Chapter 280
— Take it. No question. Yu Ji-hyeok.
After hearing my full account, Belluna spoke with a flatness that was rare for her.
The fact that she had a cell phone in the first place. The fact that the number she'd offhandedly given me really was hers. The fact that she'd picked up almost the instant it rang. The fact that, instead of some children's-cartoon theme song, an old-fashioned opera had played as her ringback tone—all of it was unexpected, but the most unexpected thing of all was the way she reacted once she'd heard me out.
— That boy's foreshadowings haven't even hit twenty in total up to now, but every single one of them landed precisely. Hideously precisely. He even predicted something over a hundred years out and got it right. And the few who turned down his offers spent the rest of their lives weeping tears of blood over it.
She advised me almost like she was warning me, her voice grave, and that gave me real reason to think it over.
If it had been some ordinary item, I might have just taken her word for it and accepted.
But…
— So what was it he said he'd make for you, exactly? I only know of about six clear cases, and even those were all different items. Let me see… a sword, a bell, a mirror, a banner, an arrowhead, and a hammer and chisel, I think.
"A coffin."