Childhood Friend of the Zenith

“Noya…?”

Noya, whose upper body had been pierced. I weakly asked, seeing this. I tried to rush toward him, but my vision swayed uncontrollably.

I felt my legs give out, and I kept collapsing. I gritted my teeth and forced strength into my knees, pushing forward.

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I asked as I approached him. Noya smiled, showing his white teeth as he looked at me.

“Ah. What a shame. My body isn’t whole, so it’s even worse. If only I had a little more time, it could have worked.”

“Right now… is that really the issue? Noya’s body is…”

“Yangcheon.”

Noya’s hand reached up to my head. He slowly patted me.

“No matter how hard you try to catch the setting sun, you cannot stop the night from coming. Didn’t you already know that?”

It was fate that he ended up like this. I couldn’t accept Noya’s words.

“No... I could have done something. I’ve been searching for the Divine tree to the point of death...! Who’s fault is this...!”

“Whose fault is it?”

“…Huh?”

“Is it really my fault? Or was it something you did for yourself?”

“…!”

I was momentarily speechless at Noya’s firm words.

“I know you get lonely, but if you obsess over it, it’s just gross, no matter how charming you are. Tsk tsk…”

“Is this the time for jokes…?!”

Pash-ssseuk.

Fragments fell from Noya’s body. I reached out with trembling hands to try and catch them.

“Stop it.”

Noya shook his head and stopped me again.

“Did you see what I was going to show you in the end?”

“…I don’t know. I didn’t see it.”

I said with trembling eyes. But something else crossed my mind.

‘Light it up.’

Just as he had created the tree, I too was told to light something up.