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From Woman and Man Who Love Them
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Chapter 13 – Redemption
When guilty became so unbearable, what can a people did as human being to got their redemption of their sins?
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When they waited outside anxiously, Yona hid her face to her folded arm that crossed above her knees. She lifted her face when she felt petite palms of someone patted her head and found Tae Yeon in front of her. Even if Tae Yeon himself worried sick and afraid, with his petite body that trembled, he still tried cheering up Yona.
"don't worry, Rina!? don't be afraid, doctor Yua is a great doctor and big brother Hak always strong, he will definitely better after doctor Yua examine him?!".
"i'm so sorry...", Yona bent her head down slightly, didn't dare to stared into the little boy's eye "he injured because protecting me...".
"it means you really important to big brother, Rina... big brother always told us to protect our family and people that we love, because of that, don't blame yourself... big brother surely sad if something happen to you... but needn't to worry, if we pray and hoped to the god, as long as we believe that would happen, it would happen, that's why...", Tae Yeon wiped Yona's tears before he tried to cheered Yona up again, but looks like his tears couldn't he hold back anymore so he hid his face with his hat "that's why... everything would be alright...".
Yona smiled, she hugged Tae Yeon and furrowed her eyebrow, why both of this brother always tried make everyone around him to not worried them when he himself worried sick? "you're right...".
Not long after Tae Yeon fall asleep in Yona's arm, Yua came outside with both of Yun and Yuria who cried. Yua apologize to them, they managed to keep Hak alive but as Yua mentioned before, his Coma state occured. It words felt as if sword cut through their heart. All of the audince dumbfounded with their own reaction.
Yun still cried with Yuria behind Yua. Kija lost control of himself, yelled at Hak to open his eyes before Shina hugged him and make Kija shoved his back to the wall. Shina desperately hugged Kija with his trembled body and leaned his face to Kija's shoulder, let his tears slipped out of his eyes between his sobbings. Lily thought even Jae Ha would collapsed, she surprised when she saw Jae Ha slumped at his feet after leaned his back on the wall. Even if Jae Ha covered his face, Lily saw his single tears fallen to his cheek. Zeno gripped both of Yona's shoulder and stood behind Yona who still carried Tae Yeon, but her eyes devoid of emotion.
They didn't know when Hak will open his eyes, or rather 'if' he will open his eye again.
"but... there's still a chance that he will open his eyes again, right?".
Yua tried to seek what kind of feeling that show inside that eyes of calm look from 16-years-old princess in front of her "that's true, i'm not so sure because he sustained so many injuries, but... there's still might be a chance, he will come back here even if the chance of him waking up again still 'if' rather than 'when'...".
Yona nodded and smiled even if her tears was on verge, ready to flowed but she persisted this time "that's good... at least, he's still alive and he isn't leave us yet...".
"you're right", Yun chuckled and wiped his tears "really... if the one who must be got the most grief over this still keep strong and smile, we must keep strong, too".
"i wonder if he look at us from the other side and i can imagine his grinned face even joked that if he die, he will waiting for us to come at the afterlife", Jae Ha covered both of his eyes to hide his tears, same as Yona and the others, it really hit him inside his heart but he really hoped that beast would woke up and hit him like always after he heard his dry jokes.
"it's not funny, Jae Ha... and i can imagine he will definitely hit you till you beaten black and blue after he wake up soon, like always", Kija smacked Jae Ha's back, spoke with his positive outlook as always, convinced himself that Hak would awake.
Yua smiled and take Tae Yeon with her before Mundok took him from Yona's hand "just go to sleep, all of you... i'll keep my eye on him after put this child to bed".
"are you mad with me, Yua?".
Yua stopped her track without looking back "...why must i, Elder?".
"from the first place, you refused my request when i asked you, i want to adopt Hak... because you don't want me to make him become warrior, right?".
"of course i am...", Yua snickered before threw her death glare again to Mundok "Elder, you had known what happened to his parents and you still expect to teach and make him become warrior? I'm the one who helped his mother when his mother gave him birth and how can you expect me to handle if i must saw him die right at my hands as my patients? I received your request to adopted him because i know your place was perfect place to raised him after what happened to his parents but i let you adopted him not to make him became like this?!".
