AUTHOR NOTE : Two kisses.

Chapter 9

Hegh... Hegh... Hegh...

I can only hear my own breath whir. It seems I'm still alive.

Anyang

06.15

I get up after a sniper gifted a shower of bullets towards me. Krystal? How about her? Then I get up and look for her.

Before that I look at that sniper first. He is still standing firmly while pointing his gun at me. It seems this hasn't ended yet. I can see that figure vaguely, a male figure who is standing in front of his vehicle that deliberately stopped abruptly, the Hummer H3.

 After escaping from a lion cage, I go into a tiger cage. After escaping from the semi machine gun, this time I'm being targeted by a sniper. The distance is 100 meters away. I think that sniper of the type SSG90 can target my head in a moment.

That guy lets his gun barrel down and walks back to his vehicle. He left me just like that.

VROOMM!! That Hummer H3 disappears from my sight again.

“Yeol!!” screams Krystal.

06.45

Five corpses, yes five corpses. All of the five people who were involved in the shooting now have already died at the place. Not because I injured them to death, but because of that sniper.

Quite smart, he finished off his own men so they wouldn't open their mouths in front of the NICT. Closing their mouths by sending them to another world. The guess is even stronger that they are the Silver Bullet from yesterday, they are smart huh, very smart, especially that sniper who probably is their leader

This time became my experience facing that gang. Only one head is not enough to finish this case. I hope L can wake up from his long sleep soon. We need a detective that is skilled at smelling oddities and ineptness.

“Sungyeol...” says Kyu while throwing an isotonic drink to me while I was dreamily squatting in front of my car whose front part is broken, falling apart. I catch that drink bottle.

Right now the team is neutralizing the place where we had our action earlier.

The fire that was blazing in the warehouse that exploded before was also managed to be extinguished. However, the witness and sources are already gone. All of them died, our only hope is the remaining traces from the ruins of the warehouse building.

Srack... Someone presses my shoulder and then that figure squats beside me, looking at the same direction, my car's bumper that is wrecked with the situation where the intercooler is leaking.

“It's severe, huh... After this you should just take a new car in the vehicle arena... One agent should get a quota of one operational vehicle... This car is pitiful if it has to sacrifice even further... You said this car holds the memories with your younger sister, right?” says Krystal while snorting.

===

NICT Agent Room

21.25

I'm sitting, dreamily looking at the computer monitor that is , looking at the program of the bullet detector. It's a map of whole Seoul and sometimes I zoom it out to see the whole South Korea, it's not detected.

According to Sulli, that bullet was gone from the satellite radar at the same time when the jammer was working, and the possibility is very high that the bullet gets damaged considering the power of the jammer could just be comparable to the EMP, so the NICT isn't able to detect the position of that bullet.

And also,

that one earlier seems like a humiliation... Or a challenge? Does that person... want to fight face-to-face? Fighting in another battle when my condition is proper, armed and also aiming for a head? That one earlier, that person could just immediately shoot me to death at the place.

SIGH

I sigh heavily while stretching my body on my desk chair even more. This time I look up, at the ceiling. Leeteuk, SeoHyun and Kangta are going to face the minister of defense tonight, a moment after all of our reports are finished.

SRACK!!! The door to the agents room opens.

It smells strongly like coffee. I don't care about it, most probably it's DongHae or Kyu who are standing guard this night with me here.

“Here you go, your coffee...” a female voice is heard while she puts a ceramics glass on my desk.

“Overtime?” that woman is Sulli, she then pulls the chair beside me, from DongHae's place.

I immediately fix my sitting position.

“Ah Sulli-sshi...” I say with a smile and look at that cup of coffee.

“Drink... It's a treat from me because today you have already worked very hard...” says Sulli with a smile.

I see the bruise in her face has gotten even larger, it seems to be swelling a bit.

“Does it still hurt?” I ask while lifting up the cup of coffee from her.

“Yeah well...” says Sulli.

Somehow the atmosphere in this room has become a bit awkward. I don't know if it's me being confused what I should talk about with her or it's indeed her looking more quiet compared to before.

“Sungyeol-sshi... Do you have a free time tomorrow?” asks Sulli.

“Tomorrow? Hm... It seems so... Maybe I do... Why? Do you want me to help you do a trial with your new inventions?”

“Hmm... I want to ask you out... Tomorrow is my free day... I want to ask you out...” she says while looking down and playing with the note papers on DongHae's desk.

