AUTHOR NOTE : What is the thing hidden by L and Amber? And also is there a triangle love story inside the NICT?

 

 

Chapter 5

SIGH. That’s the only thing I can do, sighing as well as grumbling because I’m in pain, both sides of my cheeks turned rosy and got a shape like a hand print. While walking beside me, she only snorts while nodding her head and bites her lower lip. As if she was the one who’s angrier and wants to hit somebody. Whereas the one who’s severely angry is me.

 

Because I feel hot, I put off my jacket I’m wearing and the sleeve accidentally hits her, her cheek slightly gets slapped by my jacket’s sleeve.

 

“Yah!!!! Are you asking for a fight?!!!” she says while her cheek and gets ready to hit me.

 

“Sorry! S.O.R.R.Y!!! It was a mistake! Get it?!” I say with large eyes and stress my words as if I would challenge her to slap me soon.

“ISH!” she ends up not slapping me and sighs again.

 

The two of us are now inside a taxi, going towards Seoul. Leeteuk ordered us to stop chasing that person and asked L and Amber who are in Seoul to catch the two cars I suspected.

 

This ‘crazy’ one acted like a whiz before by stopping a citizen’s car as she wishes. She knows that back then she got scolded because she involved me into an NICT case. This time she wanted to involve yet another person. When I prevented and held her from doing it, she even slapped me a few times. On a highway, in broad daylight, as well as witnessed by many pairs of eyes. Oh, God help me.

 

NICT Main Room
13.00

 

Me and Krystal are finally back in the NICT. When we arrive in the main room, this room feels a bit empty. Yes, usually there are some other staff who are working in front of a huge monitor, but this time there is no one. Maybe they are all having a break?

Our steps are stopped when we finally find all staff. They are gathering in front of us both. All of them put a serious and frightened face, there are Leeteuk, SeoHyun, L, Amber, DongHae and Kyu. They all look at us with large eyes and some of them are holding firearms.

 

“W… What’s happening here?” asks Krystal, confused.

 

“L, Kyu, Hae…” says Leeteuk while moving his hand, he orders the three to run and approach us. As if they were about to catch us.

 

“Huh… What.. What the hell is this?” Krystal immediately gets into position.

 

However, that attack wasn’t meant for her. Donghae and Kyu push my body right away. I fall, my movements are locked. While L takes out a handcuff and puts it on me. “YAH! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!!!!” I yell loudly while struggling but my energy is not enough to go against all three at the same time.

 

“What the hell is this, captain?” asks Krystal confused, she doesn’t know what to do.

 

“Lee Sungyeol… you’re part of the Silver Bullet!!!!” says Leeteuk while approaching me.

 

WHAT?

 

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NICT Interrogation Room

 

What kind of a joke is this.

 

This is the second time I am in the interrogation room, as a suspect. Like a crazy person, I laugh by myself and shake my head. Then I stare at the room’s CCTV. “Yah… quickly tell the one who will interrogate me to come in…” I say bravely. I know they are behind the glass window right now, keeping watch of me.

 

CRACK! BLAM!

 

L comes in. He then immediately sits in front of me. “All of this is surely your act?” I ask L. He only snorts with a wry smile. I just want to hear what he has found about me. How could he accuse me and throw me to this place.

 

“You… disappointed me…” he says.

 

“Disappointed? What? Is it because I’m the person you recommended to Kangta? I already told you me being here is not because of your offer… I’m here because I want to serve my country…” I say to him with a wry smile.

 

“Huh… There will be no end if you mention our country…” says L.

 

“Silver Bullet… is not a fictive story, according to our informant… Silver Bullet is just a nickname by the society. Far inside it there’s a big organization which intends to coup Russia and this time they are also taking over the nuclear weapon which is being developed by South Korea to anticipate North Korea… Lee Sungyeol-sshi, what’s your relation to that organization?… An organization called Infinite?!” asks L.

 

I fall silent. “What made you accuse me like that? What’s the proof that I’m from Infinite and also Silver Bullet as you said?” L doesn’t respond to my words, we only stare at each other.

 

“You want an evidence? You’ll regret it…” says L. Then he presses a button on the communication device on the table. “Come in, bring me the evidence…” says L.

