Winter will be cold and long in the future
I'd rather freeze with that winter and not get hurt
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Chapter 22. That Long, Long Winter
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Even with the voice she longed for right before her eyes, Yeoju couldn't take a single step closer to him. The early winter wind, which she had mistakenly thought had briefly warmed her, blew sharply. Yeoju's eyes captured Taehyung's blissful smile. She believed she would be nothing more than a nuisance to Carter, who was so happy.
“Lady! Did you find Carter?”
“...Jimin,”
"You couldn't find it? Why are you crying?"
Jimin hugged the woman, who was crying quietly. "Carter, you can't find me? I'll help you until the end." The woman's voice, mixed with tears, came out firmly, amidst Jimin's attempt at gentleness. "No, I won't look for you anymore. I won't make you wait."
“Should we just let it flow now, Jimin?”
“...I wonder”
The reason I exist in this ashen city is entirely because of you. Jimin thought he could leave this place. There were no more whales in the skies here, and Yeoju's dreams were gone. Yeoju thought she had to leave so Carter could exist happily here, so that the feeling of flying wouldn't crash like that airship.
The heroine realized that the meteor she had chased for so long, if only for a brief moment, would no longer be by her side. Looking back, it had always seemed distant from her. It would completely burn up in the atmosphere and fade away. The dream of that meteor reminded her that this was the fate of the whales soaring in the sky.
“Now, this is the city you loved.”
"....Nice"
"Right, let's rest here. I've been living a life where I just go with the flow."
Jimin, who didn't ask for a reason, simply embraced her warmly, and her tears quickly dried. At Jimin's suggestion that they settle down, Yeoju smiled and shook her head. She then said, even as she cried, "I want to wander because I'm the spring breeze. Now I want to be a whale that flies in the sky."
The heroine, who bought a blue cloak and put it over her head, flew into the sky on her own. It was time to end her life of standing with her feet on the ground and looking up at shooting stars and whales. Sometimes, she would flow like blue water, and someday, she would become a whale swimming in the blue sky.
Fly freely in the sky,
SunBlessings to those who share the light