I Became a Villain's Hero [Complete]

Chapter 124: The Unchanging Hero (5)

Song Soo-yeon remembered Jung-gyeom's words.

The words he said the day she first tried to jump off the rooftop.

"You'll regret it."

He wasn't wrong.

Had she jumped that day, she wouldn't have tasted the happiness Jung-gyeom later gave her.

The feeling of playing in an amusement park.

Watching a parade.

The feeling of dating.

Holding hands, hugging.

The feeling of being in love, she would have known none of it.

Song Soo-yeon took steps, one at a time.

A cool breeze brushed past her hair.

At the same time, she revisited her conversations with Jung-gyeom one by one.

Back then, the five-story building she chose due to an underlying fear of death.

From that height, Jung-gyeom had said,

"If you really wanted to die, you wouldn't have chosen this building."

Even this was true.

Five stories was not too low to die from... but it wasn't high enough to guarantee it either.

Had she gone through with it, as he said, she might have just ended up with broken legs due to her lingering attachment to life.

"...Not anymore, mister."

Song Soo-yeon whispered quietly.

From the rooftop of a twenty-story building, Song Soo-yeon looked down at the distant ground.

Several lights twinkled like stars.

Had Jung-gyeom been beside her, she might have thought it beautiful.

But not now.

The simple news of Jung-gyeom's death erased any lingering attachment to the world.

Thinking about it, this too might have been inevitable.

After all, as he said, parting was inevitable.

It was too hard to stay sane after watching Jung-gyeom walk into ruin because of her.

There was no one she loved more.

And because of her, he had faced death.

He had sacrificed himself.

In the past, even from the height of five stories, her legs trembled.

But now, cleanly devoid of any attachments, she felt no fear of death.

As she walked, she felt nothing.

It felt like her inner self had died along with Jung-gyeom.

There was only one thing she wished for now.

To meet Jung-gyeom again, in death.

If she could meet that man who had been her only salvation in this world just one more time, it wouldn't matter where it was.

After all, a world without Jung-gyeom was hell to her.

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Min-Bom and I stuck close together, sharing trivial stories for a long time.

I told her about everything that had happened to me, step by step, and Min-Bom shared what had happened during that time as well.

Perhaps because a lot of stress had accumulated, she whined to me as she spoke.