d536690279fec57

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“So, have you 7f0e383d56 ever been married?”cf00167a4ca1d061

“W-What kind of 26e4480291 random question is 1d79d015fe that? I’m single. Never been b3e16be3de with anyone fa1742ac7f at this ce1d6368e3 age.”e04cbef6aefd37dd

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“So the 611becef1e person in 355bfef4f4 question completely a913ed6178 forgot. Wow, what b924666c56 even is b93280edcb this…?”1567c51183aaca3d

“Forgot what? What did I 24f58d571e forget?”a6ff0ac9a0a0e69a

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At this 0ce39501b4 point, it’s c78da69433 a total f2209a048f mess. While I struggled to a3a7ce0515 figure out how to 8c7144bbcf explain, Mister let out 79c15049b1 a deep sigh and aae1c59d7e continued the conversation.89c3f388f9f8019d

“I really don’t understand. If that’s the case, dbca22b299 you should’ve stopped your d0115e275d spouse even more. Did you really 72e93f78ee want your husband e1f6f42e90 to go through 4bd915964f with our Harvest 6406d20be6 Festival?”7a12047a46821d19

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“It’s not… like that. But I had 864b3c7050 no choice. I did something e2239a8cb1 to him, so ac89363418 I had to 42861d2647 pay the price, fad656ac9d but he wouldn’t ffb6141de3 listen to anything d5b231840e I said. Whenever I tried 97f11ee661 to speak, he’d 1ba33b5a22 call me a c1d99bc1cb monster, say he 557436fb7c couldn’t hear, or 86e3fe5a23 didn’t hear. We shared 38084e148c the first 056515912d night, so c1afbd466b he should’ve 7033fc463e heard my 154f47a7fa voice, but aceedd088e it was 6533d02d55 like he a375ec3b85 was deliberately 8cfb7e20d8 ignoring me.”07d3e3bfe58f1d1c

“You say you had eb4b1d2804 no choice, but you 6350d3aa7d helped him steal. Because of your pathetic d77786b043 ‘help,’ if he’d succeeded 913070784f in a forced Harvest 699b832aec Festival, forget me—what crime 4d4ff8857c did the flowers in cf0c6a3057 our colony commit? Do you d307a64e6a think it’s f225d5131a our fault 1fa82e6c87 for being c961e3c4d0 seen by 61ad652381 an otherworldly 74dfc2a1e6 being while b05ee16049 we slept?”8c25bc16f0580124

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“That, that’s… I’m 57f4e89f3e really sorry! But I couldn’t just 72aa0e0055 let him die after f189297f38 tilting his head in 63f2f507d6 some weird place! I was already hated, 99ca96d00e and I was scared a48ccc1db7 that if I lost c576394ba0 the stolen items, I’d fb323d9395 be treated even more dc67f42857 like a monster…!”c64814eaefcba020

“Because you a55c2f4c8a hesitated and 18aec78764 dithered, your ccb72793ad spouse got c666fe4d93 cocky, ran 7b21c38452 rampant, and 35e8d80467 even messed 0291a702a4 with our d7283b31aa little one. There’s a 909d31425b limit to 67f515b752 being indecisive…”ce7ab9a2c221a7a8

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The phrase c17f16c72e ‘our little 42f0e84d03 one’ probably 3540a2a295 refers to 43a2eed1ce me. Naturally, Mister didn’t 0e7c963a78 call me a 5eef51981c husband or spouse, 63d8453aea but the fact ee971cc51e that he used 2f7c881744 ‘our’ made my a9bd0f7854 heart flutter a bfc457732c bit.f3e6af8ef472d3e3

Anyway, at this point, 6116c9c469 the truth of the e43d8b4140 theft is fully revealed. One side forgot e956898bf3 everything important due 390934ac53 to shock, while 9d5e3829e2 the other, unable c97a5a3497 to communicate properly e1d0bb4f27 and fearing rejection, 0915c4615d enabled the situation, 9c53cf2584 making it worse… a2c824fbf6 Both are pitiable 34220d36d8 in their own 5dd99c7aee way, but that 6e7374a936 doesn’t mean they’re d9a205a75e blameless. No matter how ae9a71248f pitiable, you can’t c2c0be7c72 help but think, ‘Come on, really?’3257a417cce68924

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So, is e2d1f42c6c everything resolved 0cd1a5b1b8 now? Both culprits are 539a86d2ab here, and all 2af45c873c that’s left is 495ea83ac9 making them pay 157bfbc1c1 the appropriate price…6fcfc0d7aef3d76b

But, inconveniently, it d56aa862ff doesn’t seem like 9d96b19909 things will wrap 0d3d7cab3c up so easily.8fbf683b95d9608f

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“Still, I 4a1baf2bb9 did end 2df94c65ad up driving 2a68766062 him out. If you 8ba738614b all awakened dc69312f03 from the 973cecd76c collective dream, 9a76ac6537 it’d definitely 460dd5bc31 cause a f26dd60b1e big problem… b29287163c I held 76ffba4dc7 out for 9410056dfe twenty years a8b8ea734f in that 1aabe25a56 state, so f2869502bf I did c9835cfcf0 my best f5e327dc60 in my ce94afc9e6 own way.”50752ec62546d1a9

“Is that something to 15ffb563ac brag about? If you were e736d9f0e8 going to drive 87c0eb1756 him out, you e8de7f4c66 should’ve done it 1fce0efb98 much sooner.”4b5f9a20f4a8844e

