Author Note : Finally it has reached Chapter 2! Cheers!!! Please enjoy the story right now! For you who are still confused about the cast, you can directly visit this LINK.

NICT Headquarter Building

“KRYSTAL!!!!”

“ISH!!!” Krystal releases the guy who was interfering her.

Safe. My life is still safe. A guy pushed that crazy girl called Krystal so she let me off.

“Yah! Kyu!-”
“You shut up first!” says that guy with curly brown hair, managing to make Krystal quiet.

“We’re sorry…” the guy bows in front of me with a smile.
“Yah! You know this guy-” once again Krystal yells but the guy drags her out of the alley right away.
Apparently that guy is also someone from the NICT.

Both of them walk away from me, more precisely that Krystal is dragged forcefully by that guy called Kyu.

Mapo – Seoul
Caffe Benne
11.50AM

“Here, go cool your mind first…” says a guy called Kyu while giving a cup of cold Caramel Machiatto to Krystal.
“You’re the weird one… That person just now is the one who was involved during the chase yesterday, you know… He was already told by Amber to shut up, but instead he called me NICT Agent in the public earlier…” says Krystal.
“Never mind, just enjoy your holidays and don’t care about that person any more…” says Kyu.

“What the hell is this…? You want me to report you to Captain Leeteuk, huh?” Krystal threatens Kyu.
“Just go report it…” says Kyu relaxed, not even showing worry on his face.

Krystal is speechless for a moment, guessing Kyu’s words.
“What do you mean? Are you spying on me?” asks Krystal.
“Ani… aniyeo, not spying on you, but I’m observing that guy… Lee Sungyeol…”
“Spying on him? What for?” Krystal is surprised by Kyu’s words.
“Never mind, I’ll just explain it later… after you’re back… Now I have to go, before that Sungyol leaves Mapo…” says Kyuhyun while tapping Krystal’s shoulder.

“YAH! Kyu!!!” shouts Krystal, but Kyu just gives a sign that Krystal should be quiet.

“What… What the hell is this… Lee Sungyeol? That guy? Why is he being followed by the NICT? Who is that guy? Was he involved in an illegal activity? ISH… damn I can’t be involved in this matter right now, I’m having days off.

===

The third day,

NICT
Agent Room
07.00 AM

It’s still early enough, but Krystal is already walking into the room where the agents gather.
“Morning…” greets Krystal. In that room there are only a guy and Amber who are at their own table respectively.
“Oho… A-yo Krys! How ya goin’? Did you have fun on your three days off?” greets a guy called DongHae, he sits right beside Krystal’s table.

BUMP. Krystal violently puts her bag on the table.
“A few days ago… I met Kyu at Mapo… He was following Sungyeol, the guy who helped me last time… What is happening?” says Krystal while looking at Amber and DongHae as well.
“Oh so you’ve already met your future partner?” says Amber with a smile.
“Huh? F.. future partner? What does it mean?” Krystal is confused by Amber’s words.
“Yes… Yesterday L requested to add one more new member to our agent team… He proposed that Sungyeol… Which is surprising is that Sungyeol had joined an NICT training before but he rejected the offer to become an NICT agent…” says DongHae.

Krystal snorts and she sits on her chair. She doesn’t believe what DongHae just said.
Sungyeol had joined an NICT training before? If so of course he could drive the car like a pro at that time and as if there wasn’t any fear during the chase.

“So? Why L? Why did L recommend that Sungyeol?” It seems Krystal still doesn’t believe all of this.

“L… said that this team needs someone skilled at driving.. so it wouldn’t be troublesome for us anymore if any chasing case occurs like yesterday… More precisely finding someone suitable to work together with you who aren’t skilled at driving…” says Amber.

“Does it mean you want to fill that empty spot? No… there’s no one who can replace Victoria as my partner!…” says Krystal furiously.
“Krys! Chill… Try to think carefully… Vic has already resigned for good… She has married a decent guy and now she’s livin’ out there in Thailand with her husband… How can she go back to this place? Her letter of resignation has already been approved by Kangta-sshi since last week, you already know that, right?” says DongHae.

“L… ssh… that kid… where is that kid now?” asks Krystal with a hiss.
“Victoria? I already told you she’s in Thailand…” says DongHae.
“L!”
“In the interrogation room with Leeteuk-sshi, he has been in there the whole night interrogating that drug dealer from Mexico… They’re trying to get some other information from the two people who were captured yesterday…” says Amber.

