There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 743

Chapter 743: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 26

It took a while for the children to calm down. No matter what their parents said, they kept crying and hugging each other. Bassena had to tell the physician to come later because the children were truly inseparable.

It was fascinating how Byul forgot the itchy feelings from the mana coming out of Lucy. Perhaps the anxiety and sadness were far greater misery than the mana prickling his skin. He clutched on Kar tightly, burying his little face in the older twin’s hospital shirt.

It was only after Lucy and Byul fell asleep did the commotion stopped. They were exhausted from crying and feeling anxious about the twins, and falling asleep while hugging the big brothers. When their parents laid the sleeping child in the adjacent bedroom, Nari drowsily climbed the bed and slept beside Lucy.

With the children out of commission, Zein and Bassena could finally talk to their sons. They sat down around the coffee table at the suite’s lounge, Kar and Asa blinking with swollen eyes while drinking their first water after waking up.

After all those tears, they were desperately in need of hydration.

"Have you calmed down?" Zein stroked the twin’s head. He could not keep feeling frustrated after seeing his children cry so much. Besides, they seemed to understand the problem already.

Still, there was more stuff the twins needed to understand.

The twins took a deep breath and nodded. "Yes, Dada."

Zein glanced at Bassena. At a time like this, the one more skillful at talking should take the front. Bassena almost coughed his coffee, but managed to save his image by quickly gulping it and clearing his throat.

"Kar, Asa; listen to me," Bassena started, leaning forward as his sons looked at him through swollen eyes. "What you did that night...if something were to happen to any of you, who do you think will get blamed?"

The twins looked at each other before Kar answered carefully. "Us?"

"No," Bassena said dryly. "It will be the teachers and the guides because they failed to supervise you. I will scold Arnan and Einar because they failed to protect you."

"But--" Asa looked at his father in confusion. "But it wasn’t their fault..."

"Yes, it wasn’t," Bassena patted the younger twin’s head. "But your action could impact other people."

Kar and Asa looked at each other, talking through their eyes. Honestly, they already knew that what they were doing was false, weren’t they? It was just...they had no concrete idea why it was wrong, and the extent of the effect.

They looked back at what they did that night and what it brought. They never intended for anyone to get hurt, but in the end, some kids followed them and almost got severely hurt. Dada told them that the kid only sustained small scratches, but if they couldn’t get some strength back then, the worst might happen.

In that case...since they were the root of the problem...

The twins gasped and looked at their fathers. "Will...will people blame Dada and Baba, too?"

Zein wanted to say no, but he knew enough of the world, and it seemed like a good time to teach the twins a bitter part of it. "Yes," he replied with no pretense.

The twins took a sharp breath and trembled again. They looked back at their fathers and scrambled to hug them. "I’m--I’m sorry!" Asa climbed to his Baba’s lap, something he had stopped doing since he went to school.

"We’ll...we’ll apologize to the others too, Dada!" Kar held his father’s arms, eyes glistening with tears of guilt. "To teachers and Miss Guide and Brother Arnan and Einar and..."

Zein and Bassena chuckled in response. Well, they should understand now, should they? Bassena ruffled Asa’s hair with a relieved smile on his lips. "It’s fine with Arnan and Einar, but...you might have to wait for your teachers."

"W-why?" Asa gasped. "Are they angry?"

Bassena had a mischievous thought of teasing them about it, but his husband threw a sharp gaze that got him clearing his throat again, grinning sheepishly. He looked at the twins and smiled. "Boys, do you feel anything different with your body?"

"Huh?"

"Different?" Kar tilted his head.

Zein smiled and lightly tapped the older twin’s solar plexus, prompting Kar to look down and deep, deep inside. His eyes flickered and suddenly, he was reminded of the bubbly liquid he dreamt about.

Or perhaps...it wasn’t a dream? He clasped his hands over his solar plexus and closed his eyes, once again diving into the sensation he felt during his sleep. Swimming, swimming around the endless pond. At first, he thought it was light gold, but soon, he could see blue and amber, white and yellow, red and black...all kinds of colors swirling around him.

"Oh!" Kar looked at his father with widened eyes. "Baba...Dada--is this..."

"The crystal you absorbed was an aetherite, and it seemed like both of you absorbed its mana," Zein explained.

"And it triggered your awakening," Bassena concluded.

The twins gasped and Kar immediately opened his palm, staring hard at it without blinking until muscle could be seen on his temple. He recalled the feeling he had during that time; the feeling of mana coursing through his body, and concentrated on calling the multi-colored pond inside his newly established mana core.