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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5: Tragedy at Work

Diverting from Jun's current debacle we have Hyun's province. Hyun owns Incheon, Jeonju, Busan, and all the border cities of North and South Korea. His main office, place of work, and residential area are all located next to Jun's province in Seoul, Incheon. Today being the day after Jun's house shuffler hunt, Hyun woke up in his apartment building at about 5:00 am, his apartment isn't tremendous or anything because it'll remind him of the fact that he doesn't have a girlfriend to share it with. His room is only big enough to fit his bed, a TV, and maybe some small add ons' like a clothing basket. The room was always neat because nothing spacious actually fit inside of it. He has a small kitchen that is set up with decorations like pot and pans but he doesn't actually use them because he can't cook. His living room is probably the biggest room in the apartment being big enough to fit a couch, TV, workout mats, and a table. Lastly, he has a spare room that is completely cluttered in clothes and only clothes.

Hyun found himself struggling to get out of bed this morning. Upon waking, Hyun burrowed himself into the warm, soft sheets. He rubbed the remainders of sleep from his eyes and gazed out at the horizon; its vivid light extended across a rosy sky, for the sun was peaking a lot earlier than usual. He supposed this was something the preponderance of people would consider beautiful, but he found it novel, hard even, to find something so meaningful in something so every-day. Maybe it was the lack of love than runs through everyone else's veins or maybe it was the fact that life just wasn't worth living like it was a couple of years back. Still, eventually, he rolled himself off the bed and wobbled his way to the bathroom when he turns on the light he scares himself a little because he didn't expect his hair to be scattered all over his head like it was. He lets out a sigh of disappointment before turning on his shower, as the shower starts his phone begins to ring from his bedroom. He debates with himself a couple of times on whether or not to go and answer it and still comes to his original conclusion not to. Eventually, the phone stops ringing and the voice mail turns on.

"I know you're up, you're probably just too lazy to actually answer, but don't worry YOU WON'T BE SAYING THAT WHEN I CUT YOUR THROAT OFF!! *sigh* but we have urgent business to attend to first so COME TO THE OFFICE YOU LAZY PIECE OF SHIT!" Dae's voice mail ends.

"The one thing I miss about Star Flight is definitely sane Dae" Hyun lets out a little sigh of disappointment as he pulls his pajamas off and steps into the shower, his toes were flinching as they touched the chilled ceramic floor. His mind was in shreds early in the mornings; so Dae's voice was stuck in his mind on repeat. He turned the dial, old and metallic, releasing thousands of lukewarm drops, darkening his hair and trickling down his back. His eyes fell closed over and over, each time showing him images of the old gang like photographs on a camera roll. Starting to belt his feelings he breaks out into song singing inspiration by U-Jin.

"I'm the one I should LOVE~ IN THIS WORLD!" Hyun didn't mind the voice cracks while being in the comfort of his own building, he let huts voice carry itself through the halls of his floor for nobody dare shut him up.

"HEY!!" Hyun yelled from the floor above him. U-Jin does, in fact, live in Hyun's province, in fact, all of the hyungs live in Hyun's province. When Star Flight disbanded as peaceful gang lords Hyun felt like unity is the best strategy to stay on top so he made an alliance with the hyungs not as a business partner but as Co-CEOs and Co-Gang lords. The maknae line doesn't know about this, in fact, they think the hyungs have each other's back only when it affects their own province. That means that Hyun doesn't own 1 province but 4 of the 7 same as the other hyungs. Now as for the other hyungs apartments, they're fairly different from Hyun's shabby excuse of a home. U-Jin has a whole floor to himself composing of multiple apartments, most are used to hold facial cosmetics since that's the most important thing to him. Young and Dae also have their own floors being the two right below him, but Hyun's is just one tiny apartment on his empty floor the rest of the rooms won't get used by him. With all that empty space on hits floor, his voice traveled straight through his ceiling and into U-Jin's.

"DON'T SING MY SONG IF YOU CANT HIT MY NOTES, YOUR NOT PERFECT LIKE ME!" U-Jin yelled.

"Look get your face off the floor I can smell your breath through the ceiling" Hyun somewhat shouted back.

"Y-Y-YOU LONG BACK *sigh, long pause* DON'T WORRY I GOT A BULLET WITH YOUR NAME ON IT!"

"Yeah yeah so you tell me every day" Hyun finishes his shower.

"Whatever, Dae wants to see you at the office he says it's important" U-Jin relaid a late message.

