Hwang Hyunjin ⁻ ⁽15⁾

Hyunjin always believed that from birth, the time and date of our death are marked on our skin, something indelible. You always found that way of thinking chilling, and whenever the topic came up, you avoided it at all costs. In the end, it was all true; his death was predetermined.

You met Hyunjin in a literature workshop at school, you both grew up and inevitably fell in love. But there was something about him that gave you a strange feeling, it was that recurring thought of his. He promised you that you would live life to the fullest, that you wouldn't regret it the day you died. You decided to take it as just a joke and followed him everywhere.

After years, the Earth began to undergo drastic changes, and whether you were a believer in any religion or not, the end of the world was near.

As you watched everyone running desperately through the streets via your apartment window, Hyunjin took your hand and saw them too, but unlike you, he didn't seem worried.

—"You and I were born to die."

He closed his fingers around your back.