Credits to the Owners 4

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[Start]

"Have a drink child!" A woman's gentle voice persuade Cale.

"Why does that sound so ominous despite the gentle tone?" st!Lee Soo Hyuk doesn't trust this woman. "No random woman will seduce my dongsaeng!" was in his overprotective mind.

"Sure." He didn't hide his annoyance to the goddess who handed him an elegant glass with golden design around it. He hesitated a while when he look at the black liquid inside the glass.

"Black liquid?" A gps like voice of tcf!Mary ask.

Everyone stiffen.

"It's not dead mana right?" tboah!Liana ask what they were worried about.

They hope their self-sacrificing idiot won't drink dubious drinks.

The goddess saw his hesitation, she laughed and patted his back. "Don't worry child, it just taste like liquor in your world. It might be stronger than anything you have before but it's like normal liquor."

Cale sighed before taking a sip from the glass. The black liquid painted his tongue to his throat bitterness,

but moments later a sweet taste blended up making him smile in satisfaction.

"Oh good"

They know he wouldn't taste anything and would've been dead already if it was dead mana.

But they still don't like how tcf!Cale took a sip from that. But knowing the young master, they were sure he did it for a reason.

It burns his throat, showing how strong the liquor is.

"How was it?" He look at the goddess who he didn't even know who.

Never mind their previous comment.

"Why would you drink something from a stranger!"

"Just because she's beautiful to the point that you would call her a goddess doesn't mean you could just drink what she gives you!"

tcf!Cale just shrug. He gave up thinking about the stupid decision his future self was doing.

Since he now knows what happened he will do it simply.

Of course, he will still need to prevent the war.

Prevent the sacrifice.

Defeat the arm organization.

Go to the sealed test.

Kill the white star.

"...?"

"Wait. I still need to do what my future self was doing damint!" tcf!Cale curse at the realization

And decided to just ignore it. After all, ignorance is bliss.

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"I think his drunk." The goddess whispered back and chuckled.

"Oh shit, I forgot his a mortal." The god of weapon slapped his own forehead.

Beverages and alcohols in heavenly realms are a hundred percent stronger than the strongest alcohol in the mortal realm.

"Heavenly realm?" tboah!Bud ask.

"What? did you finally ascend to the next level?" tcf!Bud said.

"What nonsense is he spouting?" tcf!Cale really thinks that Bud is crazy.

Meanwhile,

"Alcohol"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale said.

"No."

The Korean hyungs rejected that idea.

"But"

"No"

Scowl (Pout).

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"Cale-nim!" Choi Han who's huffing from running shouted in the hall. He saw his liege standing without any emotions, when his like this it's likely his pissed or angry to the highest level.

The red haired man turned his head when he heard the call. The gods around him also look at the black haired man who have a deadly glare.

"Oh! Choi Han-" The sun goddess didn't finish her talk when the red haired man his holding run towards the black haired man.

"Cale-" He didn't finish what his talking when the man slammed his body on him

"And now he needs to have a healer" st!Kim Rok Soo said deadpan.

"Why would you slam your weak body on a rock?" tboah!Cale addresses the idiot.

Said idiot scowl (pout).

"I could already imagine the broken bones" og!Cale chimes in.

They shudder.

and wrapped his arms around his waist. He burried his head in his chest.

tcf!Cale cheek tint red.

"Oh wow~"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale's face of an evil menace has descended.

"Well, at least it's not a broken bone" st!Lee Soo Hyuk gave mercy to tcf!Cale.

Choi Han who never been hugged by Cale stilled and felt worried. He thought something bad happened to Cale for him acting like this.

"A hug from Cale-nim" tcf!Choi Han flush.

But he was red because it's hot in here.

Of course it's from the heat.

So stop wiggling your eyebrows at him, Rosalyn!

"Are you alright? Is there any problem? Cale-nim?" He tried pushing away the red haired man to look at his face but Cale just stomped his feet as if his whining and shake his head 'no' while still burried in his chest.

"His drunk." A goddess said when they walk closer.

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"Cale! Let's talk more." A joyful voice of sun goddess was heard by Cale.

Cale moved and went over Choi Han's arms and move into his back between Choi Han's body and the cape. Since his smaller than Choi Han's he was totally hidden in his back, like a chick, hiding in his mother's wings. He hid there while tightly holding Choi Han shirt.

"Oh mah gosh! That is soo cute" tcf!Tasha squealed in delight.

"Huh? So that's what he's like when truly drunk." tcf!Taylor thought agreeing with the young master being cute.

"Cale-nim?" Choi Han who doesn't know what to do just asked in confusion. He can't turn since Cale is hiding behind him.

A moments later a hand showed up beside his torso. The white and beautiful hand opened.

"That's a very unnecessary comment" og!Cale huff not sure how to feel about Choi Han of all people complimenting his previous hand.

"A stone?" Choi Han pick it. "What are we going to do about this Cale-nim?"

The hand pointed at the sun god. "Throw." A small voice said before hiding his hands back.

Choi Han was too stunned and just stared at the stone in his hands. He stopped himself from laughing and cleared his throat.

"Ahem! Cale-nim we can't do that. You told me that I should behave." He gently said and smile. "Cale-"

A small stone flew from his side to the sun goddess. The sun goddess just calmly tilted his head to avoid the the stone.

"You missed!" The sun god teased the mortal but unfortunately,

"Oh my god! The goddess of love and marriage passed out!" They went silent when they heard a shout from the god behind them.

"Did you just hit the love and marriage?" st!Lee Soo Hyuk asks.

"Oh ho, good luck with your love life" st!Choi Jung Soo the lovable idiot said while cackling.

"He might not give you anyone" st!Kim Rok Soo suggests.

"Or he might give you everyone"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale said at the same time with mischievousness that rivals their menace.

tcf!Cale doesn't know which one is the worst. But one thing he knows is that he's going to smack these idiots.

"Ah, ha.ha.ha." Choi Han awkwardly laugh when he saw what happened.

"We. Need. To. Go." With a fast move Choi Han turned around removing the cape covering Cale.

Cale was counting some small stones in his hands.

"Where did he even get that?" tcf!Eruhaben ask that but he was more concerned that his child is drunk.

Choi Han just frowned and immediately carry Cale in bridal style and run as fast as he could.

"Is that why you deny to call it princess carry~"

"Ohohohoh so not a princess carry but a bridal carry ey"

The two menaces continue to tease tcf!Cale who was red from head to toe.

