The Author's POV

Chapter 605

Pitter! Pitter!

The muffled sound of rain hitting against the window beside me, woke me up.

I groggily opened my eyes and glanced toward the window, where I was greeted by a gloomy scene. It was a dark and dreary sight, typical of any rainy day.

It perfectly synchronized with my mood.

[You have 37 missed calls]

When I finally had the opportunity to check my phone, I noticed several missed calls. They seemed to come from my parents, Amanda, Kevin, and the others. I ultimately didn't answer them back and just shut off my phone.

I wasn't in the mood to talk with anyone at the moment.

Everything felt like a dream to me at the moment. No, rather, a nightmare. One that I couldn't possibly escape from.

'What time is it?'

An unknown period of time passed while I lay on my bed just blankly staring at the ceiling of the room I was in.

Raising my hand and turning my wrist, I checked the time. I felt a sudden pang in my heart while I stared at the time. 16 : 39 P.M.

"...It's almost time, huh?"

I reluctantly got out of bed and stumbled toward the closet where I pulled out a set of black clothes. Grabbing onto the clothes, my hands shook.

It was almost time for Smallsnake's funeral to start.

A few days had passed since the incident, and those few days had been among the most difficult in my life. It was difficult to prepare a funeral for someone you had assumed would accompany you till the end and would always be around.

I...I just couldn't stomach it.

How?

Just where did things go wrong?

Why must things have turned out this way?

"What's this?"

Unknowingly, I felt something wet stream down from the side of my face.

"..Ah, shit."

I raised my hand and clenched my chest as a sharp, heartbreaking agony swept across my chest.

It hurt.

It really hurt.

I...I really didn't expect things to turn out this way. I...I really didn't.

***

Ryan looked toward the empty casket in the distance as he passed through the long aisle that was covered in a long red carpet and seemed to stretch for miles. It was probably shorter, but to him, it looked endless.

His footsteps felt heavy, and his eyes were rather blurry.

It still hadn't sunk into his mind.

...The fact that Smallsnake had left him.

The fatherly or brotherly figure he had been missing throughout his entire life was gone just like that.

"I..shouldn't be like this."

He mumbled to himself while he walked down the aisle.

'Fix your clothes, you look like a total mess like that.'

'Is that really how you want to look at my funeral?'

least wipe your

mess, I thought I taught you

thought of his appearance. Raising his arm, he

probably nag me if he saw me in this

hollow laugh escaped from

empty casket, another wave of sadness swept past Ryan who felt something grip his chest. Once

show him

have been here, but to Ryan, he

He was always here.

casket for a couple of good minutes, Ryan lowered his head. He then

Hein, Leopold, Kevin, Amanda, Emma...all of Ren's friends and people that were previously

But...

only one

'Where is he?'

take long for him to spot

was here apart from

'Why?'

he continuously looked for

'Why isn't he here?'

like he was the only one that was looking for him. Practically, almost everyone in the chapel

...How could they not?

that was supposed to speak first. He was supposed to be the one guy that known

wasn't he

people, he should've been the first

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

ultimately found herself thinking about the dream he had witnessed as

he really just think of us as

everything. In the first place, he didn't understand much of the content

...It made no sense.

if there was one thing he managed to pick up from the flashbacks, was Ren's mentality and the way

any remorse and treated everyone as though they were expandables that could be tossed at

knew them or not. If they were in the way of his goals,

that Ryan saw in the visions, and this was also this behavior that made Ryan understand that the dream was probably a fake. The Ren he knew

He wasn't.

Never.

was what

waiting for him to

no, no, it can't

spiral downward in a negative direction, possibly as a result of the fact that he

being the Ren he knew, Ryan just couldn't stop overlapping the two figures

not the

Smallsnake conversing with Ren in the same way as before was the only thing keeping him from going

kept him from going down an even bigger downward spiral

"Keum."

Raising his head up, he found Kevin standing at the

"Why is he there?"

while he looked at Kevin. He barely knew Smallsnake, what right did he have to

of you are

head, Kevin turned his wrist

yet. Since we can't afford to take the whole day, I can only

Clank—!

that happened, more than half of the audience turned to look in the

'Ren?'

he spotted him from the

the only one that notice his appearance as the chapel was filled with

glaring black circles, pale face, crooked tie, and wrinkled clothes, Ryan

brought a small turmoil in the chapel as several figures rushed to him, only to be rejected by him who slowly walked toward the altar. His steps were rather slow, yet,

teeth, Ryan lowered

felt a deep sense of shame rise from

was stupid of me to think

one who was supposed to be the saddest about his apparent death, but staring at Ren who had trouble

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