That is exactly how Namjoon finds him, leaning back fast asleep with his neck in uncomfortable position heels placed on the side snacks plate half finished on his lap, and the man in deep sleep clearly exhausted to his bones.

A small smile take over his face as he looked at the boy who was sleeping as if he is not surrounded by people wishing for his death at each step.

He shook Taehyung waking him up with a jump, "oh fuck did I fall asleep !! "

" well, I'll recommend you to not speak to anyone else your voice is giving you away darling "  Namjoon leaned down to tuck a stray strand of Taehyung's hair back, smiling down at the man.

Taehyung snorted pushing himself up dusting his gown, "I better get going. "

He turned however Namjoon grabbed his hands pulling him back making his back collide with his hard chest.

Namjoon leaned down whispering in Taehyung's ear," you go up and rest doll, we'll send off the guest and I'll send you a plate of food right in your room".

Taehyung stood there looking blankly at the retreating back heart beating wildly in his chest, "You all need to stop calling me doll !! "

All he received was an amused chuckle from the man in front of him. And maybe Taehyung is crazy but he thinks that voice is extremely attractive making him swoon over the nack of the man.

He is in trouble.

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Taehyung stumbled to his room, tired out of his mind as he made his way to what could be considered nothing but a luxurious suite in a seven-star hotel. But it was the room for the head of the family or his grandparent's room before they died or to be put more bluntly, were killed brutally by the red axe gang and the worst part about this is that no matter how hard he goes around trying to find about them the more he realizes that how unreachable the gang actually was.

Except for their name, that too which he was able to know through Jungkook, he was not able to search for anything else, and now that he has officially taken over the empire he would be expected to deal with this situation first, it would probably be hard as hell but if the gang has a problem with the whole 'Kim Family' he would not have to make the first move as they would approach him first.

At least that's what he hopes, it would save a ton of resources than trying to find them all from the scratch.

He loosened up his dress, picking up the robe placed on his bedside table before getting into the bathroom.

He locked the door from inside before swiftly throwing the robe on the counter and jumping out from the small window that opens at the balcony connected to his room. All steps were carefully calculated as he made the minimal sound capable of walking towards the window connected to his room. And just as he expected he saw a man slowly picking his lock trespassing into the room.

A small smile blooms on his face, he expected this, but it to happen so quickly just minutes after his official announcement was slightly unexpected but he was thoroughly impressed by the gang for being so quick.

The man was dressed in a complete black outfit with the cap of a hoodie covering his hair and a black mask around his face, he, however, does not look like a trained assassin. His steps were wobbly as he rushed to attach a small explosive under Taehyung's bed it was that when he rushed forward kicking the man who was leaning to place the explosive under his bed on his butt making him topple forward falling face first on the ground with the explosive falling off his hand.

He turned to look at the queen who was looking him down and maybe it was the mask because Taehyung missed how the man swallowed something before choking and falling down lifeless in front of him.

"Shit !! " Taehyung rushed to pick up the small explosive seeing the number on it ticking with every passing second he ran to the balcony looking down to the swimming pool and making sure it was empty and although a small number of people were around it, he was sure that the explosive wasn't strong enough to cause that much damage once in the water.

He did one big swing throwing it as quickly as he can and as soon as it touched the surface of the water it exploded with a loud noise sending almost all the water out of the pool drenching the bystanders and breaking a few tiles on the side of the pool by force.

He falls to his knees, sweat glistening on his forehead as he hears a slowly growing murmur from downstairs, how many times had he wanted to die whenever things got difficult but now death is so close to him that he feels weak?

The door to his room bust open as he saw the six men rush into the room from where he was sitting on the floor, he quickly got up. straightened his posture wiping his forehead from the back of his hand trying to look more presentable as soon as he achieved to look a bit better the door of the balcony was slammed open.

Taehyung turned to face the group with a confident smirk taking over his face, "guess I am making a big statement tonight!?"

"What the fuck happened here? " Namjoon growled, he really did sound like he was growling like an angry dog, and Taehyung was highly impressed by the vocal range.

When everyone turned to look at him was when he realized that he was expected to answer the question,  he awkwardly clears his throat, "uhh... Someone sent an assassin after me?? And I tried to confront them when he was trying to put an explosive under my bed, but he swallowed poison and I threw the explosive into the pool... That's all nothing serious... "

Yoongi turned toward the dead body in his room moving to take off the mask and everyone else followed him in to there.

