Chapter 445: Twelve Divine Moons (5)
'Aren't you afraid of fire, sister?'
It was a question she asked long ago... back in the carefree days of their childhood.
Hong Bi-Yeon had once posed this question to her eldest sister, Hong Erin.
Her sister, who often experienced spontaneous combustion, had lived as though she were perpetually wreathed in flames.
But to Hong Bi-Yeon, those flames had always been terrifying.
At the time, her sister had simply smiled and replied.
'To me, fire is like oxygen. I can't live without it... You could even say it's a part of me.'
Hong Bi-Yeon hadn't understood those words back then.
How could she, when those very flames were slowly consuming Hong Erin's life?
'You'll understand someday.'
But now, even as she had grown older - her age nearly matching the age Hong Erin had been back then - Hong Bi-Yeon still couldn't grasp her sister's words.