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YOHAN NATION LEZZGO

19 — ADVICE FROM THE AMATEURS

yohan has only known about the x1 world for about five days,
eunsang's on his way to three.
how in the world are they supposed to solve this without the help of the 'adults'?

(warning: the author must've had lost her mind whilst writing this chapter, pls don't mind the crack)

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"yohan hyung!"

the tall boy turns around, noticing eunsang even though he's far away. "aye, weasley!" he waves his hands excitedly.

eunsang gestures him to come quickly, hoping that dongpyo doesn't suddenly transform back into himself whilst still being inside his pocket.

"wait a minute," yohan says to him. yohan turns around to his group of friends who are still leaning against the goalpost, talking to each other. "yeri! marker! timeout."

the short boy with blond hair scoffs. "are you serious, man?"

"yes, don't spill any tea without me, or else i'll pray that you both rot in hell." yohan steps aside, preparing for his departure.

"and who are you to boss us around like that?" yeri sneers as she folds her arms.

"don't get salty on me sister, remember that time when your dm got replied by ariana grande? remember who was the marketing guy behind all of it? it was me. who? me. y-o-h-a-n, me!" yohan puts his hands on his hips. "you pop off? more like pock-pock bitch, you ain't nothing without me— you're nothing without me and that weave i bought for you at hongdae using my tournament money."

yohan dramatically leaves the scene, an almost inaudible 'fuck you' from yeri didn't seem to make him flinch a bit. he struts his way towards eunsang, feeling a bit energized after what happened. "what did you want to tell me, dear?"

eunsang walks towards him. "i need your he—"

"wait, wait, wait! stop right there, don't move." yohan steps out of the field, telling a very impatient eunsang to pause for a moment. "i want to show you something, something cool."

eunsang groans. "hyung, we're out of time— oh my god, that's so cool."

yohan slides his way through the sidewalk, showing off his shoes. "i know right? authentic heelys, got them for sale."

"i wanna get them too—what am i thinking? focus, eunsang!" he grabs the older one's arm and drags him back to the building. "i need your help."

"what— yah, be gentle!" yohan winces, caressing the wrist eunsang has been pulling so aggressively. "I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!"

"we need to go to somewhere emptier, somewhere safe." eunsang utters. "because what i'm about to show you might as well look very absurd."

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"so are you telling me you turned the kid into a pencil?"

they return back to the previous restroom eunsang was earlier in, setting 'dongpyo' on top of the sink again, staring at him intently. eunsang could clearly see yohan's judging face reflecting from the mirror, and he could understand why. "you got it backwards, he turned himself into a pencil, i was just chillin'." he replies with a blank expression.

yohan raises his eyebrow. "and who is this again? you didn't tell me a name."

"it's son dongpyo."

yohan gasps. "that brat, son dongpyo? fine, let him stay as a pencil, it's better this way." yohan was about to leave the room before eunsang manages to stop him.

"yah, hyung! i hate this kid to pieces too but seungwoo hyung wouldn't like seeing him like this. he'll be mad if he sees dongpyo in.. this state." eunsang says, trying to convince the older one.

"yeah, he'll be mad, mad at you." yohan snaps. "i have no correlation with this, sister. please pretend that i've never stepped into this room with you—"

"hyung, please help me." eunsang pleads. "i really don't know what to do."

"and you think i do?" yohan scoffs. "you're the one who's supposed to know what to do in the team, right? alongside with seungyoun hyung and seungwoo hyung. i'm just the handsome idiot in the background who manages to gain attention without even trying, isn't that it?"

"hyung—"

"and when i said you're the one who supposed to know what to do, i meant it. isn't that your power?" he points out. "controlling x1 peeps like you're jesus or something, just like what you did to me, minhee, hyeongjun, and everyone else. you're the one who's supposed to know what you're doing. just do like what you did last time!"

"yeah i did, it didn't work!"

"what did you do?"

