Flames | NCT

Chapter 12

"Um, here." Rena said as she passed Eunjung the silver agency pin, knowing that Jeno probably felt the same as her as he did the same with Jungmo.

Rena felt terrible. She had scolded the poor girl for absolutely no reason. According to what Jaehyun had told her, Eunjung had just followed her gut.

Speaking of Jaehyun, he had decided to cover Yuta's sword fighting lesson. Rena watched as Jaehyun went over to the wall wear the weapons were, picking out a sword.

First, Jaehyun taught the younger agents the basics of sword fighting. Rena couldn't help but notice that he was paying special attention to the twins.

Did he feel bad?

Soon, they were split into their mentor pairings, practicing duelling.

Rena effortlessly knocked the sword our of Eunjung's hand, earning a pout from the younger girl as the weapon fell with a clang.

Maybe I should got easier, Rena thought as Jaehyun came towards the two.

"You're actually gripping too tight, give your wrist some flexibility." Jaehyun corrected Eunjung. Eunjung nodded before following his advice.

Rena went for it again, but this time it was harder for her to knock it out. She smiled. Eunjung was learning.

Before she knew it, the lesson was over and Jaehyun was dismissing them.

"Let's get in some extra archery practice tomorrow." Rena suggested to her mentee. Eunjung nodded before heading off to the locker room.

Rena suddenly remembered something and ran over to her demon counterpart. "Hey."

"Hey." Jaehyun replied. "Can I help you?"

"We never talked about the memories the Devil gave us." Rena pointed out. Jaehyun shrugged.

"You were General Na's ex-lover and heir to the throne." Jaehyun told her. "What is there to discuss?"

"How did you know?" Rena exclaimed. "Jaemin?"

"No, Seri." Jaehyun simple answered. Rena jutted her bottom lip out in disappointment.

"Well, what about you?" Rena asked but Jaehyun shook his head.

"I'll tell you later, not now." Jaehyun said before walking away.

Why is he being so secretive? Rena thought before heading to the locker rooms herself.

...

Winwin stifled a yawn as he sat in the uncomfortable seat of the meeting room in the faerie palace. It was yet another council meeting, a boring one.

He was already tired from a full day of teaching at the Academy, and was ready to go home and sleep in his bed.

The meeting finally ended with nothing interesting happening, like usual. Winwin quickly gathered his things, wanting to leave, but he was stopped by the Faerie King.

"Winwin, you didn't have much to say today." The Faerie King pointed out.

I never have much to say, Winwin thought as he faked a small smile.

"There's just not many updates." Winwin lied. Obviously, there were plenty of new things with th Agency, but why would he tell the Faerie King? If he hadn't killed Sora, most of their problems wouldn't even exist.

"Really? What about the new Academy headmaster?" The Faerie King asked.

"Taeil?" Winwin exclaimed. "What about him?"