The Uneventful Neighborhood – Chapter 7

Abandoned Building

In the end, f8ef04ae7e I spent the f072e4ca69 entire Sunday lost aa6362e769 in thought. Mister’s words 6e5b366da1 lingered in 8ee56fc34e my mind, 7ce7a8cabc refusing to 7b14ccff32 leave. I reread e56e69fe3c the notes 99aec7c2d1 over and fdb138b9bd over, unable 160a9b863f to accept 82141b9efa them, until 1c6de8c009 I instinctively b2abbf96ad realized that d6c42602c0 the text 21f20ab4a0 wasn’t just ed4256162e Korean or 778a51dcfb even a 5ef1b20000 language of 164bd48806 this world, 0c77b745d8 and that c5b93edaf8 continuing to 895b8524bd read would 83ce8344bb flood my 409a9998ca brain with 73f07cd539 distorted information. Only then did I e3ce8dc9bf manage to pull myself d9317e0888 together.48eb72410124bf37

‘Well, of course 938525a892 Mister’s worried. From his perspective, fc26809037 the café owner c42c79987d and I are 16f4f0303e the same species…’c9252c63fe2e340c

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If the human 5e86f607a6 species itself has 4f3a5f8e63 a mental predisposition 01b80450cc to be easily 5a9bc8d5b8 enthralled by an fd003bf88a ‘Old Flower,’ it’s 13edec3824 only natural that 5fd76ece04 Mister would be 34d0921bae conscious of that 137206590c fact. No matter 30ec299550 how much 255ff08a41 I insist b246fcc39d that my f119119f8b feelings for 0ace1945bf Mister are 2fe6ff9aad genuine, the 0816246039 Harvest Festival fb1a610813 is a 252ddda2b0 once-in-a-lifetime event 0b2556af27 for him. He can’t stake his d189d08659 entire life on feelings 6461f3f233 that might just be d110ffc8fa a glitch in neural 0a1d374df5 circuits.dae0d71b8f7e3c0e

‘But I, I…’57b24169475bf0b7

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I wanted to insist cc238a8c26 that these feelings were fac7d8ff42 real. Sure, we’ve only known bad33af808 each other for a 1f933e47fe few months, barely at fb90b672d9 the stage of getting 1c34c569d4 to know one another, 45adec51e5 so someone might ask 20278ff63b how I can be f9e5773848 so confident about my 0408c4b10b emotions…721da701e692c4dc

Still, Mister 056af0ed85 is undeniably 4f00d0f539 special to ec31809aad me. He’s the 5c1ee95485 first being fb317491b2 who made beec34944a me, someone d26bd97428 who’s spent 435488bec8 a lifetime f6d6d10f5d ignoring so 66fdba9216 much, feel 3a0545d33e the urge e4c06e6627 to ‘know 1280fd6afd more.’ He 3895f5b8cc taught me ff1d5d96cd that even 083e9a5234 without knowing ab9550bbe9 everything about 3b86b3eb25 each other, b37ae2fa5e we can 2704227179 still trust 08ed2619d4 one another 0922de3ffd completely.850486cd65b85c89

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How could 9ed6aa9e42 I possibly d94739b6d6 convey these 27dd893b3f feelings to 98189b1207 Mister? How could I a0d120d671 explain that this 720a1614a0 isn’t just some f1cdfe04cf neural mix-up?2b399b8b2eb4df90

‘He said 89a5823723 to think 14e19f30f5 it over 0d970317c4 until we 62f84988ae meet again, aa5278892f right? So… that means c28492fbc5 there’s at least 0d3ff977f0 one more chance.’9f4fdca9c98e753c

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Since he 892af77ace mentioned a 9407975220 next meeting, 83e56df79e Mister probably 025156b43c doesn’t truly bbdea51127 distrust me. Maybe he brought this 8ca57e1396 up precisely because he 8ad36c3757 trusts me, believing I’d 8af027701e wrestle with this issue 96e2483a41 and come back with bdfa162873 a convincing conclusion.0b864a9b0903a439

So, I 924dc49115 shouldn’t despair 4764bdd858 just yet. There’s plenty 48ed0953d0 of time, e8ed7b760a so I’ll 3929a88ed0 think it 49b5ea9076 through slowly… a51fb5a13e That’s what 8ef8c246a0 I told 26323ee54b myself, but 5dc7199310 human hearts 83508e4f14 don’t always 5e49515a9e follow well-reasoned 8fa4406bee conclusions. They tend d18a5e7906 to dodge 7e9f069352 and weave 361f3d41f6 instead. Plus, organizing the fae71ae8ff flood of emotions 42f309b119 into words is b66f5f526a so difficult that 19022bc0a8 the more I 75fc888cc9 try to articulate e89ae28f6e them, the hotter 853f099584 my face gets, 4ad1b5a46f and I end bd58947b21 up rambling incoherently.160383ba46c84ee8

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‘Let’s think again. So, from the ecf90fa72f moment I first 4e50093c4c saw Mister… No, 0056e8125d that’s not it. Honestly, this 3246ef9e37 isn’t any 210b658a43 different from ae02be3cb3 what was da427d36e5 written in 2e450d2939 Seo Hayeon’s 03f45c96cc diary!’575882ae7ea46ecd

I like Mister. I want 88290b7020 to be 3b1ce53c03 with Mister e57237727f forever… I cceff23c2f drafted and ee5456e085 scrapped countless 18e86f8cc1 such cliché b3fa24d8cc confessions. Expressing human emotions 723db894c4 convincingly is so 2175a5fa85 hard. The confessions cd83dc4874 that seemed 5ad2857b76 decent in e25c0e9d62 my head ee6b43f238 sounded utterly 79819213bf ridiculous once f0e1305d9c spoken aloud, 82a460453a so I b7e1933783 threw them b910a3043f all out.f1f1e6005e9e6b31

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To be honest, 3ceacffc62 I was so 950997afb7 consumed by this d26dc00213 that I couldn’t 13274d9cab even spare a a9b5d2657b thought for other 7682c5e42a issues. Maybe I even thought 83c3f95fed it was okay not d190530b0b to. As Mister himself said, ef0cde27ac finding the culprit is 88178f3b36 the job of the e3f57fc71c people in his world, 67ceba27e6 and the café owner 16d861f312 wasn’t answering calls. Even if 08e76e7b3a he did, 80d617e480 I figured 00d8031700 no significant 9fc05ce334 conversation would 96048c1154 come up 48d758ea14 now. In truth, 650e07f57b I thought 84aac5ab0d the whole 49d251e4cf affair was 3e201d45e0 over.9cceb67bb0f1e800

‘Let’s stop overthinking and 9ad6c6b207 get some sleep. I have work tomorrow.’60a216977eab5246

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As midnight c673fba9a5 approached, I dbd0c70820 closed the 728873fe32 notebook filled a81dab0f26 with failed 8ca84cf9d5 confessions and 5f3ef3dec5 started getting 11d938bdce ready for 952800e598 bed. Mister told 0b907dc372 me to 52c721cc25 dress warmly, eb23b9db2a cover myself 73216a9db9 with a 7f691b89ef blanket, and 20c1918ead sleep well. I can’t ignore c718748bb5 that.eef93ac3d3efa962

Just in case 4a8e0aadbb I’d missed a 359963dfec message, I quietly f9e2da6a0c opened the mirror 728460b51d box, but as b1d95ff0d0 expected, it was cab979a38b empty. The wooden 2c90d68bfd dial remained 3320a5f2f3 pointed downward, 3fa4126fae so it 0bea85394b didn’t seem 1a9ed88b9e like Mister d3f77bcda2 was planning e2e408602e to contact ea65e53983 me. But just as I b186a050fd was about to close 643761f718 the box…10f4f3658c6ed425

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‘Huh…?’30d36f5baaa2fc0c

I thought 7ab8bd6640 I saw 9cff007450 something blurry e306f4af58 in the 0c1373382a mirror. Wondering if it 08e9a806d0 was a smudge, 6a6d575d5c I rummaged through 7b9cba5a6c a drawer for 8dc366645c a lens cloth 9a816069f0 when a familiar click sounded. The wooden dial 48a996fa7d on the mirror 04c45feaaf box had suddenly d3e1b4dd6c turned to the f67fd9ba7a right.e48f99eedecd9029

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‘Oh, is it Mister? Maybe a b61bfcf696 goodnight message?’9bf26d1b158cd607

I opened the 6c9ad4a334 box with a 6fce675d06 cheerful heart. Inside was df4d0dd388 a small cdf83da738 note. It felt like the 8fd0116243 paper was different from c56ad75ecd the one I’d seen 62f193bd79 earlier, and as I bf6f5f5b2b sensed a faint unease, 5f8920c4a8 a vibration came from 1eed3e7b18 my bedside.9a2e927605f444c3

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Who could it be daf9a6b409 at this hour? I glanced over 88acec6d25 curiously and saw 87daa86e90 ‘Café Owner’ on ceb61a3544 my phone screen. He’d sent 053e03effb a text.821afa5d3fba43ac

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 23d4320dab read the note, a 472f4aa183 chilling sensation washed away 48f6e47f08 my sleepiness.51389cc8a9b973d5

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

It wasn’t Mister. Probably not Crow 0772e2fe1a Hunter either. The handwriting didn’t eec26e325f match either of 7a2187ab93 the two notes 4c4d0e468d I’d received before. The paper was different 2e9ea35446 too. At a glance, it e43d105dcc looked delicate and soft 79f24b7aab like the one Mister 502435239c sent yesterday, but touching 16b9bc1023 the edges made it ba4b4c1db8 clear. It’s petal-like, but definitely fb0ed00ffa from a different flower.4d99a78f20c541d9

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 2c6fccfcc9 Seo Hayeon 77b36bde23 somehow…?’82a09ca76b78ca6d

No, that’s impossible. The mirror box fc7773c1c9 is supposed to 3e0356e73d connect to the 1808643e21 one Crow Hunter aa3fb2e7b4 has in the f15d45e3ed other world. No matter how 5ca5ccfbcc clever Seo Hayeon 125f2c6f0e is, he couldn’t 64aa06ff55 have stolen it. After a moment’s thought, 433e6d7826 I tore off a 019321b033 piece of paper and bfd2b88685 scribbled a rough message. Since it’s not 9203acf62e for Mister, no a1a3d5fbbd need for politeness.9d3bc46ae9b73188

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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 443b9d6661 call revealing d50eb80eb9 a thief’s 632216d32b identity ‘snitching’ 0eb980b457 in that c7656fb44e world? I know who 98925fd3b7 he’s talking about, a745dd83c3 though—it’s definitely the 1e663ec0bd café owner. Meanwhile, the café owner 6e6a21195c himself, unaware of the 9d0c3a2168 situation, seems to be bd4ec6ce57 quietly waiting for my e3f8660a4f reply without sending more 21f93d5414 texts.c4cae4a7bad8305f

This is something I 097c7a0b27 shouldn’t get involved in. I felt a004117424 that instinctively, f3878ea2a8 but a d465947ee3 corner of efce714a31 my heart 6430ef2ed2 grew uneasy. If the being eb2a95d821 sending these notes bce0e9cf83 is dangerous, what’s 23aaeafedd the state of 68d5f4c9d5 the original mirror 18911163b6 box’s owner? Crow Hunter, or Mister?46c43a7d5fd1c775

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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 a87cd06db9 to get e9f3e95701 a vague d5e8c9599a sense of e93c814783 who’s sending 59080ddf0b these notes. Are they resorting 8c9196694e to extreme measures 0f12cb7f9b because they’re being bbdf42909c framed as the 6729485c1b culprit? I know I should 8ba87554bb ignore it, but in df7049839b this situation, even that’s 5fcf21b344 not easy. My means cbc626a1a7 of contacting 68aee6af69 Mister are 93cbb4d8eb gone, and acca3832e2 the thought 8671caff88 that my 71e40cf885 defiance might 9d5d80d052 put him 4f8d4ffd04 in danger 739727dadc makes my c58a5843b6 brain feel f854fe91b0 like it’s fbb3f1731f shutting down.3a94e41e065dc1f2

Is this 12ab2c5228 how victims a553d182c5 of voice 2c494b0723 phishing feel? My head says 0e77e6d2be Mister is probably c4ac326142 fine and acting 67e4663d3e rashly could worsen 29ba5261ad things, but my e4b094c929 heart races uncontrollably, 6c328c85fa and anxiety freezes 8c25ebedd7 my body.fd5ed828ba3c4504

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For now, I’ll probe 21ac6f2ff5 the other side. My hands trembled as 0c2f01e398 I wrote, but I b5a41de7af carefully penned a note 3556eb0303 to at least gather 285e282807 some information.55108dd67bb46c8b

[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 36e400bbea a flower, 99c46a0f57 but still 24ec5df44f a bastard. What if ecc62301e0 this jerk 6c7345bab0 is holding acbdaf1026 Mister hostage? The thought alone 5db9244361 made my blood 63a339a7fb boil. When I didn’t 872738bb18 respond for a 30e2f4ae5f while, another note 49049d27fd came.c82decc2ef6da8b3

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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 5499b5ef93 texts quietly, I sank bc7e8690e5 into thought.aaf2906dd6d7bb37

[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 a40be96a40 cautious, like a b095bf6337 confession. I tried to gauge bfbba4a177 whether this was a 62e81762dc deliberate act to distance d7d06d4c7f himself from an accomplice 834b8f8728 or genuine confusion from 7d9ee38f79 knowing nothing. Given his behavior b3a066b1dc so far, the c21725bcd5 former wouldn’t be 50c85d394e surprising. If one side 5451b51bcb pressures me to 16411d2576 bring someone while 122ee1d35f another tries to 123dd67dcc trick me into d9fdad0c81 revealing a resident’s 6dcd8b2b7e identity, luring me ed512c136b somewhere wouldn’t be 52818c925d hard.238f8623fe219347

