I get a little bit Genghis Khan...

[Aoki Rikuto]

I heard there was somebody here in Hazleton that you might know.

[Hwang Ryeol]

Who would that be?

And
Who snitched?

[Aoki Rikuto]

So there is something you've been hiding from me....
Curious...

[Hwang Ryeol]

You
Are sneaky

It's not what you think

...or it's exactly what you think. What do you think?

[Aoki Rikuto]

You didn't want me to know.

[Hwang Ryeol]

There's very little point hiding anything from you, is there?
That damn link between us.

*siiigh*

Not that it makes any difference, with our arrangement.

I met someone from my past, that's all. I thought he'd died but he's a vampire now. That's it, that's all there is.

[Aoki Rikuto]

No.

There's something more there.

[Hwang Ryeol]

There WAS something more there, back when we were both human.

Now there isn't. Too much time has passed and we're both different people now. I barely recognized him last time I saw him.

You're not worried, are you?

[Aoki Rikuto]

Something strong passed through you when you were with him.
Do you not realize that?

[Hwang Ryeol]

You felt that, did you?

Mostly shock. Mostly
Sadness, I suppose.

It doesn't change how I feel about you, Riku.

[Aoki Rikuto]

I know it doesn't... now.
But you realize the power he holds over you, don't you?

[Hwang Ryeol]

He's not going to use me like that.

He wouldn't. It's not in his nature.

[Aoki Rikuto]

So he's willing to just let you go?

[Hwang Ryeol]

I don't know. I haven't contacted him since the last time I saw him.

It makes no difference, I can't touch him even if magically we reunited. And maybe
it's better not to reopen old wounds.

[Aoki Rikuto]

Your answers are all satisfying but the morose way you deliver them somehow makes them... less so.