Chaotic Nights

Chaotic Nights — Chapter 93. Name

Translator: Atlas

Weekly Chapter 5/6

Eunha’s mind went blank as she looked at Jihak. The reason she wrote their names on their arms was because there was no paper.

Besides, how could she arbitrarily add meaning to a name?

Eunha pursed her lips as she looked around the kitchen. All the people who could help her had disappeared.

“You don’t want to do it?”

“It’s not that I don’t want to do it. I don’t have much knowledge about it, I simply choose the characters that match its meaning.”

“The outcome is inconsequential. We can joke about the result.”

Jihak nonchalantly laughed. Despite his attitude, she didn’t feel comfortable. Eunha sighed. She wondered why he seemed so cheerful today.

She still hadn’t forgotten the man they’d found in the forest. Instinctively, she knew that what Jihak had hunted was not an animal. That target was also an individual intent on ending Jihak’s life.

He extended his arm towards Eunha, who was reaching for a sheet of paper. She felt more embarrassment when she saw the prominent veins on his arms.

“I need paper.”

“I want to laugh like them.”

“What do you plan to do in case the ink pen#trates your flesh?”

“Just be quiet. What’s wrong with my name?”

Eunha couldn’t help but sit down next to Jihak. Perched comfortably on the kitchen floor, she tenderly seized his wrist. She was lost in thought.

She slowly raised her head. Further up his neck, she could look at his chin. He looked like a noble scholar with important ancestors.

Jihak frowned.

“Why do you have that expression on your face?”

“Some characters came to your mind.”

“Try it.”

She slid the brush down his arm. The ink marked his fair skin.

When Eunha completed the first character, she blew so that the ink would not smear.

沚

His eyes twitched as he looked at the next character she wrote.

鶴

“It means a crane that approached the water.”

She raised her head with a shy expression.

“No. It refers to an islet situated within a river. And the crane means purity.”

“Why?”

“Sometimes I feel you are alone. You calmly watch the troubled waters around you. Your solitude is so beautiful that I can’t look away from it.”

He looked silently at the characters written on his arm. She worried that she had offended him. Finally, Jihak laughed.

“You’re somewhat correct.”

“Really?”

He tugged at her waist when she tried to get up. He made her sit on his lap.

Her female body felt small, as if she were a baby. That’s why Jihak didn’t grip her wrist tightly. He merely wrote his name.

He felt a strange pleasure when he saw his name on her arm.

“My name is spelled 坁鶴. It means a person who remains pure.”

“Oh… I’m sorry…”

“Then will you write your name this time?”

“I…”