At the palace, Dahee fell right in front of the main door and tried to get in, struggling with her pain that slowly healed but painful at the same time.
Suddenly, the main door opened and 7 of them entered the palace.
At that moment, time seemed to stand still when they all looked at each other's situations.
Jihwan appeared to be severely bleeding at his chest, hands, legs and head. Half of Daehyun's face was bleeding and same with Sehyuk and Daejin. Others are bleeding at their hands and legs.
"Dahee-ssi!!" Daehyun and Daejin were about to approach her but she stepped back.
"STOP! DON'T COME NEAR ME!!" she yelled and it made everyone startled.
"Dahee-ya…it's us, it's me, Jihwan, ugh…" Jihwan tries to approach her even though he can't stand properly on his feet.
"I said stay there, don't come here…" she said, taking out her whip with all the energy left. At this state, all her trust was falling down and destroyed after seeing what happened in front of her eyes.
Her tears began to fall but in blood. Her eyes turning red and her wings slowly burning by the red flame.
"Dahee, control your feelings!" Sehyuk said.
"Would you die for me?" she asked in a shaking voice and blurred eyesight because of the tears.
"What?" Soohyuk was asking.
"Of course we love you Dahee!" Daejin said.
"That's not the answer!!" her voice became hoarse and cracked.
"I would but not my love for you…" Jihwan said and Dahee was running towards him, hugging him tightly, letting go of all of her fears and sadness.
"It's okay…I'm here…" he said while caressing her hair and patting her back. He can feel her body shaking because of fears but he can't feel that she was in danger because of the injury in his chest.
Her grip became tighter in the hug and their wings touched.
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"How was she?" Daehyun asked.
"She's fine but obsidian magic wasn't something that easy to get rid of, better to be careful in her healing process…I already gave her some treatment, maybe it can help this time," Sehyuk said.
"Luckily…" Daejin sighed and was followed by Daehyun.
"Now what?" Soohyuk asked.
"What?" Hyunwoo asked back.
"Dahee already knew that Jihwan was a demon, what do we want to do now?" Sangcheol said.
"Hyung is right…Jihwan?" Soohyuk called but he was zoning out in his own world.
"Jihwan?" Daejin called and then he got back to reality.
"Huh? Ouh…I…don't know, I'm already thinking of telling her after this weekend but who'll know that Hilux will attack her earlier than we thought, I'm just afraid that she'll never trust me anymore…" he said.
"Maybe she's gonna chop you into 13 but what more worse than that?" Soohyuk said to him.
"Not funny…everything will be in the place and it's today, I can't hide it anymore…" Jihwan said.
"Maybe you want to have a slow talk?" Daejin suggested.
"Whoa…wait a minute, I thought you don't like Jihwan to be her boyfriend?" Hyunwoo asked in shock.
"I didn't but she trusts him more than her brothers here…what can I do?" he said.
"Anyway, her body was actually improving more than I expected…" Sehyuk changed the topic.
"What do you mean?" Daehyun asked.
"It's like something to protect her, except the potion that Jihwan gave…there's something else that actually controls the obsidian from flowing all over her body but I can't detect what is that…I need to search more about it" he ended.
"Is this something that we both think?" Daejin asked.
"Yeah…it is," Daehyun said.
"Is there something that both of you hide from all of us, also Dahee?" Sangcheol asked.
"Well, truth by truth will be revealed at the end but I don't want Dahee to know first…" Daejin said.
"What's the thing?" Soohyuk asked.
Daejin and Daehyun looked at each other, hesitating to tell the truth.
"Our father married twice…" Daejin said.
"I'm not shocked by that," Soohyuk said.
"He got married with our mother and Dahee's mother after that…" Daehyun said and everyone gasped.
"What?" Jihwan said.
"So both of you weren't her real siblings?!" Hyunwoo said in surprise and Daejin shook his head.
"That's a whole plot twist, in these thousands of years, you keep this kind of thing secret from Dahee? Wouldn't you consider her feelings at all?" Sehyuk asked.
