CHAPTER 46

: RYU’s POV

My three days after the official opening of the Fall festival was boring. Yet, not as boring compared to my time back at the Underworld.

One thing that had left me astounded was the lantern moment. A wish for another from a genuine heart, will it come true?

Futile, who in this retching world is going to grant such hope? That festival is nothing but created for fun. No one up above will hear your pleas, because none exists up there.

I know, because I tried.

I cringe at myself whenever I remember that time I knelt on that verdant ground, and with the top of my lungs, I clamored to the night sky; just at least make that one wish come true.

It was the stupidest thing I have done in my entire life.

Two weeks must have passed ever since I left Underworld and has been forty-three years since I left that home, but not a single regret is gnawing my core. Who wouldn’t? ---since the ‘m