Yua lost her comfort, but as her daughter patted her back, Yua sighed heavily when aware her heightened voice nearly waking up Tae Yeon. To comforted herself, Yua asked Yun to kept his eyes to Tae Yeon and Yona while she would kept her eyes to Hak tonight.
"as i commited with myself, blood-related was powerless against love but blood more strong than water and blood-related couldn't betrayed. As his mother asked me, i only teach him to become strong, strong enough to capable protect himself and the one he cared for, but become warrior different thing. He himself that chose become warrior and i only show him the way, he chose his own path by his own will. If you really knew well his parents, then you should know, blood can't be denied. As his father's and mother's child, Hak only did what he want".
Yua stopped in front of door's room and narrowed her eyes, she felt like want to crying "needn't to tell me about it, Elder, of course i know... because he is really Serena's and Haruki's child, he inherited his father's ability as warrior and his mother's nature; self-sacrifice and reckless like his mother, and what we can do just think it can't be helped though... he surely really their child... his parents, neither his father nor his mother was someone precious to me the most... if i let their child die, i don't know what must i do to face my older brother and my best friend at the afterlife...".
"you shouldn't take responsibility of his parent's death as your fault and you don't need to bear that as a burden above your shoulder".
"then tell me, Elder... what can i do as his sister and her best friend as redemption?", Yua turned her gaze towards Mundok, single tears had fallen to her cheeks "what kind of doctor i am if i can't save my own family? What kind of doctor i am who let her older brother die in front of his wife and can't save her sister in-law that killed in front of my nephew's eyes? No matter how many patients that healed at my hands as a redemption, i can't get rid this guilty every time i remember how Serena cried after my older brother die and how Hak cried while tried to waking up his mother even if we told him that his mother had died...".
"mom... big brother Hak was still there... because you saved his life 15 years ago, right?", Yuria hugged Yua from behind before swept his mother's tears "it just would the be same, right? Big brother Hak will come back here...".
Yua hugged and kissed her daughter's forehead, smiled after swept her tears "led our guest to their room and come back here quickly, okay?".
Yuria chuckled lightly and nodded her head "yes, ma'am".
After Yua came inside back to Hak's room, the others had settled inside the room that prepared by Yua and led by Yuria, which Lily picked her bedding beside Yona, inside Yona's room to watch her.
Lily smiled wryly "you know, at first i think you would cry again or even lost conscious, just now... but you're really strong...".
"...i'm not strong at all", Yona bent her head down and gripped her hand till her knuckles whitened "...is this a punishment for me, Lily?".
Lily furrowed her eyebrows, this conversation somehow reminded her with the one when she talked with her at that night, before they went to "what did you mean?".
"without i know how his feeling all along this time, i had hurt him... i always hurt Hak but he never mention it, he never show his wound and he never blame me of all his wounds...", Yona clenched her grab towards Lily's sleeve "what should i do, Lily? i didn't mind if i must suffer to redeem all my fault to him but why Hak be the one who must through this suffer? Why... even if i had known what he felt to me, i didn't have a chance to speak with him, even just a word and now, maybe he would leave me... no matter how i tried to keep strong, but still... i'm really afraid... am i really didn't deserve to happiness?".
Lily grabbed her shoulder "Hak won't hate you just because of this... didn't he tell you before, that he love you too? didn't the doctor tell us, there's still a chance that he would open his eye again even if we don't know when... so don't blame yourself of whatever offending Hak and never ever thinking that you didn't deserve to happiness?!".
Lily didn't know what must she told to Yona for decline her argument, that she didn't deserve happiness. What she know and what she can did right now just hugged her tightly and let her crying at her chest, to comforted her like before again.
"please god, let me be the only one who see her tears and her weakness this time... please, get rid of all her fear and remove all of her wounds... please, replace all of her and Hak's suffer with happiness in the future...".
Yun covered Tae Yeon with blanket and patted his back while saw him with lowspirited look at his eyes "...i don't know if Hak have little brother this cute".
Jae Ha took a seat behind him "and it's surprised me, knowing that stern doctor was his aunt".
Shina nodded "so that's why Yuria called Hak as Big Brother...".
"or more specifically, he hadn't mentioned about it, like he never told us about what he thought about King Soo Won, at all...", Kija leaned his back on the wall with high murderous intention, as if tried restraining his feeling and held back his anger but his vexation was crystal clear. He felt more than annoyed after he knew about Yona told out loud about what he was thinking of Soo Won that he told to Yona even if his body wrecked by that avalanche.
