Chapter 75
Tick, tock. The clock continued its rhythm.
Time was slipping by—time that I couldn’t stop or change, no matter how hard I tried. The ticking hands mixed with Ryu Sunghyun’s voice, echoing in my head.
[We’re going to protect them.]
No, hyung. We’re going to die.
My throat felt sealed shut. I couldn’t get the words out. How could I say something like that to Ryu Sunghyun, who smiled at me so sorrowfully?
But then I realized... maybe he already knew. That no matter what we did, everyone was going to die.
If that was the case, then I had only one option: to die with the people I cared about.
A life without them held no meaning for me. I didn’t even want to live the kind of life where I just stood behind others and got protected.
And yet...
[What... What are you saying...?]
Rain poured down from the sky as if it had been pierced open. The representative’s office, which always felt warm, suddenly felt unbearably cold.
Song Jiwoon looked at me with a conflicted expression as I stood there, stunned.