“Not yet!”


  The light from Sungjin’s chest shone bright once more.

  Ereka kissed Sungjin on his lips deeply, and, according to the kiss, her life force floated out of her and into Sungjin.

  But, like Sungjin, a similar circle appeared on her chest.

  “Ha. To share your life force. Is your relationship that deep?” Varka shook his head, impressed. “But he has the fate of a wingless eagle on a leash, so what’s the point?”


  Sungjin’s spirit had been erased with his memories, and he had been reduced to stupidity, that the best he could do was beg for some wine. Even if he had once been an eagle soaring across the sky, he was now simply a chicken in a chicken coop who could only beg for the feed from the jailor’s hand.

  It was the aftermath of a person who had risen to a position that was not his.

  “There will be losses as well as victories, but it is true strength to overcome turbulent times. I trust Sungjin. He only needs some time. I will buy that time for him.”


  “Do as you wish, and despair accordingly.”


  “I will not give up.” Sungjin. I believe in you. Ereka grabbed Sungjin’s hands. She trusted him. There was no reason to. There was no proof to. She simply trusted him because she loved him, so her duty was to protect Sungjin’s body until he returned.

  She deeply pressed her lips onto Sungjin’s one more time. I’ll share my life force with you.

  A body without a soul was bound to dry up without the means to produce its own energy. The only way to keep the body alive in its vegetative state was to share the life force of another continuously. She would protect his body until he returned.

  Sungjin’s soulless body greedily reacted to Ereka’s body with the goal of fulfilling his emptiness by deepening the kiss between them. Lips clashed against lips. Sungjin’s tongue sought her body. Two hands grasped onto her while he tried to suck out her tongue.

  Ereka opened herself up without reluctance and gave away all of her life energy as needed. I had hoped for a romantic first kiss, but…… Ereka smiled calmly despite the tears dripping down her face. She had imagined that her first kiss with Sungjin would be more romantic and more passionate while locked in an embrace.

  This wasn’t the kiss she had dreamed of. It was a kiss shared with a soulless body.

  Sungjin, I’ll be waiting.

  “You’re delusional,” Varka said. He was confident that everything was done and over with.

  The scene before him was simply confusion brought on by disbelief and reluctance to accept the facts.