Chapter 146: The Book of Death (End)
“Then those unreliable high schoolers started messing things up for me!”
Rebecca complained as she continued her story.
Although he said he didn’t believe it, after parting ways with the others, Thomson went to a medical examination center the very next day.
The results were exactly as the prophecy had foretold—he had pancreatic cancer, already in its late stage, with at most one year left to live.
The result hit everyone like a heavy blow, making them certain that the prophecy of The Book of Death was real.
“Ahh! Damn it, damn it! Why me? Why me?!”
“Thomson, calm down…”
“How am I supposed to calm down?! Easy for you to say! Yeah, you’ve got it good—you’ll live to 76! Not like me, I’ll be dead in a year!”
When the four of them gathered again because of Thomson, he—once the most cheerful and easygoing member of the group of five—seemed like a completely different person. He was extremely agitated, no longer the carefree, open-hearted guy he used to be.