 

One by one, Kyu, DongHae, Leeteuk, Amber, SeoHyun come into the room. Followed by Sulli and Krystal. “Give me the evidence…” says L. Then Sulli approaches both of us.

 

A cake is then placed in front of me. “Welcome Lee Sungyeol” is written on that cake.

 

HAHAHAHAHA… Yes I already knew all of this was indeed their trap. From the start when they caught me and told me the reason it had already made no sense at all. I only smile. This is their welcome for me.

 

“Your face was so pale!!! Hahahaha…” shouts DongHae happily.

 

“This is all L’s idea!!!!” says Amber, massaging my shoulders.

 

Meanwhile I see Krystal, who is standing hindmost out of them all, only smiling slightly to me. She is seriously pretty if she smiles, may I keep seeing your smile?

 

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NICT Coffee Shop
23.00

 

The party continues when it’s already late at night. Leeteuk has reserved the Coffee Shop at the NICT. As it is already late, it’s not coffee or tea that is being served on our table, but a few bottles of soju and beer, not to forget snacks on the tables. And as the mood maker, DongHae suddenly takes a karaoke machine out along with a television. No idea where that device came from. However, it seems to be the only entertainment device in the NICT.

 

We sing song by song. Everyone sings with no exception. The atmosphere becomes even more chaotic when SeoHyun, who is quiet, suddenly stands up and sings loudly, singing a trot song along with a random move. This happens because she is already very drunk, her cheeks turn red and her behavior also changes a lot.

 

Then the microphone moves to Krystal’s hands. She starts singing a really mellow song to listen to.

 

Soundtrack: Krystal - 'Because of Me'

 

It makes me amazed, no idea if she has already started getting drunk or her singing skills are indeed very good. Her voice is really nice to listen to. She sings that song while looking at L who is sitting far away from her since earlier. L who has drunk not even a bit of alcohol only sighs and acts cold. Until finally Krystal stands up and sings in front of him.

 

Krystal sheds tears, her emotion goes along with the song lyrics she is singing.

 

“I love you, although you are not beside me at this moment. Because you’re here, my world is filled with happiness. Don’t ever forget, wherever you are. Please remember my love. I love you, I love you, because of you I’m like this. Because of you I cry these tears. Although I may never see you again, I’ll be alright. Because I love you…” – Because Of Me – Krystal.

 

PSSH. Sulli who is sitting beside me only laughs while sighing. When I look at her, Sulli is lifting her glass of drink and gulps everything down. At the same time when Krystal finishes singing, she also sits down again right away.

 

“That’s how it is when Seo is drunk, she would turn wild… while Krys would become mellow…” says Sulli while laughing.

 

“Hmh…” I laugh hearing that. There are many kinds of persons at the NICT, their characters are also different. Slowly through this party I try to learn about the characters of each person.

 

00.00

 

A few moments later, L turns the karaoke machine off. Almost everyone is whacked. My head has started to get a bit heavy but I make sure that I’m not drunk because I only drank a bit of alcohol earlier. I see L carrying Krystal with both of his arms and goes out of the Coffee Shop. Maybe he is moving Krystal to the dormitory.

 

“Are you jealous? Sungyeol-sshi?” suddenly Sulli talks like that.

 

“Huh? Jealous? Of what? Sulli-sshi?” I ask, confused.

 

“You have been looking at her since earlier… Are you jealous that L is the one who’s taking her there? Carrying her like that?” asks Sulli to me. Her smooth fingers play with the glass rims.

 

“Hm… Hahaha… Why would I be jealous?” I say while laughing and lean myself to the sofa.

 

Sulli only smiles.

 

“What do you think? What kind of a relationship do they have?” asks Sulli.

 

“Them?” If I look by Krystal’s different behavior when she’s around L and also the picture on Krystal’s cellphone, maybe they can already be considered...

“In a love relationship?” I say.

 

Sulli then stops her finger movements on the glass rims.

 

“Is that so… They look like lovers, huh?” asks Sulli even weirder. Maybe she’s already drunk so she became weird like this.

 

“What if their relationship is already farther than that… and also the relationship has already ended?” asks Sulli again. I don’t know why this time I feel that this is not a question anymore, but something from her heart, that she can’t accept one thing. She puts it into a question with an answer that she already knows.

