Nevereverland

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 89, 90 & 91.1 (UNEDITED)   It seemed like a long time has passed. Jude didn't budge, like how he was lying on the bathroom floor yesterday. He was sure he felt a little muddled, but he didn't want to fall to the floor and sob. Jude was just tired and exhausted, with a deep sense of loss. Jude, wrapped in the shape of a larva curled up in a cocoon, dozed off for a moment and fell asleep. The sunlight outside the window swirled around like water. When he opened his eyes again, the air that brushed his neck was quite spine-chilling. Before he knew it, a mouse approached Jude's side and tried to poke his immobile body, but fled to the hole on the other side. Jude’s body cringed as the cell phone cried in his pocket. Jude opened the flip phone reflexively and answered. "Yes." [It's me.] "Why?" [I found out the name of the orphanage where Hender Hill went in and called them. The...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 88 (UNEDITED)   The weather was damp. Even though it was not sunny, it’s not like it wasn’t at all. The city was submerged in the colour of milk-like sunlight mixed with water. Jude headed for the area where the incident took place a few days ago with a slight gait. A disorderly telephone pole and a silhouette of more disorderly intertwined wires. As he stepped on the blurry shadows that covered the jagged ground, he soon stopped walking in front of a house. He could tell it was this place with uncanny clarity. It was a building where he spent hundreds of days, almost a thousand days. It was a little different from what it used to be. It used to be old, but now it's gotten worse and the framework was exposed here and there. How come it hasn't been demolished yet? It's been a long time. Is it that it's such a dark building that they didn't rush to touch it, or is someone living in a haunted house like...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 87 (UNEDITED)   Jude tossed and turned. Light came through his eyelids. When he opened his eyes languidly, he saw Alvin with his arms crossed and his eyes closed at his feet. He's sleeping, too . Jude rose from the sofa, thinking blankly. He felt stiff all over his body. Furthermore, Jude, who found himself wearing the jacket, sighed briefly. It seems like I did it again . As he clicked his tongue and ruffled through his hair, Alvin opened his eyes, leaning against the sofa. The light pupils looked lighter in the sunlight. After a few blinks, his eyes bent slightly as he looked sideways. The platinum eyelashes glowed white. "Are you up?" "Yeah... Well... You’re sleeping, too." "What are you thinking? I'm a human being, too." "I'm sure there are hundreds of millions of people who'll disagree with that now." "Oh, I can't deny it." Sitting next to Alvin, ...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 86 (UNEDITED)    Translator's Notes and Confession I have a special shout-out to Agent J for the ko-fi and message. Thank you so much. So, I decided to post this earlier hahah. And trust me y'all are going to come back to this chapter again after the whole arc ends and reread from here again. In the dark, narrow living room of the apartment, Alvin tapped on the keyboard quietly. As he sifted through the stories of people named Hender Hill, he turned his neck lightly. The blond detective who fell asleep on the sofa was still not making any signs of anything - not even breathing. Alvin glanced over and soon turned to the monitor. Hender Hill, Hender Hill. As he was humming inwardly and scrolling down, Alvin's eyes suddenly narrowed as if he was smiling. That was when an interesting article caught his eye. Alvin, who was checking the related articles, had a slightly deeper smile around his m...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 85 (UNEDITED) The sun was setting. The sparse sunlight coming in from outside gradually faded away. The air got cold. Jude lay motionless, still on the bathroom floor. The bug that was circling in the bathroom also disappeared. Click, click. He can hear the doorknob turning. Is Tim here? But the sound soon turned into something small whirling through the keyhole. Chalkak , at the end of the small noise, the door is open. Jude rose from his spot like a ghost. As he suddenly got up, his eyes turned white. The nausea symptom, which he thought had barely subsided, came back in. Jude shut his mouth, as he was about to make a loud retch. A light brown-haired man who appeared with small footsteps knelt down on one knee beside Jude. "Are you okay?" His voice was getting smaller than it was originally planned. "...I told you… not to come." "I've told you before; I wish I could be the one to...