“A date, right? Hehe...” I say while laughing when I sip the coffee given by her.

“Hm... You may call it so if you want...” she says, this time she smiles and looks at me.

“Hmfff...” I'm startled, I almost spout the coffee that has already reached in my mouth.

===

Shin's Body Repair Shop

12.55

“Yah... Yeol-ah... What did you do until this car is wrecked severely like this?” asks Boss Shindong while squatting and patting my car's broken and wrecked bumper. I only laugh sadly while snorting. “Can you please fix it, boss? This time I'm a consumer...”

“Of course I can, Yeol... But it's probably hard to find the broken spare parts... Because the spare parts aren't easy to find, this car is almost 18 years old, right?...”

“Well... Even if it takes long, it's okay, boss... After this I'll also put this car to a break... It's a pity if it's used for an action again... There are already quite a lot of memories inside this car...” I say while standing up and putting my hands on my hips, as if I was encouraging myself and allowing myself to let go of this favorite car of mine.

“So...What car does a Japanese car maniac like you get from your work place now?” my boss calls the NICT as 'my work place,' yes, people like Shindong or Jisook who know me and the NICT, they indeed have to hide my identity and the NICT from the public.

“I don't know, there are only cars like KIA and Hyundai... There is also a super car or an exotic car... Not suitable to be used in the environment of Seoul city... Most probably later I'll use a Hyundai Veloster...” I say while pouting.

“Wow, that's really inappropriate hahaha...” says Shindong while laughing loudly.

Then I only smile slightly, responding him.

“Where's Jisook? I haven't seen her since earlier...?” When I arrive here she should be screaming, calling my name and trying to hug me.

“She's looking for a lunch... You miss her, Yeol?” asks my former boss while elbowing my right arm.

“Hahaha...” I only laugh...

Not long after,

a call comes on my cellphone. I immediately take out the cellphone from my jacket's pocket. I'm afraid it's a call from the headquarter.

It's Sulli-sshi, she's calling me.

===

NICT Main Room

12.55

Quiet, the atmosphere at the NICT is so quiet. Apparently some agents are outside. There are only Amber and SeoHyun inside the agents room. Krystal is standing in the corridor in front of the Director's room. She is quiet while sometimes she sighs and does a little stretching. Her round eyes are looking at the big monitor in the main room. However, there isn't any development.

Tap Tap Tap

A step sound of quite a heavy pair of shoes is heard. Loafers. Krystal immediately turns her head to the direction of the sound source. The owner of those foot steps is L. He walks while fixing the suit he is wearing. He walks down the stairs and arrives in the same corridor as Krystal. L looks at Krystal with an expressionless gaze, while Krystal immediately looks away when L looks at her.

L stops his steps as soon as he arrives beside Krystal.

“I'm happy I'm still able to see you...” says L with a slight smile.

“What do you mean? You're happy because I'm still alive after the incident that time?” asks Krystal, however she doesn't look at L, not even a bit.

“That's the second reason... First, I'm happy it turns out I can still open my eyes and see you with my own eyes...” says L.

Krystal shakes her head and starts to feel sick by L's cheesy words. Then she intends to leave L and go down to the agents room.

“Wait!” L holds Krystal's right arm.

“I'm happy, accompany me at eating...” says L.

===

Itaewon

13.25

I arrive at Itaewon by taking the train. It's quite a crowded area with various kinds of stores. Then I look for the coffee shop that becomes my meeting place with Sulli. Until finally my eyes find that coffee shop, it's at the end of a road intersection.

Coffee Shop

I see her figure from the outside of the Coffee Shop. She is a very elegant woman, wearing a dress with a floral pattern and a white cardigan. She has let her thick dark hair down. She is reading a book, likely a novel, accompanied by two cups of coffee on her table.

“Sorry, it took too long, didn't it?” I say as I've just arrived and immediately sit opposite her.

Sulli smiles slightly. I see her bruise has already got a bit better.

“My debt is settled, okay?” says Sulli.

Sulli nods, “Yes... You helped me twice back then and you said I owe a date with you in the coffee shop... That means it's now settled... Hihi...”

Oh my goodness, she still remembers my joke at that time, so it seems this is it, she asked me to go out today.

“So... What's our plan today? Go to the mall?” I say while leaning onto the chair and smiling to Sulli. Sulli then closes the book she was reading, “Post Bellum: CNSNSD” is seen on its cover, it looks like a novel that tells about a life after a war.

