TW : Violence (but this time I don't think anyone will mind)

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     Lee felt a few jolts. Locked in the back of the slow-moving van, he could see nothing of what was going on outside but could only understand that the crowd was preventing the vehicle from moving him quickly away from the court where he would be in security and would be forgotten until he goes out and get revenge.

     He wouldn't let BTS get away with it. He was going to make them pay for this public humiliation a hundredfold, and would take all the time it would take, years of thinking in his cell, to find the best way to make them suffer. Especially Jin who had dared to play him.

     Go away you brats, I'm tired of BTS fans, he thought impatiently as he felt the vehicle come to a stop again, presumably to avoid running over some of the thousands of angry fans.

     The screams that echoed by the millions outside weren't likely to startle him, but when he felt the shaking against the van grow louder and he heard the drivers growl in surprise, Lee realized that something abnormal was happening and he turned to the prison guard who was standing with him in the back of the van.

     "What is going on?" he asked him.

     "I don't know, but you have to believe you're a real bastard to be hated that much," the guardian replied with annoyance, uncrossing his arms and rising from his seat.

      He was about to open the small opaque window that separated him from his colleagues to understand what was happening when suddenly, the two rear doors of the van opened wide and the two men could clearly see what was happening.

     The doors of the van had been forced open by the angry mob who had extracted the two drivers and had them away from the vehicle. And now the vehicle's engine had stopped and the huge crowd was turned towards Lee, who noticed that many of them were wearing bunny masks. He instantly recognized Cooky and whispered:

      "Could it be Jungkook who is behind this? It's no wonder, this boy always has more confidence than Seokjin. If Seokjin had had the audacity to trap him today, the other also probably wanted to try his luck against me one last time. Come on, I'm waiting for you, you little shit, you know you can't do anything against me!"

     But his confidence waned as he realized that the thousands of people had completely invaded the wide road and the sidewalks and that the police were almost invisible in the middle of this crowd, and even helpless.

     He groaned as dozens of people swarmed the van to pull him.

     "Gett of me! I said get off!!!"

      But his cries were in vain. He was all the same brutally pulled and push him onto the tarmac where, unable to hold himself back because of his cuffed hands, he crashed to the ground at the feet of his innumerable enemies.

     "Get away from me brats!!" he yelled furiously.

     He tried to get up to see if the prison guard would come to his rescue, but before he could do so, he was harshly dragged away from the vehicle, into the center of the crowd of angry people, all masked, who spared him. barely a space and left him in a state of near suffocation.

     "That's how BTS felt in the middle of the Stade de France crowd where you let them get crushed you filthy junk!" someone shouted, kicking him.

     More kicks rained down before someone stopped them.

     "STOP! Listen to me all : he must not die now, he must be judged first!" an authoritative voice boomed, that made everyone stop, "he must answer for his actions in front of all of us now, on behalf of BTS!"

     It came from a man dressed in black who also wore a rabbit mask. His imposing build was recognizable in the eyes of Lee who, spitting the blood that had accumulated in his mouth, growled:

     " You..."

      "Yes, me. And now, I'm going to put you face to face with the reality of your crimes in front of all these people who are only waiting for one thing: to see you being punished."

      The crowd seemed to like these talks as they approved with shouts and applause by the thousands. that made Lee shudder: these people wanted to put him through a savage trial. He turned to the man who had spoken:

     "No, you can't let them attack me, you have to help me, you have to get me out of-!"

     "Silence, you monster!" someone yelled, spitting on him.

     "You don't have the right to speak, you have to listen!"

     "Even if you beg, no one will help you!"

     "Exactly! Everyone hates you!"

     More spits were thrown at him, then a dead silence soon fell on the whole crowd and then, another masked man dressed in black and a little less physically imposing than the first, whom Lee recognized immediately too, emerged from the crowd and glared at him contemptuously. His contempt, no, his pure hatred of this man seemed to emanate more than all the others from behind his rabbit mask, yet identical to all the others

     "You're about to make a big mistake, think twice," Lee told him with a semblance of confidence that didn't fool anyone: he was afraid of this newcomer.

     "It's not a mistake, it's exactly what I have to do," the other replied in a strangely distorted voice behind his mask. "And don't talk to me like you still have any semblance of power over me. You are nothing to me other than the person I will destroy forever, here and now. And as soon as it's done, I'll forget you forever, because you don't deserve to be remembered by anyone."

     Startled by his resolute tone, Lee watched him pull out a list from his pocket and cleared his throat before speaking in an icy and loud voice:

     "Lee, former and not regretted manager of BTS, since the justice of this country has failed, we are the ones who will judge you now for your crimes and punish you accordingly for each of them!"

     The crowd cheered loudly at those words and this time, Lee felt a fear that he couldn't hide. He was given over to the hatred of this crowd that would never let him escape. He was lost.

     The other man in black came forward and took the list while the other cracked the knuckles of his hands, one of which was tattooed, barely hidden under his mittens:

     "I will be your executioner, Lee. Today, I will finally make you suffer."

     Lee smirked nervously.

     "I wonder how you two ended up teaming up against me. Tsss, perfect, well, give it your best you brat, hope it eats you up forever!"

