15 — THE TRUTH UNTOLD

the usb holds the key to yohan's past, and his future.

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whilst holding his breath, seungyoun clicks on the file.

the boys gather around the laptop, eagerly watching the content of the video for the sake of their curiosity. yohan sits in the corner of the room, lifting his head just so he could watch bits of it.

the first clip of the video shows a surveillance camera footage of yohan sitting in an empty room, his eyes looking dead as ever. in the room was shown a figure of a man walking around, reading notes from his clipboard. on the other side stood a woman with round glasses and high cheekbones, staring at the man intently.

"we checked on him. he's positive." the woman informed.

the man grinned. "finally after what it felt like years, we captured another one."

yohan gulped hearing the word 'capture'.

"what are you going to do with him? you're not gonna treat him like what they did to the last one, aren't you?" the woman asked.

the man shrugged. "well, if it's a must, perhaps i will." his eyes shifted at yohan. "but this kid looks like he's more of an obedient type, don't you think? not like that fire kid that acts like he has rabies every time we move a step closer."

yohan stared at his feet, wondering when this will end for him.

"i'll leave him to you." the woman said as she opened the door to take her leave. "just a little reminder: he's underage!"

"he has a black belt in taekwondo, i'm sure he could bring me down anytime if he has to."

the woman left the room, leaving yohan with the man. the man then sat on the chair across him, scrumming through his files. "we're not here to hurt you, we're just here for the truth."

yohan nodded.

"i'm not sure if you know about this, but we found something quite interesting about your dna." the man explained. "turns out you have an extra y chromosome in your dna, making you an xyy unlike the normal male beings with xys. are you aware of this?"

yohan shook his head.

"figures. most local doctors don't really find it as a huge deal as long as the child doesn't appear with any physical symptoms." he slide an image to the table, showing it to yohan. "this was found in a local neighborhood just around yesterday evening. witnesses said that they saw you as the culprit who did this."

it was an image of a large hole appearing in the sidewalk, looking like one of those alien crop circles that are usually found on fields. the hole scraped the insides of the soil, making it appear as if it was thumped down by a huge force. yohan stared at the picture, his expressions blank.

"do you know what it is?"

yohan did not answer. he didn't necessarily know what it was, but he saw it before. he was there when it was created, after all.

"yohan-ssi."

"i was with a friend." yohan said.

"i do not care who were you with, i'm just asking of how you did it."

"i didn't do that."

"but the witnesses said so,"

"i didn't do it!" yohan said again. "the hole on the ground, that's not me. i didn't do it."

"but you were there at the scene, right?" the man pointed out. "do you know what happened? how did that appear? if it wasn't you, who did it?"

yohan did not answer. he stared at the ground, his eyes looking teary.

the clip stops as it fastforwards to another interrogation day. yohan sat at the same chair, but it looks like a different day because the man had now changed his clothing.

"yohan-ssi, i hope you know the importance of you being a person with xyy chromosomes." the man said. "you are special. you can do things that no one else can do. you are of a truly gifted kin."

yohan didn't dare to look straight, instead he kept staring at his feet.

"yet you keep denying the fact that you did it. it wasn't just about the hole; the people who live around there said that they felt a huge earthquake right before the event, before the ground started to collapse. i don't know who could've had done something so incredible if it wasn't you.. unless.." the man paused. "you said you were with a friend that day, is there a possibility that your friend might be..?"

yohan clasped his hands tightly. he wasn't sure if he's ready to hear this.

"yohan, who was that friend you were with that day?" the man asked. "did he do those things instead of you?"

a pause.

"yohan?"

again, he didn't answer.

"we're never going to finish this interrogation unless you tell me the truth."

the clip changes, revealing another day. eunsang glances at yohan who appears to be shaking. "hyung, are you alright?"

yohan doesn't answer. his hands are clasped tightly, just like what he did at the video.

