At the end of the shoot, the boys greeted and thanked the shooting team with a respectful bow but did not leave the studio immediately as they were to film a short interview which would accompany the commercial conducted by BTS and which would support the advertising display on the large screens of the streets of Seoul.

     Jimin, Jin, Namjoon and Yoongi sat side by side on a small sofa while Taehyung, Jungkook and Hoseok took their places behind them on high stools that allowed them to stand a head taller than the four boys in front of them. 

     The man who interviewed them and was filmed by his own cameraman also told them at length about their collaboration with the clothing brand and the idol group's ethics in connection with the textile industry. Nothing very exciting for the boys, but they did what was expected of them and spoke in an exemplary speaking on the subject. 

     At the en, the man, dazzled by their looks, complimented them and then asked the maknae this question:

     "Jungkook, a lot of young fans consider you to be the most seductive in BTS, despite your youth and your candid air, because it seems that in just a few years you have developed a breathtaking male charm, do you agree? "

     "Absolutely not," Jungkook denied immediately.

     "You are modest, as we would expect. So, who do you think is the most attractive of your members?" The man asked, eager to share this information for his audience, expecting to hear him say Taehyung's name and letting his gaze instinctively rest on the handsome young man next to Jungkook.

     "Isn't that a rhetorical question when the answer is so obvious?" Jungkook replied, letting a hand slide down the back of Jin's neck who was in front of him and who, used to it, didn't flinch, and allowed himself a smile : "Jin hyung is unquestionably the most handsome and the most attractive among us." He paused briefly before adding, realizing the importance of what he was about to say: "and if I were a woman, I would immediately fall under his charm."

     Jin blushed sharply at the compliments and the attention he was receiving from everyone, loathing to be the center of attention away from the stage. He was also not used to this kind of smooth commentary from the maknae who, like him, usually spoke jokingly to pass a compliment on to others.

     The other members seemed as embarrassed as he was, but Namjoon, still eager to defuse the bombs dropped by his members, put an arm around Jin's shoulders and exclaimed approvingly:

     "Oooooh, Jin hyung!"

     "Oh Jiiin!" Hoseok repeated immediately with a big smile, while Yoongi silently nodded in agreement, his eyes lost in his dreams.

     "Yes, Jin hyung is really the most handsome," Jimin asserted looking at Jin who seemed crushed under the weight of the compliments, which made him really cute: Jin often loudly say that he was WWH, but he was really oblivious to the real charm that he exuded and that is what made him so cute when he could have appeared only attractive especially considering his age.  Jimin often told himself that his hyung was the embodiment of innocence, a child trapped in the body of a nearly thirty-year-old.

     To Jungkook's left, Taehyung put a menacing arm around the maknae's shoulders and gave him a naturally penetrating look, speaking in his deep voice, calculated and charming slowness:

     "Really, Jungkookie? Lucky you're not a woman then, or you would have taken us hyung to keep him just for you."

     The interviewer took this as a joke and burst out laughing, causing the other members to giggle nervously not to make it look like there was nothing funny about the situation as they still felt that tension between Jungkook and Taehyung around Jin.

     As for him, Jungkook ignored Taehyung and vigorously stroked the back of Jin's neck who enjoyed the relaxing movement and relaxed, letting his rosy complexion lighten little by little, although his ears inevitably remained red.

    "So, in your opinion, the oldest is the most attractive?" the interviewer resumed . "I won't contradict you! Seokjin, it is true that you are resplendent and that you are said to have a scientifically perfect face!"

     "That's right!" Jimin agreed, smiling.

     Jin's face colored a beautiful red again and the other members laughed at him, Jimin gently pinching one of his red ears.

     "That's not true," Jin protested sincerely, "the most beautiful and handsome is Taehyung for a long time now."

     "Oh hyung, thank you!" Taehyung smiled, immediately accepting the compliment as the hand on Jin's neck again exerted abnormal pressure from Jungkook's tension.

     "That's right," Jin continued smiling, ignoring Jungkook's hand which had just sharply withdrawn from his neck and indicated that Jungkook was surely frustrated, "no one knows what he ate to suffer such an embellishment after being for a long time the weirdest grinning boy ever!"

     "Hyuuuuuuung!" Taehyung whimpered, patting him on the shoulder, "can't you give me a compliment without putting me down?"

     "I didn't put you down, everyone loved your funny faces and everyone is sad that you aren't so weird anymore," the eldest laughed gently, a veil of tenderness covering his eyes as he thought back to him their younger years. 

     He remembered a very endearing and funny Taehyung when he met him, the clown of the group, before he calmed down and adopted a more mature and mysterious demeanor. 

     The clown status he had left vacant had since been taken over by a Jin who, unlike Taehyung, had given the impression that his mind was rejuvenating with each passing year, feeding off the laughter he emitted and elicited.

     The other members approved of Jin's words and burst out laughing when Taehyung gave the camera his best funny face at the interviewer's request. 

     Jin, unable to prevent his true nature from resurfacing at the grimace Taehyung had just turned towards him, gave him his own funny face, widening his eyes, widening his nostrils outrageously and lengthening his neck, not worried, like Taehyung, about tarnishing the reputation of the most handsome face that I had just been reminded of. 

    Lee's disparaging words had been completely overshadowed by the influx of compliments on his beauty and the return of his candid and playful nature. But if a child quickly forgets the misfortunes that befell him, he is nonetheless sensitive and Jin's childlike spirit was not finished being troubled, even though he still ignored it.

