Page 66 of Damian & Jun, Episodes 9-12

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Black ink and snow

Show me how this goes

Cold feet, house robes

Soju for that inner glow

Trapped here

For fear

You’ll drag another near

Greed raged

I hazed

Red ink on my pale foe

“Why do you need a summer song?” Émeric murmured. “These are good.”

“They feel completely different from what I wrote before. Fans are going to pitch a fit.”

Émeric raised an eyebrow. “Don’t K-pop bands try new concepts all the time?”

“Yes, but not usually this far apart.”

“I’ve heard your music, Jun. And I read the translated lyrics. There’s already a lot of pain in what you’ve put out before.”

“Maybe a bit of loneliness, like the kid in school who doesn’t get picked, but nothing like this.” Jun pushed one song across the table. It was almost finished, and it was damning because it was his favorite.

Hate all the way down

Shadow so callow

Few words between us,

each one a blade

epitaph of sin

Father, I call you

Of all you have done

I would bleed to be free

But here I am

Evidence

Ink on my skin

I’m not important

But your crime is

So they’ll scan me in

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