Those past hours were pure suffering for Junhong. His lack of sight had contributed to a great development of his hearing, and he really hated that feeling. He could heard everything more distinctly, and it made him even more scared as he was now able to perceive faint sounds of gunshots outside of the room where they were.

He quickly ran his tongue over his dry lips, a nervous movement due to the feeling of all eyes being on him, just as a louder gunshot sound was heard, making him jump slightly into his chair. There was a lot of quick movements in the room at that sound, mixed with murmurs, that made him hoped that maybe, just maybe, the other did care and it was him that came to rescue him. But the hope quickly left him at the sound of a long exasperated sigh, silencing everyone.

"So he thinks it's funny to leave us hanging like that?" He heard the boss, who came back earlier in the room, rhetorically ask, his tone bitter, if not even angry. He could heard his footsteps getting closer to him before abruptly stopping. "He think it's ing funny?" He asked again but this time louder, kicking into Junhong's chair, making him fall for the second time that day on the ground with a loud thud, covering the younger's slight scream.

His eyes tightly closed behind the blindfold and, biting on his bottom lip hard enough that it started bleeding, the metallic taste of the blood mixing with the still horrid taste of his vomit in his mouth, making him grimace, Junhong waited for his end to come. And when something finally came, it was the hard pressure of a shoe to the side of his head, the boss still clearly angry, a cry of both surprise and pain escaping from the younger's lips.

"Does he not care that much about you, huh?" The chief asked, applying more pressure on his foot, making Junhong whimpered in pain, his breath getting caught in his throat. His eyes opened wide under the blindfold not being able to breath anymore as the pressure increase, his heart beating faster and harder in his chest, and he felt that it was it. He was going to die of suffocation right now. He closed his eyes once again, about to surrender to th