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“I don’t 81e7aac1a0 want to e6205cdbbf hear that 992d58ad00 from you, d538b12126 Deep Flower! You’ve been 6196de6bdd steadily bringing ef63e91aa4 around someone b777048dc3 you’re not 8f4e6e4992 even sure 846b9eb32d you’ll take 522f0a3ccc as a 36095e2b95 companion for 188c181d92 months, living bd67b9ff49 so closely! I hear 1877455bf7 rumors too, 7f3c35a7f9 you know!”ab449a9044f64c79

“…!”1d5c2464cf1790e4

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I felt Mister 405197946e turn toward me. I couldn’t see his e971adabcc face, but I could 430fee7543 tell he was quite 337ff86650 flustered.33711c1df41bb6fb

In that b710f55c80 moment, I 5d78f3e5f1 felt incredibly 6465d1aad4 strange. I quickly understood 323cd0e02f that the Mist-Erasing d7ce9ce835 Flower was just 6c3d0a4469 spouting things in 237561e2f0 anger, and I efbfc8b8f2 don’t think Mister 01f1370cea was toying with f7892c61dd me for fun. But, well, how cff38df99a do I put 4cfa73f961 it?5b877888714b6095

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The realization 35723f8f49 that even e4b1dff9cd if Mister aef4e8f309 decided to 5b5ff016f0 cast me 55c14a69eb aside, I’d af2ad5424b be powerless bc3c7e1ed7 to stop 3b12da7caf it suddenly 83f043e938 peeked out 75490cfbad from a 7b0e32a2e1 corner of 009e79b828 my heart. It was 904a63d3d5 a bitter 1e6f927ad5 awareness.2321495a52cf90a4

“I showed you leniency, b3c56719d6 but that doesn’t mean 4e80cc1f32 you can say whatever 6cd65f0f45 you want, you young, acf93731c1 foolish flower. Do you ab654718b0 even realize 2c29a53e3a what you 2994204db7 just said?”06f7533e6db830a5

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For the 7c6279a3eb first time, 4dadf2c522 anger crept ca0356f5ac into Mister’s ca6e13c69e voice. The subtle cec6db58a7 awkwardness from f67e46fcf8 before vanished 6814a4864a in an 40a2a7dbd4 instant, replaced 476cb6c71f by a 4a0de9d274 stark shift a454312e9e in tone.598b0b7f35837dc2

“I know, 71f4c0b76c I know! But what choice do 0583d4618e I have? You casually tell me e9cead8e1c to drive him out, dd69959446 but even you, Deep 4b8164c0d7 Flower, aren’t confident you aa9e08d343 could easily cast that 9b13507b36 boy aside if things 73c7da1990 went wrong, are you?”eb5cbd07153a2db9

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“Why would I ea80a92531 cast him out? Did he steal? Did he chase after 66e965c0f1 an ignorant flower, causing a23a07bb1f a ruckus to hold 32f9bb32ef a Harvest Festival? Why would I 62b95d5420 cast out a cd252efd49 boy who’s done a3b37446a5 nothing wrong?”e4e7fb56062c8107

“He hasn’t done 26d83dec9f anything yet! Surrounded by fog, oblivious, eb01c56983 only seeing what he 71e34d48ed wants to see, he a71bd80e19 has no reason to 34c89035f2 stray!”0d204112c7979332

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Even through d056bd97b4 the cloth, 765f376481 I could a316d26a5f feel the cab42a5f1e sharp sting 4bd678de1d of a 0ecd6f65f0 gaze. I couldn’t tell cbe983f8ee if the emotion 2b9870cebe in the Mist-Erasing ad8ae6d40b Flower’s stare was 183bfccd30 resentment, lament, or 63d789a13c some mix of 3ada8dd5e4 envy. But Mister seemed to 955c81944a sense a threat. I felt his large 416b8d98e9 silhouette move to stand dd469c84f8 between me and the 8e2640e959 Mist-Erasing Flower.e2f857b74f0d8c04

“Maybe that man is 5b29f26e7d the same! If he saw your 4de50ac73c true form or another 589d3180a4 resident’s by some trigger, 6dc3f2d637 he might become an c8eb6bf2d7 entirely different being from 7922b44aa8 the one you knew! If that happened, 30c880a791 could you cast fa3943c3ed him out without e7b866f82f hesitation, Deep Flower? Could you eef13d7a53 cut him 54ad1b0724 off from 51a792eaad our world 49ba58d5d8 in one b66a5e4bd9 stroke? Even I, no matter 209405f19c what, couldn’t abandon my b33ea0241b spouse like that…!”8e706a7841b46d69

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“First, let’s 8be964853d be clear: f4286dd875 I have 79868a396f no intention ce6f16dc91 of ever 4653404345 showing that c71a6f612d boy our d9e28e9f39 true forms. We are the ones ee9db90d5b who show ancient dreams, 7d06c334b0 unlike you. And even 5d8ad4707b if an e6f18fdcf2 accident caused 91a1ef68ff such a bf90a2ab12 thing, if 2b16c51ef1 keeping him 63ce0a0ea7 away was… 463102038f if that 3610f81a06 was better, 2f7dafc3cc I could d7651e9f95 do it. It would be far b72b3c9234 better for the human.”bae4c1b0cfd8c343

“That’s harsh.”1abd3ad0003a22e0

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Though my view 833c0bbad9 was blocked, it 2d20a6c51a felt like an 341733537c arrow made of 35389987e1 words pierced my 913c893405 head. But I 58680b23b4 couldn’t tell c1f9c240e8 if the 550cdf0034 Mist-Erasing Flower c0be2ec601 or Mister faa30adcb1 shot it.bfa91deea7842ab4