The boy looked young, freshman year student level young, and with the built of his body it is clear that he is not a member of some high gang, the sunken cheeks, lean and low nourished body he looks like every young drug addict who tries shady jobs to secure money for their addiction.

As sad as it was, it was also a bit disappointing it feels as if the gang was looking down on him. Do they really think that all that is required to kill the "Mafia Queen" was a nineteen- twenty-year-old druggie and a cheap ass explosive?

Never in his life had Taehyung wanted to throw a tantrum so bad as he wants to do now, are people taking him so unseriously now ????

"Don't be offended love I am pretty sure they must be short of staff or else you deserve the most capable Assasin" Jimin patted his back, as stupid as it was it made him crack a little smile at the consoling.

Hoseok however turned to look at both of them as if they were crazy and honesty Taehyung has no way to defend himself from that allegation, he indeed feels a little crazy from time to time

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"Now what are we supposed to do? " Jungkook asked as the cleaners take away the body from Taehyung's room.

" It could not be the first time they are using young drug-addicted kids for their work. " Seokjin sat down on the sofa on the side of the room.

"So you expect us to go around all Seoul streets find every drug addict teen and gather information?" Jimin said sweetly but no one in the room missed the sharp edge to his tone.

And neither did anyone miss the way Jin's expression changed to something eerily calm or the way Hoseok flinched a little.

Things were going to turn for the worst as Taehyung butted in between, "we can get Yoongi- nim to check which one of his dealers supply to young kids? That way we would have a direction to start our search."

" Just call me hyung, kid there is no need to be this formal makes me feel like an old man" Yoongi grumbled, "And to answer your question yes I can do that, we have recently got rid of middlemen so drugs are directly sold to small suppliers from our warehouses I will ask my men to check which one of the dealer supply to young kids"

The two distinct knocks were heard from the door, Taehyung raised one eyebrow questioningly before letting whoever was behind the door in.

A young lady probably the same age as Jennie but way too formal, she bowed ninety degrees before starting to talk, "we found a suspicious looking tattoo on the back, its engraving looks forced, would madam want to check."

It was Hoseok who asked first, "Forced like how?"

"As if the person was forcefully restrained and tried thrash around while getting the tattoo" the girl was still looking down but in no form did her posture looks like she was afraid.

Taehyung nodded, he honestly has no interest in seeing a dead body, he looked around wanting to get out of it before catching a look at Hoseok and Jimin who looked way too interested for the same.

"I think Mr. Jung and Park could see that for all of us and click a picture of the said Tattoo." He tried to put the job on the two and just like he thought they looked interested jumping to their feet to follow the girl.

And a snort from the side ensures that his little trick was caught by someone but he was a little too embarrassed to find out who.

Well, they might be getting some new clues for the gang.

"I would get all the information about the red axe from underground and Jin hyung could track where they are getting their explosives and weaponry in Korea." Jungkook looked determined eyes having a slight manic glint fit for the kingpin of south Korea's biggest underworld player and Taehyung could not miss the familiarity with which Jungkook addressed Seokjin.

All six of them have a familiar air with each other which they tried to hide in front if him but more than often let it slip and it's amusing how they did not consider him to catch on.

He will let them believe it for their own sake.

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An ax drawn on the lower back with the number 11367 written under it was nothing eye-catching like most gang tattoos but what made it suspicious was the way it was drawn looked painfully forced and it looked like it wasn't given time to properly heal or any proper aftercare, it makes jimin cringe internally.

Hoseok takes out his phone from the pocket snapping some pictures of the tattoo and the number before turning to the workers, " dispose of the body. " he turned walking out followed by Jimin.

"That number... It looks like the serial number." Jimin said voice low but enough for hoseok to hear, who looked back at the photo of the tattoo he had clicked.

"Shit. I was thinking the same, it looks like a serial number, if it is for the number of these types of suicidal individuals they have in their gang that is a concerning amount."

Jimin fidgeted with his ring clearly influenced by the new information of probabilities, "the Korean underground had one law, to not involve civilians, to never involve civilians. They are breaking it, they are putting the whole underworld in the fear of exposing itself to the normal world it will break it will not survive."

" we.. We need to inform the others and then probably the meeting of all families needs to be called, this will fuck things up very badly for everyone". Hoseok spoke about what was on Jimin's mind as they both walked toward the room.

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