PANDORA'S BOX
9:27 PM, FRIDAY

3RD PERSONS VIEW。

"Welcome to Pandora's Box!" Reiji grins as more people walked into the famous bar. "Seems like our bar's getting a lot of attention lately," he chuckled and nudged the girl next to him.

The girl sighed, looking around, eyeing those men in black. "Yeah, too much attention, actually." she said as she twirled the jigger in her hand.

"What do you mean?" Reiji raised a brow, noticing the sudden change in the way she talked.

"Men in black."

Reiji snapped his head up to see a few men in black seated at one of their VIP tables. "Oh, you mean those guys in suits, what's wrong with them?"

"I sense that something wrong is going to happen again." she muttered and poured the liquor swiftly into the glass before handing it towards the customer.

The customer's eyes beamed with her friend as they tasted the drink, "Woah, this tastes amazing!"

The girl smirked and watched as they kept drinking her freshly made drink.

"Excuse me, what do you call this drink?" the costumer called for her attention.

She raised a brow, "That? It's one of my favorite's for new comers, 'Boom'."

"Boom? Isn't that a bit generic?" the costumer chuckled, "It's good though."

"Generic?" Reiji stifled a laugh, "It's called Boom for a reason."

The customer and her friend looked at each other, "And what may that reason be?"

"Cause the flavor explodes in your mouth and it lets new comers get welcomed to a whole new level of drinks." Reiji pointed out, "Bet you didn't even expect it to taste that way." he smirked.

The two customers squealed at Reiji, "You're so hot!"

One of them grinned, setting her phone down on the bar, "Can I have your number?"

Reiji chuckled, "I'm sorry, I have a girlfriend."

The two customers looked at each other, "How unfortunate." one laughed as they continued to talk to each other.

"Excuse me." the head bartender raised her head at the costumer in front of her. "I have a request–"

"and what may that be, Sir?" she raised a brow as she wiped the cocktail glass slowly with a cloth.

"There would be a girl walking in here, exactly ten o' clock, and I would like you to put this in her drink." he smirked before placing a packet of white mischief on top of the bar table.

She gave an amused impression, "In exchange for what?"

"Money."

She chuckled bitterly, "Yeah, no."

The man's wicked smile faltered, "No?" he tilts his head, growing annoyed.

She nodded plainly, "You heard me. No."

"Do you even know who I a—"

"You're apart of a mafia gang." she cuts him off quickly, "You think I wouldn't notice you right away?"

The man scoffed, "You're nothing but a bartender, just do what I say."

She rolled her eyes as she watched him walk away. She sighed and grabbed the packet, stuffing it in her pocket, acting like she would do it before throwing it away in the trash.

"You entered the wrong bar, dickhead." she spat and walked towards Reiji.

"You know what to do." she whispered.

Reiji sighed, "Another mafia shit's gonna happen today? Man, they should be lucky i'm getting a high pay."

"Just be alarmed, Reginald." she grunted and walked off.

"Y-Yah! I told you– call me Reiji." the boy huffed and felt his hand under the bar table. "You might come in handy today, buddy." he chuckled and touched the metallic figure underneath.

Minutes passed and she checked her wristwatch, seeing the time tick ten. "Showtime."

Right on time, just as planned, a stunning lady, looking a bit nervous, walks in earning swooning heads from a couple of people. Her red smocking dress fitted her figure perfectly, her hair was curled and swayed as she walked towards the counter.

Reiji grinned, "Oh, another decoy, I suppose?" he chuckled and watched in amusement as the lady approached them.

"I'll have whatever." Lady said and sat down on the bar stool.

She smirked and nodded before grabbing the ingredients she needed. Her hands skillfully mixed everything together before pouring it smoothly into the glass.

She looked at the Lady before sliding her drink towards her, she leans in closely, confusing the Lady, "I suggest you tell your gang friends to make things quick and get out of my bar."

The Lady nearly choked and was baffled at her statement. She quickly covered it up, hearing the muffled screams from her earpiece, "What do you mean?" Lady questions softly.

The head bartender just smiled at her as if saying, "you know what I mean." and the Lady smiled back before taking a sip into her drink, her eyes widening as she slowly placed down the glass.

"What drink is this?"

"Highway to Heaven, Rose." she answered with a smirk.

"R-Rose?" the Lady gave her a perplexed expression. "What do you mean by Rose?"

She stifled a laugh, "Lady, you look like Rose that's about to get plucked."

As if on cue, a handsome looking man in a black suit walks towards them and sat next to, what she named her, Rose. Although Rose expected it anyways, however, she was waiting for the drug to kick in, it didn't seem like it was coming any sooner as well.

Rose kept stealing glances at the girl bartender, curious on why she said that.

Rose and the man talked for minutes, she even noticed how the man was now growing impatient as he started touching her. He wanted the information now, but Rose wasn't going to give in, she was only sent in to mess with the enemy anyways.

Soon, the man had enough and gripped tightly onto Rose's hand, he was about to pull her when a gun appeared on the side of his face.

He froze, "What? What the fuck is this?!"

Reiji did a great job at convincing the costumers leave early before anything gets messy. He chuckled as he watched his co-worker point a gun at a mafia gang member so shamelessly.

"Get away from her."

"You don't tell me what to do." the man growled and pulled his gun out quickly and was about to shoot when a loud bang went across the room. Fortunately, for the head bartender, she was quick enough to dodge the bullet leading it to only hit the guy.

He screams in pain, staring at his hand in horror.

Someone shot him.

Guys in black leather jackets appeared in the front door as they cocked their guns towards the men in black.

"NCT is here now, huh?" the man stifled a laugh, "You work for them, too?" he questioned the head bartender.

She laughed, "Me? In a Mafia? Never." her tone dropped.

Gunshots were heard loud and clear. This so-called NCT had just took out those men in black, leaving no one surviving but their precious leader who was now frightened with no one to hold onto.

A guy with golden highlights laughed, "Shit! He's scared! This is so funny!"

"Mark, shut up." one of them mumbled.

"Dasom!" another guy yelled and ran towards to the person she nicknamed as Rose. "Are you okay?"

Rose, or we know now as Dasom, nodded and hugged the boy. "I'm fine, Jungwoo."

"but, there weren't any effects when I drank the cocktail, I'm not imagining things right?"

Jungwoo looked at the head bartender, "Exactly. Did you..."

The head bartender hummed boringly, "If you were wondering about the drug, no, I threw it away the moment that dude talked to me about it." she stated, pointing at the man in black who was now being pulled outside by two guys.

"W-What? Why? Did you even know what was going on?" Dasom threw her a bunch of questions in which she just laughed at.

"Of course I know. These things have already happened before."

Dasom gaped, "Wow..."

"That drink you made... it tasted amazing, by the way."

"Thank you." she smiled softly and nudged Reiji to start cleaning up.

"Are you perhaps apart of another mafia?" the boy with yellow highlights questioned cautiously.

She shook her head, "Like I said, me, joining a mafia is just absurd."

"I'm just a head bartender and the owner of this bar."

"May we have your name?"

"Just call me Cerise."

"Cerise?"

"Yeah, like, Cherry."

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