Krystal gets out of the room right away. DongHae looks at Amber as if he was talking through his eyes ‘What is Krys going to do?’. Amber only shrugs and pouts ‘I don’t know…’

NICT’s interrogation room is divided into two parts. The first part consists of a table and two chairs where a suspect gets interrogated. Then there is a second room, in which you can observe the interrogation process through a one-way glass.

Interrogation Room

Krystal arrives in the interrogation room. She immediately sees Leeteuk in that room. At first Krystal wanted to spill her anger about L who acted as he wishes but she dropped her intention when she felt the very serious interrogation atmosphere, with L and a handcuffed person.

“Oh you… sit down…” says Leeteuk, immediately tells Krystal to sit down. Krystal changes her attitude, now observing L. In that room, she can hear L’s conversation clearly through a computer monitor which shows the video from the room’s CCTV.

L’s breath seems heavy and his body is leaned on the table. His lips are already dry and chapped.
“It’s better if you just… admit… where your comrades show up…” says L, his words are a bit broken because of his irregular breath.
“Don’t you understand? I can be ruthless!” says L, yelling to that Mexican guy, one of the guys captured in the chase a few days ago.

“L… why is that kid so weird… Is he not well?” asks Krystal confused seeing L’s condition which seems weak.
“Of course… it’s the second day he’s interrogating… He already has done this for almost 48 hours without any meal… It’s already the second person who doesn’t want to reveal anything…” says Leeteuk while his face. Leeteuk seems to be a bit tired as well, he is getting dark circles under his eyes.

Krystal feels sorry for L’s condition.

CHHK!!!! WERRRRRR!!!! CHHK!!!!!! CLICK!
L places a single round in a Magnum Revolver, first he spins its cylinder, then slides it in and its hammer. He immediately aims that gun to the back of the guy he is interrogating.
“Russian Roulette…” threatens L.

“L!…” Krystal jerks by L’s way that was too much to open that person’s mouth. It’s the same as killing that person by blowing his head off if the bullet happens to be behind the cocked hammer. Leeteuk only asks Krystal to be calm.

The guy L is pointing his gun at is already having cold sweat and his body trembles. The more he keeps quiet, the closer L puts the gun’s muzzle.
“You dare to shoot?” says that guy challenging L.
“You think I don’t have the permission to kill you?” answers L.
The guy only laughs.
“Your friend will change his mind later if you die here…” says L.

“Say where your group shows up…” threatens L, his tone even more horrific.

The guy swallows, “B… Busan… Daegu…” admits the guy.
Then L hits the guy’s head with the revolver’s lower end.
“YAH! Was it that difficult for you to admit!” shouts L.

“Leeteuk-sshi, hereafter I’m handing it over to you…” says L, talking through the microphone.

L leaves the interrogation room. He doesn’t pay attention to Krystal in that room. Then Krystal runs after L out of that room.

Krystal is speechless as soon as she is out of the interrogation room, it’s a view that surprises her.

L is hugging someone, who is no other than Sulli, an employee at NICT’s Lab and Autopsy.

“L-sshi… yah L-sshi…” says Sulli, she doesn’t feel comfortable by L’s action.
“A… a moment please… just a moment…” whispers L, his eyes are closed and his words are not that clear.

===

NICT Area
10.00 AM

“YAWN…” I’m totally sleepy.
So three days repairing this car in hurry was not a good idea. In the end a lack of sleep for three days makes me look like a zombie.

Arriving at the checkpoint, I stop this car, a red Kia Forte.
“NICT agent’s Kia Forte… Amber’s…” I say while giving the payment receipt and get out of the car.
“Oh, please come in…” says that porter.

Huh, so he wants me to directly take this car inside. It’s funny, as a headquarter of a secret agency, why can a normal person like me just come in? Well, whatever, maybe the car’s owner has already been waiting for me.

NICT Vehicle Area

I arrive at a parking lot in the basement. There are a lot of vehicles here, two-wheeled as well as four. From a motorcycle with class such as Ducati until Honda NSX car are in this hall. Damn, is this a parking lot or a showroom?

Someone waves his hand, wanting me to approach him. Oh it’s that tomboy girl, Amber.
I immediately gets out of the car while taking the car’s key.

“Annyeong Sungyeol-sshi…” says Amber politely and bows her body.
“De… Annyeong Amber-sshi…” I say as I greet her back.

Amber immediately touches the front bumper of her car. She seems detailed looking at the result of my work.

