Chapter 210
Translator: Vine
Chapter: 210
Chapter Title: Side Story - The Pure Angel (3)
Survival.
It was the world's most desperate drama of survival—enduring all the deadly threats hurled by Mother Nature.
You couldn't even sleep properly. Every day brought gnawing hunger for food and water.
You couldn't stay in one spot for long. Spending all day wandering just to scrounge up a single meal—that was survival.
Desperately clinging to each grueling day, shivering in fear. That was survival.
"Why the hell..."
Now on the third day of her survival ordeal, the angel chewed on a tree fruit—her first food in two days—and thought to herself.
"...am I doing this?!?!?"
She flung the fruit away in a burst of rage, then frantically scooped it back up to check for damage.
Three days.
It was more than enough time for an angel to adapt to the wilderness.
"Gonna kill him. Gonna kill Lee Seong-hoon. God... I don't even know about God. But I'll kill him twice over to make up for it."
Gabriel, sniffling away the night in the forest, still couldn't bring herself to defy God.
How could an angel lash out at her Creator? It was impossible. So she vented all her fury on the innocent man instead.
A man whose face she hadn't even properly seen, whose voice she hadn't heard even once.
"Sniff... gonna kill him... ugh... so cold..."
Piling up scattered leaves for cover did nothing against the forest chill.
Hungry, freezing, exhausted—a total nightmare.
The tree fruits she'd found earlier? Stolen by a passing squirrel. Nothing was going right.
"Tomorrow morning, when the sun rises."
Without fail.
"I'm coming down this damn mountain."
This was her third day saying it.
The mountain.
Sometimes it was baffling why she couldn't just descend. Isn't it simple? Just head straight down. You might think that.
But if it were that easy, no one would ever get lost on a mountain.
"Just go down" only works on the little hills behind your neighborhood. Anything bigger, and you're lost in no time.
That's why Gabriel realized it on her fourth attempt to descend.
Stick to the path you've chosen until the very end.
The reason was simple. The moment doubt creeps in—"Is this the right way?"—
It's over.
She'd lost count of how many times this had happened. No matter how far she went, there was no end in sight. Just endless trees, no matter how long she walked.
Choose a path, and that's where it ends.
Stick to the one you've picked until the end.
And so Gabriel chose a path.
And at its end—
"You've gotta be kidding."
A cliff.
Whiiiiiish—!!!!!!
The wind howling up from the cliff swept her tears away.
"This is insane."
For someone who'd only ever lived in the skies— soaring on eight wings, gazing down at the earth from the Heavenly Realm—Korea's mountains were...
"Lee Seong-hoon!!!!!!!!!! I'm gonna kill you!!!!!!!!"
Far too vast.
It looked like Gabriel's survival ordeal would drag on for a while longer.
LeeSeonghoonLeeSeonghoon~
GonnaKillGonnaKillGonnaKill~
Only the mocking echo resounded around her.