Thrown In as Bait, the E-Rank Lantern Wakes Up Every Time He Dies novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Forty-Six
"Why?" Gyeol asked from the doorway. "Why would anyone let it break?"
"Because a break on Mangwon-ro is a second photo," Ha-yeon said.
"The Lamp walks down the street with his hands lit, and the master follows him to the river."
"The whole city watches him save them."
"The council suspends every hearing for a national emergency. Nobody remembers a video."
On Saturday morning they buried Chil-seong on a hill in Paju, under a pine tree, and his granddaughter put a strawberry candy on the stone.
At 11:50 that night Woo-seok sat down in the alley behind the Blue Crane with his back to the boiler room door.
He set his alarm for five minutes and slept, so that this alley would be where he came back to.
Then he went in.
He slid the bar alone and switched on his lamp.
The master came up out of the pool before the door was halfway open.
He ran with the light, down the hall toward the boiler room, and it came after him out of its room.
It had never come out of that room before, because nobody had ever given it a light to follow.
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