     The kick Jungkook immediately put in his mouth made him scream in pain but he had to stop when the young man grabbed him by the hair and whispered harshly:

     "I would have no regrets doing what I'm going to do to you, none do you hear me?"

      Then, he let go of Lee and forced him to his knees. Then he waited for the frightening cold judge he had chosen for this retrial to read his former manager's list of crimes.

     "Lee, first, you are found guilty of punching Jungkook when you first met and cracking his rib."

     Without warning, Jungkook threw his fist into Lee's stomach and broke his rib on the spot, squeezing out a cry of pain that he forced himself to stifle out of pride.

     "Oops, I think I broke it instead of cracking it," Jungkook said simply, massaging his fist.

     "I- I will kill you, you hear me?!!" he growled at Jungkook, trying to stop his cough so as not to suffer more pain.

      "You have been warned: you will be punished for each of your crimes, even those that you have forgotten and deemed insignificant," the singer said before turning to the judge: "continue."

     "Lee you are guilty of breaking Seokjin's finger."

      Lee widened his eyes realizing what was going to happen to him but didn't have time to reply, Jungkook had already grabbed his left index finger and violently broke him. This time, Lee's scream was unmuffled.

     Jungkook remembered Jin's pain when Lee broke his finger. He hoped that Lee was in just as much pain then.

     "So that hurts, huh?"

     "MOTHERFUCKER, I WILL KILL YOU, YOU HEAR ME?!!!" Lee yelled, his face contorted in pain. His cuffed hands in his back prevented him from clutching his injured hand, and he couldn't defend himself against Jungkook either.

     "Your suffering has only just started, don't believe for a second that it's going to stop," Jungkook told him, letting Lee guess his cruel smile behind his mask. Lee then realized that he had created his own monster by dint of making Jin suffer in front of his eyes. He bitterly regretted it today.

     The announcements of his crimes and the punishments followed, the suffering with it, making him lose all sense of time while the compact crowd took care of both preventing him from leaving and preventing the police from reaching him.

     His judge declared him guilty in turn:

     Jungkook's vomiting.

     Belt punches to Jin's legs.

     Bites.

     Namjoon's broken wrist and punctured lung as he let the world tour go ahead despite the dangers surrounding BTS.

     Jin's broken ankle.

     Yoongi's injured shoulder.

    Hoseok's dislocated knee as well as his fractured fingers and broken toes.

     Jimin's fractured tibia.

      Taehyung's cervical sprain.

     The hit of Army Bomb on Jin's face.

     The cruel rapes.

     Jungkook's burnt feet.

      Jin's violent resuscitation after being stabbed.

     The drowning of Jin who was transformed into suffocation.

      The stab wound received by Jungkook.

     Each of these crimes was listed by the judge in black and immediately punished by Jungkook appropriately, at the height of the crime committed but with ever more force. On several occasions, he had tried to apologize for his crimes, to beg to be spared, to be allowed to plead guilty and be imprisoned for life. He realized he was unable to bear the pain he had inflicted. He wanted it to stop.

      But Jungkook and the impassive judge ignored him. The singer under the rabbit mask was particularly happy to see this monstrous man humiliate himself like this, but he was not ready to forgive him. He would never forgive him and he wanted him dead, not his imprisonment.

      He would let him have his last words of apology to Jin but he would not forgive him and he knew that Jin would never have forgiven him either, especially since he knew that his apologies were not sincere: they were only dictated by the fear he felt. But the same way he didn't give Jin any respite, let him apologize without ever leaving him alone, Jungkook would never let him in peace until his last breath of life.

     "P-p-please..." Lee tried to begged one last time, letting trickles of blood flow through his broken teeth.

    "Oh, look who is stuttering like an idiot now?" Jungkook mocked cruelly, "I should force you to take diction lessons. Too bad you don't have the time or use for it anymore! Juge, announces his last crime now!"

    "Lee," the judge solemnly declared, "in addition to your multiple attempts to murder Kim Seokjin, you are accused of being greatly responsible for the stabbing he received which nearly cost him his life. . Therefore, we therefore condemn you... to death!"

     Lee's eyes widened as he heard his judge say these words.

    When he had received the first stab wound in the name of Jungkook's own stab wound, Lee already seemed to be in agony and no longer able to speak as he was having difficulty breathing and blood was leaking from his body from every imaginable orifice. He was almost naked after all the horrible  things he had been through and his public execution seemed ready to end, he was just waiting for that.

     But there was one last blow left that Jungkook wanted to give Lee in the most painful way possible: the stab wound received by Jin which almost took his hyung away from him forever.

     "For everything you put Jin hyung through, I'm going to kill you slowly, you filthy monster," he whispered in his ear before stabbing him with calculated slowness, without touching his vital organs, in order to make him suffer as much as possible.

     Before Lee could breathe his last and get away with it, Jungkook shouted to the crowd:

     "Now, ARMY, smash him, punch him, humiliate him, destroy him! Each in turn, come and avenge Jin for all that this monster has inflicted on him!!"

