𝙻𝚄𝚅 𝙻𝟶𝟶𝙺𝚂 𝙿𝚁𝟹𝚃𝚃𝚈 𝟶𝙽 𝚄

𝟷𝟶.𝚎𝚛𝚛𝟶𝚛.𝟷𝟶

The next morning, before Soojin came in to see how the maintenance check up was going, the Techs tried to find out what caused the leakage in Ryujin's system the night before. But really, they couldn't find the same liquid anywhere in her system.

They began to think that maybe, somehow, the mysterious liquid was just something that fell onto Ryujin's legs. They even thought that it was bird poop, even though it didn't even look like bird poop.

The rule they came up with was that they'll only tell Soojin and dig into it more if it happens again. But for now they will send it in to be examined by a team of scientists and then just forget about it.

They were all lucky that Soojin was stuck in a meeting with JYP, there's a cut that has been made.

"I've decided that we will be sending the other three ITZY bots in for destruction. Their parts are now too old to use as replacements for Yeji or Ryujin, and they no longer serve any purpose to this company."

"Right, that makes sense. When are you officially scrapping them?"

"By next week, I want you and the ITZY techs to turn on Chaeryeong and Yuna tonight. Go through their motherboards, just in case there is any important information we don't want to scrap. But do not turn on Lia, under any circumstance."

"Of course, we'll do the run through at the end of today's schedule. Shall I postpone the Euphoria recording to tomorrow so we have more time?"

"That's fine, thank you Soojin."

"Thank you, sir."

Soojin was more than happy to finally get rid of those dust buckets in the basement, she wondered if JYP made the same decision for the one St4y K!ds member in a different room down there.

Just that night, with the duo having their own time, Soojin took the Techs to the basement so the big team could carefully power on these two old bots.

First, they cleaned them up, only the taller two of the three. The plan is to just scrap L1A at the sacrifice of any information she may have.

The dust was almost caked onto their rubbery skin, but after half an hour, they looked good as new. Many of the techs were in awe of yVn4's beauty. They were all actually a bit bummed that they had to scrap Ch43ry30ng and yVn4, they are completely functional bots, they just didn't succeed the way the company wanted them to.

It had been too long since the Techs saw the two pairs of eyes light up. One pair Obsidian Black, the other Hazel Pink.

"System starting..."Ch43ry30ng spoke for the first time in years.

"Systems loading..." yVn4 went right after.

Their platforms lit up and spot lights shined down on them, leaving L1A's spot dull and dead.

"This part may take awhile, I should've brought my dinner." Soojin sighed, taking a seat behind the Tech desk.

Up on the rooftop, Ryujin smiled shyly as the elevator doors opened. Memories from the night before made her a smiling mess. Is this what it's like to fall in love? It's this pleasurable mix of fluster, lust, desire, and queasiness. Ryujin felt sick, but it was nice.

She felt even worse when she saw Yeji look at her as she exited the elevator. She giggled lightly and sat next to the redhead.

"No board games this time?" Yeji teased, looking the woman up and down as she sat beside her.

"Not this time, I honestly forgot all about that."

"Something else on your mind?" Yeji flirted.

"Mm... I was thinking about it all day, how annoyed I was when it happened."