Kidnapped Dragons (KR Web Novel)

Gyeoul did not want him to leave. Him leaving meant Gyeouls misfortune and for her happiness, he had to stay here.

Should he honestly tell them everything and ask for their forgiveness? He had thought such a thing for a split second but in the end, he didnt think these kids would be able to handle a shock that big.

For example, Kaeul was a child who found it hard to send off a baby chicken who had been with her for a bit more than a year, and asked for advice everyday. She was a very young and fragile child who had yet to experience the world.

The other kids were the same.

Hostility was an uncertain element and even the godly EX authorities were powerless. Since he had lived all his life forming plans, an uncertain element trying to interfere with his plans made him morbidly look for a better plan, and that was where the problem laid.

In any case, it wasnt certain that the kids would retrieve their memories of the past iterations.

He decided to put himself in the shoes of countless other people living daily lives – people who didnt know what tomorrow had in plan for them. Among those people, there surely would be a lot of them living with big problems like himself, who still had the power to smile today.

Putting it that way, Yu Jitae realised something new.

Since he had always called it the 7th iteration, thinking of the whole thing as thepresent, he was unable to think that a certain time frame within the 7th iteration would also become thepast.

‘…Then, dont go.

The child who had stopped her own heart at the end of the 6th iteration,

‘…If you go, I will be sad.

Was now saying she would be sad if he left her.

Both Yu Jitae and Gyeoul were the same people, so what was it that was now different?

– …More, please.

Gyeoul, who pushed her bowl forward asking for more noodles.

– How should I help you?

Himself helping Gyeoul who had lost her bottle of gummies.

– Doesnt that already make me a good person then?

– …Nn?

– I play with you already.

– …A lot… Someone that plays with me a lot.

The conversation he had with her as she ached in pain in the cold and dark place.

They had all changed.

Even apart from those, Gyeoul and Yu Jitae had spent countless moments in the 7th iteration that differed from the 6th iteration, and looking back, those had also become a part of the past embroidering the path they had trodden.

All the upcoming future will again become a part of the past and remain forever in the childs head. Realising that, he started thinking that an unnecessary worry should never ruin the present.

Mysteriously, something changed the moment he changed his own thoughts.

Yu Jitae gazed down at the string binding his wrists.

Until then, it had felt like the last string supporting him and Unit 301 together. But now, it looked like something that shook his emotions, making him come to such a childish decision; like a shackle formed from the past.

Rip–

He snapped the string.

The string that he originally had to embrace his mind as if he were breaking the universe, was broken all too easily.

He stood up on the spot as Gyeouls arms loosened around his neck.

The child was small and was still smaller than him despite standing on the bed. Bending his back, he brought his arm behind her knees as she sat on his arm.

It was an extremely natural and familiar gesture.

Her faith originating from the past told her that this arm would never drop her, and made her enjoy the close distance.

“…You wont go?”