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[Your mental state is crumbling!]
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[The main body's ego is regaining its control.]
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[Your Story is being extinguished.]
My control on my own body slowly deteriorated; my arms no longer moving following my desperate will; my legs only able to muster a few more steps; and my eyes glued onto the back of the man I had done everything for.
Even then, especially then, I just wanted him to understand.
⸢To tell him that he was definitely not at fault for this story being born. And to tell him that the things he was about to experience were not his sins.⸥
Because my past 13 years existed solely to say those words to him.
⸢To say that, though you have grown up while reading this story, there's no need for you to become it.⸥
I barely managed to reach out, the tips of my hand touching Kim Dokja's shoulder.
[Your ego will convert into the 'subconsciousness'.]
My vision darkened as I saw his figure disappear into the waves of commuters heading to work, I saw him attempt to look back towards my direction before he was swept up and pushed into the subway.
The sounds of the subway train’s horn rang in my ear as my eyes shut onto themselves. I silently wished in the deepest sections of my heart, I wished to be reborn and to never leave his side, I wished to be with him again. And maybe this time, I could be with him, for eternity.
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HOOOOONK!
The sound of the subway train’s horn rang in my ear once again. My eyes instantly were pried open either by my own will to stay alive or by an unknown force.
What I saw in front of me was the same subway train I was facing beforehand. But this time, this time it was empty.
No- it wasn’t empty. It wasn’t empty at all. I know this train!
My breathing became ragged as I panted in disbelief. My eyes began to water, threatening to spill all over the subway platform. I took a deep stammering breath before taking a few small steps to make sure this was all real. And once I realized that this was real, that this wasn’t just a stupid dream granted to me at the second of my death, my steps hastened.
The distance between each step became wider and wider. My hopes and thoughts running wild as I repeated my previous wishes inside my heart like a prayer. A prayer to a real god to please let this all be true. Just once, please, let me have this.
And as I neared the subway, my footsteps began to decelerate. My heart thumping in my chest loudly in thuds against my ribcage. I finally step foot into the subway. It seemed empty from the outside but on the inside?
On the inside, my whole world was in here.
I saw him.
The man who I had given my whole life for.
The man who I had tried to save again and again in this torturous trajectory that was drawn out for all of them.
The man that had promised me to read my novel that I would write in the future.
The man that had made both halves of me fall for him, both the one in the 1863rd and the 1864th worldlines.
I saw Kim Dokja with a shocked expression. It seemed like his previous stop was the one where he had left with only 51% of himself. But his current stop was one he would never expect.
I grinned like an idiot at his ugly face.
⸢If this story cannot save you. And if these words wouldn’t get you to survive.⸥
I ran towards Kim Dokja that had been standing in the middle of the cart like an ugly idiotic beautiful squid. My body crashed into his; my arms wrapped around his waist; my face finding his shoulder; my hands curling into fists into his white coat.
⸢Then I’ll do it myself. I’ll save you this time as my very own salvation. As our never-ending story. This story was now for the two of us.⸥
I'll be your earliest thought. And you'll be mine.
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