Jae Ha felt the same, but he didn't feel the same way as Kija and he didn't understand why the White Dragon looking so annoyed "it's not like you to make such a terrible face, Kija".
"it really make me pissed off...", Kija leaned his back of head on the wall and lifted his gaze to the ceiling "actually... what did he think about us?".
"there, there... it's not like the White Dragon to being gloomy and worrywart... why not asked the mister about that when he wake up?", Zeno patted Kija's head, smiled brightly before rises from his seat "Zeno would look after the little miss and mister, you guys just go to sleep and take care of the little kid?!".
Yuria rubbed her eyes, tried to get full awakeness in the middle of her sleep deprived for last weeks. She looked outside the curtain, the sun's ray of sunrise slipped through the little space from wooden sticks of curtains "looks like the night has dawned it and the storm had ended".
"how is he?".
Yua stared at her guest and threw skeptical glance towards old geezer behind the youngsters who had asked him about Hak's condition "unexpected... why did you bringing him here, Elder Mundok?".
Mundok shut his eyes, remembered last night before he go to sleep when Soo Won asked him something that he couldn't refused. Soo Won knew, it was a high risk request but he felt he'll regret it if he didn't do this before going back to the castle. He knew, he must do this quickly, before Geun Tae and Joo Doh who waited outside found out what he did here or Yun and The Dragons saw his presence inside Hak's room.
Of course the Dragons (except Zeno who looked after Yona) and Yun surprised when Shina told them that Soo Won was inside Hak's room, so they rushed to Hak's room as quickly as they could. When they arrived, they found at the hallway to Hak's room which Lily halted Tae Woo who stood in front of her, he had frantically want to chased Soo Won out of Hak's room because he felt danger even if he knew Mundok was there.
With spear in one of his hand, Tae Woo grabbed her shoulder "Lady Lily, please move...".
"I can't?! All of you can't barge in, too?!".
"I don't care?! We can't believe him at all?! Who know what will he did...", Tae Woo stopped his word when Lily hugged him and pushed him, make his back shoved on the wall.
"Tae Woo, please!? Please... i understand if you can't believe him but believe me... he won't hurt Yona and Hak this time, he had promised me... because of that, believe me and let them finished their problem that hung till now, between him and Yona...", Lily lifted her face, gazed his stern blue-sea eyes "but if he break his promise and something happen to Yona or Hak... you can take my life after i take his life".
Tae Woo's widened at her determination, he covered half his face with his falm and sighed, his spear leaned to his shoulder after he loosened his grip "god grief... fine, you're win this time, Lady Lily".
Unlike Tae Woo who still held back by Lily, when Yun and the Dragons charged in, this time Mundok halted them. Behind Mundok's back, they saw Zeno too, halted Joo Doh and Geun Tae this time.
"hey, watch out?!".
Their tenseness heightened as their ear caught Yuria's yelling and their eyes caught Yona's arrow coming from inside the room before Yuria came out of the room and closed the door because her mother ordered her to waiting outside for halted whoever wanted to come inside Hak's room for a while. Since Yua was inside within Hak, Yona and Soo Won, Mundok made sure no one would die because that stern doctor won't let them killed each other.
Soo Won only stared at Yona who had aimed him, her arrow scratched his cheek which blood spilled out of the scratchs.
"i only have two reason to let my patient go... first, my patient had recovered, and second... my patient die... so, before one of you two ended killing each other, i'll kill you first", Yua pointed her long needle in both of her hands towards Yona and Soo Won while standing in the middle, between two youngsters "as a doctor, i know where vital points that could send you right away to the afterlife, so make sure you're just talking and i won't interrupt except one of you two trying to kill the other one".
Soo Won lifted both of his hand in front of Yua "...i'm even not your patient, doctor".
"sorry, doctor... i'll make this quick, but i can't lay my weapon down, not in front of this man when he's here with Hak's condition right now... just make sure your nephew won't killed by him".
Yua sighed and take her step backward, simply took a seat beside Hak's bedding, still holding her long needle in case if she needed her long needle to stopped them.
Yona pointed her bow towards Soo Won "you only have two choice. First, take your heels with your comrade out of here and never ever show your face in front of us, because if you show your face in front of us again or send your countryman here to chased us again which Hak's state became opportunity to killed us... before you can do that, i'll kill you...".