"Can you tell him I'm on my way?" Hyun asked.

"Ten-four" U-Jin replies

"I'm not saying that shit back," Hyun said to himself as he finishes his shower to get ready for his long day ahead of him. After he got into his daily attire he readies his little snack before leaving. Hyun never believed in having bodyguards or business advisors, Hyun only needs his brain and ability to be a good leader to protect himself. So he exits the apartment building, security not in sight, and finds his way to his car in the parking lot. Hyun, A man with an IQ of 148, gang lord of multiple cities stretching across one of the wealthiest countries in the world has yet to learn how to drive, most of the time Dae drives him since they leave for the office at the same time. Since Dae decided to start his day without him, Hyun had no choice but to make it down the street by himself. So he takes some hazard lights that he keeps in his trunk out and sticks them on the hood of his little sports car before getting inside. Starting the self-drive mode he makes his easy down the street. The worst part about his self-driving car is the fact that it doesn't self-park so once Hyun reached his office he decides to leave the car by the front door since it's not like it'll get towed. Shuffling through the glove department he searches for some gum, finding none he quits and walks into the building where he was quickly companied by his secretaries.

"Already have news? You just came to work" Hyunn was in surprise.

"Yes sir, Mr. Wisp (Dae's Gang lord name) is waiting for you in his office, Lee Ahn from the board of education has denied your partnership with any schools outside of your personal province, and lastly Nick Young has called saying that half of his classmates are planning to skip today, they should be at the arcade next to the karaoke bar at 10 am." the secretary spoke.

"Thank you, secretary Kim, I'll see what Wisp wants, also set an appointment with Lee Ahn at 12 and have Mr. Glamour (U-Jin Gang lord name) and Agust D (Young's gang lord name) attend it, tell them that the contract didn't go through, as for the kids compensate Nick Young with a new game system for his assistance." Hyun continued.

"Will do Boss" She bowed as Hyun went to the elevator. He took the elevator to the 11th floor of the building and walked to the 4th room. Inside he finds Dae leaning against his freshly polished desk spinning a knife against his two pointer fingers.

"You finally showed up" Dae spoke calmly.

"Aw come on I'm what two minutes late" Hyun walks in shutting the door behind him as he made his way to his seat.

Dae points his knife at Hyun. "Two minutes can get your ass cut in my book" Hyun smirks as he leans back in his seat not worried about Dae's blank threats.

"You're always trying to cut something." Hyun rebutted.

" Correction I'm always trying to cut someone, cutting objects gives me no pleasure" Dae corrects.

Hyun finally fed up with Dae's insanity. "Dae what do you want that's so damn important that I had to drive myself here this morning"

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot" Dae takes a step. Reaching into his pocket he pulls out two smoke bombs. Throwing them both in the air he quickly grabs two knives he keeps holstered on his thighs and throws them at the bombs causing the smoke within the bombs to fill the room.

"On a dark and stormy night," He uses an ominous voice.

"Yesterday" He used his regular voice to break character.

Back into his ominous voice, he continues. " A mysterious figure was seen drifting through the shadows outside the apartment unrecognizable to the cameras" He moves around in the smoke trying to imitate the person of the shadows.

"But the one thing that stood out clear as day, not to be racist, the shadows dark skin and cleaners shirt" Dae goes on.

"Okay stop" Hyun taps the back bottom of his chair. As a result, the air vents turned on and sucked the smoke out of the room. Hyun got the button installed because for some reason Young keeps giving Dae smoke bombs and he keeps setting them off in Hyun's office.

"Look one, that's racist to suspect the black guy, of what? walking at night. come on Dae you seem really racist right now" Hyun tries to wrap his head around what's actually going on here.

" No No No I'm not racist I'm saying somebody who doesn't live at our complex randomly started to peek around" Dae tries to redeem himself.

"He was wearing a cleaners outfit which means that he was looking for an apartment that he was gonna get paid to clean," Hyun argued.

"No, but he was wearing a cleaners shirt from Jun's province, you know that everyone in our complex was ordered to only buy from Incheon companies," Dae explained.

"Wait, wait, wait, so he was wearing a Seoul cleaner company outfit?" Hyun asked. Dae nodded.

"Now you might have something here, what else did you see?" Hyun had a sudden peak of interest.

"He was looking around the doors and breaker box but I scared him before he could actually cause any harm. I wanted to kill him but I never kill without a legit reason and snooping didn't sound good enough for me" Dae explained.

