A Warrior's Heart

Chapter 48; Got it!

"Thank you." Namjoon said as Jin placed a cup of tea in front of him, blowing into it lightly. The older smiled at him before sitting down at the table himself, turning to Taehyun afterwards. He raised an eyebrow, waiting for the explanation he wanted, and fair enough, also deserved.

The brunette sighed and pressed his hands against the sides of his own cup in front of him. The heat radiation from it warmed his palms. He knew he had to tell his brother about everything, but he just didn't know how.

"Well?" Seokjin asked, looking at the two in front of him. "Speak up."

Namjoon kept silent, knowing that it wasn't his place to tell everything to the older. It was Taehyun's experience so he knew he had to take the honour of speaking. The brunette looked up from his cup, eyes finding his brother's in an instant. He inhaled and exhaled in a slow breath to calm his nerves, the thought of his brother forbidding him to go back still lingering in his mind. He knew he couldn't get around it, so he inhaled once more and decided to just say it in one go.

"There's another world and there's this boy and there's a basket and the soldiers are idiots but the warriors are so nice and cool and I'm a warrior too and the emperor is the best kind of human and I need the gem to make another basket so I can go back because I miss him and-"

"Woah woah- Tae, calm down I don't understand a word of what you're saying this way." Seokjin interrupted him with a soft chuckle. Taehyun blinked and adverted his eyes, apologising and taking a quick sip of his drink. The man next to him decided to save him, and spoke up. "Allow me to explain in a language you can understand." Namjoon said, and Seokjin thanked him before he continued.

"Basically I gave Tae a basket, not knowing it was actually a portal to another world. In this world there's this boy, the emperor, and the soldiers are the bad guys, warriors the good guys," He said, trying to make it sound logical for the older. "Tae told me about what he did to save the emperor from the soldiers last time he went there, and he got promoted to warrior."

Seokjin nodded as the other spoke, but he frowned as well. It sounded like something from out of a movie or a book, and he found it hard to believe his very own family member had done something like that.

"When he came back to this world, the basket got broken, and we're trying to make it whole again." Namjoon continued, getting to the clue of the story. "The next thing we need to make that happen, is a gem, an Opal to be exact."

At those words, Seokjin's face changed, finally understanding why Taehyun had been in his room when he came home. Surprisingly enough he wasn't mad at him. He rarely got mad at his brother anyway and this story only strengthened that.

Taehyun had been staring at the cup in front of him throughout the whole time Namjoon was telling the story he was supposed to tell. He slowly raised his head and took a peek at his brother, wanting to see his reaction. The older was blinking in confusion and he looked like he was trying to fit the puzzle pieces together in his mind. He knew his brother wouldn't understand it as soon as they told him, so he was prepared to answer every question the man had.

And the man did, opening his mouth to ask a couple of things.

"So, there's another world?" He asked and the two younger men nodded. "And the basket is the portal?" Again the both of them nodded. "And this boy- the emperor? He hates the soldiers?"

"Everyone does." Taehyun said, anger boiling inside of him at the mere thought of them. "They look like shit, cuts on their faces and dirt covering basically every inch of them. They care about nothing but serving their leader, and that guy is telling them to kill the people of the kingdom." He explained. "But I killed their leader so it's fine now! They won't bother Beomgyu anymore." He said, a bit proud of himself.