It’s not like it’s a matter of life and death.” She hadn’t even looked up from her cooking magazine, flipping instead to a recipe for country fried steak and skimming a finger over the ingredient list. “Donghyuck those are expensive, you don’t need them.
The reaper had left him with a strong implication that their next encounter would be at the point of a sword. “Mom! I need fencing lessons!” he’d begged, just days after his balancing victory. Or, embarrassing homemade approximations of both. But don’t call me that.”ĭonghyuck’s tenth year was characterized mainly by panic and a manic obsession with becoming competent with both sabre and foil. “So you’re like, gonna keep coming around, Mr. From then on Donghyuck began to think carefully about this strange element of his life and wonder how exactly he was supposed to respond to having his own personal grim reaper. Maybe because he was closer to the ground. He’d still won the game of who could balance on one foot longer, though. The next year, when the guy appeared in loose black slacks and shirt, Donghyuck had been shocked. How are you going to beat me dressed like that?” The figure’s face had twisted in disapproval. “Maybe you wouldn’t have lost if you’d worn better clothes,” Donghyuck teased, still hopping on one foot back and forth between the squares. On Donghyuck’s ninth birthday he bested the reaper at hopscotch in the neighborhood park, which wasn’t all that hard to do when the tallish, slender figure kept tripping all over his cloak. In all honesty, he thought it was a little unfair he was put in this position so young, but it seemed he had no choice. The first time he remembered was winning at Rock Paper Scissors, which was pretty much by luck considering he only did Scissors because he didn’t actually know the game yet and did a peace sign automatically. The bet was always the same: Donghyuck could live another year so long as he won whatever challenge the cloaked man proposed.
Maybe he’d been doing this since infancy, but every year on his birthday the guy in the cloak appeared briefly. Donghyuck wasn’t sure when it started exactly.
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