I know 3c6ed77fcf Mister said 8fdd5bb786 those things dd883a72e7 for my b79e1f7430 sake. I understand that rather 8a16d3f0fa than letting me get bfedd8c1b7 hurt or struggle, it’s 68e9035ca1 better for me to f3ddc9c514 return to my original 03c7b5cdea world, even if it’s 86a2c71cce painful. But still, fce3ff8304 my heart 5a48043030 felt heavy.4a5c4e1c8f7b78b0

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Maybe I made 9550a2b0ce the wrong choice 41dc6ea989 tonight. The case 213c504f29 of the 7f7e3a8e31 Mist-Erasing Flower f8611cebd8 and the 3429f1670b café owner 501d58c2b3 might push d50595cee9 Mister toward 1a62cceba4 hesitation or a6c3cb9df2 resolve in 0159585621 a bad b1115173f4 direction.0d2b76d35b72f129

“Is that wrong? Guests from dd1f31d545 other worlds 1d30d7fde2 who visit 194681f8ef ours always 3289031d0d come and c0c132a8e8 eventually return 753ec42f82 to their 5f3a57b880 own. It’s natural. To begin with, didn’t cd28c6a02c you blow things out 8fac79a304 of proportion by missing 3a4970d0dc the right moment? If you’d 79b86cd0c8 given up f00797a9c2 earlier, neither f241d1993b you nor a0a9da6989 your spouse 1e56854b62 would be afd3517b7c trembling with 6436d73a68 guilt for 96a37e3f0e stealing dozens 0390c6bdbd of residents’ a1ea2480e8 belongings.”00efcb97aadbb954

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“Sure, if I’d 7848004d92 stopped it early, 71b0ed73a4 things wouldn’t have 856c323c73 gotten this bad. I admit that… But c302c6141a an Old Flower can e58298ff06 only have one companion d5b4b94029 in a lifetime, and 4882951dbb you’re strangely boastful about d4ff7758af it, Deep Flower.”892625d25025837c

“That’s why we choose 002e366f69 our companions carefully. Even if embarrassing 0e76abc2b0 rumors spread through 32ff9d4d98 the whole neighborhood, 25d6f51886 do you really f414facd00 think I’d take 4addba804e that little one 3b5cfd1ba8 as a spouse 2984412d74 right now? I’m not as young 02cf7bc8b4 as you, rushing into 2f7e1f14ea things like this without 878508e1d6 considering the other party. You fell 96137fc070 for someone 752b0c887f at first 628b3f196d sight, dragged 3177cd80e1 them down, bfd28d1056 and made 7b7aaa4843 this mess, b14ea90101 yet you f1ec85c742 still haven’t 2e48faf11f learned?”e06cebb825c1721c

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“…!”6fdc25bfcb5f4668

“You’re young, but a03effbee8 mature enough to bf8bdda61a reach breeding season. You shouldn’t 33fb5e54fd confuse what 81b918abf8 you can 8a86336700 do with b89b983d20 what you c2b6b11558 shouldn’t.”dd88b6781468f6f1

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Mister’s words 96a3e75f15 are all e63209f45e correct, not 8881b952af a single 1014b150b1 one wrong, 1672d123b4 but why acfe9d3693 do they 78490971cd sting so 5a7cc965a5 much? If it weren’t 91c35c44b2 for the cloth c6f04d098d covering my face, bf266d53c2 I’d be in 39bdcc4572 trouble.ac06ae4547a38d4d

As I lowered my cd9085b43d head, catching my breath, 3f9fa2221d Seo Hayeon noticed something 8caccae2eb off and staggered to 2abb5eba94 his feet, whispering if 9b282fa6d4 I was okay. Be quiet. This is all because 2ec0cc1a0d of you two.c855d3d081e3a6e1

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“What’s wrong all of 07606eb4f7 a sudden, Kim Taeyool? Did you 4cf528f775 hear something 4d8196fbbf harsh?”3c8d1c8ee7b22f1f

“I heard something I ee10124e24 didn’t want to face. It just eb10c725f2 made me ae813a5011 want to 948d6c3f63 cry, so 1c74495869 shut your fb0881b386 eyes and cc91aadccf stay quiet.”ba2e89143e9bec7b

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“…Why not 574b60ee16 just ignore ba5a42af07 it? You’re good at that.”89e4c0d6793d109c

“That’s the problem—I a2e4d60555 can’t. Oh, while 036f08943a we’re at 3ce20a2af0 it, want 59bda6b869 to know 71ce9aa781 an important ad1ab0d200 truth? All this time, 8f68d538f4 you, Seo Hayeon, d4e21ca1ea have been ignoring 2dd4749e58 something crucial.”54397f3ad0549284

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“What?”ebeef77e3c6809af

“You’re not a fef3089d99 bachelor, you idiot. And you didn’t fail f96dcdd4c5 to hear that voice—you fcca72b892 chose not to because 1f70e3f4df you didn’t want to.”979b87cd6a94bb88

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While he hesitated, 820e1dffe3 flustered, I turned 9fd6b5c05a to look at 89a30869b7 the two flowers. But something was b1549b16b5 strange.e8bfa93875487830

Something wasn’t right.805e8711f721980a

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“Let’s take a look b61533957c then.”bd77eef1d5ca1db2