"how about the second?".
"let's see and wait... because the second choice that i'll give to you just in case if Hak can't make it, send me to meet him at the other side".
"no way... i can't...", Soo Won shook his head "...i don't want this".
"why not? It's the best opportunity that can you take, so after that no one could endanger your position as King and your life".
"i never wanted or hoped you and Hak to die?! Not even once?!".
"that's a lie?! You won't tried to kill me and fought Hak at that night after my father die?! you won't send your countryman to chased us which make Hak nearly death, more than once!? If you really never wanted or hoped me and Hak to die, you won't do that?!", Yona tightened her bow and ready to shot him "you shouldn't repelling us from the castle and betrayed us from the first place!? Now, it's too late even if you regret it?!".
"i don't regret it... i have no regret, because i know... no matter how i regret it, i can't take it back anymore. What can i do, only step forward and fulfill what i strived to do for this country, even if i must trampled and cast you two aside. Since that night, i won't let my true feeling that maybe could become my weakness seem by other person. I always use mask in front of other person to hiding my own feeling, which make my heart become cold. If not, my effort all this time would means nothing... but i guess, i can't hold this anymore...", Soo Won understood, it was the same reason why he confessed his true feeling towards Yona at Xing and same as that time, he couldn't hold himself anymore, his heart swayed by his emotions, of his sadness for his once closest friend's state and his beloved one's anger that burned his cold heart "i know it's too much to ask, but... can you let me hug you two for the last time, before i left and back to castle... please?".
Before they locked eyes, Yona froze at her feet when she saw emotion filled his eyes. Since that night, she always wonder what kind of invisible truth or feeling that hid behind those cold eyes but finally his feeling are reflecting at his eyes right now. Mixed feeling like sadness, fear of something and anxiety filled his eyes. After his tears slide down his cheeks, Yona didn't know how to react when he hugged her without even getting her permission.
He landed his chin above her crown of head and muttered "after everything i've done to you, i don't expect to forgiven... i don't expect to live peacefully and die happily... but if i could hope one thing... i really hope you could keep alive and life happily with him, because he deserved you more than anyone else... life, Yona, life happily with Hak...".
Yona pushed him, slapped his face hard, like the last time when he confessed his feeling to her "you have no right to talk about it... you're the one who took everything that night!? Ruined all my life and yet... how can you still asked me to...".
"i know... but what can i do as my redemption, just this... i can't let this kingdom invaded by other country, because i love this kingdom with its people... even if i must threw everything, included two dearest person of my life...", Soo Won rubbed his cheeks before stared Yona with teary eyes and smiled bittersweetly "even if i must reputed as betrayer, i must protect this country, this kingdom where i born and live, where i meet you two and always been together since we were kids... i can't let our place where we live together since we were kids vanished... whatever i'll do to protect this kingdom... don't let our place where we live disappear, Yona... i don't hope your forgiveness, but... i'm sorry, Yona...".
Yona dropped to her knees and bent down her head, her hair masked her expression "i won't forgive you, for what you had done to my father and Hak, ever...".
Soo Won covered his mouth, tried to halt his sobbing "i know...".
"but no matter how i suffer and want to resent you... in the end, i can't hate you...".
Soo Won kneeled in front of Yona and lifted his hand towards her face, which slapped by Yona "what are you waiting for? Go to him, do what you want, tell what you want to tell him even if we know he won't hear you right now and go away after that... go far away, and never ever show your face in front of us again!?".
Unlike when he hugged Yona, when he hugged Hak, he wrapped his hand around his shoulder with carefully to not burden Hak's body or agitated Hak's injury, and his tears became more uncontrollably when he hugged him "even if i know you won't forgive me and you hate me... even if i know i didn't deserve it and i shouldn't say this, but still... i'm sorry, Hak...".
"i believe you, Hak... i believe if it's you, you would definitely protect Yona, so don't you dare to go to other side this easily and leave her side", Soo Won leaned his forehead to Hak's after hugged him, which his tears fallen to Hak's edge of eye, made it as if tears slid down from Hak's eye, he didn't let go his hug after he whispered "if you go to other side before us, prepare yourself... when we meet at the afterlife, i'll beat you even if i must ended beaten black and blue at your hands... this is my last request, not as your friends, but as a man that love the same woman...".
