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09 — TOO GOOD FOR A CHANGE

too much bad luck occurring at once. they decide to just go with the flow.

"oh my god dongpyo, are you crying?"

dongpyo quickly wipes off his teary eyes, not quite interested of explaining himself. "no, i'm just sweating through my eyes, i'm fine."

hyeongjun heads towards the boy slowly, checking him if he's okay. his eyes widen. "oh my god, you really are crying—"

"I KNOW NOW SHUT UP AND JUST LET ME BE AT PEACE."

hyeongjun quickly zaps his way back to minhee helped by his speed of light. he grabs on the latter's arm tightly to protect himself from dongpyo's flashing anger.

dohyon couldn't help but laugh. "out of all the people here in this room, you're the last person i expect to first cry for eunsang-hyung's unconsciousness."

"false. i cried first." seungyoun clarifies as he raises his hand.

hyeongjun also raises his hand. "i also cried in the bathroom earlier this morning as i was praying for everyone's safety, i've gotten a rather bit emotional because of eunsang-ie's questionable condition."

dongpyo deadly glares at the fully-unconscious eunsang, resisting the urge to strangle the boy in his sleep. he scowls. "all this time i kept begging for you to stay out of my sight and just disappear, but why did things suddenly go downhill ever since you left? why are you doing this to me?!"

"stop screaming, you'll just wake him up," wooseok coos.

"oh trust me, i'll strange him to death the moment he does wake up," he mutters bitterly. "in fact, i'll make sure this asshole never sees daylight!"

"i don't get it, is he crying because he wants to kill him..?" hyeongjun asks hangyul innocently.

hangyul shrugs. "maybe these are the type of weird people my mom told me to ignore."

the ten boys were all cramped up in the hospital room, sparing their time for a hospital visit after a long day at school. dongpyo was the one who came back furious, and seungwoo definitely wasn't surprised because from the continuous info he's been getting, the fake junho hasn't been all that friendly to his boys. as much as he wishes to accompany the boys at school, he still got a lot of eunsang duties to fulfill and basically he's taking over daniel's shift at the hospital, considering the guy's practically juggling all of his activities at one go.

"the olympiad might not have been a big deal for you because you only agreed to join it because of junho, but to me, i planned my whole future within it," dongpyo sobs erratically. "now it's all ruined.."

seungwoo gets up from his seat and pats the boy in the back, calming him down. "you did the right thing, pyo."

"well if it is the right thing, then why does it feel so wrong?" dongpyo cries into the latter's arms, seeking warmth in return. "why does it feel so painful?"

"you've sacrificed the thing you love the most for the sake of everyone's safety," seungwoo murmurs. "if you don't feel pain, then i'd be most genuinely concerned."

"it just doesn't make sense as to why junho would leave all of the sudden, though." hangyul points out. "just like how it doesn't make sense how he just ends up volunteering into becoming the student council leader."

minhee scoffs. "yeah, and because of that, a certain someone forced me out to volunteer too."

dongpyo huffs. "it's for your own good, to force you out of bed."

"yeah, and i end up becoming humiliated."

seungwoo turns to minhee. "hey, i've heard about you joining the election though! congrats, minhee-yah!" he grabs him over with his other hand, sidehugging him. "i knew you had something in you."

minhee struggled because of the latter's tight grip. "... well, i wasn't hoping to enter but thanks anyway,"

"we'll win you off, don't worry." yohan says with a huge smirk on his face.

"yeah! uri minhee will definitely snatch the win~" hyeongjun chirps.

dohyon instead expresses his pessimism. "really? the tenth graders are more interested of the robot, though."

dongpyo groans. "seriously, do we really need to add him to every single conversation?"

"we kinda have to," seungyoun speaks up after a while. "apart from eunsang, he's an important matter. we can't just leave him out like that just because he's not himself anymore. he's still an x1."

yohan turns to seungyoun. "and for a second i thought you didn't exist. you have a sore throat or something? why aren't you talking much like the usual?"

"he's probably caught in a fight with wooseok-hyung," hangyul replies at yohan's statement with a smile.

wooseok tilts his head. "and why am i brought into this-"

"sorry hyung."

seungwoo contemplates the situation. "for all we know, this fake junho has been acting like the complete opposite of the junho we all know. he's well-spoken, excels in participation, and is extremely cocky. for we have a few options here as to what they did to him: it's either they created a clone, added an overwrite chip into his head enhancing the possibility of real junho still being there, or they just simply brainwashed him and replaced his thoughts with completely artificial ones."

"the first option sounds like a bit of a reach," they were shocked by the sudden appearance of kang daniel by their doorstep. the blonde man enters the room at ease, also intrigued by the appearance of almost every x1 individual in the same room.

