Chapter 93 (2/2)

“Why don’t you say a word?”

But the cat wasn’t interested in the man next to him at all. It just yawned and blinked. But its eyes were too solemn for a cat’s.

“So you won’t even speak to the friend who’s taken away the whole world from you?”

“…You…”

In the end, it finally spoke. Shihuang smiled and hugged his knees. When he turned, he saw long white hair.

“You nasty fellow.”

The cat, no, the god O Shin spoke calmly. The huge moon was shining on him among scattered stars.

“I’ll take it as a compliment.”

He couldn’t know since when, but his instincts had told him O Shin had been with them since the very beginning. He had known the god for a long time, and it wasn’t the kind of thing he could just forget after he became a human.

“So, now it’s all over?”

They both knew what he meant by that. The god said nothing.

“There’s still one to go.”

Myohan had demanded that the god erase all their memories. He wanted them not to remember how they had been half-animals, and O Shin wanted to sink beyond the abyss.

But his plan didn’t work, as the merciful god didn’t want his favorite cat to be lonely.

“I think what I’ve done is enough.”

The answer was simple. He didn’t even try to deny he had given back their memories. After a short silence, he went on.

“I’m not as merciful as you think.”

The god knew Shihuang thought him to be merciful. Shihuang’s eyes shined with amusement, but he moaned.

“Therefore, I couldn’t forgive all of it.”

Shihuang could understand it. What had happened to them was a past life to Myohan, but to him, it had happened in this life. As O Shin had witnessed all of it, it had to be even more vivid to him.

“Do you think this much of temper is cute?”

Destroying loving memories with the cat. The only thing that had brought them together was now gone, and there was no way Myohan would come to him first. It was harsh to those who could remember it, but it was nothing to those who couldn’t.

“Yes, it’s really cute.”

It was what O Shin had said to him a long time ago. The god remembered and smiled faintly.

“I couldn’t understand you.”

He sounded too weak, as if he was about to be scattered in the wind. For a moment, Shihuang feared he was about to leave.

“You make the same choice again even when you know you will regret it.”

O Shin wasn’t wrong. Shihuang had lived years of regret and agony before Myohan finally remembered him.

“I shouldn’t have taken him away. I should have warned him. I should have listened to the subjects more carefully. No, I shouldn’t have loved him at all.”

“That is why you thought it would be better to become a human.”

The god probably had known that. He probably thought of Shihuang as humane while he was in agony.

“I thought you and the boy were a good match.”

The god smiled bitterly as he said so. It was the last trace of feelings he couldn’t hide, but he soon got rid of all of his regrets and turned to Shihuang.

“A fool’s company is always a fool.”

“That is why you’re friends with me.”

Shihuang snorted. The god smiled sadly.

“So you’re not going to tell him?”

Myohan was probably going to let his friends recall all of it by themselves, just like he had, without knowing the god loved him so much and had bothered to help them all.

“They say the cat hides its claws.”

If it had been Shihuang, he would have felt it was a little unfair, but the god was different.

“One with talent does not show it easily.”

He smiled softly, his yellow eyes twinkling.

“I believe in beautiful endings.”

This was the right moment. He had solved everything, and Myohan had only good memories about him. The god was still bothered by wounds in his heart, but time was the only cure to it. Actually, he had stayed too long already.