Beyond The Facade - Wiki React

Chapter 2.1 - Everything can be connected

The real Cale Henituse, who was making a kind of smile the original Kim Rok Soo would never make, mischievously asked.

Cale scratched his neck, visibly uncomfortable. His tone turned half-dry, half-bemused as he muttered, "It's unsettling. I don't remember ever smiling like that, even when I was winning."

"I think it suits him!" Rosalyn chimed in, eyes sparkling with mirth. "You both look better when you're not scowling."

"Aren't you planning on living in that body?"

The sudden question that was asked mischievously felt quite heavy. The real Cale Henituse shrugged his shoulders and added on.

"I plan on living the rest of my life in this body. That's why I plan on throwing away the name of Cale Henituse and living as Kim Rok Soo."

The real Cale Henituse's eyes were calm. They weren't shaking at all.

The real Kim Rok Soo quietly looked at the person who was in his real body before opening his mouth.

"...So you want me to call you Kim Rok Soo?"

"That's right. Why? You don't want to? Don't you plan on finishing your life as Cale Henituse as well? Then you should throw away the name of Kim Rok Soo now."

"Pffft."

Kim Rok Soo inside Cale Henituse's body... No, the person who had made up his mind to become Cale Henituse nodded his head and continued speaking.

"Sure. We'll do as you said, Kim Rok Soo."

"Good, Cale Henituse. Now our outer appearances match our names."

Deruth Henituse, who was a father to one of them, or perhaps both, stood still, his lips slightly parted, eyes locked onto the unfamiliar presence in his son's body.

To think his son would agree to give up his own body. To live a new life in a different world, far from his family and home. It pierced Deruth more deeply than he could admit.

Had he been such a poor father that his son would choose another life entirely?
The thought unsettled him; it baffled him beyond reason.

But even amidst the ache, he couldn't deny a part of him understood.

He had not always been there for Cale as he should've. Perhaps... perhaps this was the result.

"...You two got along quickly, huh?" Hannah muttered, breaking the silence with her usual dry tone. Her eyes flicked between the screen and Cale, sharp with interest but carrying something unreadable beneath.

Cale glanced at her and gave a brief nod. "It wasn't difficult," he said plainly. "We're similar in a lot of ways."

There was no boasting in the words, nor any attempt to dramatise. Just a quiet truth spoken between two people who, despite their differences in origin, shared something deeper than anyone else in that room could fully grasp.

Cale looked at Kim Rok Soo, who was laughing and making gestures that he would never have made, and nonchalantly added on.

"I guess you've really been happy."

He recalled the moment he met with Lee Soo Hyuk and got the 'Embrace' ability.

Lee Soo Hyuk had handed Cale the ability and told him about the real Cale Henituse as he disappeared.

'Oh, by the way, the original owner of your body is living well too. He's happy. That is why Jung Soo, I, and everybody is happy.'

"How come an ability was handed to you?"