     And after those words, while the crowd fervently complied, each of the rabbits getting revenge before giving way to another without giving the impression that the crowd was going to dry up, Jungkook and his proclaimed judge quietly exfiltrated from the crowd and returned to a black car with tinted windows parked in a driveway and driven by Sejin who quickly unlocked the doors and let the two men in before driving off and driving away.

      "Glad to see you two back in one piece!" the BTS manager said. "You did what you wanted to do I guess?"

     "Yeah, it's done," Jungkook said.

     In the car, out of sight, the two rabbits finally took off their masks. Jungkook's was stained with Lee's blood and he threw it down in disgust. Then, the second rabbit revealed his real face, a usually impassive face that was now smiling: it was Han's.

     "Thank you for being Lee's judge," Jungkook told him, "no one else could have been as cold and unmoved as you in the face of my punishment, you played your role well."

     "Thank you for granting me this honor," his former manager replied, relieved that he was able to help Jungkook get revenge and allow him to atone for his faults somewhat. "I know I'm far from forgiven, but I hope I've started to make amends."

     "Yeah, it's a start."

     As the car drove away in the direction of Hanam-Dong, the vengeful rabbits scattered one after another and fled through the streets and alleys, escaping the pursuing police and removing their rabbit masks as soon as possible to blend in with the mass of Seoulian pedestrians, all wearing surgical masks for added safety. Everything had been perfectly orchestrated by an anonymous fan on the fan networks and thanks to him, everything had ended well for the fans.

     None were caught and no one could be convicted. All the avengers hoped that BTS, thanks to them, would not suffer anymore and could finally be happy as before.

     Lee's bloodied and barely identifiable remains were the only ones recovered by law enforcement and no one was moved by his end. After all, he was a monster, the whole country knew it, and he deserved what happened to him. No creature of its kind should be allowed to live freely among human beings.

     Arriving at the dorm where the other members were waiting for him watching the spectacular footage of what had just happened and which had been filmed from afar by reporters and amateur cameras, Jungkook was greeted with an outpouring of hugs from his hyungs who were relieved and happy to see him come back safe and sound.

     After snubbing their maknae for the risks he had taken, they warmly congratulated him on his latest strategy to win the war against Lee. 

     "Please Jungkook, tell me you're not going to turn into a monster after all this!" Jimin begged, a little worried to still see some traces of Lee's execution blood.

     "I won't," Jungkook said with a reassuring smile at his eldest. "I had to get rid of Lee precisely so as not to become like him. Now that it's done, everything will go back to the way it was, violence must disappear from our lives. And if you catch me being violent again one day, then -"

     "There won't be any "if", I know you won't be," Jin interrupted with a smile. "We trust you completely. Besides, no matter what happens, we will stay united we will never let you down, no matter what happens to you in the future and we will keep you from becoming someone you don't want to be: you are our maknae and we will do anything for you, we will help you overcome everything. Same for you y'all," he added, turning to the others. "hyung will always be here for you and help you no matter what. I won't be weak enough again to let you down and let you carry it all on your shoulders."

      "Same for you, hyung, we'll always be here for you and we will never let you down, hope you know that," Namjoon said as the others nodded uncompromising.

     "Yes, I know, thank you all," Jin thanked them warmly.

       Then, the other members decided to let Jin and Jungkook talk to each other feeling that they needed it, in order to conclude this dark chapter of their story. The eldest and the youngest hug each other tenderly, with tears in their eyes but a smile on their lips:

     "You did it JK, you said that you would deliver me from my nightmare and you really did it, you made Lee disappear and you came back safe and sound," Jin said as he hugged the younger one gratefully.

     "Of course I did it, that's what i promised you!" Jungkook said happily. "But, hyung, I couldn't do it alone, so I did it with Army. I protected them by making them wear masks, none of them will be worried by the justice for the lawsuit of Lee, don't worry. I realize I really needed them, who have always carried me and they, who love you so much, needed to see you get better and give you back your good humor and your love. Together we avenged you and rid you of your monster. I hope you are happy now."

     "I am JK, I really am, thank you from the bottom of my heart," Jin sobbed happily to the person he loved the most in the world who had just given him back what he had lost for too long.

     "If you want to thank me, then now, you must be happy, forever," Jungkook said, also crying with joy, "You must smile and make jokes like before, you must be the one who disobeys the rules of Big Hit without fear, the one who teaches me to do stupid things and the one who refuses to let a press conference bore us. You will hyung, right?"

     Jin gave him a bright smile:

     "I will Jungkook. From now on, let's always be happy together, with BTS and with ARMY!"

THE END.

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A/N : After all the comments from readers who wanted to kill off Lee throughout this book, I thought that Army should have a place in Lee's ending which also fits this book's ending. What did you think of it? 

There will still be an epilogue planned to definitively conclude this book, but I don't know when I will write it yet. Not right away anyway. 

Nevertheless, today, I declare this book officially complete. What will be published in it will only be bonus. I hope you enjoyed this crazy and long literary adventure despite the cruelty described. 

I wish real happiness to BTS and Army who marked a difficult part of my life and who have been a light for me in this depressive darkness.

Thanks for reading. 

Bye ❤

Mademoiselle JJ