“Wow cool, it’s really neat…” praises Amber with a smile.
“Hehe yeah it’s the result of three days without sleep…” I say with a proud smile.
“Thank you very much Sungyeol-sshi, as this is my operational vehicle… Sorry that I asked your shop to work quickly…” says Amber.
“Ahaha take it easy Amber-sshi, the agents indeed have to come first haha… It’s not funny if they need to work but there’s no vehicle…” I say with a smile.

Yup. Thank you Amber, thanks to you I get a bonus from the chubby boss, Shindong.

“Oh yes, this is the receipt as well as the invoice…” I say, once again taking out a sheet of paper from my pocket.

“Ah, can you just come with me, Sungyeol-sshi? The chief wants to meet you directly…”says Amber.

“De…?”

Chief?

NICT Lab and Autopsy Room

“How is his condition?” asks Krystal to Sulli who just slid the curtain of the treatment room and approaches Krystal right away.
“Calm down Krys, he is just dehydrated and only lacks vitamin… I heard he had just been interrogating for a whole 48 hours, right? He is just tired, give him a rest for a moment, he’ll surely recover soon…” says Sulli while taking the stethoscope off her neck. Krystal nods and she goes towards the treatment room’s curtain where L is behind.

“I know you’re worried about him, but please give him a rest first, Krys…” says Sulli, but Krystal doesn’t pay attention to her, she still slides the curtain to approach L. Sulli only can sigh responding to Krystal.

Krystal stands beside L while looking at L who is a bit pale.
“Wae?” asks L, his eyes are closed but he can feel Krystal’s presence beside him.
“You…-” Krystal sighs first, apparently controlling her anger.
“Why… did you… act as you wish… finding a partner for me without my agreement, huh?” asks Krystal.

L just stays still, listening to Krystal’s complaint.

“Myungsoo-ah…” says Krystal calling L’s real name when L didn’t respond.
L snorts, “I don’t have time to discuss with you… It’s for your own good too…” says L, his eyes are still kept closed.
“I don’t need a partner… To me a partner for me is only Victoria… Vic sunbae is the one who matches well with me, there is no other one…” says Krystal, but L is still quiet, doesn’t even move.

“Take that request back as soon as possible…” Krystal threatens that L should cancel his recommendation of Sungyeol getting into the NICT.

“Forget it, I can’t cancel it anymore, Kangta-sshi has already agreed to it… I heard today he will come and Kangta-sshi himself will offer him the spot…”
Krystal sighs and her look at L turns even more into a stare.
“Oh… Geure… I hope he rejects it… if he doesn’t reject it… I’m the one who will reject him… Yes… I’m the one who will reject that Sungyeol…” without further ado Krystal leaves the treatment room.

“Sssh… This is your problem Krys… you’re still too hot tempered to take actions and be in an organization…” complains L while sighing and opening his eyes a bit, looking at Krystal’s figure who is walking, leaving him.

NICT Main Area

“Yes… that huge display can monitor everything…” says Amber who is giving a ‘tour’ inside NICT’s headquarter. My eyes are immediately directed to the large LED display, really huge… maybe 100 inches.

My feelings are getting worse. Why am I taken this far, yes, this far until I get into NICT’s main room. Until finally we both meet a woman who just gets out of a room labeled ‘Lab & Autopsy.’

So it’s Krystal…

Once again she observes me with her stare. Once again I don’t understand, what did I do wrong to her until she looks at me like that. She only observes us for three seconds, then she quickly walks leaving us without greeting or smiling. This girl really has problems with her temper.

But I think from her way looking at me, she doesn’t seem to want me here, right… A sign that she doesn’t want to see me inside the NICT.

“Ah, sorry Sungyeol-sshi… please understand her… That Krystal is our youngest member… so her anger often explodes…” says Amber as she keeps leading me to walk.

Yes.. yes.. yes, just say she’s still labile. And maybe within a short time I’m sure NICT will get a problem if that Krystal still has a behavior like that, hot-tempered and hasty.

Director Room

Amber opens the ‘boss’ room.
“Oh… good afternoon…” greets the guy in that room.

So it’s Kangta-sshi. I know him. I have met him before.

