Cʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 3 : Cʜɪʟᴅʜᴏᴏᴅ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅs ᴍᴇᴇᴛɪɴɢ

Five days later...

(Y/n)'s POV

I wake up on a bed and feel pain in my chest. When I look at my body, I wear shorts and my chest is covered with white and fresh bandages.

What the fuck happened... I don't remember everything that happened.

I remember that we went to Arlene's hand with Khun, Ran and Novick... and I protected Khun from an attack... No,  Arlene's hand exploded. I protected it from the debris but something had happened to me before... I don't remember what.

I'm finally looking around me.

Where am I ?

"She's awake !"

Suddenly, I heard a small voice near me. I sit down on the bed and put a hand on my chest.

"What's going on ? Where am I ?"

The little girl looks at me and tells me to wait before leaving the room.  There's no more noise and after a while a scream comes out.

"HE'S AWAKE !"

He ? Khun's here too ?

I can't wait any longer, sorry little girl. I get up and walk slowly, until I can see an open door of a bedroom and the blue jerk I'm supposed to protect, shirtless and holding a black-haired girl hostage inside.

"Where's (Y/n) ?  Where am I ?"

I'm laughing because he wakes up and looking for me directly, and a yellow-hair guy notices me.

"There she is ! We're not bad, don't be afraid ! We found you and that girl when we were looking for our partner... We found you because his pocket was next to you."

Khun listens to his story and he looks at me, finally gets up and comes close before he slaps me.

"Why did you protect me ?! Are you dumb or something ? If you were dead..."

I'm not shouting, I'm not doing anything. I just look at him and I hug him after he's done shouting at me, even if I've only bandages on my chest, even if he's shirtless.

"You didn't have to do that... My armor inventory could protect me... You're such a dumb."

I laugh a little. But why does that explosion hurt my chest like that ? It really wasn't that explosion that did it. The dark-haired girl looks at me and starts explaining what I want to know, before I ask her.

"We found you when we were looking for Viole and Horyang and... The boy with you was okay, but you... We found you with your chest bleeding. But we don't know why... Oh, and don't worry, I'm the one who healed you and changed you, the guys didn't see you with no clothes on or anything...
- Thank you."

I smile at the dark-haired girl before Khun speaks.

"She's been attacked by the Devil of the Right Arm"

I look at him and now I can remember. He's right. When the rabbit girl pressed the button, I jumped to stop her, but the guy with her just stopped me and he pierced my chest with his arm easily as if it were tofu.

"The Devil of the Right Arm ? Horyang's friend ? That's impossible !"

The guy with the shinsu pokeball in his waist, whom I'll call the Pokemon trainer, just screamed and looked at Khun and me with an angry but desperate face at the same time.

"Do you really think we're lying ?"

I ask to the pokemon trainer and he looks down at the ground, too preoccupied to face us.

"I don't think so, but...
- You don't have to believe us, because we don't have to stay with you, (Y/n), we're leaving, now.
- Hey !"

The pokemon trainer stops Khun and looks at him with a serious face, not angry or scared this time.

"We need to find our teammates, and you're the last person to see them.
- I've nothing to gain by helping you"

I'm smiling because I know he's just teasing him. Khun's going to stay with them, he needs to know something after all.

After a while, Khun leaves the room to meet Dan and the others who had stayed behind during the mission. I look at the pokemon trainer and the dark-haired girl.

"I know you find something strange about me, and thank you for not asking about it in front of him.
- Your welcome...  But we want to know now."

The girl looks at me with fear and I smile. They're not as dumb as I thought.

"Noone can survive by the blow you took. It grazed your heart and pierced you... Who are you ?"

The Pokemon trainer asks, looking at me in the eyes and I sigh. I couldn't lie to them any longer.

"I am..."

Three hours later...

Khun's POV

Dan's in the hospital. He's gonna survive, but his legs aren't doing so good. Rachel... She did this. Noone else would've attacked his legs first.

I'm looking at the A-ranked pocket in my hand, on the rooftop of the hospital. That pocket belongs to Viole, that's what his team told me, but... That pocket belongs to Bam.  Nobody but him could get a high ranking pocket just by being an E-class regular. I can't say why, but... I'm pretty sure about that I'm guessing.

This pocket, Viole's behavior in the Arlene's hand accident, his ability...    Rachel, FUG...  I can't connect all of it.

"FUG needs an irregular to do his job."

(Y/n) just arrived on the rooftop and she comes up to me before I look at her.

She's right.

Jue Viole Grace is Bam. "FUG needs an irregular to do their job"... They're using Bam to do their job. And this pocket... It's hims.

"Looks like you got it figured out. But yes, the 25th Bam is Jue Viole Grace."

I turn my head to see another girl with red hair and an eye patch.

"Hwaryun...  ?
- Hwaryun !! So that there you were !"

(Y/n) smiles and hugs Hwaryun. I'm still confused by what she said, but now I'm sure.

"Why are you telling me this ? And if you know this... It means that you're with FUG...
- Yes. But they kidnapped Viole without my help, and without telling me their intention."

(Y/n) doesn't seem surprised that Hwaryun is with the FUG and she asks her :

"So FUG betrayed you ?
- That's right, (Y/n). And now they've asked me to make a deal with you. Take Viole's teammates with you and win the Workshop battle."

(Y/n) looks as surprised as I am.
We look at each other. We can't win with this team. It's a suicide. Suddenly, the guy with yellow hair comes screaming to the rooftop.

"Khun !! Your teammate's awake !"

I run off the rooftop with (Y/n) and Hwaryun follows. Finally arriving in front of the right room, I enter alone and look at Dan.

"Dan, are you all right ?"

