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“Bye, bye, bye to all of the noise.”
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[Prologue]
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It rains in summer.
Kyungsoo gets a whiff of an odd perfume from a tall lady wearing leather mid-calf boots and sneezes. The airport is packed and flowing with tourists coming from different nations, all bound for an adventure in Incheon. As they head to the subway station, Kyungsoo makes his way to a different direction.
The rain slithers down the glass windows like a gushing waterfall, and the downpour outside seems endless. Carting his trolley as he aimlessly searches for a place to sit in the terminal, Kyungsoo is five hours early for his flight to Busan. Before he left his apartment, Zitao had asked if Kyungsoo was that excited to fly to his hometown. He hadn’t answered outright, but if he had, he would say that Zitao was wrong. Kyungsoo is absolutely petrified.
He finds an empty seat after a few minutes and tries to fall asleep against the hard, plastic headrest. He waits until the GCA announces KE1405 through the intercom and trudges towards Gate 18. A stern-looking man is waiting to hand him his ticket.
Kyungsoo emerges from the tunnel and boards the plane to Busan. He dodges a few swings from an elderly couple struggling to shove their heavy luggage in their proper compartments and walks towards his seat at the end of the bus.
Thankfully, Kyungsoo gets the seat next to the window. He’s always preferred keeping himself as far away from the aisle as possible, where he’ll be less prone to bumping his head against the thighs of passengers scrambling for the lavatory. He bows politely to a burly teenager and his mother, and slowly inches his way to his seat.
After readjusting his lapels, Kyungsoo rechecks his wallet and calculates how much the ferry to Gumseo-do will cost.
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