 

At the end I don’t answer Sulli, I only smile. Sometimes she smiles and laughs a bit, no idea what is being in her mind. “You know about their relationship, don’t you?” I ask slowly, trying to find out the story she’s keeping. “I don’t know… All this time I’ve only been guessing…” says Sulli who then pulls up her bag.

 

“Alright then, I’m going home… Sungyeol-sshi…” she says.

 

“Home? Where? Dorm?” I ask.

 

“The ones who stay in the dorm are only you, the agents… I don’t…” she says while taking out her car key.

 

“You’re driving? Do you want me to accompany you?” I ask, a bit worried about her.

 

“Aniyeo… I still can… oops…” she walks a bit unsteadily and hits the table corner. I immediately catch her body that almost fell down.

 

“Yeol, take her, Yeol, hick…” says Amber who is sitting beside me while tapping my waist.

 

Apgujeong
00.40

 

I take Sulli up to her apartment’s front door. She can walk by herself but I keep guiding her because she walks a bit unsteadily.

 

“Come in first, will you? I’ll pour a warm drink for you?” says Sulli with a smile.

 

“No… There’s no need to… trouble you…” I give her the car key.

 

“Just take it… It’s already late… Tomorrow I’ll just go to the NICT by a taxi…” says Sulli, declining the key.

 

“And I also owe you… I’ll make a coffee for you in the next days then…” says Sulli.

 

NICT Agent Room
01.20

 

There is still a light in that room. Even though it’s already almost half past one AM, my intuition says otherwise. I step into the room. The light comes from L’s table. He is busy in front of his computer while holding his chin.

 

“So busy…” I say to him. He only smiles slightly while sighing and raising his eyebrows.

 

I immediately pull a chair and sit down beside him. He is looking at the clip of the same CCTV recording that I watched this afternoon. “Still looking for a hint?” I ask L. His eyes don’t move from that monitor at all. With a serious face he keeps looking at the clip which he plays at a double speed now.

 

“Your assumption is broken because there’s no fact…” says L.

 

“There is… You saw that, didn’t you? Why would those two cars go behind each other and wait for each other, the owner is one person and there are many persons in those cars…” I say.

 

“Have you already searched for some information about Kim Kook Jong?”

 

“N.. not yet…”

 

“Hmh… actually we’ve tricked you earlier… Leeteuk deliberately made you go out of the headquarter and then prepared a party for you…” answers L with a smile.

 

“Pssh…” I smile cynically.

 

“But you weren’t good at acting… and you, what kind of a scenario did you make? Infinite? What kind of a joke was that? Associating Infinite with the Silver Bullet…”

 

L only smiles slightly, maybe remembering his words earlier, when we were at the interrogation room.

 

L then opens someone’s profile. The NICT has a special access to the police database. The NICT can investigate someone’s private data. They even can scan faces only by a picture and recognize the target.

 

Kim Kook Jong. “A businessman at a toy store at Dongdaemun… From the data here you can see by yourself, he’s clean.”

 

“Do you think such a person is related to the Silver Bullet? He’s just a toy store businessman… Even a small toy store… Maybe we should relate him to the case, that he is worth suspecting because he only has a small business but his wealth list is overflowing… Maybe he has another business that is not listed in the tax office… If this is the case we should report him to the police or the tax office…”

 

“This person doesn’t have any relation to the Silver Bullet… Maybe I’ll write the report so this would just be taken over by the police…” says L.

 

“Wait… If it’s so, what if the previous case at the Hana Bank… was only a trickery?” I ask L.

 

“Trickery? What do you mean?”

 

“Perhaps it was just a distraction for us… Or maybe they also wanted to show that they are already here… Just like sending an ultimatum to the state… Which is probably addressed to us… Because why would they rob a bank… And deliberately doing a transfer to their account…” I say.

 

L falls silent. He seems to be considering the thought and relating it to all existing incidents.

 

“Everything is still an assumption, as long as this case is still blur, meanwhile we can’t move much…” answers L.

 

I only nod, it’s indeed right, there are still too little facts to take an assumption and possibilities what would happen. Right now we only can be wary. If the Silver Bullet indeed shows its muzzle, that’s the time we have to start moving.