“That kind of a date is very boring, Sungyeol-sshi...” says Sulli.

“So? What kind of a date do you want?” I ask. The two of us look at each other.

“Something different... But do you want to do it?” she says with a smile.

This is what I like from Sulli, the words coming out from her lips sound very teasing and also mysterious.

===

NICT Dormitory

13.20

A plate of fried rice is served in front of L, complete with its side dish. Krystal sits in front of him.

“It has been a very long time, finally I can taste your dish again...” says L with a smile.

“Pssh...” Krystal nods and doesn't look at L, not even a bit.

“Finish it up quickly, after that you have to struggle with your tasks again, right...? L-sshi?!” says Krystal, then she intends to move away.

“Don't you know why I asked you to come here? And forced you to cook for me?”

“Soojung...” says L, his tone changes and manages to stop Krystal who was about to get up from her chair.

Krystal falls silent as soon as L calls her by 'Soojung.' Krystal sits back down on her chair, her face changes, showing a distrust, not trusting what she has just heard.

“I... I'm Kim Myungsoo... I'm the one who asked you to cook... To cook for me...” says L as if L had a double personality. His diction and tone changed in one moment, making Krystal's eyes sparkle as if they would shed tears.

“Myungsoo... Do you want to talk with me now...?” asks Krystal slowly.

“Yes... I... I want to explain all of this...”

L's left hand touches Krystal's right hand on the table, as L's touch makes Krystal calm. Slowly the hands of them both hold each other, as their emotions, their feelings, drift as one.

“Wae... Why... did you only appear now?” says Krystal, her words are broken.

“Forgive me... Because I... I can't let you be here any longer...”

Krystal starts shedding her tears, “D... don't you know how much I suffered-” suddenly L just stands up and approaches Krystal. L then kisses Krystal's lips, making Krystal stop because of L's brief kiss.

“Why... Why did you... leave me just to join the NICT?... Answer that question of mine... Answer, Myung... I just want to hear that answer...” says Krystal. The two of them can hear each other#s breath. It sounds heavy.

L swallows and his eyes are shut for a moment, as if he was collecting his courage to talk.

“Because I loved you... Soojung... I didn't want you be in a danger because I'm an NICT agent... That's why it's better if-”

“Do you love me or Sulli?” Krystal interrupts L's words.

“Listen to me first... I just didn't want you to be in a danger... That's why I left you... That... That's my only actual reason...” says L.

Krystal looks down, her body is trembling, “And Sulli... Sulli, why did she have to lie to me about you... Why did she hide you? Why?” says Krystal even more fiercely. She lets L's hand go and starts to hit L's shoulder.

“She didn't hide me... She lied because she also loved you... She also didn't want you to get involved further with me... That's why she lied, SooJung...”

“Son of a ! You WRETCHES!!!!!” says Krystal, her anger is soaring, she pushes L's shoulder hardly until L gets slammed. The dining table then shakes a bit because of L's foot that hit the table.

“You... You aren't Kim Myungsoo! You are still L!!! The cold human in a form of Myungsoo!!!” shouts Krystal and then she runs leaving L.

After Krystal leaves him, L sits back down and looks down.

“Soojung ah... Mianhae...”

Itaewon

14.05

A ballad music a saxophone touch is played melodiously in that room. A ballad song that grows a calming sensation.

Soundtrack: IU - 'L'Amant'

 A yoga training place. I don't understand why Sulli invited me to a place like this. Maybe this is a 'different date' that she talked about? As I don't want to disturb her concentration, I only look at her from afar. At this place there are only me, her and a yoga trainer that is also a woman.

“Sungyeol-sshi...” says Sulli, I shudder, surprised because she suddenly called my name. She moves her hand as she calls me to get closer to her. I smile and only shake my head. It's impossible for me to join a yoga class like this, my body is not that flexible, more precisely my physical condition is not good.

She only smiles slightly when I decline to come closer to her. A smile that says “Oh so... you don't want to come here...?”

I yield as I approach her. I inevitably have to be with her joining this yoga class. After I approach Sulli, the yoga trainer then leaves the two of us, while Sulli continues her meditation by sitting cross-legged.

“Why did you call me here? When I'm already here you instead just shooed the trainer out?”

“So she wouldn't disturb our date...” says Sulli with a smile while slightly opening her eyes.

“Oh so it's right... This is the date program that isn't usual, isn't it...? Hahaha... Usually women generally want to date in a mall or at other beautiful places but you prefer spending time here, huh...?”