“Please sit down, Sungyeol-sshi…” he says while standing up from his seat and offers me to sit down on a black sofa in that room.
“Ah… Mr. Kangta…” I say while bowing and accepting a handshake from him.
“How are you, Sungyeol?” asks Kangta warmly and taps my shoulder.
“Fine, sir, very fine…” I reply with a smile.
“I didn’t think you turn out becoming a shop’s mechanic…” says Kangta who is now sitting down in front of me.
“Do you want to drink something?” asks Kangta.

“Sorry, sir, but I can’t stay too long here…” I say, remembering about the lot of pending work because I had to take Amber’s car to the NICT.
“This… is the payment invoice, sir…” I say giving the sheet that needs to be paid by the NICT for Amber’s car repair fee.
Amber grabs that paper from my hand. “Let me take care of it now… you just talk with Mr. Kangta first, okay?” says Amber.

Whoa. What is this? After a small talk Kangta starts putting a serious face for me.

Agent Room

“Relax Krys!” says Kyu when he sees Krystal sitting down in her seat and stares at Kyu right away.
“What did Mr. Kangta say? Is that Sungyeol really going to join us, becoming a field agent like us?” says Krystal, this time starting to bite her fingernails.
“How do I know, I was just asked to observe that Sungyeol and give a report to him… It’s Sungyeol’s own decision whether he joins our group…” answers Kyu while stirring his cup of tea.
“Hahaha Krystal… Krystal… from your attitude you seem nervous as if you were just going to meet a matchmaking partner given by your father hahha…” says Donghae while sticking out his tongue and Kyu immediately gives a high five to DongHae.

“Sssh… ergh!” Krystal gets angry by herself hearing DongHae’s joke.

NICT Director Room

“A few months ago you rejected the offer to join NICT… Whereas your training result at the NICT was very good… If I may know what was your reason rejecting that offer?” asks Kangta to me.

Yes, I knew this talk would come out again.
“Sorry it’s my privacy, there was a lot of personal consideration that I can’t say…” I say.

“Oh, okay alright…” says Kangta while placing a folder in front of me.
Once again, a folder labeled NICT. A folder with a content I have rejected before. Is Kangta going to ask me to come back to NICT this time?

“We need you, Sungyeol… as our agent…” says Kangta.

PSSH. Right…

“Actually the current agent team still lacks some things, including their skill in terms of a car chase. For that case when you were involved at the last action, I’m hoping for your help, that you can take part at the NICT team…” says Kangta.

I snort and give a smile to Kangta.
There is one consideration in my mind right now, that it’s impossible for me to work with that crazy girl called Krystal. If I join them maybe there would be a scene of her shooting her own colleague later. We both are in different worlds.

“Sorry but I think I have to reject this offer again…” I say.
Kangta jerks hearing my words, “If I may know, why are you rejecting it? Is it still the same reason like last time?” asks Kangta.

“Aniyeo… This time it seems like I wouldn’t be able to work with the current agent…” I say.
“W.. what does it mean?” Kangta is careful.
“There is someone who seems to reject my presence here… If I accept this… I’m sure I might fight with her…”
Kangta doesn’t ask further regarding who that person is. He can only give a sad smile hearing my reason.

Until finally that conversation ends, ended with another refusal by me. Exactly like six months ago when I passed the NICT training and met Kangta when he offered whether I wanted to become an NICT agent or not. I rejected him. And I became the only person who refused after getting a training from the NICT.

NICT Area
11.30 AM

Damn, this NICT area is quite remote. It’s far from the bus station and other public transportation seldom passes by. I inevitably walk along the sidewalk. Until I finally find a taxi that is passing by and can take me right away.

“Mokdong, sir… Mokdong…” I say as soon as I am in the taxi.

THUMP. THUMP. THUMP

Soon after I am inside the taxi, I can clearly hear a helicopter coming from the NICT drifting in the sky, which then is followed by a few vehicles coming from the NICT.

Helicopter? They’re using a helicopter? It means there is an urgent situation that requires them to arrive at that place in only a few minutes.
“Sir, please turn on the radio…” I ask.
There is surely something…

I don’t know why this feeling is haunting me, a feeling that is not usual.

===

NICT Agent Room
11.20 AM

“GUYS!!!!” shouts Amber, asking for an attention from Krystal, Kyu, DongHae and Leeteuk who are in the agents room.

“There is a problem in Gangnam…!” says Amber.

A bank is being robbed by an armed group. This time a shooting is happening between the police and the side of that armed group. The bank customers and its workers are becoming hostages. There are already four victims. Three of them are hostages and one police officer.

The police has already asked for help to the NICT.

