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As if he’d found something endlessly amusing and fascinating, Seungryong kept staring and staring at Yohan. “Only twenty-three. Wow, twenty-three. I can barely even remember being that age.” Seungryong, who looked twenty-five, murmured with a silly smile, but his eyes weren’t smiling at all. They were endlessly black and distant, almost inhuman. Only when they met Yohan’s eyes did they faintly shine. He had his face buried in the mattress near Yohan and spoke in a muffled voice. “That…- 297.5 K • Completed
- Feeling awkward and embarrassed, Yohan’s whole body started to itch for no reason. While rubbing his arm and glancing over at Lee Hyunmook, Yohan’s heart lurched. His expression crumbled into a bright, gentle smile, just like the handsome one Yohan often saw in videos before he fell into the Abyss. “Just teasing.” The heat on Yohan’s face flared even more. “You can call me whatever you’re comfortable with. Though, personally, I prefer being called by my name. No one’s called me by…
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- Yoon Seungryong borrowed some clothes from Lee Hyunmook. He had a fairly muscular build himself, but Lee Hyunmook’s frame was so large that the clothes hung a bit loose on him. Yohan, who had been absentmindedly staring at the clothes Yoon Seungryong wore, only then realized something. “It’s not Addidas… it says Adios?” “Huh? Oh, you’re right. Is it a knockoff? Or maybe it got corrupted?” Seeing the altered logo of a famous brand, it was impossible to tell whether it was originally…
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- The area around them looked like a textbook example of a rural Korean countryside. Yohan stared hungrily at the fields filled with sluggishly squirming plants that seemed to have their own will, or were obviously toxic and grotesque, then murmured, “If I get the chance, I’d like to try purifying those too.” “Maybe it’s actually easier with plants than animals. Could be good practice.” But no, that wasn’t why Yohan wanted to purify them. It wasn’t out of any practical or strategic…
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- *** “Yang Yohan!” Yohan flinched at the sharp voice calling his name. His family, each with a cold or irritated expression, glared at him fiercely. Already deflated, Yohan lowered his eyes. “I’m not even asking you to be as good as your brother. But how can you not even be half that?” “I get too embarrassed to answer whenever someone asks what the second son’s doing.” “Crying again? For god’s sake, you’re a grown man, what kind of pathetic crybaby are you…” The…
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- They said regeneration weakens with corruption, but he was still a high-level awakener. He wouldn’t die from just any injury. Logically, Yohan thought maybe he should run away from the now-mad Lee Hyunmook. But his heart wouldn’t let him. What moved him wasn’t fear, it was deep sympathy and gratitude toward Lee Hyunmook. Yohan cried not because he was scared, but because he was overwhelmed by emotion for Lee Hyunmook. That was how he finally reached him. “Hic… huuh….” Then he…
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- Yohan’s eyes widened. I’m a stronger awakener than my brother?That was his first thought, then he belatedly processed the word Lee Hyunmook had added: purification. Instead of being surprised again, he tilted his head in confusion. Purification? He prided himself on knowing all the classification types for awakeners, but this was the first time he’d heard of such an ability. “You can cure corruption.” Stunned, Yohan couldn’t accept Lee Hyunmook’s words right away. The idea that he could…
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- Yohan’s timid heart shrank, even though Lee Hyunmook hadn’t used a threatening tone at all. Hunching his shoulders, he bit his lip and slowly pulled off his shirt. The last time Lee Hyunmook treated the wound on his leg, he’d shown no mercy no matter how much Yohan cried or screamed. Now, imagining him taking the same approach to carve out some corrupted flesh on his back, Yohan was already in tears. Sniffling, he removed his pants too, curling up in just his underwear. The Abyss was cold, and he…
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- “This area’s just barely overlapping with part of the Korean zone.” At Lee Hyunmook’s words, Yohan let out a belated sigh of realization. “Now that I think about it, all the places that were ripped away from the world must’ve ended up here in the Abyss.” Since the Rift Disaster, Earth had slowly been devoured by rifts and the Abyss, leaving fewer and fewer places livable. Rifts tended to open in areas with high human activity, often in cities, but occasionally included massive…
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- Although he was said to be in a weaker category than dealers or tanks, Yohan was still a high-level awakener, and his broken arm healed completely in less than a week. When he cautiously unwrapped the splint and tested his arm, there was no more pain. Before setting off, Yohan packed several days’ worth of food and medicine into his backpack. Just as he stepped out the front door, Lee Hyunmook pointed to the old cart he had brought back from the supermarket and asked casually, “Want me to push you…
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