There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL)
Chapter 641: Side Story 1. The Twilight Zone - 23

Chapter 641: Side Story 1. The Twilight Zone - 23

"Whoaaa~ look at that view!" Han Shin pressed his face against the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, staring at the vast winter sea. Even the slightly grey sky did not dampen the majestic scenery.

But his admiring moment was interrupted by a yell from the stairs. "Shin, come on! We don’t have much time!"

"Okay, okay--I’m coming, Noona!"

The newly wedded couple, who just secretly come back from their month-long around-the-world honeymoon after a grandiose wedding in Althrea, hurriedly ran up the stairs to follow the old nanny. She opened the door of a spacious nursery connected to the master bedroom through a door. At that moment, however, except for the furniture and baby paraphernalia, the room was empty.

"Hurry! Brother-in-law said they are saying their goodbyes already!" Reina scrutinized the nursery with sharp eyes and pointed at several points. "Alright, let’s place the balloons there and there and there."

"Yes, Ma’am!"

With Reina’s guidance, Han Shin set up balloons around the nursery, and a banner on top of the window--which also had great scenery. They set up many cute animal dolls in the corner and around the large double bassinets, prompting the old nanny to laugh because the nursery suddenly looked like a fluffy zoo.

"What about the poppers?" Reina turned toward Han Shin. "You made sure they are the ones that are not loud, right?"

Han Shin took out a bunch of party poppers in soft pastel colors with a baby picture on them. "Well, they’re for baby...supposedly," he shrugged. "Why don’t we try one?"

"How can we do that before they come?"

"Ey~they wouldn’t know anyway," Han Shin grinned. "We’ll be firing it the moment they come inside, so what’s the difference? The stuff would end up on the floor any--"

pop

A soft popping sound resounded, as loud as someone opening a bottle cap. Han Shin blinked as confetti and cut ribbons flew in front of him. Reina giggled at her new husband’s dumbfounded expression and threw the used popper into the bin before raising her thumb. "Well, I guess this much noise is a pass."

The healer’s laugh was cut when the nanny peeked inside and whispered sharply. "They’re here, they’re here!"

The couple gasped and hurriedly closed the door. They grabbed the party poppers and waited with a grin while facing the door. Gradually, they could hear the sounds of conversation and several footsteps approaching the nursery, before stopping in front of the door. As the door swung open--

Pop! Pop!

"Welcome hooomee!!" Han Shin and Reina set off the party poppers, making it rain confetti in front of the door.

The reaction could be said to be lackluster. Naturally, the espers already knew there were people in the nursery. Zein’s middle-aged aunties were pretty surprised, but they were in the back, so not by many.

Who cared, though? The party poppers weren’t for the adults.

Two pairs of eyes who still learn about many colors of the world watched the colorful confetti rain down in front of them. Their round eyes opened wide, unblinking for a few seconds, before the younger one in Bassena’s hold swatted his arms in the air energetically and laughed.

"Kyaaa!"

"Aaaaw~our little Asa likes it?" Reina clapped at the gleeful baby and popped another one, making the sound of laughter grow louder.

"Phew...at least you get the soft-sounding one," Bassena let out a breath of relief. He would fling these newlyweds off the nursery if they scared his sons.

"Ey~we have that much sensee~" Han Shin laughed as he got rid of the used-up poppers and turned toward the older, quiet one. "Oh, but Kar also loves it! Look at him grabbing the confetti tightly!"

Zein chuckled and stroked the baby’s pink cheek. "You can clearly see it in his eyes and cheek," he said. His oldest did not make big reactions like the younger one, but everything showed in his face.

"He always grabs everything he likes and not let go," Bassena laughed. "Did it from day one."

"Like his Dad?" Radia smirked and arched his brow at Bassena, who only grinned in response.

"But he’s quiet like Zein," Han Joon chimed in, stroking his godson’s dark hair. The baby stared at him with two colored eyes, both equally sparkling, and grabbed his thumb tightly. "What a strength for a three-month-old," he chuckled. "Does this mean he likes me too?"

"Well, you are his godfather," Zein shrugged and walked toward the double bassinet, prompting the baby to let go of Han Joon’s thumb and sulk a little bit. Heh--perhaps the guy liked his godfather too much. "Alright, let’s get you in your new bed. See how you like it--although why is it turning into an aquarium?"

Zein raised his brow at the many sea creature plushies fitted in the large bassinet. There were even sea horses and octopus plushies attached to the fence. All kinds of fish and sea mammal plushies were placed in the corners of the bassinet like guards, surrounding the twins as Zein put the older brother down to be reunited with the excitable younger one who already dragged a shark fin into his mouth and bit on it.

"Don’t worry!" Reina raised her palms toward Bassena’s narrowing eyes. "Everything is clean, sterilized, purified!"