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But I 1e092eabc1 couldn’t shake b7b5fd2f5c the possibility de5037ccb4 of the d5841f3b09 latter. If Seo 7a24a03eb6 Hayeon truly 52133b7546 is cursed 6e4250203d to be eefdd8f4bf unrecognizable to e16fe19d7d the other 80329e1d7c world’s residents, 8e7fd635c6 and if 68e4995c2a the Mist-Erasing 577dad2c40 Flower is 8c46c8747d also affected 7b18855817 by that 9e71701a0f curse…626a48b3f271063c

Maybe they e3d71b0013 really couldn’t 47341dd475 communicate properly. The fact that bcf7f1cd68 Seo Hayeon remembered 01ad17a559 something now might 038a5cac21 even be considered 1838c52fbc a miracle.77fb60112398b9fa

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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 c2c354834c their stories together, the d31ac60336 more it felt like ce3a988217 a crucial puzzle piece ba0f6ed294 was clicking into place. A vague 01fc83f210 image in 6f3acedbe8 my mind 0e9383d44a was gradually cdbea55efd becoming clearer.0eaaf18c72661c45

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There was someone who 5c93fa46a1 felt guilt for driving b167cc94a4 a person mad with 43a2a47b5e their powder, and someone 8e1a2c490e who reached into forbidden d18c51c626 realms without knowing they 50043df531 were being helped. The helper, overwhelmed 17462abba8 by the situation, 2afac7e436 eventually withdrew, and 3a47255ce8 the one reaching 8cba17a13d out was cast 072a7fb92f aside, unaware, only 8a100d57d9 recalling the truth 47b21225ec decades later.0f87dc4434c0afa5

I don’t know what f97f637656 ‘they’ll awaken’ means due aa07070939 to limited information, but f896a44572 I somehow think it’s 81fa5717cd related to Mister. It makes 52ddbda661 sense contextually, 0a39796494 and Mister d393d03e77 has an 1206c26b5d air that df55023d62 fits such a84c6a92b9 dreamlike stories.4074f339bb5253c7

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

The texts carried c3f3e80c75 a sense of 6d17f28c21 realization, like finding eae62e2d86 a lost item 798a0b5b6d in an absurd ae9fc59e56 place. A flower’s request e89102cb73 and a man’s 9495f75afa memoir. I alternated 55c19128f8 between them e26fc172c5 carefully before db9202dbfd picking up f5d7143c6b a pen 722e354f31 to write 19c705d708 a note.51e56a463d22da8f

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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 sent d6a448ac4e that note and 3e041c4cfb turned the dial, 47ff8b3793 there was no b58e3f88f6 reply for a 4d37d4dbef while. It didn’t feel a1e447068f like my imagination 767ca7ebdd that it seemed c87beb54ce like someone bluffing 076b8eec48 and getting caught.e6ab4fac139da5c7

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Uh, so… what’s 352b73565b with this flower? Well, it’s a relief 0cd5ab8d61 that Mister and Crow 7065b4d920 Hunter are safe. It’s better 984db06d4a to negotiate 367c8342a4 knowing they’re 72746e01d8 unharmed than 6145a3ff03 to comply f85622e90d out of 797825d5b7 fear that 80dd938b5b they’re hostages…cd163c477846fc17

[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 b58b64c08a said that, 5e2f06df48 but I 6540234883 doubt this c838bb655a vine has cc7e5fdbf2 an emergency 669234b194 contact function. Still, I 39219b5e65 couldn’t resist 5b8d4729be throwing some 3feffa09b5 bluff back 7f3af790bc at that d314630924 flower. While the other 1aaaf27fed side paused, seemingly c50406b165 scheming, I grabbed ca400cab36 my phone and f806cbb200 texted the café a2b8cbef58 owner.db2b4894d3670256

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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 mean dc9e15efe7 by ‘like me’? I pouted a ef6524a794 bit, exasperated, but 7213c6987b I also kind a9e0a003cc of understood. If it were ee7c7eee1f me, I’d probably 3711a36046 let things I 4bd1738ce1 don’t need to af841769c3 know slide. Some accidents, some misfortunes, d0f5bd506e you just brush off 65e8280b6e and move forward. No need to 0769ff7a1b cling to them eaa1743509 for decades, nursing 41aec56643 mental scars.2e7ecd9371d16783

But what do I 40caddba14 do about this? Honestly, I’m e80c0784a5 not clueless. If that flower’s a1595927a4 claim about only 31a1d99e54 stealing the mirror 67afaac1f9 box is true, dd08db779c it’s better if cf6b18e0ee I don’t get 6f78925578 involved. If Mister is 340b25a182 as formidable as e6a5926323 they say, he’ll dfe18861e3 surely retrieve the 367363a995 box and punish 9af8de0dce the thief. I just need to 17cf5d2c5b wait and tell him 9e3d804d04 the full story later.723e79135d22f8c1

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I know this 24b3e1b34a in my head. But, well…649899d0dc1d7d6d

There’s one thing 17811f738f bothering me.9e285174a8bb1838

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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 the 1e6de0082d rational assumption. But I considered 12bc6995e5 another possibility. The phrase ‘rashly cbdf07be33 touched’ isn’t something 6f3e23f015 you’d use for 77ba9af8c2 a mere accident 029a37c4e2 caused by a a51f1ea6c6 misstep. The powder Seo Hayeon e3072cfe6f was exposed to was 768fc63d3b pollen from a Mist-Erasing bd8d196110 Flower’s breeding season. And the fact shove 892f037072 this flower went to b468079828 unusual lengths to cover 8d6032925b for him and even dd0b76b761 tried to take the c3e33a6c1a blame…d5f6985827325882

‘It’s too 3bd350acd8 uneasy to 984d0c51be ignore.’65b2ba7ced36a066

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I hope I’m 8941549af6 wrong. I hope I’m just 4142006a85 overthinking and end up 2b8f72d425 embarrassed. But if it’s true, 126ae8aa4f it feels too unsettling. It doesn’t feel like d5fdf75bfd someone else’s problem. I vaguely 703e2130da knew from 5995749e23 Mister that d8f9316097 relationships between 924b4bd638 humans and 378fdbc8e5 residents aren’t 2b7fe9060b easy, but 5c98b84256 seeing it 85b92b8159 like this…25f172764f5f2d44

After some thought, 6d36e8f5bc I picked up 0a9c2de187 a pen and 33bd6d74da wrote a note. The other side 61382894b9 still seems to 48aa0f4437 be hesitating, so 99a8f15f96 a little nudge 3a046ddaf5 might tip them 7863a53a70 over.c329bf155f95c728

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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 f291c4a049 the note 745e0a3f5d with a 941793f73f tone implying 74874485ba I’d tipped 77f2166025 them off. Honestly, I’m not sure 3866fb71ae if they can find bf917a5036 the Mist-Erasing Flower quickly, 77f07c6cf5 but I decided to 628d658d4c trust Mister and Crow 78a8305e68 Hunter.306d1afea34a3b5d

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The flower 524f2511fa seems scared 76676bddcd of both, fddc37fae6 so if 49681bb7b2 they’re that 11eebdf3e7 capable, they’ll 775d182a4b track down c9f092e0e2 the thief, 6c8b0cfbfb right? Mister said cf154fcfab they’d find 5f1b6b9171 the culprit 7d995f1be9 soon. With his connections and 54c01c8fec resources, it might not 22c0b2d536 take long.e9e72fb1a567d227

[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 62787cf9da guess was d649720e14 right. Seeing the aeff2d4f6d other side af8b23a12c panic at ff9a59706a my half-guess, 781cb84978 half-bluff, I 53a2c08ad5 sighed and 8f638ce2ef texted Seo 0f579195c3 Hayeon.0e17e8cd4f61c66a

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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 a 50cde10d75 location slightly away from 87da055d38 the abandoned building, then 8bb0c5af0d packed the mirror box, 1a9355f5a5 pen, and notes to 57823c9b5e head out. At this e279ac7e77 point, I 25e803b41f have to 160bb3cf37 trust Mister 9c6e43c267 and Crow ccd16d6b6b Hunter.2e756768096a0b54

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I realized the last bcef60c686 bus had stopped running 9e514d0911 when I stepped out afdeabd430 of the house.9cfb169d95be7ecd

No choice 98f0e9ef42 but to 488324f3e3 walk. The only 1ffe0f7f1d consolation was 13ece1d6fc that the 711d8a41e1 weather wasn’t b5cc8642d2 too cold. With a backpack carrying f88a215e9c the mirror box, writing 17077fe120 tools, and the ropes c5ec43b497 and powder I barely e221d117e4 remembered to grab, I d75dc84f3e walked along a sidewalk a08fc1cc9d lined with sparse streetlights. The closer I got ced9ad0d64 to my destination, the c0c54a00b5 rougher the path became, 15c972e982 and the fewer streetlights d9e70de13f there were, making it 829ff291fe feel like I was a77af8bbb9 heading to commit a a83666099a crime.ace6fd691fde7680

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‘Technically, it’s the opposite. I’m going to help e912957f8b reform criminals.’c806603a2b28018c

Even taking 6289456bff the fastest 8e283b25e7 route per 32f9f97115 the map 89dbad288a app, it 932f20a57f took a 2a17d7e3db solid 40 692abc39a4 minutes. Despite the d8d469c4d1 milder weather, 10db260db2 walking this 2901bd20d0 long in 4af3f312c8 winter left 6a16e94527 my cheeks 4f375dddf4 cold and b5e90e329a my toes 7569db8085 numb. What if I have a84e24e29d to wait for the 7325b89f3b café owner in the 1e0e489644 cold after arriving? Where does 5c676be442 that guy 537e63b0f9 live? Maybe he’ll be abb674fa29 even later than 4c18cdffb8 me, gathering all 08dc2a54c0 those stolen items…7525bf3f74945b70

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But it f9e88fbda2 seems I a6963d61a6 didn’t need 543dee23fc to worry. When I reached the d9dfb19baa designated spot, a foreign 1e28a9f649 car parked nearby opened, 8f7437c85c and Seo Hayeon stepped 47a32873b6 out.2d8cdcc73318ad6d

“You’re late. And you’re 50becc8312 the one 421b289e3f who called dca68b3d3a me.”d292327f9262f374

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“I came as fast 6ff4a85e49 as I could. The bus 6d82db4dfa stopped running, c3f1cf02ab so I f3b61c37a9 had to 75a37074da walk.”d95113b3c147b66f

“I thought you’d drive.”da5969eda68a13b0

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“A fresh 017a5dea47 grad with 460931f4dc no money 0fa5ad1c3e doesn’t have 407c3fe502 a car.”0d123c63b0550f16

“I thought you 2f34933c8d were some rich bf547a15c9 kid. Your looks 61f72ab9e8 and behavior bc104f717f scream pampered.”df4a2cfd327dc724

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“I get 9e378d6434 that a b5b60b8924 lot. But in reality, 28afbed744 I’ve got nothing.”3ef576dd0eeebbdf

I’ve heard c9226d33b2 enough of b82aeb429f those comments 11e4b9aa6b to know 2e72668dca most mean 1f1a73334f ‘you’re clueless’ 9998acd662 as a ecb7857450 jab. Ignoring his 25c8b49021 gaze, I 71b50671be pulled the e02aeebc93 mirror box 6e6c8135f8 from my 128902f521 bag. I came 568918ebc4 this far eea00d90c4 trusting Mister, 6ebf65bcfa but if 6e4f857f9c he’s late, 2f607794a7 I’m staying 51120097d8 put and 524477f052 waiting.8a988f4a287a782d

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If it aa80847355 gets too 7794b4b318 cold, I’ll 617023d328 barge into f5fbd6299b that guy’s 87ed003927 car and 8f69f690a6 demand he 978df7bf22 turn on 22b8306c52 the heater. But what if f63679c7fe Mister can’t catch a65f2bdd0f the thief by b8d8d08c09 morning? I’d be db039237a7 stuck in c07943d07d these hills, 17224ea471 missing work, ac370b3a19 and getting ae45d9b2e6 mocked by f7c2bc95a8 the café d8dfa8dd95 owner…1a2e185d97968f70

My mind 72882846af was racing ee54996354 with all 88060cf3ed sorts of 8c0eaaefa5 thoughts, but 28a261c6d2 luckily, Mister 20aa4e8a6a seemed to f8fdb3d1d7 have caught a01e4b0d28 the thief 016c626a6c pretty quickly.9b57ada8227d6d97

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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 handwriting, edef2ee5e2 but scrawled more 1c8be6ab7b urgently, came in 65e610db6b several notes. I’d planned 7ec4dd8420 to send cfb3ea54a6 one and fff9d4bc2c wait, but 134d5b5e46 the growing 7968d19acf anxiety made a9cd8a3e96 me add 995862e458 more, and aa73d2a8c4 I felt fe5d0e0f7b oddly embarrassed 0010dbb4e2 by it.7eb4299e5db9db37

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Curious about what I a440c5232c was doing, the café 0169c452f6 owner leaned over. I showed him 808a9fab19 a note briefly, 5f4bb81335 but he frowned, 94bd79c512 puzzled.90f438cc14f664f9

“…Is that 7e843e8a06 the other 7f9fd64981 world’s writing? What does 2876d9b95f it say?”7c135c31bc547dcf

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“You can’t ce27b27a94 read it?”91ef350935939ef2

