Life in Eunma began like this and the first weeks of school flew by.

Every day, Seokjin worked hard, of course encouraging Jimin, Taehyung, and Seung to do the same taking advantage of everything this exceptional high school had to give them. 

He got along well with his other classmates who found him particularly jovial and friendly and who did not demean him because of his different social status and he also had no problem with the other high school students who had ended up losing interest in him after the curiosity of the first days. 

Namjoon continued to ignore him and he did the same, getting used to this attitude, little by little losing the reflex to steal glances at him. At the same time, he couldn't ignore Jungkook the same way because they were in the same class, so he had made it a point to maintain a distant relationship with him but without explicit animosity. This was made easier by the fact that Jungkook spoke to him cordially and had never caused him any harm since they saw each other every day.

It made him feel like everything was okay and he loved his life in Eunma.

Taehyung, for his part, tried to ignore Jungkook as much as possible during the day to so as not to argue or fight with him, and maintain his public dignity. In agreement with Jungkook who valued his own even more, their big arguments broke out in the privacy of their bedroom. 

He also knew, even if it annoyed him, that given Jungkook's personality, in the event of a public conflict the other students would quickly side with his cousin rather than his. And in agreement with Seokjin, he had decided not to create a problem that would cause him to be hated by others. Even if it was strange for him to no longer lord it over the other students, he adapted strangely well to it, probably because his daily life was already filled with things that fulfilled him even if his pride prevented him from expressing it: his friends Seokjin and Jimin as well as his music club in which he could devote himself wholeheartedly to his passion, alongside other students as passionate as him and who, he admits, were friendly to him, which made Seokjin happy for him.

Every night, when he was sure Jungkook was sleeping, he would quietly join Seokjin to sleep. So far everything had gone well for them and he hadn't been caught by Jungkook, Yoongi, or the Rat team who patrolled the corridors from time to time to prevent students from leaving in secret at night for secret meetings where students committed reprehensible acts as had already happened in previous years.

Then in the morning, early, he left the room to get ready before Jungkook woke up and Seokjin did the same, which allowed them to have an early breakfast and take advantage of the calm of the morning to rest in an empty classroom before the start lessons. 

His life in Eunma satisfied him much more than the life he had led in Gugbo, it seemed... ideal.

Jimin had started the dance club and he had the unpleasant surprise to realize that Hoseok was also part of it and the latter had burst out with his usual laughter at Jimin's surprise, visibly delighted with this discovery unlike Jimin. 

Jimin had learned thanks to his friends at the dance club and reported to Taehyung and Seokjin that Hoseok had gone to an art middle school that had a special class for high-level dancers and that was the reason why he had not gone to Gugbo Middle School, unlike his sister Yoona. He was a dancing prodigy.

For this reason, he had a higher level than the other students in the club and acted as a mentor but had quickly gotten into the habit of being particularly hard on Jimin, helping him more than necessary, making him experience new things faster than the others, blaming him for his rookie mistakes more than the others, which obviously annoyed Jimin who kept complaining about it.

However, it allowed him to progress at breakneck speed and Seokjin pointed out to him that the reason Hoseok spent so much time working with him was because he found him more talented than the others. Jimin had grumbled that he didn't believe it but after that, Seokjin noticed that he had seemed particularly happy. And the reality was that he said less and less bad things about Hoseok and sometimes praised him in unexpected ways before pretending that he was only joking.

Hoseok, moreover, also seemed to hold him in the highest esteem since he attended the dance club and showed the extent of his talent. He therefore had changed his nickname from Mochi Fighter to Sexy dancer, judging that Jimin's dances were the most exquisite in his eyes. Jimin seemed to be less upset than with the first nickname and Seokjin had the impression, even if Jimininsisted on saying the opposite, that the two boys were almost becoming friends. 

But Jimin was still wary and Taehyung agreed, thinking that Hoseok could very well try to get closer to Jimin to hit himself better afterwards, a suspicion that Seokjin couldn't understand. He continued to talk about maintaining very cordial relations with Hoseok whom he only called Hobi now, which the other considered adorable, as he kept proclaiming.

