He ran and ran. He ran for a long time and realized he couldn't see the hospital anymore. There wasn't anyone following him either.

And through the snowing sky, Jaehwan puffed white breaths. As the cold snow touched his cheek, his destroyed heart slowly came back to itself.

'Why did I share my story with that kind of man?'

Deep regret filled Jaehwan's heart.

'He believes my story?'

'He really believes that my world — that the Tree of Imagery really exists?'

Jaehwan was filled with tears of rage. He should not have trusted anyone. He knew that trust could only return in such a way and still he did it. He was too naïve. Was it becoming young that made him think that he had really become young again? Memories of the past 10 years quickly flashed past him.

He had been stupid all along. He gritted his teeth as he thought about the doctor being friendly for all those years.

'Trust? I don't need your trust. My world is real. Even without any trust, it will be proven naturally.' Jaehwan thought as he looked up to the white sky.

Time was coming. The tower was going to appear soon, the tower that will save him from this world. That Fall will come for him soon.

Jaehwan slowly walked home. Jaehwan's footprints was covered by the new snow that fell onto it. Jaehwan swore to never go back to the hospital anymore.

Two weeks later…

The day came silently during the midst of a snowy winter day.

Jaehwan was looking up to the sky. He was in the military in the past, but he did not enlist in the military this time. He knew it was pointless if the tower appeared again. Instead, Jaehwan climbed up a high mountain every day to look up into the sky.

He looked and looked.

He looked at the snowy sky, a rainy sky, and a clear sky.

The tower did not appear, but Jaehwan waited.

It was late. The tower had to appear.

But then the next day came, and the next day. The tower did not appear.

And then came the last day of 2018. Jaehwan stood still and looked at the sky where the new year's sun was coming up. It was an unbelievably glorious and beautiful sight. Lovers held their hands and families hugged each other as they cheered for the coming of the new year.

In the middle of everyone cheering and blessing the new year, only Jaehwan waited for the Fall. He believed that the tower was going to appear soon. However, people left one by one, and even after lovers went down the mountain while holding their hands, the Fall still did not come.

The tower did not appear.

Jaehwan stood there, looking directly at the peaceful sky for a long time.

And then Jaehwan turned twenty-one years old.