The Chosen

Closing Curtains

Thus, Hallyu became more stable and peaceful ever since Wanna One started reigning. Relations with other magical realms were established in relation to the "One: The World" program by Wanna One. BoA, as the Kingdom Seer, also served as Hallyu's official envoy when visiting other realms.

Meanwhile, the kingdom finished reorganizing. The most notable cases Wanna One approved were BNM province and Omm's assimilation to Malman-Oh Province with Omm adopting the Malman-Oh name. Malman-Oh decided to regain independence from Whygee while Ardorable and Sea-9 Province also refused to stay as Essim's colony. Sorz, province of Geefreend, stayed as a colony of Hitbig for the reason that they chose to be colonized voluntarily and not forcefully. The negotiations between Hitbig and Disple rekindled but it did not come into an agreement. IOI also returned to each of their provinces in which some of them became a part of their province's new magic squad.

Meanwhile, the evaluating body for determining the members of the Supreme Six and Twilight Triad were developed. Some of these evaluating bodies were code-named MAMA, Gaon, SMA, GDA, Melon, AAA, Soribada, and Genie. Each with a predetermined schedule throughout the year each year, they would be evaluating all magical squads separately until a consolidated data would be used to determine the members of Supreme Six and Twilight Triad. The system was quickly accepted and implemented by the kingdom.

As for the personal lives of Wanna One, Jisung resigned from his job because his time wouldn't allow it, despite the incessant pleas of his boss. Kuanlin's parents returned to Kyuub. Sungwoon occasionally visited Shot Hot from time to time. Daehwi became a kingdom-renowned connoisseur and resource person in terms of magic, magical squads and magical combats. Minhyun also came over to Newest-W a couple of times. Jinyoung officially trained his small squad back in Sea-9 in the hopes of them developing into a magical squad. Woojin's parents expanded their business to the BNM area that was once New Brand Province and got tremendous success. Seongwu, Jihoon and Jinyoung wanted to quit modelling with Beautiful Magazine but stayed out of pity as Mr. Cha Seungwon hypocritically said that there is nothing wrong with models having tattoos or marks on their bodies. Magical Squads, as a whole, were now also recruited to become cover model for Beautiful Magazine with Wanna One being the first. Jaehwan was made an honorary citizen of Swing. Daniel's sushi shop in now Malman-Oh became so successful that he opened a branch in English Village.

Wanna One ruled the kingdom the best they could and after 17 years in service, they decided to step down from their thrones. They officially retired on the 27th day of the first month of the year after a four-day final set of activities. Zero Base also disappeared when Wanna One retired.

The citizens of Hallyu could not believe and were taken by surprise when Wanna One retired early. Almost all of the citizens agree that Wanna One was the best Chosen and rulers the kingdom had ever had. In fact, throughout their 17 years in service, they were always a member of the Supreme Six. SVT was immediately selected to fill-in Wanna One's seat in the Supreme Six. In honor of Wanna One, the 11-storey hotel in Wanna City was renamed Wannable, after the name of the headquarters when they were still in office. The day Wanna One retired also became a kingdom holiday in which the citizens beautifully named "Therefore". After their retirement, they returned to their respective provinces. There were even rumors that one of them bought a piece of land and registered it as a new province. The rest of what happened to Wanna One after retirement remained unknown, as they hid themselves in obscurity. Only their legend remained as their successors ascended to the thrones they vacated.

"Thus, this is the story of the second batch of Chosen who swept Hallyu like a storm. The history of the legendary Wanna One." A female voice read.

A book was, then, closed along with some restrained exclamations of awe and admiration. Twelve women and eleven men returned the book to its original place and looked at the wall where Wanna One's portrait was hung between IOI's and two others. They bowed to the portraits before walking out of the Hall of History.

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