"Running away is really the best solution if you can't win Cale-nim." Choi Han saw Cale nodded with his attention still on his hands full of stones.

"Really what's with you and the stone?" st!Kim Rok Soo nonchalantly asks as he thinks that he should refrain from getting drunk if he really did act like that.

"Cale-nim where did you get that anyway?" Choi Han asked in confusion and started to slow their run when he saw they are far enough.

"Exactly, where?" tcf!Eruhaben continues to ask as well.

Exactly why was he so invested in finding out where the stone came from?

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"Stop!" He stopped walking as Cale commanded. Cale who have blank expression is looking in a tree not that far away from them. "Useless." He threw the stones in the ground.

"Those poor stone"

"What did the stone ever done to you?"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale dramatically sympathizes.

"Cale-nim!" He jumped from Choi Han's arms and landed in the ground straight with his hands up in the sides go balance his body.

He nodded and stand properly as if his proud to himself, then he took a step.

"Again! Cute!" tcf!Tasha was once again gushing at the young master's cute side.

"I'm pretty sure he's going to fall down." tcf!Alberu said highly amuse at the drunk Cale.

"Ouch." He stumbled.

"Called it" tcf!Alberu smugly said.

"Cale-nim!" He guide Cale who almost kissed with the ground.

"But instead he kissed Ch-mph!"

tboah!Cale couldn't finish his word as tcf!Cale shoves a treat in his mouth.

Unfortunately, Cale slapped his hands away and walked as if he never almost fall to the ground. He walk straight to the tree, and stopped when his in front of it.

"Oh no! He set his sight on the poor tree!"

"Run tree! Run!"

"Shut it"

tcf!Cale scowled at his idiots (hyungs) who were having a feast in joining the teasing.

Choi Han just observe him and didn't asked anything since he not doing anything weird. Choi Han also starred and scanned the tree to make sure the safety of Cale.

His gaze went back to Cale.

"CALE-NIM?" He didn't know how many times he called Cale just in this night.

Cale who's dazed, dive in the ground beside the tree. He disappeared when the tall grass covered him, even the butterflies and insect run away.

"Did the young master faint?" tcf!Ron was quite amused at his cute little puppy's antic but he did not like it when that puppy faints.

"Again?" tcf!Beacrox said in disbelief.

"Nah, he said dive, so he really just wants to kiss the ground" tcf!Bud chimes in.

"Pyah"

tcf!Pendrick who heard the slime thought "What's CalexGround?"

"Stay." Choi Han stayed in his feet and bite his lip in nervousness. He gulped and fidget his fingers.

og!Cale and tboah!Cale's jaw drops at that. He still couldn't comprehend that ' that ' Choi Han obeyed him like a loyal dog!

He sighed in relief when Cale's head popped out in the tall grasses. He was staring directly at him with blank face and some leaves are in his hair.

He went out from the grasses while his hands a top of each other as if trapping something inside it.

"What unsuspecting victim did he trap now?" tcf!Rasheel never cared for humans or other existence but dang he feel sorry for whoever that weak human set his eyes on.

"Cale-nim what is that?" Cale shake his head to remove the leaves and walk towards Choi Han.

"Sword." Choi Han become on guard and sheathed his sword.

Everyone tense.

"Is it something dangerous?"

"Is it an enemy?"

"Separate." Cale mumbled that made Choi Han curious. "Pink."

Choi Han gulped in Cale's serious face and ready his sword.

"3"

He count down.

"2"

Choi Han look at the hands.

"1"

With every count, everyone was preparing for anything.

The hands started to open and Choi Han is ready to slice.

"Tada." He opened his hands, revealing the two pink frogs on top of each other.

BUT NOT THIS!

"CALE-NIM!" Choi Han's eyes widen and his face flashed red in embarrassment.

"CALE-NIM!"

"OH-MAH GOSH!"

"YOUNG MASTER!"

"BWUHAHAHAHA"

Various reactions from various individuals express.

"Y-you can't do that!" He dropped his sword and immediately took the frogs away from Cale's hands. "Cale-nim! You can't do that. They doing important thing, you cannot disturb them." He scolded the drunk man.

"Those poor pfft frogs ahahahaha" tcf!Cage said all while cackling.

(the children were busy with another gift from the slime to notice what was happening earlier)

Choi Han who felt like crying in embarrassment put the frogs away, away from Cale Henituse. "I'm sorry mister and misis frogs. Cale-nim is just drunk, you can continue."

The frogs just look at him blankly.

"Give justice to the frogs! Kakakakakaka" tboah!Toonka laughs boom loudly at those poor frogs.

He sighed and look behind him. "WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING?" He unintentionally shouted when he saw the red haired man far from him and running using the sound of the wind.

"OH HEAVENS!" Choi Han mumbled when he finally found Cale. His in the small deck of big lake here in heavenly realm.

His standing there looking at the bright full moon that is reflected in the dark and calm water of the lake. Fire flies and night golden butterflies are flying above it.

"That would've looked so picturesque if the young master wasn't drunk." tcf!Jack said but was confused at why his sister and everyone were laughing when the young master show a pink frog.

"CALE-NIM!" He walked towards him with suspicious look. His in the end of the deck making Choi Han frustrated.

"Choi Han." Cale called when his finally beside him, while still looking in the sky full of bright stars and the bright full moon.

'Cale-nim is not going to jump in the moon right?'

"Wanna bet he will?" st!Choi Jung Soo started.

"I wanna bet he'll blow up the moon" tboah!Cale said with confidence

"and the lake" og!Cale adds.

"I'll bet he'll slip and fall down the lake" st!Lee Soo Hyuk knows he's going to win this bet.

"I am legend." Choi Han stilled and frowned afterwards. He look more closely to Cale. He just said something that Choi Han never thought he would hear from him.

"Oh no.." st!Kim Rok Soo pales "Have you been influenced by that crazy?!" He was talking about that white hair crazy person who keeps spouting about legend.

tcf!Cale also pales. No! Anything but that!

"Watch and learn." He finally look at Choi Han and look at the lake after.

Choi Han gulped.

Cale raise his hands, a circle made with water floated not to far from them. "Flattened you btch."

- Oh no, he adapt on sky eating water.

- Hey old man! Can you remove the alcohol!

"Can't you?" tcf!Cale asks the crybaby. He does not want to get drunk if he was acting like that.

- ... I'm not sure... But just to be sure don't let yourself get drunk.

- Cale, just eat delicious food.

- KAHAHAHAHHAHA this is f****** fun!