"Because we consider it! We didn't tell her because afraid that she might not treat us like her brother, after we lost our mother, her last wishes was to have a daughter but father can't get married again, he refused it until there's an angel who fell in love with him and they decide to get married, have Dahee and few years after that, both of them died in the battle…" Daehyun opened an old book.
"We love our mothers but Dahee didn't know anything about it, she was the forbidden angel that everyone was talking about…" Daejin continues.
"So, it's not two sons but one daughter…"Jihwan said and Daejin nodded.
"The universe never stopped them from getting married but it's the battle that changed the truth…" Sangcheol concluded.
"What happened in the battle?" Jihwan asked suddenly.
"Why do you ask though?" Soohyuk said.
"Because every single detail might give an answer to all the questions, Dahee was a forbidden angel and don't you think that she might actually have something more powerful than 7 deadly sins?" he asked.
"Jihwan was right but she was too innocent, what is the possible thing that she can do?" Daehyun said.
"I don't know, maybe sacrificing myself at Hilux…" Dahee appeared from the door and all of them widened their eyes.
"Dahee, are—"
"Shut up…" Dahee said to Jihwan with a death glare that made him step back.
"Dahee-ya, I can explain everything!" Daehyun said in a panic.
"I don't need to hear it twice…" she said.
Others were leaving the room for Daejin, Daehyun and Dahee talked in privacy.
"You lied to me for years?" she asked.
"We…" Daejin stopped.
"What? You're lying and said it was to protect me?" she walked towards them.
"Of course! You don't know how strong the power that you hold!" he said.
"No! It's you, the one who doesn't know how strong I am to hold this!!" she insisted.
Both of them fell silent after hearing her yelling right in front of their faces.
"You became unmannered Dahee…" Daehyun said in a serious tone.
"Since when do we know manners?" she smirks.
"Dahee, this is too much…" Daejin said, supporting Daehyun.
"Let me tell you one thing that is gonna makes you realized to who you're talking to…you said to me that we're enjoying the life and tortured was our job or we're the one who'll get it, no sympathy or empathize in our dictionary even history. We're the beast at night that everyone fears!" she said with all of her bravery.
Both of them were too stunned to hear that, it's the first thing that Daehyun and Daejin said to her when she was 5 years old. That moment when her wings turned grey and faded from white.
"You remember…?" Daehyun asked in surprise.
"I don't…but something keep messing in my head until everything were in the place, then I remembered everything you hide from me…you hate me when the first time we face to face but because of afraid that you'll turned me into something that you can't control, both of you locked and turned me to a good girl, isn't it?" she said.
"Dahee, you should stop this, there's no benefit from the power…" Daehyun said.
"I don't want to hear anything from you, I want you to unlock my power now…everything that you lock in here, unlock it now!" she said.
"No! We don't want to add more problems!" Daejin said.
Dahee looked down and nodded.
"Now I know, I'm a burden…" she smiled in pain.
"No, that's not what I meant…" Daejin was about to hold her but she stepped back.
"If you don't want to unlock it, then, I'll do it by myself…" she said and walked out.
"What?! No! Dahee!" both of them try to get her but Dahee holds Jihwan's hands and stops.
"Bring me far away from here…" she said to him.
"Close your eyes…" Jihwan said and both of them teleport to another place where it can't be found by the other.
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"We're here…" he said.
Dahee was sitting and hugging herself, wrapped herself in her dark wings.
The scene was very silent until Jihwan decided to have a slow talk with her about his lies.
"I'm sorry…" he said, standing behind her.
"I…hate you…" she said, holding back her tears.
"I know. You can hate me, beat me and even kill me…I'll let you do anything you want but please, at least forgive me…" he said, sitting next to her.
"What's the reason for me to forgive you? You and my brothers are just the same, can't be trusted at all…" she said.
"Yes, I lied to you and I know that you'll find out about this one day so I decided to tell you once I return…but you're so stubborn and didn't hear any explanation from me~" he pinched her cheek.
"Don't touch me!" she said and heard him giggling.
"You're still mad~ what can I do for you to reduce the fire hmm?" he asked.
"I don't know, do whatever that you can do," she said.
