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Days passed after the time Humility used his power on me and I remembered all the things I had forgotten. All of them melded with my current life and sometimes, I questioned whether I was a human or a divine being. I tried to leave the past in the past, but the memories kept coming back. They made me look back, made me think.

They urged me to reconcile with it.

Seeing Yoongi was the last thing I wanted. But it was what I needed to do the most. As the former Heavenly Virtue, I was partially at fault for his misfortune. I felt like I owed an apology to him.

Every sunset, I stared out at the window, asking myself  if that day was the day I would go to seek him and hearing excuses back. Days passed as I kept urging myself to go meet him until I finally realized that the perfect time would never come. I could put it away until the end of time.

The garden was as silent as usual. The worn out piano was not alone as Yoongi was there, staring at the keys with his fingers tracing them without pressing on them. Now that I was aware of his true identity, his dark suit and tousled hair gave off a different sense of feel.

"Are you reading my mind?"

He smirked without a glance at my direction. "Always."

I breathed out a short laugh, a little nervous that I was being exposed without being aware of it. "When did you find out?"

His eyes settled up on the sky. "Just recently... Your thoughts were too absurd lately. And you could see me when I was staying invisible."

I traced the cherry blossom bracelet around my wrist. "Are you mad at me?"

He turned to look at me and stood up before walking towards me. "No. There's no reason for me to be mad at you or blame you. I could just be lazy and blame you for everything but it was me who decided to end everything."

"But..." I tried but my words were stuck in my throat as he came nearer and nearer.

"You even tried to save me once, didn't you?" He smiled, such a contrast to his forlorn demeanor. "That's why you're in that human body now. You must had worked hard... Sounds tiring."

I could not fathom how he simply accepted that. "But you should at least be a little angry at me for not guiding you better."

"Anger doesn't help anything... Rage. Wrath. I know better than anyone how cruel and destructive wrath can be to someone." A tinge of grief glossed over his eyes. "It has been so long since I turned into this kind of being... Deadly Sin or whatever they call, and my life as Min Yoongi seems like a distant dream..."

A dream as he described. Only when he said that, I tried to remember my own past before I was the Virtue of Diligence. Even the faintest traces of it were not left behind within me. I had forgotten how I lived and how I died. I did not remember how I became Diligence. Just that I used to run around on earth, monitoring humans every second.

"Plus, we don't have emotions anymore."

Emotions.

"Right," I whispered. "Then... what now...?"

He tilted his head, staring at me. "What do you mean?"

"After knowing who I am and... what I did... and didn't..."

He shrugged. "Nothing changes."

One breath. Two breaths. Silence in between us. No feelings or emotions, neither negative nor positive within one of us, and worries and guilt overflowing within the other.

"Although, I want to ask you," he said, "why did you put your life on the line to save me? Why would you do it for someone like me?"

"B-Because..."

I loved you. That would have been my immediate answer but... the way I had no intense jitters, no deafening heartbeats beating in my ears and no rush of excitement with him made me doubt. My heart was calm. I was not shaking. If anything, seeing him put my mind at ease. I had no definite answer to give him.

"I still didn't save you. You'll be in hell forever..."

"I'm not sure that's something a human should be worried about now," he chuckled. "A more pressing concern should be your flower shop with little to no customers."

I gasped in outrage. "How dare? It's just because I open it in irregular hours!"

He shrugged. "Excuses. Excuses."

I scoffed. "I'm a very good florist. My flowers are thriving."

"Well then, I wish you luck on that." The corner of his lips curled up and he gave me a nod before walking away.

I stepped forward. "Wait, where are you going?"

"Nowhere in particular. I'll find someone to mess around with... Until I grow tired of this existence."

He vanished into thin air in front of my eyes. I was not expecting our conversation to go this way. He held no grudge and did not blame me for anything. For a Deadly Sin personified, he made no sense.

I knew he had no heart...

But I thought I caught a glimpse of it.

I was still attached to him in this life.

If he actually acted like the Deadly Sin he was, I would not have cared about him. His silhouette would not have looked so miserable and defeated that I would have reached my hand out once again.

I would not have wanted to finish what I started.

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