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 you

he suddenly thought of his appearance. Raising his arm, he wiped

me if he saw me in this

laugh escaped from

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

mustn't show him that

not have been here, but

He was always here.

at the casket for a couple of good minutes, Ryan lowered his head. He

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

But...

only

'Where is he?'

him to spot his parents whom

here apart from

'Why?'

while he continuously

'Why isn't he here?'

was looking for him. Practically, almost everyone in the

...How could they not?

was supposed to be the

why wasn't

of all people, he

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

ultimately found herself thinking about the dream he had witnessed

really just think of us as just

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

...It made no sense.

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

without showing any remorse and treated everyone as though they were expandables that could be tossed at

didn't matter whether he knew them or not. If 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

He wasn't.

Never.

was

down waiting for him to arrive, Ryan started to have

no, no, it can't

were gradually beginning to spiral downward in a negative direction, possibly as a result of the fact that he

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

no..they are not the

before was the only thing keeping

going down an

"Keum."

of his thoughts was a small cough. Raising his

"Why is he there?"

he looked at Kevin. He barely

that some of you are uncomfortable with

his head, Kevin turned his wrist and checked

running late, and it doesn't seem like Ren is here yet. Since we can't afford to take

Clank—!

that happened, more than half of the audience turned to look in the

'Ren?'

as he spotted him from the

notice his appearance

pale face, crooked

rushed to him, only to be rejected

teeth, Ryan

shame rise from deep within his

stupid of me

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 immature his

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