ARCANUM

CHAPTER 1

JENNIE KIM POV

"Hello, Jen," ​​Chaeyoung greeted without lifting her head from the screen. She seemed serious about what she was doing.

"Hi, Kitten. How?" Jisoo, who was with Chaeyoung, also gave a greeting, but she turned her face away from the screen and looked at me with a big smile. Oh yeah, she calls me Kitten. Each agent here has a Code Name and Nickname they use. Or maybe the nickname only applies to some people.

Bae Joo Hyun, a doctor. Code Name : Irene. Her nickname is Bunny.

Kim Jisoo, a technician. Code Name : Rattle, which stands for Turtle Rabbit. Somehow she named herself turtle rabbit, but to have a fierce name, she turns it to Rabbit Turtle and shortened it to Rattle. Her nickname is Chicken.

Park Chaeyoung, who was in training with me has given the Code Name : Rosie. The nickname Chipmunk was specially chosen by Rattle because, since the beginning, she called her Chipmunk when Chaeyoung said her name was C.

I, Jennie Kim. Been a year of training since joining Arcanum. She gave me the Code Name : Ruby, and the nickname Kitten by Jisoo because she said my eyes were similar to cat and for sounded cute, she decided Kitten as my nickname. I couldn't argue with her tho because she is the one who gave us the nickname.

Luca Bruschweiler a.k.a Lisa or Panpriya Manoban has Code Name : Peter. Taken from Peter Pan. Peter Panpriya? Hmm... I don't know, but I think it's a bit forcing, and his nickname is Monkey.

During my one year here, I have met Kim Do Jin, Code Name : Won Bin, who is none other than the leader and founder of Arcanum and is the father of Kim Jisoo and Bae Joo Hyun. I have also met Kim Na Young, Code Name : Ran, his wife and the biological mother of both of them.

Bae Joo Hyun and Kim Jisoo do not have the same surname because when they were small, Bae Joo Hyun or Irene was handed over to their siblings to be cared for because their parents were still actively working as secret agents. Their dangerous job forced them to leave their first daughter and change her surname to keep her safe. Four years later, when their second daughter was born, Kim Do Jin and Kim Na Young had quit their jobs and started the independent organization, Arcanum. And Bae Joo Hyun was taken back, but they didn't change her name and let her choose when she grew up. Irene doesn't mind the surname. Besides, she wants to respect the people who have cared for her for almost 5 years. So, she keeps their surname and considers them as her other parent.

Luc or Manoban, and Bambam joined Arcanum since they were little. Their childhood that Manoban had told me that night was true. Bambam's parents were divorced and have divided their children. Bambam goes with his father, who was a secret agent and his younger sister goes with his mother.

Manoban's parents were indeed good friends of Bambam's father because Manoban's father, Lionel Bruschweiler, a Caucasian, was also a secret agent. While her mother, La Liza Bruschweiler, an Asian Caucasian, was also a secret agent just like Kim Jisoo's mother, serving as a tactician.

When Manoban and Bambam were 8 years old, their parents died in an accident. The plane they were on was sabotaged. After that, they were cared for by Grandma Manoban in Thailand until a year later, his grandmother died.