"seungwoo-hyung.." eunsang mumbles.

yohan now had his hands tied into some sort of a machine that connects to the electricity port. the man circled around him, his eagle eyes staring at him fiercely. "you must not resist, yohan. this machine knows if you're lying and trust me, you don't wanna know how it feels when you're caught lying."

yohan struggled to get his hands off the table. he flinched quite aggressively yet his hands didn't seem to move a bit.

eunsang starts to feel uncomfortable. "seungyoun-ssi, i think we should—"

"sshh.." seungwoo asks him to stay quiet. the boys didn't even flinch one bit when in fact yohan looks like he's having an extremely hard time.

"what did you do that day when the ground broke down?"

"i was with my friend." yohan answered. nothing happened to him and his hands.

"who is this friend?"'

"he's someone from school."

"were you at the scene when the earthquake started?"

"yes."

"was your friend also there?"

"yes."

"did you create the big hole that appeared at the sidewalk?"

yohan stopped, not wanting to answer.

"don't fight it, you're going to be in massive pain if you do."

the electricity started to burn the palm of his hands. he kept quiet.

"was your friend the one who did it?"

he held onto it again, not wanting to answer. the pain started kicking in, tearing his brain apart into pieces.

"yohan-ssi, answer me!"

he yelled and he yelled. his head seemed like it was about to burst. but no matter how much pain he felt, he was never going to give in.

yohan falls to the ground, his whole body trembling out of anxiety. eunsang hurries his way to help him. "hyung, i think it's the best time to stop the video now!"

seungyoun, knowing how tortured yohan is feeling grabs the mouse and heads for the pause button, but seungwoo stops him. "wait, just another moment." he commands.

"hyung!" eunsang exclaims.

but neither of them was listening. the next tape starts playing.

yohan was now trapped in some sort of a glass cylinder, with airproof protection and no way to escape other than to break the glass. the man who interrogated him sat on yohan's usual chair, staring at him. "this is your last chance kid, it's either you break that glass and proof that you were the one who did that to the ground, or you tell me the name of that friend of yours."

water started filling in the cylinder, starting from the bottom of his feet. yohan arose in panic. he hit the glass hard, screaming for help.

"the choice is yours kid," the man said as he drank his beer bottle, staring at the boy as he struggled to fight for his life.

yohan kept screaming and screaming to the point his voice was about to break. the clip was shown to the point the water was about to reach his neck—

"hyung, shut it off!" eunsang exclaims as he held unto a very traumatized yohan who was left on the floor crying.

wooseok turns to seungwoo. "hyung!—"

"wait, just a little bit more!" seungwoo snaps, not letting seungyoun to hit the pause button.

eunsang isn't having any of it. yohan's having a panic attack and seungwoo didn't show a little bit of a mercy, it is as if what happens next means more to him rather than yohan's well being. without hesitating he runs towards the laptop and grabs the usb, detaching it quickly.

he touches the usb, and suddenly a series of pictures appears on his head, a memory he has never seen before.

"eunsang, what was that for?!" seungwoo swarms in anger. "we weren't even finished with the video yet!"

after eunsang took control of the usb, he falls to the ground, shocked by the sudden sighting that he wasn't sure if he was supposed to see. "t-that w-wa-as, w-why..."

seungyoun runs to eunsang, holding him tightly. "kid, you're okay?!"

"i saw it, it was yohan, yohan was the one who took it, it was his idea.."

"what are you saying?"

"the usb.. when i touched it.." eunsang gasps for air. "it shows me a short footage, a m-memory.."

seungyoun looks at him in awe. "wow, i wasn't expecting this."

"what's wrong with him?" wooseok asks with a bit of concern as he helps yohan to stand up.

"eunsang, there's more to him than i thought." seungyoun looks at the other boys. "he is psychometric."

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ayeee kdrama reference at the end right there :)

eunsang power reveal #2~ are there gonna be any other power reveals later on?

what do you guys think of this chapter? are you guys starting to grasp the idea? comment your theories down below!

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