- I can't do that! It's not recognize as a poison, but I'm metabolizing it faster.

- Do it faster before he deside to do something again.

- This is xxx fun!

"Dang~ even the ancient powers are panicking!" tcf!Bud continues to laugh like there's no tomorrow.

The ancient powers who's been silent since the beginning can't help but panick. This is the first time Cale become drunk.

The water flattened like a plate and floated towards Cale until it was level in feet. He made more of those plate like water and lined them.

"Are you going to step in there?" Choi Han asked.

"Mnn." He nodded and put his hands back in his side after making enough plates that can from where he is standing to the end of the lake.

"That would've been awesome if he wasn't going to do something crazy!" tboah!Lock said amazed and worried at the same time.

"Or do something stupid" tboah!Choi Han grumble. Of course he wasn't worried. He isn't!

Choi Han didn't disagree and ready himself to follow Cale.

"Y'know, a normal person would've stopped this" st!Lee Soo Hyuk said well not like he can judge, he himself knows that he ain't normal.

"Yeah, but a real friend would encourage his stupid drunkenness and laugh at his misery" st!Choi Jung Soo completely approves of his uncle's decision.

"Let's go." Cale said with his blank face took his first step.

"Don't worry Cale-nim, I'll catch you if you-"

SPLASH

"CALE-NIMMMM!"

Cale failed to step on the first plate and his body submerged in the water.

"Pay up!" st!Lee Soo Hyuk smugly said.

Which the three pout.

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"Cough! Ahem! Hah!" Choi Han coughed hard when they are finally back in the deck, all wet.

"Oh heavens why is this happening." Choi Han started to question and blame the heaven since Cale-nim is always right.

"Little bias there" tcf! Rosalyn said in a sing-song.

tcf!Choi Han just shrugs. He also believes that Cale-nim is always right.

He forgot to control his breath when he saw Cale into the water. He just jumped, swim, grabbed Cale and swim back to the surface. He can't even see clearly.

"Salute to the babysitter!" tboah!Bud said all while cackling his heart out.

His thought was cut off when someone gently tap his shoulder.

Of course it's his liege. "Fish."

Choi Han just starred dumbfounded in Cale's hands where a black fish is being strangled in it's neck.

"Now it's the fish that is his victim." tcf!Dodori said. He doesn't know who to worry about more. The young master or the fish.

While tcf!Mila thinks that the young master is cute acting like a child.

"Y-you caught a fish?" Choi Han didn't even see anything in the water!

"With legs." Cale turned the fish and it have two legs below it like a sea lion.

"Cool! it's a mutated fish!" tcf!Toonka was very interested in that unique fish and at the drunk Cale Henituse.

Choi Han massage the bridge of his nose. "C-Cale-nim, let just release it." He gently said to the man. He felt pity with the fish that Cale was chocking.

'Sure this realm have unique animals.' Choi Han have seen them since they have been staying here for days.

"Oh, so you didn't ascend" tcf!Bud said a little disappointed. Oh well, he did have fun watching the young master more so he was glad that it means they will return to earth.

"No." Cale shake his head in disagreement and his forehead creased.

"That poor mutated fish" tcf!Rasheel kind of really feels sorry for that unsuspecting victim in the human's hand. But was also amused at the weak human's drunk antic.

"But young master it look so pitiful." He gently said and smiled at Cale.

Cale's one eyebrow raised and look at the fish for seconds before nodding in agreement. Choi Han let out a relief sighed.

"Here, not pitiful." But Choi Han's relief was immediately taken away.

Cale put a golden coin between it's arm and make them hold onto it. He look at Choi Han's eyes as if a kid waiting for praise after doing a great job.

Pfft

"Money makes everyone happy apparently" tcf!Hannah said cackling.

"That's so cute wanting to be praised" tcf!Sheritt chuckles thinking that.

But tcf!Cale had other priorities "my money!"

"C-Cale-nim that's not- let's just release it in the water. The family of the fish will be sad if one of them is gone." He knows Cale loves his family so he will understand this explanation more.

"Family?" Cale look at the fish' eyes for seconds before nodding.

This time he finally release the fish, by throwing it in the lake.

"Y-you could have do that more gently." Choi Han feels like drunk Cale is totally hopeless.

"That's right, what did that poor fish do to you to be treated like that" st!Lee Soo Hyuk scolded.

tcf!Cale has a stoic face but his inside was bubbling. He feels nostalgic at being scolded by his hyung. He hid a small smile.

"Come on Cale-nim, you might catch cold." He stand up when he realized that Cale just recovered and now his saoked in water.

"Cale-nim let's go. You can't catch cold!" He encourage Cale to stand up.

"Wait." Choi Han just creased his forehead when he saw Cale get something from the pocket of his coat.

"Tada." Another fish is in his pocket.

"How many fish did you kidnap?" st!Kim Rok Soo asks with an impassive face.

"Human! Do you like fish?"

"We'll get you some nya~"

"It's easier for us to get you some fish nya~"

The children said to their human, happy that they could help him.

"Cale-nim! What is that? When? How! Oh my god!" Choi Han didn't know what happened in the seconds Cale is in the water.

"That is quite amazing" tboah!Witira said amazed at how fast the young master has kidnapped two fish in the dark water in just seconds.

He didn't use 'instant' just to get the fish, right?

... right?

"The baby." He raised the small fish with legs to Choi Han. "Family of that fish, this baby."

He didn't let Choi Han think more and throw the small fish in the lake and stand up and look at Choi Han.

"C-Cale-nim you don't have the father fish right?" He asked to make sure.

"You kidnap a whole family!?"

st!Lee Soo Hyuk then proceeds to nag and scold his dongsaeng.

"It swims away, there." He answered and pointed a spot in the lake.

"Unbelievable!!! The father just run away while his family is kidnapped!"

They all said in outrage.

Choi Han nodded and started to forget everything about the fish because it's making him stress.

"Please use your wind power to dry yourself, Cale-nim." Cale just nodded and dry himself and Choi Han before walking back to the god of death palace where they are currently residing.

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Ctto: mnn_mnn_mnn, Title: A Drunk Legend from wattpad.

"A drunk legend indeed" tcf!Bud snickers coming down from laughing his heart out.

[End... Preparing next]

"Y'know, I've been thinking" tboah!Bud said.

"Do you think this different information is actually real? Like it happens but from a different parallel or alternative universe?" He asks.

"The slime did say different information not fake information.." tboah!Litana was contemplating what the Mercenary said.