Before he asked Joo Doh who waited anxiously outside the room to prepared horse and back to the castle, Soo Won patted Yona's head after let his hug go of Hak "good bye, Yona, Hak".
When he found Mundok who had waited at the courtyard outside Yua's clinic, Soo Won ran into him and hugged him "thank you for accepting my egoist request, Elder...".
Mundok hugged him back "it's like i hug one of my own grandchild that lost his heart all along this time. What make you get your feeling again?".
"his word that he still thought of me as a friends and her fire that had burned my frozen heart... i'm such a fool", Soo Won chuckled before sobbed at Mundok's hug "...i'm afraid ...i don't want lost both of them... i never saw both of them like that... and thought of lost them in front of my eyes... terrified me... even if i had prepared myself... to lost them since long time ago... i still couldn't bear it... if both of them leave this world... i don't want them to leave me alone here...".
"you've fight really hard... but like you say before, you can't stop here", Mundok grabbed Soo Won's shoulder "keep alive, so you can pay what you did to them as a redemption... even if it must take a long time, no matter how many years passed, keep alive and do your best to repay their affection and love that you receive from them since the three of you still kids...".
"don't worry, time would tell when you could get rid of your sins and fulfilled your redemption...", Zeno who took a seat above the roof, landed in front of them and looked from his shoulder with his usual wide grin "the mister King guy just need to back to castle and fulfilled his obligation while the little miss and the mister recovered their health".
"since when did you're here, boy?", Mundok furrowed his forehead, without he knew the Yellow Dragon that he called boy actually far older than him.
Yua crossed her arm in front of her chest, rolled her eyes from Mundok and Soo Won at the courtyard that could be seen from the space of the curtain to Yona inside the room who sat beside Hak "if you wanted to cry, just cry".
"like the hell i'll cry just because of him...", Yona squeezed Hak's hand and bowed her head, she held her tears back hardly "who the hell would cry just from his word?!".
"what i told you before about? Stop restraining your pushed yourself too hard!?", Lily smacked Yona's head before grabbed Yona's collar, drag her back to her room and pushed Yona back to her bed "now rest, and i won't let you wake from your bed up before your fever down!?".
Yona remembered at what she had done today, she confessed to Lily that all of that emotion and extertion, all of her rage and grief that made of her sadness and anger which she used to against Soo Won, was the same of what she want to struck to herself "i'm such a fool... why... even after all that happened, but still... even if i could pull out and swung my sword towards him and even if Mundok and Jae Ha didn't stop me... why i still can't kill him? Despite i said to myself, it was for Hak's sake... I'm so weak and cruel...".
Lily caressed Yona's temple "Yona, the fact that you hurt someone's heart, it's because you're still human... it's good if we can live without hurt someone's heart but as a human, no matter how we are as a human to be careful to not hurt someone, we still can hurt someone as long as we live as a human being. If we hurt someone, that pain would hurt us too and you felt hurt because you still love him, right? Not as beloved anymore this time, but because he was your dearest friend, he was the one that you loved once and he's still your family".
Yona leaned her back of palm to cover both of her eyelid "i dunno... i don't understand at all... even if it's my own feeling...".
She realized her friend's tears, that scene nearly make her cry too, but she persisted because she know, she must swept her friend's tears like now "sometimes, the thing that what can't we understand the most could be ourself, especially our feeling... but the one who can understand your feeling the most, only yourself. Actually, the answer has been on yourself, right? You just need time to realized or recognized for make resolve.. at least, our feeling can't blamed and our hearts can't abandoned".
"so, what should i do about Hak?".
"just apologize... sometimes, we spoke out loud without bad intention and when we realize that we had hurt someone, it's too late for take it back... so apologize to him and i believe he would forgive you because both of you've been together for so long time? and tell him, that you didn't want part away from him again. I believe there must be a chance, as long as we are alive", Lily smiled, picked up new dry rags and dipping it in the basin while sighed "but still, you're just overthinking too much, and i thought you needn't feel guilty for what you did to your majesty yesterday, he deserve it... it's because you're too kind, and i guess if Hak know this, he won't angry with what you did".
"...i'm sorry, i'm really make everyone get into trouble, i didn't mean became troublesome...".
Heard that word from her, Lily chopped Yona's temple with his palm.
"OW!? Why did you hit me?".
