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Chapter 11

It was surprising, his limbs didn't feel weighted as they were before. His head wasn't fogged up to the point of insanity and his body wasn't sweating profusely from the amount of pain he was in. Gently opening his eyes, letting them adjust, he was greeted with a dimly lit room.

"Good you're awake." A deep voice sounded next to him, one he had heard before but couldn't really recall.

Jimin sat up from the bed and for once he wasn't struck by a dizzying spell that made him want to throw up, he felt normal for once. Looking up he was face to face with a man he recalled, cladded in familiar armor he realised who he was.

"You must be the new general, King Namjoon replaced me with." Jimin said rather distastefully. "So what are you doing here? To rub in my face that you've stolen my position-"

"I am here to do no such thing Sir Park." Yoongi cut him off curtly, "I am here because I'm looking for answers."

Jimin couldn't help but scoff, "and you think I have any? You really think, a man so loyal to the royal family, voluntarily put himself close to death, stripped off his position and bedridden for god knows how long, has any answers for you?!"

Jimin was getting riled up and Yoongi didn't even flinch. He knew this man was angry and rightfully so, with his impassive expression, Yoongi continued.

"Actually, yes." 

Jimin randomly grabbed Yoongi by his chest armor and pulled him close to seethe at him face to face.

"You really don't think I know about the King poisoning me everyday? The fact that he's never told the Princess that I'm still alive and how none of you are doing anything about it?!"

Yoongi just glared into the mans eyes and swiftly pushed him off. Although strong, Jimin was still in a rather weakened state.

"Well, that is the reason why I'm here." Yoongi stated simply, brushing off his chest plate. "Now tell me this Sir Park," he glared at Jimin, "now why have you given him a reason to do such things to you."

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On that same night, Hana could feel something was amiss, and just as she had thought she finally felt like the Kingdom had hope to recover from this madness, a knock on her door sounded.

"You may enter.", she called.

To her surprise, it was the scholar, Jin. The supposed best friend of her brother, and very well endeared mentor of Jungkook's.

During their training session, Jungkook had revealed that his beloved horse was given to him by Jin. That the man travelled far and wide and would bring back information and plenty of gifts each time. The scholar basically raised Jungkook from a young age when he trained as a knight in the kingdoms of Apollo, Jin took a mentorship role as he was fond of the boys spirit, and would visit and share all his stories of adventure with the keen eared boy.

"He has practically raised me, and has made me who I am today. I am truly in debt to His majesty and Scholar Jin for giving me this opportunity to show my true potential."

She recalled his determined and hopeful expression, feeling her heart ache from the mention of her brother as well.

Lots of time was spent in her mind, pondering the actions of Namjoon. He had never shown signs of betrayal nor anything of ill heart as long as she knew him. However, he was leading the Kingdom of Apollo for some time, years in which he probably would have grown and learned and changed. Though she knew the former king and queen, her parents were terrible people, she would have never thought he would have murdered his own family, even if they were and that was something she could just not forgive.