Crown Of Lies || Kim seungmin

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It was past six when Jaeun decided to come back home after working the whole day at the art museum.

She was good at art but not good enough to create anything spectacular so she made a do with being around spectacular art pieces all day.

"Eun-ah!" Felix's deep voice made Jaeun jump in surprise.

"Why are you sitting outside in the dark ohmygod? I had a heart attack just now!" Jaeun took some deep breaths calming herself as she unlocked the door to her house.

"I am here because I missed you." Felix grinned putting his arms around her.

"You are here because you are bored without Jeongin." Jaeun stated as Felix groaned in annoyance.

"No! I really missed you." Felix plopped on the bed. " Today Minho Hyung was asking if I am scared of you."

"Did you say yes?" Jaeun asked sitting beside him.

"Of course!" Felix said with the brightest smile he could muster up. "I don't lie."

"Woah Yongbok! You badmouth me Infront of others!" Jaeun hit his arm jokingly. "I hate you."

"Noo, you don't." Felix hugged her. "did you visit your sister today?"

"No, I didn't." Jaeun muttered. "I had lots of work to do today."

"Should we go visit her now? I mean cemeteries don't have a closing time." Felix shrugged. "plus it's not very nice of us to not visit her on her birthday, is it?"

"Is that why you were here?" Jaeun asked, resting her head on Felix's shoulder. "To go visit her together?"

"Why do you talk so much?" Felix groaned and stood up , pulling Jaeun with him . "Let's go!"

The duo walked down the road in silence, it was pretty late for people to go the way of the cemetery so it was mostly deserted.

"Oh by the way, why does the prince's not show their faces? Neither do you guys when on duty." Jaeun asked remembering the ceremony from the other day. "I don't even know how Minho looks like..I just know you."

"It's to protect them if and when they go outside. If people don't know how they look then people won't attack them either." Felix explained. "It's the same for us , so that no one can target us off duty."

"Oh.. pretty intense stuff, I see." Jaeun nodded. "But what if someone from the palace goes against you guys or the prince? They already know how you look so how exactly that will work?"

"Well-"

"Or , let's say you end up showing everyone the faces of the prince after you leave the job, then what?"

"In the first case, it's just a preventive measure to an extent and in the second case, they will kill me if I do that."

"What? Won't your bestfriend Jeongin save you?"

"It's not his place." Felix said.

"So they won't even leave their own employees..no wonder they killed my sister." Jaeun said quietly as Felix rubbed her back as a means to say, 'It's okay, I am here."

Once inside the cemetery, they both followed the tracks to reach Jaeun's sister's grave.

Shin Ye Jung

Jaeun went down on her knees as she prayed for her sister's soul and Felix too kneeled down , praying for the same.

Felix knew Jaeun would cry, so it wasn't a surprise when Jaeun broke down Infront of him slowly as she stared at the grave.

"I miss you.." She whispered, hovering her hand over the soil.

"Eun, do you want me to go and wait outside?"

Jaeun nodded.

She didn't like crying Infront of anyone and knowing that, Felix decided it was better to leave her alone so that she can lighten the weight on her shoulders.

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Seungmin couldn't sleep that night so he decided it was better to walk around the premises of the palace to pass his time.

"Hyunjin, do you want to go for a walk?" He asked his brother but Hyunjin just mumbled something incoherent in his sleep and turned around, covering his face with the blankets.

Guess I will just do it alone.

Seungmin got up and wore his outer robe. He could have called Jisung or Changbin too but they all had been tired the past few days and he didn't want them to bother them in the middle of the night.

Seungmin walked through the corridors, feeling the fresh wind on his face and sighed in content.

He wanted to talk to the king about going to Mycenae, he decided to do it the first thing in the morning.

The relationship between both the kings were beyond repair but he hoped that the four of them wouldn't end up like them.

"Did you kill those four people?"

Seungmin halted when he heard the whispers at the end of one of the corridors.

"Yes." Came another voice.

"Does Changbin and Han know? The king strictly ordered to not let the prince's know about the killings ."

"No, they don't." The other voice said. "Only me and the assassins know about it."

"How many did we had to kill in the last month?"

"Including today, eight."

Seungmin froze, why would his dad order to kill so many people. He was scared to go and actually see who they were but he gathered up his courage and turned around the corner.

The two men were surprised and ran out despite Seungmin chasing them.

He couldn't figure out there faces in the dark and moreover they were covered head to toe in black and blood.

"What the hell!" Seungmin turned around to rush inside his room and wake Hyunjin up but he almost puked when he saw how much blood was there on the corridor itself.

"Hyung what are you- Seungmin?"

Seungmin looked up and saw Hyunjin standing at the end of the corridor , looking all disheveled.

"I came to look for you since I couldn't find you in the room but-"

"Hyunjin, turn around." Seungmin tried to be calm as he walked over to him. "There's blood here , you will faint."

"Blood?? Whose? Are you okay?" Hyunjin panicked.

"I don't know and yes I am okay."

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