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 taught you

Ryan's face as he suddenly thought of his appearance. Raising his arm,

would probably nag me if he saw me in

laugh escaped from

past Ryan who felt something grip his chest. Once again, he felt the corner of his eyes tear up, but as he

mustn't show him that

been here, but to Ryan,

He was always here.

good minutes, Ryan lowered his head. He then

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

But...

was only one

'Where is he?'

to look for Ren. It didn't take long for him to spot his parents whom he had met once with

was here

'Why?'

while he continuously

'Why isn't he here?'

looking for him. Practically, almost everyone

...How could they not?

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

wasn't he

all people, he should've been the

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

he had witnessed as a result of the demon's

he really just think of us

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.

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

remorse and treated everyone as though they were expandables

knew them or not. If they were in the way of his goals, they were nothing but a roadblock that needed to

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

He wasn't.

Never.

was what he

quietly sat down waiting for him to arrive,

no, no, it can't

emotions were gradually beginning to spiral downward in a negative direction, possibly as a result of the fact that he wasn't in the finest emotional

the Ren he knew, Ryan

not

Ren in the same way as before was the only thing keeping him from going further

him from going down an even

"Keum."

of his thoughts was a small cough. Raising his head up, he

"Why is he there?"

he looked at Kevin. He barely knew Smallsnake, what

are uncomfortable with my

his wrist and checked

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

Clank—!

than half of the audience turned to look in the direction of where the noise came from, and

'Ren?'

spotted him

that notice his appearance as the chapel was filled with murmurs

pale face, crooked tie, and

in the chapel as several figures rushed to him, only to be rejected by him

teeth,

a deep sense of shame rise from

of me to think like

hit Ren the hardest. He previously thought that he should've been the one who was supposed to be the saddest about

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