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

a mess, I thought I

face as he suddenly thought of his appearance. Raising his

me if he saw

laugh escaped from

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

show him

here, but to Ryan, he

He was always here.

couple of good minutes, Ryan lowered his

familiar figures. Angelica, who was currently disguised as a cat, Ava, Hein, Leopold, Kevin, Amanda, Emma...all of Ren's friends and people that were previously on the

But...

only one person

'Where is he?'

tried to look for Ren. It didn't take long for him to

was here

'Why?'

wondered while he continuously looked

'Why isn't he here?'

was looking for him. Practically, almost everyone in the chapel was also looking

...How could they not?

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

why wasn't

he should've

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

about the dream he had witnessed as a result of the

he really just think

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

...It made no sense.

up from the flashbacks, was Ren's mentality and

treated everyone as though they were expandables that could be

knew them or not. If they were in the way

that Ryan saw in the visions, and this was also this behavior that made Ryan

He wasn't.

Never.

was what

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

no, no, it

negative direction, possibly as a result of the fact that

Ren he

no..they are not the

before was the only thing keeping him from going further down. He was also

kept him from going

"Keum."

Raising his head up, he found Kevin standing at the

"Why is he there?"

looked at Kevin. He barely knew Smallsnake, what

of you are

his head, Kevin turned his wrist and checked

like Ren is here yet. Since we can't afford

Clank—!

the doors slammed 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

'Ren?'

thought as he spotted him from

notice his appearance as the chapel was filled with

black circles, pale face, crooked tie, and wrinkled

rushed to him, only to be rejected by him who

teeth, Ryan

sense of shame

of me to think

thought that he should've been the one who was supposed to be the saddest about his apparent

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