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

thought I taught

suddenly thought

if he saw me in

laugh escaped from

felt something grip his chest. Once again,

him that I'm

may not have been here, but

He was always here.

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

a cat, Ava, Hein, Leopold, Kevin, Amanda, Emma...all of Ren's friends and people

But...

only one

'Where is he?'

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

here

'Why?'

while he continuously looked

'Why isn't he here?'

was the only one that was looking for him.

...How could they not?

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

wasn't

he should've been the

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

herself thinking about the dream he had witnessed as a

think of us as just

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

...It made no sense.

was one thing he managed to pick up from the flashbacks,

killed individuals without showing any remorse and treated everyone as

way of his goals, they were nothing but a roadblock that

this was also this behavior that made Ryan

He wasn't.

Never.

least that was

down waiting for

no, no,

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

Ren being the Ren he knew,

not

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

that kept him from going down an even bigger downward spiral of

"Keum."

thoughts was a small cough. Raising his head up,

"Why is he there?"

Kevin. He barely knew Smallsnake, what right

know that some of you are uncomfortable with my sudden appearance here,

his wrist

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

Clank—!

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

'Ren?'

he spotted him

only one that notice his appearance as the chapel was filled with

face, crooked tie, and wrinkled clothes, Ryan pursed

him, only to be rejected by

clenching his teeth,

sense of shame rise from

of me to think

He previously thought that he should've been the one who was supposed to be the saddest

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