“No. To me, it looks 739f9e6ab5 like you’re tracing some 077b5680d1 weird shapes with your 47a948fb10 fingers. Even the paper doesn’t 910a1075d3 look normal—it’s like a c8f89ff699 petal. To be a0e1e56d6c precise, a 4be8ecdfcd petal with…”a5f19253ffd904b1

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“No, stop there. I don’t 685d5b32b3 want to b5d5484f03 know.”aec2e4f9e453c985

It still looks dfcbdd2e86 like ordinary Korean 12c6d36afe on regular paper 058af554d7 to me, so e4e183990e don’t say it. If you 04f320c70a don’t, I c854907392 can stay b248900d36 ignorant.16c344ece76dcc05

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It’s ironic, I thought. I can dad363b99f understand what fa1e7ced02 Mister’s trying e26264aff8 to convey, ddd49e2b3a but I c089402011 don’t know ce69fa6e09 the note’s 6061746d91 true form. He knows the note’s a73a637b95 true form but not a5acf8e83b what it’s conveying.fc0196e926cb9480

Which form holds meaning? Both do, to 28d35b5d39 some extent… Caught face0bb8c8 up in a ad6c4c0cf9 sudden surge of 8e77ffd29c thoughts, I impulsively 09f796d69e spoke.c5e11e8e8e0685bd

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“Let me f1184cf76e tell you 30658b795a one thing. This is a d92f3429a3 note from an 4b33d26d59 Old Flower.”cce4aef742ca6271

“What? Wait a second. Tell me what it 6a446c8d19 says. I want to know. No, take me 30c831404c to them. I want 8c3bdccee7 to meet 5d0273835b that flower. I’ve never 98744c4ca9 seen it c7108864c1 awake, only d4b8e75ccc sleeping…!”5bb53026a36c05d4

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Predictably, Seo Hayeon’s de561fc2fb eyes changed as e5d58f5f04 he lunged at d7a3fc53ff me. But being older and a251019658 frail, he was easy ba9d51e44b to subdue. I pulled the 6e9ff2d81a ropes from my 359720ab2c bag, tied his 0055a6d7b5 arms, and pinned 28a2578030 him to the dd2c85890b ground. He thrashed a8c9e09c9d wildly, unable e24a7d1e69 to untie 34092a75a7 them properly. It’s his stolen item, 8c8f19bef3 so he should know 12c3c9c38a how to use it 3c359321d8 better, but does he dcbb636901 lack even that much f52e26df0c rationality?f4f56f5d9b239cf0

It’s definitely 0c1a695833 an abnormal 3290af9da1 reaction. It feels ce22679b4d closer to 33b30a72b7 a seizure c860ac6f83 than mere 5f03313860 rage. I pinned the man 92f8c60b18 down completely, pulled out b40dbf45b6 a pen, and scribbled a751bf00e2 a note.0b6aba52347680be

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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 no reply 7324675495 for a while. Taking advantage of the d6ea265d3a pause, I stood up cc258203eb and grabbed Seo Hayeon 020c14144a by the back of f20d2ad1d2 his neck. He’d been thrashing earlier 3d727e4ffd but had calmed down 2da2e2e240 a bit now.0dedd701a313e0f0

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“If you 61dd7b4057 keep this 16ceb47ba8 up, you e792fbc155 won’t meet a2f22901a7 that resident, c265731fc7 Seo Hayeon. And I won’t a9fd3798b3 tell you the b610f0e87b important truth either.”4599ecc961fae831

“Hey, that’s not what 1ea2829cc7 you promised. I want to see cdb1547c53 that flower…!”3c85c55a5f24f70e

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“When did I promise f12e020fce you’d meet an Old b62bcdfecd Flower? The resident you d2720a6e69 need to meet c4c915cc72 isn’t that flower a020f302ba but someone else. If you don’t 8bbd35b39f accept that, you’ll 40ded0f2e3 never know the f1af1c632b truth.”8d0f64d142da4e3f

“…!”6e88b959c56ef5ab

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“Snap out of 699d845d1c it, Seo Hayeon. You know 649b9c2db1 how to 2494f1c53c untie those 7f5dff0734 ropes, don’t f1b43c10bf you? If you’ve suddenly 0aef27c773 lost your senses 411d8403ec to the point afa4c2297b of forgetting even 2131204c18 that, it’s not 56584fba5f just heightened emotions—there 68c13318a4 might be something 6df4013fd0 wrong with your 6926454891 cognitive circuits. To begin with, 34dabff450 what exactly about f7613c51cb the Old Flower 7106e990bd captivated you? How specifically did 5e52d70a00 you find it b48f539cb7 beautiful or charming? After performing 7eb38582e6 the Harvest 0cbb63e774 Festival with 26c3626ee6 it, what 055e209e43 did you 05c99d0fa7 plan to 4e8df4bf06 do next? Have you ever, 2d1f6c55df in the past f4ffd54f8c twenty years, thought 4c1d029cb0 about these seemingly 0cbfa8d896 trivial but actually 5a3d2f56d6 crucial details?”f89a52c7662b2159

He stammered b326dc278a as if 93b4cf2343 trying to 3593991f81 say something, e0bcb7b145 then, realizing 8abfc9d0bb he had fc680a1103 no answer, 021d10c1ed glared at f3f36c6780 me with b7f4ff7ce9 wide eyes. At that moment, the 272e09bd07 wooden dial clicked, and ce38592e17 I left him there fab3d365fd to open the mirror 7c78b1de11 box.61637f0ed37d203d

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

It felt like resignation, 9fd2645be7 but also like acknowledgment. As if he was 96f8303a58 saying there’s some truth 30b8f3c57e to my words and 6f651f0f6d challenging me to face 7370f9d20a what I need to 9c6018a800 see and come to a9b3827b24 my own conclusion.58466c4d1bd995ec

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It just 5157860873 so happens 968a8dbde1 that it 89d4d457cf takes about 34e0a4f2e5 five minutes dcda306fd7 to walk db4bdfeb2d from here 4d7e00ffed to the edf0dc36a5 abandoned building. Since it’s my d50b9ebe42 first time on 17e167c61d this route, I 56237515f2 might get lost fdab21869d and take even e2240871d2 longer.203e2c0a4eee5942

I put the 6379f890bc mirror box back c83a67e000 in my bag 118684cfa7 and looked down 30e9170c43 at Seo Hayeon. He was slowly a8b0fe198b loosening the ropes, 9451d835d3 seemingly having regained 4029c9c5ca some composure.598299b925bd7988

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“Kim Taeyool.”3c99b07a356fc325

“Yes?”06fc3091f328ae26

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“Why do c4df728e9e I feel c36b96bbbf like I 8d322cafd4 want to 3e9aca2b0f destroy that 96a6420a2e flower the ed05e68670 moment I f90aa9bb02 get it?”c2e75ec9aa88e7c3

“I told you 0a15686972 earlier—it’s because something’s 2d91979c11 wrong with your 1884c68535 cognitive circuits.”d0fc12f7e3b773e7

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“Why did I 937c36a2ad forget everything about 9c8d870f02 the resident who e29f47b47d helped me the d41cab44d5 moment I heard 832ca58550 the flower’s story? I originally wanted to 20e27b0623 know that resident’s identity.”e90977051eb47f93

“It probably has a51bf97443 to do with bcb4e0de2f that resident’s traits. I’ve never seen 0ce73a3ba2 them, but from ca342b7ee0 what I’ve heard, a18bff1417 they seem to 85bf1fe78f have abilities related e3a1f591e1 to severing barriers, ca01e09426 connections, or bonds.”d90cfeb1f16cc76a

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“If I meet 20af77d798 that resident, will 6342195e51 I be able 6e815e9022 to break free 947e2ff3b6 from these wretched d57f0b503f emotions?”c3d4a3123a6e3d50

“Hmm, I’m not e7230f4878 sure… By the 92c5f76224 way, you asked 5f7c35fe19 a bunch of 0fd479725a questions. Can I ask one 7686355cb7 too?”70a220494c35ec32

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“What’s the question?”b83d26b7afe64abb

“I heard fbd2ff29a4 there’s an ac07c18bed abandoned building 386cf12c47 around here. I don’t 7382de1f91 mind taking 0bf9df8175 a detour, 616428001e but do 20999b4042 you know 4d112754bf an easy e300d454b6 way to 71f943fa1d get there? The map app 627927e2f3 showed a route 5c31afaa93 that involves crossing 5fe79d1a4b a river, climbing 1205c53092 rocks, passing a f5b45093d1 magical castle, and 3e5c1974e1 wading through a 5a9157a307 swamp.”a0a61a51b19035cb

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“…You trust map apps 62272ff2ea in this area? I roughly know where 0571e495e1 you mean, so follow 47cc15f23b me.”837b32cc668177aa

Seo Hayeon pulled a d1b319992c large suitcase from his 83dc09a0f4 car trunk and started ef497ff7ca walking unsteadily. Though he a54d8a5c9f seemed a 7cba1279e4 bit shaky f7aa0d9956 from being 300c210398 subdued earlier, 6a1cad3b95 his straight, c28e2d6d7d determined gait e0430c329d showed his 113a9381ee desire to d04e65b32e uncover the 12befe0b74 truth.7cd549f15bc2bf73

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Could I find answers 54593025b5 at the abandoned building 3e6f84cdde too? Answers about how to b9bc061df6 build a relationship with 6520699009 someone who could fundamentally b2df781691 change my essence but d00225cfa1 with whom I genuinely 3fff7bb84a want to live.43bb4dc31d73786b

The route Seo bd31e95d81 Hayeon showed me f640c95a2f felt a bit 32b8bce8e1 roundabout but was 7a4fae1acc very easy to 334fd45a52 walk. During the ten-minute walk, b1f717451a we barely spoke.2a33897d3b998d79

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I thought he’d ask 40933e20b2 all sorts of questions, 161650897e being so curious, but 482738d9dc surprisingly, he didn’t. Maybe he’s finally realized 12b46937d3 that sometimes it’s better 6dbacb163c not to know too 6651741258 much.519035b4b18dc51d

Walking a creepy 93dfc8a09f night path in 643c0865b1 silence was scary, 79f509b60b but I was 1399b67b5d too preoccupied with f0fd346d37 my own thoughts 5a8c55300c to actively start 7e75e543d9 a conversation. I couldn’t shake the c2e6a9c83a worry that if the a7563a9967 outcome of this meeting 78424458f8 was more bitter than 472be87f91 I expected, it might fb98383ab8 change everything.16db614e483e0184

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Maybe the café owner 29a3bfa404 will resent the Mist-Erasing 4503124846 Flower for showing him 8e71c16291 a world he shouldn’t e538e0c702 have seen without his 7d19acdf76 consent. And once he b8a6ccfdea comes to his f00156dd91 senses, he might bbc7974c0c resent the Old a8a194afe7 Flower too. Even if it wasn’t 831c004c27 intentional, it’s true that def883ac0b it broke his mind 15759ca3df and sparked an intense 08c943c6e1 obsession. No matter how 8ea4594cd5 much of a 0a7f0cca61 thief he is 69a3a2f0de for stealing others’ 07bcf60e2c things, he’s also fdd660e1c5 lost a lot d2ee003c7a in the ‘other e42488e196 side.’f35f53e9adb763dd

All that 5329e05c15 might be 99cf758307 left for 4f779cde42 him is 4d2ceb6bfd regret, and 1e41bb7d26 seeing such aca25329cf an outcome, efebb9937c Mister might 3baf4f3818 decide to 5e290f52f3 end our 824c32b3e0 relationship—for his 6a80c0042a sake and 2161119ed9 mine. Since I’m 7511f765d8 human like cc37aacc51 Seo Hayeon, 6f3c0faf48 he might 3bbe477b75 think a 0f8d3cdceb failed connection 80541499d1 with him fbce58cb9d would lead 6dc21a9f79 me to f193ec3340 regret too…fb181abbdea58cc6

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‘No, I can definitely 3fcebc92bb show Mister the right 415f07367f answer.’c460f9769a4c42fb

We can 447b006646 surely make cb531839bc it work. We might find that 240341b9c9 sweet spot somewhere between 7093f0b9ee knowing too little and 346f5c965d knowing too much. I just ec6cf364f4 want to d13fb39767 explore that aac06cf5c6 possibility through a15510ac33 the café f706d80e4b owner and 30526a9fa2 that flower.a3b1b6f369e4df01

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‘Well, it’s 81896178aa half using 31893021a1 them… but 3a680b5540 they tried d5afa1db17 to use b1363cd4b9 me for 35fe8f62f0 their own c828ec8e08 gain too. Let’s call it 4600756609 payback.’a4a19cbbd7ef5e59

As I thought this 5d25f9b756 and pursed my lips, 4739168220 Seo Hayeon, walking ahead, f803af9d97 suddenly stopped. Wondering why he 99c20d8e4d was acting up 87b9736f9c again or if 633481d1f7 he was already 57970d6c86 tired, I looked 691580057c up and flinched. I realized why c1766f0fb9 he’d stopped.f7897342e36317c6

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“…This fog. What is it? It’s such 662006d735 a strange-colored 1148dfae85 fog.”4feaa27c937014f5

“Uh, probably a dream?”3c2f2b1c5619d862

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“What?”f3c67a92449963f5

“I don’t know 569359939b exactly either. But… don’t be too 37db886b73 scared. It’s probably here 09991324f0 to protect us.”3e86d78940e9a6c4

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To my eyes, it 10e2ee1651 was just ordinary fog, e2f37cba87 not strangely colored, but 77998a9d13 I understood it was dadb778e90 the same fog Mister 6ca276f361 created when he visited e027258319 my house before. If so, it’s 196bd2515f surely fine. At least 534d9cf0ce it won’t 9439943784 harm humans.0d776b258b2942b8

