ɬɧɛ ɱąɖ ƙıŋɠ//℘ʝɱʄʄ

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3 hours. 3 hours and they were still at it. Strolling through the same looking leveled field of the destroyed forest was nothing more than a time wasting hobby yet the young king seemed to be enjoying it, so was his very trustworthy blond friend. They seemed to be taking in notes or something as if they were investigating. Whatever they were doing, they were leaving Xena out of it and she was getting more annoyed by that.

She had to accompany 7 men on a boring stroll down an ugly forest with no trees to block them from the sun but luckily Jungkook hovered a big rock over the group to shadow them. Xena was still clueless about what they were doing because Jimin didn't tell her anything and looked like he wasn't planning to anyway. All he did was suddenly stopping, glancing around with narrowed eyes, snapped his fingers before resuming the walk again. Oh, don't forget the fact that he insisted to hold her hand for 3 hours and always glare at the girl whenever she tried tugging back.

Sometime in the midst of their walk, Jimin even intertwined their fingers which Xena immediately tug back harshly but carefully with her strength to prevent making the same mistake. The young king only forced more negative charges through his body and gave her no choice but to remain holding hands even though their palms were starting to sweat.

To be honest though, Jimin's hand felt rather....comfortable. He had removed his diamond rings before holding her hand and after intertwining their fingers, Xena was surprised to notice how soft his fingers were. They were a little shorter and smaller than average men's fingers and were quite chubby, cushioning her fingers as they clasped. His palm, however, was rough because of the bandages which he still remained silent with the reason but she had a feeling that it'll be soft and chubby as well. But still, it's the hand of her enemy, that fine looking sly king of Inferno.

Anyway, back to the stroll. After 3 hours, they finally stopped but now they are in front of a massive dipped area of the forest. It was similar to the battlefield of Noland which Xena had disoriented but this was much smaller yet still impossible for a mere human to cause unless they bare strong powers. Just like the battlefield of Noland, there was a core dent where the force had initially exerted and caused destruction to the surrounding.

Unlike the stunned General and the group of men, the young king seemed to be rather familiar with the scene as he walked towards it with the girl still trailing behind him. When he reached the core of the dent, he finally left her hand and squatted down as she scrunched her face and wiped her sweaty palm against her pants. Namjoon came to their side and bent down as well with his glasses sliding down his nose bridge while he inspected the crashed ground.

"Quite the force you had here, Jimin", Namjoon nodded, impressed by the scene. Xena frowned at the blond' words in confusion and flickered her gaze between the crashed ground and the young king. She slowly approached them and peeked her head a little closer as she got nosey.

"You did this?", the question came out of her involuntarily and made herself gulped as she sounded as if she's interested in him all of the sudden. Jimin glanced at her through his fringe with raised brows and arms resting on his bent knees. "Why? Are you impressed?", his plump lips stretched a smirk as he crooked a brow at her, looking all smug. The girl scoffed and rolled her eyes. "I blew up the entire battlefield, rice cake man", she muttered the last part in whispers before leisurely squatting down as if he wasn't there. Jimin glared at her for using such ugly nickname on him. Even she got names like princess and pretty ass even if they're spoken with mocking tones, they're still better than rice cake man.

"That's not how you should-", before Jimin could scold her, the ground shook a little as if thunder was striking it but Hoseok wasn't doing anything. All of them snapped into full alert and battle mode as they stood up and scanned their surroundings. Except for Xena who wasn't even interested in protecting Jimin as she was threatened to. The General stood lazily behind the men with crossed arms and hooded eyes, uninterested in whatever that was coming their way.