Chapter 136 - It was all worth it for this.

The silence in Haeteul had deepened, becoming a rich, velvety thing, woven from decades of shared breaths and understood glances. Min Jae moved through it like a man moving through his own soul—utterly familiar, utterly at peace. The frenetic energy of his former existence was not a memory but a fossil, an imprint in stone he could regard with detached curiosity.