"And who will clean them all up later?" Bassena squinted at the newlywed couple.

"Oh, geez--you’re rich! Find a professional cleaner or something."

"Hey," Zein raised his face and spoke coldly. "Why are you arguing in front of babies?"

The adult espers cleared their throat and quieted down immediately. Bassena made a sheepish grin and kissed the guide’s cheek before running away to help his Ayya with the baby paraphernalia. Han Shin leaned down and made faces at the twins, greeted by the younger Karsa with laughter as usual.

"I wonder who Asa takes from," the healer grabbed a dolphin plushie and moved it around like an airplane diving into the twins. "He’s so cheerful and energetic."

Zein tilted his head--honestly, he wondered too. People easily said the older Karna was very much a blend of Zein and Bassena, but Karsa was a bit unique. If anything, his personality was a bit like Han Shin; playful and uselessly abundant in energy.

"Hmm? What are you talking about?" Nayla smiled from the corner cabinet. "Of course he takes after Young Master Sena."

"Me?" Bassena blinked and pointed at himself. The other also looked at the esper with a confused expression.

"Oh, you won’t believe it!" she chuckled and patted Bassena’s arms. "You’re just like that when you’re a baby, Young Master! You’d laugh at anything and pull on the Madam’s hair. It was so hard holding you from running away all around the pavilion."

"Huh..."

Bassena looked at Zein, and they both chuckled in the end, while Han Shin and Reina clapped their hands with glee. "Mystery solved!"

The babies were clueless about the sudden commotion, but baby Asa giggled copying the adults, and baby Kar grabbed his younger brother’s arm tightly, as if participating in the merriment with that.

They watched the adults walking around and making faces at them, listened to them talk among themselves and talked to them, even though they had no idea what they were talking about. Asa wiggled and kicked his brother’s legs, giggling while swaying a shark fin attached to a plushie almost as big as him. Kar stared at the sky-painted ceiling and wondered why the cloud did not move like the one he saw outside when his Dad and Father brought them out to sunbathe.

They had their own thoughts as they lay in their new bed, but the moment one felt hungry, the other felt hungry, and they yelled together asking to be fed. But why weren’t Dada and Baba coming to feed them? Kar and Asa cried in disappointment, but they were so hungry and tired from playing with everyone that they couldn’t protest more. They sucked on the bottled milk held by the ones called Ayya and Auntie, before closing their eyes in satisfaction.

Kar opened his eyes when the room was darkened slightly, gasping in a soft voice. The room was quiet, the adults had gone. He tried to roll to the side, looking for his twin, but he was obstructed by his chubby stomach and inadequate muscle strength. So he waved his arm, trying to grab his other half, but another tiny fist already grabbed him first.

"Mwaa...kyaa!"

Asa moved his whole body and made little jumps with his back as he turned his head to laugh at his older brother. The bright amber eyes as if yelling--

"’Hey! Hey! This new place is nice!’" Bassena spoke in a squeaky baby voice while hiding his face behind the bassinet’s fence, watching the twins wake up quietly like good boys.

"Pfft--that’s what you think Asa is saying?" Zein chuckled. He leaned on the sturdy bassinet and looked down, reaching down so Kar’s stretched-out hand could hold his finger. He gazed at the scenery outside the window and smiled regretfully. "Too bad it’s winter. I want to show them that sky."

"Why can’t we?" Bassena shrugged and picked up young Asa, who was shrieking in excitement for being freed of the confine of the bassinet. "What’s the use of installing this viewing window, then?"

Zein chuckled and followed the esper with Kar in his hand, toward the large glass hidden behind the curtain. Beautiful violet streamed into the room as the twilight blurred the horizon. It was the same sky they saw when Bassena proposed to him both times, and the same sky where he realized he loved the man.

"See that?" Zein brought Kar’s hand and pressed the small palm against the clear glass. "That’s my favorite scenery. It’s like your eyes, Kar."

"Oh, let’s see the sunrise tomorrow!" Bassena swayed Asa, who was already smacking the glass happily from the burst of color. "We’ll be able to see a big ball rising to the sky, just like Asa’s eyes!"

As if understanding it, the younger twin smacked the glass harder while shrieking, almost making their fathers worried about his palms from the vibration. Kar, in his quiet way, placed his hand over his younger brother’s, prompting Asa to calm down. Zein and Bassena glanced at each other, before laughing and showering the twins with kisses.

"This is day one," Zein whispered to his family. "We’ll see more scenery from now on, more of the world."

"Together," Bassena smiled against his husband’s temple.

"Yeah, together."

In this new house, with the new life in their hands. They would watch more violet sky, sapphire sea, and amber sun together. In that room. In that house.

In their twilight zone.

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