Chapter 385: Sisters (9)
Chapter 385: Sisters (9)
“Quit trying to act tough. Stay put and keep quiet.”Kwon Oh-Jin’s curt words had carried an unmistakable warmth.
Cassia’s heart, which was already pounding wildly, seemed to explode inside her chest.
Thump.
Like downing a vial of stimulants, endorphins rushed through her head like lightning. The chill running through her felt like someone blind all their life seeing the world for the first time. Rather, it seemed even greater than that.
Cassia hunched over, clutching her chest as if it would burst. “Ah... uh...”
From the depths of her memory, she heard her mother’s voice echoing down a quiet hallway.
“Still, I suppose it’s a relief. If Bella turned out like that too, I... Haaa...”
That sigh of relief, heavy with resignation, had crushed her. Since then, her world had been nothing but cold and lonely shadows. She pretended it didn’t matter, but it did.
“Hic...”
The sickness called loneliness could not be cured. It only slowly ate away and rotted the soul.
When her family abandoned her to a hospital in Iceland, when she wandered the snowy wastelands to flee the swarm of monsters, even when she became the Heavenly Demon’s puppet and killed anyone who stood in the way of his plans...