"wow blondie, could you at least knock?" wooseok comments slyly.

daniel smirks. "anyway, as i was saying. the first one doesn't feel right because there hasn't been any reports of imnet experiencing on human cloning as far as i'm concerned, because it costs way too much— a little bit too grand for an exclusive, self-funded institute like them."

"is that a pleasant way to say that they're broke?" hangyul asks without hesitation.

daniel pauses. ".. they're on their way into getting broke, but i anticipate it."

"so first option's scratched out." seungwoo recaps. "alright, i'm seriously hoping for the second option to be the one's right but we can't also deny the possibility of the third option, aka the worst case scenario."

"in my opinion, the third option sounds very unlikely." yohan says, expressing his thoughts.

"and why is that?"

"if you have your whole memories erased into new ones, i don't think you could completely transition into someone new just like that. there's still going to be instincts from your past self that you couldn't just erase that easily. no matter how much they're going to reboot junho, the huger chances it is for him to return back to how his brain is supposed to behave. normal humans can only access to 10% of their brains. imnet might have tweaked that 10 percent, but the other 90 is still junho's self-conscience from his past memories. he'll behave that way sooner or later when his body adjusts back to normal."

"... i honestly did not understand a word you just said." wooseok says honestly.

yohan shrugs. "well then, it could be wrong.."

"yohan's got a point, though. rebooting someone from the core might be risky because there's definitely going to be certain events that could trigger the host's past memories, especially when there's still a lot from the brain mechanism that we do not know." daniel continues on. "which brings us to the second option.. the chip." daniel raises his hand that was clasped the whole time and slowly opens it, revealing a tiny object none of them were familiar of. "this chip."

"wait hold on," seungyoun stands up. "is that the chip eunsang said? the one he took off from junho's arm after the funeral?"

daniel nods.

wooseok raises an eyebrow. "why do you have it? i thought eunsang lost it the moment he woke up.."

"that was because i took it away from him before i called the ambulance," daniel explains shortly. "my men found him, they called me, and i took the chip before anyone irresponsible could get their hands on it. sorry i didn't tell you guys earlier, kind of forgot about it because this thing is practically useless after i've done quite a research on it."

seungyoun heads over him to take a closer look. "so this is the mimicry.."

"you're telling me that that shit is inside junho-hyung's head right now?" dohyon flutters his eyes.

"it caused a couple of questionable behaviors when it was only inserted into the boy's skin, so the possibility of this little thing being able to take control of the brain is very likely to be true," daniel answers. "i feel like the only person who has already been exposed by the truth is eunsang, because it would've had been out of a serious matter that he ended up like this. maybe he had found out what happened to junho but didn't get to tell us earlier."

"maybe.." seungyoun looks to the ground with no exact expression. "yohan, you're thinking the same thing as i am, don't be scared of letting it out."

yohan flutters his eyes. "what i'm thinking's quite a reach, though—"

"dude, since when are you thoughts ever wrong?" hangyul cuts him off. "just spill it."

yohan takes a deep breath before talking. "let's think of the easiest scenario we got here. if we were to be eunsang, we'd probably try to switch bodies with junho just for the sake of checking whether he's still reachable or not, right? if junho's inside eunsang's body then he could get a chance to explain himself to us."

seungwoo nods. "go on."

"now, i have a feeling eunsang had failed doing that because we also failed on reaching junho," yohan continues on. "maybe that failure had caused some sort of a malfunction? maybe the reason why eunsang has fell unconscious is because.. his soul's probably still wondering off somewhere that we don't know?"

"maybe he's stuck in junho's body instead?" dongpyo suggests.

"but that wouldn't make sense.. eunsang wouldn't do those heartless things fake junho had done." wooseok proposes.

"if so, where is he then?" yohan purses his lips. "where did eunsang's soul flee?"

yohan was quite getting there...

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"miss song, do you see my laptop charger?" seulgi asks the older woman from the other side of the room, half-screaming.

"it's near the printer, miss kang!" miss song answers quickly, her hands quickly stirring the spoon in her coffee. "i rolled it up nicely with a hair band!"

"alright, thanks!" seulgi stands up from her working cabinet to get her cable then she returns to her laptop, clicking on the document she was proofreading on a little bit earlier.

her eyes squint at the sight of the laptop dropping the brightness adjustments at a drastic change.

"miss song, i think my laptop's broken." seulgi calls her assistant out again. "it's fairly darker than usual, i think it's because of the led screen."

"or maybe it's because its battery's already low," miss song points out another alternative. "perhaps you should quickly charge it, miss kang."

her laptop never does those auto-brightness adjustments because she always has it in full brightness, but she doesn't bother it that much. without suspecting anything else seulgi charges her laptop and then proceeds with her work.

little did she know, the sudden changes of her laptop could also lead to the sudden changes of her office, her work, and also her life..

















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