Dan smiles a little and sighs.

"I have to get used to it. But that bitch (A/n : Yes, she is.)... She left me alive to make me realize I can't do anything without my legs... You know, Khun, I won't let her believe it like that.
- Dan, what are you thinking ?"

He's looking me in the eyes.  I can feel he's not joking and that he'll do it, with me or not.

"Let's go to the Workshop battle, Khun. Together. We can win."

I smile and put my hand on his shoulder.

"Rest now. I've got something to do now.
- Prepare a plan ?
- You know me well."

(Y/n)'s POV

Khun comes out of the hospital room and looks at me and Hwaryun, and after a while the rest of Sweet and Sour team arrives.

"Okay, everyone. Listen up. We're going to go to the Workshop battle, and we're going to win."

Goseng looks at him weirdly.

"Okay, but our chance of winning is...
- Is 100%. With me, we can win. I'll make a plan, and (Y/n) is a guide, she'll tell us the right path to take."

Wangnan and the whole team are looking at me with surprise. I laugh a little and put my hand on Khun's shoulder with a smile.

"You must have good training, but we can do it. You want to find your teammates, don't you? It's same for us, so we'll cooperate. If you really want to, let's go, follow me. Your training starts now."

Khun and I look at each other and smile. I'm sure that we have the same plan.

During one month, I trained the Sweet and Sour team with Khun tirelessly. Some of them have grown a bit, mentally or physically. I really think we can do it... But there's something I have to do before the Workshop battle.

I'm walking to Khun's room in the dark of night. I knock on the door and his voice tells me to come in.

"Hey Khun, aren't you asleep ? It's already midnight.
- I'm thinking about the plan...
- You need to rest. I saw the whole team awake earlier, practicing... I forced all of them to go to sleep... I can do that for you too. I can be very convincing."

He smiles and looks at his lighthouse.  He seems very disturbed by something.

"Khun, it's all right. Stop thinking about that.
- But... If we don't go to the Workshop battle, Bam might...
- Stop it."

I put my hands on his desk making a huge noise and he stills sitting in his chair and looks at me, a bit tired. I move my hand until I can feel Khun's hair under my palm.

"You know, I... Viole... I mean, Bam...    He's the one who asked me to protect you.
- So... You're only here because he ordered you to protect me ? That's why you protected me when Arlene's hand exploded...
- He didn't order me to do that. I agreed to do it myself. And I know why he told me to do that. You know, I'm a little jealous. There's a really strong bond of friendship between you two.
- (Y/n)... You look weird.  Are you really ok-...
- I'm fine. I just wanted to tell you the truth. Khun... Now, please, go to sleep. The team needs you tomorrow, you have to be in shape."

He gets up and walks to bed without saying anything. I turn off the light and look towards the bed in the dark.

"You don't have to be jealous, you know... You mean a lot to me too now.
- Thank you... Good night, Khun...  Sleep well..."

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3rd person's POV

43rd Floor - The Floor of Death

15 years before

"Good night, sweetheart."

A woman with a long red hair kisses a little girl on her forehead. The girl with a red and yellow eyes falls asleep after a while and her mother comes out of the little wooden house.

The woman joins a group of people who are all waiting for something and after a while the shinsu concentration becomes heavy and half of the red-haired women start to suffocate and be pinned to the ground without moving, a battle ensues with Hell Joe, once again.

A young girl with long red hair and two eyes of the same colour shakes the sleeping girl.

"(Y/n), wake up ! We must hurry !"

(Y/n) opens her eyes and looks at her friend holding her hand. She pulls her out of bed and they start running out of the house to an exit on the Floor of Death to escape.

"But... My mother ! And your mom too, Hwaryun...!
- (Y/n), don't think about it. We have to escape. I'll join FUG but you... You have to escape from here, far away from here.
- But I want to stay with you...
- You can't stay... You're special, I remind you. You're different from all the other guides, (Y/n). Unlike the others, you weren't born in the tower, and... You were not born with the gift of being a guide... You acquired it, you're the first one who could do that. All because of you're..."

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(Y/n)'s POV

"Why am I thinking about this now..."

I dropped my body against the door of Khun's room and put my face in the palm of my hands.

"(Y/n), I'm happy to see you healthy."

I look up to the familiar voice and recognise Hwaryun. She smiles at me and puts her hand on my cheek.

"You know why I didn't let you join the FUG when we were kids now, right ?
- Yes, I do... You protected me from FUG."

I let my tears fall on my cheek and Hwaryun laughs.

"Why are you crying ? You're an excellent and unique guide. You're the only one of your kind. Are you scared ?
- Noone could have survived what I went through... But I survived. And now maybe FUG knows who I really am. Wangnan and Yeon know it, too, but... I trust them. But now, what can I do ? FUG will soon come for me now...
- You don't have to worry. You have good friends now... Khun's fighting for his friend, and you're one of them. Don't worry about that, you'll stay here with your new friends..."

Suddenly, I thought back to the times I spent with Khun's team during his long weeks. I practiced, squabbled, laughed with everyone. For the first time, I was sad and heartbroken when I heard about Gyetang's death and the fact that Ran and Novick might be in danger. I haven't felt this much in my whole life since my family died.

Can I stay with them? Won't I get them into trouble ?

Why am I so afraid that they may get hurt ?

"I wish the best for you, my dear (Y/n), the only irregular guide in this tower."

Every person changes at people's touch. People make decisions but there's always no turning back afterwards.

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Hello ! This is the chapter 3 ! Sorry for the waiting, and I didn't found a music to go well with the chapter ;-;
I hope it's not to boring to read this uwu
Thanks for reading !  💕