drafts.

scum reader's self saving system. (orv, joongdok)

fuck this stupid system too.

kim dokja abruptly stops walking. they've made it to where the cliff was.

[your task is to push y—]

"i know. i know. shut the fuck up already." he groaned.

"shizun? what—"

"come here, joonghyuk-ah." without a word, the protagonist stood next to him. kim dokja sighed, softly placing one of his hand onto the right shoulder of yoo joonghyuk. "tell me the truth. you're half demon, aren't you?" yoo joonghyuk eyes widened.

"shizun, i—"

"don't need to explain it to me. i know. you aren't just a normal half blood too, right?"

"..."

"joonghyuk—"

"shizun... you knew for a while yet you never said anything?"

"well...."

".... am i no longer your disciple now?"

"..." it was now kim dokja's turn to be silent.

"shizun, you were the one who told me that demons were the most disgusting race. you hated demons and you knew for a long time that i was half blooded, but you didn't do or say anything until now?"

right. the original scum villain made it very clear that he despised demons.

they were both standing so close to the edge of the cliff. yoo joonghyuk clenched his fists as he stared down towards where the abyss portal was.

it seems that he already had an idea of what was going to happen.

"push me off."

"you know that you could also push me off too, right?" kim dokja was insane. why did he say that just now??

yoo joonghyuk turned to look at him in disbelief.

"i could never do that!"

"then, you want me to push you off?!"

they both started to argue about who would push the other. eventually, one thing led to another and kim dokja found himself holding onto yoo joonghyuk's collar at the edge of the cliff.

kim dokja's whole body was shaking. he wasn't worried about the system giving him punishment or his future anymore. no, he couldn't bring himself to do it.

has he gotten attached to yoo joonghyuk?

no, that can't be. yoo joonghyuk was just a novel character. yes, he was just a character. but why couldn't the reader just push him off?? he knew that he would survive and come back eventually, but he just couldn't do it.

"you're..." he gritted his teeth. "you're apart of the demon race and that's why... that's why..." he gulped. "i'm pushing to back to where you belong." a few agonising seconds passed and kim dokja's grip on yoo joonghyuk's collar finally starts to loosen.

he needed to get this over with quickly.

with a forced cold expression, kim dokja slowly lets go of yoo joonghyuk who didn't even try to fight back one bit. he only bitterly smiled with eyes staring back at him filled with the same fondness that he always stared at kim dokja with in the past. but only this time, they had a hint of sadness in them.