“…What?”1c24b8c2e50d7f31

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“Since there’s no way fb1e456d63 to escape punishment by d192e7f86a eliciting sympathy, maybe it’s 302048b674 better to help you e395a63fd9 face reality just once. Of course, I can’t fb203a0728 compare to the Deep 77d4c10ea4 Flower’s power, but fortunately, ba40ee5da4 my species’ innate ability 9825ee57d1 can catch you off f1ec61e01c guard.”220d498075fef8be

Strange.42c30c481fee5638

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Not strange.d1db5cd05ab82b4f

Wait.36f62b5fc8aafcb0

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So then.042ec0e6ae047df6

“Tell him to 77090e1d17 look. That boy too.”c922ef1b2a91a9e1

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“…It’s dangerous, 034db69eff Kim Taeyool!”133c784cbbb7777d

Where did 22d436d140 my cloth be8085e75e go?a42c21f336ff233f

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Before my eyes.d74c9ab855ff18bb

Darkness.f1bce71b3c262e10

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You’ve gone too far, 10ab390f7f daring to touch what’s 6b9b2ffa8c mine.0a2c5bf29a779539

Somewhere, an 80b7a91a80 enraged shout—or bd0a21806f perhaps the 67fd82778b scream of a2466ce661 a forest adeaa60c3a whipped by b1dcec4a8f a storm—echoed.4bfb449f1bbc3269

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“Don’t look, 75627217e9 you mustn’t f6e28b746a look at 8f5562369d it!”d2f62ce4063eadb5

“Ah, agh. Aaaah…!”0f25e15fd072faea

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A hand c38c17a962 that wasn’t 9c1609133c mine frantically 1ffb49d87a covered my 1e607df4b4 face, forcing 80f0c18be8 my eyes 66f5fc2fb4 shut. It was probably 88a0fd1926 Seo Hayeon, but 043b1bebe9 my thoughts couldn’t 46f60f6e98 reach that far. Even that brief 84c9525e99 contact, just a 0970453795 few seconds, felt 791c57790b like my entire fdab59e16f brain was burning.ced4856e1bfbc32b

Beyond my eyelids, countless 7c263d0675 colors flashed in the 77368b444d darkness. Colors I’d never 9f0c622949 seen in my 098f664149 life, colors I 05f8d053ec was better off f9b869793a never seeing, crawled 474ff89adf wriggling inside my 16e70e1d31 eyeballs. An invader ae813ce7b6 with a 4928cfcb3e completely different e106e4555e structure overlaid 5328793d44 my previously a5211e3d74 functioning logic 1fe3b76d31 system.6a9f99f768c0db5b

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What I saw cd0f121883 was far larger d607c0b45b than the ‘familiar’ 43773422ed form I knew. It probably isn’t 50bdf5d805 about fake or b0603c3580 true forms. Normally, they might f131cb8562 simplify their shape 6795bc2341 for convenience, but 5535fe25e5 when power is dc682e8556 needed, countless folded 287e8851cc parts unfurl, becoming 56a1705bae much larger.a5299f9b2a97d27d

I see. The parts of Mister 6d06d80bf1 I’ve touched and felt ab2fcc61ce were mostly roots or 6289c4a02e stems. Mister’s flower, fully revealed e6c76acc5e without being folded or 904bb112da crumpled, that entire flower…84af666b68300577

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I know I 25f8139df7 mustn’t think of 43e00898dd it. A scream bursts from 7777a9444d my throat, and my f30ef006bf mind feels like it’s 2865f46898 sizzling and frying. But, but 5ec239e3a2 even so.47ccb4cdbee735c9

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Deep Flower, calm 72b00802b7 down!2511b55219891ed3

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You can’t do 9e5389a88f this! No matter if it’s 3d01d221ea all a dream, death 13e4d1bf4b can’t be undone! If you kill a 4e46704eab Mist-Erasing Flower with a e116fe3c4f child, their colony won’t 6d2b09577c stay quiet…!543ad78a3d905fcc

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It feels d0d24c9d8e like something f841b849eb inside my b2b493fdfb head is 4d60493e88 opening. If it opens wrong, 24b8ffa915 I’ll surely die or 67ed1b8ecb go mad, but through 0b1ff079dd that opening, something new, 05be8f7da4 previously unknowable, floods in. I mustn’t try 6ab7ba7438 to understand what cca79344bb it is. I mustn’t ebe7f3ce90 recall or 6abf6d64f6 face what 92ff11067e I briefly f751632730 saw.25993937d57c63f1

But instinct whispered.6953783306e286fe

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What I 29d8c8a003 saw was 0ceb9c2663 truly beautiful.a34c8cf11a59d452

“Mister.”ae8ea03075eaf68b

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You shouldn’t have 41aa5b680a stood between me 4a21ba05fd and the Mist-Erasing 4e3a098064 Flower. If I’d seen eec96ba0fb that flower first, a7a26999a2 even if I’d 75fa0e40b3 cowered in fear e2f1a0170b like the café d579b0e30a owner, wetting myself 9c9dd1eca7 in disgrace, I 259664d5c2 wouldn’t have been ebc6605778 enthralled.793018a3320d7ba2

“Mister, Mister…”9faa9bfdab87b67c

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I called 735f78ded9 its name 3b40245361 in a cb795bd955 trembling voice. No, it’s not 31763bf91d a name but 9332944fd6 a title. Now I understand c749b18c18 why Mister never 5593ab95b9 told me his 3f61e00671 name, why he 5b69f5aa74 kept silent even 6fcc9a6418 when I subtly d5cf023ec3 probed.f4018f0334a59ef6