"stupid little sister~ you think who the hell you're talking with, huh? I never ever think you're troublesome at all even once, don't you remember what i told you before? you're just like a little sister for me and it's no way for me to think you that i thought as my cute little sister as troublesome", Lily put wet rags at Yona's temple "now, sleeeeep... i'll watch you, and what you must do with your condition now only rest, sleep and eat properly till you fully recovered".
"Lily, thank you so much, i'm so glad you're here", Yona smiled brightly, flushed at her cheeks and glossy eyes cause of high fever didn't make her warm smile lost "me too... i think if i have older sister, i only want you to became my older sister...".
Before Lily answered her, her best friends had fallen asleep, Lily huffed and raised her eyebrow "really, this my best friends of mine...".
Lily chuckled at the thought of her being sister with Yona. She didn't know about Yona's father but she was sure, her father must be handful of handling both of them if he have her and Yona as his daughter, remembered how her father so overprotective for her, just for her alone, what if she have Yona as his daughter? But of course, she wouldn't mind at all if she became Yona's older sister, she would thankful about that though. Her heartfelt smile always warmed Lily's heart without her knowing.
"you must be tired...", Lily patted her head and smiled brightly, leaned down and kissed Yona's forehead "sleep well and get better quickly, little sister... so i can see you smile again".
When Mundok and Tae Woo wanted back to Fuuga, Tae Yeon refused to come with them and the little kid kept clinging into Lily's hug while crying, insisted that he didn't want to back to Fuuga before Hak's health recovered which they didn't know, when it could happen. After Yua promised Mundok that she will definitely take a good care of his grandson, Mundok and Tae Woo went back to Fuuga, not forget to asked Lily, Yun and The Dragons to sent letter to give news in case if something happened and they needed help or Hak's and Yona's state changed.
Lily couldn't left Yona when she knew her condition still unstable so she would stay as long as it needed till Yona recovered. In one night, Yona woken up several times because panicked of her nightmare, clutched her side where her rib-cage broken and hyperventilating. Sometimes she woken up with hysterical cried and sometimes fallen into silence cried which everytime her tears fallen, Lily would hug her till her panicked attack subsided and Yona ended to fallen asleep in Lily's arm. It took a week after Lily stay at Yua's residence, after Yona's fever has broken and she recovered well, a half month after that avalanche incident, Yona and Lily spoke at veranda.
When she saw Yona sat on veranda beside Hak's room, after put tray of Yona's food at the floor, Lily rushed to her side and put Haori on Yona "just yesterday after your fever has finally broken, at least use it".
Yona smiled softly and hugged Lily "thank you very much, Lily...".
Lily tilted her head "what for?".
"i wanted you know that for me, you're my savior, too...", Yona squezeed Lily's hand, smiled heartfelt brightly "back then, you saved my life at Sei fort, you saved me when the Sky Tribe's soldier surrounded me and Algira, and you really save me this time... thank you very much... i'm really blessed, to have you as my best friend... older sister...".
Lily felt her eyes burned, tears on the edge of her eyes when she saw her best friend finally could smiled so brightly like before, she hugged her because felt so relieved and overwhelmed joy of her word "...i believe it's my line, you know? You're really make me worried and i'm glad, because both of your body and your heart has wounded terribly as if your smile would disappear...".
"every injuries would heal as time passed, even if it would leave the scar...", Yona leaned her forehead to Lily's, tears on her eyes ready to dropped as well "and i believe, as long as there's someone who care for us and stay by our side, or we have someone precious that want to protect for even if just one person, we can stand again no matter what".
For a while, both of them kept in their position, hugged each other when saw snow fallen from veranda.
"oh, my...", Yua raised her eyebrow at her sight, which she saw both of Lily and Yona hugged each other with tears on their puppy eyes. She took a seat beside Hak, dipping dry rags in the basin and put that on Hak's temple "sorry for interrupt... but it's better if you two come inside, or you'll catch a cold".
Yona took a seat beside Yua "doctor Yua, you mentioned before about Hak's parent's death... can you tell me about the detail of what had happened?".
Lily surprised but she wasn't confused, she took a seat beside Yona after closed the door.
After a moment of silence, Yua repositioned her seat and took a seat across Yona, face-to-face, her stern deep-sea blue eyes met her determined innocence violet orbs "...before i decided to tell you or not, you must answer my question, princess".
Yona nodded "anything".