Devil Child's

Chapter 31

Taeyun's father walked into a room surrounded by blue flames. In the room there was only himself and a man.

"I brought it."

"Bring in."

"Yes." Yeah."

Taeyun's father opened the door where he had entered. Three demons simultaneously entered with a large blue tube.

"Is this.."

Sean walked up to the tube shortly after the three demons placed him before him.

"Yes. It belongs to Ky."

Sean grinned. He was too happy to see the blue thing in front of him.

"You can leave now" he ordered Taeyun's father and the three demons earlier.

Sean rubbed the tube slowly in front of him. The man seemed to admire the blue thing.

"Ky.. You are reliable."

***

Sung Ha continued to hold Jovian's hand which felt very cold. It's been three days. But Sung Ha's concern for Jovian grows, as the man still shows no change. The man's face was still pale, his body was cold and his heartbeat was still weak. Until that day Jovian had not opened his eyes, and it made Sung Ha want to cry.

"Jovians.."

Sung Ha's tears finally spill as he feels fear if he should lose Jovian. In the kiss of Jovian's right hand which he still held with hope.

"I beg.. Wake up.."

Sung Ha's tears were increasingly spilled as he felt a tightness in his heart. He was crying in silence. However, Sung Ha does not want Min Jin or Min Ri to be disturbed by the sound of his crying.

Without Sung Ha noticing Min Jin and Min Ri had noticed him from the gap of the door that was slightly open. Not intending to peek or eavesdrop, only when they want to see Jovian's condition they undo their intentions when they hear Sung Ha's voice which is very clear to sound raucous.

Min Jin slowly closed the door and let Sung Ha cry. At least that's what he can do right now.

Sung Ha rubbed his tears, he sighed, trying to calm down. But still could not, the tears were still pushing out and in the end he came back crying.

A few drops of dripping tears washed Jovian's hands.

"Jovians.."

***

Jovian sat quietly in a pitch-black room. Only a small blue flame before him became a light.

He was silent, not knowing what was on his mind. He repeatedly heard someone calling his name, but he remained silent and preferred to look at the blue fire in front of him without blinking.

Tests

Jovian blinked his eyes as the sound of water droplets was caught by his sense of hearing.

"Jovians.."

The man again heard someone calling his name, this time more clearly heard.

Tests

Slowly Jovian turned his head to the right as the water droplets came back. He was silent, there was nothing he could see, only darkness.

The blue flames that were in front of Jovian started to blaze up even bigger. A firebox that is given oil little by little.

"Jovians.."

Jovian got up from his seat. Slowly he walked towards the sound, leaving behind the fire that began to grow. Step by step Jovian walked, the blue flames grew bigger, clarifying Jovian's point of view.

Jovian stopped his steps when he saw a girl extend her hand to him. The girl smiled at Jovian.

Slowly Jovian's hand moved to grab the hand that was stretched out on him. Instantly the blue flames that were already far enough behind Jovian grew rapidly and filled the room.

Jovian opened his eyes slowly. He looked to his right and there was a crying girl holding his hand.

"Sung Ha.." call out to Jovian who is even hard to hear by the owner of the name.

Jovian's right hand that Sung Ha had been holding turned into Jovian grabbed Sung Ha's hand which immediately made Sung Ha surprised and turned towards Jovian.

"You wet my hand" said Jovian quite loudly, at least being heard by Sung Ha.

Sung Ha was still silent. Was the man before him currently conscious? Is he dreaming?

"Jovians.."

"Yes?"

Sung Ha immediately hugged Jovian who was still lying on the bed. Her tears kept flowing in Jovian's arms.

"Jovians."

Jovian is shocked when Sung Ha suddenly hugs him and cries.

"Don't leave me." said Sung Ha in his tears.

Jovian stroked Sung Ha's head. "I'm not leaving you. Now get up, you're wetting my clothes."

- Sorry

Jovian took a piece of meat with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth. He sat down to enjoy the food in front of him. Jovian stopped eating and put the chopsticks near a bowl that was still filled with rice.

"I can't eat if you look at me like that" he said to the three pairs of eyes that kept looking at him.

The three people gasped and continued eating those who had not been touched.

"I told you I don't want to talk about it."

Jovian got up from his seat.

"Let's go" he told Sung Ha who was still sitting in his chair.