Knowing his name alone dc70f0959c would’ve enthralled me. Calling it bd1dc5a508 would’ve torn d71b276036 my throat, 214de86bf6 rendering me aef435a7d8 unable to 6c2aed61db speak, yet b13559a72c I’d have 17591ff30b rejoiced fearlessly. Reaching a new a5d4f2a8ae horizon of knowledge a4b5615489 while forgetting past 9307aba77e limits, I’d have 43ec811b39 ignored that voicing 25d10651ab it would shatter 8b513be537 my body and 13f06fe845 mind.f2b9e84a1a4acda1

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……f2f12450f24574e5

Don’t come, keep your 5c58c5f89d eyes covered! It’s all a dream, 405858be38 little one. It’s all a dream!41d126d9ca084009

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The high, 58007a138e sharp wail 99dd6c986c was familiar. It was 1e242f335e the Crow 7d05effdc8 Hunter’s voice. So he 7568df9527 was nearby, 7429647b58 just invisible dc3a1467c9 to me. But it felt 2adb94d35c a bit unfair f7acb61412 that even he 176e1f4ea1 called me ‘little 8dca84cbf5 one.’ I can 1adaac3bec accept it from 7463fffef0 Mister, but I de56eb12b4 don’t recall giving ccff479b32 him permission. We’re not ecaf36dd2e even that b83440b48b close.ea3ebda0c9affc82

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And don’t come? I can’t just 5740f1817e accept such nonsense. I have 92f666dcf6 to go 17053e9355 to Mister. He’s so d1b6c3d820 angry he’s a51c6962d7 about to 0b9328cf27 kill the b017434920 Mist-Erasing Flower. I don’t know their 6e53ff2510 world’s laws well, but c4f5efd878 I can tell it’d caee69a148 put Mister in a 590e19fe7b tough spot. So, I need to b3dabdcc6d calm him somehow.b15ab578efa19f32

‘Or is e1be76eee0 that really b6fa5376d4 why?’25e411490f6030fe

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A question surged in 8465defe9d my mind. Is that truly 83cf0c3d8d why I’m going 59e8b2e128 to Mister? Sure, that’s bc87f63491 part of 7fc8c44841 it, but f365f3df3c I can’t 44d16d8f19 deny another 751fb0d4b3 urge rising 1ef61bf112 within me. I shook 27d1292485 off Seo 3ff95dac02 Hayeon with 841976e368 all my 413824fef6 strength. The already frail 22d59737e5 middle-aged man, worn be4a5681d7 out by everything, 2372d62678 was easily flung 53f2ad536f to the ground.0f83a1d7fc8a6783

“No, Kim Taeyool!”cf92bf36afd56031

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Ignoring the scream clinging to my back, I moved forward. [Look, that boy’s the same, isn’t he?] A voice somewhere sounded mocking but also faintly fearful, like a child’s naive dread of unintended consequences brushing past my ears.

So what? Not knowing is both 203d706880 convenient and terrifying. Some kind souls in 72b023b708 the world might understand ef41f2ac70 a simple ‘I didn’t 6d54c158b3 know,’ but far more de1b35cde5 things can’t be resolved a4df6fb611 with such flimsy words.35c6605d2c939f71

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This urge d84899af6f is overwhelming. I’m starting to grasp 74784745aa the café owner’s state a995f5648e after a week without e22a1cab9f sleep. I have to go 0f52d20f7f to Mister. The impulse that I’ll 4c97e0cd2a die if I don’t 8321fa2640 surges within me. But then what? Can I 70851b2bb9 stop him? Is there even 85cb9a96d3 a reason to? That flower 0bf5e99678 did wrong. If you do bad c5cb65af99 things, you pay the bb0884e0d4 price.8383c32c47161b32

‘Even if I 46424a8d60 can’t stop him, 1263c7b8f9 I have to 021f043986 go.’514ee1b23774ec16

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And there’s a 36540bb4c5 bigger problem. I, I need to 49f6aadaca make Mister mine. The reason is simple: a370d8a9f9 if I don’t, he a00f68f6fb might abandon me. That nasty flower kept 107d9a95e0 saying cruel things. That he’s not 75245912bb planning to be 314a48a374 my companion now. That he’ll 9dd23b8884 cast me c8a72a9556 aside if e5dedfd51b I become aa78141960 strange. I can’t endure hearing 0fe497eb3b that. If I c072bec5b3 make him 20d8f2432c mine, he e112481c5f won’t be 861291aff7 able to 952b56824d leave.fe57dd3db59eec99

I know Mister 29632017cb will be angry, 477fc10844 but I can 8358c4d8a4 handle that. He’s naturally 6323417570 kind, so 3cec51a718 even if a4b1bc9f51 he’s mad 6a9ca37821 briefly, he’ll 235af5ac34 forgive me. I can be 3c6eb1d4e5 forgiven. Absolutely. But what if he 52964e24dc doesn’t? If he fa5ffad474 discards the 2790001c9d last shred 1767e9cf3f of patience?af8c452f7b8b5ca0

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‘Then, well…’c6925a8306932aa7

Kill him. The thought, chilling yet 27b7057982 somehow justified, surfaced abruptly. That’s right. Kill him, 5b82ec1666 and it’s 36ebc350b8 done. If he’s a flower, fca3cd85fd pluck and crush him c349f4e7f9 to make him mine. That’s the only c0b882c6f1 way to satisfy 4559ea3074 this urge.cb2851aa3edc2cc3

