Crown Of Lies || Kim seungmin

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"Umm this is kind of awkward." Jisung laughed nervously as a number of people were standing outside the palace of Mycenae to welcome them.

They could spot the King, Queen, Princes and the royal agents all standing.

"Woah I feel like someone important." Hyunjin chuckled, amused.

"You are a prince, Hyunjin." Changbin looked at him dead in the eye.

Seungmin was in awe, he had faint memories of this place from when he was a kid but now everything seemed so extravagant. Once they got off the car, they were welcomed with flowers and a few gifts.

Chan came and hugged Seungmin and Hyunjin while Jeongin just ran upto Seungmin, very excited about him being here.

Unknown to everyone, Seungmin was still worried about what he heard back there, he glanced at Chan longingly while the elder was leading them inside the palace.

In that moment, Seungmin decided that he would do everything in his power to save Chan. No matter how big of a sacrifice needed to be made, he would do it.

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"This is the art museum , I told you about." Jeongin said to Seungmin and Hyunjin . He had brought them out to show his kingdom along with Felix while Minho and Chan were back in the palace.

"This is so huge and pretty!" Seungmin exclaimed." I am sure Hyunjin likes it too, right?"

Hyunjin nodded excitedly as he went in first.

This was probably the only time Jeongin could tolerate him, he heard from Jisung earlier that Hyunjin was the biggest art enthusiast ever and that was the only place where he would be quiet and wouldn't bother Jeongin.

It had only been a day that the royalty of Cyrene was here but everyone was getting along pretty well, maybe except Jeongin and Hyunjin.

As the others went in, Felix saw Hyunjin was already in a very animated conversation with Jaeun who was working there. Felix and Jeongin looked at each other in panic, worried that Hyunjin might have accidentally exposed his identity unintentionally.

"Jaeun-' Felix rushed in.

"Oh? Lix , why didn't you tell you have new friends now?" Jaeun exclaimed going towards him. " Sam is also interested in Art!"

"Yeah," Seungmin came forward, clearly glad that Hyunjin didn't blurt out his identity . Felix and Jeongin had clearly mentioned to not do so before they went. "He had always been interested in art. "

"He is Park Seungmo." Jeongin made up a random name , they had forgotten to think about fake names earlier. "He is Sam's brother."

Jaeun nodded, a bit weirded out by everything.

Seungmin just stared at Jeongin, this was all jeongin could think? Seungmo literally meant muscles.

"Uh I will go around then." Jaeun laughed awkwardly. "See around, Hyun."

Hyunjin smiled as she left.

"Hyun?" Felix questioned Hyunjin.

"I told her my name was Sam Hwang but I go Hyun for short." Hyunjin shrugged before going around to see the art pieces.

Seungmin, although didn't wanted to admit, he had found Jaeun quite attractive and wanted to make a good impression but now she thinks his name means 'muscles'.

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"Chan, someone is coming this way!" Minho whispered to Chan in panic and they both hid behind one of the shelves among the hundreds in the palace's library.

Minho peeked through the books and saw it was just Jisung passing by with a maid of theirs, probably to go meet Changbin.

"It was just Han." Minho sighed in relief.

Chan took a deep breath to stabilise himself as well.
"Minho go back and lookout for anyone coming this way."

Chan and Minho had secretly snuck in in this place, trying to find any clues or records about the "Elenchomeni".

Chan hoped that he would atleast find something about it if it was so important and a huge secret.

"Did you find anything?" Minho whisper yelled to him. They could get caught anytime.

"No.." Chan said defeated, going through every shelf. "How come there is nothing? "

"Let's wind this up quickly," Minho said from the other side. "It's too dangerous to do this."

Chan hummed as he went through some old files.
"I GOT IT!"

Minho widened his eyes in panic, afraid that someone might hear Chan and signalled him to be quiet and when the coast was clear, they ran out of the library with the file and went to Chan's room.

"This is old." Minho said nonchalantly, looking at how dusty and yellow the papers were.

"Yeah.." Chan opened the file and the front page had the words
'Elenchomeni' written in beautiful calligraphy.

Minho watched in anticipation as Chan's calm face slowly turned into one with a expression full of horror as he read through the first couple of pages.

"This is why we are told to not reveal our identity.." Chan muttered to himself, not paying any attention to Minho was growing curious.

"What is it?"

Chan kept quite, eyes scanning each words carefully with utmost concentration. 

"Hey!" Minho tried to annoy Chan into spilling the beans but when Chan didn't even budge, he sulked and sat on the couch, eating peanut's from the prince's bowl kept on the table.

Unbeknownst to Minho, Chan was questioning his reality the more and more he read. Everything he knew and grew up with was proving to be a lie.

"Minho.." Chan could be barely heard.

"Thank God, you remembered that I exist." Minho rolled his eyes not knowing that what Chan was about to say was going to send chills down his spines .

"They killed everyone who saw my face and knew about my identity outside the palace."

"What?" Minho froze.

"It happened for Jeongin, Seungmin and Hyunjin too and.." Chan trailed off.

"And?" Minho asked nervously.

"This includes the names of Jaeun's as well as Felix's family members."

"No way.." Minho's blood ran cold.

"I-I was the reason it they had such a tough and traumatic childhood when I was living so luxuriously.." Chan mumbled , his emotions were almost numb .

"And this place.. Elenchomeni is where they bring those people to kill and this is where the assassins are trained."

"It's not a military camp..?" Minho asked.

Chan looked at the papers once again.
"Seems like a brainwashing place.."

Minho couldn't believe everything and was still in shock as Chan drowned in the guilt.

"It was for me.."

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Hi hehe so the real plot is starting just now.