After Goodbye, You're My Life

“You’re a criminal, a demon! Why don’t the police lock you up?”

She cried out, holding back tears, her voice warped into a strange tone.

“You really are the stupidest person in the world. You’ve studied for so many years and still don’t know the meaning of biting off more than you can chew?”

He quickly pulled her into his arms. Fear and revulsion filled her as she struggled, eyes fixed on his chest, yearning for some calamity to befall him, yearning to see him pierced by a thousand arrows. Let him die. Die!

In the fourteenth stretch of time, he left an indelible mark on her life.

That tattoo, impossible to hide or forget, was his deliberate creation. From then on, no matter how wide the world grew, he could never leave the corner where she was. For the rest of his life, there would only be her.