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NEW VENDETTA

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE.

The last time Jisoo had shed tears, she was standing in front of her parents' buried bodies. And even then, she had only cried briefly as the grief had suddenly encircled around her throat and squeezed it so tight, she felt like she was choking on it.

But now the tears flow continuously. Each tear streaks down her cheeks and leaves a glistening trail. Jisoo didn't think she was capable of crying out a river, but the tears didn't stop even when she willed it to.

"Where is all this water coming from?" She asks herself in the dark. The moment she was on the ground level of the Ministry, she chucked herself into the nearest broom closet and bawled her eyes out. It was pathetic, she knows, but her chest felt so heavy and crying everything out seemed to have lightened the burden. Even by just a little.

Jisoo wipes the snot from her nose like a child and tries her hardest to get a grip. Jinyoung and Seulgi were probably looking for her right now, wondering how her (failed) interrogation had went. She was supposed to meet them right after she was finished with Taehyung, but she guesses she's been in this closet for a while now. Her emotions had gotten the best of her, she was feeling them all at once and it was ripping her apart from the inside out. There were so many things that she couldn't wrap her head around, so many revelations that Taehyung had confessed to her because of her truth serum.

The Dark Lord had murdered her parents. The Dark Lord cursed Taehyung. The Dark Lord wanted her dead.

All this time, she been angry and vengeful at the wrong people. Taehyung, the Ministry, herself. She wasted so much time loathing and hating people who were, in the end, not responsible for the biggest tragedy in her life.

She should have focused all her anger to the Dark Lord.

And she will now that she knows the truth.

She pushes herself from the floor and furiously wipes the tears away from her eyes. She had a new mission now.

She was going to kill Voldemort herself.

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Jisoo took a deep breathe before she pushed open the door to Jinyoung's office. She hoped that the little charm she performed on her eyes had visibly lessened the puffiness and redness.

Seulgi sat in one of the chairs by the fireplace, her eyes trained at Jisoo's stoic expression but saying nothing.

"Sorry it took so long," Jisoo says when she glances at the two of them. They were waiting for her to talk first. "It was a lot to process. But you already knew, didn't you? You found out about everything."

There was a beat of silence before Jinyoung nods and clears his throat. Jisoo turns to him and purses her lips. "I see. When will his trial be?" She doesn't want to dwell on the newly acquired confirmation, perhaps mostly out of fear that she'll start bawling again right there and then.