judging from your responses, i think most of you forgot that this 'miss kang' actually made her debut in this story quite a while ago when there were barely even 20 chapters🤭

40 — WHY SO SERIOUS?

wooseok is not amused.

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"get out of here."

daniel raises his eyebrow. "i'm sorry?"

"get out." wooseok repeats again, his voice louder than the usual. "do i need to say it thrice? or does your delusional mind thinks you're way ahead of me to the point you can't bare to hear what i gotta say anymore?"

eunsang stares at the both boys, stunned in silence. he doesn't want wooseok to go off this hard in front of daniel, but it wasn't like he disagrees with him either.

daniel tries to keep it cool, but eunsang definitely notices that wooseok has broken several of his strings. he folds his arms. "i can't help but notice that you've been awfully rude to me throughout the day, and we've only just met. what's your problem?"

"what's my problem?" wooseok sneers. "no one could ever get away from hurting someone i genuinely care about. you ruined seungyoun, i'm not going to let you do that to eunsang."

"bold of you to think that i did something to seungyoun."

"i've known him for almost 4 years now, bold of you to think i don't." wooseok snaps back. "if you mess with my friends, you mess with me. nothing else could top off that."

daniel looks clearly affected by wooseok's constant attacks. he clears his throat, his jaw clenching tightly. "i was only trying to help."

"jokes on you, because from the way i see it i don't think he needs your help." wooseok points at the other way. "get out, before i have to use my hands to do it."

daniel takes a deep breath, and then he proceeds to leave wooseok and eunsang alone in the staircase. before he completely left the scene, he turns around to say his last farewell sentence.

"be careful, i'm not the real enemy here."

wooseok huffs a breath. "never thought you were."

and just like that, the quarrel between the two ends anti-climatically. eunsang's eyes that have been swollen after crying looks up to wooseok, a glance to make sure that he's okay. from the looks of it, he seems shaken.

"hyung.."

"you had to embarrass myself in front of people, did you? who in the world cries in public?" wooseok's tone was meant to insult him, but eunsang knew it was out of concern, so he did not go against him. "not that i'm against with you crying.. but, why were you crying again?"

eunsang pauses, then he lets out a painful sob. "junho.."

fully understanding the situation, wooseok's immediate reaction was to seat beside him and lends his shoulder for him to cry. he pats the boy's back lightly. "it's not fun crying alone, cry with me instead. i make an incredible headrest."

"what about an armrest, hyung?"

"i'll cut off your arm before you even have the single thought of doing it."

eunsang laughs. he leans his head on the smaller boy's shoulder, tears still streaming down his face. "junho-yah.. he's suffering.."

"you saw him?"

he nods. "i got a vision. even if it was for a shortwhile, it was clear enough for me to know what was happening. it was strange because i saw it from his perspective, his conditions are—"

"no, tell me later." wooseok grabs eunsang's arm tightly. "we need to tell this to seungwoo-hyung, this is an important matter."

—

"i'm so done with you and encouraging kids to skip school, this is outrageous."

eunsang wasn't expecting to bail out of school again after a very short amount of no bailing streak, and he did not expect that he'll be doing it because of wooseok. they left the school's premises with seungwoo's car; apparently wooseok is the one who holds the keys to the car and that he suspects seungwoo was the one who drove seungyoun home safe using the latter's car. without questioning anything, eunsang gets into the car anyway, him having nothing to lose at the moment (except for his sanity because he expects himself to be scold big time the moment he steps into the house's premises.

"this is an important matter!" wooseok argues. "eunsang fainted again!"

seungwoo's eyes widen. "oh my god, eunsang-ah! are you alright?!"

eunsang shakes his head. "i didn't faint—"

"ah, he had a major headache, his heart rate started dropping." wooseok pushes eunsang towards seungwoo, forcibly making his way indoors. the older one whispers to the latter. "don't fight unless you wanna get hit by a stick."

after eunsang finds out that this is wooseok's way of bringing him home without getting in trouble, he doesn't bother to go against him. seungwoo sighs as he finally invites the two boys inside. "you should've told me that you're going to come."

"no, you're just going to give me another million reasons why i shouldn't come. it's easier to apologize then to ask permission from you." wooseok huffs his breath.

seungwoo ignores the boy's snarky remark. he puts his hand on eunsang's back. "sit down kid, i'll get you aspirins."

eunsang nods. he then catches the glimpse of seungyoun sitting at the living room, looking completely better than the last time he saw him. he smiles. "seungyoun hyung!"

seungyoun turns around and he returns the smile. "eunsang-ah~ boy, it's good to see you here."

eunsang hops into the sofa and cuddles his way to seungyoun's chest. seungyoun looks at him quizzically, though he compliments the kind skinship by ruffling the latter's hair. "hey, you're not the type to yearn for affection. has hyeongjun gotten into you?"

eunsang shakes his head. "i'm just glad that you're alright."

seungwoo scoffs. "alright? the dude just took a whole bottle of pills and you're saying that he's alright?"

"my dosage is worth a dozen of you." seungyoun replies shortly. "i heal myself so that i can heal others, too. the pills are just.. subsidiary. relax, this is prolly just a one-time thing so you don't have to worry about this happening ever again."

"what happened, exactly?" wooseok asks.

"daniel's thoughts told him something that he doesn't want to believe." seungwoo recites quickly.

