Once upon the in ancient Greece/ Omniscient reader/ Yoo Joonghyuk x Kim Dokja

episode-8 (how I met that God [part-1])

"-hyuk! Joonghyuk! Don't die you bastard!"

This wasn't the first time he heard this voice. This was a voice that was very familiar to him. This was the voice of the one he loved, the one who always helped him, the one who never betrayed him until this very moment

This was the voice of a God.

Yes a God, same as that bitch Hera who made him kill his own daughter and wife or that bastard of a father who did nothing to stop her to save his own granddaughter.

He was a God, a God who didn't come to help him when he needed it the most.

Yoo Joonghyuk heard the sound of low sobs, if it was any other day he would have rushed ahead to comfort the person in front of him.

But too much happened today. He lost too much today.

"I'm sorry."

*Why?*

"I'm sorry"

*Why are you crying?*

"It's my fault."

*It's not.*

"It's my fault, so don't die."

*It's my fault.*

It was Yoo Joonghyuk's fault that Seolhwa, his children, and his mother died. It was Yoo Joonghyuk's fault that he wasn't strong enough, that he wasn't cautious enough, that he was born.

He should've never been born in the first place.

This was a mistake. He was a mistake.

"I'll take them, I'll take care of them until you come to Olympus. So, please, please until then live."

The wounds covering his body healed themselves even before he could notice.

Reflected in those obsidian eyes Joonghyuk saw on his own, they looked so dead compared to before.

He looked so dead compared to before.

He couldn't see the face of the man that was holding him in his arms, but he could see his eyes. They were stained red as he was crying unlike himself.

But not for long he supposed as he stared into those eyes he noticed his own were also beginning to turn red.

This was a God in front of him, a God was crying in front of him, begging for his forgiveness.

"Who are you?"

His voice sounded more raspy than usual, that was to be expected.

"I'm just another God."

No, you are not, you are different. You are cruel too but you care.

"Who are you?"

"I, I'm Salvation."

Salvation? Well that can mean different things, but for him there is no salvation in this world and there will never be any in the future either.

*Then I suppose he can be my salvation.*

He can be my dream.

"It suits you."

And he can be my nightmare.

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"Hyunnnggg-ah, why can't we just take the path along the stream... Haaaa my legs are hurting, my head is hurting, my arms are hurting. I will die like this."

Kim Namwoon said leaning on Lee Hyunsung for support.

"Shut up, Kim Namwoon." Jihye and Heewon said in unison.