Hearing his words, I instantly froze. I didn't know how to provide a solution for what had been making him disillusioned other than feeling his heartache. Besides, giving him a solution or encouraging him, Chunghee would never think of those kindnesses as something that made him want to fight once more.
Meanwhile, Chunghee looked at me blankly. He seemed to lose hope in his eyes and was walking into the chasm of the darkness that seemed to be a fate line for him to spend the rest of his life. He seemed to be looking at me like a point of disheartening and it hit my heart so badly that I wanted to save him immediately.
Without realizing it, my body moved on its own to embrace him tightly as if this was the best way to express that everything was going to be all right without having to put together words.