 

“Thanks…” says L suddenly a moment after he closed all programs on his computer.

 

“Hmh? Thanks? What for? Thanks because I joined the NICT?” I ask while leaning my body to the chair.

 

“That’s the first one… and second, thanks for taking Sulli home… Next time you don’t have to bother about it… Just let me take her…” says L. He then stands up from his seat and walks leaving the agent room.

 

Hmh. What the hell is this? Interesting. L seems to be showing his jealousy to me. He’s jealous because today I’m the one who took Sulli home.

 

But all of this just gave me another indication in my mind, saying that L, the guy with a cool style and seldom shows his face expression, is a playboy?

 

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NICT Yeol’s Room
10.21

 

“Yeol… Yeol… Yeol….!” A voice is heard calling my name. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK, along with quite a loud knock on the door.

 

“Huh! Yes I’m getting up…” I yell. I throw my pillow and walk slowly without caring about my hair or my rumpled face. I immediately push the button beside the door to open the door I locked digitally.

 

“What?” I say weakly when opening the door.

 

“Hey, take a shower!!! Meeting!” yells Amber who is tidying up the black blazer she is wearing.

 

Damn, today we’re all late. Because we partied last night and earlier I only could sleep at about 3 AM. We’re all panicked now. I immediately wash my hair, face and brush my teeth. While the others are already perfumed and fresh, except DongHae who only combed his hair and sprayed a mouth freshener spray.

 

NICT Agent Room
10.25

 

We all stand side by side in that room. Starting from leftmost Captaun Leeteuk until rightmost, SeoHyun. Looking straight to the front, only being able to gulp and getting cold sweats.

 

Kangta only taps his fingers on the table while looking at all of us. “Sorry sir, this is because of my negligence, last night I held a party at the Coffee Shop…” says Leeteuk, blaming himself.

 

“The one who held the party is you, but everyone here is the ones taking part in that party… This is not only your mistake… Everyone quickly take a seat, I want to hear all of your reports because today I have to go meet the president and the minister of defense…” says Kangta while ordering everyone to sit down.

 

We report finding by finding without any exception. Starting from DongHae and Kyu’s finding, according to Heechul’s opinion who is their informant, NICT should not get involved further about the Silver Bullet. While my finding about Kim Kook Jong’s involvement also gets reported by L.

 

“For this while we’ll restrict ourselves about the Silver Bullet first… The archive in Russia can’t be interfered by us. We should only gather other facts about the Silver Bullet in Korea… And if Silver Bullet indeed is here, it means Russia’s intelligence agents are also here… We’ll just wait for the time Russia’s intelligence asks for our help…” says Kangta, we nod.

 

“What about Kim Kook Jong?” asks SeoHyun.

 

“It seems this finding that came by accident goes on to other things… According to his biography he is only a businessman of antique stuff… However, by the wealth he owns it kind of doesn’t seem proper… He has quite a big house in Anyang and two vehicles at the same time… Perhaps he is involved in an illegal activity?” says L.

 

“If it’s like that isn’t this the task of the investigators from the police? Because it’s still really small and maybe the moment coincides with the previous Hana Bank case…” says Leeteuk. Kangta then nods his head, “Report and ask the police to take over…”

 

Finally the morning meeting is ended. Kangta immediately goes to meet the president and the minister of defense. A few moments later Leeteuk calls me to meet him in Kangta’s room.

 

NICT Director Room

 

“Come in, Yeol..” says Leeteuk, telling me to come into the room.

 

I immediately open the door, I see Leeteuk sitting on the chair near the couch in the room. He immediately tells me to sit on the couch.

 

I try to catch the atmosphere in that room. From Leeteuk’s way at looking at me earlier it seems he wasn’t about to talk about something really serious, not about a mission which would be given to me.

 

“Can you help me?” asks Leeteuk.

 

“Help you? What’s up?”

 

“Can you help me teach Krystal driving?”

 

I’m surprised by Leeteuk’s request. He asked me to teach Krystal driving? In every minute we’re together we’d surely be mad at each other. This time he asked me something like that? Inside a car, together and teaching her driving? With that stubborn and hot-tempered character like that maybe it’d be really difficult to teach her. Yes, to make her listen to me.

