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

I thought I taught

smile formed on Ryan's face as he suddenly thought of his appearance. Raising his

nag me if he saw me in this

escaped

chest. Once again, he felt the corner of

mustn't show him

here, but to

He was always here.

at the casket for a couple of good minutes, Ryan lowered his head. He then made his way to

currently disguised as a cat, Ava, Hein, Leopold, Kevin, Amanda,

But...

only one

'Where is he?'

Ren. It didn't take long for him to spot his parents whom he had met once with Smallsnake...they were here...yet Ren

was here apart

'Why?'

while he continuously looked

'Why isn't he here?'

one that was looking for him.

...How could they not?

He was supposed to be the

why wasn't he

Out of all people, he

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

dream he had witnessed as

just think

back when he was watching everything. In the first place, he didn't understand much of the content

...It made no sense.

to pick up from the flashbacks, was Ren's mentality and the way

showing any remorse and treated everyone as though they were

them or not. If they were in the way of

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

He wasn't.

Never.

least that was what he thought

down waiting for him to arrive, Ryan started to have

no,

possibly as a result of the fact that he wasn't in the finest emotional state. No one could blame him for his

the Ren he

no..they are not the

with Ren in the same way as before was the only thing keeping him from going further down. He

was Smallsnake's words that kept him from going down an even bigger downward spiral

"Keum."

Raising his head up,

"Why is he there?"

He barely knew

some of you are uncomfortable with my sudden appearance

turned his

running late, and it doesn't seem like Ren is here yet. Since we can't afford to take the whole day, I

Clank—!

as Kevin began to speak, the doors slammed open abruptly. As soon as that happened, more than half of the audience turned to look in the

'Ren?'

thought as he spotted him from the

wasn't the only one that notice his appearance as the chapel was filled with murmurs and

face, crooked tie, and wrinkled clothes, Ryan pursed his

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

his teeth, Ryan lowered his

deep sense of shame rise

of me to think

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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