Chapter 97
Jin Soyak looked down at his small hands.
“If I die, my father will be very sad, won’t he? There’ll be no one left to tell him ‘I love you’ every day. No one to hug him. No child to give him toys on his birthday. I....”
Tears welled up in the boy’s eyes.
“I... won’t be able to stay by my father’s side....”
A single tear slid down his cheek.
The boy who had vowed to stay strong quickly forgot that resolve. But he didn’t break down in loud sobs.
Maybe it was just habit—Soyak swallowed the sound of his crying with effort.
“Be my sibling... I’ll give you everything I have.”
He pushed his bundle of treasures toward Hwarin.
It was all he had left of his memories with his father. Soyak was ready to entrust it all to the one who would become the new child of his father.
“...Huh?”
Hwarin could not answer.