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Of course, it wasn’t just a simple smile. What mattered was that it was a smile filled with a kind of purity, as if I had returned to the beginning of time itself. It had to look like I was genuinely delighted to see people die, like I was offering pure admiration and joy for the things Jung Jin-Ho had done.
Adding any extra words wouldn’t suit the moment.
‘Explaining this or that would just look lame.’
At the very least, it wouldn’t match the image of death I had in mind. Of course, the current Jung Jin-Ho was unaware of the Young Death's existence. He would only come to realize and revere that being at the very end, once he teetered on the edge of his own demise.
Right now, it felt like this was the right answer. It was a decision I could make because I judged that inserting a fairytale-like event where he met the Young Death, communicated with it, and interacted with it wouldn’t really hurt the plausibility.
No, perhaps he absolutely needed this event.
Naturally, I found myself recalling the first time I met Jin-Ho. Thinking about it, it had always felt like he accepted our demands a little too easily.
Sure, back then, he was being chased across...
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