“Psst... Try meditating as well, releasing the stress by calming our souls...” says Sulli.

NICT Main Room

15.05

Kangta hastily enters the NICT area. He is seen looking at his watch a few times. SeoHyun who is sitting in the agents room immediately stands up and runs out.

“Good afternoon, Sir... Is there something you need?” asks SeoHyun.

“Yes, SeoHyun... Call Leeteuk, tell him to go to my room now...” says Kangta.

SeoHyun nods and KangTa immediately enters his room.

“Wae?” asks L who saw SeoHyun and KangTa.

“I don't know, it seems there is a an emergency situation...” says SeoHyun while making a phone call to Leeteuk, while L makes a suspicious look at the door of the director's room.

What is going on?

15.30

Leeteuk goes out of Kangta's room, he seems to be looking for someone.

“L!... L!!!” he says while pointing at L who is on his desk, reading various reports on his computer.

“Yes.. Come here quickly...” says Leeteuk.

Then L immediately gets up and walks with all his might while holding the left side of his stomach where his shot wound is.

When he arrives in KangTa's room, there already is a serious atmosphere in that room.

“L, how's your condition?” asks Kangta, looking at L.

“Still not perfect yet...” says L who immediately puts his left hand down so he doesn't hold his stomach anymore.

Kangta sighs, “Just look for another agent...” says Kangta, glancing at Leeteuk.

“Sorry, what is going on, Sir? Is there something very important?” interrupts L while looking at Kangta.

“There is a direct order from the president...” says Leeteuk.

“However, considering your condition it seems we can't completely rely on you right now...” says Leeteuk.

“Order? A direct order?”

“Yes... A mission to Dr. Lee...”

“Dr. Lee?” L's forehead frowns, he seems to be smelling something.

Dr. Lee is a scientist whose presence is being hidden by the government right now. He is the scientist who is developing a nuclear weapon for South Korea. The NICT is the one who is hiding Dr. Lee. A moment after the Silver Bullet case getting even more fierce, the president is intending to move the observation place of Dr. Lee, which was in Seoul before, to a region where the population is deserted, an island near Yeosu.

Then Kangta and Leeteuk soon have to make an escorting team that works to move Dr. Lee from Seoul. Right now Leeteuk is trusting L. However, considering his condition, it's really impossible for L to lead this mission.

“Just let me directly lead this mission, Sir...” says Leeteuk.

“Let me in, Sir...” says L following Leeteuk.

“No, no... Your health is still not recovered yet...” says Leeteuk.

“I can hold it in, Sir, by consuming a pain killer at least three times I can bear it up more than twelve hours...” says L confidently.

Kangta nods, “Leeteuk, I know you're the best strategy forecaster that the NICT has... However, you also need someone like L...”

“But Sir... If something bad happens later, who will save us?” Leeteuk is a bit worried.

“We... We still have two joker cards... Krystal and Sungyeol... Even though the two are still green... I'm sure we can rely on the two of them later...”

“Sir, this is a big mission...” says L, as if he was asserting that he has to be counted in the team that will take Dr. Lee.

Leeteuk then looks at L, “Alright L, you come with us... Call DongHae and Kyu soon... They come with us...”

“Alright!”

===

Itaewon

14.30

“So in a couple yoga what you have to pay attention of are... your gaze, physical touch and emotional touch...” says the yoga trainer to the two of us.

Physical touch? Gaze? Wow... Why does everything smell very intimate? I feel uncomfortable because I've just known Sulli.

“Wae...?” whispers Sulli when the instructor stands up and prepares a mat for us both.

“A... ah... Are you sure you want to do this? Isn't it a bit... ehm... uncomfortable?” I ask Sulli, confused.

“Ehm... Uncomfortable... Ehm... I've indeed wanted to do a couple yoga since a long time... However, there has been no partner... If it's with you... I don't feel uncomfortable...” says Sulli with a smile, looking at me, then she pulls my right arm to stand up and follow the instructor.

 The first posture, we stretch our arms. When I touch her hand, it fells so soft and somehow the awkward feeling is also gone slowly as I relax even more, maybe it's because of the effect by the music played by the instructor.

 Reaching the second posture, we lean on our backs. Sulli leans on my body and slowly pushes her body. Apparently this posture is to improve blood circulation. After she does that posture, she asks me to do the same thing as her. “Ah, no, Sulli-sshi... because I'm quite heavy...” I say, I'm afraid my weight would fall on her instead. “Come on, Yeol...” she says while pulling my shoulder, forcing me until finally I do the same thing as her before.

