⊱L'obscurité après le crépuscule⊰

The darkness after twilight

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Sapphire blue, mystical purple, blazing red and yellow colors mingled in pretty waves up above with the sun setting in the horizon. The sky looked absolutely exquisite today.

My breaths escaped me in dreamy sighs as I let my head rest against my palm, gazing at the divine scenery above me. The twilight often left me charmed, peaceful, and in the clouds.

Whenever I watched the beautiful colors change and swirl during the evenings, I would forget about all the negative thoughts, all the worries and all the pain, even for a while.

Just one look at the magical spectacle had me hoping...

Hoping for better times. Hoping for happier days.

As if lulling me with its beauty, the sky was a fairytale escape whenever I searched for it. And everything would feel less painful after I breathed in its enchantment.

"Ah..." I exhaled a deep sigh. "What should I do...?"

Taehyung was surprisingly changing his attitude towards me, but lately, ever since we ran into Insoo, he was acting more hostile than before. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what was going on in his head.

I couldn't blame him for feeling that way, but I was afraid of what human qualities could trigger. His feelings were enhanced and thus, his urges more powerful.

Was he feeling furious? Envious? Regretful?

All sinners including the Sins held grudges whether big or small. That grudge could blind them.

I wouldn't let anything happen to Insoo even if it meant going against Envy for the rest of my conscious days.

The creaking sounds of my door opening jolted me to turn around. It was Envy. He walked in and closed the door behind him, and I would have nagged him to get out. But when he locked eyes with me, the air was knocked out of my lungs, rendering me speechless.

His eyes were hooded and terrifyingly dark. Dreadful. Wild. Callous. One look was enough to bring anyone down on their knees, gasping and shivering. Alarmed by the sheer intensity, I struggled to hold his stare.

I had never seen him like that before.

For a moment, I questioned if it was really him and not some savage predator out here to murder me in the cruelest way possible.

With my heart hammering out of my chest, I clenched my fists and watched his every move.

"D-Did you need something?"

His pursed lips suddenly broke into an amused smirk as he took slow strides towards me. "Why are you so tense? Like you've seen a ghost or something."

I gulped, trying to calm my nerves as I watched him come nearer and nearer.

"I've never seen you like this before." He stood right in front of me and brought a hand up to brush my hair away from my shoulder before leaning down, hitching my breath. "Like you're genuinely scared of me."

I didn't know what he was trying to do. I had to try and coax him.

"Taehyung-"

"Who's Taehyung?"

The drop of his tone had me shuddering. He pulled himself back to look down at me, his stare hardening and his eyebrows furrowing deeply under his emerald green hair. It hurled me into a pool of anxiety. I didn't know what was happening with him.

A pungent smell of metal and iron suddenly reeked from him. It was familiar but not welcomed at all that I couldn't ignore it.

"Where did you go before coming in here?"

His smirk appeared again. "A quick stop at hell."

Hell, huh? If it was quick, I wouldn't have followed-

My eyes widened.

I thought he stopped going there for a while now. On top of that, the smell was definitely from blood. Did he... go back to torture some souls?

"You asked if I needed something?"

I took shallow breaths before nodding slowly. "What are you here for, Envy?"

I flinched when his cold fingers trailed up the side of my neck before settling under my jaw as he leaned closer, brushing his nose against mine. My heartbeat accelerated when his warm breath brushed my skin.

"You should know why I'm here."

I gasped out loud when the atmosphere shifted. My body was laid against the mattress and his body was flush against mine, caging me from above. He had teleported me onto the bed.

"W-What are you doing, you stupid broccoli?!"

"Was that supposed to be an insult, babydoll?" His chest rumbled with laughter against mine. "What? Are you scared?"

It took everything in me to throw him a glare. "Scared? Are you kidding?"

His smile faded once again and his eyes darkened. "Then, what do you even feel for me?"

I froze. "W-What?"

"You're such a disgusting liar and you're even admitted to heaven, why is that?" As he chuckled humorlessly, his eyes expressed pure resentment and I understood where this was going. "A lover's breach is a sin unforgivable. Yet, here you are. A Virtue. It means you were never a lover before breaching, no?"

I wrapped my hands around his arms propped on either side of me. "Taehyung, please... I'm so sorry for everything."

"Liar," he growled, shutting me up. "You don't feel sorry, you're just trying to act like a heaven creature you're not. You must have been happy to be with him, haven't you? You're always trying to protect that fucking Park Insoo! How many children did you want to have with him?!"

Tears welled up in my eyes and I turned away, unable to see the hatred in his eyes anymore. "Please stop... I know I did wrong... So, please..."

As I turned back to him, I gasped sharply when the face of someone I never wanted to see again appeared before me. Petrified, I couldn't utter a single word.

"Seoyun," he whispered and my whole body shuddered. "It's me, Joochan. You still love me, don't you?"

When his lips brushed against my lower lip after kissing up my neck, revulsion and animosity forced my limbs to move. I slapped him harder than I ever had before pushing him off myself as tears streamed down my face.

"How dare you? How fucking dare you?!" My throat felt like it was being ripped off as I screamed at Envy.

He reverted back to his own appearance and I was able to breathe again. But my chest was being prickled with thousands of needles as I stood up on my feet.

"I never hated you this much before," I stumbled over my words but I couldn't stop screaming. I had to release the pain. "I know I'm no saint, but I try! I do whatever I can to fulfill my duties as a Virtue! And I know I've done so many mistakes, but a Sin like you will never judge me on that!"

A ghost of a smile lingered on his lips as he slowly rubbed his reddened cheek before heading to the door.

He threw a sinister smile over his shoulder before walking out.

"Hold that thought. I can make you hate me more."

I stood there bewildered as his words echoed in my mind.

What is he trying to do?

Could he...

My brows crashed together and a gasp left me when he disappeared after uttering...

"I'll kill him."

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