“I thought you’d forgotten.”
“How could I forget?”
Click.
A blue flame flickered to life with the sound of the lighter. Jioh stared silently at Beom as he leaned against the window, smoking a cigarette, then spoke.
“That was the day, wasn’t it?”
“…….”
“The day you stopped being ‘Beom of Silver Lion’ and became ‘Gyeon Jioh’s Beom.’”
“…….”
It was an old story.
Beom silently let out a stream of cigarette smoke.
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Age fifteen.
It was back when the ranker siblings were still middle schoolers.
Gyeon Jioh, third year of middle school. Gyeon Riok, in the winter of his second year.
After completing his awakening and making his debut, Bambi had continued his meteoric rise with unstoppable momentum. But, just as he himself was fond of saying, he was not a perfect being, and there were days when he fell as well.
That day had been one of them.
A day when Bambi, still inexperienced at everything, came back injured yet again.
He might have been an S-rank Ranker, but he was still a minor. The Center immediately contacted his guardian, and the news was relayed to Silver Lion, which had been acting in place of their civilian mother as the siblings’ sponsor.
The moment Beom heard about the injury, he dropped…