So Leeteuk, Krystal, Kyu, DongHae and Amber move right away. They decide to use a helicopter to reach the location first. The first team in the helicopter includes Leeteuk, Krystal and Kyu, while the second team includes Donghae and Amber.

11.35 AM

“L… here…” says L, talking through the communication line.
“L, it’s better if you just take a rest…” says Leeteuk who is in a helicopter with Kyu and Krystal.

“Take it easy… I’ll help monitor from the command room with SeoHyun…” says L who is at NICT’s command room. His face still looks a bit pale. He stands behind a girl called SeoHyun who is operating the computer as well as their communication tools.

“Current situation?” asks Leeteuk.

“The second negotiation failed, there is still some shooting right now… A police officer is trapped in the middle and there is no one who can get closer to her to help…” says Seohyun giving a report to Leeteuk.
“How many minutes left until Amber and Hae arrive at the site?”
“Less than three minutes…” answers L.

“In one more minute the helicopter will skim, the three of us will attack through the roof… Tell Amber and Hae if they’re already there, ask them to pull all the police members to the back line because NICT will run the mission…” says Leeteuk giving an order.

“Alright…” L and Seohyun say at the same time.

In less than a minute the helicopter skims over the ten-story building located in Gangnam. Shooting is still happening in front of the main entrance of that bank. Without distracting the attention down there, Leeteuk, Krystal and Kyu jump out from the helicopter. The three of them are already wearing bullet-proof vests and helmets and they have also brought weaponry as well. Kyu and Leeteuk are bringing sub-machine guns while Krystal carries a handgun.

Kyu tries to open the rooftop door of that building but it is locked, Leeteuk then intends to break the door handle, however,
BAM!!!! Krystal runs and kicks that door until it opens. She immediately goes into the building. Leeteuk only can be speechless seeing Krystal’s action which is considered hasty.

Hana Bank – Gangnam Seoul
11.40 AM

Everyone was going for a lunch break, but not in the situation around Hana Bank in that noon, the atmosphere around there is really tense.

BAM! BAM!!!! Bullets are being bombarded from both sides, a police officer is seen taking cover behind his car. He is by himself right in front of the front gate of the bank, not even one police officer can help that officer who is injured on his left arm.

“We’ve arrived at the site… L…” says DongHae who has just arrived and immediately joins the police unit.

“NICT?” asks a police officer who seems to be the leader there.
“Current situation?” asks Amber.

“There is a female officer trapped there in the front… We can’t get closer to her…” says that male police officer.
“We hope for your cooperation, please pull back all police officers and cease fire, because NICT will finish this…” says Amber.

“Captain.. The police officers will step aside soon… There is someone trapped here in the front… We will save that female officer first and then go inside to attack…” says DongHae talking to Leeteuk.

“Alright… SeoHyun, take over the electrical substation of this building right now to distract the attention of the armed group… Wait for the command from DongHae and Amber… And L, please hack all of this building’s CCTV, give a report of each movement of the target…” Leeteuk gives orders. Leeteuk, Krystal and Kyu are at the emergency staircase of that building.

The police starts to step back.

“Electrical substation is ready to be disconnected…” says SeoHyun.
“How much time do you need?” asks Leeteuk.
“20 seconds… from now…” says DongHae who is now getting ready with his weapon.

“Alright… the mission starts now…” says Leeteuk.

DongHae and Amber run. The power in that building turns off. The shooting that happened before has now stopped because the attention of that armed group is distracted by the power outage.

“Hey pretty… may I help you?” says DongHae when approaching the female officer. Her left arm suffers from a gunshot wound.

10 more seconds before Leeteuk, Krystal and Kyu move. DongHae and Amber have to move saving this injured officer.

“CHH…” L snorts when he manages to get the building’s CCTV image.
Slowly some of the CCTVs get shot one by one.
“Leeteuk-sshi, they seem to have noticed us… They are breaking the CCTVs on the first floor… All of them…” says L.

At the same time the shooting stops.
An ambulance immediately goes towards DongHae and Amber, soon carrying the injured woman away.

Leeteuk is quiet.
“Captain?” says Kyu asking for further instruction from Leeteuk.
“Weird… It’s weird…” murmurs Leeteuk who is silent, racking his brain.

“Captain… There is an elevator that keeps going up…” says Krystal who is peeking from the back of the emergency door and looks at the elevator door.
“Stop that elevator… Press the button…” orders Leeteuk. The three of them get out from their hideout. Krystal quickly presses the Up button to stop that elevator and open the door in front of them.

