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

thought I

face as he suddenly thought of his appearance.

if he saw me in this

laugh escaped from

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

him that

not have been here, but to

He was always here.

couple of good minutes, Ryan lowered his head. He then

was filled with 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 other planet. All of them were

But...

only one

'Where is he?'

take long for him to spot his parents whom he had met once with Smallsnake...they

was here apart from

'Why?'

wondered while he continuously

'Why isn't he here?'

didn't seem like he was the only one that was looking for him.

...How could they not?

He was supposed to be the one

wasn't

of all people, he should've been the first one

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

dream he had witnessed as a result

really just think of

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

...It made no sense.

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

without showing any remorse and treated everyone as though they were

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

behavior that made Ryan understand that the dream was probably a fake. The Ren he knew wasn't

He wasn't.

Never.

least that was what he

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

no, no,

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

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

not

memory of Smallsnake conversing with Ren in the same way as before was the only thing keeping him from going further down.

from going down an even bigger

"Keum."

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

"Why is he there?"

Kevin. He barely knew

you are

turned his

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

Clank—!

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

'Ren?'

thought as he spotted

one that notice his appearance as the

face, crooked tie,

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

his teeth, Ryan lowered his

deep sense of shame rise from deep

of me to think

death probably hit Ren the hardest. He previously 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

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