“Now you two meditate...” says the instructor. Sulli then immediately sits cross-legged on the mat. “Face to face, okay?” says the instructor when I was about to sit.

“Closer... Until your knees touch each other...” says the instructor.

Again I can see Sulli from such a close distance. Yes, only 30 centimeters in front of me.

“Your hands, touch the knees of your opposite...” Sulli then immediately touches my left and right knee with both of her hands, then I follow after her.

“Now before beginning the meditation... Put both of your foreheads together...”

“Hu... uh?” I say, surprised, as well as Sulli, she is surprised.

“I'm serious... You have to put our foreheads together... So you two can harmonize your breath and heart...” says that female trainer.

“Emh.. Do I have to leave again? You're a shy couple, huh?” says that trainer while standing up.

“Sulli... It's a pity if you stop up to here...” she says while tapping Sulli's shoulder, as that instructor wants us two to do the meditation like she said before.

“De...” says Sulli with a smile.

Sulli closes her eyes and bends with her forehead towards me.

“Wae? You don't want to do it?” asks Sulli.

I only swallow, while both of Sulli's hands push both of my knees hardly, as if she wouldn't allow me to move nor pull aside.

Then I slowly approach her with my forehead, until finally our foreheads touch each other.

Crazy. This time there is no more distance between us two.

Slowly I can feel her breath.

“Sungyeol-sshi... Somehow I don't feel afraid... and I don't feel strange when I'm close to you...”

“Ah... Ah... Me too, Sulli-sshi... Instead I'm the one who is afraid that you would feel uncomfortable if we're like this...”

“Did we possibly know each other...?” asks Sulli, both of our eyes are closed, our voices are getting low, as if we're whispering, however it still can be heard clearly.

I only give a smile responding to her words, then the two of us are drown in the silence of the room, meditating again.

===

 SSSH... SHHHH... Breezy wind brushes my hair and my body.

Ah... The sun is quite hot. I open my eyes, right, I'm lying down on the grass. Why am I here? Where is this?

Ah I don't care, maybe this is a picture of serenity because of the meditation. This is so fun, it feels like a really long time already that I haven't relaxed in an open nature like this.

This smell is so typical as well, I can't forget this smell, a smell that is already like a part of my own body, lavender flower.

HICK... HICK....

Who's crying? That little crying sob is ruining my calming atmosphere. Then I get up from my sleep and look for the sound source. Who is crying in a broad daylight and just ruining my serenity?

“Booh... Booh... Thrown child... Thrown child... You don't have a father... You don't have a mother... Booh... Booh.. Booh...”

A little girl, about four years old, is crying, made fun of by two boys around her. The little girl can only look down and cry helplessly.

Then I move, walking closer to the two boys that are bigger than the girl. I take a breath first, before shouting loudly so the two kids would be scared.

“YAH!!! YAH!!!!!!!”

Hm? It's not me who's shouting, right now I'm still opening my mouth and taking air. There's a boy running beside me while carrying quite a big wooden branch. While flicking that branch, that guy shoos the two boys who were bullying the girl. “YAISH!!! Go away!!!!” snaps that boy.

I fall silent seeing that. This... This... I turn to my back. I feel that this place doesn't feel that unfamiliar. I turn towards a simple wood-plated house. Gosh... This is the garden of the Lavender House.

And also... The boy who saved that girl was... me... Yes, me... When I was eight years old.

“Are you okay?” I asked the girl who was sitting on the floor and crying. I threw the wooden branch towards the two mean kids who were running away.

The girl then crawled, picking up the lollipop candy that was already falling apart on the floor.

“H... Hey... It's dirty... It's dirty...” I said while warding both of her hands.

“Huah... Huahhh...” she cried again when I prevented her from doing so.

I saw this kid's knee was bleeding, maybe she fell down when she was being mocked by the kids earlier. Then her candy got off her hands and fell apart.

“Come, follow oppa...” I said while pulling her up. She was still crying, until finally I carried that kid on my back.

“You live in the Lavender House, right? That's it, don't cry again... Let's go to my home for a moment, okay? Let's clean your wound first then play again... If you want to do so I'll give you a new candy...” I said until finally she stopped crying and tightly held my shoulders throughout our way towards a house that was not far away from the Lavender House, my house in the past.