For his part, Taehyung seemed to take real pleasure in practicing various instruments, especially the violin and as he was part of an orchestra, he had at the same time started practicing lyrical singing. As his boy's voice had already changed and was particularly deep and low, he initially did not have confidence in himself in front of the other student musicians and refused to sing, afraid of humiliation more than anything.

But when his opera singing teacher had declared that his tenor voice with sensual breath was a miracle and that in addition to being a prodigy on the violin, he had a prodigious low and throaty baritone, he had suddenly been filled with pride.

 In addition to being a prodigy on the violin, he had told Seokjin that he intended to become a prodigious opera singerand that he would be the lead singer of the high school choir. And that had filled Seokjin with joy, he was very proud of Taehyung's progress. 

Unfortunately, never had Taehyung agreed to demonstrate his talents to him and he understood that beneath his arrogance, he did not yet have enough confidence in himself. It would probably take him a while to realize that he was actually talented and that people weren't just saying that because he was Kim Taehyung.

The music club had its own room next to the radio club which was a glass room separated into several glass partitions which gave a view of small recording studios and Taehyung had seen Yoongi, alone in a box with headphones audio on the ears, far from all the other students in the radio club and never speaking to them.

Since he never spoke to Yoongi, Taehyung just relayed this information to Seokjin. The latter, finally thinking of having some interesting and new information concerning Yoongi which would allow him to know him better and to have a subject of conversation with him, spoke to him about it one evening, to which the boy replied in a voice void of emotion:

"I don't belong to the radio club."

"But Tae sees you there regularly and he says that you are always very focused," Seokjin told him who, however, had never heard Yoongi's voice on the school radio channel.

"I don't belong to the radio club," Yoongi had repeated.

So Seokjin stopped talking to him about it, thinking Yoongi didn't really want to talk to him about it. Maybe he was going to the radio studio to just listen to music but with better sound quality? Because Yoongi, wherever Seokjin saw him, only seemed to do two things when he wasn't in class even if Seokjin suspected that he also practiced them in class during his breaks: listen to music and sleep.

At first surprised, Seokjin eventually got used to it: he found him asleep absolutely everywhere in the school, from a library recess to a storage room to a locker room bench. Getting past the initial fright, people seemed to ignore him wherever they found him, preferring not to upset him by waking him up unintentionally because he could be scary when someone bothered him. 

Seokjin was an exception regarding Yoongi's attitude and was therefore not afraid to disturb his sleep when he deemed it necessary.. He would sometimes wake him up when he found him sleeping like this, when he had the impression that Yoongi might catch a cold or that he didn't seem to have heard the bell and might be late for class. In fact, Yoongi was often absent from class and he didn't seem worried at all, like he wasn't taking his studies seriously.

It was surprising in Seokjin's eyes because even though all of these heirs were born rich and would obviously never want for anything whether they worked or not, here at the high school, all of them seemed to place great importance on their studies, as if they had been warned by their parents that now that he was no longer in middle school, they must work seriously to prepare for their future among the highest spheres of political and economic life in the country. They therefore had to be brilliant and cultured, especially the richest among them.

Namjoon was one of them, as was the other president Joonwoo. They belonged to a closed circle of some very rich and powerful heirs, seven in number, who, even in Eunma, although renowned for the equality between its students, radiated a halo of power that the others did not have. They also belonged to a club that they led among themselves, even if they didn't all get along very well and they called it the Club of the Orators.

No one knew exactly what they did there, some said it was just a political, philosophical and economic affairs discussion elite club, others said it was more of a literature club where they read complex books before discussing them and composing verses of poetry about them which they then declaimed to each other. Others said they met in secret at night to do illegal things that only they were allowed to do in the school. In any case, according to them, strange things were happening in this club and the secrecy surrounding this group of seven excited the wildest theories among the other students.

From his family, Taehyung should have been able to join this club and be one of the seven, but Namjoon was against it and if one of the members was against it, a potential new member was not allowed to join the club. Nevertheless, Taehyung had had no desire to do so, firstly because his brother was a member and secondly, because he had absolutely no interest in politics, economics or any form of philosophical discussion concerning state of the country, the world and humanity. Since there always had to be seven of them, they had accepted someone else instead of Taehyung.

