• Mastermind • | NamJin || BOOK 3#

Thirty-Three. Hidden reality

"Can I sit here?"

Jin barely averts his gaze to the right, where Taehyung points to a seat. He nods slightly, analyzing. His pulse is normal, but having a slight sweating. Jin takes it for granted that he is nervous and knows how to control himself very well. With his more complicated body impulses preventing him from showing it. He turns his attention back to his computer and Taehyung sits down.

He glances occasionally at Jin. Impressed at how exactly like Seokjin he is. It is very uncomfortable for one reason only: Seokjin and Jin are too different. The latter's presence is so quiet, so peaceful and almost imperceptible that he finds it hard to believe that he is the ASCAR president's twin.

Seokjin has a charming presence, wonderful in his opinion. He is someone too flirtatious when he is not in a bad mood. His charming looks contrasted with his way of speaking, his way of behaving? in short.

Jin has none of that. He looks like some sort of calm, diminished, practically non-existent version, but judging by everything he has at his command from Moonie, he must be someone extremely intelligent. He keeps thinking about the blue circles on his temples.

Not to mention that unlike the other Altered, he has blue eyes and they literally glow. It's unnatural. It's something caused by a component other than the Altered. Taehyung clears his throat, nervous.

"You're an Altered?"

"I think it's obvious having Led lights in my eyes" Jin opines without seeing him, still hanging on his computer. Busy on the shipments they have to make for this week, the weapons Namjoon wants made, replicas of the new drug they are going to sell, tapping into the ASCAR files he has access to. Too many things at the same time. "I don't think you're that stupid. Not with Seokjin being your boyfriend. He doesn't like useless things."

"I'm not... a thing," stammers Taehyung shaking his head. "I mean do you understand? Everything here is so strange, I don't know if you unders-"

"I understand you perfectly, the one who doesn't understand is you. Too stupid to notice what Seokjin really is" Jin replies and activates a screen not far away, starting to type on it. Taehyung doesn't understand what it says there. Jin switched to Japanese. Making sure they don't read anything. Yoongi and Taehyung know Korean and English nothing else. "I lived with him for fifteen years of my life. Whatever you think you know about him, it's not real. It's just a lie for you to have sex with him willingly."

"Seokjin is someone strange sometimes, but he's not that cruel. I don't know what strange idea you have about him, but he's not like that" Taehyung assures and Jin can't resist laughing at that. Sounding similar in something to his twin brother. "And... Fifteen years? It's been what, eighteen years? Maybe a little less, but time passes, people change."

"Seokjin doesn't change. He only gets worse. He's never known how to improve unlike me, who's much better now," Jin assures turning off the holographic screen and switching only to his laptop. "Don't get your hopes up: before you know it, you'll be less than a waste in a pipe with your intestines out of your stomach."

Taehyung suffers a shudder. That sounds not only painful, also disgusting. He gestures to vomit and turns back to his own computer. Uncomfortable. He tries to shuffle through a possibility of Jin helping him with this situation he's in. Maybe he can tell who Moonie is, tell the Altered's weaknesses, side with his brother.

Any of the possibilities. Whatever makes this job easier. Plus lessen his chances of getting killed, because everyone seems to be crazy in this hole.

"He never mentioned he had a twin brother."

"He obviously hid it."

"Why, it doesn't make sense." opines Taehyung, Jin rolls his eyes.

"Because I could take the presidency of the family businesses away from him. In fact, I did. Because he is a useless ignoramus, while I have all the knowledge" Jin expounds with simplicity and pride in that fact. "And he is an imbecile. Plain and simple. Don't look for more logic."