𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐒

8; 𝙤𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚

one word: amazing. after showing mingyu around, he can say that everything in koushi's base is expensive and of high quality; the place is as spotless as it can be, mentioned that everything is literally white. also, koushi's a pretty nice guy, so mingyu can trust him(bit by bit).

"do you want me to arrange a flight back to korea? i can do it right now, if you want." koushi flashed his usual mischievous smile to mingyu, who was still interested in the missile launcher that pyxis had created. "hello? earth to mingyu?"

"what do you plan to do with wonwoo and w systems?" mingyu suddenly asks, turning to koushi. he crossed his arms as koushi laughed. "what? why are you laughing?"

"that's the most ridiculous question i've ever heard. ever since i found pyxis, my eyes were set on destroying w systems and their dirty work. that includes wonwoo." koushi's coat swooshed as he turned to a computer screen. "you know him, don't you?"

mingyu completely understood how koushi felt, being determined to destroy your nemesis's evil organization once and for all—so he didn't take any offense for saying that he wanted to kill wonwoo, too.

"of course i know him. and please, please—don't kill him." mingyu pleads, shaking his head. "he was a seventeen member once."

"but he'd changed, from what i saw this morning." koushi sits on a stool inside the weaponry lab. he sways his coat off his bottom so he doesn't sit on it, and wrinkle the perfect clothing material. "pardon me, i don't know anything about seventeen, its peak, and lastly, the fall of seventeen. do you mind telling me about it?"

"okay." mingyu sits on a stool as well, crossing his legs as he prepared to speak.

"pardon, i'm very unfamiliar with things regarding cookery. do you mind teaching me the basics?"

"okay!"

mingyu shook his head at another memory of wonwoo. he starts telling koushi the story of seventeen. "seventeen was founded in 2015, with only five ability user-members then. soon, four ex-mafia members joined. after that, very recently, four orphans were taken in. ever since the times we were only five, we had pledis mafia as our nemesis; karasu and fukuro mafia under their wing. we beat only karasu mafia when we had nine members.

"then, when the four orphans came, we were suddenly able to beat pledis and fukuro. there was a lot that they had contributed. one of the four is wonwoo, he has a gravity control ability.  he was the closest to the other orphans, me, and our technology head. he was a great person, he rarely laughed but when he does, it makes your heart warm. he was very smart and thoughtful, like when we went our first mission together, he was very selfless to hug the ticking time bomb. he comforted me when i was mourning, and he talked to me every morning." mingyu looked at his lap, surprised that there were blobs of tears on his pants.

"but he got abducted. we thought he was dead, because his bed was full of his own blood and we saw the security camera footages of someone entering his room, and exiting with a half-dead wonwoo." mingyu smiles. "seventeen is no more because we weren't able to figure out who did that to him. i miss him."

koushi just watched mingyu in awe.

"mingyu-ssi. i think you've fallen in love," koushi smiled, this time, softly at the shorter man. "but with the old wonwoo."

"i think he'd been brainwashed," mingyu states, looking to koushi. koushi handed mingyu a pack of tissues which the other gladly took. "he doesn't know who i am."

"it's hidden inside his mind somewhere, but are you sure you can bring that side out? the real, uncorrupted side of the man who bombed dozens of places? killed over a hundred innocent people? took violent missions submissively from yi-eun without a doubt?" 

yi-eun. mingyu took note of that.

"unless you can," koushi stood up, grabbing a gun from a table. he cocks it, examining the weapon whilst smiling ever so sweetly. "i'm going to kill him."

"n-no, give me—seventeen a chance! if we're able to bring the old wonwoo back, in six months, you can have him all to yourself! just—please, don't kill him now!" mingyu desparately pleaded. koushi nodded.

thank god! this koushi guy ain't half bad.

mingyu then realizes that he placed a time limit to himself and seventeen, as another question popped in his mind. "thank you, so much, for agreeing. b-but anyway.. what's your ability?"

the man blinks. "i call it 'flowers of all seasons'. romantic, right?" he laughs and crosses his arms, his back facing mingyu. "that's what he named it, and it just stuck so i kept calling it that."

"he?"

"'he' was my brother."

wonwoo stood proudly before his boss, who was dressed in what an evil organization mastermind usually would wear. the 20-year old man showed off his fresh cuts, pale lips and bruised face. he even sported a black eye. why is he so shameless? bold of him to show up in front of yi-eun with a smug expression and in an injured state; he didn't complete his mission.

"rare of koushi to show up, usually he'd use his lackeys to pester us off." wonwoo's boss walked around, hazel eyes glued to the floor as he thinks. wonwoo only watched the man do so. "glad you're not dead, jeon. anyway, you know your mission, right?"

wonwoo nods, remembering the call he got right after the encounter with mingyu in the hotel lounge. w systems is really watching his every move.

"good, tell me what your mission is." wonwoo's boss flashed a sinister smile, arms crossing on top of his chest.

"get kim mingyu out of our way."

"correct! you know that you've accomplished every mission i gave you. don't let this one stain your perfect record, hmm? you're dismissed." the director of w systems immediately goes on his phone. he furiously taps on the screen, who knows what website or application that man is on. he is as unpredictable as the future.

but anyway, wonwoo had something to say; from what he saw earlier. it was eerily comfortable, seeing something like that come across the mind of the miserable assasin slash secret weapon of w systems.

others, including wonwoo's boss, have imprinted on wonwoo that he is supposed to be unfazed and stoic, emotionless and cold, so wonwoo believed them because the only thing he could do is to trust these strangers. who, by the way, gave him all the luxury that they could offer wonwoo.

to be the opposite of that, to feel something new just by something unfamiliar crossing his mind? unbelievable. "director."

"yup?" the man looked up from his phone, but he looked at the gadget again in less than a second. "no questions when i'm on my phone, jeon. ask later."

"okay." wonwoo muttered, and left the office. he remembers the unfamiliar memory again, and he just lets it stay on his mind for a couple of hours before it bugged him and he needed to punch something.

stupid koushi alexandersson with his stupid flower ability. stupid him with his martial arts background, stupid him who stopped wonwoo from accomplishing his mission. stupid koushi alexandersson who banged wonwoo's head against a tree, triggering that stupid memory(he didn't even know if it was a memory).

who were those people, anyway? why was mingyu(wonwoo's very recent mission) there?

"FREAKY! IT'S ON, I'M GOING TO BE SAILOR MERCURY!"

"BULLSHIT LET ME TOUCH IT!"

"NO! WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE ABILITIES AT THIS RATE!"

"LET GO!"

"WHO ARE YOU, JOSHUJI? I'M SAILOR MARS!"

"SAILOR JUPITER, MAKE UP!"

jupiter? mercury? mars? sounds like they're huge nerds.