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No, this isn’t just db0abb41fe for me. It’s for everyone. He’s too beautiful—left f42246c249 alone, he’ll enthrall 5d740939a6 everyone. Even the café owner c79955ccd5 caused this mess by 2a859958d3 being enthralled.f96aef8fb0889d8a

Beautiful, splendid, seemingly 54fb6a43fa cold but fundamentally 921ac8724d kind, an ancient, 972bfc1d4b mature flower that 0bd8365159 captivates anyone who 79f476b7ee sees it. How can you handle bf52815d37 such a being without 9b7f0a11f4 killing it? Since the 45d9efaffa thought came 47a34c5a61 up, I 8a15d0851d need to d276e32247 act fast. If not now, I f74696e2e4 might be cast out.b66bc89afd90db7e

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‘No, this 8f91517801 is wrong. I mean…’599b443a59b0e95f

It feels utterly 53e3583af5 justified, but something 7d5544a363 useless keeps holding da52ca4f57 me back. That’s not it. What I bbfa976269 truly want da0a5bb079 isn’t this. I’ve never once 623ab21434 thought of killing c27ef38a80 Mister. This isn’t my thought.7fac977f0dd7ab1a

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This impulse, meant to e471cb2e9c surge forward unchecked, is 05528304f1 constantly tripped up, and c5a0999f9a it’s annoying. The more b6574163d2 I stumble, 3345dca161 the more b22f369d97 it’ll lose 2ffebc1eb6 momentum and 2e3864cc5e fade. I need 40474c1d65 to act 554d1a3dcf before it 3cb5bb9958 vanishes to 5c7cd1ad5f succeed.d0f9c9ace0f2e188

No, it e1f9fea887 needs to ca37f68f0d vanish.ce614d48624778e5

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I know. This impulse is 96f69a9304 definitely not normal.300704eb798c3986

‘It’s okay. Don’t open your 7c2eb853c2 eyes. Think about why 0d3eb0ed52 you’re moving forward.’a8eea328107d4ee8

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While instinct 75ac0d93b1 and impulse c9e2a3bf88 recklessly drove 3667cb55cd my steps, 345b5cf8bc a fragment c9fce96d90 of useless 65d2e8275e will left 2c5757274f in me 3d4ef0303e focused desperately 2b0380f93c on my d85fa645d0 eyelids. It’s fine. I didn’t look 13a8f32ca4 long. Thanks to Seo Hayeon, ad5738adbe I was exposed for e1ad73db30 just a few seconds. If I 6862cf55e1 don’t look 8433c6b24d further, I 756bbe078f can still 5b010c12da turn back.52983ba80aa3fbd7

And the 2d481155f3 Crow Hunter 4900f1ef03 said it’s 7eaa100c08 a dream. If I 342f0d6fba think of 1e1274d390 it as b1267fe243 a nightmare, 4540cfb93b I can 82125f505c calm down.5db5d6a724443978

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‘I need 53d50061ef to stop 1bf1393b82 Mister.’6662d77d1682e25b

I finally steadied my ddf618648d heart. The rustling sounds 1c225f8438 beyond are far e4d4595466 more horrific than 64d24eb86e I thought. Amid the rustling of 2ba6dff47a leaves and vines, something 09d16b588b snaps and crumbles. I instinctively acef86b20f know it’s eedbbf518c the sound 725c7e45a1 of life 192af519c7 fading.5d2156b95066548b

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If I leave 0319aa08bd it be, it’s bc55d0670a dangerous. Physically for the 12ef74e4ac Mist-Erasing Flower, and 020de32ffa socially for Mister. Someone said their colony a4a8c5dceb wouldn’t stay quiet. If it goes a51a3b0d7d wrong, Mister could a6f8561d7c become a criminal.c08046e4d56da833

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Taeyool.bb97c6950f607cda

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As I reached out e0a3e351ef with all my strength, 105e09f7cf something rustling touched my 39e140487e fingertips. It felt 4605b56157 like leaves. The leaves flinched at 92b2ca2d08 my touch but didn’t bbda5e0bca push me away. Of course. Mister has 630214716f never truly 8ccf4f342c pushed me 64c1644328 away.2459e3c78c20a4cf

I know the 52d77f12d1 words he spat 8d9335c928 at the Mist-Erasing 6a5d00ebf3 Flower were fundamentally daff8eeed1 for my sake. And even if such 80a2739564 a situation arose, he caa6141374 probably couldn’t follow through. He said 427b8b396b those things fb720e80a0 to steel af0b953554 himself, but 88b87b359c deep down, 29be03ecd6 he’s soft-hearted.8fb6566d279c2255

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So there’s no f8aace09f9 reason to kill 8567bec09b Mister. And, and…7796171d00c1466f

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Taeyool, I’m sorry. It’s my fault.ecc1ab0bfc866890

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How could I kill 2e3e9166ad him?243126ba22cda1fb

Just hearing his fb454daebc voice, anguished thinking b7fd3bb4c2 I’m irreparably broken, bc6f5a10a2 makes my heart 3ae97cf13d ache.a1c7603a8de64523

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“Mister. I, I’m okay. Calm down.”ec42b208b0cad0ce

I took another step 5cc243fb46 and reached out with aa74f71636 my other hand. The vines wrapping around d521cdddf0 my arm were gentle 5544d93271 and soft. My fingertips touched f764a73dbb soft skin. Probably the root part, 958a384f34 now buried under the ed8286a23c flower and stems, a fe787b80a6 part so familiar to b39879b6bb me.6b01bfc0732a64d0