Everyone also thinks of that as they look at the slime... who somehow vanish again.

"..."

"Does that mean that the young master really acts childish and honest when drunk?" tcf!Pateson said as well as thinking that's kind of cute.

Meanwhile,

"Does that mean those love interests are real!?"

"Heck no!"

"Just no."

A certain someones were denying.

[Start]

Cale wakes up after making a deal with GoD.

"Oh? Are we finally seeing the story of the previous Cale?" tcf!Mila said as she was slightly curious at the human who choose to sacrifice himself to give a new chance for his family to live.

Why did GoD choose him? How the fuck could he know? But he did, and Cale accepted the deal.

tboah!Cale was also curious why his future self was chosen. He needed answers so that he could prepare for what he needed to do.

And now Cale's name is Kim Rok Soo, and he is reaching for his chest.

"Ah, so it really is the story of you" st!Kim Rok Soo said addressing og!Cale as he eats a cinnamon bun.

"How carnivorous!" st!Choi Jung Soo thought as he looks at what st!Kim Rok Soo is eating.

Why is that his first instinct? Because deals with GoD require you to die, that's why! The bastard sent him right back into his body so that he could die and have his soul extracted. Logical, but brutally straightforward!

"So I really need to die" tboah!Cale thought. At least he was now sure of one of the requirements.

So he reaches for his chest right? Concerned about the whole heart-beating thing? Because the last thing he remembers is the paralyzing super-hot chill as his heart burned to a crisp?

But when he reaches to touch his heart, in a motion he was familiar with in his past world, he can't find it.

He can't feel his heart.

What?!

Everyone was now worried that something wrong happened when the switching was being made.

Frantic, he starts searching more. Patting his entire upper torso down with both hands.

It is only after he finds it, feels the reassuring rhythm of a life not yet passed on,

Everyone relax knowing that og!Cale isn't a zombie living in a different world.

that he realizes something.

Holy shit this guy has a big chest.

tcf!Cale just raises his eyebrow.

While og!Cale nods at what he said. Along with tboah!Cale.

While the rest look at that chest.

Finally taking the moment to look down, his eyes only get wider.

His entire life Cale Henituse lived and died as a lean stick of a man, never able to put on a lot of meat on his light frame.

"What?! Even in 40yrs?! Really!?" tboah!Cale asks his other self desperately wanting it to be false.

But alas, all that hope drains as he saw og!Cale nodded dejectedly.

"My future bulky self!" He sorrowfully thought.

Everyone sweat drop at the pouting duo.

But this dude?

This dude's chest went on for days. It practically eclipsed his entire eyesight whenever he looked down. Floor who? Only boob.

tcf!Cale slightly flush.

While st!Kim Rok Soo has an impassive face.

And og!Cale and tboah!Cale nods shamelessly.

All while st!Lee Soo Hyuk and st!Choi Jung Soo cackles.

As the rest also finds it interesting and amusing.

Cautiously Kim Rok Soo moved his hands, which were already at least a half size bigger than the ones Cale had, to the sides of his chest. Placing them palm down, extending the fingers as far as they could go.

They did not touch.

"Wow" tboah!Cale with sparkling eyes dramatically and genuinely said his awe.

"Wow indeed," the crown prince thought after really seeing that chest.

"Yes, be amazed!" og!Cale once again shamelessly said.

As tcf!Cale sighed covering his face with one hand.

No, forget not touching, there was a decent gap of space between the fingertips. Enough for a third hand to fit into.

He impulsively gave them a squeeze.

It was hard. Giving only the slightest bit for a small layer of fat. Before stopping at a hard layer of muscle.

The crown prince flushes a little. He doesn't know why. But wow... just wow...

Meanwhile,

"Can you not?" tcf!Cale breathe out at og!Cale... Not that his mad... Just... Well... You know...

"Yeah, sorry about that" og!Cale was surprisingly showing guilt.

When he continues. "I shouldn't defile your sacred amazing body!" As he dramatically said believing that this body is too good for him. All the more reason why he loves it!

Kim Rok Soo almost felt like fainting, he felt like a pervert in his own skin. Like he had defiled something sacred.

He then noticed his hands were covered in scars, rolling his sleeves to find the same thing. Intrigued, he lifted up the hem of his shirt as well, and was met with a finely toned 6 pack that didn't look any less attractive decorated with the same lines of jagged skin.

This was the kind of body he had longed for in his life, one that had seen many battles. That could live on and protect others

Both tcf!Cale and st!Kim Rok Soo wrinkles their face. Why would anyone want that kind of body?

He scoffs at the idiotic duo.

Meanwhile,

"Finely toned 6 pack with battle scars" tboah!Cale was swooning at that dream-like body.

It also helped that Kim Rok Soo's face in the mirror could have passed for that of a famous actor.

Slowly, he clasped his hands together and closed his eyes.

Dear anyone other than that motherfucking GoD, thank you for creating such a fine specimen of a man. I will be sure to treat this body well.

"And I kept that promise!" og!Cale proudly said.

(in another room, "Lies!" "You were bleeding with that body for protecting others!" "And you faint because of being overworked!")

The back of og!Cale's ears tickle once again.

He scratches it.

Ctto: squidballsinc, Title: Chest 🙏 from Ao3

"A great title"

og!Cale and tboah!Cale approves.

[End... Preparing next]

[Start]

"Lily, your face looks especially bright today," Deruth says with a soft and fatherly smile on his face whilst placing down his cutlery, capturing everyone's attention. "It's what everyone in the territory seemed to be talking about and now that I'm looking at you, I can very well see that."

Pink blooms on the youngest's cheeks, seemingly embarrassed. "I-it's because master gave me a new sword while patting me on the head." she weakly responds before continuing to mutter something hard to hear unless near her.

Bassen sighs beside her, shaking his head as if he heard something incredulous. "Lily, that doesn't mean he agreed to marry you,"

"Marry!"

"Who!?"

"How dare anyone laid their eyes on my sweet innocent baby sister!"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale is preparing for murder.

No random lecherous man will take his baby sister away! Hmph!

"Brother!"

"M-marry?" Deruth stares at his daughter with shaky eyes.

Violan chuckles at their antics. She places her jeweled hand on top of her husband's, trying to sooth him, knowing how much of a worry-wart he becomes when it comes to his family.

"I'm sure they're just kidding, dear," She simpers with an elegant tone before addressing her child. "That aside, Lily, I'm glad you liked your gift but you know you won't be able to use it yet, right?"

The tsundere hyungs let out a relief sigh but they didn't let their guards down.

