I stood in the middle of the street, looking around and completely lost
"Ugh, where is he? Hoseok said the mirror would take me to where I can find my assigned victim.." I giggled "..victim"
My life was never too interesting, so the fact that I was now back and with a duty like this was amusing to me. Although I was really nervous to be honest.
"Okay.. don't worry, they can't see you" I kept looking for him. My body didn't look the usual way though
flashback
"This is how we usually look like in the human world" said Hoseok turning into a black thing with wide bright eyes that somehow looked similar to a human "You can take your regular form at anytime but this way we conserve our energy and can walk through solid things"
I was getting impatient, surrounded by people when suddenly someone passed me by walking in the opposite direction
It felt like a slow motion sequence..
I turned my head and stared at him and I just knew it..
I found you, Kim Taehyung
I quitely followed him to his place, I knew he couldn't see me but I would hide everytime he'd turn around.
"Getting used to this is not gonna be easy"
I sighed and tried to remember as he walked into the bathroom and closed the door. I finally stopped hiding. I walked around and realized this guy was kind of a loner.
What do they call it..? Otaku?
There where mangas scattered around but no signal of another person ever being here
"How was he supposed to die again?" I scratched the back of my head
"Oh, I think he's supposed to get robbed tonight. What time is it?" I asked myself and looked at the clock on the wall
"Oh, it's almost time. I guess I shou~"
I was about to move back to my corner when I saw Taehyung. He was standing right in the middle of the hall, i'm guessing he was looking at something close because it looked like he was staring right at me.
"Did the murderer get here early?" I turned my head but didn't see anything
"W-w-what are you doing here?"
Who's he talking to? -I thought.
I better move out of the way, this is getting creepy -So I started walking towards him, wanting to go hide again
"Stop it! Don't get closer! You're not supposed to be here!"
"Who in the fuck is this creep talking to?"
"Huh?" I saw him tilt his head
"WAIT, WAIT THE FUCK UP..
CAN YOU SEE ME!?"
Taehyung looked confused but the way he kept staring was all the answer I needed
"How the.. you're not supposed to..
ugh..
Fuck it"
Okay, okay keep your cool..
I abandoned whatever that weird dark form we had and turned back to looking like my old self
"How come.. what are you?!" he asked still, keeping his distance
"Are you the one I saw earlier? Why did you follow me here? You never even look at me"
"Wait, you can see us all?" I took a step closer
"Stay there! You haven't answered my question, what are you?!"
I smirked, this should look cool
"Kim Taehyung, I've come to take your life.."
"WHAT THE FUCK?!
I'm not going anywhere!!"
he started throwing everything he could find at me.
Okay, that totally backfired -I moved around as fast as I could. I couldn't switch forms in that situation, how the hell am I supposed to concentrate?
He looked like a madman, shouting he didn't want to die at the top of his lungs.
Technically, if any other human watched this he would be arguing with himself..
Any other human..
Ugh, fuck!
I looked for the clock only to realize the time has passed. Probably the guy heard Taehyung going crazy by himself and decided not to break in
"Ugh, I fucked up"
"You really did fuck up" said Hoseok walking out of the shadows in his human form "and it was a simple job too for being your first"
"How long have you been there?" I asked him. Taehyung wasn't able to speak, he just stared at us
"I just got here. I was informed right away someone didn't die when he was supposed to?" he shook his head in disapproval
"now he's not supposed to be alive, and we can't kill people.. ugh such a pain"
"No, but listen. He can see us"
"Are you out of your mind?" he scolded me. Taehyung still wouldn't speak
"Say something!" I said to him
"Please leave me alone, I don't wanna die.." he mumbled
"See? there is no way he'd be able to~
WHAT?!" Hoseok turned around and walked towards Taehyung, who didn't know what else to throw at us
"You can see me?"
"Stat away!"
Hoseok groaned, rubbing his eyes in frustration
"Ugh, listen. We're not here to hurt you. We can't do that, actually. But you were supposed to die today, and we need to collect your soul"
"You can't kill people?...
But what do you mean I was supposed to die?
And what the fuck do you mean by collect your soul??! Are you like reapers?"
"What in the hell did I get into with this two morons..
Reapers are not a thing, people"
Hoseok's face showed a mix of disappointment and anger
"Listen, this is way out of my hands and I don't get paid enough"
"Wait, do we get paid?" no one had told me that
"Oh my god, of course we don't. We're dead, what did you expect?"
Hoseok was obviously upset
"You stay here. We gotta figure this out"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN STAY HERE?!"
Taehyung and I shouted at the same time. This had to be a bad joke
"Unless you wanna go back and explain all this mess to Yoongi yourself, rookie?"
On a second thought, I should probably just stay here
"Don't let him out of your sight, we don't want him talking too much. Although nobody will believe him anyways"
he said and disappeared in the spot, leaving me with Taehyung, who didn't actually look so scared anymore now that he knew I couldn't do anything to him for now.
