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After shopping with them late into the night, Aion was finally able to return home.

Danawa and Fre, who had been walking around the market for a long time, returned home blinking, perhaps feeling sleepy.

Seeing them like that, Aion guided Danawa and Fre to a room with a bed, saying, “I hope they can rest for a moment.”

“I feel very sleepy today, so let’s go to bed early.”

Even though they hadn’t even eaten dinner yet, Danawa and Fre looked so tired that Aion led them to the room and said.

At Aion’s words, they nodded sleepily and then went into the room and lay down on the bed.

“……….”

It seemed that they were very tired, as Danawa and Fre fell asleep as if they had fainted as soon as they laid their heads down on the bed.

Aion, seeing them like that, looked at them with sparkling eyes like someone lost in thought.

***

Before coming to this world…let me briefly talk about my childhood. My family was not very wealthy when I was young.

My father would leave home early in the morning every day and return home late in the evening with a tired face, while my mother would go to the market early in the morning to make and sell food.

Although I didn’t live a materially abundant life like others, I was happy.

Even when my father was exhausted from excessive work, he would come home with a bright smile and play with me and my toys.

My mother cooked delicious meals for my father and me every day.

I really liked those parents.

My parents never spared me with love and affection, and as I grew up receiving such love from them, I tried to be like them, honestly expressing my feelings and helping people in need. To me, my parents were like a mountain that could not be overcome, and I truly admired them.

As time passed and my body and mind grew, I had many fights with my parents, but my love for them never changed.

However, as a child, I could not tell my parents that I loved them simply because I was embarrassed.

I never told my parents that I loved them until the moment they left me.

Accidents happen to everyone, regardless of who they are. No matter how upright and honest a person may live, the disaster called an accident happens to everyone regardless of who they are.

That day, my parents said goodbye to me forever, leaving me with the message that they were going for a drive.

It was an accident that happened in an instant.

A man driving drunk while driving at an excessive speed and, in a drunken stupor, ended up crashing into his parents’ car, which was waiting at a traffic light.

The drunk perpetrator was later taken to the hospital and miraculously survived, but the parents were unable to avoid the car and died on the spot.

I never got to see my parents for the last time. They passed away in such a miserable state that when I was young, I couldn’t see them for the last time due to the opposition of the elders in my family.

On the day of my parents’ funeral, people were shedding tears of sorrow, but I didn’t shed any tears. Maybe it was because I wanted to think that this wasn’t reality. When I was young, I looked at my parents’ memorial photos with empty, lifeless eyes.

From that day on, my happy daily life began to fall apart, one by one.

I also stopped going to school and started spending more and more time at home.

At that time, I looked so desperately ill, as if I had lost my reason for living, and my friends and family came to see me in that condition.

They could not turn back Aion’s heart, which had already grown cold.

I regretted it so much. The fact that my parents left me helplessly. The fact that I couldn’t tell them that I loved them the moment I left home.

So, I was afraid that if I left home even for a moment, I would lose the memories I had of my parents, so I couldn’t leave the house where their warmth had disappeared.

When I felt like I was going to collapse from not being able to hold on, I opened up the family album that my mother had kept so preciously to recall the happy memories.

There, pictures of my mother and father when they were young, pictures of my mother smiling while she was fully pregnant, and pictures of me before I even opened my eyes, were all carefully preserved.

“……..”

The parents in the photo were smiling with such bright expressions.

When I saw my parents like that, I couldn’t help but shed tears.

No matter how much I regret it, I cannot meet my beloved parents.

The warmth and affection of my parents that I can no longer feel. Without my parents, the house was filled with only a cold chill.

To be honest, I’ve thought countless times over the past few years about following in my parents’ footsteps. After they passed away, my daily life fell apart and I had no will to do anything.

However, when I finished preparing to commit suicide and tried to do it, I was always afraid and my parents’ faces would come to mind.

Every time I saw my parents’ faces smiling at me with bright smiles, I couldn’t die and spent my time like that.

“Oh my gosh, so pretty~”

I was stuck in my room, staring at my computer. While I was deleting unnecessary videos to clear up some space on my computer, a video caught my eye.

“Honey, isn’t our Jaeyoung so pretty?”

“That’s right..You’re so beautiful, like an angel descending from heaven.”

In an old video that I don’t even know when it was taken, I saw myself as a child, when I couldn’t even speak properly, and my parents were happy to see me like that.

“Our Jaeyoung will grow up to be a great person like a hero who cares for people.”

“That’s right! Our Jaeyoung will grow up to be a very strong and brave person!”

My parents in the video spoke to me while I was still barely able to open my eyes.

After the video ended, I started watching the other videos that remained as if I was possessed by something.

The computer contained videos of me as a child, including the first time I said “mom,” the first time I learned to walk, and the first time I ate.

As I was watching the video without any interest, when I moved to the last video, instead of me, my mother and father were standing in front of the camera.

“Uh..haha. It’s awkward to talk like this while looking at the camera, honey?”

“That’s why..my heart is pounding so hard..”

The parents, who had been staring at the camera without saying anything, took a deep breath for a moment, smiled at each other, and then began to speak in trembling voices.

“The reason we’re filming this video is so we can tell you the things we couldn’t tell you in case something bad happens.”

“I’m sorry for always making you study and scolding you. I wanted you to live a better life, not a miserable life like me. But I knew it when I saw you crying. That the things you said to live happily hurt you deeply. Even though I can’t express it, I always believe in our Jaeyoung. I believe that our son is strong and can say anything. I love you, Jaeyoung. ”

“Mom says the same thing, Jaeyoung. Our Jaeyoung is brave and kind, so our Jaeyoung will do well in anything. We… trust Jaeyoung. Even without us, Jaeyoung will do well because he is strong, right? ”

The parents in the video smiled brightly at the camera.

“…………”

With such support from my parents, I ended up shedding the tears I had been holding back.

When I heard the warm voices of my parents that I thought I would never hear again, I burst into tears and sobbed.

After that day, I came to my senses and came out of the house for the first time in years to live honestly.

Jae-young, who had spent several years staying at home, went out, cut his long hair, dressed up neatly, and started looking for part-time jobs.

Since he had been living at home for several years, the CEOs who interviewed him looked at him with disapproving eyes, but one of the CEOs who heard about Jae-young’s family history chose him.

That’s how he started working part-time at a convenience store.

He had been living isolated from the outside world for several years, so he had a hard time dealing with people, but he faced them instead of avoiding them in order to repay the trust his parents had in him.

After several months, I was finally able to face people.

He regained his lost daily life one by one and was able to stand up again. After a while, I became possessed by a novel.

He looked at Danawa and Fre, who were fast asleep, and spoke softly.

“Now I will be by your side.”

Aion knew better than anyone the pain of being alone, so he stayed by their side and tried to prevent them from going down the wrong path.

He snickered as he looked at the black bracelet on his arm.

The black bracelet worn by Aion. The red bracelet worn by Dana. The white bracelet worn by Frega.

It was a small, cheap bracelet that wasn’t expensive, but Aion cherished it.

For some reason, my heart warmed when I thought of the precious memories I had with them.

Aion stroked their heads as they slept soundly.

Aion, who was stroking the heads of the girls who were sleeping like that, carefully went out of the house and looked up at the starry night sky.

The night sky here is really pretty. At night, the stars in the sky twinkle and light up the dark night sky.

Aion, who was looking at those stars, wiped away the tears flowing from the wind.

“It’s very windy..”

He looked up at the night sky and spoke softly.

He shed tears for a while as he faced the cold night wind.