The Best of Tomorrow [ 내일의 으뜸]

Chapter 53

[To Sonjae.

I wanted to make sure that I could run through the worlds so that I could cross the world that you couldn't cross. Even though it was my own idea without your consent.

You said you were precious and that you wanted to share all my happiness. But this heart is about to leave this world. I don't have any feelings for you anymore. It's a cruel greeting, but shouldn't you think of it as a wave that comes and goes?

I'll never forget the winter I spent with you. I'm sorry to go in on your own time. I hope you always have good dreams. Stay tuned. It's a precedent.]

Tears fell. The tears that fell on my already smeared name made it even more blurred. It felt weird. It was as if the landscape was fragmented, and one of the sculptures reflected himself, another sculpture saw Imsol sitting next to him, and in one of the fragments this letter, Imsol who wrote the letter.

Lim Sol, who was sitting next to him, glanced at Seonjae, who was bowing his head. Her eyes widened at the sight of her crying, but she didn't show it and looked away.

"I'm sorry."

The stranger cried next to him, and he said he was sorry. I didn't cry, but I felt like I was. He didn't remember writing the letter, but it was his handwriting, and it was on my desk.

But I couldn't make any acquaintance with someone I didn't even remember. I couldn't talk to him on the phone or ask him how he was doing. We are and will continue to be strangers. Lim Sol thought so.

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Even after Imsol left, Sunjae stayed in the space he had been with her for a long time. He sat still on a bench, his blank gaze unfocused, and then he looked up at the sky. There were a lot of stars in the black sky. It was clear, clear and dark without a cloud. A cool breeze blew against his collar. My heart sank. It seemed empty. I didn't even sigh. It was empty, as if all the sighs had escaped.

Imsol's face haunted his mind. Like himself, he was confused about the current situation.

As time went by, my heart grew deeper, but there was no way to convey it. It was an unfamiliar feeling that Sonjae couldn't handle on his own. A different world, a future to reach, where have you gone? Did he really go somewhere?

Sunjae asked, his lips pursed. My heart tightened and tears welled up in my eyes. Emotions rose from the lows. There was nothing I could do now, nothing but believe that there was a world you were in, and wait for it to reach it.

The tears in her eyes grew and seemed to overflow. The image of Imsol lying face down in front of the school gate, the time when we were running on the road together, and the way she turned on the flashlight of her cell phone on the day of the festival and waved it from side to side non-stop passed by one by one. The smile on her face, which she often cried, was no longer there.

He dropped his head and covered his eyes with his hands. She pursed her lips. Tears fell from her eyes hidden by the palms of her hands, and her cheeks were wet. Tears dripped down her cheeks, dripping through the air, falling to the floor. I pressed my lips tighter, afraid that the sobbing would leak out. Sonjae didn't know, and Imsol knew. It was as if the tears that had made the name spread were overlapping.

05 Today's Excellence

When I got out of the taxi, I saw a sign that had been turned off. I'm sure he was in my mom's shop. Footprints in the snow, I walked towards Liu Geundeok Potato Soup. My heart was pounding and my lips were dry. As I stand in front of the door, I see a faint gleam of light at the far end of the dark interior.