 

“Emh… emh…” I sigh and keep thinking, if I can accept that request or not. “Ah… maybe at this opportunity you can also understand her more… If I look at you, you’re a bit troubled at getting adapted to her, right?” It seems Leeteuk really wants me to be the one who teaches Krystal driving.

 

“Alright… I’ll teach her…” I say while nodding my head and take a breath.

 

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NICT Lab and Autopsy
10.30

 

The lab room is still dark. Whereas it’s already 10.30 AM.

 

Knock. Knock. Knock

 

A guy is in the lab room, he knocks his shoe sole made of wood onto the room’s floor. He looks at his watch.

 

Drap. Drap. Drap

 

Some really quick steps are heard approaching the lab room. And then immediately the running woman opens the lab door with her ID car. Sulli controls her breathing as soon as she arrives in the lab room. “Crazy… What a luck… What a luck…” she murmurs.

 

“What luck? Sulli-sshi?” the guy in that room smiles and looks at Sulli.

 

Sulli shudders, that voice has surprised her. At first she is surprised, then she immediately smiles as soon as she knows that voice’s owner. That guy is L. “You’re late half an hour… Should you get punished? Maybe 90 sets of punishments fit you…” says L with a smile.

 

Sulli throws her white lab coat to L’s face when responding to L’s words. “Hmph… My boss is Kangta, not you… What’s your right to punish me? Hihi…” says Sulli while pouring mineral water from the dispenser and she gulps down that water. “So… What on earth happened to Agent L, visiting my place?” asks Sulli while taking her white lab coat from L’s hand.

 

L smiles, “Just to ask a cup of coffee made by you… Because today my table is empty, there was no smell of hot coffee…” says L, he smiles and lifts up and plays with his ceramic cup. “Mian…” says Sulli with a smile and she sits down in front of her microscope.

 

“Mian? What do you mean?” asks L while turning his chair and looks at Sulli who is now wearing glasses and peeks into her microscope.

 

“Mian, yeah sorry… Everyday I only make a cup of coffee for one person…”

 

“PSSH… One person? Isn’t it only for me? If not me, so who?” asks L while snorting.

 

“I won’t tell you… There’s clearly someone more interesting than you…” says Sulli with a smile.

 

“Is that so? More interesting than me?” asks L while getting up from his chair and approaches Sulli.

 

“Is it the person who took you home last night?” asks L who now stands beside Sulli.

 

Sulli blushes when L tries to talk about last night’s incident, when Sungyeol took Sulli home.

 

“Hm… Maybe yes maybe not… Wae? Are you jealous…?” asks Sulli while looking at L.

 

“Hmh… You apparently want to camouflage? Do you want to hide behind him?” asks L.

 

Sulli’s face then changes, as if she was thinking about one thing, something that is quite bothering in her heart.

 

“You just don’t want Krystal to suspect us even more, right?” asks L again.

 

Sulli falls silent for a moment, “Never mind, I don’t want to talk about it right now…”

 

The atmosphere in that room becomes a bit awkward when Sulli refuses to give an answer to L’s question.

 

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NICT Main Room

 

DRAP

 

I close the door to Kangta’s room when I go out of that room.

 

When I walk in the corridor I see Krystal who is looking into the lab room.

 

What is she looking at?

 

L and Sulli. The two are talking in that room. Even though it’s very far but I can see that the two look close, especially when Sulli throws her white lab coat to L.

 

I walk approaching Krystal, even though I don’t see her face I can feel that she is being jealous seeing how close L and Sulli are. Maybe she doesn’t realize my presence, while I’m standing behind her now.

 

“Do you have time?” I ask her. However I prevent eye contact with her, because I surely could fight with her if I look at her at such a moment.

 

“What? What’s up?” asks Krystal, she also seems to be turning her eyes and looks another way.

 

“Leeteuk has given a mission… Meet me the helipad in fifteen minutes…” I say, lying. I have to lie, if I said I would teach her driving, it’s not sure whether she would be persuaded by me.

 

NICT Area
10.45

 

It has already been fifteen minutes. But I’m giving her a leeway, because this isn’t a mission with punctuality. I’m inside my car which is parked on the helicopter landing arena. More precisely it’s not only an arena for helicopters, but you can say that it can be a runway for small planes as well.

