CHAPTER 251: MEMORY SYNCHRONIZATION (13)

"YIHUN-ah, please absorb us."

Excuse me?

Yihun opened his eyes and turned to Erwan in disbelief. "Hyung-nim, what are you trying to make me do this time?"

Erwan and the rest of his siblings could only smile apologetically at him.

Shit, they’re serious.

Of course, he knew that Erwan wouldn’t mess around in that situation.

Now I’m feeling the pressure.

To be honest, he felt the heaviness of the responsibility that his siblings were putting on his tiny shoulders.

However, that feeling only lasted for a moment.

I’ll never see my siblings as a burden— not after I livedignorantly for the past years without knowing the truth.

"I don’t know how to do it, so please teach me," Yihun said in a cracked voice. He was afraid, yes. But not enough to make him back down. "If saving the last piece of you will help me atone for my sins, even just for a little bit, then I’ll gladly do it."

His siblings exchanged looks as if they were confused, and then they all looked at Yihun with confusion in their eyes.

"Yihun-ah, what do you mean by that?"

"What sin are you trying to atone for?"

"I abandoned you," Yihun said, a lump forming in his throat. "I was living in ignorance all this time. In fact, I even resented you thinking that I was the biggest victim in the Lab. But you were all stuck in this dark, cold, and lonely place..."

Ah, his tears started rolling down his cheeks.

He thought he had no tears left to cry after all the shits that he had gone through in the past.

Yet, here he was now— bawling like a child.

I guess I never matured.

"Yihun, it wasn’t your fault that you didn’t notice."

"Yosef Lee and Charles Kang made sure that you wouldn’t discover their horrible experiment because they knew you had the power to mess up their plan."

"You’re still one of the biggest victims of this Lab."

Ah, dammit.

His siblings were the ones who suffered the most.

And, yet, Yihun was the one who was being comforted.

Why am I like this?

"They shouldn’t have spared me," Yihun complained, his voice cracking as he sobbed harder. He knew it wasn’t fair to say that in front of his siblings, but he couldn’t help it. "We were all raised together in this hellhole— I should have died with all of you."

There, he said it.

Yihun didn’t want to acknowledge that his real siblings were already gone, but he couldn’t deceive himself any longer.

His siblings were dead.

And he was the only one who survived.

"Why did they have to keep me alive?" Yihun complained between sobs, patting his chest hard because he couldn’t breathe. "I don’t want to leave the Lab when I’m the only one who survived. Can’t I just come with you? Hyungs? Noonas?"

"Don’t be ridiculous, Noh Yihun," Janela, the oldest noona, said sternly. "We’re glad that you survived, Yihun-ah. It would have killed us even more if our maknae died with us."

"Noona..."

"We’re going to get the hell out of this Lab together, Noh Yihun," Jacob said firmly. "We may no longer have our physical bodies, but our hearts and Cores are still here."

"We know that we’re asking for too much, but we want to escape with you, Yihun-ah," Bibi added. "Of course, we don’t want to get stuck in this place forever. Worse, we don’t want the other half of our Cores to be implanted in innocent children. But most of all..."

"Yihun-ah, we don’t want to be a bad memory to you," Erwan said, and it seemed like everyone thought the same because his siblings nodded in agreement. "We know it would kill you if you escaped here and found out later about what happened to the real us."

His siblings were right.

If he found out about the truth after he escaped the Lab alone, he would have killed himself out of extreme guilt.

Because I know I don’t deserve to live after abandoning my siblings.

It didn’t matter even if he didn’t do it on purpose.

"How come you know me so well?" Yihun asked while wiping his tears off his face. "Hyungs, Noonas, we’re getting out of here together. So, please tell me what to do. Yosef Lee and Charles Kang kept calling me the perfect Guide, but I really don’t know how to use my abilities properly."

"It’s because Yosef Lee and Charles Kang didn’t want you to learn how to use them— because they knew you’d use your power against them," Erwan explained. "But don’t worry, Yihun-ah. We heard and saw everything that they did to you during their experiments, so we know what you’re truly capable as an Esper."

"Yihun-ah, it’s not Moon Noa who rules above the Espers in this world," Sara said in a serious tone. "It’s you— the E-Class Guides are above the S-Class Guides."

That was... heavy.

But that’s something I’d let the future Noh Yihun worry about.

"I get it— I’m special," Yihun said bluntly, and then he looked around. "So, how do I absorb all the hearts and Cores in here?"

"You have to open your heart and expand your Core, Yihun-ah," Erwan said seriously. "It’s something that only you could do."

***

OH, HE fainted.

Moon Noa moved when the child they were following suddenly collapsed.

Ryu Sungbin was faster than him, though.

His lover caught the child before he hit the floor.

I guess the System’s ’spirit’ already left the child’s body.

To be honest, it left a bad taste in his mouth.

Moon Noa was grateful that the System helped them.

But, on the other hand, he felt bad for the child that was used in the process.

Just how many poor children did this damned Lab use and abuse?

"Oh," Ryu Sungbin said in a sad voice while looking down at the child in his arms. "Hyung, this child is gone."

Ah.

Moon Noa clenched his hands tightly.

He was about to tell Ryu Sungbin to put the child down gently when...

BANG!

Before Moon Noa knew it, Ryu Sungbin was already standing in front of him— protecting him from the flying debris that came from the wall that collapsed near them.

He looked over his lover’s shoulders.

And then he saw it.

A huge pink... blob?

Had Moon Noa known back then that that stupid pink blob would ruin his life, he would have never picked it up in the first place.

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