I follow my young me, going into the house. Until finally I put the girl to sit on the chair in the living room.

“Wait a bit, okay? Oppa will take a candy for you...” I said while walking into a room, leaving the girl alone in the living room.

That little girl only looked around, seeing the new atmosphere she just saw. Not long after the 8-year-old me appeared again, carrying a tray with a cake and little candies, I also brought a first-aid kit.

“Sorry... There's no lollipop in Oppa's house... But you want this cake and these candies, right?” I said while squatting in front of that kid. That kid nodded. I treated the wound on the kid's knee.

“Oppa, kamsahamnida...”

That girl held her hand out, “I... Call me... Soojung, Jung Soo Jung...” she said with a sweet smile to me.

Ah,

I just realize something.

This girl. It's the girl who always spent her time with everyday, playing together in that orphanage, the Lavender House. She's the one who always walked behind me when we met the mean kids and pulled my clothes so hard when she was scared. She was like my own little sister, she often called me “Oppa” and “Oppa” everyday.

However, one day she disappeared without any news, not leaving any 'Goodbye' words to me.

But why does this memory always come back lately? And I can feel this kid's presence, not that far away from me.

SooJung? Crystal... Possibly she's... Krystal?

===

Itaewon

15.02

My memories disperses when Sulli moves her head. It seems like she wants to end the meditation.

She moves until both of our noses are now touching and... I feel something on my lips, making me open my eyes immediately.

She kisses me.

Our lips touch each other for three seconds and then she pulls her kiss back. Sulli then open her eyes, I'm remarkably surprised. I try to keep calm.

“Gaze, physical and emotional touch...” says Sulli.

“And sorry, I seem to be liking you, Sungyeol-sshi...” says Sulli, this time her eyes don't dare looking at me.

“How do you...?” I say, confused how to respond to her.

“I know we just got to know each other... But I'm wondering myself... Why does my soul feel that we already knew each other... Yes, already knew each other...” she says, looking down.

I don't understand. Generally if a woman confesses her feelings to a guy first, that's a truth, not a lie like one that's easily said by a guy when he's interested in a woman. What makes me confused is, isn't there a special relationship between Sulli and L? Seeing L who was so possessive when I took Sulli home some time ago.

Which one should I believe? Is it Sulli's words? Or is it my hypothesis about their love triangle?

===

NICT Agent Room

19.00

“So quiet...” says Krystal as soon as she arrives in the agents room, her hair is still wet, showing that she has just finished taking a shower.

“Huh, is it you who's standing guard tonight, Amber? Isn't this night Kyu's and my turn?” asks Krystal, wondering seeing Amber's figure who's relaxing while enjoying a bag of potato chips, her snack.

“Overtime... Overtime because Hae, Kyu, L and Captain are going, running a mission...” says Amber casually.

“Mission? Why am I not involved?” asks Krystal, wondering.

“I don't know... They even banned SeoHyun on getting involved in their mission... They didn't even tell her their radio frequency wave... They only gave the signal protocol they're using... In case they need a help from us...” says Amber while pouting.

“L...? He...”

“He's not that recovered yet... But earlier he took a pain killer given by a lab staff, he said he needs to hold out for twelve hours... Well, hopefully the stitch wound on his stomach won't open again..”

Krystal snorts and shakes her head.

“Never mind Krys, keep calm, he surely can put a limit on himself...”

Krystal sighs, as if she doesn't want to know anything about L anymore.

“How about your shoulder?” asks Krystal while approaching Amber and was about to touch her shoulder.

“Hey...” Amber immediately moves out of reflex, afraid that Krystal would presses her shoulder.

“It has not totally recovered yet... But I can already do my normal activities...” says Amber with a smile.

“Mian...” Krystal then goes towards her desk and sits down on her chair.

Krystal looks at the computer monitor that's , then she uses the search function, she types something. “Lee Sung Yeol.” Then SungYeol's data appears, his data is a bit different than what L had read before. This time his personal data has already disappeared, what's left is only an information containing his bio data and activities at the NICT.

“NICT Area, EXIT 12.00”

“He hasn't returned yet, apparently...” says Krystal in her mind.

Krystal then takes out her cellphone from her pocket. She looks at her cellphone's wallpaper, then she laughs slightly, and she changes that wallpaper, changing the photo that was a picture of her with L before.

Apgujeong

19.05

Confused and awkward, that's the atmosphere inside this car, Sulli's car I'm driving.

