Chapter 322
It was one of those days when they gazed up at a sky filled entirely with red and black.
“Teacher.”
Jeong Haewoon asked a man,
“You aren’t going anywhere, are you?”
“Where would I go?”
“You would do well wherever you went.”
“Of course not. All my students are here, so where would I go?”
“…What about your family…?”
“You know none of them are left anymore.”
“…….”
In truth, Jeong Haewoon was a little grateful to hear that.
He knew it was a vile and wicked thought. Even so, he felt relieved. His teacher was a man with great affection for his family. If even one member had remained, he would have gone to them.
But none of his family remained, so he was here beside them….
“You’re having strange thoughts again.”
“Ah… No, I’m not. I wasn’t thinking anything.”
“You really did grow crooked in a peculiar way.”
“The whole world is crooked. No one will even notice if I’m this crooked too.”
“If you hear this as nagging, then there’s nothing I can do… but I was telling you not to think that way.”
“What thoughts do you mean?”
“Thoughts like, ‘Surely this much is fine.’”
Even though the world had ended, he was always the same.
“If it’s what you desire, perhaps nothing can be done. But I hope we continue living as the people we knew. You as yourself, and I as myself. So that we do not change so drastically that we fail to recognize one another….”
“Why would we fail to recognize one another?”
“It happened often even before the world ended. Keeping someone beside me did not mean they would always remain the person I knew. Or perhaps physical distance might truly separate us.”
“Would that make you stop recognizing us?”
“Such cases…