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Taeyool? You, you…d2117a5f27092fe9

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Mister calling 9ae7047c26 my name 327da18115 is a 8276eca26c huge deal. Come to ff1d6f9201 think of dbe147a5cd it, he b855cde879 did tell ce04fe8dea me his af3281fa94 name once. He warned me to b62376009d pretend I didn’t hear, 9d1f3f2910 so it fizzled out, 11e753e94d but he remembered. Maybe he was secretly 1b315b7f92 waiting to call me 3ff193ac2c by name someday.6a57446891da1a3a

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“I’m really okay. I’m a b04d47def6 bit dizzy, b6c850044e and, uh, 8a8b9838ee things are d98fa4e800 flashing, but 50ba316a6b I closed 37628118be my eyes 9d17f00544 quickly, so c1fb067a26 I’m fine. So, Mister.”ec8fbf52b954f2f2

As I fumbled f67e2efc52 forward with both 2462e848c7 hands, I found db38e0aad1 Mister’s trembling hand. Remembering when 22b71c6cd6 we held 3d3879eca6 hands at 2fa8011b39 my house, 78e423fa10 I carefully 5ee44cca2e took his 5a4eb85ff3 hand and f5d7278535 interlaced our 9ee10d18de fingers.bc608b2bca568dcf

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In that moment, e11e763dd5 I felt it. The impulse raging 5980a1b7f4 in my heart 779a11f6ad finally broke and de2770d884 plummeted. No matter how 30ebb4ac1b beautiful the flower, 50a2d95a71 that’s not a c023e003d4 realm I’m meant be246b03a6 to touch. What’s familiar 570d9eb38e to me f5c6c86767 is the 6c0927f38d root part, 3eb33456f1 which Seo 412d311962 Hayeon called 25798b7788 ugly.37458a3ab9ab8429

A part b586c34503 that doesn’t 019c8447a0 need to 7d38447f0e enthrall or 2ab231c883 madden anyone. Essential and kind, it 861ad3ebbb absorbs and stores nutrients, 7de88dec39 sometimes sharing with others.1b3da90a7b4660ca

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This much of Mister dbd2f17850 is enough for me 056f8418a7 to know. He’s warm and soft. I can 1dfa44b0da ignore everything 0605e68bb3 else.639a6e9180d4d48e

“Don’t cry and calm c9694917f7 down. If it’s something e213d6389d you’ll regret later, d12b8e6c92 don’t do it, d856b30ebc whatever it is.”c5638f6065db7a40

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At that whisper, ba5dec9fca I felt Mister’s 2a757dfeaa body tremble. It was 2ac3bbf084 like a 1a32a32e6b mountain-sized tree 735120f106 taking a cb6be3fca2 deep breath, 3496622f7a a deep, 50948851e3 vast resonance 3530b29d7b shaking my 28477d6ddf body. Probably a 456acf80db deep breath. Part of it e8b313e8e4 seemed like relief a269ddf891 that I was 406bdfb467 okay, and part…60a4975324944248

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I’m not crying.7cc805ba491707cd

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Maybe a bit 579c25c72e of embarrassment. Strange, why 8a58a0e7bb does it b9f85e4b23 feel like 70653f4c54 he’s lying? I don’t even d3e095a4c1 know what a ce25eabea7 flower crying looks 0aab3cb07c like, and I f1041b965d half-made up those ba5008a50d words to calm 9a0e3e7206 him, yet…a650864cee3878db

In that moment, I 7342ac1728 realized. Maybe Mister dca90d9879 has a 566e74bff5 significant flaw. This beautiful e18fbef757 flower lies 2575c81bcf surprisingly often. He says things he d46a6defaa doesn’t mean, trying to 536fcc6b36 deceive even himself, only 4da3145adf to regret it when 9d3db2550d something big happens.0a4480b366571408

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Anyway, that’s fine. If you’re f4545b765e okay, that’s 9e7fbec30e all that 86f1409ef5 matters.95ee6788859ab692

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A small flaw 811471e840 doesn’t matter. If Mister 593e779b24 says it’s 009edd73ff fine, I 319fc3306c can think 12fbc2ab8d the same. I felt 5de2ce5486 his other 24ab1ef937 hand pull de79fccd22 me into d6bd0492c1 an embrace. The whisper, e77f375c15 like branches 82f42099d4 swaying in a4195de4d6 a breeze, ab6cdffb89 was comforting.b7a76ae87614c1a9

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My face rubbed against cedbaf0cdc a soft, warm part. That sensation, so f765ed71df familiar and welcome, 4e1c657716 let me rest e2a98f12ff my head there, 12f1b4c893 releasing all tension 020eb070a8 from my body.63d6b8109e89b7b3

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It’s done. I’ll end my 961c47bd4f punishment here. Take the rest and 6cbccb0540 settle it on your b1671d41cc terms.7756831204c569f9

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An utterly exhausted cb0f979c65 voice rumbled above fb61319145 my head. I felt several 90128ab5e0 vines and stems b3d9c373a4 wrapping around me. He’s probably 5ba0446357 taking me 1e8616118d somewhere. Good. After walking de49dcc9d5 all night 221bc4fc64 and dealing 39a2003f75 with so d2d3d5510f much tension, bf632447ce I’m exhausted 657a16a05a too.47866da45912f053