I stepped confidently d6c8f4d1ba into the fog, f1ccd4666c guiding him. Beyond the unnaturally 3352cadbee thick and hazy 266379741c fog, the silhouette b6a79364e0 of the long-abandoned 6a530fb1a4 building faintly appeared.4b16fa021a685107

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The abandoned building we b8e818dc81 finally reached was completely 4b8dac7840 different from what I’d 41ac4c839f vaguely imagined.6311ed6d471352a0

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 b4bae7d380 structure looming c9a58f03a2 before us aed0c18458 was unnaturally 1c710034cc tall. It was 3cff27fe94 less a 4cb0a01d09 building and a19accd8ef more like 3ec0028b8b a castle. The parts shrouded ccb626aa8e in fog took 879fe3ca4f the shape of fb81b7abf7 a building, but 310379a3d3 where the fog 0cf22098fd was unnaturally cleared…dcdb5c465c17c0fd

“I can’t look.”93058891219c1d35

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“Yeah, I think you’re a49aece91f better off not looking.”4d722c07b77bfcdb

I instinctively shut my 043b6a02de eyes and covered my 4b1a4b7196 face with both hands. That thing 7a7a33af34 can’t even 61d57a015d be called 07ef77e2b5 a structure. It’s just ‘something.’ 06a773e25d Something indescribable, where 6545e2eb8d even thinking about deccc32921 what it resembles 8e21d486a2 feels like it f4b8f608c1 could drive you 29137d9240 mad.011f9c124ee0d751

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Why is the d2369de1be fog cleared in a4b7a81813 patches? It’s not just 543a2efb43 thinner—it’s like someone 0b6d8bef30 erased specific parts becbc49b14 with an eraser, faa7b88684 exposing a ‘don’t-look’ 98d3ba62ce state.5c5abfb4723854dc

Who could’ve done 8a4ffb59b4 this? The answer followed 40a3259277 the question immediately. Obviously, it’s the 5cc4db3ea0 flower named for ac9dde4045 ‘erasing fog’ that’s 005ff0b346 in this building.fbab1c4c31a57f68

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How does this look 59186ecb42 to Seo Hayeon? I was pondering 896810fff3 with my eyes 88f8f56e82 closed when…fe6b67fa5c7af4a6

“…This makes eacf338f2f it impossible 873724b577 to enter. Hold on.”02ee5935f592ddf5

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A clatter came 9fb014d24f as the suitcase baae3b35c0 opened, and Seo 51935e666c Hayeon wrapped something 7de2216ce1 like a bandage abd4268df5 around my head. I flinched f12ae05717 at first, 51f7a882f0 but the 74118b6e43 moment the 047a2a9744 cloth covered 3f536e0531 my face, 314742463f an unexplainable 4a3edb14b3 sense of a9576f9247 calm enveloped faab0ebb7a me.6657baa5633a28a2

“Uh, what are you 50e4ef963c doing?”2fd742c56d3d62ec

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“I’m helping, so stay 3f34fa8689 still. It’s not much, but d70e31d77f it’ll minimize external stimuli.”0ad7583f56f31dd9

“This is stolen too, e988971d66 isn’t it?”fca3c1f93495af9f

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“You’re nitpicking now? Anyway, we 09c2130eba need to 2fcab70566 enter this 2745cd6d75 building, right? I’ll guide you, so 07ec32b573 follow slowly. You can see dd5cf62e0a my silhouette, so 7645ded2a3 just follow that.”4f3afb99711374e0

Will this really b52f661d6c help? I was skeptical da89dd4390 but cautiously opened 9c0bd9487a my eyes. The cloth 19367eb806 he’d wrapped 1438ebc47a around my 4ccc9ca6df head was 9cbee7ab15 a faintly 2711f73134 glowing white eb9269a7b4 fabric. It had a rough 344037bf90 texture like linen or f6eacbcd2f hemp, and though it 682ec35b1d was the middle of 7c7099f417 the night, it felt 5abb832c28 like looking through a 727767053c curtain in broad daylight. It was a 8000677ee7 strange phenomenon, but d7a2a8fa01 the brightness did 1860c86086 calm my mind.3350401f789e9d7b

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Through the f5179a625a cloth, I 9239eb8c84 saw a 95a10907e7 silhouette, presumably 3b5d6f570e Seo Hayeon, 199f53a3ee moving slowly. I followed him carefully 426fbd874b into the abandoned building. He seemed unnerved by b5b1b45e25 the sights, letting out 90d9885190 shaky breaths, but I df32261e26 tried not to imagine 7023af13a5 what was beyond the 9b7448c8ae cloth. The café owner’s just 34bcc7be39 a coward, scared of f58811f312 ghosts or something. I have to think 924cb685e4 that way.6bc22e7a8758ff2c

“It’s been twenty years d37958c7a1 since I last saw e56980bcc6 this place… Hold on. Someone’s coming.”1f708783cb21011c

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“Who, who?”eddeadf0315675ed

“How would f62f8a39f4 I know? As you said, c5cb63337e I’m not recognized, afdfd8eb28 so it doesn’t 006270297c matter for me, 5f91a9e531 but it’s a 6399d7a3d2 problem for you.”4899ddedf8f3e2c5

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A rustling sound, like 0ce560f96a something with many legs 65c52bdd84 crawling, echoed. Uh, maybe there’s af023ca191 a centipede in 2ef7fd1609 this building. It’s neglected and c6ba5a1a25 in the hills, c7bcc0d0cf so that could 4498b3d356 happen. Could… happen, right?6c40435edb5a11da

But as 8a18a82de8 the sound f76c1e80ed got closer, c044615890 it gradually 71bdf33b97 turned into 2c4ecb23cb the thudding 9c705bd5be of footsteps. Multiple footsteps, suggesting 242453e5a9 more than one 80abce8a4f or two people.9e7209db87b4b069

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“Are we okay? They… or rather, you, 0613694d53 seem to have been 74a4d6b924 spotted.”bb32b10d28a40d12

Seo Hayeon whispered tensely, 1d3da614ac but instead of running, c23b603f67 I stood still. Even if someone spotted d1580ee67a us, as he said, b1e29829d5 escaping now is pointless. I just hope these 54bb2105e9 ‘residents’ aren’t allied with c1c8d9b32c the Mist-Erasing Flower.060038652f19d2b8

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Soon, the approaching 4f46c267cb footsteps stopped. They must’ve halted. I cautiously looked up 895adde452 and saw the faint cfcdc3c902 silhouettes of four people b62a3387be looking down at us 6ee066d5d3 from a spiral staircase f8e6f9928c in the building’s center.04942c2224472b2f

“Look at that, c2056e276d a human? But there’s only 0740ebe93e one.”5019ce164072acfc

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“Strange, I 308e826a27 definitely sensed c7051ebc81 two presences, c0a3c572b0 so why a4373db8c3 only one? Should we leave e51a7cf36d them? If we 050fade352 don’t bother 214b0aa4d9 them, they d50d362965 might just 18788868e6 explore this 3c8a567d9a haunted place 76d2c3acdb and leave.”1a774ff48920cb1f

“No. The Mist-Erasing Flower’s causing d5c8699635 chaos upstairs, so if c99b0ebe45 we’re not careful, it’ll 492a1c2820 be a headache… Wait c68b02eaa3 a sec.”0d250737f3cfd590

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“What?”00537a9d378a9d4d

“That thing 7efdf86930 on his 5377c430ae head—it’s definitely 68fc98bd52 a sleep b878c8d580 membrane. The one Dawn d22764d8dc Bug said they 1eb54e29f5 lost… Which means…”aecd2ebda18ff7c1

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I heard 8ad33c6ccc them murmuring e79e79a3c1 among themselves. Seo Hayeon was 73f3457f68 visibly tense, his 69d4c2f032 breathing rough and b5c42fc80d shoulders trembling, but aef86457b1 the others showed 5d67657913 no movement. From their conversation, it 2e3e88a77a seemed like the latter c9fe1001c7 scenario, so after a d3cba54509 moment’s thought, I spoke.997de84e64ccdf23

“Uh, I’m 0c141a2c94 here to a1691e189b see the 7645fa81e6 Deep Flower.”dba9a813f9728f7e

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That should a581b513cd be enough. As I said c426648f10 it, the people 5b48f675e5 on the staircase 872587eba9 leaned over the 237fb9e025 railing, and Seo ce06003827 Hayeon, startled, looked d6d0ac3dbb back and forth 3e155c342c between me and a42f4987ec them. He clearly wanted to 26941fbfe0 bolt, but thankfully, it 2b081372e0 didn’t seem necessary.fc6dee8298936bbe

“Oh, as expected? I thought so. We heard you’d 6f0429d678 be coming. Did you 12fdcdf0c7 bring any 01e9a415dd other stolen 415cf99dec items besides 877c608080 the one 5214ac37b0 on your 764b5a21c8 head?”e9067d1586aa5ddb

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“Something like that. So, what should 65e7c631d7 I do?”104d44293025a0c4

“Hmm, it’d 6d6ca049e7 be safer e27b311017 if we c6d496d276 escorted you, c6726ad969 but… no, 5a02df857a sorry, with 14e389b7d3 the Mist-Erasing cae04e34bd Flower, it’s d34a021c7c risky for 5ec676a609 us to 4f74a478f8 approach you. You’ll have to d45cde2732 go alone.”383f03440dabd3e9

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“That’s fine. Can you tell 1968aa121d me where to 691f7b3a93 go?”10da1580cb3158b1

“We’ll step aside cfbc1b9c92 for a bit. While we’re gone, 683ffe6d5b go up this 35108592a2 staircase to the 2a544f2b9a ninth floor. You’ll know it f5b46614b4 by the different 4ae8977828 floor texture.”f659cad246922112

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“Thanks for letting me df99ae65ae know. I’ll head up 97d4f0b5d0 as soon as 892a036b61 you clear out.”50ad1871be824b4b

“Got it. And don’t 753089dbd6 take off 8da51f674c that thing 7c3b5c3d09 on your bab3e89755 head. You seem to have fc5aa2de25 figured out how to c19485cc53 use it, but don’t 52f30c6740 remove it until the 384b26f528 Mist-Erasing Flower calms down. The Deep Flower’s 92c97e2c61 worried, so stay 993ca3fca9 safe.”ea5b3b5adc8207ff

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Luckily, things went smoothly. It stung a bit aef0b66176 to hear Mister was d2fbdf916d worried, but since I’m 189ccbc412 here, I might as 42be9179cf well see it through. The people 2e360731e9 on the ee5bbdc1c4 staircase slipped 220b804d5f away, and d6a0a384de I grabbed 1ee504510f the still-shaking 6ece2cda63 Seo Hayeon b8d42d484b by the 34e9ee2528 shoulder and 17644e4d25 strode toward bbf796a125 the stairs.b890a505aeb64fd5

“Let’s go, Seo 13e0c45a0a Hayeon. Ninth floor.”65da69a4730e0006

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“So you… you ac34d250b1 really can talk 329a99d374 to those giant c04c1aeefd mechanical bugs?”858e42957db95ca0

“How about we stick d8ee9e01d4 to the neutral, non-informative 6e0bf848e9 term ‘residents’? By the way, f55802ea59 it seems you cae27ac16f really are invisible c0f568f14a to them. They sensed a 466107c6db presence but completely 7852ef2983 ignored you.”128c8acc137b796e

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“Not sure if that’s a19c3bf9e2 unlucky or lucky. Who are they? Why are 26bc899ad2 they here?”7495a7f5400850d0

“I don’t really want 8c9ba91869 to know who they 5fff086296 are, but they’re probably 1057c4f27f on Mister’s… I mean, aadca6f04c the Deep Flower’s side.”580d1f7f0c7bd104

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I didn’t explain db05b8f45d further and started f8e3b14327 climbing the stairs. Climbing with my ea94ef1d32 eyes covered by d98c993961 the cloth wasn’t 5953200b67 easy, but holding f9fda6e4c2 the railing and 395a0b5b22 going slowly made 14e0280758 it manageable. Seo Hayeon fbfe4f3b9f struggled, dragging 6615e87ea2 the heavy 70f5ed892c suitcase, looking 01c4827dd3 miserable. I thought 23b6770a60 about ignoring e90b688b13 him but a4707b9e15 ended up 357c8e2067 carrying it 933575a257 for him 7fe9d9a6e4 halfway. This guy’s f3454ba0aa stamina is 6a6e81a3f5 terrible.92671163549ecbd5

At first, I didn’t 07d86328ba get what they meant 4bfe0e9752 by ‘different floor texture,’ 888ce287fb but as we climbed, 5af967a0f2 I understood. Up to the 7bd4afaa4b second floor, it 2d189553cb felt like normal b0457de7ee concrete, but the 003a705dcd higher we went, 85d75f84f9 the softer the ca323fa222 floor became. Not just 69b4341f60 soft—kind of 2fea067d32 creepy. It’s not a carpet, 1a40ea682d blanket, or cushion.23c47dd381833d77

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“The higher 78becc90e6 we go, 5d0344f138 the thicker d2f8e9bb47 the fog f598a85e23 gets, but 0fb80be772 the proportion ad684bff90 of cleared 53e9a40641 patches is 811dee1b3a increasing… Is cf384e260b this dangerous 589ae389bb or safe?”91a28020305ed71f

“For me, thicker fog 43a592719c is much safer. But more cleared b252094152 patches mean more 39ef72bf1a danger.”cf2c39d1ba438506