"Hmm "Without a legit reason" my ass but seriously do you know what this means?" Hyun leans forward pulling an intimidatingly serious face over his. Dae nodded no in response.

"If Jun is behind it then that would mean that he's the one trying to take our provinces over"

"And that's an act of war according to our ruling" Dae finally catches on.

"Right, now I need you to track down this man, we can't declare anything without facts, right now all we have is speculations, so kill anyone that doesn't provide evidence, I could care less for their lives anyway," Hyun ordered.

"With pleasure" Dae mischievous smile emerges as he walks out of the room. Leaving Hyun by himself at the office he decides to call in his trained assistant Secretary Kim to protect him. As of now, Hyun stayed in his office working on business improvements for both his gang and legal business. 10 o'clock snuck up on him ever so swiftly, conveniently enough Secretary Kim came in with breakfast.

"Thank you please take this to the car I'll be outside right behind you," Hyun ordered.

"Yes, sir" She complied. She walked out of the room while Hyun gathered his work paper. He's heading to solve the disobedient children problem that has risen lately. Rushing to follow her, he walked to the elevator getting in before the door could shut. Awkward tension smothered the two as they made their way to the first floor until Hyun finally went for it.

"So, Secretary Kim I was wondering if you'd like to go to the movie with me this Saturday"

"Boss sir you kn-" She was about to rebud but Hyun stopped her.

"Please call me Hyun we're talking about outside of work things"

"Well, Hyun, I'm sorry but my boys' soccer game is on Saturday"

"Lee Jung Kim? really? how about we take him out after the game?"

"A-are you sure?" She was surprised at his open mind toward the kid.

"Of course"

"Well then sure" She smiled as the elevator doors opened. Making her way outside to the car Hyun was stopped by a buzz in his pocket, his phone was going off but he couldn't reach it while he was walking so he had to stop. She makes it to the car that was horribly parked in front of the building and takes the keys out of her purse while clicking the unlock button.

*click* *click*... *BOOM*

The car suddenly explodes breaking the front glass of the building, filling the main floor with smoke and gaseous smells. Hyun noticed the car's abnormal start and quickly tried to reach for Secretary Kim but couldn't reach her as everything happened all too fast. His body got pushed unto the ground as the winds from the explosion flushed through the building like ocean waves. The people currently in the office are his gang members and his employees, they was taken back by the explosion but as soon as the smoke faded they were all strapped with pistols ready to execute whoever was behind the attack. Hyun hitting his head against the floor briefly sent him unconscious but the adrenaline rushing through his veins grabbed him from the pit of darkness. As his eyes open the area around him was blurry and unfamiliar, he seems to be in barren lands of a destroyed building. Secretary Kims Secretary in training, Secretary shin ran to his side to help him up. When he comes back to his senses he sees the destroyed front wall of his building, Secretary Kim was laid out next to the car that's currently ablaze. Her body laid flat on the ground as blood-colored the concrete red and not a single movement came from her. Sadly, she died almost instantly. He struggles to his feet but his determination to stand overcame his pain, trying to run the short distance he falls a couple of times, but with each fall he pulls himself back up. Making it to her body he tried to hug her back to life.

"DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT!!" He shouted as tears fell down his face, this is the consequence of loving Hyun, this is why he prefers not to love because everyone he loves dies if not already living the life in a dead shell. The fire alarm began to ring but there wasn't panic in the building, Hyun refused to let Secretary Kim's body go but he realized he had a life to take for this tragedy that took place. Whipping the tears from his eyes he picks up Secretary Kim and walks back into the shackled building.

"BOSS THE CULPRIT'S IN THE BUILDING!" Secretary Shin runs up to him showing Hyun the live footage of the culprit trying to find a way out of the building. Oddly calm he says.

"Put the building on full lockdown and update Glamour, Wisp, and Agust D on this development." Lightly putting Secretary Kim's body down Secretary Shin responds to his order with a bow before running to the intercom.

"Attention, Attention we have an intruder, If you see a member who doesn't look familiar to the office please see to it that you handle it in any fashion you see fit. but now I'd ask you to please find the nearest exit. We are about to enter a complete lockdown" Secretary Shin pushes the red button under her desk, as she does so a one-minute timer begins to count down, anyone still inside after the timer will be locked in.

"The search begins" Hyun pulls out his twin pistols with the name Boss painted on the side that U-Jin custom made for him to fit in his suit vests.