The weapons of the three are aimed to the elevator door… Maybe it’s that armed group inside the elevator?

“Sky situation? Is there a helicopter?” asks Leeteuk.
“Clear… The sky is clear…” says SeoHyun.
“Shooting?”
“It has stopped, it seems there is no more movement…” says Donghae, his eyes observe that bank. The panes are already cracked due to the shooting before.

The elevator goes up, the shooting has stopped. Maybe this group wants to escape by a helicopter? But there is no helicopter drifting in the sky.

RING! The elevator door will open soon, Leeteuk, Kyu and Krystal’s weapons are already aimed straight to the door.

SRAKKKK! The elevator door opens.
THUMP! As if the hearts of those three stopped to beat, the three get ready to pull the trigger.
However the three’s eyes turn wide and they don’t pull their triggers. What the hell is this?

“L… How many people are in that armed group?” asks Leeteuk.
“S.. six… What happens?”

What they are seeing is only six corpses inside the elevator, six corpses with faces covered by camouflage, complete with the weaponry. They can suspect that those six bodies are the armed group which had showed up before.

“They are already dead…” says Leeteuk.
“Mwo?” says L surprised hearing Leeteuk’s words.

But, who… who killed that group? All of this, is weird.

DongHae looks at Amber. ‘Do we get in?’ Amber nods approving DongHae’s idea.

“Leeteuk, we will try to break in…” says DongHae.
“Alright… we will also go down soon!” says Leeteuk. Krystal immediately runs faster than Kyu and Leeteuk who are carrying heavier weapons than hers.

Finally Krystal arrives on the first floor,
she sees the hostages with covered eyes and mouths, handcuffs on their legs and all of their hands tied with duct tapes.

“Captain… we need to evacuate them immediately…” says Amber.
“Because there’s a time bomb next to the safe!” says Amber through the communication radio.

“W… what?” L jerks.
“I will call the police’s bomb squad team” says SeoHyun.

“No… There’s no time… The time is less than ten minutes…” says DongHae.

BAM!!!
L hits his table. “Damn, that bomb… We didn’t notice it because the CCTV went off…” says L.
“An image of the bomb received!” a file is received, a photo that comes from DongHae.
“C4… C4 explosive…” says L when he sees the form of that time bomb.

The hostages are taken out from inside the building right away. There is no other choice other than evacuating and clearing that building. Even an attempt by the bomb squad team perhaps would be useless, because their time is not much.

“Is everyone already out?” asks Leeteuk to Kyu.
“Everyone is already out!” says Kyu.
“Wait where is Krys-?”

“KRYS!!!! GO OUT QUICKLY!!!!” yells Leeteuk on their communication radio.
L and SeoHyun become fierce, the NICT radar indicates that Krystal is still inside that building, more precisely she is squatting in front of the time bomb with pliers, it seems like she wants to defuse the bomb.

“I can do it… I can do it…” Krystal convinces herself and she throws her communication radio away because Leeteuk keeps warning her.

Krystal’s time is not much, only four minutes left.

“*tsk* that kid…” Leeteuk takes off his weapon and runs towards the building.
“CAPTAIN!!!” shouts Amber.

One minute left.
There are a lot of cables she doesn’t understand, which one she has to disconnect so that bomb would stop ticking.
A stream of her cold sweat has already reached her eyes, it feels so acid.
“Eomma… Appa… I will… I will -”

“YAH!” shouts someone and immediately pulls Krystal body.
That figure doesn’t only pull her, he drags Krystal, forcing her to go out of the building.
“What the hell is this!!!” shouts Krystal.

However that male figure doesn’t answer Krystal.

30 seconds left.
That guy runs fast, Krystal follows the step rhythm of that guy.
There is really not much time left. They will soon reach the exit gate.

DABOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!! The bomb explodes.
Krystal and that guy are thrown at the same time.

“KRYS!!!!!!” shouts everybody.

===

…

Deep inside the memories, there was someone that was always behind my back, always following me wherever I went. She’s younger than me and always called me oppa and oppa.

She was cute, and I always thought of her as my younger sister.

But one day she was gone. I didn’t give you a farewell.

And now I can feel her presence, so close. Is it you?

…

===

NICT Agent Room
06.00 PM

“I can’t believe it… that person is involved again in this case?” asks KangTa to Leeteuk.
“Exactly, sir, he’s the one who saved Krystal just now…” says Leeteuk.
Kangta looks down for a few seconds then he snorts, sighing and looking at L.

