Sassy || l.y & x.l

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  Harking back to their last close encounter, he starts to offer his options again, "One—" She leaps off, babbling, "one, one, one!" 

 Luhan grins. She's nonplussed, but spots Jungkook. He asks if she's all finished, like nothing happened. He hands her a strawberry milk and they stroll off together. Luhan ends up picking up a strawberry milk himself from the cafeteria, and professes curiosity for it to Sehun.

Jungkook towels off Yoona hair in the gym, and she sighs that her group got in trouble again because of her. How can she face them if she never gets Real King back? Jungkook wordlessly picks up a basketball.

" Yoona will persist until the end," he says, shooting a hoop.

 "Yoona will fight Sevit High and win," he says, shooting another. Yoona perks up and tries herself, but doesn't make a shot. Glum, she heads out. 

Jungkook makes one last shot for her: "Yoona will get Real King back."

Krystal stews over the memory of a mock Ivy League entrance interview. The panel shake their heads at the list of her many specialisms, remarking that she's lacking in the human connection that makes her skills meaningful. Afterwards, she turns on her consultant, DIRECTOR LEE, to find a way for her to attain that necessary "impact."

Heading out of the dorm to meet Director Lee, she finds her way blocked by a mop-wielding Yoona, who tells her to clean. Krystal scoffs, and says that if she were Yoona, she would keep her head down. Yoona makes it clear that she's sticking school out, and vows to watch her fail, and apologize to her. And clean. Krystal angrily pushes past.

Director Lee backs up when she passes Luhan in the corridor. She coos that his talents would be wasted at home — why not aim for Ivy League? She leaves him with her card. Krystal confronts her around the next corner, and Lee breezily assures her she's here to make sure Krystal reaches Harvard.

Principal Choi has a tantrum in her office, while Teacher Chae cowers. The phone's on fire with calls from angry parents (but what are they angry about?), and Im whimpers that he can't break the Real King kids. 

"Can't they reinstate their club?", he asks — they'd be happy with even a broom cupboard. She refuses to give in to them.

Director Lee lets herself in with a cursory knock at the door. A civilized tea later, we find out that Lee's idea for giving Krystal the impact she needs is to win a cheerleading competition. Principal Choi argues that it's just not realistically achievable for them to win a cheerleading competition overnight. Lee's parting words are for her to make it happen.

Close to tears, Yoona watches a washing machine full of her treasured possessions spin. Among them fuzzy slippers, a trophy, a framed photo of the Real King members. Krystal deadpans that she cleaned, as per Yoona's demands. She turns heel with her tittering minions.

Setting the photo atop the machine, Yoona warns that they went too far. They sneer, calling her things trash, and the minions push her around. It's a losing battle with three against one, when the rest of the Real King members pour in to join the melee. They stuff the Baek Ho girls' belonging into a machine in retribution.

The group laugh with exhilaration and take in the night air together. "Real King isn't dead yet!" Yoona celebrates. But the mood is broken when the quietest member JOON-SOO smashes the rescued group picture. Real King is  dead, he says, and they should wake up. If they stay quiet as death and just make it to college, they can dance as much as they want.