𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡

❝code three❞

January 23, 6:47 PM

SAPPHIRE HEADQUARTERS
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

"How was the meeting?" Kim Jiwoo smirked as Gunhee walked in, feeling distressed. She was lying on Jinyoung's stomach on the couch.

Gunhee ignored her, proceeding towards the kitchen. He sees Jihoon abruptly finishing a plate of beef.

"Oh, hyung, you're home early," Jihoon muttered with food in his mouth.

"And how many times do I have to tell you -" Gunhee threw a towel on his mouth. "Don't talk when your mouth is full."

Jihoon shrugs, as he wiped some of the beef on his mouth. Jiwoo walked in together with Euiwoong, Jinyoung and Hyungseob.

"What happened, hyung?" Euiwoong asked, sitting beside Jihoon.

Gunhee sighed, looking at Jiwoo, "Get your laptop. Jonghyun-hyung has an assignment for us."

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"I can't hack it," Jiwoo slumped her back on the chair as she loses patience on the surveillance camera of the bar in China. "Whoever put up this firewall must be one heck of a hacker,"

"Is this about that person who stole Taedong hyung's card?" Hyungseob questions, looking up at Gunhee.

Gunhee crossed his arms over his chest, "We might think it's the spades."

Minki scoffed. He arrived just in time for Jiwoo to hack the security camera, "They've been lowkey for the past months. What makes you think they did it?"

"Wait," Euiwoong grabbed Jinyoung's shoulder. "If they stole Taedong's card, wouldn't that mean that they knew the meeting with Miss Boa?"

Sewoon snapped his fingers, "Then that means they would've come into the company's China branch,"

"Jiwoo," Gunhee called out as the girl typed in the name of the company and the boys let her do her magic.

They heard a loud press of a keyboard and everyone peered over her laptop. Jiwoo coughed, covering her nose, "Gross! Your breath stinks!"

"That's rude thing to say to your oppa, Jiwoo," Minki pouts.

"I wasn't talking about you, genius," Jiwoo's head faced her laptop again, "Anyway, I found the video of that day. Bad news is, there's no audio."

"That's okay," Gunhee pats her back, "We just need to confirm if it was really them or not."

The Sapphire Unit watched the video closely as they finally spotted four boys and a girl hiding behind a wall on the floor of Boa's office.

The girl walked toward the door but was stopped by one of the boys. They started arguing about something as the girl grabbed one of the boys and walked towards the elevator.

"Wait! Wait!" Hyungseob exclaimed as Jiwoo paused the video. "Rewind that part,"

Jiwoo furrowed her eyebrows, "Which part?"

"Just rewind,"

Jiwoo rewinded the video as Hyungseob eyed the video as if he was about to be one with the screen. "There! There!"

Jiwoo paused it and the camera actually caught the girl's face. Though she was kind of wearing a disguise.

Jinyoung squinted his eyes at the computer. He suddenly saw the familiar face and shook Jihoon, "Hey, hyung, isn't that the girl you made out with on the airplane?"

"I knew it!" Hyungseob jumped up and down. "No wonder she looked so familiar!"

Jihoon had his mouth open, "You're kidding me? She's a member of the Black Spades?"

"I think she's called Zhenya," Minki shares. "She's one of their top agents, but I thought she was already done with field missions."

Gunhee typed in something and attached the screenshot of Zhenya to an email for Jonghyun, "It was a good thing Jonghyun hyung acted quickly and came to China. Or else we would've lost everything."

"Oh my god, hyung!" Jihoon held Minki's shirt as if he was feeling some pain. "I just realized something!"

"That your first kiss was with the enemy?" Hyungseob retorted, laughing a bit.

"Or that you had your v-card stolen by -"

"Okay, that's enough," Sewoon cut Minki's sentence off as he covered Euiwoong's ears. The older faced Jihoon, "What did you realize?"

Jihoon gulped, too nervous to even admit it. But he had to, he just finished fixing the puzzle. "Do you remember the time when our supply delivery got intercepted by them and they stole almost half our weapons?"

Gunhee nods, remembering how stressed out he was that day. He had to write up some letters for the authorities in order to inform them of the incident.

"I think... I think it's my fault," Jihoon whispered, knowing full well of the consequences of his actions. "The day the spades stole from us was exactly two days after I met and made out with Zhenya."