"no, daniel's thoughts were all just bullshit." seungyoun corrects his last sentence. "thoughts to mess up my head, none of them were meant to be taken seriously."

seungwoo sighs. "the latter told him of seungyoun's past that he himself was not aware of."

"bullshit,"

"what makes you say that?" eunsang turns his head.

"because i remember none of it."

wooseok sneers. "i don't think that's worth to be a justification.."

"he claims of a past that i completely do not remember, i'm sure all of that is made for a distraction."

"but you should at least consider it—"

"anyway, what brought you here eunsang-ah?" seungyoun chimes as he quickly changes the conversation. "obviously wooseok wouldn't be kind enough to bring you here just because you fainted for no reason."

"where else would i bring him if it wasn't here?" wooseok rolls his eyes.

"well, wooseok-hyung told me to tell this to you immediately as it is very important." eunsang raises his voice as he starts to explain. "before i start, does any of you know this certain device called the mimicry?"

"mimicry?" seungwoo raises his head. "what's that?"

"sounds like an ugly 'hip' name parents use to name their child because it sounds 'unique'." wooseok says.

"i'm not familiar of the name, either." seungyoun replies in honesty. "other than it to be part of the biology textbooks as to how butterflies disguise themselves. other than that, i have no clue what you're talking about."

eunsang sighs. "figures— it is still used for trial, and prolly it hasn't even been created the last time seungwoo-hyung got captured.."

"captured?" seungwoo raises an eyebrow. "eunsang-ah, what are you talking about?"

with a heavy heart by the single thought of junho, eunsang manages to tell what he saw to the three hyungs, making sure to not miss a single detail. they all listened to him intently with their ears and eyes wide open.

seungyoun's mouth falls open in awe. "wow, eunsang-ah.. your powers, its function is really to control the rest of x1 individuals."

eunsang hasn't given the thought of it, but now seungyoun points it out, he starts to realize that he had revealed another one of his power without realizing it. the power to receive visions of those individuals who are in danger.

"this miss kang.. it's the same woman who was at yohan's interrogation, right?" seungwoo points out.

eunsang nods. "and i speculate that the man who got fired earlier on was the man who mainly interrogated yohan. she's the one in control now that he's gone."

"but her last statement, the one before she shoots a syringe unto junho's neck," wooseok furrows his eyes. "she said that she has something he doesn't. what does she mean by that?"

eunsang wants to answer, but in reality he wasn't sure of the reason either.

—

"thank you for having me, miss kang. i'll see you tomorrow." she smiles warmly.

miss kang's sheer cold expression never leaves the woman's face. "thank you for your hardwork."

she was glad that she's now promoted into miss kang's division, because now she could actually start taking care of things that actually matter. the woman was in her late-thirties, yet she still looks younger than most of the researchers in that highly restricted area. her bubbly and bright character brings color to the office's monotone environment; at least the people surround her won't exactly be as depressed as they seem anymore.

it only took her around a 5 minutes walk to pick her son up after school. she ventures through the friendly neighborhood, her grabbing a desirable amount of fresh air after getting cramped up in a basement room for a few hours.

"mom!"

she turns around and smiles. "hyeongjun-ah~"

the boy runs towards her to give her a hug. she knows that the boy seems to be a little childish to do that in public as a boy who's already in senior high school, but she did not mind. her beloved child, hyeongjun, is still her child nonetheless, and she doesn't care if she keeps babying him until he reaches his adulthood. besides, hyeongjun himself barely looks his age, so she rather tends to keep it that way.

"you look happy today, mom." hyeongjun comments with a grin.

"yes, things are getting quite interesting at work today." she hums. "the new division's really making a use of me, i'm happy to be contributing a lot for the company."

"and i'm so happy that you're doing well too, mom." hyeongjun cuddles into his mother's arm. "today was pretty fun, too."

"really?"

"yeah, we had guest teachers for economy because the teachers are having their compulsory counseling event, that's why they were assigned to us." hyeongjun explains to her. "seungyoun-hyung and kang daniel-ssi, they were so cool!"

the woman stops walking and faces him. "kang daniel..?"

the boy nods. "the blonde guy with fancy clothing, i saw him in my friend's mother's funeral too. it was such a great coincidence that i also encountered him at school, he seems to be an interesting guy."

the guy's now appearing in my son's school? is he even serious? she puts her hand at the boy's shoulder. "hyeongjun-ah, don't get too close to the man. he's dangerous."

hyeongjun who was supposed to be at least engulfed by the tension, laughs instead. "strange, that's exactly what junho said to me when we were at the funeral."

"junho?" her eyes flutter the moment she catches the sound of his name again. "cha junho?"

"yes, he's my friend too." hyeongjun chirps. "he's from the other class though, and he's closest to eunsang. he told me how i'm not supposed to interact with daniel-ssi."

"ah, interesting.." the woman bites his lips. "what's he like, that friend of yours? cha junho?"

hyeongjun giggles. "he's like a robot, hard to expose his feelings. however, he actually cares about everyone a lot. he's very smart too, one of the best in our year." he looks down slowly. "he disappeared these few days, though. me and my friends are still trying to find him."

she nods blankly. "well, i hope you find him soon.." she could not express freely, as she exclusively knew that they're weren't exactly going to find him soon.

her phone buzzes from her pocket. she stops to check her notification bar.

mrs song.
tomorrow, 7am in the morning.
cjh.
don't be late.

regards, miss kang

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the plot thickens:)))

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