There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 711

Chapter 711: Side Story 3. Stellar Blossom - 46

After fooling around some more in the shower and taking a real shower, their car left the Peak around an hour later.

It would be Joon’s second time going through Mortix Hill after the hospital visit before, but he had already memorized the path. That was why, when the car took a different route, away from the hospital, Han Joon knew they were heading somewhere else.

"As I thought, they were moved?" he asked.

The last time he remembered, his sister’s ash was still in the hospital, and his mother’s was in a downtown Columbarium. But he did tell Radia about his plan to move them and put them together in the same vault one day.

"Yeah, after that person died," Radia replied quietly.

"My father?"

"...yes."

"Hmm..."

Han Joon stared outside the window like he always did. The black eyes, however, only registered blurry images. Indeed, he wouldn’t want to risk any movement that made his father know that he already found his sister’s ash. The last thing he wanted was for that sorry excuse of a father to throw out the ash of the daughter he never acknowledged.

But...there was something about Radia’s hesitant answer that made Han Joon think deeply. This kind of reaction had always been there ever since they told him that his father had died. Be it Shin, Bassena, or even Radia...they seemed to be hesitant to talk about it.

And even Shin called their father ’that person’ or used the name directly.

It was...suspicious. The possible answer to what might happen, however, wasn’t very difficult for Han Joon to come to.

"Did I do it?" Han Joon glanced at the reflection of the widened crimson eyes on the window and smiled. "That seemed to be the case."

"How--"

"Did you not tell me because you’re worried?" Han Joon turned his head to look at Radia’s hardened expression. He smiled and caressed the frowning brows. "As always, you’re very kind, Dee."

Radia pressed his lips. Joon had always been the only one calling him kind, calling him lovely, even calling him adorable. Honestly, it was absurd even for Radia, who couldn’t find those qualities in himself. But people did say love made you blind, so...

It was weirder for him to see how calm Joon was after knowing the fact.

"Does it not...disturb you?"

"Don’t be absurd," Han Joon replied with a scoff. "The moment I found your name in that system, I already knew I would have to face him sooner or later."

It didn’t make sense to think otherwise. His father had the death list. Naturally, his father was involved. Even if he managed to end everything quietly without facing his father even once, Joon couldn’t see his father the same way anymore.

"There was no way I would forgive him for putting you on a death list," he said coldly. "It wasn’t like he was ever a good presence in my life."

"Yeah, but..." Radia, who had been growing up in a healthy family, could not completely understand one’s detachment from one’s own parents. "Doing it by your own hand is different than--" _{freewebnovel.cσ๓}

Han Joon pulled Radia by the shoulder and silenced his darling with a kiss. "Nothing--nothing will ever be harder than seeing your bloody figure inside my nightmares."

"...okay," Radia held the sharp jaw and pulled the hardened face for a softening kiss. "As long as you’re okay."

"I am now," Han Joon smiled sweetly as if the cold expression he had earlier was a lie.

They stopped talking about Joon’s father afterward. Radia was actually relieved that one of the heavy memories passed by just like that, and becoming delightfully chatty. Since Shin was not there to act as a guide, Radia took over and explained the changes that happened in the past twenty years, including the end of Operation Kronos and their famous Operation Fallen Star.

Han Joon could find them through his commlink anyway, so Radia could tell him about them without any burden. What he still couldn’t bring himself to talk about was Joon’s illness, and the man himself did not push for it.

All Han Joon cared about was listening to his darling’s voice throughout the drive. He was glad that the place was rather far away. They drove past the city gate, toward the famous golden field that was colored grey at this point. The car climbed the hill and entered the solemn, yet soft atmosphere of a cemetery complex.

From the parking lot, Radia held Joon’s hand, and they walked through a slightly sloped pathway, which was flanked by plum blossom trees. Several white flowers upon dark branches peeking through the small plum forest, creating a delicate, serene tunnel on their way to see their loved ones’ remains.

Han Joon looked around the area, where he could see a building at the end of the path, and a field of flowers on the one side of the hill. "This is..."

"It’s where Bassena’s mother is," Radia gestured toward the field of flowers. "He moved her to the cemetery here after he came of age."

"I see," Han Joon muttered solemnly. "I’m sorry I couldn’t help him."

When Han Joon left, Bassena was still in the academy. He had planned to climb the tower right away, so he would probably not be in the Federation at that time.

"I didn’t know either," Radia said. "He did everything himself after receiving his mother’s inheritance."

"Good for him, although it’s quite far from his house."

Radia chuckled. "He thought about moving it to Zein’s lake house--with Zein’s parents--but Zein told him not to disturb her rest twice."

Han Joon grimaced at the thought, but it did seem plausible. He stood in front of the vault and smiled wryly at his mother and sister. Forgive your son and brother for being a lazy bum--he whispered in his mind.