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

mess, I thought I taught

thought of his

probably nag me if he saw me

laugh escaped from

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

mustn't show him that I'm

here, but to

He was always here.

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

as a cat, Ava, Hein, Leopold, Kevin, Amanda, Emma...all of Ren's friends and people that were previously on the other planet. All of them were mourning Smallsnake's

But...

only

'Where is he?'

for Ren. It didn't take long for him to spot his parents whom

was here apart from

'Why?'

while he continuously looked for

'Why isn't he here?'

was the only one that was looking for him. Practically, almost everyone

...How could they not?

was supposed to be the

wasn't

of all people, he should've been

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

thinking about the dream he had

think

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

...It made no sense.

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

as though they were expandables that

or not. If they were in the way of his goals, they were nothing but a roadblock

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.

that was what he thought

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

no, it can't

as a result of the fact that he wasn't in the finest emotional

the probability of that Ren being the Ren he knew, Ryan just

are not the same

keeping him from going

words that kept him from going down an even bigger

"Keum."

thoughts was a small cough. Raising his head

"Why is he there?"

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

some of you are uncomfortable with my sudden

turned his wrist and checked his

and it doesn't seem like Ren is here yet. Since we can't afford

Clank—!

open abruptly. As soon as that happened, more than half of the audience turned to look in the direction of where the noise came from, and there they saw a ragged figure

'Ren?'

he spotted him from the

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

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 by him who slowly

his teeth, Ryan

shame rise from

stupid of me to think

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

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