HER || [Chaerji]

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"An assassin in love with her prey, and realizing it was her old love. How romantic..." Kim Woo uttered and clapped his hands.

"You know, Hwang Yeji, never in my life I thought of you kneeling in front of me like this." he provoked. "It's surprising that you're so willing to give up your life for her..."

The man took a gun out of his pocket and pointed it at Yeji. "Really? To die for—"

"No." Yeji cut his sentence. "Pardon?"

"I'll kill for her." The assassin glared at him, eyes filled with rage as she swiftly pulled out her two daggers and stabbed the three men around her.

Kim Woo was in shock and couldn't aim at her properly, a few bullets were wasted. "Damn it!" He yelled madly, "Kill her!"

Ryujin took the sign when she saw Yeji's action and used her strength to break off the grips of those men and fought as well.

Though Yeji only had daggers, it wasn't an impossible mission for her to take down everyone who was approaching her with guns. Every bullet, punches and kicks she dodged, the moves were all so skilled.

As the assassin was fighting against a group of guards, Ryujin's side didn't have many people to deal with, and it was then she noticed Kim Woo and four of his bodyguards were trying to take Chaeryeong away from the scene.

"Yeji! Chaeryeong is being taken!" Ryujin shouted before he tried shooting the bodyguards and chasing them. She had to also be careful not to hurt Chaeryeong.

Yeji heard the short-haired assassin and saw them getting away. She got even more furious, killing everyone in swift action and running towards Chaeryeong.

Ryujin shot a bullet into one man's stomach and he shouted in pain, slowing them down in escaping. Another two of them saw Yeji coming and approached her, while that one guard left with Kim Woo, they were still trying to leave, dragging Chaeryeong with them, and keeping an eye on Ryujin's attack.

The short-haired stayed focused on her aim and shot another bullet, straight into Kim Woo's leg, which led him to fall onto the ground and yell in pain. "Gotcha," Ryujin smirked.

Watching as Yeji killed one guard left on her side, Kim Woo grinned, even though the pain on his leg was stinging, he lifted his gun and shot at Yeji's right thigh.

Then a knife was stabbed into her stomach by the guard.

"Argh!— Fuck!" she groaned, pulling out the knife she threw it to the side and stabbed her dagger into the guard's head.

Ryujin was quick enough to shoot the last guard left to his death and kicked away Kim Woo's gun that was in his hand. Unfortunately, her leg was gripped and she got pulled down by the man, then her head was grabbed by him, and he knocked her onto the wall hard— Ryujin then fell unconscious.

"You're not getting away with this, Kim!" Yeji yelled as she caught up on Kim Woo and punched his face. "L-Look at you... Like a f-fool... so head over... heels for a– uumh!—"

"Shut your fucking nonsense," Yeji spoke with her teeth gritting, her fist punching non-stop as if she was venting out her anger. With one last hit, she stabbed one dagger into his belly and left to free Chaeryeong.

"Y-Yeji!" Chaeryeong called right after the tape was taken off.

"It's alright, Charyeong, it's alright. I'm here now."

Yeji took a gun from the dead guard beside her and shot the lock off the chain. She then put down the gun and helped the younger to loosen the chain that was wrapping around her body.

Meanwhile, as they both weren't noticing, Kim Woo tried his best to stay awake and his hand reached for the gun that was kicked off earlier, as it wasn't far away.

"You'll n-never... G-Get... Happiness." he muttered weakly and shot Yeji's waist near her wound on the stomach from earlier.

Yeji shouted, and she turned around quickly, throwing her last dagger which went straight to the head of the man. Then she dropped to the ground, the wounds were hurting her too much and her vision started turning blurry. "Yeji!"

Chaeryeong ran to her and lifted her upper body gently, resting the assassin's head on her lap. Yeji groaned in pain, her breathing was unsteady.

"I'm sorry..." Yeji uttered weakly.

"N-No, please, Yeji... Don't—"

"I'm s-sorry... that I... couldn't k-keep my promises well."

"S-Stop! Stop, please, just stop saying it! Please, Yeji, d-don't go like this..." the girl cried as she saw blood flowing out of the assassin's body. It wasn't stopping.

"H-Hey," Yeji's shaky hand reached out to cup the latter's cheek. "I'm n-not... going... anywhere..."

"A-Always..." the older muttered, her index finger touching Chaeryeong's forehead.

"...With you."

Just as she finished her sentence, the assassin's consciousness went weaker and she could no longer hear Chaeryeong's voice. Yeji kept trying, but her eyes slowly closed...

"Yeji...? H-Hey! Yeji!"

Chaeryeong's eyes widened in fear, her breathing turned ragged, and her hands trembled. In this dim-lighted room, the feeling was unsettling, it felt like she was all alone...