 

Cleck. DRAP!

 

Krystal comes in and immediately sits on the passenger seat. She is wearing a black leather jacket, white T-shirt, skinny jeans and Converse shoes. She has also tied her long hair into a ponytail.

 

“What’s our mission?” she asks.

 

“Wear your safety belt first… I’ll explain later…” I say, I immediately wear my safety belt and get ready to drive my car. Not like usual, she obeys, she wears her safety belt right away.

 

“Press down on the clutch pedal… Move into first gear… Pull the hand brake down… Then release the clutch by half while balancing it with the gas pedal… The car moves…” I say when my car starts moving.

 

“Look at the center, left and right rear-view mirrors, whether they are already okay or not… If not you should fix them immediately…”

 

“If the engine already feels like it wouldn’t move anymore and makes a loud noise, immediately move to the next gear…”

 

“Ish shut up… Can’t you just drive? Where are we going to, actually? Why do we only go around the landing area? Do you want to make your car fly?” asks Krystal who starts to get uncomfortable by my words and indeed she’s right, I have only been going around in the landing are.

 

“Just listen well first… When turning, reduce the speed by pressing down on the brake pedal… If the engine goes down to a too low RPM, the engine could go off, that’s why you should press down on the clutch pedal and move gears… Then release the clutch pedal by half and balance with the gas pedal, then turn slowly…” I say. I don’t know whether she wants to listen to me or not, now she clearly just looks at the window beside her with an ‘I don’t care’ face.

 

“If you want to stop, it’s the same, but move the gear shift into the neutral position… And press down on the brake pedal until the car stops…”

 

VROOM… SCREECH… The car stops.

 

“Pull the hand brake so the car doesn’t move anywhere…” I say, then I take my safety belt off.

 

“Where do you want to go? You said we would go do a mission from Leeteuk?” she asks, confused when I go out of the vehicle. “Go out, go out from there…” I say.

 

“Mwo? What’s up?” she gets even more uncomfortable and starts putting an annoyed face again.

 

Then I point at her and point at the driver seat. “What? You want me to drive?” she asks, she understands my intention.

 

I nod, “Go, you’re driving now… You have already listened to me earlier, right?”

 

“Tsk… You do know that I can’t drive, right? You want to mock me, don’t you?” she asks furiously.

 

Man, it’s so awry no matter what I do with her. If I don’t talk a lot she would sink in her own arguments. If I talk and want a lot I would surely be called captious.

 

“Do I look like wanting to mock you now?” I say while sighing.

 

Krystal looks at my face for a few seconds. I’ve already put a frustrated face because of the word by word of hers which made my heart annoyed. Finally she moves approaching me and opens the driver seat’s door.

 

VROOMMMM!!! SCREEEEECH!!!!

 

Gee.

 

I’ve only come in, not even able to wear the safety belt, she has already moved into the first gear, put down the hand brake, quickly released the clutch pedal, and deeply pressed down on the gas pedal. “Hey!!! Hey!!!!” I yell loudly, she’s driving the car really quickly. Her eyes are just stuck to the front. “T… TURN!!!!” I scream when this car would reach the end of the runway, perhaps it could just breach through the pasture.

 

SCREEEECH!!!! THUDDD!!!!! She presses down on the brake pedal until the end, causing the car to stop abruptly, making me get thrown to the front window pane.

 

“Crazy! Can’t you drive properly?!!!” I yell at her while sitting back to the right position.

 

Krystal is trying to control her breath, her two hands are still tightly holding the steering wheel. “M… Mian… I can’t… Can’t…” she says while hitting the steering wheel and bumping her forehead onto the steering wheel as well.

 

“H… Hey! Calm down!…” I say while pulling her body back.

 

NICT Area
11.00

 

Maybe it’s more proper to call it as fifteen seconds being on Grim Reaper’s train. Somehow her driving style is very chaotic. That one earlier, you call it driving? It’s not… More precisely it’s a fast way to kill.

 

Krystal sits on my car’s open trunk. Her eyes look empty. Maybe she has already calmed down. I approach her while bringing two bottles of cold coffee.

