[bxb] the forgotten promise | yeosang / ateez

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The way Hongjoong and Yunho kept on holding hands as they followed Monsieur towards the basement of the manor as the assassin kept on looking around, ready to beat the shit out of a blackened one or creature that will jump out and hurt them. Hongjoong made sure that Yunho is safe with stealing glances towards Wooyoung— under the influence of someone inside him and also, Monsieur.

They stopped in front of a room as Monsieur chanted something in a foreign language before a door suddenly appeared in front of their eyes, Monsieur opened the door and gestured at them to enter it but they didn’t even budge.

“You’re entering first,” Yunho said in spite, glaring at him.

“If that’ll make you trust me,” Monsieur replies as he entered the room, “Come in.”

“Let’s go, Yunho.” Hongjoong walked first as he was leading the taller male and he complied like a puppy following his owner.

“Both of you can take a seat, this discussion will take us a while.” Monsieur pointed at the chairs in front of a table in which he sat on the swivel chair behind it, “I have to explain a lot to both of you.”

“Yunho.” The mint-haired male looked at the redhead and nodded without even hesitating.

The moment that both of them sat on the chairs, still hand-in-hand fascinates Monsieur. He have witnessed a lot of friendships yet this one is one of the most devastatingly beautiful friendship that he have seen. Maybe it’s because both of them have already lost their precious ones that they’re afraid of letting go of each other with the thought of losing one another this time. Humans are so fascinating, Monsieur thoughts as his lips curled upwards into a smile.

“I’d let you ask me, boys.” Monsieur announced as he rests his head on both of his hands, looking at the redhead and the mint-haired male.

“Why do you want Yeosang?” Yunho asks, boring holes on his face with a piercing gaze.

“He’s the unfortunate soul that is chosen to be my vessel in his first life but the curse says otherwise.” Monsieur responded as he lets out a sigh, “I need his soul to free me from this curse as well, it’s the only way to cease it.”

“The only way?!” Yunho exclaimed, brows furrowing as he huffed, “I thought we should just get rid of the village chief.”

“That is one of the temporary solution, fae.”  Monsieur stated then clasped his hands, “You can get rid of him for now but the curse will come back after nine years. Not a single cursed one has passed their eighteenth year of existence because they kept on dying as the Adam failed to save them for the nth time.”

“The Adam is Seonghwa, right?” Hongjoong clarifies as Monsieur nodded, “So the only way to stop this curse is to offer Yeosang’s soul to you?”