Annyeong, Soojin! [Ateez Fanfiction] ✓

Prologue

Mystery POV:

Soooo... I think it's finally time. Well, I gotta start somewhere. Now seems to be a perfect time somehow.

There is not much to explain. I can't disclose everything, you know. Some things about my realm are sworn to be kept in confidentiality by us residents of the realm.

Let's start with a small flashback. The thing that I'll reveal today contains a hint on my limitation. And that's why I'm choosing to do a flashback rather than narrating the past myself. Narrating the past wouldn't help me flex on my magic skills. 

So I'm choosing to do a flashback: the me from the past will be narrating his present and not just me narrating the past. Magic!

Anyway, I'm letting him take over now. The me from the day when Soojin was about to become Daisy.

Here it goes...

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A few hours before that night Soojin went to sleep to wake up as Daisy:

"Where you going, though?"

"You normally don't ask?"

"Today I did. Answer if you want," Soojin says boredly.

"TO MEET EDDY OPPA!" Sooyoung squealed jumping with clasped hands, her mood changing 180. Reminds me just of those ultra energetic anime girls. Can't tolerate them!

Looks like Soojin can't too. She rolls her eyes. "Forget I asked," she says.

"Whatever! Keep watching your Ay-zeez!"

"ATEEZ!"

Sooyoung rolls her eyes and leaves through the front door. Out through the main gate she leaves, skipping past the next door boys along the street, dodging and ignoring their love-sick eyes that are on her. If they have no money to offer her like her sugar daddies do, they have no chance with her. And if it was a genuine quest for her heart than her skin, then they already lost their chance, her heart already belongs to someone else. And he's the one she's so excitedly skipping along to go see. 

And that 'he' is the one with whom a part of me belongs. Quite literally. Save being confused, you'll understand what I mean in a while anyway.

When Sooyoung reaches the old antique shop in the corner of the dark, shabby alley, her intended destination, she barges in through the new glass door of it, ringing the small bell on top. The old man behind the counter who was excitedly halfway getting up from his seat with a dutiful customer-cajoling smile only faltered his fake smile just a little, now replacing it with a genuine, wider and jovial smile.

"Ahh, it's you!" he says.

Sooyoung smiles and looks around. "No customers today?"

"Not until now," he quietly says.

"Ahh.." Sooyoung begins. "You must've expected a customer but then I came in, so sorry for disappointing you, grandpa. But cheer up, I brought you some hot hotteok to snack on since you like it. Here," she hands over the small bag in her hand to him. "Eat up and get some energy to work even more hard. Fighting, grandpa!"

The old man laughs. "Aren't you a dear!" he says as he sees Sooyoung rushing to the stairs.

Just as she reaches the base of it, she turns to the old man. "He's up there, right? I've just been assuming he is."