Life Past The Recordings

The Hero's Death

It was at that moment...

Dark eyes rounded in deep shock as he witnessed what's happening to his dearest.

His heart dropped.

Choi Han felt like his breath just got cut off entirely.

It was not until he realized that lover is free-falling from such height that his body moved in reflex.

"MOONLIGHT!!!"

A chilly scream could be heard coming from that swordmaster who launched forward almost instinctively.

Dread covered all over his body as he witnesses the way Red is covering this convulsing man on his arm.

'...no...! no no no no no!! T-This can't be happening, right?'

"J-Jagiya... h-hey... this... t-this is just a part of the plan, right?"

His mind is chaotic.

Didn't he say that Cale Henituse is on their side?

Then why?

Why did that bastard do this to his Moonlight?

Was this another part of twisted plan that he doesn't know of?

He has a lot of questions in his head.

Yet, when he saw that the two dragons are just as startled as himself...

Choi Han felt like something within him snapped at that moment.

As soon as he caught his falling lover with his shaky hands, he went to Eruhaben who's rushing to the couple as well.

"P-Please hang on, Jagiya... you'll be okay... we'll save you"

But the shaking body, who's still coughing black blood violently later called to him for a different reason.

"H-Han-ah..."

Moonlight's voice is so small and can barely be heard, but Choi Han who's paying utmost attention to that bloodied lips could hear it well.

"You'll be okay... you will survive, I promise..."

Choi Han just keeps on chanting empty promises for his mind his blanking out from everything else but the fear of losing the light of his life.

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That black-haired swordmaster is gripping onto the armrests so hard that they- not only cracked, it's destroyed nearly in a small explosion.

Choi Han could also tell that he's barely maintaining his Aura in check when he looked away and let the others comfort him into calmness.

This is not their first rodeo...

They've seen Cale in a similar state in the past...

But unlike them, Choi Han has seen him in a worse state.

Throughout Choi Jung Soo's memories, he has seen some moments where Kim Rok Soo barely hanging by the thread.

Throughout that Sealed God's test in the other parallel world, he has seen how his friend was drenched in his own blood, unable to do anything as he was being moved away on a moveable bed.

Throughout that ending where Cale had stabbed himself in his heart to activate the sword, the World Tree-nim gave him... Choi Han was present to watch everything in deep terror.

This sense of helplessness was different than the times when he was ready to die himself.

To watch someone you treasure withering away right before your eyes... is a different kind of torture, and it was the worst of all kinds of physiological attack he ever received.