Chapter 88 - Kyuri, you are awake (1/2)

I am standing in front of my dorm and looking at my watch. I am back at the beginning. Everything started from this moment. So many things have changed. Both of them are unaware of what lies in the future.

At 1:40 PM, my past self will return from the future after absorbing the time crystal. At 1:43 PM, she will touch my past self who hasn't met Kang Si An yet or seen the moment when the timekeeper killed me in the original timeline. At 1:50 PM, she will leave the present moment and go to the night of the ȧssassination.

At exactly 1:50 PM, my heart starts beating again. My prison is broken. The time crystal is ticking inside my body. From this moment on, I am also unaware of the future. My time has restarted.

Suddenly, I am too physically to move. I sit down on the concrete as my vision starts to darken. I clutch my stomach My stomach is hurting because of tremendous hunger. I should have eaten a lot before I came here - or not. It's not a bad idea to die before the timekeeper finds me.

'You promised.' I hear someone's voice in my mind. Is it Li Jun or Kang Si An? I am probably hallucinating. I can't tell who it is.

'Don't abandon me after changing the past, alright? I won't forgive you if you do that.'

'i will find you. I will make you fall in love with me again.'

An old memory surfaces in my mind, making me remember the promise that I made a long time ago - the moment I met 30 years old Kang Si An before I went to look for the time crystal and changed everything.

I close my eyes. ”Even after everything, you are asking me to find you?”

I am sorry. I don't want to find you. You better die without knowing that I ever existed. Your life shouldn't be miserable because of me. At least, one of us should have a happy ending. Isn't it unfair to ask me to find you after everything that happened?

You didn't have a choice. You always found me because we have a strange fate. But, you could have died without seeing me at the last moment. You have died in front of me so many times. You stuck around miserably until I was forced to come and see you so many times. Each time, I had to be the one to wait.

I didn't keep any promise so far. If I don't keep one more, would I go to hell? I have been through hell. It can't scare me anymore.

It's only fair that I also die. But, I am not cruel like you are. I will not stick around until you find me. I will say goodbye now. I won't meet you, Kang Si An. I don't have the strength anymore.

”Kyuri.” Someone is shaking body. ”What happened to you?”

I don't remember what happened after that. After a long time, I can fall asleep.

***

Someone's holding my hand. I slowly open my eyes and see a familiar face. I know this person.

”Mother.”