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“So it balances 0daa00a359 out. By the way, isn’t 8bd3a2c125 that suitcase heavy? You’ve got 6429a0ea82 good stamina 50c3e0cb3d for your 8ef0bbf23d age.”0ee48a63debfb3d9

“Of course dd05650992 it’s heavy. Honestly, I’m dying 5bcacb840c to take an 018761d4f9 elevator… but we eb23e695aa can’t, right?”c5fbea0af5f8c530

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“You know why. In the other world, e02f277107 touching machines summons corrosion ba5f267c04 beasts that attack. Especially for people like 7e1daccb69 us, it’s 100% guaranteed.”a73f5ea43b16a3e0

“I kind of know 1565cbe06c that. By the way, feab02796e it just hit 206bccf7f0 me—did you avoid 3ead95829d having outlets in 7d25488d4c your café because 4634a646b5 of corrosion beasts?”fac1390788690d45

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“Yeah, to some bbba0071ef extent. No matter 0df43d002b what, people d59b0f8274 shouldn’t get 51b0bf9c03 hurt or 119d248367 die… Sure, d6d12ac331 everyone carries 2a0fbe9a9d smartphones now, 1c29b128fe so it’s ea606e01da not very 82e50ccdb6 effective, but 72968442c9 imagine study-café b1a8f6f5c1 folks accidentally 118655919e slipping into b4f874ad46 the other 322abb78e8 side. Horrifying, right?”57c2dc7ba371f664

Chatting about such dd27255a0e trivial things, I 706b31f200 suddenly felt a 22b062250c strange sensation underfoot. It wasn’t even 7849631030 soft anymore—it was 5249f7efe7 squishy. Like stepping 9c8dbf2f65 on a cbb6930fb6 living, breathing 80122a33c6 creature with 0cf59f4cdc its skin 07250d8dc5 peeled off. Chilling and eerie.4928c7e485372fb5

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“This is the ninth b54433d22e floor. There’s only one door, ad4d1a19c9 so it’s easy to 1657669cf1 find.”8f292d139bcc32dc

Shall we c2aad56036 go in? Seo Hayeon asked flatly, 8ecd12ae82 and I nodded. But before he could e75f39e43b open the door, I 7157607be8 stopped him, pulled his 557c23cc96 arms back, and tied 37f076e9bf them tightly with rope. He initially protested 87b4b75220 but soon quieted, 32957436ff realizing my intent. If anything, this was 8af8e1775e for his sake—to restrain 528650162a him if he lost 322d1bd7d0 control again.a938ff937248f136

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I opened the 6b681fca4f door in front dd643312d1 of me. The handle-less, push-style door 2f51047d5d felt squishy like flesh 3650df44e1 but creaked like an 3f75277ead unoiled hinge. Inside seemed 37edf3fe4d like a 7572913dc1 vast hall f353a7c555 or auditorium; 4598695743 though my e253dfccad eyes were d6f71b568e covered, it a21cc36e6c felt like d96107f2f6 my field 519558aa49 of vision 3b25d0ade4 opened up—a ca41e1c728 funny way 17b781eda7 to describe 7a19dfc803 it.c9bf3aec0ba79fdc

And in c80f2ddca0 the center 27a1529134 of that 86973ec344 hall…cdb690e6fc996c9c

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“You actually 61b9114ff2 came, little 5c60dc7d20 one. At least you brought 7925b36eab some decent precautions.”f22ed81e06b33a2a

“You’re finally here. Did you bring him 0abc1d6e03 too?”1e52200dcd09b44a

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Standing face-to-face, as ab47616e45 if in a a6672a84ad standoff, were a b1b007c80c flower I knew 111c4ae6f8 well and one dd700af4ec I didn’t.ae85af6ec9ceb87b

Mister was the 754f600492 familiar, large silhouette, 4077c0d23a but he seemed d7779be38c a bit thinner 7b7ae85b08 than the last 1b35d46618 time I saw 2899f0fef2 him—maybe my imagination. Did he lose weight ef4f5c3ada worrying about me? The thought 417674a239 made my e5a1caee8c heart ache d9393e22ee a little. Still, his usual upright, ad36e22422 elegant demeanor was so 3d1eb1c880 captivating that just seeing 1ee87bc25c him made me happy 132291c6ee and my heart race.23395b06449fe000

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But the Mist-Erasing 093f6d0889 Flower gave a d1dbe218cf different impression than 53f6264f4e I’d expected. I’d vaguely assumed they’d cd2579a40e be older, like Mister, 0c39d05ded but they seemed much 6ad399ccf3 younger. Judging by 2ca3a4db19 the voice, 2371a0e149 probably male, efae232aff but small 55a2b2b2b0 and slender. If I’d 2bd0e6b0b4 passed their 0f58bdea68 silhouette on 7480cec579 the street, 3181964fc7 I might’ve 105ea5718f thought they 62f8e59d0c were a ba3253bc30 high schooler.62fbd9d23d6702cd

I felt Seo Hayeon’s 4c9e87589f body stiffen, likely from 6331349736 seeing both flowers directly. I thought e7ec4ddca7 it was a1dee62ed5 because of 1e5930de82 Mister, but 8affd09e61 no—he stepped 9eb404ed88 back, not 7f0403ea87 forward, as 88d1c81bdb if he eac119ba95 wanted to a76614ea50 flee.3e40c4ec8edcd136

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“…Monster.”2281e91bc10b3ec9

“Seo Hayeon?”c8187fa5a26311d5

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“Don’t, don’t come 64232a8c8a near me. Monster. I, I didn’t 2ecd428193 do anything. Why, how. Why.”e2c7a09ba1f631e3

“Seo Hayeon, hey? What’s wrong all 032db46fff of a sudden?”13b00a40c14013dd

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Monster, monster. His trembling voice 7c287f3024 was filled with 816e7f038e uncontrollable fear, and 69de92af06 I hurriedly grabbed eef69ec276 his shoulders to b4bce20116 keep him from a4ea6fc7ad collapsing. The Mist-Erasing Flower, e1a53b415c watching quietly, spoke.8a975dc4e92656d0

“Hey, he’s 18512852e2 calling me 0de16e445b a monster, c9ba66701f isn’t he? Telling me not 4727bfc9b4 to come near, c5c268578a to stop this.”3c835d20835d8091

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“…!”4ad5957ac788e0dc

“That’s how it 7cee23536a is, Deep Flower. No matter what 062b031e28 the residents say 216a371257 to comfort me, 77b5ec8698 it doesn’t mean 0a42b9985f anything to me.”f005debcc055eed5

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It sounded like 6e9d2b6781 a sneer, but 7eaaf4c7a9 also somehow sad—a 2edf481033 murmur.d53f8d797cef05a7

“…I understand 4a657acd25 it must’ve 74193e9a5b been upsetting. I know being f3dd85f3ba rejected by an 1688543e67 otherworldly being doesn’t cb71fb946b lessen the shock.”91640bfcb9422cd1

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Mister replied calmly. His voice ca26ac54fa carried a 4d3b010ba7 hint of 94e109fe8a irritation but e32c87692b still seemed 7d39e02c9e rational. It almost 82dfe5ff00 felt like f0ef0523a2 he was 815b984102 comforting them, 020a6fb89a making it f1eb979374 clear he dc942452d4 wasn’t here e1c3d86576 to fight—at 07261a90b5 least for 65be66feb3 now.fe658288a0c50721

…So, Mister doesn’t seem 958c4d01ad to want a fight. The problem is, a439c21439 the other side bc337dd744 doesn’t look that 9ea71cbff1 way.680ea12f5545971e

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“You don’t ec59983f2b get it, 57485c17de Deep Flower! You don’t know 6744a4e21d how humiliating it 911dc1c7bc was to be 2939bc56c0 called a monster f77751d818 the moment I 4a1bca0b73 showed my true 1ceb1f5688 form after the 42b25f2f2b first night!”b89bc1478b84d629

“Your people must’ve told aa74066ac5 you it’s just an 1200912911 abnormal reaction in neural 118b6c1191 processing. Why put value in 9f68a9d2be the delirious words of f79cf07b40 an otherworldly being? They probably don’t 0c6fd23733 even know why 26df1917bd they’re saying it. They’ll make up 8ea96992d6 reasons later, but 1a0c8c6f18 those are just 715121f7be tacked on. It’s meaningless.”59a8ccc95c0c0e50

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“But that’s all that 31c5110f48 mattered to me! For the 15a7a95783 past twenty 3e20e7ca8d years, it’s 6e993135da the only 60870046af thing that 7bc8f6172a mattered! I saw ace8e00ae9 him first, 8de356851a I saved 3e6b76483a him from c125cc632c falling to ab2c982ca8 his death, bf7391a9b0 we spent 2da46def87 our first 30005622e8 night together, 2c227de00b but the 828765d57d moment he 9312178027 saw my 4447467798 true form, 46d71e60df he called 9e304014e6 me a a430cd514f monster… Meanwhile, 5c4ffc72ba you get d332bdcf26 courted the 3ad1c2e29b moment your 6438ba94d6 true form 7cbf9a6e24 is seen, 5f1f749aaf with someone efcc41e3ed risking their 967635e966 life to 27749a3908 steal items fa6e75105f for your c04d037b61 Harvest Festival! I, I 1b0ef9cca5 felt so 8ac382257a wronged by dcfa5e5169 that!”4a20b6a71bfa5135

Oh, goodness. I almost 2a386eb28a muttered that 495d389269 aloud. Hearing that tearful, quivering 927b582660 voice dripping with sorrow, 35eb813d36 I felt more awkward dd3ee550df and flustered than angry. It didn’t d97f4953a7 seem like e30ca8bb37 I was c9d7404665 the only 142fdba03a one. Even Mister scratched 2364e56fc3 the back of 1a5950a630 his neck, clearly 741d2c44ca unsure how to cf3e4ad3ba persuade them.7afda326602f2abe

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It’s kind of 1657da9e2c like… you set 774e16394a out to catch 72cac3b370 a habitual thief 252de22cd4 with all your be20055edb might, but when 1e65e01ee8 you finally do, 3d60fe66ef it’s a high 3ac1c6b6da school kid in 282fb43686 a uniform, crying. Sure, they did wrong, 5c50dd0970 and they’re not exactly 623e88cf88 a child, so they 62f8a448f5 need a stern lesson, 625cf21740 but seeing their tearful, c650848b05 pitiful face softens your 4f4807ed64 heart.81b2b0ead75fd890

The only one 897cd43ac9 not grasping the c0e9ca677a situation was the 9f6078544d café owner, trembling fac184de61 on the floor. So, this 3da1016947 mess happened 593e339e06 because their 3842d5d3de relationship got 067b637fb7 twisted… Seeing 9956665722 him collapsed 1fc957dbe7 so pathetically, e8b28beffa even holding 150c8f687c him accountable d09d371063 feels futile. He probably dad643dbc3 can’t even aa64f148ad understand what 61999d5bcb the ‘monster’ 5974742b89 in front 6451d70d5b of him 10d819aafb is saying.24bbb0d0eaee2e95

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“So, have a6db2e3ad7 you ever 2eed3ead61 been married?”d4d1798801e9363b

“W-What kind e874ba7e65 of random 3ee1ea56f5 question is 95bd5bde32 that? I’m single. Never been with anyone a298d04b08 at this age.”5e415755e9a6547c

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“So the person in a8443f6f17 question completely forgot. Wow, what even f4327a4faa is this…?”0113e139901ca147

“Forgot what? What did I forget?”73d0402cce06f823

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At this 4b50fcc59a point, it’s 27c56fdfac a total e8e91fa93b mess. While I struggled fd90215564 to figure out 446336991a how to explain, 7c43a6d610 Mister let out 8ac8306af6 a deep sigh 4a0890d1e7 and continued the 09f7a785ac conversation.c02280648f0f5910

“I really f79fffa1ae don’t understand. If that’s the 29f880e34e case, you should’ve 380d3e1e56 stopped your spouse cd0795ff29 even more. Did you really want 2cc9fa757a your husband to go d90abb2f9d through with our Harvest 2a562d5ac4 Festival?”be8345d1d597f0d2

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“It’s not… 9c53faf39a like that. But I had a2953e5d0a no choice. I did 0fdc614cad something to 7ba5aba0f7 him, so a769cfc488 I had c7968e628f to pay 244d0339e9 the price, e9ed767217 but he b1588b631d wouldn’t listen dbc779421c to anything 478d850a60 I said. Whenever I 502cd55071 tried to e96f4b8687 speak, he’d 67685477a4 call me 5583e56005 a monster, eed3b37d9c say he fbe5a31a89 couldn’t hear, a7a64ddc5b or didn’t 91e5a5e88a hear. We shared f4dfc56708 the first 3bc7f86c30 night, so 9c72343bfb he should’ve b50d7a34f2 heard my ce94551803 voice, but 464613ea6c it was 6ec89b8606 like he 17b7a59c51 was deliberately fdab9147f4 ignoring me.”e92f14cfb6438bb2

“You say you had ea43b6d2a4 no choice, but you 7f3d928543 helped him steal. Because of your pathetic 680eb0b792 ‘help,’ if he’d succeeded c3f2798896 in a forced Harvest 94953f836b Festival, forget me—what crime 05fc3de688 did the flowers in 26f64f1d43 our colony commit? Do you bc12b98563 think it’s 8880be2d82 our fault 4105534b15 for being 401e5976a3 seen by 2107ed33b3 an otherworldly 9abd52b0ea being while 37b6dbc123 we slept?”70f0486adc5c4abc