He won't let anyone taint his baby sister!

Lily's shoulders visibly droop, sadness exuding from her. It feels wrong seeing her like this in contrast to her usual strong and bright personality. Bassen looks at her younger sister with worry, setting down a hand to comfort her before casting a slight reprimanding look at his mother. "Mother..."

"I'm sorry but you know Lily's sick." Violan frets, feeling bad for what she said but not bad enough to risk her daughter's health. "We can't take any chances."

"Sick?"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale's eyes shake in worry.

It's not permanent, right?

But even if it's just temporary, he still is worried.

As if sensing his brothers' worries,

"I am very healthy!"

"I will someday become one of the strongest swordmasters in the future!"

Both Lily declares with a vibrant and determined face.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale hid their proud small smile.

"It's okay, honey. I'm sure you'll be able to hold your sword soon as long as you take your medicines regularly." Deruth interjects, trying to cheer his youngest up. He doesn't want their family dinner to continue in a blue atmosphere.

"Father's right, Lily," Bassen joins when he sees his father's method working. "I also have something to give you that I'm sure goes well with your new sword."

A gift!

Both Lily was excited. Then she held mischievous eyes.

"Orabuni! I want a gift from you too!"

"You'll give me right?"

They demanded to his tsundere of an elder brothers.

"Wha-?"

"Why would-"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale caught by surprise was flustered by their baby sisters' surprise attack.

"RIGHT?"

Both Lily is not one to back down.

The tsundere brothers could only nod at their baby sisters' demand. Because well.. this is the first time she ever asks him for something.

Both Lily was satisfied with that. Though it's a reluctant nod she still considers it a win.

Little steps. As long as they are moving forward together as a family.

"Really?!" A quizzical, bright smile appears on Lily's face, sparkling eyes looking at his brother as if she wasn't sad in the first place. The family heir chuckles as he pats her head, a feeling of relief in his system when he sees his sister smiling again.

Deruth and Violan smile at their children's interaction, creating a warm, familial ambience that even the servants near them are wearing a fond smile.

Thump.

The friendly atmosphere gets interrupted when they hear a thud on the table followed by the screech of a chair getting dragged.

"I've finished dinner," A blank stare directs towards Deruth, tone full of boredom. "Can I go now?"

It is disrespectful for someone to leave the dining table before the person with the highest rank or in this case, his father, the family head. Well, he doesn't care about that. It's his privilege as someone known as trash—an expected behavior coming from the good-for-nothing, drunkard eldest son of the famous Henituse family.

Most everyone flinches.

He was there the whole time?

Worst is, they could not believe they have forgotten about him.

He sees his father scrunching his eyebrows at him. "Cale—"

"You may do so," Violan interposes, causing for Cale to miss the tint of worry in Deruth's voice.

Both Violan flinch.

Was she that cold?

Back then she only agrees because she doesn't want her son Cale to feel uncomfortable.

But hearing her right now, makes her realize her mistake.

She promises to herself that it won't happen again.

Cale turns around to head towards the exit, not even bothering to glance back at his 'family'. Too scared that the throb in his heart will worsen. Scared that they will find out something useless about him.

The door closes with a clack. Footsteps echo around the hallway. It's okay. I can do this. I can—

Guilt is consuming the Henituse family.

They cannot believe that they would let Cale feel left out.

That they were hurting him.

How can they make this right?

While tboah!Caleand og!Cale stubbornly glares at the screen.

"Mhmp!" Cale dashes, putting a hand on his mouth, only stopping when he's far away from the dining room. His body staggers and soon breaks out into a violent coughing fit, spitting out a mouthful of yellow camellias; tears gather in his eyes as he looks at the pale yellow petals in his hands covered with smidgins of blood, not because of the pain, but because of the sudden reminder that he doesn't have the love that he yearns for.

What?

Most of them were petrified at what they have read.

"It's not real then!"

og!Cale and tboah!Cale scoff. They were glad that they can cover what they were feeling by saying it was not true.

"Is it?"

Everyone thought.

Because if this different information is actually real information but from a different timeline or world... They didn't want that.

They didn't want the kindhearted soul to be in any more pain.

"Fuck," he wipes the unsheded tears as he utters out quietly, voice sounding wrecked. "I fucking hate thi—" he gets cut off when another wave of camellias comes up. It hurts.

Real or not both Violan doesn't like seeing her son hurt.

She wants to go there and hug him.

Tell him comforting words.

Tell him he has a family.

She wants to go there.

To that world from the screen...

.. and to her sons that are on the other side of the glass-like wall.

But

Does she have the right to?

She grips her skirt. She is starting to realize that it's because he was always asking that question to herself that she always backs down at reaching her son.

She needs-no she won't ever use that excuse again.

Fire burns in her eyes as she plans to break the invisible wall that's dividing her and her son.

After settling down with the pain, he closes his eyes as he slumps on the floor before remembering what the doctor outside of their land told him a few weeks ago.

"I'm sorry for saying this but it's a mystery how you're still able to breathe normally," the doctor, Eruhaben informs him as he writes something with his quilt.

"Oh? So I'm the doctor there?" tboah!Eruhaben tilts his head.

He acted as a swordsman but as a doctor? That's new to him... But if it helps the unlucky noble... He guess he could be a doctor for some time... Of course it's because he has some free time to spare.

"..."

Cale blinks before asking, "Is that a bad thing?"

"Not necessarily, I just wanted to let you know how much of a miracle it is that you're not writhing in pain and suffocating right now."

"...it's that serious?"

"Yes, as I've shown you in the test results, your lungs are almost filled to the brim with flowers." Eruhaben looks at the redhead before sighing. "Why did you let your condition deteriorate to this extent? Does your family even know about this?"

"..."

In his 'family' full of brunettes, Cale is the only one with red hair. Perhaps it's the universe's way of telling him that he doesn't belong to this new, happy family that his father created without him.

Flinch

The Henituse family flinch once again.

They will forever hold this guilt... But they know that they should not use that guilt to not reach out to Cale.

The Henituse family won't stop. Won't make excuses... To reach out to their red and black-haired family.

Meanwhile, Both tboah!Cale and og!Cale internally curses. Even though they know this is different information but it still hit too close for comfort.

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"That's a very long cut!"

"They've been cutting a lot recently. Tsk!"

Both Korean hyungs show their displeasure. They want to know more about what happened to their dongsaeng. Fake information or not! They need to know!

... So that they could give the right comfort.

