“What did you talk about?”

Kang Ho-Soo asked curiously, his eyes sparkling. He had eaten his meal at the table Ilya reserved for him. As expected, CEO Jang Soo-Hwan in Korea also insisted on being updated on the situation, so Woo-Jin told them the story of how he met Ilya. 

“The owner of the used bookstore you visited was Ilya Turner?” 

Kang Ho-Soo thought about how he questioned Woo-Jin, asking, ‘Why do you have to go all the way to the bookstore just to read a book instead of simply buying it?’ His face paled as he also remembered how he joined forces with Hwang Yi-Young and tried to persuade him not to go. 

“Anybody can just walk into a bookstore and meet Ilya Turner, huh?” 

Kang Ho-Soo remarked that not everybody could be so lucky, feeling a bit disheartened. 

“Fortunately, we clicked with one another, so it was easy to communicate.”

It wasn’t difficult for Woo-Jin to explain how he met Ilya, but it was a different story altogether to talk about the strange bond they shared. Woo-Jin couldn’t tell Kang Ho-Soo about the ghost story he gave Ilya. He only said that regardless of generation and nationality, they became friends because they could communicate with each other. 

They had been reunited again after so many years, and despite belonging to different generations now, the connection they shared was special. And Ilya was still the same as before, thereby triggering...