1 You're home

⸢This story is for just that one reader. ⸥

Yes, it definitely is. it is just for that reader how is now a little boy that used to be sleeping on the exact same bed in the exact same hospital for more than 5 years by now.

That reader who spent more than 21763 years in the exact same subway reading the exact same story over and over again.

That reader who never dreamt of his own happiness. The 100% Kim Dokja they were dying to see again.

The one who was now in front of them, with sunlight covering his eyes and the Letters Han Sooyoung spent the whole four years ago writing them in his hands.

They were pretty sure it was him, it was 100% Kim Dokja without any 1 percent missing.

⸢ what if all of this was nothing but a sweet dream? ⸥

Han Sooyoung thought to herself again. Could she survive if she woke up from such a dream?

⸢but this really is a dream⸥

The boy who is setting on the bed, no, the Kim Dokja who is setting on the bed while holding the letters she wrote was crying.

He was crying so bad while looking at his ' family ', every single one of them, the sunlight that covered his eyes was now gone; and so, they could see his expressions clearly, his eyes, the eyes that missed seeing them for thousands of years, they were now looking at them with tears.

⸢but it's not my dream ⸥

Shin Yoosung fell on her knees as well with Lee Jihye while crying out so loud that their vocal cords might be torn apart, Lee Gilyoung tried to support them to stand, although he wasn't any better, all the members of <kim dok-ja="" company=""> were either shocked or in tears; they just couldn't believe their own eyes.

⸢its the 'Most Ancient Dream' dream ⸥

The Kim Dokja in the bed started to get up, even though the bed was high for his small body, he get off it and fell, while Lee Hyunsung and Yoo Sangah were running to help him, he gingerly stood back up by his own.

Kim Dokja was the one in the most pain.

He always was.

And he will always be.

⸢that's exactly why it's my reality ⸥

Han Sooyoung started to run.

She ran so fast and cried so bad.

She jumped on Kim Dokja and hugged him so hard just like she was preventing him from getting away once again.

No, she was really preventing him. She was crying like crazy, but for Kim Dokja no matter how he thrashed and screamed and sobbed it won't be enough to describe how hard was it for him.

All the members of <kim dok-ja="" company=""> were here now, everyone and even the Constellations were crying now.

Everyone cried.

Without exceptions whether they were strong or not, young or old they all cried. Even Yoo Joonghyuk was tearing up; that's because it was the only way to clarify their feelings now, all of them hugged the small Kim Dokja.

He was so small that he could get smashed by them.

But he just kept crying.

***

I can't understand.

Just why again.

Do I really deserve that?

Being rescued with her story again.

WHY just why do you keep doing that?

Can't you understand that it was my Falt?

It's me, I was the reason for all your pain. Yet you all went through that pain to save me again.

⸢ Help. ⸥

⸢ Help me. ⸥

⸢I don't want to stay like this. I want to be with you, laugh with you, cry with you, live with you in a big house, and get out of this damn subway without losing myself. ⸥

⸢come and save me please. ⸥

Letters.

Those letters were my inner feelings.

The feelings I abandoned all my life were now coming out Like a wave that has finally broken its dam.

Answer me, I can live with you now, right?

Did I atone for this story?

Tell me, did I? I don't know. I don't have the power to ask now. I just wish that you'll be happy.

***

How long have they been like that? They finally calm down a bit. The first one to talk was Han Sooyoung.

"You fool there is a lot to talk about now, right? But first, you are 100% Kim Dokja right?"

"You already know"

Everyone let out a relaxing sight. it was truly him.

"Why?"

He finally asked.

"Why did you go through all that for me?"

"Even though you had the part you loved most about me. The part how loved you and lived with you, the part that wasn't addicted to ⸢There are three ways to survive in a ruined world. ⸥ The 49% OF ME!"

"Then it was only 49% not 50% of you huh?"

"Wha-"

"Seems like you were a bit selfish even at that time, right? Hehe."

"...Yes, at that time I wanted to prove by the 2% that I remembered you much more than my avatar. I promised myself back then that I'll never forget you"

"..."

Han Sooyoung and the others kept silent until Yoo Joonghyuk asked.

"How many years have you been there?"

"More than 21763 years"

"WHAT!"

"Hyung is that old!?"

Lee Gilyoung shouted with a surprised expression.

"But he looks younger than me?"

Shin Yoosung add that and then asked with a shaky voice.

"How could you live all these years? And alone in that subway?"

Of course, She was none other than Kim Dokja's Incarnation and that's why she could understand his pain the best.

Kim Dokja looked at her with a faint smile.

He was in pain that can't be described with words, that was for sure; she can feel it after all.

"But you didn't answer me Why did you go through all that for me?"

"You truly are a fool huh? You really don't know why?"

"Do you think I'm someone who would be satisfied with only 49%?"

"....."

As Han Sooyoung was talking tears filled Kim Dokja's eyes.

"No, no I was just kidding don't start crying again, okay? the real reason is that we didn't want you to suffer anymore, we love you, we care about you Kim Dokja got it?"

Although she told him to stop crying; that only made him cry more. well anyway, she also started tearing up, but it was with happy eyes, and eyes that were now able to look at a bright future.

⸢was that the 'happy ever after' I'm now looking at? ⸥

She didn't know.

"Kim Dokja."

Yoo Joonghyuk looked at Kim Dokja with an expression that was filled with emotions; He really did change after all. The cool breeze that came from the wide-open window moved his hair which had many gray spots, Yoo Joonghyuk was now smiling.

"Your home."

After hearing that Kim Dokja ran to his 'family' as fast as he can with his short legs. Biyu, his mom, his other mom, Yoo Sangah, Jung Heewon, Lee Hyunsung, Shin Yoosung, Lee Gilyoung, Lee Jihye, Lee Seolhwa, Jang Hayoung, Han Myungoh, and his daughter, Gong Pildu, Anna Croft, Namgung Minyoung, Kyrgios Rodgraim, Aileen Makerfield, Uriel, Sun Wukong, Abyssal Black Flame Dragon.

Without missing anyone they were all here.

Waiting for him.

Kim Dokja with his small body tried to hug them, but instead they were the ones to jump on him.

"ahjussi!"

"hyung!"

""Bah-aht! Dad!"

The kids were now laughing with tears.

"I'm going to hang you on the Industrial Complex door!"

"Dokja ssi don't ever leave again!"

They all had things to tell him.

Now Kim Dokja was happy.

He, of course, didn't forget all the pain he went through.

Every time he died, every time he sacrificed himself, and every time he returned to find that his 'family' changed. it was painful.

Whether it was when he got Stabbed by Han Sooyoung, or when his 'family' killed him by the story he loved most, or when he left them for 3 years.

They were all painful.

But at least now he can see his happiness for the first time.

The happiness he never imagined.

⸢No, that can't be described with just a 'happy ever after' ⸥

"You have grown so much"

"And hyung looks so young too! Your smaller than me; that I can eve left you up like you always did to me when I was that young as will, hyung!"

"You fool he is so old; he's not a kid that you can play with! His age is thousends of years!"

…...Looks like Shin Yoosung and Lee Gilyoung didn't change at all huh?

Kim Dokja laughed with every one for so long now.

⸢Because this story well never ends with a sentence like that. ⸥

Letters that you can't see an end for them were now all over the room.

⸢ it's not an open end nor a closed one. ⸥

Because there is no end to begin with.

And they lived....in a story that won't end by my word's -the author-