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?'

wipe

thought I

face as he suddenly thought of his appearance. Raising his arm, he wiped his

would probably nag me if he saw me in

laugh escaped

Once again, he felt the corner of his eyes tear up, but as he thought of Smallsnake, he stopped

show him that I'm

been here, but to Ryan,

He was always here.

lowered his head. He then made his way to a seat

Angelica, who was currently disguised as a cat, Ava, Hein, Leopold, Kevin, Amanda, Emma...all of Ren's friends and

But...

was only one

'Where is he?'

for him to spot his parents whom he had met once with

here apart from

'Why?'

wondered while he

'Why isn't he here?'

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

...How could they not?

was supposed to

why wasn't

people, he should've been the first

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

he had witnessed as

think

much thought into it back when he was watching everything. In the first place, he didn't understand much of the content that was shown

...It made no sense.

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

individuals without showing any remorse and treated everyone as though they were expandables that could be tossed at

or not. If they were in the way of

that made Ryan understand that the dream was probably a fake.

He wasn't.

Never.

least that was what he thought

everyone quietly sat down waiting for him to arrive, Ryan started to have second

no, it can't

a negative direction, possibly as a result of the fact that he wasn't in the finest

of that Ren being the Ren he knew, Ryan

not

as before was the only thing keeping him from going

going down an

"Keum."

Raising his head up, he found

"Why is he there?"

He barely

are uncomfortable with my sudden appearance here,

his wrist and checked

Ren is here yet. Since we can't afford to take

Clank—!

soon as that happened, more than half of the audience turned to look in the direction of where the noise came

'Ren?'

thought as he spotted him from

his appearance as the chapel was filled with murmurs and

his glaring black circles, pale face, crooked tie,

brought a small turmoil in the chapel as several figures rushed to him, only to be rejected

his teeth, Ryan

a deep sense of shame rise from deep within his

was stupid of me

hit Ren the hardest. He previously thought that he should've been the one who was supposed to be the saddest about his apparent death, but staring at Ren who had trouble walking, Ryan realized how immature his

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