Kidnapped Dragons (KR Web Novel)

“C, come here…”

Kaeul grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him into her room. Yu Jitae obediently followed her like a sinner tied by a rope.

There were a lot of plushies in her room, and there were a lot more plastic bags, cartoons and devices rolling on the floor since the last time he saw her room.

She pulled him and sat him down on the bed.

“Stay here, ahjussi. Okay?”

“…”

“Nn? Okay…?”

Yu Jitae nodded his head. Even then, Kaeul wasnt at ease and looked at him with anxious eyes before starting to grab a cake ribbon that was on the floor next to her.

“When I, unn… was like, going around causing trouble, so, when I was very young… my mum tied me with something like this…”

She tied his wrists together. It seemed that she didnt know how to tie a ribbon properly. She randomly wrapped it around several times and connected it to one of the pillars of the bed.

“Ahjussi, youre like my mum, so what my mum did should work… What am I even saying.”

Her face soon turned gloomy.

“Uaah… Its like Im locking you up. Sorry! I didnt want to do this…! But you cant go somewhere else now. Okay?”

“…”

“Please say something… Nn? Nn?”

“Kaeul.”

“Yes?”

He was saying something because she asked him to but Kaeul flinched a little.

“Why did you stop me.”

“Sorry?”

“I told you there was somewhere I had to go for a bit. Why did you stop me.”

“…”

Kaeul hesitated before opening her mouth.

“I felt like you were going to go somewhere far…”

Recently, throughout the time she spent with him, playing around and having a meal together, she couldnt help but feel that.

“You are not going anywhere? Right?”

“Yeah…”

“Stay here for a bit. I will talk to unnis. You know, this place might be a bit dirty… Uun… but it should be fine. Because I live here fine…”

“Alright.”

She was still uneasy, and threw several glances back at him on the way outside.

Yu Jitae looked at his own wrists with hazy eyes.

Him saying he would stay here was nothing but a word of formality and even now, the impulse that he should immediately leave this place was filling his mind.

The ribbon was so loose that even a child would be able to break free and something like this couldnt stop him in the slightest.

He simply had to rip it and leave.

So why was it that he couldnt readily do so? It felt as if this fragile and feeble string was the last rope connecting himself to Unit 301.

It could be very easily ripped apart and the decision was completely up to him. The same was with the relationship between Unit 301 and Yu Jitae. He was the guardian – because he was above the kids, the relationship was that of a one-sided dependency and it would crumble the moment he wobbled.

But what was broken wouldnt stick back.

And even if it did, the trace of the snap would remain forever.

“…”

However, shouldnt he still tear it apart?