세상의 끝: End of the World

Celebrations Started

A joyous atmosphere uplifted everyone's spirits in the Survivor Guard base. Tables filled with food lined the open field near the villa, along with sodas and beers scavenged from the city.

Everyone knew that the researchers had found a major breakthrough, and hope for the end of the apocalypse filled the base. The sounds of clinked glasses were shared in the celebration with all of the SKZ members he came across. This success could never have come without all of the people who'd believed in his cause and joined the SKZ, and he knew to cherish each of the lives of the people who followed him.

Lee Minho chatted with everyone, checking in on person after person, and cheerfully made his way over to where Han Jisung was. Jisung had picked a corner in the villa to stand. He held a cup full of soda and stared dully at the things around him. Minho couldn't help but smile at the sight of him. Even if Han Jisung wasn't a fan of parties, he was still here to participate.

On his way over to Jisung, a girl tripped and fell on Lee Minho. Minho grabbed her on instinct, and saw that it was a woman who'd joined the SKZ fairly recently. Her name was Yuna, if he remembered right. She was heavily drunk, but even then, she still smiled and raised up her cup while howling, "Yeah! Let's drink some more!"

"..." Was this the same cold-faced, ice beauty-looking girl that he'd seen a few months ago? Lee Minho smiled politely and looked at the group of people she'd been drinking with. Her teammates were split between putting their faces in their hands and laughing uproariously at her.

One of them heckled, "Watch out, Yuna Yuna! You're getting too close to the boss! His little boyfriend's looking at you!" Glancing at the corner where Han Jisung stood, it was true: Jisung was looking at them like a little sour lemon.

Seeing this, Lee Minho felt a little joy bubble up in his heart. He wanted Han Jisung to be possessive of him. In fact, if Jisung wanted to cling to him and say, 'Go away! He's mine!', that would be all the better. Well, though something like that would never happen.

"Oh, crap!" Yuna tried to get up, but she was too unsteady on her feet, and ended up falling over Minho again. "He's going to get mad and-and not make those grenades I asked him for!"

Once he parsed what Yuna was saying through her slurred, drunken words, Lee Minho let out an amused sigh. "It's fine, he's not going to get mad at you for being drunk." He watched her continue to fall over and felt a little concerned. "Come on, I think you've had enough. I'll take her to her room," he said to Yuna's teammates. They all raised their glasses and cheered, and both sides waved goodbye.

Yuna was already passing out, so Lee Minho just hauled her upstairs. Since she didn't have a room here, Minho put her up in his own room. He dropped her on the bed and set her sideways so that she wouldn't choke if she vomited in the night, then found a glass of water to set on the nightstand.

By now, things were getting pretty late. Lee Minho thought that Han Jisung would be getting tired around now. An idea flashed in his mind, and he decided to act on it.
Minho went to Jisung's room, and with a playful little smirk, he laid on Han Jisung's bed. Once Jisung came back to see Lee Minho here, Minho could tease him, and maybe even seduce him.

Things were good now. Han Jisung had brought out some of the healing spring water, and Jennie and her team were hard at work studying its composition and finding a way to reproduce its effects.

Only Jisung was able to activate the jade pendant and bring out the water, and though the healing spring water could instantly cure the virus and its wounds, knowledge of its existence would paint a huge target on Han Jisung's back. It had to be kept a secret, so the discovery and reveal of a cure that could be distributed across the world all rested on the shoulders of Jennie and her team.