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Tap.
It was a quiet hour.
Between dawn and morning.
Feet that had been walking through empty air as though on a stroll settled soundlessly onto the ground. Gyeon Jioh stopped in an alley leading into a residential neighborhood.
She was on her way back from a late-night visit to the Center because of the whole Bambi situation, but……
There was an uninvited visitor waiting for her.
“……”
“……”
Hooo. The sound of someone exhaling smoke broke the silence.
Without a word, Jioh flicked her gaze down and counted the cigarette butts scattered at his feet. There had to be more than ten, at the very least.
“……What the hell? How long have you been waiting?”
“And you?”
Beom flicked the cigarette from his hand and tossed it away as he shot the question back.
“How much longer were you planning to make me wait?”
“……”
“How many times do I have to say it? That habit of yours, only looking back once someone’s clinging to you from rock bottom—that’s a nasty hobby.”
Not that she had any intention of fixing it, of course.