 

TUCK

 

I put that glass bottle on her forehead, “Already cool? Already calmed down?” I say, she takes the drink.

 

CLACK!

 

We both open our drink, I take a seat beside her.

 

“Why are you like that? Are you always like that?” I ask her. I don’t know whether she would answer me or not, but I wish she would answer me.

 

“How’s ‘like that’?”

 

“Well, that temper of yours… Why do you always get mad and worried so easily…”

 

Krystal sighs. “What? Is it wrong if I’m like that? Huh?” her talking tone is going back up again. I pout and shake my head.

 

“You’re a girl, can’t you speak softly, well and truly?” I say while sighing. I know my words would only boost her temper even more.

 

“You don’t like it? You don’t like my behavior?” she says even more mad.

 

“Your temper could ruin everything, you know…” I say, interrupting her.

 

TCH

 

She gets up from her seat and intends to go away from me.

 

“Leaving, huh? Just go and ignore all my words… I still care about you… If you’re still like now… Slowly maybe you would be chased out of the NICT because you’re becoming a hole in the team…” my words managed to make her stop. She sighs, maybe she’s being depressed because of my words which are a bit sensitive.

 

“I don’t know anything, but you should remember what your purpose was for being here… Was your dream being an NICT member? If it was indeed forced… You should just quit… And don’t be a poison that ruins everything… Right now almost everyone cares about you, but why are you always like that? Luckily all of them can tolerate your attitude until now.. In the future… If they’re already tired with you?”

 

She looks down. Ah… Were my words too harsh to her?

 

She then turns her body, “Sorry… I’m sorry…” she says, even though she doesn’t look at me I feel that those sorry words are really her regret expression. She does have a bad temper, but once I flick her a bit, she is really fragile.

 

11.15

 

She sits back down on the driver seat. This time she looks more relaxed.

 

“Okay just relax… Don’t rush… Before you turn the start key, can I ask you one thing?”

 

“Hm?”

 

“What made you get panic when driving? Did you have a trauma?” I ask, investigating her a bit, if she has a trauma, then it would be an even longer homework to teach her driving.

 

“I had an accident once, but far before that happened I indeed panicked a lot when pressing down on the gas pedal and control the steering wheel…” she says while sighing and her hand touches the car’s gear shift. I think I understand her… I understand what she’s going through right no, this is exactly like me in the past, when I held the steering wheel for the first time.

 

“Do you feel controlled by the engine? Do you want to be fast and faster at that moment?” I ask.

 

“Mh… Yeah… Yeah… Like that? How could you know?” she asks, confused.

 

“Hmh… I have experienced that before… And at that time I was also like you, I almost got into severe accident a few times…”

 

“Then… How did you go against it? How?”

 

“I didn’t go against that feeling.. What I did was enduring that desire… Slowly controlling the roaring engine… As if it was a part of my own body… The faster it races abruptly the more difficult it is for me to control it… However, when I slowly push it ahead and I follow its rhythm… I could control it… It’s the human who controls the engine… Not the engine which controls us…” I say to her with a smile. She smiles back.

 

“Come on, let’s try slowly…” I say softly, the atmosphere this time is really calm and different from earlier.

 

CLICK VROOM!

 

“Press fully down on the clutch pedal and move the gear shift, then pull the hand brake down… After that slowly release the clutch pedal, balance it by pressing down the gas pedal…” the instruction is the same as before. She follows my words. At first the car moved a bit abruptly, but when it’s already moving, this car moves smoothly.

 

Her face smiles when this car moves well and correctly. “I can control it… I can…” she mutters while keeping her smile. “Now try turning…” then she reduces the speed by pressing down the brake pedal, “Be careful, the engine can get off if you press down the brake pedal too much…” then she moves into a lower gear and turns well.

 

“I can do it… I can do it…” she says.

 

Until finally I accompany her moving around the runway for more than half an hour. Now she is already a bit skilled at controlling the vehicle. “Stop… Let’s take a break first…” I say asking her.

 

SCREECH… BAM… She presses down the pedal too deeply and forgets to move the gear shift to the neutral position, causing the engine to get off.

 

“Hihihi… Mian…” she says with a smile and taps my shoulder, maybe feeling at fault because she has already made my head hit the dashboard for the n-th time.

