Chapter 339
Chapter 339
The words that came out of Luka’s mouth lingered in my ears. I could not believe what I had just heard. You survived until now because of me? You, Luka?
“Eli, I do not know if you will believe this, but what if I had known you even before I became close to you?”
Luka’s clear voice spread through the night air. It sounded unreal for no particular reason, and a vague fear I had never felt before welled up in my chest. Even though I knew I must have looked foolish, I flailed my hands.
“You have always known me! And I knew you too. …Through Pleroma, I mean. And can you really call that knowing someone? It was just hearing a name secondhand. We first greeted each other and became close in our second year of high school~”
“…….”
Luka smiled at me in a way he never had before. Ah. I recognized the emptiness carried on that face. It was the expression I used to make as a child, whenever Leo, my father, Yulia, or my few remaining friends asked after me when I returned from something suffocating.
“Elias, there are many things I am hiding from you. Not just from you, but from everyone.”
I knew.