The woman smiled. "Am I?"
"Of course you are. I didn't forget you. You just selfishly left Ai-chan with that day! What if I had abandoned her too?"
"I knew you wouldn't."
Jin's gaze darkened by the arrogant confidence in her voice. It was then that thinking about her voice, he seed to pause.
Where have I heard it before? She sounds familiar…
"Why did you co to the church?"
He frowned. "Why should I tell you?"
"Maybe I will be able to help you."
Jin still wasn't able to figure out where he had heard her voice apart from the ti they had t in the church.
"I don't need your help."
She chuckled. "You are really stubborn, you know. Whether the ti you refused to admit your feelings for that girl and had to be locked up in the ti-space or now when I am generously offering my help."
A razor-sharp silence descended after that, and he slowly turned to look at her, this ti with extre scrutiny.
"You were the one who talked to both tis. When I had the fever and…after the accident. Both the tis when I saw that clock."
The woman simply smiled. "I think we have talked a third ti too. Much further back."
He suddenly felt a sense of nervousness creep in and his back straightened up, alert. It was evident that her presence wasn't so thrilling to him. He looked at her up and down, gauging her from head to toe. He was well aware that whatever he, Jun and Ai had faced regarding the golden clock was an otherworldly experience. Anybody associated with that phenonon couldn't be…
"You…cannot be a hu-human."
Even though he was Liu Jin, the son of the prestigious and influential Liu family, he couldn't help but slightly stamr because his status didn't matter before soone whose existence was beyond power and money.
"Oh, I can be anything I wish," her eyes twinkled.
"What are you doing here? Are you keeping an eye on ?" He slightly gritted his teeth, feeling irked with her response. For so reason, she reminded him of his grandfather or his uncle or the twins. The glint of mischief in her eyes was very similar.
"Oh my. Why would I do that?
"Because you don't want getting closer to Shui!" He barked. "I heard your warning crystal clear at that ti itself! You don't have to keep reminding again and again…"
He then threw accusing glares at her. "You are the one who had suddenly made the clock appear before , right? So that I would lose control over my car and then that accident…"
The woman held a solemn look. "It was ti I reminded you of the condition."
He clenched his trembling fist. "Yeah I rember that very well now…So you can leave! I won't do anything to jeopardize my brother's future."
"But I ca to offer my generous help here."
"I don't need your generous help. I don't trust you! Especially after how you planned that accident! You unnecessarily dragged Shui and Xing Bi in danger."
"I wouldn't have let anything happen to them," she mysteriously smiled.
"Leave!"
The woman tilted her head. "You are really stubborn, you know. One of the many stubborn souls that keep busy. But you were different because you extended that stubbornness even after your death. It was the first ti that I witnessed a soul gaining consciousness of its own through its sheer willpower. You refused to let your soul move on to your next birth only for one wish to be fulfilled."
*Flashback*
It was in those very last monts that Jin, who was just shot in his chest by his brother's bullet, could see and sense sothing unnatural happening to him. It was as if his ti as Liu Jin was over. It was a feeling as if he was getting sucked into sothing which resembled a mysterious pathway. His head ached by the blinding white light before his eyes, and his instinct told him that this was his end…or was it his new beginning?
Whatever it was, Jin felt a strange but strong repulsion and resistance. His human body was already dead, yet he felt an imnse sense of pain as if he was getting burned into ashes. It was extrely agonizing and painful. On one side, his resistance was pulling him back and on the other side, so mystical force was pulling him into the opposite direction.
He couldn't speak. He couldn't articulate himself as if he had beco mute. But the sheer force of his protest resounded the thoughts circulating within his soul.
'Bro is still back there…'
'Where are you taking ?'
'I don't want to go anywhere.'
The few painful monts felt like forever and after a while, he felt liberated from the other side as if so link had just shattered. And as it did, the world suddenly spun around Jin, and he began to hear voices and see the people before him. He looked down and stared at his human body, which was lying bleeding on the floor.
He stared at it hard for a long ti before it registered in him that he was looking at his own dead body. The voices he was hearing belonged to his family, mourning over his death. He saw Jun kneeling before Jin's body with his gun slipped long ago from his hands.
"Jin…"
Shui was in a similar state, kneeling beside Jin with her white wedding gown marred with the drops of his blood splatter.
The shock, the disbelief washing over Jun's and everybody's faces gradually was growing deeper and deeper.
What is happening…
Jin looked at himself from top to bottom. His whole body seed to shine and look transparent. He could see his family, but as he moved his hand to touch them, his hand simply passed through them and neither could his family see him anymore.
That's when the reality actually sunk in him.
I am dead…
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