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"miss, the geomeun and the malgeun pi gangs united their forces. now they call themselves geomeun pi*." a man dressed in all black informed.

"you think I didn't know all that, you idiot?" she exhaled, leaning on the soft leather chair.
she had short black hair and striking blue eyes. she was cold-hearted and merciless. she made everyone around her shake in fear, and those who stood in her path, never survived.
she was the leader of the simyeon gang and her name was lee soojin.

her diamond ring sparkled in the sunlight as she fell into deep thought.
"close the curtains and call minseok."

minseok came in after a few minutes and bowed down. soojin gestured him to come over and take a seat on a chair opposite of her.

"why didn't you know they'd unite?" she asked bitterly.

"i-i told you all I knew about the contract, but yoongi never even looked at it, I swear, I have no idea what made him change his mind." minseok lowered his head.

"that's a shame. I planned on using the information you stole to set them against each other. I would've gotten rid of them without even raising a finger. stupid of me to not think of a back up plan, but I guess we'll have to simply fight them. how can two rival gangs even call themselves rivals when they haven't done any shit to each other in years?" soojin pondered. "in any case, they all know we came back for anything but peace."

"what do we do, boss?" minseok questioned.

"it's a pity that the simyeon gang is not the same as it used to be... it's only you and YJ... you two are my best representatives." she sighed. "tell YJ that i want you two to continue spying on the geomeun pi gang. find their weakest spots, bring me any information you find."

"we'll do the casual attack? just use their weaknesses?" minseok raised a brow. "I thought we'd do something more clever."

"it may sound cliche, but we'll add a little something of ours to it." soojin winked and smiled wickedly. "just wait and see, I have tricks up my sleeves."

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"I think it's time you two stop doing things behind our backs, especially since now we are colleagues." yoongi said.
yoongi was the only one who didn't know of jungkook's and taehyung's meet ups and fights. but since now everybody knew they made up, things were pretty much back to normal.

"that still doesn't mean we have to open up about everything to everyone." taehyung protested.

"of course." hoseok picked up. "nobody here needs to know of each other's private lives... right yoongi?"
hoseok's hand traveled under the table and squeezed yoongi's thigh, making the elder let out a quiet gasp.

they all gathered in the meeting room. seated around the round table, they discussed what they would and could do to beat the simyeon gang.
none of them have ever met any representatives of it, so nobody knew of it's power. sure, rumors said the simyeon gang was insanely good, but was that true? the only way to find that out was to fight them in real life.

"in any case..." hoseok looked around the room. "who are those guys?"

"them?" taehyung pointed at the five men in black standing near the exit. "I insisted on bringing them here in case you try to do anything 'funny'."

"look who's talking." jimin butted in. "the betrayer himself."

"listen up, midget–"

"shut up, both of you." yoongi raised his voice and stood up. "did we come here to argue or blame each other for shit? I'll answer for you – no. so let's calm the fuck down and keep any and all opinions to ourselves."

"hold on, but who's the boss of our gang now? have we decided that already or am I missing something?" jungkook asked, circling his finger around the neck of a glass.

"we decided it would be best to have both of us in charge." hoseok replied. "we're equally clever, but our skills and knowledge differ. it would be good to have a certain balance."

everybody nodded, agreeing with what has been said.

"uhm, chile, anyways so..." jimin began. "I suggest we start discussing the important stuff. what do we know about the simyeon gang? cuz apparently they know everything about us."

"do we know anybody from the gang other than minseok?" namjoon spoke up, giving glances around the table. "maybe the location of their gang building at least."

"when I was held hostage in the malgeun pi gang, I met the hacker who worked near the basement, the one who got killed by the jugeum gang." jin explained. "but before his death, I learned a good thing or two about hacking and got info on the simyeon gang."

"really?" jimin asked with surprisement.

"it's not much at all, but I hope it helps." jin connected his computer to the projector and everybody turned their heads towards it. "this is lee soojin – the leader."

a photo of a middle aged woman with black hair and blue eyes popped up on the screen. she looked much younger than she really was.
"there's no info on her family, the only thing is, that her mother died giving birth to her. she gave birth in the gang, since it was all supposed to be a secret and ended up being raised by the members of the simyeon gang. they were probably the ones who encouraged her to make 'the great return'."

"everybody thought the woman ran off to america when she was pregnant. rumor had it that the father was a part of a gang from new york." namjoon said. "everyone believed simyeon ended their existence in the mafia world."

"apparently not." hoseok exhaled. "they've been planning this for over thirty years."

"as we all know..." jin continued his speech. "minseok works for soojin. yoongi, do you know his motives?"

yoongi breathed out loudly and sat up.
"I think he just wants revenge. minseok and I used to be best friends back when we were children, but due to his disorder he was forbidden from entering my father's gang. my father forbid me from letting him in as well... and I guess I should've listened to my dad."

"no wonder he's a bitch." jungkook scoffed and got a scary glance from yoongi who was still traumatized by the other's betrayal.

"my fellow journalist got these pics." jin turned the slide. the screen showed blurry pictures of a young woman dressed in all leather black with long, brown hair.
"the quality is bad, but she is extremely difficult to track down. I believe she also works for soojin because of the crescent moon tattoo on her chest."

"I know her." taehyung said, breaking the silence.

"you what–" namjoon's eyes widened.

"I mean, not personally, but I've seen her a couple of times. there was just something off about her..." taehyung fell into his thoughts, bringing back memories. "this dude visited me in the strip club, his name was janesser. one day I saw her threatening him behind the club, she said she'll break his legs if she sees him once more. and the next time when janesser practically wanted to rape me, I found him dead..."

"dead...?" hoseok asked.

"it looked like an accident, as if he fell off the stairs, but I'm sure it was her who killed him. when I came into his house, she was standing in the kitchen. I thought she would kill me, but she didn't even chase after me."

"what if she's on our side?" jungkook suggested.

"I highly doubt that. I don't think she knew you, tae, were from the geomeun gang back then." jin remarked and took a seat on his chair.

"so what are we deciding?" namjoon questioned.

"I think that girl is quite something... there's definitely something off about her." yoongi leaned on the table. "I say we should follow her. we can get something out of her... at least the location of the simyeon gang building."

"but how do we track her down?" jimin asked.

"I think I've seen her as well." jungkook rubbed the back of his head. "and it was also at the back of the strip club."

"I don't know what business she has down there, but your job is to find that out." yoongi glanced at taehyung.

"jimin and jungkook, I suggest you join taehyung on this mission. letting taehyung go alone would be too dangerous." hoseok stood up next to yoongi.

"don't underestimate taehyung." yoongi gave hoseok an angry look.

"I'm not. it will be three against one. if simyeon is playing this game without rules, we have the right to play so as well." hoseok chuckled. "playing fair is so last century."

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a/n: *in case you guys didn't know, I didn't make up those gang names out of nowhere, geomeun means black and malgeun pi means clear blood. so now since they united, they're black blood.
(also jugeum is death and simyeon is abyss.)