 

“See, as long as you’re patient and don’t nag a lot you can drive, right?” I say while looking at her.

 

“Mh… Mh…” she blushes.

 

“Plus your smile is also really sweet… Why don’t you just smile rather than frown?” I joke while laughing.

 

“Cheesy!” she pushes my shoulder but keeps smiling.

 

Yes, actually she is a sweet girl.

 

===

 

HongDae
Chul Mart

11.30

 

Inside an SUV, a Kia Sportage. L, Amber, Kyu and Donghae are seen inside a car parked in front of the Chul Mart.

 

“Just let me and Kyu go out… What information do you want to have?” asks DongHae.

 

“I’m going out too… Just let me accompany you…” says L.

 

“Huh? You? Never mind, just let Kyu go… Don’t bother about it… Furthermore if there’s yet again another new person coming maybe they would be a bit uncomfortable…” says DongHae.

 

“But I want to meet him… I want to know that Heechul…” says l while pushing DongHae’s shoulder, forcing him to go out, willy-nilly.

 

Finally L goes into the Chul Mart together with DongHae, the two want to meet Heechul. Who knows what information they want from Heechul this time.

 

“Pssh… Why is DongHae scared of L? Whereas L is actually his junior…” whispers Amber to Kyu.

 

“Haha… DongHae… He is indeed scared when looking at L…” says Kyu with a smile and he puts on his headphone, listening to L and DongHae’s conversation.

 

“L… L… He’s indeed mysterious, huh, feared by DongHae, liked by KangTa… And also he’s the only one who often makes Krystal desperate…” says Amber while leaning her shoulder to the passenger seat in the back.

 

“Haha… Is Krystal indeed emotional because of L?” asks Kyu.

 

“According to Sulli who already knew Krystal since a long time… Krystal came into the NICT because she followed L… Mhhh.. Perhaps L was the one who left her… Maybe you can say she was chasing her old love… But that’s what I think, okay? I don’t know exactly… This is all only my suspicion…” says Amber.

 

“Hoo… Is that so? So all this time she has been bad-tempered because she was worried about L? And her reason for being in the NICT is L? What if L actually doesn’t like Krystal anymore? Will they separate? Will Krystal go out just like that?” asks Kyu.

 

“Ah I don’t know… Well, if all of my suspicions are correct, and at the moment when L doesn’t like Krystal anymore, Krystal will surely lose a reason to keep staying at the NICT and will go later… Isn’t it funny if the story is like that, classic and stupid…” says Amber while laughing.

 

Inside the CHUL Mart

 

DongHae and L arrive at the front of the tightly locked iron door. Like the last time that door is tightly closed. DongHae immediately knocks the iron door. “Yah… Taecyeon-ah… This is Hyung!” says DongHae with his hands on his hips. A small part of that door gets opened, a pair of eyes appear, this time looking at DongHae. DongHae waves his hand, he thought it was Taecyeon’s pair of eyes, “What? Password? Three Months Pregnant Bear?” says DongHae.

 

SRAK! That door gets closed again.

 

“So? Why isn’t it open?” asks L with a smile after seeing DongHae’s action earlier.

 

“Duh… Taec is so silly…” DongHae then intends to knock that door once again.

 

BANG!!! DSING!!! BANG BANG BANG!!!!

 

A series of bullets is heard from inside. L and Donghae are startled right away.

 

“HYUNG! HEECHUL HYUNG!!!” shouts DongHae while pulling the iron door with force.

 

“Yah, stay away!!!” says L, in his right had he has already held a big iron crowbar which he took from beside a trash can close to him. L then gets ready to hit the iron door with that thing.

 

=== To be continued ===

 

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AUTHOR NOTE: Hey everyone! This time The Silver Bullet has already reached Chapter 5. It could already turn into a mini-novel (maybe) or maybe a drama with 5-6 episodes haha… So which Silver Bullet character is your favorite? Krystal, Sungyeol, L, or Sulli? What do you look the most forward to in each chapter? The action storyline or the loveline?

 

I also made some posters for fun, which couple is the best for the cover? Hahaha…

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From left to right: Krystal – Sungyeol, Sulli – Sungyeol, Krystal – L, Sulli – L.

 

Tell us your choice in the comments!