Time | Taegyu ✔️

Chapter Twenty Five

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P e r f e c t

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19/04/2022

Agreeing to take Taehyun to the museum was probably a bad idea. Beomgyu was too engrossed in making Taehyun happy that he had forgotten about something. Visiting a normal museum wouldn't be a big deal, but the thing was, this was not a usual one. It was a travelling museum exhibit. And the main problem was that it was displaying magic artefacts from the past. Of course there wouldn't be spell books though. Since they should have been destroyed or burnt. Beomgyu would be just as excited as Taehyun if he was just an ordinary human. However, he was not. He was afraid that something in the museum would react to him and he definitely did not want that to happen. So when it was finally time to go to the museum, Beomgyu felt reluctant.

"Hyung, do you wish not to go?" Taehyun asked him in the car when he noticed Beomgyu's troubled expression.

"No... No. Of course I'd like to go. I'm interested as well" Beomgyu smiled at the younger and started the engine, pulling out of the driveway.

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"Beomgyu! Taehyun!" Soobin waved to them from the entrance of the museum.

It wasn't a date for Beomgyu and Taehyun. Beomgyu had decided to invite Soobin because he didn't want to go out alone with Taehyun after what had happened last time.

"Fuck..." Beomgyu cursed under his breath as he walked from display to display with Soobin and Taehyun. He was beyond nervous and stressed. Every time he came across a description of an artefact with the word "demon" in it, he felt as if his heart had stopped. He definitely felt guilty and was afraid of being caught.

Taehyun was oblivious to what was going on to Beomgyu and had been enjoying his time. He loved history. Well, he loved gaining new knowledge in general. He never thought much about magic in the past, but now he was very much interested. He liked to imagine how the world would be now if they could still use magic. Taking a closer look at one of the broken artefacts that was described to be a supporting tool for a summoning, he noticed the demonic symbol carved onto the tool. He looked up to Beomgyu and Soobin, his eyes gleaming with interest.

"You know, they said that everyone can summon a demon, as long as you have the proper tools and magic circles. Mana wasn't really required. But not everyone can summon an angel. You need to have a high holy affinity or the holy attribute in order to do it."

Beomgyu knew this all too well.

"Angels and demons used to coexist with humans. But humans had more power than them. Humans could summon them but they couldn't summon humans."

Soobin nodded along with Beomgyu.

"But since everyone has different mana capacities and they wanted the world to be fair, they removed magic."

Soobin and Beomgyu nodded again. They all knew this. It was written in every history book. They didn't know where this was leading to.

"And as years pass, humans started to lose mana. We still have mana but it's so little that we can't do anything with it. But angels and demons still exist. So technically we can still summon them. If we do know how to."