Yun was holding Akira's mother's hand when he suddenly realized she had stopped breathing. Though she remained standing, it was only with the support of Yun and Akira.
He checked her pulse to be sure, but there was nothing, she was already dead.
Yun looked at Akira. He was watching his brother with a smile on his face, unaware of the situation, while his brother was looking at the village curiously. How could he tell them?
"I didn't expect this at all! Time is running while we haven't even found a place to hide. But first, I need to tell them." Yun's face was covered in sweat. He wouldn't have been this surprised if it was someone else, but it was Akira's mother.
The thing Yun was scared of was—what if it triggers Akira's power? Even a tiny bit will expose their location.
As he was staring at Akira, thinking of how to tell them, their eyes met. Akira looked confused, likely thinking about why Yun was sweating so much, then his eyes turned to his mother. Sweat ran down his face, his eyes widened as he realized.
Akira began to shake his mother's shoulder in panic. He was trying to speak something, but no sound was coming out from his throat.
"Akira, hey! Calm down." Yun first placed Akira's mother down, but Akira was not letting go of her shoulder. Tears were running down from his eyes, while his younger brother seemed confused. He also started crying.
"Hey, Akira, look at me," Yun said, but Akira didn't seem to hear anything at all. His condition was getting worse, his breathing was hard.
His younger brother's cries were louder. He kept calling his mother, "Mom! Mom! Wake up!"
Yun didn't know what to do. He was just sitting there hopelessly, seeing them breaking down.
But he couldn't let this keep going and let it trigger Akira's awakening, making it expose their location to Nexis.
Yun grabbed Akira's face with both of his hands and forced him to look at him. "Listen to me. You need to calm down for your brother. Your mother is no longer in pain, I promise you that. But right now, your brother needs you."
Still, the tears weren't stopping from his eyes, but he was now starting to breathe normally again. Seeing that, Yun was now relieved.
Yun let go of Akira's face, but Akira's brother's cries were getting louder, and it was not good for a child to cry this much.
Yun gently pulled Akira's brother into a hug. He patted his head.
"You shouldn't cry this much! Only girls cry this much. Aren't you a strong man? And your mother will be hurt seeing you like this. Are you going to hurt your mother?" Yun gently talked with him, even knowing it wouldn't help.
But strangely, Akira's brother nodded and stopped crying. When Yun looked at him, he was asleep while crying.
"How much did these little children suffer?" Yun muttered.