What's Wrong With Assistant Kang?

21. I Can Help You

"Where have you seen it before? Looks vintage," Seven said.

Jumin's eyebrows creased more as he thought deeply. "... When I was a child."

Jumin could hear Luciel spit out his Ph. D. Pepper with disbelief. "What?! How possibly-"

Before Jumin could think about the strange memories in his head any further, he saw someone familiar exiting the building with a big, satisfied grin on their face.

He saw long, silver hair. He knew who it was.

"What the hell is he doing here?" he muttered under his breath while Seven still panicked over the sketchbook.

Turns out Zen felt his gaze throwing daggers at him, because he turned around with wide red eyes, that then narrowed into a glare.

He walked inside the C&R building again, this time clearly angry.
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Zen didn't even bother to knock when he burst into Jumin's office; lucky for him, Jaehee wasn't around, working with some documents in another department. "Hey, jerk," Zen bellowed with his hands shoved down his pockets, "Anything you want to say to me?"

Jumin just glanced at the younger man from the corner of his eye, trying to give him no attention. "You need an appointment to speak to me."

"Oh, I don't need an appointment," Zen told him as his eyes narrowed even more. "I'm just here to waste your time... warning you to take better care of your assistant."

Jumin raised a puzzled eyebrow. "What's wrong with Assistant Kang?" he asked with confusion.

"What's wrong...?" Zen scoffed at him. "She has a fever!"

Jumin's grey eyes widened. "But she said she's okay."

"Well, she's not! You gotta be more careful!" Zen nagged him again, then he paused for a while. "Listen... you know I haven't been in the RFA chatroom for a long time, right?"

"Not really. I don't exactly care how many times you log in," Jumin admitted. Truth to be said, he was actually more worried about V being missing for so long without explanation again.

Zen rolled his eyes with an annoyed huff. "Self-centered as usual," he murmured before rising his voice again. "The reason I've been absent all this time... is because I've been thinking over what Jaehee told me about you that day."

"What day?"

"The day... you two went to the library remember? And she said... you were her friend," Zen said while running a hand through his white hair. "You know Jaehee doesn't say things like that lightly, if she considers you her friend, she must really like you..."

He scoffed again, this time at himself. "Especially since she told me off for being my usual self around you. Jaehee normally never does stuff like that," he said with an ironic smile. "Honestly, I can't get her out my head lately, it's weird."

Jumin just silently stared at him with a suspicious gaze; which kind of irked the actor.

"But know I still hate you!" Zen expressed. "And the fact you can't take good care of the person you won't let go to be free makes me hate you even more."

For the first time ever, Jumin glared back at Zen. Just as deathly. Zen had unknowingly pierced a weak spot of Jumin's: Jaehee's happiness around him. "...I don't want you lurking around C&R ever again. You're no longer welcome," he stated with a firm, decisive voice.

"Especially since you're here just to waste my time, which I have no luxury of letting you do." He got up with his arms crossed and passed by him, his tall shoulder grazing Zen's.