ASSASSINATION CULTS ㅡ chapter 06

"EONG.. SEONG... INSEONG?"

unlike last time he was here in the hospital, he shot his eyes open ㅡ but instantly regretting it due to the amount of bright light that shone directly to his eyes.

"how are you?" he turned to see dawon, sitting on the chair beside his hospital bed.

inseong didn't respond for a few seconds, recollecting the memories of the events that took place for.. he doesn't know how long.

"damn, i screwed up... again.." he said to himself, looking straight up the ceiling.

"ya, stop saying that. everyone was shocked at the moment. no one saw it coming." dawon said, patting his arm. "you did an amazing job chasing her off."

"but i didn't catch her.." inseong muttered, turning to the pessimistic person he is.

"we have one of them."

inseong quickly turn his head to look at him in disbelief, "we have.. one of them?"

"yeah, the one who messed up the electricity line and turn the lights off." dawon responded. "he's currently in the black room for questioning."

"in the black room?" inseong asked, quite shocked at hearing that someone quickly was sent to the black room.

"he wouldn't say anything other than he's from the number one assassin cult ㅡ blah blah blah." dawon imitated the voice which turned out to be funny enough for inseong to smile.

"by the way inseong, i felt like you should know." dawon started. "the head commissioner had a heart attack last night while we were on duty. the doctor said he isn't well enough to work for a long while."

a pang of relief flashed over inseong's body. he has told rowoon and dawoon about what him and his uncle talked about just a few weeks ago.

"... so you'll be good for now."

"hello, my name is kim hwiyoung." the blonde haired boy introduced himself to the three current members of ranger93.

hwiyoung is pretty tall with a quite toned build and broad shoulders. his hair is a short blonde and the other side is tentatively slicked back giving him a fresh look.

"hwiyoung? siren?" dawon joked, causing the newbie to stifle his chuckle while the lieutenant gave him a sharp glare. dawon immediately composed himself (or atleast tried to). "sorry, sir."

"right... boys, he is the new addition to the team sent by the head commissioner of gangnam police force. he'll have to be ready for the next mission happening in a month." the lieutenant told the three. "i'm expecting you three to teach him your ways."

"yes, sir." the three said promptly, watching the lieutenant leave.

"so hwiyoung. i'm dawon, this is rowoon and this is inseong." dawon pointed at the both of them for hwiyoung. "don't be afraid to show your whacky side with us. when we aren't on mission, we're chilled so rest assure."

"speaking of whacky side, we're heading to arcade after work. come join us." rowoon said, more like a fact than an approval.

hwiyoung blinked a bit, before smiling slightly saying, "sure thing!"

he sounded excited.

"so hwiyoung, tell us about yourself. anything you wanna say." rowoon said, placing the food he made on the dining table.

they were at the arcade just a few hours ago until they decided to go to rowoon's house to watch a football tournament on tv.

rowoon has cooked them boneless fried chicken and jajangmyeon ㅡ with the help of dawon since inseong isn't really skillful in the kitchen.

"i'm partly deaf so i use a hearing aid." he started, pointing at the clear apparator in his ear and around it.

the three older guys look in awe, they didn't even notice it there.

"hmm... i'm an only child. my parents are in china because of business. i'm not particularly close to them so basically, i mind my own business." hwiyoung stated, mixing his jajangmyeon with the chopsticks given to him.

"you've got a girlfriend hwiyoung? you look like someone who'd have a lot of girls in your contacts.." dawon joked, biting on the meat.

hwiyoung suddenly paused, looking up the ceiling. "hmm, can't really call it a girlfriend though more like flingsㅡ"

"heol he really does have them aha!" rowoon said and laughed along with inseong and dawon.

"ah- no no i'm kidding!" hwiyoung immediately apologized for his bad sarcasm.

"eh that's too late now hwiyoung, you alluring siren." dawon said, the bad pun making the other boys laugh out loud and smacking the table.

"i'm sorry that we're chaotic. hey guys, we're setting a bad example for seochu!" rowoon said jokingly.

inseong looked over to hwiyoung who only laughed along them. his high cheekbones showing and his adorable gummy smile too.

"speaking of seochu." dawon suddenly stopped, facing hwiyoung again. "you do know that you're in ranger93 now right?"

it was clear that hwiyoung didn't know what he was talking about due to the confused expression he gave him.

"ranger93 is seochu police force's ranging team." inseong responded.

"not just any ranging team ㅡ the best ranging team. hashtag elite class." dawon added. "we are especially sent to chase down and catch lethal assassins or protect targets. something a mediocre police officer wouldn't be able to handle."

"aren't all assassins lethal?" hwiyoung asked, thoughtfully stirring his jajangmyeon as he listen.

"there are assassins that attempts to school shoot, bank shooting or whatever - troop065 can handle them just fine." rowoon said, pride at the mention of seochu police force's best troop. "but this is where it gets tricky, they can handle a group of assassins on public.. but assassination cults like styna where one person attacks, it's a slippery situation."

"oh.. styna.." hwiyoung said.

inseong's a bit confused. hwiyoung looks clueless about these things. he came and was sent from seoul's best police force - yet it seemed like he was just.... a rookie.

"yeah. they attacked last night and we caught one of them. he's in for questioning." dawoon said, eating his jajangmyeon.

"wow.. you guys must've done well." hwiyoung politely stated, looking impressed.

"we only caught the one who was messing up the lights though, not the killer. inseong-hyung actually danced with her." rowoon stated.

hwiyoung's head snapped at inseong which caught him in a moment of shock. the newbie looked at him with eyes that has mixed looks he can't really decipher.

" 'her'?" hwiyoung turned back to rowoon. "i thought stynas were only made up of males?"

"exactly!" dawoon smacked the table, making it shook violently making hwiyoung and rowoon almost spill their noodles, but inseong was ready for it so he had his bowl hover over the table the moment dawon spoke.

"shiㅡ! ya! lee dawon! this table's a gift from my uncle, stop trying to break it!" rowoon scolded, giving dawon a very scary glare.

if looks could kill, dawon would've been pulverised by now.

"ah- i'm sorry - haha, sit down and eat kay?" dawon said, patting rowoon's back.

"but hwiyoung, we didn't get much information about you. we wanna know what you're good at." rowoon started - inseong really is just observing right now. "like for example: dawon is the fastest, i am the strongest and inseong-hyung is the smartest."

hwiyoung's expression straighten up to a quick emotionless look - which silenced the room.

"i am... the youngest."

a cheeky smile made its way to his lips.

"what year were you born in?" dawon asked, squinting his eyes while looking at hwiyoung.

"oh you really wanna know..." hwiyoung teased. "19..90..9"

that's it. dawon stood up, triggered. "what the hell is a twenty-one year old like you doing here risking your life? you could be with your friends clubbing or something right now." he exaggerated.

inseong only rolled his eyes. hwiyoung was only 6 years younger than him... no biggie.

"then there's inseong-hyung who's like 6 years older than hwiyoung." rowoon commented, wanting to put inseong on hot seat.

"shut up you giraffe."

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[ GLOSSARY ]

BLACK ROOM ㅡ a room for extreme questioning. this room is only used for classified information from lethal criminals. this is where they are mentally forced to spill the beans.