BETRAYAL <NCT OT23>

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Jungwoo and Jaehyun went outside to do their morning exercises. The others are preparing for their breakfast, the other half were still sleeping. The house is unusually quiet, ever since they buried Ten's body, the silence became so suffocating to them. "Jae, I feel like the killer's slowly getting closer, I can feel that we're going to catch them in no time." Jungwoo said out of nowhere, reaching his own toes. Jaehyun nodded, he can feel it too. "I really hope that we can catch that killer, I don't want my brothers to disappear one by one." Jaehyun replied with a smile. All of a sudden, Jungwoo stopped, he stared at the air as if he felt something. "Jungwoo? Is something wrong?"

"Blood?" Jaehyun was confused at Jungwoo's behavior. "Blood? There's no blood." Jungwoo then shook his head. "No! I smelled something. It smells like blood." Jaehyun tried to sniff the air, and Jungwoo was right, it smells like rusty iron. "I can smell it too, maybe we should get inside?" Jungwoo nodded and followed Jaehyun after. They went frozen as they reached the main door, the rusty smell was getting stronger, they then turned to where the smell was coming from. And oh how foolish of them, they didn't noticed the leader's body just meters away from the door, his head got crushed by a huge wooden box, making the blood from his head splatter all over the ground, his arms were broken. They can tell those it's Taeyong because that was the exact clothes that he wore before bed. Jungwoo panicked, and hurriedly told the others with teary eyes, Jaehyun just stood frozen on his spot, staring at the lifeless man in front of him.

"Look! There he is!" Jaehyun heard Jungwoo's voice behind him, followed by the cries of his members. Mark, on the other hand just stood frozen, he got extremely traumatized by the sight in front of him. He lost Johnny, Yuta, Hendery, Lucas, Ten and then Taeyong followed. "I-I don't think that's Taeyong hyung, Taeyong hyung won't leave us. He's the leader, right?" Mark's tears began to fall, making the others feel extremely sad. "I-I've lost so many people. I don't think I can still manage to stay alive if I'm going to lose another one." Mark then slowly walked towards the leader's body, gently lifting it. "W-Why does this always happen to me?" His face remained expressionless, but all of them can see the trauma in his eyes, the unbearable pain are hidden in those beautiful eyes. All of them were extremely sad about what happened to their members, but Mark had it way worse.

"That's it! All of you, to the living room. NOW!" Doyoung raised his voice, his intimidating eyes scared the members, making them gather to the living room one by one. Mark was the last one to enter the house, he was clinging to Doyoung's arm. "Alright... Are you guys comfortable with your seats?" They nodded. "Mark, you can sit down now." Doyoung gently whispered to Mark's ear. The younger immediately listened to his hyung who is obviously really mad. "Who is behind all of this?!" They remained silent, making Doyoung's patience fill up. "I know that one of you here was the one behind all of this killing! Open your mouths!" They still remained silent.

Doyoung let out a frustrating sigh, went to the kitchen to grab something, and went back with a knife on his hand. He pointed it one by one to his members. "Say something or I'll cut your throat wide open one by one." He looked at them, their eyes are showing how scared they are, none of them wanted to look Doyoung straight to the eyes. "One..."

"I-I think it's Kun-ge who killed Taeyong and Ten h-hyung." Chenle began to speak, making Doyoung show them an intimidating smile. "Very good Chenle, thank you for speaking." Chenle can sense that Kun was looking at him. "What?! Why me?!" Kun stood up, facing the scared Chenle. "How can you tell that I killed the two?! Tell me the reason to hurt Taeyong!" Chenle remained his attention to the ground, he's too scared to look at Kun. "You know, just because you're one of the youngest, doesn't mean that I can't beat you up right now. Stop accusing me on the things I would never do!" Tears are escaping from Chenle's eyes as he saw Kun's fist flying towards him.