“L…What kind of a conspiration is this?” asks KangTa. L is just speechless looking straight at another direction.

“Perhaps that person is the one who killed the six of that armed group? My current guess is only that person that can be suspected… He was trained by the NICT before, at least he knows how to kill people…” says Leeteuk.

Everyone freezes as they hear statement by statement that comes from Leeteuk and KangTa’s mouths.

“Let’s just wait for the lab results…”says L.

===

NICT – Treatment Room

“Krys… You have to break that habit of yours a bit… You like to act as you wish and not hear the captain’s order…” says Sulli while giving treatment to the wound on Krystal’s right shoulder.

Krystal is quiet, she only stares straight blankly, not saying even a word from .
“You’re lucky that you were saved by that person… What if that person wasn’t there? Maybe you would already be dead because of that explosion…” once again Sulli talks to Krystal, this time she takes out a bandage.
“Break that selfish and stubborn character of yours… It’s useless… You know as an agent you have to be able to think with a cool and calm mind… Don’t be drowned in your passion like that…”

“Yah…” Krystal finally says something.
“De?”

“What is your relationship with Myungsoo?” says Krystal, this time immediately looking at Sulli.

Sulli sighs. “So it’s what disturbing your mind?” asks Sulli.
“Are you suspecting me because L hugged me just now?” asks Sulli.
Krystal just nods.

“Huh…” Sulli sighs again.
“No, there’s no relationship between us… Just now I unintentionally met him when he got out of the interrogation room… At that time his condition was already strange and he was about to fall down… I tried to hold him so he wouldn’t fall… But apparently you saw that and instead you thought that we hugged each other?”
Then Krystal looks down.

“Mian…” says Krystal with a little smile.
“Krys… Don’t let our relationship gets broken…-”

“Sorry, do I disturb you?” suddenly L comes into the room, butting into Krystal and Sulli’s conversation.
L’s face still looks pale but he still has to keep moving and doing his activities.

“Sulli-sshi… Is the lab result already out?” asks L.
“Ah oh yes… It is… It is…” Sulli stands up from her seat as soon as she is finished wrapping the bandage on Krystal’s arm.

“How’s your condition?” asks L while looking at Krystal’s wound.
“No problem… It’s just a graze-…”

Tock…

L slowly hits Krystal’s head with a folder he has with him.
“Do less of that kind of action earlier… You would die silly if so…” says L.
“Is the leader punishing me again?”
“No… But instead they are questioning that person as well as myself…” says L while sitting down beside Krystal.

“Never mind, don’t involve that person even further than this…” says Krystal while sighing.
L only snorts hearing Krystal.
“What made you hate that person?” asks L.
“Hate? I don’t hate him… I will hate him if he really comes into the NICT and becomes my partner…” says Krystal.
“Besides…” Krystal continues, but her words are stopped as if there was something that prevents her to continue, difficult for her to express just like that.
“Besides?…”

“Ah… I don’t know… I just feel like I don’t want to involve that person any further…” says Krystal.

“L-sshi…” says Sulli, back closer to L and Krystal.
L immediately stands up and receives the folder given by Sulli, a report.

“The result is like what you’ve suspected, L… The fingerprints aren’t the same…” says Sulli.
L immediately gets aghast seeing that report.

Interrogation Room
06.15 PM

“Do you want to drink?” asks the guy called DongHae while giving a glass of water in front of me.
“Do you have coffee?” I ask while lifting that glass with both of my hands and drink the water.
DongHae only shakes his head.
“Don’t you have coffee? I might fall asleep if the interrogation lasts until later at the midnight…” I say when I finish my drink.
“Tsk…” DongHae stands up and apparently wants to show his anger.

“We do… We do…” suddenly a voice is heard from the loudspeaker, stating that there is a cup of coffee for me.
“Hey! KYU! Why do we give a coffee to this person?” shouts DongHae facing a mirror. Pssh so it’s a one-way glass, we’re not only two here, there’s still someone called Kyu behind that mirror.

CREAK…
The door suddenly opens, a guy without any expression comes in, a guy called L, even scarier with his pale face. L whispers something to DongHae. Then DongHae gets aghast as if he didn’t believe what L said.

“You’re not guilty, Mr. Sungyeol-sshi…” says L to me.

See? I told you so.

=== to be continued ===