Chapter 19 When Failure Strikes

• That feeling of victory and hope had just been thrown overboard in a matter of seconds. A metallic weapon resembling a hook had seized Yun by the neck and brought him crashing back to the ground. The branches had cushioned the fall a bit, but the blow to his head immediately blurred his vision.
• Yun only realized that three shadows he couldn’t recognize were in front of him. Before losing consciousness completely, he could hear a deep voice saying unintelligible things and a high-pitched voice screaming something else, but that’s where his awareness ended. The last conscious thought he managed was of his dear mother.
• Had he failed? Was it possible that his consciousness wouldn’t return in time? Would he wake up after dusk, having missed the opportunity to save her? He couldn’t even feel hurt by this. He couldn’t feel anything at all, just the presence of darkness and the culmination of all his accumulated doubts.