𝐷𝑒́𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡「LCF x MDZS」

Chapter 90 - 『When A God Weeps』

Choi Han realized that the redhead didn't know he had spoken his words out loud.

The raven kneels in front of the redhead and looked at him with soft eyes before looking outside and sees the sun slowly rising from the horizon.

"No, you don't need to be grateful..." Choi Han whispers, wiping the lone tear that fell from the redhead's eyes.

So he can also cry.

Choi Han felt bad when he thought that the redhead is strong for him to not weep.

"Cale-nim...when you survive loss, everyone, even me is so quick to tell you how strong you are and how tough you must be."

Just this time, he would call him Cale...just like the him in the video recording device he saw and picked up earlier.

He looks at him then to the body in his arms, "But actually, no one has a choice to survive grief...do they?"

Choi Han removes his robe and placed it on Cale, to at least lessen the cold and act as a blanket for someone so frail like him.

"It's not optional. Right now, your tears are the proof that you are grieving."

When the raven fixed his posture and kneeled properly, he let his head touch the dirty ground and muttered.

"I am sorry for being one of the people who took something important to you, Xun-nim."

Choi Han stayed like that for a while.

"I told you to not apologize, didn't I?"

The raven couldn't help but chuckle to himself when he wasn't surprised to hear the redhead talk.

So he is awake now.

"You should sleep more, Xun-nim."

Cale shook his head then looked at Jiang Cheng again.

"I promised to reincarnate him with his sister."

Choi Han felt like he was crossing the line but, "What about...Wuxian-nim?"

Cale jolts then, now Choi Han feels bad.

"I would...send him soon. Then Jiang Cheng will have the liberty to be the older this time."

Cale could already see the smug look on his face when that happened. The only downside, is that he wouldn't be there to see them bicker.

Choi Han is curious by another thing, but he thinks it is better that he should just shut about it.

The question being, why won't the redhead bring them back from the dead just like Xue Yang.

But Choi Han knew that the redhead still has his own morality, so he didn't dare prod about it.

"I see..."

When Choi Han looked at the redhead once again, he froze.

Isn't he...a bit familiar...?

When Choi Han ponders about it for a while as he continued to stare at him, Cale looks at him with confusion then.

The redhead cleared his throat to catch his attention, and he did it successfully.

"May I ask you for a favor, Choi Han?"

The said man blinks for a while before nodding, still focused on remembering where did he see Cale's face.

"When you go back to Rowoon, can you find the three of them and take care of them?"

Choi Han blinks again, this time much faster.

"Me? I mean...I would be glad to, Xun-nim...but I killedㅡ"

"Don't. Don't finish that sentence. You didn't kill anyone, Choi Han. It was the one who told you to do it."

But still, it was his own choice. And he was supposed to kill the redhead, not Jiang Cheng.

"I...I...It will be an honor, Cale-nim."

Cale's lips quirked into a small smile, finally glad that the raven is calling him by his previous name.

"Anyways, knowing Wei Ying, he should have sent you back to Rowoon when he found out that you're not from here. What happened?"

Choi Han's heart ached when the redhead started acting indifferent, but he still answered his question then.

"The array he made...failed? I think..."

Cale ponders for a while before speaking, "The array couldn't withstand you..."

Looking at Choi Han's expression, he could see the offended look he have.

Cale just clicked his tongue before speaking to avoid a misunderstanding, "The array couldn't withstand how strong you are so it didn't work."

Choi Han immediately eases the frown on his face.

"Then, do you have any thoughts Xun-nim?"

Cale nods reluctantly after a while, making Choi Han feel an ominous sentiment.

"May I...borrow your sword for a while?"

Choi Han gives his sword with no questions asked, making Cale hesitate for a while before he unsheathed it.

The sword glinted against the sun's light. Albeit full of dried blood, it's still sharp that it almost sliced Cale's finger.

Cale grabs something in his chest pocket then, before opening his hand and it revealed a piece of Yin Iron.

The redhead settles the piece just right above the sword's hilt. After taking a deep breath, he slides the Yin Iron until it reached the tip of the sword.

Slowly, there were characters slowly being engraved in the sword, leaving a small light in its wake.

It was the same characters in Wei Wuxian's array, just drawn in a sword.

Choi Han gapes at his sword, now shining with a soft glow.

Cale bites his lip, hesitant to give Choi Han the weapon.

"Xun-nim?" Choi Han calls when he sees the hesitance on the redhead.

"You...you need to be struck by this sword so that you can go back."

Ah, so that is why he was hesitating.

Really, this man in front of him is a good man.

"Xun-nim, you don't have to hesitate. If it is you, the IT is alright."

"Cale-nim...if it's you, then it's alright."

Choi Han didn't change. Right, he has always been like that.

The raven moved closer and held the sword that was being held by the redhead before pointing it to his chest.

"I should go, Xun-nim. I still need to find them, after all."

Cale's eyes go slack, looking tired before he sighed.

"You're a cruel one, Choi Han."

He really is, isn't he? Asking for him to send him back to Rowoon by stabbing him with the same sword that he used  to kill Jiang Cheng.

"Goodbye, Xun-nim."

"...Goodbye, Choi Han."

When the sword pierced through his chest, he didn't feel any pain...just comfort.

As Choi Han looks at the redhead one more time, he finally remembered why he was familiar.

His face is the same as to one of the Statues of the God in Rowoon.

A God statue erected by Alver Crossman himself.

"Thank you, Cale-nim."

1. Hwan - 환  - Shining, bright