     The interview ended and the boys were driven home to relieve the makeup and fatigue of the day. They washed up before they were all together, in their pajamas and sporting their natural idol faces with particularly well-groomed skin, in the dining room for a meal of instant noodles and fried chicken wings. 

     The end of the day had managed to relatively calm the spirits. They were watching the commercial film followed by the interview and the various photos kept, put on a USB key that had just been delivered to them by the company. The boys let themselves be immersed in the viewing and complimented each other or teased each other on certain points. 

     Then, they discovered the final cut of the film which ended with a dive into Taehyung's gaze and Jin's. Sitting between Jin and Jimin, Jungkook, leaning on their thighs, leaped:

     "I cannot believe it ! By what right did they choose to grant Jin hyung to V hyung?"

     Everyone burst out laughing and Taehyung quipped:

     "You have to believe they thought we were better together."

     Jungkook glared at him.

     "By the way," Yoongi interjected, "isn't it time to talk about your comedy today? Was it really necessary? Who knows how Army will react to find out about this."

     His remark left everyone wondering and suddenly they rushed to their phones and dived in to find the comments of the fans and the various photos and recordings of them that had been circulating all day, since their recording in the radio studio until the final interview which had been partially disclosed by the impatient sponsor. 

    After scouring the net worriedly, exchanging comments from time to time, the members looked at each other without knowing how to react and Taehyung let out a nervous laugh:

     "I might have exaggerated a little bit today, ha ha..."

     By his actions of the day, he had unwittingly created a real war between the shippers which had set the web ablaze.

#Taekook

#Taejin

#Jinkook

#Namjin

#Taejinkook

     These hashtags were the most searched of the day and the photos and videos of the day had already been shared and viewed by millions of people around the world. 

     They found the evocation of the love triangle recorded on the radio and accompanied by Namjoon's sad smile, the photo stolen in the parking lot where Jungkook and Taehyung tore Jin under the gloomy gaze of Namjoon, the photo shoot where the couples Namjin and Taekook were closely glued then the movie where a war was being played out between Taejinkook. 

     For each of the scenes, each shipper had a different interpretation that proved the ship they were supporting was the real one.

     During the taejinkook triangle on the radio, the taekookers made it clear that Taehyung only wanted to make Jungkook jealous.

     In the parking lot, Taehyung and Jungkook could tear themselves away from Jin, the Namjiners only had eyes for the short exchange of looks captured by the particular angle of the photo, between a Namjoon unhappy with this scene and a Jin desperate not to be able to free himself from the two younger ones.

     During the shoot, Jungkook may have been glued to Taehyung in an intimate tense proximity, his glances thrown in the direction of Jin delighted the Jinkookers.

     And finally, the final interview was the highlight of the show as the shippers tore themselves apart with clips of cleverly cut videos at the right time.

     Those who supported Taekook, the most numerous, showed the moment when Taehyung rushed to put an arm around the maknae wanted to prove by this scene that Taehyung was possessive and did not want Jungkook to look fondly at Jin.

     Those who associated Taejin thought that Taehyung was on the contrary possessive towards Jin and had been threatening by his gesture towards the maknae and that he had launched his remark on the fact that Jungkook was not a woman to keep him away from his beloved. And for them, Jin's intoxicating smile at the end of the film was definitely addressed to Taehyung who was holding him possessively in his arms and to whom Jin was offering a silent declaration of love.

     When it came to the Jinkookers, many saw it as further proof of the attraction between the youngest and the oldest. In addition, they kept in mind the famous jinkook date of the day before. However, some were starting to express some doubts, believing they were wrong as Jungkook had announced an attraction to Jin through female eyes, not male, saying "if I were a woman." Strong advocates of their romantic relationship claimed it was a backdoor way of proclaiming homosexual love frowned upon in Korea. 

     The supporters of Taejinkook, less numerous, were in heaven because they proclaimed a triple paradoxical attraction which sometimes put together, Jin, Taehyung and Jungkook, then only Jin and Jungkook, or even Taehyung and Jin and finally Taehyung and Jungkook, accepting that their relationship were based on each other's changeable jealousy and therefore does not suffer from any possibility of being wrong according to them. So, some hypothesized that the three boys had throughout expressing love and jealousy towards each other, others were certain that Jin was the center of this three-way relationship and polarized the love of the two younger ones who were fighting for him.

     The Taekookers were the most numerous and outspoken and knew they could count on the unwavering support of Namjin's supporters who were convinced that Namjoon's arm passed around Jin's shoulders despite Jungkook's hand on the back of the elder's neck proved that he was very possessive. The Taekookers thus urged Jin with some aggressiveness to return to Namjoon and leave Jungkook to his Taehyung.

     After seeing all that, Jin sighed as he exchanged a look with Namjoon. Jungkook, not knowing what to do with his hands, rubbing them nervously against his thighs in a silence that weighed on Taehyung.

     "At least we know that Taekook still exists in Army's eyes and that our mission this afternoon was a success," the deep-voiced singer ventured to joke, accompanying his nervous laughter and gradually fading away as he sank into the sofa.

     "What have you done Taehyung?" Namjoon hissed.

     "Do you call that successful mission?" Yoongi growled, exhausted from the unconsciousness of his members, first Jin and Jungkook, and now Taehyung. "It's even worse than the jinkook date's reaction from yesterday! We had to ease the situation, not make it worse!"

     "You started a war, Tae" Jimin told him softly, breaking each word to give them special gravity, "and we don't know what bloodshed it will lead to. "

END OF THE BOOK III

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A/N : Today is December 04 2021  : this is a special day, right ? =) Much love sent to our Jin who will always be the most perfect in our eyes... ❤