Eruhaben sighs again when he sees his patient avoid eye contact, slightly fidgeting. It's quite baffling seeing him like this as opposed to his rude first impression.

"At most, you only have 1 to 2 months to live. That is if you don't do something." he pauses before continuing.

What!!

Everyone demanded.

"Even in an alternative universe, you're still suffering!"

"How could this happen to you."

The Korean hyungs hug the startled tboah!Cale and og!Cale.

They did not expect to receive a warm embrace. That's why they sit frozen in place.

"Is this what it feels like to have an older brother?" They thought as they unconsciously melts into the warm hug...

... before they act like a hissing cat afraid of affection.

While that was happening.

tcf!Cale and st!Kim Rok Soo was silent, but their eyes contains raging anger.

It's troublesome but if they find out that this was really happening in a different world. They'll have to find ways to rip through time and space just to kidnap that idiot and heal him.

"As you know, hanahaki disease can be treate—"

Everyone perks up at that.

Hope.

There is a way to heal him.

They smile in relief.

.

.

That is until they read the next sentence.

"No, it's okay."

What!!!

Everyone demanded as they glare worriedly at the two idiots.

"Why would you not accept it. You idiots"

"Listen dongsaengs, living is the best."

"That's right! As long as you're alive there is hope!"

"You self-sacrificing idiots"

"Stop making us worry nya!"

"We'll cry nya"

"Don't die idiot humans!"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale feels that they've been wronged. "Why am I being insulted and nagged at?" They thought. They then continue to hear more comments.

"Unlucky noble." Tsk

"Crazy punk"

"Idiot-nim"

"Young master.."

"My s-son, please continue living"

"My dear Cale"

"Hyung.." Sniff

"Oraboni! Don't die" sniff sniff

At his siblings' cry both stiffen.

They panic about what to do with their crying siblings.

"I won't die!"

"I am alive! See!"

They keep rambling about being alive as they look helplessly for help at the Countess.

With the help of Violan, the siblings finally settle down.

As the two big brothers pretend to not care ("Really?" "Who are you kidding?") (Shut it Cale and Rok Soo!) all while taking a peek making sure that their siblings are really ok.

Hanahaki disease. An illness born from unrequited love, where the patient coughs up petals (sometimes even the flowers). It can be cured if the said person returns their feelings but can also be removed through surgery, though the feelings disappear along with the petals. If they choose neither options then the victim's lungs will fill up with flowers, and will eventually suffocate.

"Unrequited love huh?" tcf!Hannah had not felt any romantic love as of yet. So she doesn't know why would anyone still choose to feel that love and die rather than to live and forget.

"It sounds beautiful but at the same time dreadful" tcf!Jack said. He too has not experienced any romantic love. But he does love his family which is her sister and he could understand that he would rather die than forget about the love he has for his family.

Eruhaben clicks his tongue in dismay. He had seen punks like him who choose to suffer instead of living in peace in his long life. Who cares if your feelings disappeared, at least you're alive, right? He was hoping that wasn't the case with the redhead in front of him but of course, his expectation was betrayed.

"Goldie gramps is right you know, nya!"

"Listen to goldie gramps's advice, nya!"

"Humans! All dragons are smart! So you should listen to goldie gramps!"

"That's right, I'm a wise ancient dragon so you should listen to me and choose to live you unlucky noble" tboah!Eruhaben sighed at two idiots.

Should he just steal them?

"So, what type is it?" Eruhaben asks.

"What?"

"Is it romantic or platonic love?"

"Oh...platonic love," Cale looks down at his hands as he clenches them close.

Cale feels shame. Shame at the fact he caught this morbid yet beautiful disease because his own father didn't love him back. Although it is quite normal for children of noble houses (since most of them only have children for political use), it's still different for him since many of them immediately stop longing for their parents or are forced to get surgery.

"No..."

Both Deruth was devastated, has his alternative self not loved his son?

He hated that Deruth, the one who caused his son suffering!

tboah!Eruhaben clicks his tongue. "So he was the cause" His dragon fear roars as he thought.

"Maybe I should really steal the unluck noble."

Those who were near him shivered with cold sweat.

The doctor rubs his temples. Normally, platonic love is easier to deal with rather than romantic love, but clearly it isn't the case with this patient.

tcf!Cale already knew this.

That these two idiots were always about family.

They ruin their reputation for their step-family.

They're willing to sacrifice themself for their family.

And they love their family more than themselves.

tcf!Cale sigh. It's not like he couldn't understand just how important family is, blood-related or not. But he will not sacrifice himself for them.

Instead, he will live with them. Because he was that selfish.

That's why he will teach these idiots how to be selfish.

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He swings the door open, frown still heavy on his face as he makes sure his action conveyed how much annoyance he is feeling. "What—?"

His face instantly wears a mask of indifference when he finally looks at the perpetrator that made him feel vexed so early in the morning.

"E-eldest brother..." In front of him is Lily, his little half sister, fiddling with her thumbs whilst trying to find the right words to convey something to him.

"Yes?" This situation is quite surprising since they treat each other mostly like strangers (well, it was him who forced this relationship between the two of them or more like his whole family). Even though Lily always reached out to him, it was always blocked by the high walls he built around him and eventually she stopped trying. He didn't make a grudge out of it since if he was in her shoes, he would have also stopped trying to bother with his incompetent brother.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale flinch.

Yeah... He was the one who built walls so high up that even with the effort of his family to try and reach him was for naught. That was why it was not his family's fault that they couldn't reach him... Because he was the one who push them away.

That's why they act like a stranger to each other even in their own home.

So he really was surprised that he let his guard down little by little from the moment he got exposed to his act.

Of course, it wasn't and wouldn't be easy to just stop.

He had been doing this for almost all of his entire life. So he doesn't know when to drop everything that he was building.

That's why he was both grateful and scared that his family is trying to once again break his walls with more force than ever.

"I..." She abruptly looks up, locking eyes with him and Cale can see the determination burning inside it. "Uhm...Can we—can I please spar with you?!"

The redhead is taken aback. Why is she asking him that? No, more importantly, how does she even know he can somehow yield a sword?

Cale's nose wrinkles, internally deciding on indulging the younger just this one time. "You're not even allowed to move too much because of your health and you're asking me to have a spar with you?"

"You don't have to worry about that!" She answers enthusiastically. "I asked brother Bassen for permission and he said it was alright!"

Cale raised a brow. Well, if it's Bassen then there shouldn't be any problem right?

Both Basen feels delighted that even there his brother thinks highly of him... even though he shouldn't be.

