[ His initial thought is if it's even worth talking about? Itaru, a stranger of his world, wouldn't understand the sheer hatred he had for the twinkling lights in the sky. To this day, he still hates them. But... If there's no use telling Itaru, is there any use keeping it to himself? A familiar and annoying voice rings in his head: "don't think you can do everything alone." Exhaling, he takes a moment to collect himself. ]
... In my world, the Constellations are the fables we've been told. [ A pause, finding it ridiculous that he's doing this. A "none of your business" should have sufficed. ] Angels of Eden, gods of Olympus and Asgard, figures from Journey to the West, and more. They've ascended to be the very stars in our night's sky, always watching over the galaxy as a way to slake their boredom.
[ Though his tone is very much the same, never rising or dropping, each word seeps with pure disdain. There's another shade, something under all of that heaved contempt. It's agony. All of these intense emotions make a good recipe for vengeance to last him thousands of years. ]
For entertainment, they called for people to kill each other to survive and pushed worlds into ruin. To them, we're just puppets to feed them an interesting story.
[ And Joonghyuk doesn't think he needs to say that he was tangled in the whole mess. The implications point out he's one of the many victims. His fingers curl into fists on his lap as he glares at the fake stars above them. His frown deepens alongside his dark expression, recounting the scenarios and how Constellations influenced the system. They were always at a disadvantage no matter how strong they became. They climbed and climbed only to fall.
Closing his eyes, he tries to brush those bad thoughts away. Itaru asked a simple question, so he should give him a simple answer. ]
A starless sky, the permanent death of all those onlookers... [ Joonghyuk turns to him with a fierce look. ] It's a sign of liberation.
[ They would be free. As he ends his answers, he's reminded again that Itaru wouldn't understand. To him, Joonghyuk must sound like a madman cursing the stars, but he wonders if maybe his short story would benefit Itaru in some way. While he's not sure how it would, it comforts him. ]
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... In my world, the Constellations are the fables we've been told. [ A pause, finding it ridiculous that he's doing this. A "none of your business" should have sufficed. ] Angels of Eden, gods of Olympus and Asgard, figures from Journey to the West, and more. They've ascended to be the very stars in our night's sky, always watching over the galaxy as a way to slake their boredom.
[ Though his tone is very much the same, never rising or dropping, each word seeps with pure disdain. There's another shade, something under all of that heaved contempt. It's agony. All of these intense emotions make a good recipe for vengeance to last him thousands of years. ]
For entertainment, they called for people to kill each other to survive and pushed worlds into ruin. To them, we're just puppets to feed them an interesting story.
[ And Joonghyuk doesn't think he needs to say that he was tangled in the whole mess. The implications point out he's one of the many victims. His fingers curl into fists on his lap as he glares at the fake stars above them. His frown deepens alongside his dark expression, recounting the scenarios and how Constellations influenced the system. They were always at a disadvantage no matter how strong they became. They climbed and climbed only to fall.
Closing his eyes, he tries to brush those bad thoughts away. Itaru asked a simple question, so he should give him a simple answer. ]
A starless sky, the permanent death of all those onlookers... [ Joonghyuk turns to him with a fierce look. ] It's a sign of liberation.
[ They would be free. As he ends his answers, he's reminded again that Itaru wouldn't understand. To him, Joonghyuk must sound like a madman cursing the stars, but he wonders if maybe his short story would benefit Itaru in some way. While he's not sure how it would, it comforts him. ]