aokigiri
Stories
1
Chapters
35
Words
70.6 K
Comments
2
Reading
5 h, 53 m
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「Cauchemar」 Jae-an parked under a familiar sign, and the valet, recognizing the car, greeted him first. Smiling brightly, Jae-an handed over the keys with a polite nod. Inside the restaurant, a staff member greeted him warmly, noting it had been a while, and Jae-an followed her slow steps. “The boss is inside.” “Thanks.” He grasped the handle of the private room’s door. Stepping in, he saw Seo Jae-rim, mid-sip of water, turn his head. “Hyung.” A smile bloomed across a…-
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Long ago, Seo Jae-rim had outgrown Jae-an’s height, and now his stature was so imposing it was hard to gauge at a glance. His once lanky frame had filled out like an athlete’s, making it rare to spot anyone on the street with a build to match his. His once-small, cute fingers had lengthened, his thickened palms and knuckles calloused. Beyond calluses, faint scars marked his hands. They were often injured—sometimes bandaged, sometimes wrapped in gauze. Seeing his hands grow rougher always made…
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The ring Jae-an couldn’t bring himself to discard while sorting his belongings was the last birthday gift from Seo Jae-rim. This past February, Jae-an couldn’t tear his eyes from the calendar. As his birthday neared, his mood grew strange. A faint hope that this year, growing a year older, might bring something different mingled with a restless dread of facing next year’s birthday in vain, stirring unease in his chest. The day before his birthday, returning home from work, Jae-an spotted a red…
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Lee Jae-an loaded the trunk and shut it. Even after climbing into the car, he didn’t start the engine, staring instead at the school building for a long while. His gaze drifted past the layered red bricks and the cherry blossoms blooming under the clear spring sunlight, settling on the petals scattered on the ground. Filthy petals, stained with dirt, trampled over and over until they’d lost their original hue. No one would believe they’d once sprouted from the same buds up above, so wretched was…
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Jae-an’s tightly shut eyes trembled faintly. His pupils, unable to focus, drifted dizzily, failing to register the unfamiliar space filling his vision. They were vacant, hollow. “Hey, he’s awake.” “What? Didn’t you dose him right?” His senses were dulled as if submerged in water, yet he could distinctly feel the presence of several people surrounding him. He was already stripped down to nothing, even his underwear gone. Slowly, he realized he couldn’t breathe properly because that…
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