GLITCH || Stray Kids

CH:45 ☠️

3rd Person's POV:

"The divergents, want their ex-leader back, and the Traitors, want the divergents to take down the leader. Both have benefits from this since the leader is a pain in ass for both of them and they both can live their own ways, happily if he is taken down. If they can achieve this, then they will also get support from district 7. The more the merrier. So, those in the support of this say 'Yo'!"

Hyunjin's eyes twitched when he heard the other's cheers to what this kid said. Iseul patted him with pursed lips and Jeongin shot him a wink and walked to his seat and sat down.

"Okay, that was good, short, and not boring at all." Jinyoung said while avoiding Hyunjin's gaze. "So, it's settled then." Chan asked Iseul and she nodded. "Unless you guys want something more, then we have to talk about it." Iseul asked and Chan nodded.

"Can I talk with you for a moment?" Minho asked her and Iseul hesitated before nodding. "Take care of them." She said to Chanmi, and took Minho outside.

"So, since how long have you guys in here?" Changbin asked. "For the past 6 years. We were the ones chosen to become the part of the new In-charge team and Iseul was supposed to take the lead from next year. But the sudden disappearance of Chankyu made our seniors took this decision and the new team came into force earlier than expected.

When we were getting trained, we didn't even know about anyone else who is with us on this team. But when Chankyu was caught, Iseul got the list of everyone, and she started to search for them." Changbin nodded at the statement.

"So, you didn't know Iseul was a divergent before Chankyu was caught?" JayB asked and she shook her head. "I did. The training that is given to us, is done in pairs. We are given tasks to fulfil and then report them. Iseul trained with Felix, and I trained with Mingyu. None of us knew about each other, but on a specific task, we both discovered each other and got to know about it.

Since then, we both have known everything. But we didn't enclose Felix's identity to anyone because at that time, he found out about the Traitors and got the chance to enlist within them. Chankyu saw this as a good chance and only me, him and Iseul knew about his real identity. No one else."

"You must have been trained with Seungmin?" Chan asked the question to Jisung, who shook his head. "I trained with Ryujin. I didn't even know about him being a divergent and he didn't know about me too. It was when Iseul came into my room and talked to me about it and Seungmin overheard us, and we both realized about each other's identities."

"So, who did you train with?" Yeji asked Seungmin. "Me." Jinyoung answered. "What about you?" Jihyo asked her wing member, Sana. "Him." She pointed at Minghao. "Aren't you in the intelligence department B? The one which controls the AI and system devices." Jackson enquired and he nodded.

"And also, the one graceful hacker that has hacked all of your CCTVs and devices." He smirked and their gazes widened. "Brian will be SO thrilled to meet you." Chan commented and Minghao laughed. "Yeah, I kind of wanted to meet my darling." They all burst into fists of laughter.

"Where are they?" Felix enquired. It has been a while since the two have left but didn't came back and he was starting to get worried because for them. "It's been twenty minutes. Where are they?" Yeji looked at the wall and then at Ryujin, who shared a look with Chanmi and stood up. "I think I will go and check whether they are okay or not. Jisung, come with me." He stood up immediately and Felix piped in suddenly. "Can I come too?"

"So, you knew I was a divergent?" Jisung asked while looking around in all the rooms where the two can possibly be. "Not from the start, but when Iseul told me about the new team, then only I got to know about you." He nodded. "That is why you started to ignore my tactics and become less irritated?" Felix sheepishly smiled and nodded. Jisung scoffed. "So, being from your breed made you change your perspective for me."

"It's not like that." He glanced at him. "It's just I realized that those tantrums of yours is your coping mechanism. You did that so that you can divert any possible kind of attention or doubt that you can have on yourself. You were already in trouble for being so smart and when you realized what could happen if you were discovered, then you showed it off as a high IQ, which made people not doubt you much." Jisung sighed and nodded. "Glad that we can understand at least something about each other."

They both went separate ways in search of the two. Felix grew worried every passing second. He stopped when he reached at the entrance and looked at the stairs. He turned and took a few steps when he heard the automatic door opening. He saw Minho and Iseul entering with two new people, Hana and Dr. Kim. He ran to them.

"Where did the two of you went?" He asked. "We went outside to bring them, while having a serious talk." Iseul answered and signaled the two to follow her. "Hyung, what did you two talk about?" He stopped Minho. The older sighed, "I said the same thing I said to you and just normal talk. Nothing much." He smiled at him, but Felix felt something was off and he was hiding something. He chose not to push the topic too much and started to walk with him. Iseul will tell him if anything was important, since she tells him everything.

"So, this is his exact location?" Ryujin asked and Yeji nodded. "This is the same island from where we got those signals." Seungmin stated and Yeji nodded. "This is the place where Divergents are sent in reality. The district leaders think that this place is already occupied by some other people, but those people are actually the divergents." Jihyo made their mouth fall agape.

"When we discover divergents, then we make it look like that we killed them, but we don't send them anywhere. They are kept either in this base, sent to another district or on another Island only if they don't want to stay here." Sana told them. "You have a massive base. When Iseul was touring us, I saw the number of rooms in there and the massive hallways. It's almost the same size as the faculty, but underground." Chan stated.

"Yeah, and look at our base, small but cozy." Bambam said and gave a side eye to the divergents. "Didn't thought you to be one." He said that to Jinyoung, who scowled. It has been a day since they have started to work together and surprisingly, they were fitting well. Right now, Sana, Ryujin, Felix, Jinyoung and Hyunjin were in the traitor's den, playing 'finding Chankyu' on Brian's laptop.

"I kinda wanted to meet that kid who hacked my system." He sulked. "His room is just beside yours." Felix said without looking up and Brian's eyes twitched. "Minghao? Xu Minghao?" Felix shot him a grin and he stomped out to probably his room.

"What about your laptop?" Wonpil yelled. "Put it back on my desk in the room without a single scratch or I will kick all of your asses and hunt you guys down till the sunrise." He stopped back, threatened and left again, leaving all of them laughing their asses off.

"He is so freaking funny." Chan shook his head and continued to work. "So when are they sending the team, again?" Changbin asked. "Tomorrow. Since the staff is at some ease because of the fire, no need to say thankyou. But yeah, it will be the perfect time." Felix informed him and they all have him a side eye.

"By the way, is Iseul going too?"

"So they will now rescue Chankyu?" The man said and drew from his cigarette. "Yes." The other person in the room nodded. "You sure about it?" He asked. "One hundred persent." The man said sternly. The older man nodded.

"Well, I knew from the first glance that you will be a good choice." Mr. Park patted the man and nodded. "You chose wisely. And this was a great decision to join me instead of them." "I didn't had any other choice, old hag." The man gritted back and Mr. Park smirked. "Well, not my fault that I am good at getting things that I want."

"But it would have hurt, right?" He asked him. "Hurt knowing that the person you love is someone who won't even chose you, if you reveal your true identity to them." The man sighed, but then looked Mr. Park dead in the eyes. "But this all will earn me something which I want, so what kind of regret or hurt?" Mr. Park smirked.

"I'm glad you are on my side, Minho."

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And the plot thickens!