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4.

He heard the sound of people shouting, sirens, and his body moving not under his outlook but someone should've dragged him, lift him up, and everything is now silent.

Only the sound of tools beeping. Hanbin trying to open his eyes but he couldn't, it feels so heavy that he can't even lift it open. And suddenly he heard sounds of people talking. He tried to eavesdropping but he knew something's not right, they speak in the language that is familiar but not familiar at the same time for him.

The persons talking is talking not in english... they're talking in Korean.

Korean?

Eyes are still too heavy to be open, so he grunting, the chattering sound is now silence, turned into a panic footsteps, voice changing from friendly gossiping into commands, and people started to touching him everywhere.

He felt his body aching, but in his hazy sight people in white suits swarmed around him, then the pain's gone. And he's back to sleep.

-

Then it was two days later since the first time he was conscious, he's now sitting on his bed of a nice big room in the hospital still confuse but no one to talk to.

He has no phone with him.

And he has difficulties talking in Korean though he understood everything they said.

This morning, a nurse came and gave him a newspaper, he saw himself at the front page of sport section, but again it was written in Hangul, he could but he's not good at reading hangul. From what he guessed, must be something related to his accident.

Suddenly the door opened, and he saw Benjamin, and for the first time since the confusing accident and his transfer to South Korea out of sudden, he found a little light.

"Ben..." he murmured.

"Hanbin..." Ben looked very concern, he followed by some bodyguards and one manager—came into the room and immediately pulling a chair to sit beside Hanbin. "How are you feeling today?"

Hanbin nodded, posing a positive gestures, "good, I guess..."

Benjamin took a deep breathe.

"I mean, I don't think I had a serious injuries, I can feel it, I just don't know why I'm here... I mean—" he stopped, something terrifying came, "do I have a brain damage? Slow internal bleeding?"

Benjamin smiles, wrinkles formed like a crows claws in the corner of his eyes, "no, son, no... thank God no."

"And...?"

"And..." Ben didn't continue.

"Why am I here? South Korea. And what makes me unconscious during the crash? I mean, I remember bigger crash back then and I'm fully awake, I walked out my car without any help, you remember my last accident, right? My car was battered." He refers to the accident around three years a go when he changed his usual car into a new car with a higher performance—that's how they promised him. Jinan also checked it and said that the car was incredible. But something was off, or maybe Hanbin hadn't familiar with it yet, so when someone nudge him from behind, he caused series of crashed, one of the biggest during that year.

Benjamin saw the newspaper, "ah, have you read it it?"

Hanbin follows his eyes, "no, you know, I don't really read hangul..."

"Oh whatta shame."

"Well, I never really been here." Hanbin shrugged his shoulder, Korean language, culture and everything related to it was just a formality for him, he heard Benjamin and his wife talking in Korean few times even though they mixed it well with english and Japanese. Also Jinan and Yoyo, they often talking in Korean, cause they're pure Korean, so Hanbin trying to understand the language just so they can't talk about him behind his back. But they never did, they talk shit about him just in front of his face and Hanbin will laughed it off.