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

”I thought that you wouldn't come.” He steps toward me. ”You could run away. I gave you the chance.”

”You knew that I wouldn't leave.” I smile at him. ”You know how I feel. You also suffered because of me. I was frozen for a long time. You had to keep watch on me in each of Li Jun's reincarnation. Let's end this now.”

He pushes me against the wall. ”Traveler, you think that I would pity you?”

”I don't think so.” I look into his green eyes. ”Why didn't you come and kill me?”

”You were at the hospital. There were too many times. Then, you were always surrounded by your family at your home.” The timekeeper glares at me. ”I will finish this tonight. I know that nothing would change the past now.”

I agree with his words. I don't think that there is any version of me who can change the past now. I spent 5 months in a coma. My past self will never see this scene. I didn't meet Kang Si An or become his fake girlfriend. I have destroyed the original timeline.

”You are getting your wish. I am surrendering to my death.” I close my eyes and wait.

***

The dagger in his hand feels heavy. The timekeeper lifts his hand to stab her. The time crystal is inside her soul. He can't pity this woman. After she dies, she will go to hell for destroying the original timeline. The fire of hell will purify her soul before she is reborn again. Life and death are only two sides of a coin in his eyes.

Kang Si An never met this girl. Like his previous reincarnations, he is also born with the burden of Li Jun's wishes and dėsɨrės. But, it is still nothing that the timekeeper can't handle. If he could kill her once, killing her again is also nothing.

So much have happened. It started at this moment. It is ending with this moment now. This girl must die. That's her punishment. She's an anomaly that this world doesn't need. She chose this moment.

There were 100 minutes that he gained from making a deal with Kang Si An in the original timeline. He spent and conversed for 95 minutes with her in the last thousand years. There are only 5 minutes left.

”Traveler, open your eyes.”

She looks at him - not Kang Si An. The calm in her eyes reminds him of the moment when he gutted her with this same dagger in the original timeline. Even then, she was calm and smiling. But, she didn't see him as the timekeeper back then. She called him Kang Si An and accepted her death willingly.

”Are you upset that you are spending the last five minutes with me?” He asks her.

”I am not.” She shakes her head. ”I feel better that it's not Li Jun or Kang Si An.”

This woman. She wouldn't want her lover to get hurt even when she's dying. ”You are something.”

”I will take that as a compliment.” She laughs a little.

He smiles at her unconsciously. ”Then, close your eyes. I will do it now.”

”Okay.”

She shuts her eyes close again, waiting for her death. The dagger falls to the ground. The timekeeper lifts her chin and kisses her. She opens her eyes right away.

”It's me who is kissing you.” He stares into her eyes. ”It's not Kang Si An or Li Jun. Do you hear? It's me. This is your first kiss with me.”

”I don't understand.” The woman widens her eyes dumbly, unable to comprehend what he is saying.

The timekeeper chuckles. It seems like he will fail his mission. For more than a thousand years and several lifetimes, he has been buried under Li Jun's and Kang Si An's feelings. He wonders when he fell for her. Is that why he wanted to keep a distance from Li Jun and his reincarnation?

The's the girl who bravely challenged him. She's the one who paid gravely to save the man she loved. The timekeeper is upset that he isn't the man she loved. He is only a special entity sent to live inside Kang Si An's soul to take care of this special anomaly. Since he will fail this mission and gets removed from his soul, he will return to the place where he came from. He won't be able to see this roguish time-traveler ever again. He will say goodbye to her in the way he likes.

”This is your last kiss with me.” The timekeeper leans down and kisses her again - tender and ardent, needy and giving, and conveying a thousand words without saying anything. His warm tear falls on her cheek. The last five minutes are over. The timekeeper is gone.