Death's Bow (Golden Child TAG X Female OC)

Ch. 25: Stubbornness, Concern, Love

Suyeon gasps at the sight of her brother lying face down on the ground with Yunseo standing over him, holding a broken wine bottle. The sound and the presence, in turn, alert Yunseo, making her turn to the door before widening her eyes and freezing at the newcomers. She had been caught. Even worse, it seems she had been caught by none other than Death himself!

"I-I-I did nothing!!" Yunseo screams as she drops the bottle and tries to escape, just as Suyeon snaps out of her trance and she runs to her brother to try and help him.

"Oppa!" Upon closer inspection, she has a moment of relief when she notices that he had been hit on his back instead of his head, but that moment becomes short-lived when she realizes he is barely breathing.

On the other hand, Youngtaek runs after Yunseo once again, eyes glowing bright red and his bow taking form in his hand with no intention of showing any kind of remorse anymore this time. As he runs through the rooms, an arrow takes form in his other hand, and just as Yunseo had stepped out of the house, he sets the arrow onto his bow and aims, straight at the young woman's head.

"Wait, no!"

Except... Suyeon stops him this time.

Youngtaek shoots, but he moves his bow at the last second all over again, making him miss a second time with Yunseo before he widens his eyes at the mistake he had made. Yunseo falls to the ground with a scream as the arrow whizzes past her, and at the same time, Youngtaek turns around just in time to see Suyeon grabbing his arm and looking at him with pain in her eyes as she shakes her head. A confusing set of actions, indeed, and Youngtaek furrows her brows in response. "Is she telling me... to spare this woman?" He wonders before he notices Yunseo standing up and taking off again. He turns his head urgently towards her, but with no bow nor arrow this time as he tries to think of a way to stop her...

And then another presence appeared, standing firm in Yunseo's way, making her bump into him and fall back to the ground, screaming as she looked up at the newcomer.

Green eyes, but confused rather than hostile ones, look down at her before looking towards the baffled pair standing at the back door. Jangjun looks back at them with even more confusion on his face, before he looks back at the young woman at his feet and gestures to her, asking. "So, uh... are you trying to stop her from leaving or...?"

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The hospital walls... again. It seems, no matter what, Suyeon just keeps getting drawn to this place ever since she got involved with the grim reapers. Not that she hoped it would ever be because one of her loved ones also got involved because of that... Definitely not that.

Youngtaek watches quietly from outside the hospital room as Suyeon sits beside the hospital bed where her brother lies. The sight of her weeping quietly bothers him, but he just can't seem to tear his eyes away in case the young woman ever needed help. Thankfully, her brother had woken up rather quickly, but that didn't stop her from feeling guilty and repeatedly apologizing for coming too late.

"She's rather soft, isn't she? Suyeon, I mean," Jangjun soon comments, making Youngtaek turn to him who had also been watching the scene inside the room from outside.

"She's human. What do you expect?" Youngtaek replies before he turns away, leaning against the wall before sighing.

Jangjun watches him as he does so, but the expression on his face doesn't seem so impressed with what he's seeing. Death really just sighed, and it's not something he's ever seen before on this usually nonchalant friend of his. "... She seems to be having an influence on you, too."

This time, Youngtaek doesn't respond, only keeping quiet. Not such a strange thing for him to do, but for the Messenger of Death himself, he does find it rather confusing. After all, why can't he think of what to say next? Why can't he respond, even if it were an answer to himself?