Seokjin was no more interested in this club than Taehyung. In his imagination, these powerful heirs who would rule the country looked like Namjoon. They were rich, intelligent and manipulative boys who would rule the country through lies and deception. He did not yet know the identity of all the boys who made it up, but he fully intended to distance himself from each of them to avoid the same disillusionment as with Namjoon.

For his part, he had successfully passed the selection for entry into the football team with Seung and Jungkook. He had the unpleasant surprise of seeing Dae-Ho appear among the first year students who were taking the selection with them but to his great satisfaction, his former captain had not passed the tests, proving that he wasn't talented and trained enough to join Eunma's team. Here in Eunma, it was really talent and skills that mattered, not our father's connections, Seokjin understood, smiling to see Dae-Ho failed.

Seokjin immediately announced his health problems to avoid unpleasant surprises for his team and explain that he sometimes would not be able to play the entire match if he was too out of breath. 

Yet, the coach, Mr. Hwang who was also the sports teacher of Seokjin's class, reassured him by telling him that the team's collective play made it possible to preserve the energy of all the players and that if necessary, he could play for less time than the others there was no problem about that. The man knew that Seokjin had been accepted into Whimoon and that this boy was a young prospect in Korean football but he thought it was a shame that he had such health problems.

However, the coach and the players, watching Seokjin play during the first training sessions, quickly had to face the facts: despite his illness, Seokjin would not be a drag on the team. Indeed, Seokjin was talented, very talented, and he was going to become a centerpiece of their game.

They had done the same observation with Jungkook. These two were the new stars of their team which was convinced that they could not lose the high school championship with a pair of attackers like that, even against athletic high schools like Whimoon.

The captain, a final year student named Cho Heungmin, impressed by the two had given Seokjin the nickname the Artist and Jungkook that of the Golden Boy, because he had learned from his little brother Cho Heechan, who was in the same class that Jungkook was a prodigy who was good at everything. 

Seung was good too but he was overshadowed by the talent of the other two and since he was assigned to a defender position and was no longer on the attack with Seokjin like it was when they were in middle school, he didn't play at the front of the field in the spotlight, with Seokjin and Jungkook.

Seokjin and Jungkook formed the forefront of the attack and let their captain manage their team's attacking midfield. Because of this Seokjin, had to work closely with Jungkook and he was initially unhappy about it, only doing it to respect his coach's orders and also for the good of the team.

However, he quickly had to face the facts: playing with Jungkook on offense was more comfortable than anything he had had to do so far in middle school, on a team where he had to be a leading pivot, both attacking and protecting the defense because of his team's incompetent players. He was no longer as tired as before while playing, and soon Jungkook was the player he trusted the most, knowing that he never missed his passes and made them to perfection himself.

Neither of them were trying to gain the upper hand over the other, they were playing with perfect balance, even if it was visible that Seokjin's technique was more refined than Jungkook's. The first friendly matches with other teams then the first official championship matches confirmed that together on the field, Seokjin and Jungkook worked miracles. It was a pleasure for Seokjin to play alongside a player.

Of course, Seokjin avoided telling Taehyung that, as well as the fact that he spent more time with Jungkook than Seung on the field so as not to worry him. But deep down, he had to admit, all this time spent with Jungkook on the field had brought him closer to him and even if outside he refrained from it, which reassured Taehyung, he played and chatted cordially bout football with him and the other players without any further animosity. Yet, he made sure to never be alone with Jungkook, because he still couldn't trust her enough for that.

Jungkook hadn't talked about making amends again, any more than Seokjin had talked to him again about what had happened between them at the Kim's. It was like an unspoken rule between them if they wanted to continue to get along.

On the surface, everything seemed to be going well in Eunma.

But this school hadn't been nicknamed a lair of demons for nothing. 

In the shadows, things had begun to stir up, secrets were whispered, evil maneuvers were perpetrated, eyes were watching the school corridors, heir intrigues were taking place...