"Now?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"But.." Sung Ha turned his head towards Min Ri and Min Jin.

Min Jin got up from his seat.

"Go." he said and left the dinner table.

Min Ri who saw him immediately followed Min Jin into the man's room.

Jovian and Sung Ha get out of the house. From the second floor could be seen Min Jin and Min Ri looking at the two figures who had just walked out of their house.

"Are we really going to let go?" ask Min Ri.

"Min Ri, why do you think we should kill Sung Ha?"

"Isn't it obvious, because Sung Ha is a creature who wasn't expected to exist."

"Do you know who Sung Ha's mother is?"

Min Ri looked at the man beside her confusedly.

"What do you mean?"

"You know we can't see the aura, that's what keeps us from realizing it." Min Jin looked at Min Ri inside. "He is the Queen's son." she continued.

Min Ri frowned not understanding. Why could Min Jin think that way.

Min Jin again directed his gaze towards Sung Ha who came out of his area of the house.

"You remember when I saw Jovian's aura after he came to his senses? I accidentally saw Sung Ha's aura. Besides having the same light that the Queen has. He has the same fire as Jovian."

Min Ri's eyes were wide open. He's surprised.

"You mean he.."

"Yes. He's also the descendant of the royal demon."

"But if she's the queen's daughter why did the queen order us to kill her?"

"We'd better get back to the angel world."

"What about our mission? Aren't we allowed to return before we finish the mission?"

"For that matter let me take care of it."

***

Sung Ha walks after Jovian. The girl's eyes never escaped the figure in front of her. He felt like he hadn't walked together like this for a long time. Jovian's steps stopped just below an orange-leaved maple tree.

"What's wrong?" ask Sung Ha who stopped.

Jovian turned around and looked at Sung Ha. Under the tree they looked at each other. Jovian remained silent until he opened his mouth.

"The night before you found me, did you get out of the house?"

Hearing Jovian's question, Sung Ha thought for a moment, recalling the night's run.

"Because you're not around, so I went out looking for you. Why?"

"Was you hurt that night?"

Sung Ha recalled the events back then.

"Yes. But it's just a small wound, you don't have to worry."

Jovian's chest felt hit by something. It was not a matter of concern that Jovian had debated, but the matter of the girl he had seen the last time before he was awakened in the demon world. The girl who stabbed him in the park, Sung Ha.

"Are you in the park at the time?" ask him again.

"The garden? That night I went to the park. Why are you suddenly asking like that?"

"So it's you. Why did you do it? Am I forcing you so much that you want to kill me?"

Jovian looked at Sung Ha sharply. The gaze that Sung Ha had not gotten for a long time now returned to him.

"What.. Whatchu mean?"

Sung Ha's body trembled looking at the gaze Jovian gave him. Somehow he felt that Jovian was angry with him. What makes that guy angry? Did he make a mistake?

"Who do you think you are? Son of my brother? Ne, you're my brother's son, but that doesn't mean you can do as you please to me!"

"Jovian.." call Sung Ha lirih. Sung Ha's eyes began to turn red withstanding the urge of the water wanting to come out of his eyes.

"You. From the beginning you can't be born in any world."

Sung Ha's tears that from the beginning tried to hold him finally spilled. The girl's chest was claustrophobic hearing the word for word the man before her.

Jovian turned around leaving Sung Ha still standing. One by one the orange maple leaves fell in the wind. Sung Ha only looked blankly at the back of the man who walked away leaving him.

'From the beginning you cannot be born in any world.'

Those words flashed repeatedly in Sung Ha's head like a terrifying voice that had haunted him. Thin black dust began to envelop Sung Ha's still standing body.

With a blank look Sung Ha tried to open the door in front of him, the door of his own home. But it's all for nothing because Sung Ha didn't bring the key. The key is now in her bedroom drawer at Jovian's house.

Because the door couldn't open Sung Ha walked into the garden behind his house. He hadn't visited his home in a long time.

The girl was sitting on a swing that was her favorite vehicle when her parents were alive. Slowly the swing began to swing. Sung Ha just stared at the nanar of a cosmos flower tree not far from him. The garden has quite a lot of dark pink flowers

One by one the flowers withered and dried up followed by Sung Ha's body which was increasingly enveloped by black dust.