It's as if my head had been turning since earlier, the more time goes by the more confused and curious I get.

Firstly, why did the memories of my younger days feel so clear when I meditated with Sulli earlier. When I asked the yoga instructor, an image or vision like that may happen because when you're meditating it's as if you were calling a few past memories that really remained in the past and started to get forgotten a bit today. And why, in that memory, did I feel that the little girl is now close to me.

Secondly, the kiss and that feelings confession. It was very fast, whereas the two of us haven't known each other for a long time yet. What's weird is that I felt comfortable when I was close to her for the first time. And she also wasn't that awkward when she did a yoga posture like earlier. She felt like she had known me since a long time. Did she lie and just want to play with my feelings? Doesn't she have a love relationship with L? Until Krystal often keeps a suspicious sense and vengeance on her?

Or there's another possibility... Is Sulli possibly that kid? The little kid inside my memories. When we meditated earlier, did she also get the same image of the past like me? How can she be that kid? Is she Soojung?

ARGH! Yeol, you're thinking to hard and even make up stuff.

I shake my head, come on Yeol, think sanely...

“Wae? What's wrong with you? Are you dizzy?” asks Sulli who saw me shaking my head by myself.

“Ah no... No... It's just I was thinking about something...” I say.

“What were you thinking about, Yeol-sshi? It looks like something complicated?” asks Sulli while looking at me.

I take a deep breath and exhale it, I have to find another topic.

“Did you get a vision when you meditated earlier?” I ask.

“Hm... Is it really what you were thinking about?” answers Sulli with a smile.

I only nod and raise my brow.

“Just a memory in my younger days... Hihi...” she says while laughing.

THUMP! It's as if my heart just beat faster for a second.

Our conversation doesn't go on because we're already in the parking lot of Sulli's apartment. The two of us get out. I can only be quiet and fall silent when she pulls my right arm when we go up a few stairs to reach her apartment, at a glance if we're seen by other people we're like a couple of lovers. Until finally we reach the front door of her apartment.

“Thanks... I enjoyed this day... Sungyeol-sshi...” she says a moment before she opens her house door that's locked by a digital lock.

“Hm...” I smile slightly while looking at her.

“Take a rest, tomorrow you have to go back to the NICT, right?” I say to her while waving my hand.

NICT Dormitory

19.40

“Where were you?” she says when I arrive at the dormitory area. Krystal walks approaching me while carrying a few documents.

Ah, I can't possibly say that I was on a date with Sulli today.

“Repaired my car...” I say, stopping in front of my room.

“Wae? You missed me, didn't you?” I joke with a stupid smile.

KNOCK! She hits me with a folder.

“Quickly take a shower... After that accompany me standing guard tonight... There are a lot of documents we have to read...” she says while passing by.

NICT Agent Room

20.00

Huh, it's so quiet, it's so unusual, unlike the times before, if I went to this place there were definitely at least three agents gathering at the same time. However, this time it's different, there's only Krystal who's sitting alone at her place.

“Where did the others go?” I ask while putting my files on my desk.

“On a mission...” she says simply, her eyes are still directed at the document she's seeing. Meanwhile there are a lot of files lying in front of her. Then I walk approaching her.

“What file is this? Dr. Lee?” I say when I see there's a paper containing a bio data that is separated from those files.

“I don't know... Leeteuk was the one who told us to read all these files... I don't understand...”

They're on a mission and the two of us are ordered to read these files, what does all of this mean?

“Are they maybe being involved in a mission that's related to this person?” I ask while pulling a chair beside Krystal and sit beside her.

“Ehm... That's possible...” she says simply.

“Psst it's only the two of us tonight, huh?” I ask while looking around me.

Krystal immediately turns to me, “Mwo... So what?” she goes back with her chair a bit.

“Eh... eh, it's not that I wanted to do something weird...” I say. Damn, don't tell me that she suspected me that I would do something weird to her.

“I want to tell you something...” I say with a whispering voice.

“Hm...? What? I also have something I want to tell you...” Krystal raises her brows.

I'm surprised, why do the two of us want to tell or vent about something at almost the same time? I wanted to ask about her opinion, about Sulli's action before, of course I won't clearly mention Sulli's name.

“You talk first... Because mine is a bit sickening.

“Hm...” Krystal sighs.

“L... L... explained his reason before...” she says slowly.

“Huh?” L...? She said?

=== to be continued ===

 

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