"Okay, because of that, Kim Dahee, look here please~" he begged.
Dahee opened her eyes and saw something shocking.
"I know this is cliche and I saw this thing many times in kdrama so I decided to give it a try" he said while he was bent on his knee.
"Kim Dahee, the owner of my heart, will you marry me?" he asked.
Dahee was wiping her tears and looked at Jihwan, surprised with his decision.
"C'mon~ choose yes or no~" he said, smiling.
"No…I can't," she said.
Jihwan widened his eyes "what?" he said with surprise.
"I was told to marry the Demon King since I messed up everything…don't you remember that…" she said and he giggled.
"What's so funny about it…you and I can't be together even if you're a demon!" she said in a serious tone.
"Okay…Mianhae~ but I need to tell you one more secret…" he said, holding her hands. She looked deeply into his eyes.
"I was actually the Demon King they meant, Dahee…" Jihwan widened his red wings with golden shades.
"Y-you are?" amazed by his wings, she touched it.
"Of course, these wild wings were to protect you even if we didn't meet on the earth…" he slightly rubbed her face.
Jihwan slipped the ring onto Dahee's finger and kissed her forehead "now…will you marry me?" he bent down on his knee.
"I…will" she said, looking away.
"That's it? No hug? No kiss for me?" he said, sitting looking at her.
Immediately, Dahee hugged him and gave a peck on his lips.
"C'mon, do it longer~ I miss you so much these few days~" he whined.
"No…someone will see us…" she blushed.
"Then, should we go get a room~" his hands slide down to her waist.
"Jihwan…!" she looked into his eyes.
"Okay okay…I'm just kidding, we can't take these things too fast, with a Hilux that is still free out there…" he said.
"You're right, because of that, let me show you something…" Dahee stood up and grabbed his hands.
"Where?" he asked.
"Just follow me~" she smiled and he just followed. Gladly her smile is still in the place.
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"My hidden place!!" she said and showed him the entire place that looked like a half garden but with dead flowers.
"Your playground?" he said, mocking her.
"No! This is the place where my tears keep falling and sadness walking around~" she said happily like it was nothing. He was shocked to hear it.
"You said it like that was nothing…"
"Of course, Daehyun oppa never bothered about it, why do I need to bother about it too?" she grabbed her little doll.
"If I just met you earlier to put your sadness aside," he hugged her from the back.
"If just you met me earlier, maybe this thing will not happen…maybe the stones that all of you looking for weren't with me right now…" she said, showing him Phlox and Arval stones.
"Phlox and Arval stones?! It was with you all this time?!" he said.
"It is, after the fight last night, I get my memory back and the origin of these stones. The base of heaven and hell…it's a funny story actually, a boy who actually gave this Phlox stone to me and my eomma who told me to take care of this Arval stone, so I can protect the heaven from Hilux…" she explained.
"How did you get this stone?" he asked for confirmation.
"It came to me by itself~ like a magic flying stone" she said.
"Magic flying stone…cute~" he mumbled
"You said something?" she asked.
"No…I'm just curious about the boy that gave you this stone, he was so brave to get through the 7 deadly sins doors, he must be very strong…" he said.
"Stop praising yourself, Jihwan…" she said and he laughed.
"Okay~ I will, I also didn't know about this until you hugged me last night…it's like a dream until I opened my eyes and realized it was a reality," he said.
"For real…I was also shocked, maybe we're separate for some reasons…the fate said that we're for each other but I refused to believe it because it's the Demon King but now, I accepted it because it was Yoon Jihwan…" she laid her head on his chest.
"I trust you and I hope you will trust me too, in any condition that you wish, I'll try my best to fulfill it…" he kissed the back of her hands.
"It's just one wish from me…please stay alive forever because I need someone to lead me if I was blind by the tears…" she closed her eyes.
"There's no light in our world, let's stay in the dark if it was the last choice of ours, there's no difference with closing your eyes…" he said.
"There is!" she said.
"What?" he asked.
"Sitting in the dark alone with the exit or sitting in the dark with you without any exit…" she said.
"I preferred anything, as long as you'll be there with me…" he said.