((R/n) means random name, it's the foster mother's name, I let you imagine a name for her !)
(Don't play the music now !)

Cʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 6 : Mᴇᴍᴏʀɪᴇs

(Y/n) 's POV

11 years before

"Mr. Yu !  Mr. Yu !"

I run to Mr. Yu, my teacher who helps me learn the guiding ropes and shinsu.

"What's going on (Y/n) ? You seem enthusiastic."

I sit next to the blond-haired man with my face full of dirt and hands full of gashes.

"Mom picked roses today ! You know, in her secret garden that she keeps secret from other people... She took you there so that means she trusts you !!"

I give him a radiant smile and I end up handing him a rose I picked by myself.

"It's for you Mr. Yu !"

He smiles and takes the rose, laying his hand on my little head and stroking my soft (h/c) hair.

"You'll really have to dye your hair soon, you'll get in trouble if you don't... It's a pity, your hair was beautiful like that.
- Dye it ? Will I look more like mom afterwards ?"

I look at Mr. Yu with bright eyes and he laughs.

"Yes, you'll be as beautiful as her."

I keep a big smile on my child's face and hear my mom's voice behind me.

"Honey, stop bothering him !  Sorry Jung, she wanted to give you a rose so she hurt herself but she picked it...
- It's nothing (R/n), but be careful with the little one anyway, she has to work afterwards too. (Y/n), can you going home alone ? We'll meet you right afterwards to take care of your hands and your cute little face."

I just nod and run home before I turn around. I fought to get the thorns out of the rose but it didn't do this for anything. I can see Mr. Yu putting the white rose in my mom's red hair and laughing. I can see a slight tint of pink on the cheeks of both of us.