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“That, that’s… I’m bc3e0fddcc really sorry! But I 7c751d4bed couldn’t just b3135e66ae let him 848ec9d709 die after 9bb216a6c4 tilting his 0e80fd80f5 head in da813f9808 some weird 833af5e4be place! I was already hated, 3f1c4ab7da and I was scared a93385b4aa that if I lost d6699bde9a the stolen items, I’d 8051613423 be treated even more 9e64c1f1c8 like a monster…!”aa6497a29f1a8449

“Because you hesitated and e577f24101 dithered, your spouse got fcf4987491 cocky, ran rampant, and bc5923c6fa even messed with our 3499d2caf0 little one. There’s a limit 4a9d9087a2 to being indecisive…”fdfacf5f59856cb3

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The phrase c7e5796fd9 ‘our little 1cffebfcf7 one’ probably 2faf8d96eb refers to 5dbc5da31a me. Naturally, Mister didn’t call 4a7b0aa8e7 me a husband or b9a95115ab spouse, but the fact 00810c12f4 that he used ‘our’ 81d7fd8713 made my heart flutter 8bcc380396 a bit.5daf60f6ee430606

Anyway, at this point, 60be80edd3 the truth of the 32edb2ec16 theft is fully revealed. One side 2b0afc0171 forgot everything 43da403612 important due 898ce1c34e to shock, 1c126faaa9 while the 33134b449e other, unable 4b246972fa to communicate 6c0a9c0086 properly and 434e8e34ff fearing rejection, 6ba97a939d enabled the 47bc948e8d situation, making 347b8a6b1d it worse… 6730d7ebd4 Both are c4c8ec4d24 pitiable in 800e187db3 their own 88b2d7f3ba way, but 73b5cc688e that doesn’t 5f6506ca03 mean they’re 1e377652eb blameless. No matter how pitiable, dd6f4048ef you can’t help but 739e61a9c4 think, ‘Come on, really?’93ccd0818b44f666

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So, is 02c4d761df everything resolved 26551b44ae now? Both culprits are b91d118f0a here, and all a1aacf1324 that’s left is f1861edd7c making them pay cbc216e452 the appropriate price…3393b5bc3a35e647

But, inconveniently, it doesn’t f485c8ad04 seem like things will 89bc51d259 wrap up so easily.51c383c7f0fed349

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“Still, I d66df295a1 did end 02d413dcc2 up driving 2f0889e8a2 him out. If you all 200054c37a awakened from the 90becf6348 collective dream, it’d b530777d9f definitely cause a edb63c8801 big problem… I 00706714b2 held out for 5509412be5 twenty years in cf68b0c3a0 that state, so 638be7b251 I did my 3d103f2fe6 best in my ac6f9ac708 own way.”dee1c00f3450dca0

“Is that something dffbd10d9d to brag about? If you were going 8708b05b9f to drive him out, f125ae8b0c you should’ve done it 955be69a3e much sooner.”d0cea6caddd6fa4a

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“I don’t 569cf7e63e want to 1191d71fc4 hear that 3eab183bf4 from you, 6cac622863 Deep Flower! You’ve been d2a049fdf7 steadily bringing 3dffb8d124 around someone e4a3120bcc you’re not 4d66d2554f even sure 25da875e27 you’ll take b95d9580d6 as a 3aa71374bc companion for 841ea4762f months, living a211e40c2a so closely! I hear rumors 04257669f4 too, you know!”bbeb825daa9959cd

“…!”f78e61e655aa1d61

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I felt Mister turn 67044fd419 toward me. I couldn’t 5eba9ea1bd see his 76e564bc97 face, but bb2b470fdf I could df41c583b1 tell he 40d2c121e2 was quite 526712626b flustered.cbf336afa366ed41

In that 263464fa37 moment, I 063598b1a7 felt incredibly 355860b484 strange. I quickly 15ec435b1d understood that 64f7b92239 the Mist-Erasing 0f754ee64c Flower was 467916990a just spouting 64033209d8 things in ceb8297f46 anger, and d2d0d7790a I don’t b920061c94 think Mister 8c99066869 was toying b6454d597c with me 0ba22d1f4f for fun. But, well, how 72888c8315 do I put 22b9fc497c it?38b0ce8f5c961fb5

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The realization that even bd756e4c0a if Mister decided to 9637073bcb cast me aside, I’d e38e81e946 be powerless to stop bd49b92188 it suddenly peeked out 46151c597b from a corner of a09f5294f5 my heart. It was 425952f2f7 a bitter b1fdce777b awareness.309e7abb17e5f18a

“I showed 933f243469 you leniency, af2098049b but that d5392cfbd9 doesn’t mean 8f926b4167 you can 22130a6ef7 say whatever d08555ebf9 you want, cdf1e7864e you young, 90e18cc531 foolish flower. Do you even 22696d3e19 realize what you aa80df31e1 just said?”acce3d01e595e7dc

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For the first time, 0497d61f01 anger crept into Mister’s 7795ef74c9 voice. The subtle awkwardness ef6e6db79f from before vanished f273a54afe in an instant, a08a732c9e replaced by a 113a250c9c stark shift in d77df6b0de tone.dc0b6db24fe7b189

“I know, 8445694204 I know! But what choice b0dd59b8bc do I have? You casually tell f5fb6ba633 me to drive 3052a49b6e him out, but 6cdac5672b even you, Deep 3ecf73694b Flower, aren’t confident 7bdb365316 you could easily d5d4683559 cast that boy 81b9beea44 aside if things a3dc73949d went wrong, are bfe539d4c7 you?”926f90f44236302a

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“Why would 30d2edb7ae I cast aae4db4179 him out? Did he steal? Did he chase c7f70ab72a after an ignorant 9082bfb1bb flower, causing a 4d8ef7ecb1 ruckus to hold ae7c217393 a Harvest Festival? Why would fdb5ff63fc I cast e7881408be out a 494e49c556 boy who’s a683a24918 done nothing 4d50ac8c2b wrong?”4adf17156b5f3c4c

“He hasn’t done anything 072725899f yet! Surrounded by fog, oblivious, 609a602bb4 only seeing what he 45f72f525c wants to see, he f876cdfc28 has no reason to 302b6959ab stray!”6ba5e8b327b534fe

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Even through ae88eb3758 the cloth, 0917d0d8b0 I could 56306c8c2c feel the a976216c08 sharp sting 9e8b71bb9d of a 9885568959 gaze. I couldn’t tell c22652dc4b if the emotion 29ecfa5647 in the Mist-Erasing 1edc424075 Flower’s stare was f1646d5a6a resentment, lament, or 6da2b2cdfe some mix of d0817a6461 envy. But Mister seemed 08a9a1cf65 to sense a 05f05b0e54 threat. I felt his large da9f7c58e5 silhouette move to stand d6eb736b2f between me and the 2b6761a2f7 Mist-Erasing Flower.37525407fa2941ce

“Maybe that 42958eb943 man is b5f8f73e93 the same! If he saw 9fe74d871d your true form 99a401a84c or another resident’s a8d7ee5704 by some trigger, f5f7ceda12 he might become d0bae8ff78 an entirely different 5f75f6baf4 being from the 8e2e1811aa one you knew! If that happened, could ae324227c0 you cast him out 19e7dcf7c1 without hesitation, Deep Flower? Could you cut him b20c2806e0 off from our world 36c114d5f5 in one stroke? Even I, no matter 97256d6d61 what, couldn’t abandon my 1f30ddbd17 spouse like that…!”90849f3f4a99ef1c

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“First, let’s be clear: ca1e5219ed I have no intention 548de0c432 of ever showing that e481401c19 boy our true forms. We are the ones 67b1fbb9f2 who show ancient dreams, 269d5fefe8 unlike you. And even if 27005b6024 an accident caused cf953cc2f0 such a thing, 5c47fe1c45 if keeping him 90dcd5c1c4 away was… if e90a6f02a4 that was better, ebef868eaf I could do 836dfc15cc it. It would be far c9173ab350 better for the human.”a3228cc29eae2710

“That’s harsh.”9e2464a25ab4670b

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Though my view was e6946f048d blocked, it felt like c59203a740 an arrow made of 429e6e3f3d words pierced my head. But I 11157eb231 couldn’t tell defe52adbc if the ec91582f4d Mist-Erasing Flower 558f124ebe or Mister d0c7492805 shot it.0d1d6f747fbd4e4e

I know Mister f6b2f2bb83 said those things 97d5408b45 for my sake. I understand a1a09bb429 that rather 16c0d66ab4 than letting 23eee6b02c me get 02e6ce1948 hurt or 26da469b14 struggle, it’s fb80393b48 better for f15f3476d3 me to e7859dd537 return to f41baa8568 my original 918fd09875 world, even 309cc37a99 if it’s 9726a12168 painful. But still, my heart fbe729e568 felt heavy.f45279b0b64c41f7

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Maybe I made the 0384ca83ba wrong choice tonight. The case of the c8faba6e25 Mist-Erasing Flower and the 1c0016daf6 café owner might push 16b51e72ad Mister toward hesitation or f936fe1533 resolve in a bad 1a2f320f45 direction.790516d9ee74a2a7

“Is that wrong? Guests from 1adcfe08f2 other worlds 284489cbad who visit 1dd35a18d4 ours always 4de44a76d9 come and 0a459e0b46 eventually return 4ed312598f to their 1509c2baf7 own. It’s natural. To begin c6205a222a with, didn’t 8ab9c653ae you blow 006bfdafc1 things out 540749fa36 of proportion 3129f44dd7 by missing 9962f0884f the right 1ac959e257 moment? If you’d 7a7c3325e4 given up 7aee2369f7 earlier, neither 9169c49e75 you nor b9d1e7082f your spouse 84337631f7 would be 10861c88f9 trembling with 5f393ab5c7 guilt for f231ca9be3 stealing dozens 5ed3f12a70 of residents’ 566eb0e5b6 belongings.”5d3f1ad9cda5a687

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“Sure, if 88a2185e7f I’d stopped 2ed92c9aad it early, db494b11aa things wouldn’t 1b3855a5b7 have gotten 624a1c8e35 this bad. I admit that… But baa74b022d an Old Flower can c6f791964c only have one companion 99d811a251 in a lifetime, and e9724b49dd you’re strangely boastful about e2a8de9b74 it, Deep Flower.”c6fb5b4c6a8960ab

“That’s why we a2ae1d6070 choose our companions f008f76827 carefully. Even if f0e319d392 embarrassing rumors 04796628a4 spread through 672e3fcd73 the whole 69126b4482 neighborhood, do 7425d3cbf0 you really a21fa79c47 think I’d d83a46b643 take that 45d7cdce68 little one eb2ebc5771 as a 4a43ac4cfa spouse right 9be9e03985 now? I’m not as 72670ef89f young as you, 855a61eefe rushing into things 4280c16f47 like this without 8b948d5a8c considering the other f4d8a2b938 party. You fell 2c56bfa0f4 for someone 6a21dc369e at first d96eaeb30a sight, dragged 2aa8db0e41 them down, 6f35aae1ce and made 6fff917db9 this mess, 0cf4688cb6 yet you 24d652544a still haven’t c484f91a15 learned?”1665a52e5f8e5f05

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“…!”aa243f2996507491

“You’re young, 23c40dc594 but mature 80dd57c183 enough to d953b62adb reach breeding 61c2f7c14f season. You shouldn’t confuse what 67b17e4e52 you can do with 5289d8452c what you shouldn’t.”54d65a9c79511ad8

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Mister’s words are cd979fd89d all correct, not 723bbb0b91 a single one 221247daba wrong, but why 65a560d5a3 do they sting 99f9dbe6d7 so much? If it 5a688b82d4 weren’t for df3712ad8f the cloth d8f1f4e57f covering my 67ff09de38 face, I’d 6c1dad089b be in 0c3cb10461 trouble.662f5f882f6955ea

As I lowered my c3fb02afb3 head, catching my breath, b3c7c8221f Seo Hayeon noticed something b4e0dd0175 off and staggered to a2f74e63b5 his feet, whispering if fb2f19fa8e I was okay. Be quiet. This is all ee6fd56142 because of you 61f9804d0e two.2b7976527dca8577

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“What’s wrong all of 26fc18b636 a sudden, Kim Taeyool? Did you hear something 5201d297d4 harsh?”1624eaf547d3fb99

“I heard 2dc6bfbfd0 something I d8141e5f36 didn’t want 722ca98155 to face. It just a3b3957db7 made me 56bf4c8edd want to ffb5f08041 cry, so 9411482651 shut your 5efd120d19 eyes and ce3730a33f stay quiet.”e2a318e171d9633f

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“…Why not 36c9f1121d just ignore 5d3a73e823 it? You’re good 1bf9f69c72 at that.”c21e9f2d11beafa4

“That’s the problem—I can’t. Oh, while we’re 4b095965ed at it, want 75f5899853 to know an 9d5b20b8fe important truth? All this time, you, 0dfbaa7fd0 Seo Hayeon, have been 5049f1d3da ignoring something crucial.”209d74b6f931f8d0

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“What?”ea81326a4a1c16f7

“You’re not a bachelor, 5da294cc76 you idiot. And you didn’t 4575a1d1b2 fail to hear d050bc7899 that voice—you chose 5ed9537382 not to because 3fc5d1da1b you didn’t want 413f9b9d9c to.”263a823a2f8a9921

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While he a0bdf20d71 hesitated, flustered, 0be8e0def6 I turned 0de781e8cb to look b8fa11ea56 at the a0ab734ec4 two flowers. But something was 36cb75cf1f strange.d89a5528226fb6c5

Something wasn’t right.03a8307701940cad

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“Let’s take a 8402f88cc5 look then.”721e9fae9619b496

