|Weak Hero| Change the Fate's Design

Chapter 25

Donald went for a walk that late afternoon. He felt like he needed space and to be alone after all that. He was fine with apologizing to the Silververse gang as both Silver Yeon and Donald Na, but it still felt incredibly awkward to apologize as Donald Na to the Eungang he has wronged.

"D-Donald!?" 

Donald turned around to face Myles Joo. "Myles,"

"You're alive..." Myles stared at him in shock. "You really did come back from the dead!"

"I'm sure you're disappointed," Donald calmly replied. "But rest assured, I plan on going back to being dead as soon as we find a way to return to the other world,"

"What!?" Myles exclaimed. "Why would you want to die again!?"

"Because I'm happier there," Donald answered flatly. "Word of advice Myles, since I'm sure you plan on taking control of Yeongdeungpo with Manwol, you'll lose to Eunjang if you go after them. Although, I doubt you'll listen to me since I literally kicked your ass three times,"

"I could take on Ben Park—"

"No, you can't," Donald cut him off. "As you saw at the Han River, he's grown stronger in just a year. Stop with your delusions, Myles. You won't be able to beat him. You've repeatedly tried fighting me, the last time being with you having a group of armed Manwol members, yet you still lost. I know your limits, Myles,"

A tense silence fell between them. Donald began to continue walking away but Myles called out to him, "I hated you but I never wanted you to die!"

Donald paused. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but you told me that it was my choice to end my life trying to look cool, implying that you wanted to kill me,"

"It was just an empty threat like everyone does!" Myles claimed. "Even Ben Park sometimes says he's gonna kill someone but never actually kills them! We all just talk tough like that but beat people until they're unconscious! The worst thing we've ever done was you badly injuring Ben's arm!"

"Manwol permanently damaged Kenny's leg," Donald reminded. "He'll never be able to run again,"

"But they didn't kill him," Myles said, trying to prove his point. "We say we're gonna kill people but we never do,"

"If you plan on continuing leading Manwol," Donald warned. "Be careful of Cheongang. They were the ones who hired the truck driver to hit me,"

"What?" Myles was caught off guard by that revelation. "I thought it was an accident,"

"It wasn't," Donald shook his head. "If the Union continued into our adulthood, I think we would've also began committing worse crimes. If you're really set on continuing Manwol, be careful, Myles. I wouldn't want you to end up dead like me,"

"Why are you so casual about having had died!?" Myles snapped.

"My death is still pretty fresh for everyone in this world," Donald told him. "But I've lived in the other world for over a decade. I've had enough time to come to terms with my death and move on with my life,"

"So you're really set on leaving everything behind and going back to that other world?" Myles asked, voice quieter.

"I wish you and the rest of our gang could've had a chance for a happy childhood without violence," Donald gave him a sad smile. "We all banded together because we had similar situations. I hope you and the others could live a happier life without having to die like me,"

"Your mother's urn is in this world," Myles' words caused Donald to freeze. "Are you just going to leave her behind?"

"I...plan to visit her at least once before I go back," Donald let out an exhausted sigh. "That is the only thing I'll regret after going back to the other world. Sua Lee did exist and die in the other world, but she wasn't Silver Yeon's mother. She wasn't my mother so it wouldn't be the same if I visited her ashes in the other world,"

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To Donald's surprise, Silververse Donald accompanied him to the columbarium to visit Sua's ashes. "How similar was my mother to yours?"

"Based on my interactions with her, she was identical to mine," Donald claimed. "The same smile, the same warmth, the same expression when she didn't want us to worry about her...It was all identical to my own mother,"

"You never got to say goodbye to your own mother," It was a statement, not a question. Silververse Donald had seen Donald's memory of seeing his mother's corpse in that cold morgue two days after her death.

"I wanted to give you the chance that I never had," Donald stared sadly at his mother's photo. "Becoming the Emperor of Yeongdeungpo isn't the kind of life Mom would've wanted us to live."

"I did it to survive—"

Donald glared at him. "No, you didn't. I created a gang and resorted to crimes to survive. I was all alone. I had no one to turn to, no one to rely on but myself. But you? You had me and Gray. You could've come live with us. You could've had a normal life, one that I never had. Instead, you chose to cut us out of your life and go down that same path I did. It was a choice, not a necessity,"

A tense silence followed but was broken by Silververse Donald asking, "Would living with the two of you really have freed me from the rotten cycle of unfairness?"

"At least we wouldn't be the perpetrators of that cycle," Donald told him. "I'm not saying we would have been saints, but we wouldn't have hurt innocent people. We would've only hurt those that try to hurt us first,"