Chapter 89 - This is your last kiss with me (1/2)

”Kyuri, can you tell me your name?” The middle-aged doctor asks me slowly. My family is watching me while holding their breaths.

”Kwon Kyuri,” I reply calmly. It seems like I have been here for a long time. Surprisingly, I am still alive. Did the timekeeper not find me?

My family and the doctor exhale at the same time. The doctor smiles at me and says, ”How old are you?”

A little more than a thousand years. ”21.”

”Do you remember what you were doing before you passed out?”

”I was standing in front of my dorm.”

The doctor looks relieved. My parents wipe their tears. My brother is silently crying at the door, hiding his face from me. I look at my arms. I am no longer pale and grayish like the dead. The time crystal is still inside me. My heart is beating.

In the last thousand years, how many times have I checked? It's a habit now.

”What's the date today?” I ask him with a low voice. Did the timekeeper forget about his mission and let me go? Is it possible? I don't think so. We wouldn't go through what we went through if he was that kind.

The doctor tells me the date kindly. I realize that more than five months have passed. My day of death is only three weeks away.

”...”

The doctor is saying something, but I don't listen. Why I am still alive? Does he want to do it at the same spot on the same day? He won't be that much of the perfectionist, right? Even after more than a thousand years, I can't understand that timekeeper.

Whatever! Death by stabbing doesn't sound too bad at this time. How many times was I stabbed in the thousand years? Whenever people noticed something strange about me, they tried to kill me. Some wanted to catch me to find the recipe of immortality. There were times when they tried to burn me alive. I would have died countless times if I wasn't immortal back then. I have seen too many things. Too many things have happened to me.

”Kyuri, my pretty daughter.” My mother hugs me. ”Why did you do it? You should have taken care of your health. You are beautiful the way you are.”

”Idiot!” My brother flicks my forehead. ”You are prettier than all the girls your age. You don't need to lose weight. If you don't eat proper meals four times a day, I would kill you.”

My father looks at me gravely. ”If you ever do that again, I will disown you.”

”...”

What do they think that I did? I can't make sense of their words. It takes some time for me to understand. They think that I starved myself to get a figure like a model.

”...”

I get scolded for a crime that I didn't commit. They feed me five times a day and continue to nag. I have missed my family.

A few days before the day of my death, I leave the hospital. I spend two days at home. I keep waiting for the damn timekeeper, but he doesn't appear once. I am scared. I like living with my family. I want to spend more time with them. Even after living for more than a thousand years, I want to live more.

Nevertheless, I am happy. It's probably because I have lived so much time alone that I understand the value of my family.

On the day of my death, I eat lunch with my family. It's one of my happiest moment. I leave at 3 PM. The city is a few hours drive away. I don't leave any message or letter. I am a selfish person. I hate saying goodbyes.

It's already night. I go to the spot where I was murdered a long time ago in my past. It is my present moment now. The poster on the wall is familiar. It's going to be released soon.

I wish that I could see that movie, but I am too tired.

I hear the sound of footsteps. It's Kang Si An. No, he's the timekeeper. Unlike before, there's no coldness in his eyes. He's carrying the keeper's dagger in his hand.