[He doesn't respond right away. He's too busy absorbed in the gentle pulse under his fingertips. It's real. The other was alive. How can something bring him so much calm?]

I felt you die.

[Kim Dokja was the one who died. He didn't know what it felt to have you entire world crumble just like that. There was even a moment where Yoo Joonghyuk wondered if regressing would send him to the next turn to reunite with the other. It was terrifying though. He had never felt true fear until that moment, he thinks. Kim Dokja wasn't in his first two regressions. He couldn't say if the other would appear in his future regressions. Would he risk a future regression without his soulmate or live through a regression with them dead?

He didn't have any answers to his questions. Seeing the other was no short of a miracle in his eyes. He doesn't know how they came back alive, but he knows that he can't rely on the other doing it again.]

Do you- [He grits his teeth.] Do you think that this wouldn't have affected me, Kim Dokja? [This man was a fool. An idiot. Whatever damn knowledge he had; Yoo Joonghyuk wasn't obviously privy too.] How would a dead man explain to me what happened?

[Did the other think he knew he came back to life? Perhaps they would understand now that until he saw them again, he had assumed the man was gone for good.

He doesn't let go still. The other might be flustered, but he can give Yoo Joonghyuk this much at least.]