[He doesn't mean to laugh. But he honestly didn't expect that reply. But what was he expecting, he wonders... pity? Is that really what he was fishing for just now? Sure, it was all just an act-- all of this was just an act. It's not as though she actually liked him for who he was. She didn't even know him.]
[But why did that matter?]
[Nearly every moment he's spent around Yona has been carefully calculated. It was fun, manipulating her and watching her care more and more for this monster that slept in her bed. The unending concern that showed on Jae-ha and Hak's faces when he was around her, knowing he was fooling them all, knowing how they were forced to lie to her to protect her from this unknown force creeping closer and closer to her...]
[When did his priorities change? When did he start to care about her? About all of them?]
[He was a demon. The concept of time given a name and a face. A being that, by all means, should no longer exist now that the concept from which he came from has ceased. Ever since that moment he awoke, the thoughts have been rolling in the back of his mind: Who is he now? Why does he still exist? In this mysterious world with no connection to his own, living a half-life and completely removed from everything that made him who he was...]
[Did he even want to live anymore?]
[He has no way of knowing that the gas from before was still in his system, still manipulating his thoughts down far darker roads than he'd ever travel otherwise. But even still, these thoughts didn't come from nowhere.]
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[He doesn't mean to laugh. But he honestly didn't expect that reply. But what was he expecting, he wonders... pity? Is that really what he was fishing for just now? Sure, it was all just an act-- all of this was just an act. It's not as though she actually liked him for who he was. She didn't even know him.]
[But why did that matter?]
[Nearly every moment he's spent around Yona has been carefully calculated. It was fun, manipulating her and watching her care more and more for this monster that slept in her bed. The unending concern that showed on Jae-ha and Hak's faces when he was around her, knowing he was fooling them all, knowing how they were forced to lie to her to protect her from this unknown force creeping closer and closer to her...]
[When did his priorities change? When did he start to care about her? About all of them?]
[He was a demon. The concept of time given a name and a face. A being that, by all means, should no longer exist now that the concept from which he came from has ceased. Ever since that moment he awoke, the thoughts have been rolling in the back of his mind: Who is he now? Why does he still exist? In this mysterious world with no connection to his own, living a half-life and completely removed from everything that made him who he was...]
[Did he even want to live anymore?]
[He has no way of knowing that the gas from before was still in his system, still manipulating his thoughts down far darker roads than he'd ever travel otherwise. But even still, these thoughts didn't come from nowhere.]
[He really hasn't been himself lately... has he?]