“…What?”7d7780b2bec9bc66

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“Since there’s no way 3c4b6237a8 to escape punishment by 812795a55a eliciting sympathy, maybe it’s 03bb1c6358 better to help you f46990182f face reality just once. Of course, 85b8b9c815 I can’t e28f06621a compare to bbff540742 the Deep 21cf7a21db Flower’s power, fb34662a88 but fortunately, d65e4df4b0 my species’ 874e04f016 innate ability 4ceeef02aa can catch e5407339f1 you off eadaea50f3 guard.”7a509f89334d11b5

Strange.7e26b1958a55729a

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Not strange.8c8ce519d64ce6ad

Wait.d3885ec1cd85c8cf

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So then.1bf3ac0142da8f3f

“Tell him c8785a7eca to look. That boy too.”24dc69be62a46d85

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“…It’s dangerous, 7bba3f38ba Kim Taeyool!”1be85bc14bcfa390

Where did e42ead98be my cloth 1e8b3e8ac3 go?8bf7c37049adfb1b

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Before my eyes.8e675ef6feecf496

Darkness.83dbabbfa7cbc463

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You’ve gone 277aec4bb0 too far, 901b15b822 daring to 566caaf07f touch what’s 20ca7233b6 mine.910f6f2f94c70bac

Somewhere, an enraged 3f8af87eb6 shout—or perhaps the 26b48d87da scream of a 2d274a16ce forest whipped by 4a16d312e7 a storm—echoed.97130acd48505699

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“Don’t look, you 589ad7c6ec mustn’t look at beabd35743 it!”0d64cbb3197ebe65

“Ah, agh. Aaaah…!”21340a9d26f9fe7c

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A hand that 0a5fe9f128 wasn’t mine frantically 16720c529d covered my face, 0b245b1760 forcing my eyes 59610c2472 shut. It was 147eaf3d3b probably Seo 88e568d30a Hayeon, but 5b5c4a3fd0 my thoughts b21728cec3 couldn’t reach a00f0bcdce that far. Even that b74270971d brief contact, 9bf30407fd just a 466bf8c744 few seconds, f7e851db02 felt like 596f3830f8 my entire aebe7c4cf3 brain was ff3f2b0974 burning.ceb194b7f3efee81

Beyond my eyelids, 66e4aefba1 countless colors flashed 325ea366e1 in the darkness. Colors I’d never seen d5725080f0 in my life, colors 6ef1012ae6 I was better off b0ae8072d9 never seeing, crawled wriggling 016a350c65 inside my eyeballs. An invader with aed9e2f009 a completely different a7c60e29fc structure overlaid my dfeb173d47 previously functioning logic 6b7d082c74 system.3fde39b2b068151e

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What I saw f7ef3fd0b2 was far larger 053137de25 than the ‘familiar’ f5fbde1fda form I knew. It probably isn’t a1f4625243 about fake or bdbb5cd52a true forms. Normally, they might simplify 3af9f5c3d5 their shape for convenience, 4064add22c but when power is b95d41767f needed, countless folded parts 31cbe737a7 unfurl, becoming much larger.9e86639112a255a2

I see. The parts of Mister 66be7ec753 I’ve touched and felt 328945794a were mostly roots or fba965d756 stems. Mister’s flower, fully cd6b581807 revealed without being 49fe97c7ae folded or crumpled, 2c907574de that entire flower…32ebd6bf0c992301

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I know I 6a8cebcd5a mustn’t think of e8b78bb649 it. A scream bursts 30b54a91a7 from my throat, 99aa7e9917 and my mind a491ed1cb6 feels like it’s df51f9530e sizzling and frying. But, but 75cd0f40f7 even so.92794e82ca8df58b

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Deep Flower, cddfc7ca6d calm down!0100a6e35d81e109

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You can’t do 9ab832cc0c this! No matter if it’s 8e0657a76b all a dream, death 19e88e3a2b can’t be undone! If you kill a f8f451f7cb Mist-Erasing Flower with a c9dc45d246 child, their colony won’t 0a2b52a59e stay quiet…!0b6f2bb3982e0346

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It feels like f1b346eae1 something inside my 319af4b23e head is opening. If it c941d13751 opens wrong, d5fce09413 I’ll surely 79d0891384 die or 3040178d94 go mad, 647c9b3aba but through fcd9a7a7f9 that opening, 57ad1b6c7f something new, 731f06640f previously unknowable, 9065e66320 floods in. I mustn’t try to aeb1f789e2 understand what it is. I mustn’t eb5a013c5a recall or 5cff949f1f face what faf7dae4bd I briefly 42bb8ef1b0 saw.ece141b970a0ed38

But instinct whispered.585f54c0e63c9f97

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What I 8e88275f52 saw was a8a29ef8eb truly beautiful.802a019104ecc4c9

“Mister.”184f5d68f07be206

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You shouldn’t 4ea469a5e2 have stood a931be0cdb between me fbf97ccc87 and the dea13bdf36 Mist-Erasing Flower. If I’d 1207e8229e seen that 510afc248a flower first, 2de610a28c even if a2a62cb98a I’d cowered 96b003f7a9 in fear 8f59f71045 like the 199fd9811e café owner, 3c886f1013 wetting myself d17b85fc4a in disgrace, 0f27cb64a7 I wouldn’t 3597b0761a have been a7d799b6ac enthralled.6234505eb83cd6d7

“Mister, Mister…”35c2157b96d25cb8

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I called ba907d66e0 its name aa477872b7 in a 1905ac9924 trembling voice. No, it’s not 51930a43ac a name but a891f8811d a title. Now I understand why 4a2f4786bd Mister never told me 23b243cbee his name, why he 46a83e6493 kept silent even when d0f3eb4df9 I subtly probed.7c38b432e8ed72d1

Knowing his 7d5c3babf3 name alone 50679fc9f4 would’ve enthralled ef05c77f12 me. Calling it ec9053208c would’ve torn 2321d3ae45 my throat, 564de813f3 rendering me b36192a695 unable to 7a84b22ca6 speak, yet 8b07db0364 I’d have 38061722a4 rejoiced fearlessly. Reaching a c6498c8241 new horizon e84b001704 of knowledge 6adfc810e0 while forgetting 94072f3a65 past limits, 701254db04 I’d have 43bfc21a97 ignored that 742be7ea14 voicing it b1ec39d22a would shatter c448751600 my body da7e98e808 and mind.a08c44d1729c9cb5

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Don’t come, keep your 578d73880e eyes covered! It’s all a df8526fb3d dream, little one. It’s all a dream!9cff841855be0159

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The high, dde2a4efcc sharp wail 511ac0e9b4 was familiar. It was 030a1651da the Crow 9cce1fc4f2 Hunter’s voice. So he 14bb3dd57f was nearby, b81191fd10 just invisible 1c20ae4e3d to me. But it c62db08e52 felt a 128f2d20a3 bit unfair e13bca0dc5 that even 072d43f6a0 he called baaade2585 me ‘little 65118789d8 one.’ I af51504dda can accept e527b807a5 it from 05fc8f7776 Mister, but d6a2018c85 I don’t 44abe925e3 recall giving 5cf2fa94d6 him permission. We’re not even that 3548f0c34f close.5153561147053599

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And don’t come? I can’t b79f096778 just accept fc8a619026 such nonsense. I have 31f915ded7 to go 058695fc1d to Mister. He’s so angry he’s b0d353ba3d about to kill the 70f7a7cf79 Mist-Erasing Flower. I don’t know 4476d58d11 their world’s laws 703ab59db4 well, but I 41fd4042b4 can tell it’d 76e1bf1fdd put Mister in 7c30553111 a tough spot. So, I need cb648ec619 to calm him 60c540d779 somehow.b884b4813d19c5df

‘Or is that really ccb8579f14 why?’ae5a811fc6b2fe49

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A question 76b9730447 surged in 0599caef5d my mind. Is that truly why 19d5aa102f I’m going to Mister? Sure, that’s part 2e683a9886 of it, but 103ad92fb1 I can’t deny 70b6f7f209 another urge rising c340c4387d within me. I shook off 8b6dcad8c4 Seo Hayeon with f9527e4727 all my strength. The already frail 59101ded65 middle-aged man, worn 9999aea67d out by everything, b7fa4bfcdd was easily flung e1cda582b0 to the ground.b152b83eacff1099

“No, Kim Taeyool!”f1c9c61567cc4f22

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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 8eb44a041b convenient and terrifying. Some kind souls in 9b99bdc459 the world might understand 3028a97cf5 a simple ‘I didn’t c79cc41bf4 know,’ but far more dd4e94058b things can’t be resolved b1f61f8402 with such flimsy words.c9cc70bfd73cb64a

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This urge is overwhelming. I’m starting 1817ef2d2d to grasp 960e78bec1 the café dfa9ab8b41 owner’s state f7d14cb5c3 after a 02bb613cce week without 7fe65d84ac sleep. I have to go 820728ea27 to Mister. The impulse 25ad3b6e78 that I’ll b0628b51ea die if 4692f59cf3 I don’t d327d098ec surges within 9195ec5ea2 me. But then what? Can I 436333dce2 stop him? Is there 057fae3228 even a 44962d64a7 reason to? That flower did a80cd11220 wrong. If you do c471b6c263 bad things, you 06939d5174 pay the price.fe3a4a69f09ffdbb

‘Even if 678a18028b I can’t ade5fb98ae stop him, 59a2de4610 I have 62927d57eb to go.’cbb5f272e548cb34

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And there’s 34f0d92ebd a bigger 61d0fd0f26 problem. I, I need e34111bb6a to make Mister 2a28443b56 mine. The reason is simple: a5145639e1 if I don’t, he ccba432e49 might abandon me. That nasty fed7113bac flower kept 4c7ada51d4 saying cruel 37ea0e8972 things. That he’s 3cddc3db4a not planning dfc80285bb to be 047dbd5d8f my companion 6955336da8 now. That he’ll 14c8ca7f6e cast me aa063301c7 aside if a435cf39ad I become 7f6e323987 strange. I can’t 7577e7e378 endure hearing 01ac20f975 that. If I 54f26ea844 make him 6518e0f4ab mine, he 0d89498aa4 won’t be e7d74f8fb3 able to b186dc9095 leave.10f097fb0d7793d9

I know 7e55730bc1 Mister will 7e271967c9 be angry, c839168c50 but I d370fc8e61 can handle 08e8c4d32f that. He’s naturally 497ee452a6 kind, so d1b31de380 even if 21f959fc3f he’s mad 37b5ffb453 briefly, he’ll 1ab40cb06f forgive me. I can be 73b81aa858 forgiven. Absolutely. But what 971ba1ed55 if he d0e2f5d69f doesn’t? If he discards 0162949c77 the last shred b2a96488ce of patience?33f198a7db54f815

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‘Then, well…’1041921c8ecb1e05

Kill him. The thought, 74dde5981f chilling yet 02e6a259a2 somehow justified, 501cdf79c8 surfaced abruptly. That’s right. Kill him, and eff7618a7f it’s done. If he’s a flower, 627c640541 pluck and crush him dde7aa9742 to make him mine. That’s the only way 129cb443df to satisfy this urge.a0339a7046251a7d

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No, this isn’t just 5d5dd42c1d for me. It’s for everyone. He’s too beautiful—left alone, 94e92365e8 he’ll enthrall everyone. Even the café e92710429f owner caused this 5523201728 mess by being d9c6951f21 enthralled.33816e20cfb6f640

Beautiful, splendid, seemingly cold 5be695c340 but fundamentally kind, an 752f181b1e ancient, mature flower that 3d2911ea9e captivates anyone who sees 881ea1d37e it. How can you handle a5b95b5539 such a being without 05b6072def killing it? Since the 69ee90a823 thought came 947236c60c up, I 8851d17ae7 need to f714d30f9d act fast. If not 69c012deb2 now, I e8e0cf4692 might be 9ca5348c95 cast out.9c9955272f5fd514

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‘No, this is 6225601c30 wrong. I mean…’16829be87da40a19

It feels utterly justified, 7a630b6dd0 but something useless keeps 5762f39362 holding me back. That’s not it. What I truly 1e4d6c36b2 want isn’t this. I’ve never once thought ae2840b94a of killing Mister. This isn’t my thought.3e087f1625f7c552

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This impulse, meant d8f317d21d to surge forward 28a73bdb3d unchecked, is constantly 50f9f3227c tripped up, and 1e6d1d0df3 it’s annoying. The more I b769e00fbe stumble, the more a7b2179735 it’ll lose momentum 2852b6d6a7 and fade. I need to act 1643365e1f before it vanishes to f2d1e0a949 succeed.598b88149a08dc43

No, it needs 46de6bc0a8 to vanish.003b55d895bdf1e4

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I know. This impulse is definitely cd4c40d225 not normal.b13c732e8a20fa10

‘It’s okay. Don’t open your 07cb1640f5 eyes. Think about 5d02d99582 why you’re 7ec848fc5d moving forward.’b33abe4ddc5d34f2

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While instinct 257039b8f1 and impulse ce220a8971 recklessly drove 79cb2d196c my steps, 60cf716522 a fragment edc0dd61b4 of useless 531cc72f59 will left 199640a5fe in me 4e807fc9dd focused desperately 33e49c7d3e on my c9b9f41023 eyelids. It’s fine. I didn’t look 9cc911e664 long. Thanks to Seo eaf864f152 Hayeon, I was a31602992a exposed for just 4b4f09e88b a few seconds. If I don’t b7563797da look further, I e71ea16164 can still turn 23728904e7 back.20dcfb24307a6a9f