Because it was his fault that his elder brother have to suffer all those insults and pain just so he could be accepted.

That's why he won't ever let that happen again.

He will be so strong that his hyung-nim would not need to protect him.

That his hyung-nim would not need to distance himself from them.

"Alright."

Lily's eyes open wide, surprised that he agreed. She wasn't expecting his oldest brother to agree! But she still asked because talking to him even in a short amount of time already makes her happy.

og!Cale and tboah!Cale stiffen.

He did not expect that his baby sister would be happy to be in his presence.

To actually be happy with talking to him for even just a moment.

Has he been putting up so many walls that he did not ever think that his sister actually likes him?

Does she really?

He knew it was a stupid question. He knows that his sister and his family love him deeply.

But he was just too scared to accept those love.

"Really?!"

"What, you don't want to?"

"No! I mean, I want to! I want to! I want t—gasp!" she freezes when she is met with the most genuine smile she ever saw on his brother's face. Well, not like she really ever saw his brother smile.

Both Lily was happy that since coming here she could see a glimpse of his elder brothers genuine smile.

And she would make sure that it will continue even when they leave this place.

Cale immediately erases the expression he didn't mean to make. Shit, I was too caught up with the moment. "Are we going or not?"

"What so wrong in expressing yourself?"

"Don't be afraid to show your emotion"

The Korean hyungs told the hissing cats who were backing away from their outstretched arms.

Lily smiles at her brother, heart feeling warm and fuzzy. Maybe there is hope.

"Mhm!"

So much for a rest day, Cale thinks. After noticing how much fun he had today, passing time with his little sister, he left her straight away. Immediately coughing out those wretched flowers not long before locking himself inside his room after receiving some of the finest alcohol that was available at that time from his butler.

He sighs, taking a swig right after. Pathetic . He's so pathetic, allowing himself to give in. How can he be so careless? His plan is to leave peacefully without anyone knowing so It will only hurt the both of them if he lets this continue.

"Urgh... Stop degrading yourself you idiot human!" tcf!Rasheel has never seen such frustrating humans as those four in the center room.

And wow he realizes that there are FOUR of them, urgh!!

He had always known that humans are selfish and that some of them can even rival the selfishness of dragons. But these four... sigh

He's not sure that they're even human anymore with that self-sacrificial mindset.

He lets himself relax, closing his eyes as the alcohol goes down his throat, trailing burns, especially on the small cracks caused by the flower buds that came out of him. He doesn't mind as he finds it as a way to punish himself from being negligent.

It's getting harder to breathe. Did it worsen because he exhausted his body today from the sparring session? He mindlessly thinks.

Bang!

His reddish eyes open in startle. "Wha—Father?"

"Cale!" The strong voice reached his ear, distantly hearing other shouts from behind his father.

"Father? What are you doing in my roo—" his question stops when he hears ringing with a muffled crashing sound. Only realizing a second after that it's from the bottle of alcohol he dropped and the ringing inside his ear caused by the slap he received from his father. From his father. Ha! Seriously? It's been so long since he touched him and he decides to break that with a slap?

"Dear!"

"Father!"

Both Voilan, Basen, and Lily echo what was said.

As both Deruth pales at what he- no it's not him, it's not him! - had done.

Everyone was shocked and speechless momentarily at what happened.

He makes out the figures of Violan and Bassen, trying to stop father. But Deruth only blocks their words, not even bothering to listen to them.

"Cale, did you yield your sword towards Lily?!" Deruth shouted, small veins popping out of the side of his neck.

Cale places a hand on his stinging fresh wound, wiping the blood from his now busted lip on the way. Cold eyes make their way towards the man causing his sufferings. "Yield? You're making it sound as if I did that because I have an ill intent towards her,"

"That's right!"

"What's wrong if Oraboni yields!?"

Both Lily said in outrage.

Never in Deruth's life would've thought to receive such a furious gaze coming from his sweet Lily who is currently gripping her short sword.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale cringe and feel sorry for his father so he decided to defend him.

"Lily, it's o-"

He couldn't finish his sentence when that protective furious glare turns to him that says 'don't even think of defending him'.

He decided to shut up as he still couldn't comprehend how his baby sister is so protective of him.

Deruth snorts, pointing a finger at him. "Let me guess, you're going to say that you didn't know about Lily's condition next, aren't you?" There is a mocking tone behind his words.

"No! Father's wrong." Bassen butts in, trying to convince Deruth. "It was my fault! It was my fault Lily collapsed. I'm the one who told her it was okay to practice with her sword. It's not eldest brother's fault!"

"Condition?"

"Collapse?"

tboah! Cale and og!Cale pales, as his eyes shake in worry.

Did he do that to his sister?

Was he the cause?

He thought that his father should've done more than just a slap to the face for bringing harm to his sister.

"As Basen said, it's not your fault"

"Stop being depressed or I'll tell Lily that you feel responsible even if it wasn't your fault"

"Bu-"

"So you want to make Lily even more worried?"

"And you don't want Basen to feel useless by brushing aside his help, right?"

That made them pause. As they reluctantly give in.

The Korean hyungs smile helplessly. It wasn't good to use his siblings against him but they know that it was the only way for him to stop thinking that everything is his fault.

"Stop defending him, Bassen."

"Something happened to Lily?" Cale questions, worry seeping in him. His fingers twitch, wanting to hold something—anything to calm his nerves down.

"Lily vomited and collapsed not long after because her body was overwhelmed, and now there's a possibility of her suffering from dehydration!" Deruth grits his teeth. "As her older brother, how can you do this to her?!"

og!Cale and tboah!Cale flinch.

Before they could even think that their father is right, an outburst stops their thoughts.

"FATHER!"

"Didn't the me there say that it wasn't hyung-nim's fault"

Both Bassen was trembling in anger that his father is not listening to him and is hurting his precious hyung both physically and internally.

He hates not being able to protect his hyung-nim even from their father. "How useless" It isn't the first time he thought that about himself.

og!Cale and tboah!Cale wants to hug and calm his younger brother and tell him that it's ok. But there is still a part of him that says he isn't worthy. That all he knows is how to shut off people from his life.

He holds both his hand and grips them.

"Dear, you have to calm down. I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding," Violan says, attempting to mediate.

"Violan, take Bassen with you and get out."

Both Violan sends an icy stare toward her husband.

As the said husband was sweating profusely "D-Dear" he nervously said, "you know that's not me, right?"