"i thought of what i wanted to happen to him real deeply without bothering anything else." he answers. "nothing happened, he proceeds on transforming into korean donald trump afterwards."

yohan chuckles. "did you take a picture of that? must've been priceless."

"hyung, i'm serious."

"hey, i'm being serious too!" yohan chimes. "i was being serious when i said i'm useless in this narrative. i can't ask him to transform himself, only you can. look—" yohan turns to the pencil dongpyo. "YAH, SON DONGPYO, TURN YOURSELF INTO A HUMAN OR ELSE I'LL BURN YOUR STASH OF LIMITED EDITION BTS PHOTOCARDS— see? it didn't work. he ain't changing himself back."

eunsang sighs in disappointment. "shit, i really don't know what to do.."

noticing his distress, yohan turns to the boy and pats his shoulder. "yah kid, don't stress yourself. it's not your fault."

"yeah, but i should be able to change him back, right? it's my power, after all."

"a power that you knew about in what, less than 24 hours?" yohan says. "it makes sense if the attempt fails, really. none of us had mastered our powers yet. this morning my power malfunctioned and i ended up waking up in the bathtub instead of my bed."

"are you okay?"

"yeah. i'm starting to wonder if that's really my power malfunctioning or i just mistakenly dozed off in the bathtub.. again, but anyway that doesn't matter," yohan chirps. "what matters is how you're going to do this. let's think of your wish method— what was the sentence you thought of when you wanted to turn him back to normal earlier?"

"what was it? ah, dongpyo goes back to normal."

yohan scrunches his forehead. "ooh, isn't that too much of a request?"

"i'm sorry?"

"it's like you're wishing for something from santa claus but you give him this very long and specified list of presents you want him to give you to the point he gives up and ends up sending you no presents anyway." yohan explains. "you gotta keep it simple, man. your head's gonna tear apart if you try focusing on a bundle of words. you should try focusing on one."

"one?"

"yeah, one word, like change or transform or something." yohan raises a finger. "that's a method that i use at the moment whilst learning how to teleport correctly. at first i tried teleporting to hard places to configure like paris or canada, but now i start easy. I teleport across sidewalks, or to the school fields, and other basic stuff. as long you focus to one thing and you're able to visualize it in your mind, maybe you'll be able to do it." he grins. "if it's too hard for you, try spelling it."

"as in, spell it by letter?"

yohan nods.

".. in english or korean?"

yohan scoffs. "i don't know, what language does your brain speak, spanish?"

eunsang tries to follow yohan's advice, starting by thinking of the word by each letter.

c..

h..

a..

n..

g..

e..

change..

he opens his eyes. he's quite disappointed to see that dongpyo clearly hasn't transformed back into his human form, but something clearly had changed.

"great, it's a blue-colored pencil now." eunsang mutters.

"but that's great, it means it's working!" yohan says excitedly. "maybe you should do something different now, like, OH! eunsang-ah, you know uno, right?"

"the game?"

yohan nods. "they have that reverse card thing, right? maybe you can use that word! reverse!"

eunsang couldn't believe that yohan gives him decent advices from the strangest circumstances. for some reason, he ends up doing what he told him anyway.

r..

e..

v..

e..

r..

s..

e..

reverse..

a sound of someone shrieking surprises him. eunsang immediately opens his eyes. the figure of dongpyo slipping his butt into the sink isn't what he expect of seeing. yohan, being the most annoying friend to have stepped on earth, laughs crazily as he records the whole thing on his phone. "god, it was worth it going here. this is definitely going to be viral."

"YAH!" dongpyo hits his head on the mirror, wincing in pain. "WHY DID YOU PUT ME HERE OUT OF ALL PLACES? YAH, LEE EUNSANG!"

for the first time eunsang feels relieved to be able to see dongpyo in person again.

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i always picture yohan as that ridiculous funny guy who is somehow good at everything he does, i hope i portrayed him well in this chapter :)

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