I was the happiest.

~~~~~

I've learned the names of Khun's friends.

Yuri is a high ranker, a princess of Jahad, on top of that with two 13-month weapons. It's normal that I sensed an impressive aura from that girl. With her was a guide of the silver dwarf species, Evan.

The grey-haired guy with him is named Boro. Bam would have met him before he got on the Hell Express and teamed up with him.

The man next to him with tattoos and red hair is named Sachi. I had already heard a little about him, he is a very strong  D-class regular and a Hell Express ticket thief.

And the other girl was also a princess, Endorsi. I didn't need details about who she was, everyone talked about her so much before...

We are currently walking in a group of 6. Ai told us about the case of Hell Joe and all the guides who perished at his hands, although I didn't need details, I already knew it.

During our walk to Hell Joe's palace, I can feel Khun's gaze on me. I had taken off my hood and tied my hair into a ponytail.

I turned my eyes away from the road to look at him.

"What's going on, Khun ?
- I was wondering... This is where you lived during all your childhood ?"

I nod my head and he smiles lightly at me, a sweet smile I haven't seen in years.

"It's nice to see you again and to finally get to know you better."

I was quite surprised and I looked away and then suddenly Yuri stops us.

"I feel a strong power coming from the castle. The guide said they're immortal, but a 13-month weapon can kill them if it's activated, right ?"

Everybody looks at her and doesn't understand what she's getting at.

"We got to get to Bam. Bam's the only one who can handle one of the 13-month weapons with me... I couldn't handle it on my own. We got to look for him or wait for him somewhere."

Everyone seems to agree with that, but Khun seems disturbed.

"It doesn't bother me personally, but where we can wait ? All places here are dangerous."

Khun has a point. Everyone turned to me, because I know the place better than they do. As I thought about it, I thought of my foster mother again.

"My mother's garden."

Everyone seemed a bit lost but Khun seemed a bit surprised by what I said.

"Are you sure you want to take us there, (Y/n) ?
- It's the only safe, secret place on the floor of deah... The only people who know its location are me, my mother and Mr Yu.
- Mr. Yu ? Like... Hansung Yu ?"

Endorsi who asked the question looks at me, puzzled by what I said. Mr. Yu had already told me about his son before so I know his name.

"Oh that's right, you went through the floor of test, so you knew him. Mr. Yu is Hansung Yu's father. His name is Jung Yu."

Everyone seems stunned. They must be wondering : "How could someone like him know the location of this garden and why was he related to (Y/n) and her mother?" or something like that.

I signal everyone to follow me and head for a secluded spot a little further away from the village of Gallstone. After passing between narrow paths, we finally reach an elevator that seems quite old.

"Don't panic, it must still be running. He may be old, but he never succumbed !"

I reassure the team and climb onto the elevator platform, waiting for the rest of the team to join me. Once everyone's on the platform, I type a code on a machine, which is a six-digit code : (month/day/year), my date of birth.

The elevator makes a "beep" and it goes down in one go. Everyone starts shouting while I remain completely normal, with a smile on my lips, as if it were normal. Endorsi is about to use Bongbong to save herself and Boro has fallen to the ground screaming and crying. Sachi tries to stop the elevator using creepers he creates but it keeps falling down, until it stops with a loud noise below. Endorsi fell to the ground and Sachi too. Yuri, although she is a ranker, her face turned in fright and Evan screamed as he grabbed the girl's leg.

On the other hand, Khun grabbed my waist and buried his head behind my back like a cute little cat afraid of fireworks.

I laughed slightly, tapping his head, taking the time to look at his long blue hair tied up.

"Come on, we're here, stop being so scared."

(You can play the music here !)

The light in the garden isn't really there, but there are hundreds if more white roses coming out of the ground. There's a watering neir to the elevator exit. It seems to have been abandoned for a while. There's only a few drops of water left in it.

The group enters the garden and I follow them, without trampling the flowers, and land among the flowers before Boro shouts.

He must be the first to notice. As I move towards Boro's place, the others regroup as well.

I crouch in front of the two graves, crossing my hands. I can feel the looks of everyone on me and Khun lightly tousled his hair, embarrassed, before doing the same as I did. I look at him a little surprised and everyone ends up doing the same afterwards.

After a prayer, I open my eyes and look at the team.

"Thank you everyone."

Everybody smiles at me and then they end up going further away, trying to find out where Bam might be or even trying to contact him.

Khun stood beside me from the graves and looked at me.

"These are the graves of that Mr. Yu and your mother ?
- Yes. Well... My foster mother. But you must have guessed, since you know I'm an irregular, my mother couldn't be a guide..."

He nods his head and looks at the graves, letting his hair down after his body among the white roses.

"What about your real parents ? Do you remember them ?
- Yes, but I don't want to talk about them now..."

I closed my eyes for only a few seconds, leaving my thoughts drifting and believing that Khun was lying on the ground, without realizing it, I was pinned down on the floor and when I open my eyes, I can see the man with the long blue hair above me.

He's holding my wrists firmly, without hurting me. There is no noise, except the breeze of air blowing between the white roses, and the weak discussions of the rest of the group talking about Bam.

That moment gives me a closer look at Khun's face. His features have changed, if only slightly. His face has become more refined, and his facial features really show that he has become an adult, like me. Only one thing hasn't changed : His eyes. They are still as blue as the ocean, as if I would get lost in them if I stared at them for too long.

"Why I always feel like I don't know you (Y/n) ?"

The question brings me back to reality, and as I opened my mouth to answer it, I realized that in reality, I had no explanation.

I always kept everything from him for my own interest, for my own purpose. I never thought about what it would do to him and how he might feel.

As I realized all this, his grip on my wrists began to wear off. He lays his body next to mine on the ground, around the flowers. Khun put his head on my shoulder, while I could feel the embrace of his arms around my waist and his breathing on my neck.

"Don't go away again. I'll get to know you, I promise."

I can feel my cheeks blushing. A simple dewy hue on my cheekbones, like the one Mr. Yu and my mother had when they were together. As a growing feeling, I can feel like a million butterflies in my stomach.

Passing my slender arms around Khun's neck, I gently caress his long, soft blue hair, littering the floor.

The smell of fresh roses filled our nostrils, and I could feel his heart beating against mine in unison.

If I could, I'd like to stay like this forever.

Everything reminded me of my past, but for once I wasn't in pain and I didn't feel like crying.

"I'll tell you everything about me little by little, I promise.
- That will be our promise then."

I reached out my little finger to Khun, pulling back a little from the embrace, letting him laugh at my silly childish gesture. He took my little finger with his, sealing a promise, as if our lives depended on it.

I let out a muffled laugh as I closed my eyes, and when I reopened them, I could discover a red tinge on his cheeks and the tips of his ears, just as I had previously.

"Khun...?"

He looks straight into my eyes, slightly intimidating me. I couldn't pretend he wasn't a man after all.

The palm of his hand collided with my reddened cheek, watching him come close to me without understanding why. As I closed my eyes to expect the worst, Yuri's loud voice brought us both back to reality.

"Khun ! (Y/n) ! Where are you ? Let's go !"

Retreating all of a sudden and rising from the ground at the same time, the group looked at us strangely.

Maybe it's also because of Khun's hair, which is slightly messed up from the caresses I gave him, the leaves in my hair or our faces red up to our ears.

"We came here to make a plan, not to let you flirt."

Endorsi sighs and pinches the edge of her nose after her words. Yuri just puts one hand on his hip, trying not to say anything about us, since Boro and Sachi were already filming everything with their pocket, it was enough. Evan was taking notes. What was he seriously writing down ?!