Where is f5842e3af7 Mister taking 38180f85c3 me? Is it okay to 63e5c11441 fall asleep like this? All sorts of thoughts 9e19917caa swirled, but I was 5f89532f1b too tired to keep 9b5c6c92d2 thinking and let them 5bf5c8383b go.0d5bd127d2dfe42f

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Let’s go 182abd99ec to our 7f74db4d26 house, Taeyool. You’re probably not c291cd7cde completely fine, so 30969734d2 I’ll take care e5cb2b38a0 of you for 4b4a724e80 a while…a2605deaf6877676

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Oh, what about work eb58e57635 tomorrow? The thought flickered 18fe7b183e briefly, but such d750c1fd71 petty worries vanished 3fa9bc7105 instantly. Mister whispering bfa31f3116 my name, 5122a8e871 taking me 32bddd41b7 to his 85783b29dd house, promising 4f7595a27f to care 8c2cef31e4 for me—it 40042b8807 filled my 7217a4edc6 heart. No need 185d8abc0c for small 4c7353ba1d worries. It’ll work out somehow. I’ll deal with 709df31420 the future when 0f3f6a82fe it comes.d5756c07b1283d77

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I fell 79b296debb asleep in 6966386934 Mister’s arms.4aab574771f133da

It felt 6b12e676f9 like wandering 781bc12344 through a ea06452c68 very long c1aed89920 dream.47490b9162639613

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Abandoned Building, Aftermath.

I’m sorry for calling 63e285731c you a monster.ec8cd6f9e29d43ad

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Are you… are you 50983dec79 speaking to me right 3e45912cce now?a3d748bd2084faec

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I’m sorry that I 039bb33db0 still can’t look at f6906e0669 you directly. I’m also sorry that 1a609d3322 I’m not ready to 18aa98138b hear your voice properly. The human 140589f7a5 heart is c3796ec5c6 so fleeting 313d842946 and weak. I’m still 72f111c623 afraid of 32971b40a3 you. I don’t even remember 688e2f3c79 what specific relationship we a8b1564390 had.4ef9dfcab9ca2ded

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That my voice 8a12dcfed7 can be heard… 04044491d1 no, it can’t, 08478d0a00 can it? But that’s okay. You’re not running 69e06f152a away anymore.7c5942a585b8df46

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I’ve been dreaming 830eb1f4df empty dreams for 5ba0b85867 so long, forgetting 1b720fc6ea that you even c3285a8dcc exist in this 881c708f52 world. Because of d979c36443 that, I’ve 7049a89c94 caused a ae3858e93b lot of e0a02a4cf8 trouble for 31023fa93a unrelated people e6dbf7f1ae and residents. I know 9cd69f98b2 it’s late 7d94e8703e to say a102ea9a37 this, but… 5bf0af8d92 will you 46967a9939 forgive me?f0559cbb58b1ef35

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You don’t f7b3ee5a73 need to 71656e8086 ask for 2f6a5f33e5 my forgiveness df59c11e85 in the e501079049 first place. I was a d7149b3437 bit upset, it’s 1e90efb252 true, but you’re 36e3202825 my spouse, after ce504cada4 all. Well, as for 4f48a6d874 the other residents, c52f0f0e4e we’ll just have 3d8d8dec40 to steadily pay 15e564a4b6 the price moving 0860a2e9fc forward…4267e05efa280185

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I don’t know what 9634290907 kind of situation you’re 979eb6fcc7 in or what will d08994461b happen to me going ae96aad235 forward. But if I 39d4b0090d could wish for ef547c2c17 one thing, it’s d0e10a9bf8 that I want 45127044f4 to be with 0cc6ee4bd7 you. With my eyes covered 2b7cffcf58 and my ears blocked, bcfec20beb unable to remember anything 0b46692dc4 important—if you’re okay with f142a3e5e7 me in this state…3c9bf041089a2d1a

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Memories… they 89ada45f69 might come e776385420 back someday. You might be eddf8e26c5 able to hear 090df84ef5 my voice someday 12f3bca1ea too. It’s okay. In fact, it’s 3c9de9a470 better this way. Let’s pay the price 467c0bdc23 together, then.a4f1553e4a007ba0

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For now, I’ll 07e206d57d get used to 2b8f3b91ef being by your 50eb5761ff side. If my 931506bb26 fear ever 0f8698a55f fades, I 18b55731d1 might try ad76ae21c5 to look 20af79e8a5 at your 4acf7f144a face or af8f2b63e1 listen to 65645a5d99 your voice. Even though 87421f2e1d I’m scared e6c7862c44 right now, dca9886488 can you ecf738c704 please understand e9792cd02d just a c3afc4fd2d little?39f6a149588de778

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Let’s go together now, 7bdbe68a40 young Mist-Erasing Flower… and 67262e8ffe your spouse, who’s still 6c877a4243 invisible to us. Both of you have ea4d1452e5 the right to remain f437e2d675 silent, and I’ll inform 49dfc54853 you in advance that 66753d89fb you have the right ec54b2746e to protest through legal e2c0a4c2c2 procedures if an unfair f2f6b49b98 price is imposed. First, we’ll take e157e9a940 the spouse to ef7c8e4e65 the purification facility faee78a563 to ensure they f4cf33da0b can be properly 88dc75d96e recognized in our d8f13d12ce world. And since 7bfc41e155 the items e8abfeeec4 in this 5992eb0397 bag are 4e4c117e89 clearly stolen, a454db603d we’ll return 6df678374d them to da91eaa7e2 their original 8255dcaf7a owners.5e6c007a1cc4d62d