"Of course" she reply as she continue "and even if you did that I will still follow your orders."

She closed her eyes and sat in a calm manner.

"But I'll be right back with my sword in hand"

Correction, it's the calm before the storm.

"But dear—"

"Me?" Cale looks at him in disbelief. "You're saying it's my fault?"

"Violan, now!" Violan looks at Cale before reluctantly leaving, forcing Bassen to come with her.

Violan glares at her alternative self for just backing down like that.

She half hopes that her alternative self will come back with her sword in hand and prepare to defend her son by beating sense to her husband both figuratively and physically.

"And you, don't even try to make excuses, you unfilial son!" Deruth scolds right after the door closes with a click.

Everyone can't help but stare daggers at both Deruth.

Except, of course, the said 'unfilial son' who agrees with his father.

Cale opens his mouth yet no words come out. Stop it. Just hold it in like always. Father is only like this because he's worried about Lily. He understands. He understands. He understands.

He doesn't.

"...fucking shut up, will you?" He's tired. Tired of always convincing himself that he understands. Perhaps it's the alcohol talking, he reasons even though he knows himself that he isn't drunk even in the slightest. He wants to end this bullshit. Wants to finally be at peace.

"Yes!"

"Let it out!"

"Curse him!"

Cursing and agreement were being said by almost everybody including the wife and children.

Both Deruth flinches. But internally he supports what they are saying. Even he himself is starting to hate the Deruth that he is seeing. The Deruth that is him.

"What...what did you just say?"

"I only did so because Lily asked me to spar with her and she said she had asked permission from Bassen. Who am I to question your perfect son?" He glares at him. "You would have known that if you fucking listened to Bassen." He wants to laugh at his stupefied faces, it almost hurts. Ah, I should've just done this in the first place .

"Yes, you really should have" st!Kim Rok Soo said with a frown. He wasn't particularly close to Deruth like his future self nor does he know him.

He was the kind of person who lives in the present.

And the present right now is that he had spent more time with tboah!Cale and og!Cale, so it's a no-brainer that he would choose to defend them rather than the other.

"And son? Seriously, Father?" Cale sneers at him, a frenzied smile forming in his face. "Since, when was the last time you treated me as your son?"

That.

That really hurt.

Both Deruth was in a depth of misery.

He couldn't stop thinking that did his son always thought about that? Did Cale really believe that he doesn't care about him?

All these questions but he knows the answer.

It was his fault.

For not making it clear.

For not being there.

For always making an excuse.

Crestfallen, he realized how bad of a father he had been.

Deruth furrowed his eyebrows. "What do you mean by that, Cale? And mind your manners—"

"Manners be damned, I'm trash remember? Why do I have to fucking care about useless shit like that?" My head hurts. It feels suffocating . He wants to escape, to flee away from his brown piercing eyes. Eyes that he used to look up to, holding such love for him.

"Cale! Don't talk to me like that!" Deruth yells, spits coming with it. "I'm your father!"

"I kinda wanted to strangle him " tcf!Lee Soo Hyuk thought. He didn't say it out loud because his dongsaengs clearly loves that man as a father. Tsk .

Should he just steal them?

He thought as he is physically restraining Choi Jung Soo who was about to literally strangle the Count.

"Father? Father?!" Cale clenches his hand on fabric around the area where his heart is along the skin. "How dare you claim that you're my father! If you are! if you really are my father, then how come you never show me affection?"

Tears are starting to form in his eyes. "How come—how come you treat me as if I'm just a doll on display? Why is it that you never hold me like you hold Bassen and Lilly? Never welcoming me when I go home just like how you do with Bassen. " His voice cracks, questions coming out a little more desperate than what Cale had intended. Desperate for an answer; like a starved man achingly searching for an oasis. "Am I that despicable? So despicable that you don't even love me?"

With every word that his son said, both Deruth felt something stab his heart.

You are love.

He wanted to say that to his son.

He wanted to tell him that he is precious, that nothing and no one can replace him.

But no words left his mouth as the cowardly father that he is.

He feels like just saying it won't make a difference.

Yes, he should convey his love to his son.

... But how?

"What? Of course I do, you're my son! I love you—" He stops and to Deruth's absolute horror (and Cale's) the redhead starts hacking up petals; the frail buds tinted with blood at the tips. Deruth's stomach's sinks as the floral scent hit his nose.

Shit, Cale curses in his mind. Why did his body decide to spit flowers right at this moment?—Wait, no. This is probably a good thing, right? This is his chance to let everything out. To let go of everything without worrying about the outcome. He's going to die anyway.

"Is that the only time you're going to open up?"

"When you're dying?"

They, of course, were not impressed.

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A loud pound on the door intervenes whatever Deruth was going to say. "Lord Deruth! Madam Violan told us to inform you that the young lady has woken up!" a muffled, urgent voice cuts through the thick door.

Deruth's eyes widens. "Lily? Right, Lily. I have to go." The older man looks at his son, flinching at the cold eyes. "Stay here. Let's continue this tomorrow."

Sure, I'll stay here. Although there's no guarantee that there will be a continuation.

And with that Deruth is gone, not knowing whether or not he'll see the disturbing yet alluring sight of his son's cold body, laid on his bed surrounded by yellow camellias tomorrow.

Who knows?

Ctto: leiamons, Title: "Will You Finally Love Me If I Lie Down On My Death Bed Full Of Petals?" From ao3

[End... Preparing next]

Deruth Henituse!"

"I can't believe that you left our son behind while his coughing out blood and clearly suffering and most probably dying !!"

Oh the boiling anger that was rolling in both Violan made og!Cale and tboah!Cale's eyes were wide in shock. They have never seen her like this, not even when he acted trash. And she was being angry for him.

"D-Dear" Deruth tries to pacify her.

"Don't you 'dear' me" it was met with an icy reply.

Both Deruth was sweating with nervousness at his wife's rage. It also makes it worst because every mother is also glaring daggers at him.

Which also left some people feeling scared.

You should never underestimate a mother's wrath.

It's been a long time since og!Cale and tboah!Cale has ever experienced a mother's protective range.

So he subconsciously calls out to her.

"Mother"

This makes Violan freeze and swiftly look at her sons.

Both of them sat frozen with clear shock. He did not expect to call Violan, mother, out loud.

They both flush as they hurriedly look away.

Butterflies settle on Violan's heart as she put her hands on her mouth, tears threatening to come out as she felt unimaginable joy that her sons had called her mother.

Even though it's clearly not intended but it was a huge step for him and her as a family.

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