~~~~~

Few minutes later

"Bam told us to join him. He's already entered the palace and taken out guards and doesn't know how... So it should be easier for us."

Getting back to my calm, I quickly grasped the situation and ran to the elevator, keeping it running so that we could leave in a hurry.

I said goodbye to this place that is so close to my heart, but I promised myself one thing.

"We'll come back here once we've won what we want, (Y/n)."

I look at Khun, surprised. It's like he's reading my mind and I smile at him as the elevator takes us back upstairs.

The battle was about to begin. We'd see which of the immortal servants and a united team would win.

All that is certain is that I made a choice, I was going to come back to my friends, but before that, as Hwaryun said, I have dirt to clean up, but not alone.

I smile to the group who are already standing in place, ready to run to Hell Joe's Castle.

A "beep" sounded the end of the elevator ride and everyone started running.

It was a race against time, we had to help Bam, he wasn't going to be able to do everything by himself.

"We need to find this ladle which Hwaryun talked about before !"

What ladle is they talking about ? While we were running relentlessly, finally entering the castle, an enemy got in our way.

"I don't know who the hell you are...  But if you're after the soul-stirring ladle, I can't let you pass."

He talk about the ladle which Hwaryun want... Wait, wait, wait. Hwaryun used us ? That would look just like her. After all, she's gone.

"That guide told us about the ladle and ran away to get it back so..."

Yuri sighs and she leaves in an instant with Evan, sensing a far more powerful enemy coming in our way. And now we're alone with this guy in a suit of armor...

"Khun, support us with your lighthouse, Endorsi, can you attack him first ? Bor-"

I'm cut off in my sentence by Khun's hand on my shoulder while I was giving orders.

"Don't underestimate me. I can handle it on my own."

I look at him weirdly as I darken my eyebrows and he reaches out his hand, with a broad smile on his pale face.

"Enna Core."

~~~~~

Bonus :

Boro and Sachi are laughing for the twelfth time today. Hockney arrives in the room that serves as the living room where the two of them are.

"What are you looking at ?
- We're watching the video we took of (Y/n) and Khun on the floor of death !"

Sachi explains to Hockney as Boro shows him the video. The white-haired boy grabs his notebook to draw something that comes to mind about the two of them as Evan also arrives in the living room and hear all of it.

"Oh, you two are talking about this Khun and this guide ?!"

The group of 3 watches the guide, who reaches into his bag and pulls out a notebook.

"I wrote a story about the two of them !
- BUT IT'S GREAT ! HOCKNEY, WILL YOUR DRAWING GO WELL WITH HIS STORY ?"

Boro seems a little too enthusiastic and he shows a drawing he's started to do. It's just a sketch of a blue-haired guy on top of a red-haired guide, with clothes half undone.

"So, Evan, is it gonna be okay with your story ?
- It's perfect."

Anak, who was passing by, heard the whole discussion and saw the drawing, suddenly remembered what Yuri and Endorsi had said.

Later, Bam asked to the four boys if they know why Anak didn't eat anymore and what she seemed traumatized.

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Hello ! I'm not very proud of this chapter bec it's a bit messy-  I imagine the name of Hansung's father so don't blame me tho-

I draw this, it's a disaster but don't mind it- I used an another drawing which is not mine, so I credit the author ! (I can't remember who is drawing this, but I found this on Twitter)

This is the original drawing !

And, this is my drawing ! I forgot a lot of details so I call this drawing a disaster-

I hope you liked this chapter ! Thanks for reading 💕