|Weak Hero| Change the Fate's Design

"H-Hey Donald," Kyrie reached out towards Silver. "You're joking, right? You, going against the Union?"

"My life, my current life, doesn't revolve around the Union," Silver told him. 

"Ben Park, Jake Ji, and the others don't want to be your friends anymore!" Kyrie shouted. "Not after learning the truth!"

"Why wouldn't we want to be his friend?" Jake interrupted. "Silver is our friend,"

"He's Donald Na from another world—"

"That just makes him even cooler," Jake shrugged. "He may have been Donald Na in the past, and he may have been a delinquent like Donald of this world is, but right now he isn't. He's obviously changed since then and right now he's Silver Yeon. He's our friend,"

'This isn't how it's supposed to go!' Kyrie clenched his fists tightly. 'They're supposed to reject him and then Donald is supposed to help build up this world's Union! Not as a subordinate to this world's Donald, but as an equal!' "How could you give up what we spent years building?"

"For fuck's sake," Silver groaned. "That Union we spent years building no longer exists! We are in a completely different world, Kingsley! And it's been years! It's been a fucking decade since I died! Stop obsessing over the past!"

"Leave him, Kyrie," Kingsley ordered his younger brother. "Instead you can help this world's Donald without Silver's help,"

"I don't care about this world's Donald!" Kyrie snapped. "I only care about my Donald!"

"No you don't," Silver glared at him. "You only care about the version of me that lives in your head and fulfills your expectations," He turned to his friends. "Let's get going before Ttosikki runs out of chicken,"

Kyrie stood there, watching in shock as he watched Silver walk away with his group of friends. He fell to his knees, his eyes wide and his body trembling with confusion. 'What am I supposed to do? I dedicated my life to Donald. But now Donald doesn't want anything to do with me...'

In the end, Kingsley dragged his brother back home.

XXX

"H-Hey Silver," Eugene nervously asked. "Was all that true?"

"Unfortunately, yes," Silver said as he took a bite of fried chicken. "Look, just tell me now if it bothers you guys enough to not want to be my friends anymore. That way we won't waste any time and I'll leave,"

"I already told you that it's cool with me," Jake told him. "To me, you're Silver Yeon,"

"In my eyes, you'll always be my little brother," Gray added.

"You saved Jack and that's all that matters to me," Jimmy mumbled, stuffing his face with chicken.

"See, Silver?" Ben patted Silver's back. "We're all still your friends!"

"I'm a bit curious though," Timmy inquired. "What is it like to isekai?"

"Timothy," Silver took a deep breath. "I got fucking hit by a truck at full speed and died. It was fucking painful. No, Jake, don't even think about trying it because I doubt everyone who gets hit by a truck will isekai. You'd most likely end up just staying dead instead,"

"I have no plans on isekai-ing myself if it means leaving my family and friends behind," Jake claimed.

"Are you really okay, Silver?" Gray questioned. "About Kyrie? He'll still be in your classes,"

"I will admit that I'm partially responsible for him turning out that way," Silver sighed. "I didn't care about him going from admiring me to obsessing over me. The only thing that mattered was I had a loyal follower by my side who would heed all of my commands and be able to help manage the schools,"

"Kingsley didn't seem that obsessed over Donald in this world though," Jack brought up.

"That obsession probably got worse as the Union actually began to crumble," Silver said. "He even hired people to kidnap Ben so he wouldn't be able to make it to the fight we had scheduled. That made me furious though because how could the Union be declared the winner if I don't defeat Eunjang's leader?"

"Silver," Gray asked and hesitated slightly. "Would you ever want to return to your world?"

Silver remained silent for a few seconds before taking a deep breath. "After I defeated both Ben and Gray in my world, I remained the undefeated King of Yeongdeungpo. Despite winning, I still felt something hollow. After some reflecting, I realized that deep down I had actually wanted to stop with the Union,"

"Then why didn't you?" Jimmy asked.

"I worked hard to build my empire," Silver answered. "If I destroyed it myself, people would take advantage of that weakness. Even before the Han River Battle, the Jimmy in my world had already attempted to betray me but I reminded him what happens to traitors and gave him a chance to clean up his act,"

"I hate being someone else's dog," Jimmy mumbled, annoyed by the fact that there was a version of him in another world working under someone else.

"As I laid dying, I wondered if I had met Gray earlier, before I had created the Union, would he and I have been friends?" Silver revealed. "The only person I had trusted and loved had been my mother. I had no friends and no other family," 

He turned to his brother. "You asked if I would ever want to return to my world. I won't lie, there is still a tiny part of me that wants to be that Gray's friend. But even if I were to return to that world, it'd be impossible for me to befriend that Gray. I've already cause too much trouble for him and his friends,"

"So I'll stay in this world," Silver declared. "I have family and friends here. I'm not alone. I'm happy. I thought the Donald Na of this world would be similar to me, which is why I befriended him and had Gray befriend him when he was a child. I expected him to lead the life I had thought could have been. Instead, he just cut us out of his life and went down the same violent path I did,"

"I wonder if he also feels the same way I did," Silver said. "It doesn't seem like he has the desire to stop or want to be stopped yet. Maybe after the Union is taken down, he'll have the same reflection and realization I had and want to stop,"

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