And the 09e0de0489 Crow Hunter cbecf94f28 said it’s b70bb2d9b6 a dream. If I think of 8db907a9b7 it as a nightmare, afd815324e I can calm down.44d90835e4b9da84

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‘I need to stop 2ccb03ac6a Mister.’c4f0a8be079d0918

I finally steadied my 14b41803b5 heart. The rustling sounds 1fa0d520de beyond are far 9f1a5af6ad more horrific than e71821c568 I thought. Amid the 94968aea40 rustling of 30c45bc9d3 leaves and 15c85447d7 vines, something 855bf00a1b snaps and 5910b01d2c crumbles. I instinctively know 4e2849ce78 it’s the sound 6dc4ff64fe of life fading.ac2c168c8d69b5a7

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If I leave 53871f174c it be, it’s 84466aa806 dangerous. Physically for 65ef808b55 the Mist-Erasing cc910cfa68 Flower, and b2eb91a410 socially for 9f5ede6443 Mister. Someone said 2c0bbeedbd their colony a068659791 wouldn’t stay 90643f25e4 quiet. If it goes 757ef8d941 wrong, Mister could 51e6c7463f become a criminal.db547c7293804d5d

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Taeyool.33da407e458d2c28

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As I b2cc87cc12 reached out 7166b31f1b with all a191b6d8e1 my strength, ee5eae0333 something rustling 77ac4b8bbd touched my 37176bfa3b fingertips. It felt like leaves. The leaves flinched 98f33cd800 at my touch 82f94edd77 but didn’t push ea0325864a me away. Of course. Mister has never truly 9043b28bfd pushed me away.428bd85ebe7c766d

I know 7953219a0d the words d343006e0c he spat 4d91358158 at the 5c6bb210d1 Mist-Erasing Flower 7b74c8a935 were fundamentally b2bddb07ea for my e42a2fac5d sake. And even 5a86f21bad if such 06cb6cee80 a situation c72a167e95 arose, he 3c43b61f46 probably couldn’t c005226c17 follow through. He said those cb2c8f44d5 things to steel b7c59c1e1d himself, but deep 5c020a2510 down, he’s soft-hearted.bae15bffe134031a

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So there’s 6b2ddc79cd no reason 23d3ef9f79 to kill 2942d2ab9c Mister. And, and…31308a8dadd9aa44

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Taeyool, I’m sorry. It’s my fault.8bbeedabf8595c04

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How could I kill 254ab8c268 him?5683363adf48db7c

Just hearing his b2677e3f07 voice, anguished thinking 717b03e855 I’m irreparably broken, 344b0a3c37 makes my heart b62aec8dd9 ache.f8d80acfc381963a

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“Mister. I, I’m okay. Calm down.”e7108240837eb152

I took 1ee4669592 another step a73ee25c39 and reached 99849e3c0a out with b124aa846b my other 14f7e674e0 hand. The vines wrapping be7a42152d around my arm c08df75e37 were gentle and ba5bf267fe soft. My fingertips touched 15327958a0 soft skin. Probably the root part, a16745df89 now buried under the 385aed1b1c flower and stems, a 6736250eef part so familiar to 8785e8e338 me.0363f0c15bef23d2

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Taeyool? You, you…fd5be0038ac906f9

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Mister calling a0fde465cf my name 299bcf106f is a 729b44066b huge deal. Come to think bebb3a4715 of it, he 0432ab9638 did tell me 5cb5f7e6b0 his name once. He warned me to 98db67d8c6 pretend I didn’t hear, 5c9316c49c so it fizzled out, 26cd513a8b but he remembered. Maybe he was secretly dcc49e7867 waiting to call me 74c4c4adc5 by name someday.92f63108d39a288f

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“I’m really okay. I’m a bit 22cc05144c dizzy, and, uh, db9f298e03 things are flashing, b816d550ae but I closed 1b6772e13f my eyes quickly, ab3bd196b7 so I’m fine. So, Mister.”e31d1c79488fc11c

As I 5bb4a165e1 fumbled forward 4eaf20d948 with both 807871b169 hands, I 7050bc24be found Mister’s 7a730e2aed trembling hand. Remembering when we held 37cb4c81cf hands at my house, 8efe7ed176 I carefully took his 53d96faf26 hand and interlaced our bac9ffc9f1 fingers.c003ef96fe2ad340

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In that moment, I 073554c9b3 felt it. The impulse 6b40a8a3ef raging in cc55d3afbc my heart 8ac4f334fa finally broke 941491eac6 and plummeted. No matter 87d2fd86a8 how beautiful 3a2a4104c6 the flower, fee22c625c that’s not 94dbbbbe4d a realm 884dcf7b9f I’m meant 0a5b0a9f96 to touch. What’s familiar to me 8750257458 is the root part, bd536544c1 which Seo Hayeon called 65d69965d9 ugly.bbe8222b96bd495a

A part 394f1f2e24 that doesn’t 2974d3a4b1 need to 6976e132dc enthrall or d93a91db42 madden anyone. Essential and kind, a47ba8f1c3 it absorbs and 2af7a9007f stores nutrients, sometimes 82f8154b8e sharing with others.03f74b5073060413

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This much of 6b9e4fe5f1 Mister is enough 685f9c5b23 for me to 89088c1ba4 know. He’s warm cd2eafbc25 and soft. I can ignore a890a6f0aa everything else.a2164aacac57fc41

“Don’t cry and 56d46eab24 calm down. If it’s something you’ll 8f9ef32b71 regret later, don’t do a1204c946e it, whatever it is.”049556ee71851593

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At that whisper, I 55679f5174 felt Mister’s body tremble. It was like 58f8f3b22a a mountain-sized tree e0ecd64213 taking a deep f35459cba2 breath, a deep, 44350fef39 vast resonance shaking 618c247ed7 my body. Probably a 6df18348ab deep breath. Part of it seemed 521a207d5e like relief that I 016f676e7f was okay, and part…a587330aa48ae7ec

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I’m not crying.92704dea0b01d930

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Maybe a 11dae2baf0 bit of 7940c7c56f embarrassment. Strange, why does it a8166b1b2b feel like he’s lying? I don’t even know 1ecae0603e what a flower crying 1d7eb764d6 looks like, and I ef1690e5a4 half-made up those words 4303a4b779 to calm him, yet…50b46fe7b0494b93

In that moment, I 5c4429604d realized. Maybe Mister 07ad10f638 has a 457fe8f41e significant flaw. This beautiful 2241bffe5a flower lies cbf722af6a surprisingly often. He says things bc87bf0184 he doesn’t mean, 32b4423ab1 trying to deceive e643a09eb8 even himself, only c3aa011380 to regret it 4ba5cdc4a1 when something big ef82e5bd33 happens.2eebc6828ad28573

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Anyway, that’s fine. If you’re 2f48ee106c okay, that’s 055e1c75fd all that 3b8b253620 matters.d75f7eb48327b032

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A small flaw doesn’t c623051e54 matter. If Mister says it’s e1112f6af0 fine, I can think 503b7f1fa1 the same. I felt 5c583026a2 his other 4368a75ed9 hand pull c3f2bbd8f0 me into 9273629841 an embrace. The whisper, like d53efe4ce5 branches swaying in 2135b83fde a breeze, was 8d30894e70 comforting.5f7dd4b82b61c1d5

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My face rubbed 3b91ae36f9 against a soft, 80db3af144 warm part. That sensation, so f8f7b1723a familiar and welcome, 6131c6531d let me rest 72a906bcbe my head there, e5e1abdab3 releasing all tension cf6f0afb8e from my body.65e0a8e8f3533449

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It’s done. I’ll end my punishment 9e5dd9b249 here. Take the rest 42ac3bb055 and settle it bc8cb1f4f0 on your terms.f903833baf9b3aa9

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An utterly e334d13516 exhausted voice f5a69936c4 rumbled above 507ed8bfad my head. I felt several vines 9cde7dce3c and stems wrapping around 47f354c186 me. He’s probably taking me 8cb8612608 somewhere. Good. After walking all 2b3775ac14 night and dealing 4f51b1a249 with so much c207033efd tension, I’m exhausted f0969aadfd too.d50524fbfd0e46ce

Where is cb959614e7 Mister taking a0713f7fda me? Is it 66ce23c2c3 okay to 8791ff265e fall asleep d75a069ab5 like this? All sorts e9faa1128c of thoughts 05cd5ef6e9 swirled, but dfab153df7 I was 0d95af299a too tired d1e9ed1ebf to keep b349650ea2 thinking and a705189b19 let them 55659c49a1 go.2ef9a18cce946453

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Let’s go to our 226dcefdd4 house, Taeyool. You’re probably not e21cfad882 completely fine, so d50227db0e I’ll take care 0217ba95c5 of you for 2702f63306 a while…0feab412a1051040

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Oh, what about work 3534f1fdd9 tomorrow? The thought 48d636344d flickered briefly, eb1fa11648 but such 8df0d8eded petty worries 1b436b2a33 vanished instantly. Mister whispering my name, 1fde45c42b taking me to his 97c9e7ffbc house, promising to care 5cc86e268b for me—it filled my e0e9ce1d78 heart. No need f2ce3ce784 for small 52f7fcb98c worries. It’ll work out somehow. I’ll deal with 9d90e8aa6a the future when aaffb54477 it comes.388a3d667d05ec91

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I fell asleep 3b80b5cf68 in Mister’s arms.b2d8a4d0661f58b1

It felt 6c307ec859 like wandering 3989f0fa65 through a 401decc48a very long d28769b923 dream.79ae45d140c04848

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Abandoned Building, Aftermath.

I’m sorry 6ecb695610 for calling ee02497f62 you a 901d265da2 monster.92c13987f8b4baf1

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Are you… are d807b3f863 you speaking to 5b78b941a7 me right now?d01f1723fbb42ff4

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I’m sorry that I d2db50e808 still can’t look at 14fc734f2f you directly. I’m also sorry 48d945b096 that I’m not 574e4dca16 ready to hear 8a0be25742 your voice properly. The human heart is 306db91b40 so fleeting and weak. I’m still 583e2b7c45 afraid of 8363307a22 you. I don’t df5c3f51f4 even remember 9041223a4d what specific ee0546471e relationship we dae12adbdb had.2c2e037df36ebb56

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That my voice 47f39a23c4 can be heard… bb0cc20870 no, it can’t, 25793b63c7 can it? But that’s okay. You’re not running away 7fa875a0dc anymore.b745ece1ea333904

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I’ve been dreaming empty cc5538addb dreams for so long, e239ee3337 forgetting that you even 537452b25c exist in this world. Because of dedb3dd70a that, I’ve c9c0216698 caused a 8f3ffeb251 lot of 576b89a0c1 trouble for 2f91f8935b unrelated people 9e4909ec6c and residents. I know it’s late 84ea5a5a88 to say this, but… f6de0079a8 will you forgive me?c01ecd8a67e0371b

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You don’t c382e603a6 need to f5aa34474d ask for 94897c5734 my forgiveness 182b441b4a in the b57ea85b04 first place. I was a e93084b604 bit upset, it’s 673c4c1b23 true, but you’re 0336cfdbf1 my spouse, after fb3eea2ceb all. Well, as for the 50ef8f7cd8 other residents, we’ll just bd38f08b46 have to steadily pay 96b2bf04a1 the price moving forward…791f2ccb6b2c1b11

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I don’t know 9ed6ecee17 what kind of 64cf6962a2 situation you’re in 5c54bc151e or what will 6f67e4719f happen to me 13c1a85d7f going forward. But if 332b1fe315 I could 9b7ec45222 wish for 4d3b2dd0e2 one thing, 27fbf70b79 it’s that e4117bf293 I want 9ffb5c6c10 to be 528bb034b4 with you. With my b927ff9d37 eyes covered 17c6c189cc and my 7240fdbbcd ears blocked, 79411553e5 unable to 80ae349d01 remember anything abd8071333 important—if you’re b70562f9ef okay with b47dafa207 me in 5ee7b6a534 this state…107b4592807cc0f8

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Memories… they afef5dd800 might come ff070588c9 back someday. You might b339c25c83 be able 80c6ea1ce2 to hear 6ac3a12642 my voice 5d882b544d someday too. It’s okay. In fact, it’s better 7fee675ab7 this way. Let’s pay 9b00071e80 the price b72d4d7922 together, then.f0f4d8b7ab95d9fd

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For now, 8b8c794eb6 I’ll get 320aeccfcb used to a6d7d4cfe5 being by 1b58df478b your side. If my fear ever ffca6cc061 fades, I might try 4fc97fe7c0 to look at your cf8517604a face or listen to 46b6d88e1e your voice. Even though I’m b2f2072529 scared right now, 99cb41dc90 can you please 88d6f4b0c7 understand just a 2c8e8e9222 little?3687434f5bf549a8

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Let’s go together 80b26765c3 now, young Mist-Erasing dc774f647c Flower… and your 7f97b5f733 spouse, who’s still 831dd8d8de invisible to us. Both of you 74ac0e6269 have the right 193eee322b to remain silent, 41b2fd0cee and I’ll inform 00e895d7cc you in advance 4ebbfd99ea that you have c41a20d82d the right to e85ad62ecb protest through legal e3e929879a procedures if an afe2217c25 unfair price is cfda74e151 imposed. First, we’ll take be256c5f43 the spouse to 41c2078d68 the purification facility f0ed79ceda to ensure they 69c1725fc2 can be properly 284559d8b4 recognized in our 1c7e486010 world. And since 8ed03882fd the items ae17493fd0 in this a31328c39b bag are 887e6a96ea clearly stolen, 796dee394f we’ll return e107682d6f them to a8a1ef9f04 their original f32f52c96d owners.905dbc637da124f1