The Rival Who Killed Me Remembers Too novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Names
Yoo-chan was sitting on the cart tailboard with his ladle in his lap, eating a cold dumpling.
He looked up as Woo-jin and Mu-yeol came down out of the mist, side by side and not touching.
He looked at Woo-jin's torn sash.
He looked at the bite mark on Woo-jin's shoulder.
"Good morning," Yoo-chan said. "I'd ask, but I think I know, and I'm eating."
"Yoo-chan," Woo-jin said. "I have to tell you something."
"You do?"
"Before your brother does."
Mu-yeol stopped a pace behind Woo-jin's left shoulder, big and silent.
He did not speak.
He did not leave either.
Woo-jin told it standing up, with his hands at his sides, in the cold light.
The sixteen wounded men listened, and so did the two healers, who had stopped stitching.
He said he could not prove it, and that they would have to take it on Mu-yeol's word.
He said it had happened once already, to people who never heard him say sorry.
He said the road had been drawn by his hand.
He said, "All of you were dead by morning, and it was because of me."
Nobody breathed.
The river went on.
Yoo-chan put down his dumpling.
He slid off the tailboard and crossed the gravel, small and wiry and a head shorter than Woo-jin, with his shoulder bound up in white.
He looked at his brother.
"Is it true?" he said.
"It's true," Mu-yeol said.
Yoo-chan nodded.
He turned back to Woo-jin and hit him.
It was a good punch for a cook.
It landed on Woo-jin's jaw and snapped his head round, and he went down on one knee on the gravel and tasted blood.
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