Unchained | Yoongi

Trickery

Yugyeom got a text and he said it was his father telling us to go back up. We went back to the platform to where they were. I saw both of them standing up and shaking hands as I approached. Yoongi did up the button on his suit jacket and turned to us.

He offered his arm to me. "Eunjung, let's observe my casino, shall we?"

I took my arm out of Yugyeom's, and took Yoongi's instead. "We shall."

I noticed Yoongi giving Yugyeom a smirk before turning away. We both walked back down the stairs to where all the illegal gambling activities happened. We shook hands and exchanged words with a few of the people there. Apparently, they were the big contributors to the profit of this casino.

After finishing talking with a fat man, Yoongi whispered in my ear, "Time for the climax of the night."

He led me back to the Blackjack table Yugyeom was teaching me at. "Watch the man in the blue suit."

The man at the edge of the table did have a blue pinstripe suit on. I watched his hand which was holding two cards, one ace and one 5. I saw that he inconspicuously tapped on the ace card, though I would not have noticed if I wasn't paying close attention to him.

"He tapped the ace," I whispered. "What is it for?"

"He is cheating," Yoongi answered. "He has some ink on his finger, invisible to the naked eye, but you can see it if you have special lenses on."

"What should we do?" I asked.

"Call him out. Go on, you first, Eunjung."

I looked at Yoongi and he was serious. I nodded and walked to behind the man. I laid a hand on his shoulder, which seemed to startle him, and said, "Hello."

He looked at me in confusion, blinking unnaturally a few times, "W-What are you doing?"

I snatched the card out of his hand and pretended to inspect them. "Nice ace you've got here. Wouldn't it be perfect if you could tell where all the aces are?"

"Well... yes. But how would I ever-"

Yoongi interrupted him, "Enough with you pretense, you cheater."

He gasped loudly. "Cheater? Never! You have no evidence to accuse me of cheating!"

Yoongi walked right up to him, obviously too close for his comfort. "Are you sure?"

"Y-You..." He pushed Yoongi away and shouted, "Who are you anyway!? Why are you here acting all vigilant!?"

I noticed that we had already drawn considerable attention. Many of the gamblers stopped and were looking this way. Even two of the casino guards appeared next to us.

Yoongi chuckled and announced. "I run this casino." He then said to the guards, "Get him on his knees."

The two brutish men immediately heeded Yoongi's order by each grabbing an arm of that man and pushing him down. Yoongi roughly grabbed the chin of the man and motioned to touch his left eyeball. "Now where are your contact lenses?"

"No! No!" The man frantically tried to twist his head left and right but was held firmly in place by Yoongi. "Please stop! It's not in this eye! It's in my other eye!"

"Oh, is it?" Yoongi said, yet his hand continued approaching that eye. But the man tightly closed his eyes. Yoongi didn't have enough hands to hold his head still, hold his eyelid opened, and check for the contact lenses.

"Eunjung," he said and nodded towards the eye that the man was closing. I knew he wanted me to hold it open. I got out a handkerchief from my clutch bag and wrapped it around my fingers before forcing his eyes opened. Yoongi then unhesitatingly jabbed his finger into the man's eyeball, giving the surface a good rub. The man let out spine-chilling screams that could probably be heard around the whole casino hall.

"I guess you were being honest when you said it's not in this eye," Yoongi said after not finding anything there. I saw a little smirk on his face; he knew the man was telling the truth about the location lens, but he purposefully caused him more pain by checking his other eye anyway.

I let go of this eye and held the other one opened. This time, when Yoongi's finger came away from that eyeball, a thin see-through disk was at his finger tip. It was the lense. Yoongi held out a hand and I gave him the ace card. He held the contact lens in front of the card and looked through it. He then showed it to me. Through the lens, I could see a botch of blue on the ace card whereas I couldn't before.

Yoongi dropped both the card and the lens to the floor and crushed them with his feet. "What do you have to say for yourself?"

"I- I've just been needing money and-"

Yoongi laughed. "You need money? Then you don't belong with us." He then said louder, as if so that all the other gamblers would hear him, "Put this man on FIRE's blacklist. He is never allowed back into the territories of FIRE again."

"No! Please, No!" The man begged as he was being dragged out of the casino back to the mundane world above ground. I looked around. Some of the gamblers were still gawking at me and Yoongi, some had already gone back to gambling. But I knew, all of them will never forget what Yoongi and I did to the cheater. I looked up at the platform at the end of the hall; Yugyeom and his father were also watching.

Yoongi said to me, "I need to wash my hand."

I nodded. "I will just look around myself."

He then went away to the toilet as I ambled around the hall by myself. Now the people there recognised me. Some of them gave me nods when I walked past, which I returned. As I was scanning across the tables, I thought I saw someone familiar. I hurried towards the man with a black hat on but he was walking away from me. I increase my pace despite wearing heels and I put a hand on his shoulder to stop him.

My suspicion of who it was was affirmed when he turned around. 

"Mr Ga?"